Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wang Zhizhi

The 2008 Beijing Olympics is a dream come true for every Chinese. I hope I can play as a national member.

Donald Tsang

I was in Beijing not too long ago in December and had a very thorough discussion with the President, the Premier and other senior officials.

Kong Quan

We hope the second round of Beijing talks will start as early as possible, to promote the dialogue for a peaceful resolution of the North Korean nuclear issue.

Albert Ho

We can't be optimistic that we can persuade Beijing to change their stance. The future will be difficult.

Giselle Davies

But at Beijing we will be much closer the the 50-50 were are striving for.

Irina Slutskaya

I had a small mistake doing a layback spin, that's why I think my score was not as high as in Beijing but I'm still very satisfied with my skate.

Kevan Gosper

Here we have a huge country which has never had the games. This could be an event, which encourages an even greater degree of openness. From an Olympic point of view, Beijing has to have the edge.

Hu Jintao

The purpose of holding the commemorative meeting is to reiterate our solemn commitments to the principles of the UN Charter and the implementation of the 2000 Millennium Development Goals and the Beijing Declaration and the Platform for Action,

Michael Callahan

I couldn't sit in an office in California and tell a Chinese citizen in Beijing not to follow a lawful demand of the Chinese government.

Marcus Samuelsson

Even before the earthquake in Haiti, only half the country's population had a source of safe drinking water.

Patti Smith

My daughter is one of my greatest inspirations. She's an environmentalist, she plays piano, she's raising money for the earthquake victims in Nepal. Every day she surprises me and teaches me something.

Richard Allen

Most seismologists are surprised, and frequently skeptical, that you can predict the magnitude of an earthquake before it has ended,

Gloria Reuben

I was in L.A. during an earthquake in 1994, an experience that really stressed me out. I started doing yoga to calm my nerves.

Dr. Glass

I think of it as the earthquake in San Francisco. You know it's on the fault. You know it's going to occur, but you can't tell if it's going to occur this year or next year or the year after.

Stephen Becker

I think of it as an opportunity to talk about the earthquake using visual materials in a different way.

Al Aqsa

We swear there will be an earthquake of retaliation,

David Suzuki

It's not unexpected that shooting massive amounts of water, sand, and chemicals at high pressure into the earth to shatter shale and release natural gas might shake things up. But earthquakes aren't the worst problem with fracking.

Bear Grylls

Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end.

Danielle Steel

My relationships were never equitable. My husbands were always older than me, and they made the rules, they ran the show, and I followed them.

Denis Villeneuve

I never went to school for directing. I studied theater with a director. I followed plays to see how a director would talk to the actors. I tried to make my own school.

Steve Knight

We have always thought highly of Wendy ever since she was a student here. We've followed her progress over the years, and when an opportunity opened up for her, we made her an offer and she accepted.

John Furlong

We followed the rules. The rules told us what to do.

Carlos Ortiz

We followed the money. We had great help from MasterCard, Visa, and Morgan Stanley.

Doug Artusio

Those are rules that should be followed at any time, but they are even more necessary right now.

Julie Gerberding

Today, CDC has followed suit and has published the sequence of the virus.

Beth Moore

We've been totally open about all this. We've really followed the rules here, and it's senseless why they should target us.

Bible Bible

When he was come down from the mountain, great multitudes followed him.

Steve Shaw

The 3GPP really legitimized UMA. It's no longer just a vendor-driven initiative; it's now a global effort.

Lee H. Hamilton

We have thought about what to do, a global strategy, and how to do it: A different way of organizing our government.

David Ball

Today's students are more global in their perspective, taking Spanish and even Mandarin Chinese, as part of attaining a well-rounded education. That's a wise move considering the likelihood they will supervise, or be supervised by, someone whose first language isn't English.

Joe Johnson

We have a global Navy, and we're not going to restrict where the system will be deployed. It could be worldwide.

Tim Laatsch

We have to look at us as a global entity.

