Famous Quotes & Sayings

Maisie Williams

Sometimes people think they know you and they go, 'Hey!' and then they realize that they've just seen you on the television. That's kind of funny sometimes.

Jarome Iginla

That one wasn't so funny because he got hurt.

Barbara Kingsolver

He had senile dementia and liked to go outside naked, but he could still do two things perfectly: win at checkers and write out prescriptions.

Augusten Burroughs

The Schnauzer listens to jazz. I listen to jazz because he likes it, and I have even gone to jazz concerts with him, but truthfully I would rather listen to retarded children pounding on pan lids with wooden spoons.

Aziz Ansari

I'm in a situation with this girl that's as hopeless as overthrowing the Bush administration.

Ayn Rand

There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.

Benjamin Disraeli

No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

Kenneth Branagh

It's funny to be in rooms where you were originally referred to as 'The Shakespeare Guy' and to suddenly be in the position where you're 'The Blockbuster Guy.' That's a pretty unusual turnabout, I must say.

Benjamin Disraeli

Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.

Beat Siegenthaler

Any sophisticated investor will recognize the country is not about to fall apart.

Dick Mountjoy

Rank and file Democrats are very patriotic. They love this country and support the military.

Patty Murray

Our entire country owes Sam a debt of gratitude for all he has done for so many,

Alex Swann

Detainees can leave the country if they so choose.

Gennady Zyuganov

destroys those missiles that could have shielded our country for another 15 years.

Joe Walsh

Any man and woman, and I've been on the record, any man or woman who wears the uniform and serves this country is a hero. I've said that repeatedly at all the town halls I've had.

Robert Hormats

Any country that seems to have a slightly overvalued currency gets whacked by speculators. People go after the ones they think will be the weakest.

Tom Riley

Any country that embarks on policies that encourage drug use will get more drug use and more drug addiction.

Leo Apotheker

Any country that can produce that many scientists and engineers has a natural potential of being a significant software producer.

Earl Wilson

I've been around, and I see what other cities are doing, and I think, 'Why not us, we're a proud people,'

Ed Dumas

This is not a radical group of hard-line, right-wing people making unrealistic demands. It's a reasonable group of officials that are seeking some rational solutions to immigration problems that our cities and our communities face.

Aravind Adiga

I grew up, as many Indians do, in an archipelago of tongues. My maternal grandfather, who was a surgeon in the city of Madras, was fluent in at least four languages and used each of them daily.

Ben Nicholson

I feel most strongly about Jerusalem, because architects ultimately have to address that city.

Jane Jacobs

The point of cities is multiplicity of choice.

James Weldon Johnson

Americans are immensely popular in Paris; and this is not due solely to the fact that they spend lots of money there, for they spend just as much or more in London, and in the latter city they are merely tolerated because they do spend.

James Weldon Johnson

Amsterdam was a great surprise to me. I had always thought of Venice as the city of canals; it had never entered my mind that I should find similar conditions in a Dutch town.

Benjamin Disraeli

Certainly Manchester is the most wonderful city of modem times.

Alan Garner

I loathe crowds. I especially dont like cities. A city involves biomass. And biomass gets to me.