Famous Quotes & Sayings

Martin Jacques

Already 2008 has proved a tumultuous year in terms of global perceptions of China, and there are still 59 days to go until the Beijing Olympics. The tragedy of the Sichuan earthquake followed hard on the heels of the riots in Tibet and the demonstrations surrounding the Olympic torch relay.

Frank Gong

There is no question that Beijing would want to do more, ... Do they want to do something 'big' just two days before Bush arrives in Beijing?

Robin Munro

What they need is some enforcement. More high-level directives from Beijing aren't going to do it.

Mao Zedong

would elevate the status of Beijing into that of a civilized capital, and make it fit to stage a 'civilized Olympics' in 2008. We certainly do not want to see the farce of the Olympic flag flying over a city in which a corpse is worshiped.

Peng Shuai

This is an encouraging victory for me. I summed up a lot after losing to her at the US Open and I hope to continue my form in the future here in Beijing .

Henry Ho

This is a Beijing strip-tease. They should have explained this all in May.

Emily Lau

They support democracy, and the pro-democracy candidates have scored a resounding victory. I certainly hope the people in Beijing would be watching closely.

Andrew Yang

The number of missiles has been steadily increased. In another 2 to 3 years, Beijing will deploy another 500 to 600 missiles. So definitely Taiwan is under tremendous threat and pressure,

Jiang Xiaoyu

The budget of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games will not surpass that of 2.4 billion US dollars for the Games in Athens.

Anthony Zinni

There are certainly generals out there who don't like me speaking out.

John Abizaid

There are certainly considerations that we must make with regard to the level of the forces,

Kevin Morooney

There are certainly a lot of things that we can shore up for Altoona. Williamsport gave us the competition we were looking for.

David Nussbaum

There are certainly a lot of creative entrepreneurial companies in New York,

Dean Owens

We stressed to the kids the right way to do things. We talked about the negative effects and why you don?t want to do steroids. It?s cheating -- and certainly not a way to improve yourself.

Drew Rosenhaus

We're in a legal proceeding with the players' association and the Eagles and the management council. We hope it doesn't come to that. I certainly hope, as a result of this, we'll hear from the Eagles and they'll welcome him back.

Ed Bond

Where lands would be compatible and appropriate, we'd certainly look at those. The program makes sense from Sierra Pacific's standpoint.

Luca Parmitano

It is an incredible treat and certainly one of the highlights of any astronaut's career to do a spacewalk.

Lesli Linka Glatter

Film schools are now nearly 50-50 male-female, and women are also well represented at festivals and in indie film. But what happens to them after they direct their first film or short? Where do they go? They certainly aren't being given the same opportunities as their male counterparts.

Adger Ross

We want to try and prevent this from happening again. We love our city and want it safe.

John Payne

We want to see the city come back, and we're willing to listen to proposals and ideas. We want to work with local and state officials to get the city back on its feet.

Carl Peterson

The other suggestion was to play in Kansas City at noon Sunday, ... We don't expect any hurricanes here. That was considered, but the league made its decision. It creates some real problems for us with travel, and with trying to squeeze a Thursday, Friday and Saturday practice all into Thursday. But we have to do what the league orders us to do.

Al Naomi

The point is to eliminate that storm-surge threat with one of these plans. The philosophy of what we do during a hurricane would change. We could spend more time protecting our homes and less time trying to get out of the city in these desperate evacuations.

Mike Birbiglia

There are comedians who focus on everything that is external. They focus on politics and the news, what's going on in that city and that night.

William Moore

Where I'm from, the small city that I'm from, everyone thought I could come up here and play as a true freshman. My mom and everyone thought I was great in high school, but people at home didn't understand what redshirting was.

Maple Leaf

When you step on the ice, when you get in your car, when you're out in public, every time you step out your front door (players are) so scrutinized. I know that better than anybody. It's not easy to live in this city and it doesn't matter whether you're winning or losing.

Steve White

We're not going to overlook our other opponents. We're worrying about winning the city championship. Still, we are thinking about STVM. They're in the back of my mind.

Cory Booker

We have to have a mayor and a council who will take City Hall and fight that fight.

John Wilson

We want to send a very strong message ... this is not what we expect out of civilized society, ... We're going to make an example of somebody.