Markos Kyprianou

We have not yet reached the level of preparedness that we should have. This is a global threat and there is need for international action.

Robert Kiyosaki

Our global economy is much more fragile than many of us realize.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

It is said that the West had a global policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid. There isn't a global Islam.

Kevin Lowery

We're a global company. We need people who understand global issues.

Yanni

With instrumental music, it is traditionally hard to get exposure.

Tina Brown

No one has put in harder training to become a royal bride than the glossy-haired Kate Middleton.

Isabella Bird

Unlike many other places, Hilo is more fascinating on closer acquaintance - so fascinating that it is hard to write about it in plain prose.

Gail Carson Levine

Contemporary fiction is the hardest for me because I am not really in the popular culture - I don't watch TV.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

When I went to Juventus, I was young, but in training, I had legends like Fabio Cannavaro and Lilian Thuram marking me. I had to work hard to get my respect.

Wendi McLendon-Covey

I like to play the weirdos. I like to play the people that are hard to like. You get to say and do things that you would never say and do in real life.

Virginia Postrel

A standard 'well woman' checkup can last as little as 10 minutes, hardly time for any in-depth discussions.

Yayoi Kusama

I have done all the work myself, not assistants. That's why I'm in a wheelchair: I've been doing it physically - it's hard labour - throughout my life.

Chet Faker

I always try to work hard and get things done as soon as possible, but never at the loss of quality of the product.

John Earl

The 11 a.m. service is the big one. That's the one where we'll kick up our heels and really strut.

Jerry Stackhouse

We were just not in the game. We were totally knocked on our heels in the first half.

Rick Carlisle

He had us on our heels a lot of the night.

Gregg Moskowitz

Frankly, we question the timing of this announcement on the heels of one of the largest mergers in the history of software,

Dan Starkey

We set them back on their heels early. But when they got rolling, they rolled.

Beyonce Knowles

My style offstage is so different from onstage. I love a pair of sexy heels with jeans, a nice jacket, or a little dress.

Melvin Scott

Yeah, a big hump. The talk about the Tar Heels is that we can't win on the road.

Catherine Young

I thought we kept them off their heels a little bit.

Bob Semling

I think they imposed their will on us. They made tough shots and big shots and executed. They knocked us on our heels and they got us to go out of character.

Mike Lambert

I wish he was younger or the Olympics were this year. I wish he picked me up earlier, but he didn't think too much of me then.

John Furlong

For us, this was like our Olympic university and now is the time for us to write our exam.

Christoph Gruber

Today it's like two victories in one. I won the super-G and my Olympic qualification.

Jeff Buttle

If we can make it through the Olympics without any scandals, we'll be all right.

Bill Toomey

Anabolic steroids were not banned until after the 72 Olympics.

Blanka Vlasic

The Olympics must be my curse or something.

Bonnie Blair

I will remember all the days at the Olympics.

Evan Sayet

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

Laure Manaudou

Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.

Bryan Whitman

That was rumored a year ago and never proved to be confirmed.

John Gibbons

We wanted to make sure he was all right. He proved that he was today.

Paul Doerrfeld

We proved we could play with them. We just have to relax and play our game.

Folarin Campbell

We proved we can play with anybody. We proved we don't back down from anybody.

Hines Ward

We proved all the prognosticators wrong. This is a big win for us.

Reggie Bush

I think I proved that I'm the number-one pick.

Ryan Langerhans

I think I proved myself up here and I want to stay. I think I can play everyday, but it's up to the manager.

Cathy Clark

He had proved to us over and over he could be trusted, so we didn't question him.

Thomas Keller

ultimately, the system proved instrumental in fostering an undeniably unified restaurant staff.

Christophe Barbier

He has profited from the riots and the protests.

John McCarthy

Soccer riots kill at most tens. Intellectuals' ideological riots sometimes kill millions.

Tony Martinez

It was crazy. It was like the L.A. riots all over again.

