Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nicholas Kristof

The caricature of Islam as a violent and intolerant religion is horrendously incomplete. Remember that those standing up to Muslim fanatics are mostly Muslims.

K'naan

The problem is that rap is so often a caricature of its own image. Nobody comes to the table with the seriousness of the effect that it can have; nobody is prepared for that.

Oscar Wilde

Caricature is the tribute that mediocrity pays to genius.

Rory Bremner

I can't look at John Prescott without thinking of Les Dawson, and Robin Cook is a caricature of himself.

Jeremy Gunn

That is a silly caricature of what is really going on.

Jose Barroso

There has been a caricature of my commission and of me from the very start.

Martin Landau

I did theatrical caricatures.

Ed Smith

People reacted badly, largely because it didn't reflect where they are today. Maybe Mary was taking a concept that was lying around a while, or making a return to the roots of where she started out. Or maybe the market for the show isn't actually here, but on the mainland. So if you want to talk to a mainland audience, you give them a caricature they know.

Cynthia Hill

You see the media version (of the South), which is often a caricature or cartoon,

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of Islamic democracy, Islamic social justice and the equality of manhood in your own native soil.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

I have full faith in my people that they will rise to every occasion worthy of our past Islamic history, glory and traditions.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop according to our own lights and culture and where principles of Islamic social justice could find free play.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

We must work our destiny in our own way and present to the world an economic system based on true Islamic concept of equality of manhood and social justice. We will thereby be fulfilling our mission as Muslims and giving to humanity the message of peace which alone can save it and secure the welfare, happiness and prosperity of mankind.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

I cannot understand the logic of those who have been deliberately and mischievously propagating that the Constitution of Pakistan will not be based on Islamic Sharia. Islamic principles today are as much applicable to life as they were 1300 years ago.

Noam Chomsky

I don't think a Jewish or Christian or Islamic state is a proper concept. I would object to the United States as a Christian state.

Richard Clarke

He seems to have been reduced to being a commentator on Islamic news.

Shohreh Aghdashloo

I didn't want to live in an Islamic society because I knew I wasn't going to be a first-class citizen, and I knew I was not going to be able to keep doing what I was doing as an actress.

Benazir Bhutto

Pakistan is heir to an intellectual tradition of which the illustrious exponent was the poet and philosopher Mohammad Iqbal. He saw the future course for Islamic societies in a synthesis between adherence to the faith and adjustment to the modern age.

Donald Trump

I've always been covered by a press that's mostly financial press.

Paul Goodwin

We're really not doing much different. Mostly we're doing a lot of nutrition stuff, trying to stay off caffeine.

David Sanborn

Mostly because I don't really feel that I have a methodology.

Stephan Pastis

mostly as an outlet just to do something during class.

Rebecca Stead

Mostly what I try to do is build emotion. Only I'd prefer not to do it by telling you about emotion but by pushing that emotion down.

J. Lewis

Mostly water bottles. I thought they were going to start shooting before we got out of there.

Linda Hargrove

Mostly it was a situation where she was not going to get enough minutes,

Cameron Crowe

Mostly it was about the success of the shoe: Does the shoe come back? I had to look at it without that scene,

Brian Wheeler

I think people in Albemarle are used to us starting earlier. Mostly they just want to know when that day is.

Richard Engel

To be slapped with a shoe is a dirty insult in the Muslim world.

Brian Kilmeade

Muslims are terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslim.

Daniel Yankelovich

Americans are broadly uneasy about the quality of our relations with the rest of the world, especially Muslim nations,

Wissam Nasr

This is a teachable moment. When you see Muslims praying, it's not a terrorist act. It's not a prelude to terror.

Chuck Hagel

This is not how you win the people of the world over to our side, especially the Muslim world.

Olivier Roy

This is what Muslims want - to be treated the same as other faiths.

Maajid Nawaz

I really didn't grow up religious, and I didn't grow up acknowledging my Muslim identity. For me, I was a British Pakistani.

Stephen Colbert

I don't like the new president who hunts muslim extremists, I like the old president who is a muslim extremist.

Otto Schily

The hatred Muslim extremists feel against the West feeds on certain conflicts in the world.

Chuck Palahniuk

My goal is never to make fun of religion.

Gore Vidal

Some have deplored Lincoln's indifference to Christianity. But it was not religion, it was religiosity that put him off.

C. S. Lewis

If you ask why we should obey God, in the last resort the answer is, 'I am.' To know God is to know that our obedience is due to Him.

C. S. Lewis

Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.

Carl Sagan

A multitude of aspects of the natural world that were considered miraculous only a few generations ago are now thoroughly understood in terms of physics and chemistry.

Carl Sagan

Where did God come from? If we decide this is an unanswerable question why not save a step and conclude that the origin of the universe is an unanswerable question.

Carl Sagan

[S]cience has itself become a kind of religion.

Bernadette Devlin

... in Northern Ireland, if you don't have basic Christianity, rather than merely religion, all you get out of the experience of living is bitterness.

Bertrand Russell

My whole religion is this: do every duty, and expect no reward for it, either here or hereafter.

Wislawa Szymborska

You have to remember all the time that there is a comical side to everything.

Carl Sagan

Even through your hardest days, remember we are all made of stardust.

Bill Vaughan

These are days you'll remember. If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony, remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.

Tilda Swinton

till I was about 17. I can't remember why I stopped. I've tried (to suck my thumb) since, but it doesn't work anymore.

Eric Osmundson

I thought oh, not again. I remember my first year here was a similar situation.

Christian Moody

Julian just went up, and I can't remember who he dunked on, but who he dunked on will remember it.

Beck

I remember you would record a guitar part, and we would have to sit there for 15 or 20 minutes waiting for the computer to process it. You'd see the little wheel spinning on the computer, and you'd be praying that the hard drive didn't crash and you didn't lose the performance.

Juanita Johnson

I was thinking, 'Well, this is easy.' Three-fourths into it, I remember sweating. I hadn't sweated in a long time.

Larry Anderson

I was here for Camille and I'm leaving. I was here and I remember it well. I don't want to be here for another one.

Ben Howland

I was uncomfortable standing there. I'm wanting water after water out of the machine.

Holly Derrick

We told her, just standing there, in the street. It was bad.

Norma Aviles

Wake up. See what's happening. Today it's me, tomorrow it could be you standing here. It's a place you don't want to stand.

Joe Farmer

We're standing by, waiting for them to tell us what to do.

Charles Handy

You have to stand outside the box to see how the box can be re-designed.

Bruce Lee

We have more faith in what we imitate than in what we create

Ayn Rand

You don't know how hard I've tried to be left standing all by myself.

Dr. Seuss

Whats the point of fitting in, when we were meant to stand out?

Cindy Gallop

I like to stand out and make a statement.

Aaron Spelling

But, I don't know, the violence, I can't even talk about. We don't do a lot of violent shows. When I started in television, breaking a pencil was a violent act.

Jasmine Guy

Anything that is non-violent is OK with me.

Adrienne Rich

An honorable human relationship ... is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other.

Daniel Craig

I guess you could say I've been in my share of violent movies.

Donald Ray Pollock

I would like to write a book that wasn't so violent and weird, but I just don't think I can do that with my talent. I don't think it would come off.

Vladimir Putin

No one should be allowed to violently trample on the law.

Chelsea Cain

Of the paperbacks that you see at the airport, I am the most violent woman writer.

Shaun Alexander

It is what it is. We play a violent sport.

Noam Chomsky

States are violent to the extent that they have the power to act in the interests of those with domestic power