Source Unknown

A civilized society that can no longer feel outrage, can no longer be civilized.

John Reid

It is right that people should be able to have a civilized drink at whatever time they want,

Sam Harris

The treatment of women in Muslim communities throughout the world is unconscionable. All civilized nations must unite in condemnation of a theology that now threatens to destabilize much of the Earth.

Marthinus Schalkwyk

This is something that no civilized country can continue to tolerate,

Tony Blair

what we hold dear in this country and in other civilized nations throughout the world.

Kathleen Blanco

When your whole system, your whole civilized system goes down, this is pretty much what you get left with. We have no communications, no running water, no electricity, no real help.

Hoshyar Zebari

to protect the freedoms of the rest of the civilized world.

Javier Solana

Elections are the only way civilized countries can express themselves.

Elie Wiesel

From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me. The look in his eyes as he gazed at me has never left me.

Studs Terkel

If it weren't for the warm grates we would've had 80 frozen corpses down there during the big blizzard.

Thomas Lynch

It is not enough to be a corpse any more. Now, you have to be a politically correct corpse.

Giles Foden

The history of ideas is littered with the corpses of those who have tried to define culture.

Brad Wright

The dialogue about corpses washing up was difficult to get through in rehearsals,

Ellen Hopkins

God wasn't love, couldn't be love. Because for me, love was a corpse.

Duane Michals

Photographers usually want to photograph facts and things. But I'm interested in the nature of the thing itself. A photograph of someone sleeping tells me nothing about their dream state; a photograph of a corpse tells me nothing about the nature of death. My work is about my life as an event, and I find myself to be very temporal, transient.

David Vitalli

There are semen tests out there, and some of them work, some of them don't. The light will even read subcutaneous bruising on corpses - this is serious stuff.

Helena Bonham Carter

It didn't matter what you look like. You don't have to get up at 5:30 in the morning and there's a lot to be said for that. Corpse Bride can just play all my parts from now on and I'll just do the voice.

Don Allen

Very few teams do. That's a big number to put up on the board. There are very few guards that can elevate on that pull-up jumper of his.

Malcolm Wood

A lot of the domestic-demand stocks, which have been our focus, are at elevated valuations now.

Lee Etzler

It was a tremendously sloppy game. There were a lot of penalties and we're going to have to elevate the film to see where we are as far as those things go.

Sean Astin

The first stage I preformed on were the stairs to the hallway in the living room. There was a really nice platform, and when people were sitting in the living room, it was kind of an elevated platform and we would put on shows and skits.

Bob Runyan

(Aung) is going to be one of the top players in the state eventually. He is going to make a huge impact. The rest of the guys have elevated their level. The team really meshes well and pulls for each other.

John McNeil

Operating under one umbrella will unify our operations, help us work more efficiently and elevate the level of service we provide to our existing and future clients. We're very excited to see our vision take its next shape.

Casey Wilson

Something that's good in the mini-culture of 'Happy Endings' is that the goal is to try and make each other laugh. There is a pretty high bar, and you want to make the writers laugh, and you want to elevate what's already great material - and also, we're like, 'Who is even watching this? Let's just go for it.'

James Salter

The writing workshops and programs that are everywhere have encouraged writing. And if that produces more writing, it's also producing more readers of an elevated level. So all in all, a good thing.

Nick Saban

That's what you look for in young players, is can they elevate their game, and can they improve and are they making progress.

Donald Sinden

I've been very fortunate. I've been in theater, films, television, radio, tragedy, comedy, farce - I've been in a musical and in music halls, in pantomime. I was once ringmaster in a circus.

Buster Keaton

Life is too serious to do farce comedy.

Jean Baudrillard

History that repeats itself turns to farce. Farce that repeats itself turns to history.

Samuel Johnson

The reciprocal civility of authors is one of the most risible scenes in the farce of life.

Charles Dickens

Accidentally consumed five biscuits when I wasn't paying attention. Those biscuits are wily fellows - they leap in like sugary ninjas

Charles Caleb Colton

Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.

Richard Hadlee

We want to see that these players are over their injuries and their fitness and skill levels are up to international standard,

Edward Jenner

The deviation of man from the state in which he was originally placed by nature seems to have proved to him a prolific source of diseases

Denis Waitley

Time And health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted.