Tom Foreman

We've had dialogue. It's just like the old days, in terms of the relationship.

Chris Pelchen

We're waiting on the Kangaroos to come back in terms of that deal.

Hamdi Ulukaya

On the tech side, little start-ups can do something magnificent. They don't need too much in terms of plants and infrastructure.

Yossi Beilin

We have no terms for dialogue, but we do have terms for negotiations.

Hallie Ephron

Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.

Jay Farrar

I don't view it in the terms of a comeback,

Stephen Davis

I don't think of this in terms of winning,

Steve Squyres

We're not going to take any risks. It's a big crater in terms of diameter, but really shallow. It's nothing like Endurance.

Willis Reed

We would still have been here if we could have come to terms with the union.

Ato Boldon

I feel like the torch has been passed to me. The question is what am I going to do with it.

Carl Lewis

By carrying the torch, you will be bridging cultural and social barriers, and all the boundaries that separate nation from nation,

Angela Ruggiero

I'm getting more towards that point where I'm ready to kind of pass the torch on and see the next generation succeed behind me.

Burn Gorman

I had a great time doing Torchwood, I really did.

George Bernard Shaw

Life's no brief candle-it's a splendid torch!

Plato

Those having torches will pass them on to others.

Mel Brooks

I don't have a mission. I don't have a torch to burn.

Leonard Cohen

Dear Hitler Take away the torches I'm not guilty I had to have this

Winston Churchill

It is the English-speaking nations who, almost alone, keep alight the torch of Freedom.

Francis Gannon

It was a tumultuous day and a tumultuous end to a tumultuous quarter.

Anna Nicole Smith

I'm going to fight until the end. My husband is worth it. He wanted me to have it. He was worth a lot. He was a very, very wealthy man.

Rita Ora

The album is never finished until it's on the shelves!

Daniel Walker

that will go on until your grandchildren are dead.

Mike Lewis

We have to wait until the water temperature is about 60 degrees.

Ray Liotta

I didn't start acting until I was in college, which was in the 70's.

Matthew Bourne

Sometimes you don't know what you've got until you put it in front of an audience - and the enthusiasm for the show from the audience has been just incredible.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Until we know how many women own businesses, we may under-invest in them as entrepreneurs and economic drivers.

Bruce Allen

We've made some decisions. But it wouldn't appropriate to say anything until we have to.

Rena Inoue

You just keep working on it until you get it.

CC Sabathia

It's not as bad as it was last year. It feels good today.

Cecelia Ahern

Aim for what u want and the year will all make a sense.

Cecelia Ahern

I had a million plans. I knew what I was going to do. I had the next few years of my life all figured out. But what I didn’t know was that within a few hours all those plans would change. Ms. Know-it-all didn’t quite know it all so much then.

Carrie P. Meek

Just about every year, Congress passes another crime bill - spending billions of dollars to build more prisons, to place more band-aids on society's scars.

Carrie Fisher

Having waited my entire life to get an award for something, anything...I now get awards all the time for being mentally ill. It’s better than being bad at being insane, right? How tragic would it be to be runner-up for Bipolar Woman of the Year?

Carrie Underwood

At first, it was hard to sit down and read the things that people were saying. A lot of people would've worked their way up to this position and would've gotten a thick skin over a few years' time. For me, though, all this happened in a few months.

Carrie Underwood

I stopped eating beef at 13 and stopped eating all meat a few years ago. I would feel guilty that what was on my plate was walking around yesterday. Either I could live with that or stop eating meat. I choose the latter, and I'm happier for it.

Carrie Underwood

I feel like I am a celebrity for no reason, like people are resentful I didn't have to play bars for 10 years to get a record deal.

Carl Rogers

Over the years, however, the research evidence keeps piling up, and it points strongly to the conclusion that a high degree of empathy in a relationship is possibly the most potent and certainly one of the most potent factors in bringing about change and learning.