Duce Staley

Wherever I can fit in and contribute, I'll be happy.

Mark Helprin

One of the things I worked very hard on all my life was to be like everyone else. I tried very hard to fit in.

Carol Vorderman

My bottom is so big it's got its own gravitational field.

Romeo Crennel

When everyone else was going 4-3 and saying they had to get big pass rushers on the field, the Steelers said, 'This is what we do. We recruit guys that fit our system.' They've been successful at it. You have to take your hat off to them. I have a lot of respect for them.

Antonio Villaraigosa

If you wave a flag, make it an American Flag.

Platen

Where the flag of truth waves unfurled, there you will find superstition waiting in ambush.

Hilary Clinton

Where's the goddamn f***ing flag? I want the goddamn f***ing flag up every f***ing morning at f***ing sunrise.

Ron Carey

would not have raised any flags for me.

Sue Jones

It's just completely nuts. We have banners and flags and hats just kind of decked out all over the place.

Joyce Kesse

It sends up a red flag to me as well.

Tom Taylor

They don't want to wave red flags and become targets.

Pat Wilson

It's not scripted. We set the stage, prep the track, then throw the green flag and they go to town.

Otto Rehhagel

This is undoubtedly the pinnacle of my career. Hats off to the team. I hope that all Greeks will be flying the Greek flag tonight, rejoice and savor this grandiose win.

Alan Bean

Test pilots have a litmus test for evaluating problems. When something goes wrong, they ask, "Is this thing still flying?" If the answer is yes, then there's no immediate danger, no need to overreact.

Alan Alda

For humans, flying isn't magic, it's physics.

Michael Shaw

Where's a *!$#&!* Flying Monkey when you need one?

Alan Tudyk

I definitely knew how to fly. That's something you don't forget. One spaceship is pretty much like another when it comes to flying.

Chesley Sullenberger

We have made flying so cheap, I'm afraid we are going to make it cheap at any cost.

Charles M. Schulz

Here I am flying high over enemy lines in my Sopwith Camel searching for the Red Baron. Who's that behind me? It's the Red Baron! He has me in his sights! Give my regards to Broadway.

Bob Hope

I love flying. I've been to almost as many places as my luggage.

Steve McMahon

We're going to keep jobs here, ... We're going to get a new mission. I'm optimistic and I'm growing more hopeful each day that we'll have another flying mission.

Jim Mora

We're flying you down next week. You've got to come.

Blanka Vlasic

The Olympics must be my curse or something.

Natalie Coughlin

The year after the Olympics is always an interesting year,

Roland Rust

There's a lot at stake for the Winter Olympics now.

Evan Sayet

At the Olympics in China, every color was represented... and that was just the drinking water.

Apolo Ohno

On this night, on this occasion, on this Olympic day, I was able to come through.

Bode Miller

The stuff after the Olympics was pretty aggressive.

Emily Hughes

The Olympics are such an unexpected competition. You never know what can happen.

Jin Yan

Safety and quality of all the Olympic venue projects are under control.

Antoine Deneriaz

I've been thinking of nothing else for the past year. It's incredible. I'm Olympic champion.

Celia Cruz

I love living on that stage. Without that, Id die.

Ednita Nazario

To begin with, I don't have any stage fright

E. Hicks

They're not at that stage yet. ... The time will come.

Paul Campbell

And there are some of them that we don't have. We have made stride, but as I said, 'getting to the stage where we want to, we have to add', and we are adding.

Dan Stessel

No way. At this stage in the game, it's like asking, 'Why not a sky-tram?' It's not in a let's-dream-about-it phase. This is not a theoretical exercise. The Tunnel is actually going to happen.

Richie Furay

Put me on the river, put me on the golf course, put me on the stage - I'm having fun.

Jeremy Shockey

This game's hard, especially being in New York on the No. 1 stage in America,

Bela Lugosi

The stage is near and dear to me.

Bob Dylan

I'm mortified to be on the stage, but then again, it's the only place where I'm happy.

Garry Kasparov

Question the status quo at all times, especially when things are going well.

Helen Mirren

A woman with knowledge is something that frightens the status quo quite a lot.

John le Carre

There's one thing worse than change and that's the status quo.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

The status quo is working.

Kofi Annan

The status quo cannot work.