Famous Quotes & Sayings

Susanna Moore

'The Big Girls' has always seemed to me to be a story about different kinds of families - a divorced mother with a child; a father with his child and his girlfriend; a mother of three children, suffering from postpartum depression; and the rigid artificial families maintained by women in prison - all potentially perilous.

Strobe Talbott

Here is one optimist's reason for believing unity will prevail ... within the next hundred years ... nationhood as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority.A phrase briefly fashionable in the mid-20th century -- 'citizen of the world' -- will have assumed real meaning by the end of the 21st.All countries are basically social arrangements, accommodations to changing circumstances. No matter how permanent and even sacred they may seem at any one time, in fact they are all artificial and temporary.

Susanne Bier

I think the good thing about Dogme is that it forces you into an extreme sense of reality because there's no artificial light and no set design and all of those icings on the cake that you usually have on a movie.

Paul Dolan

There is no artificial cutoff on signing long-term deals.

Joe Cocker

I like to use effects, but a lot of the time I just can't deal with these tracks with all these artificial sounds.

Steven Schwartz

The consumer version will be the entire web. We have billions of documents in our index and all of the tools made available for news and business will be made available for Web search, enabling artificial intelligence in the search of the entire Internet.

Pat Campbell

The field turf product in the Dome is only a month old, and what makes it different is that it's the closest thing to natural grass that you can get in an artificial surface. And it's the preferred surface of the NFL.

Oscar Wilde

The first duty of life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one as yet discovered.

Joe Tucci

The growing complexity of our customers' environments has imposed an artificial ceiling on their growth potential,

Rick Anderson

This guy's got great stuff. It's just a matter of commanding it. We've always thought he's nasty. I watch him in the pen, and I say, 'Wow!' At 28, a lot of guys hit their prime.

Jeff Paul

They are ranked No. 2 in their small-school division in Pennsylvania. They are a very good team. They got some big hits when they needed to, and their pitcher did a great job commanding the game.

Martin Scorsese

Etta James' voice is just as commanding as it was when she was young, but it's different -- deeper, tougher. How could it not be? That's what life can do to you.

James So

Even though the interest rate rise had been discounted, a half percentage point rise in local interest rates will mean that earnings and gross domestic product growth will have to be revised down so there is no commanding reason for people to commit themselves to the market in a large way.

Mark Shapiro

At some point this year he's going to help us in the bullpen. He's come a long way in the last year and had a good training camp. He just needs to work on commanding his fastball better.

Derek Hall

Historically, in the recruitment area, we have done very little. We are new to the game compared to other institutions.

Heath Cowan

I think the legs are a lot fresher compared to this time last year.

John Keegan

I think the people saw the difference between someone who said he would do things, compared to someone who comes in with new ideas.

Ricky Giles

I thought everybody we played (in the tournament) was pretty deep with talent compared to where we were at, and they were a lot deeper. We knew when we went there that we had to play if we were going to survive in that tournament.

Lyle McIntosh

Their experience is huge compared to ours and that showed down the stretch. They stepped it up to a different level.

Leigh Steinberg

The cost is minimal compared to the human cost and the enormous investments that these teams make in training and in contractual commitments to contemporary NFL players,

Donna Cerrato

The competition is very tough compared to what we run into during the regular season.

Richard Burr

The inconveniences we faced within this state are minor compared to ... New Orleans.

Col. Hoge

A higher percentage of those soldiers returning from Iraq report mental health concerns and use mental health services when they get home ... compared to soldiers who are returning from deployment to Afghanistan or other locations.

Sebastian Thrun

I always felt that if countries knew each other better, there would be less war. Often, conflict goes with demonizing other countries and cultures.

Michael Graves

I think it's a really good way to get people to come up here. It's good to expand your mind by meeting people of other countries and beliefs, a good experience.

Donald Rumsfeld

I think it's interesting that other countries wonder why they would be increasing their defense effort at the pace they are and yet not acknowledging it, ... That is as interesting as the fact that it's increasing at the pace it is.

Peter Mayhew

Whatever people say about America, it is still one of the most wonderful countries in the world, despite the politics, religion and everything else that goes on.

Ismail Haniyeh

We think countries in power can decide for themselves what kinds of positions and policies they can take.

Perry Crosswhite

I think we've done very well. In fact, some countries would say we've done too well.

D. James

I am cautiously optimistic the stellar growth in the first decade of commercialization will be surpassed in the second. The number of countries and farmers growing biotech crops is expected to grow, particularly in developing countries.

Jamie Cullum

I lived my twenties on the road, in all different countries experiencing this momentum of a career which was taking off in its own way.

Gholamreza Aghazadeh

If there are countries that want to politicise this file, we will react in an appropriate manner. If the file is sent, our reaction will be firm and very clear. And if that moment comes you will see it for yourselves,

Mohsen Makhmalbaf

I was able to slip into Afghanistan for a week. However, I had to go back into Iran to produce my film, shot about two kilometers from the border.

Mark Gwozdecky

IAEA received a prompt response from Iranians to visit the site, prompt access,

Salman Rushdie

In any authoritarian society, the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside, he will come after you. This is equally true of Sovietism, of China and of Iran, and in our time it has happened a lot in Islam. The point is that it's worse when the authoritarianism is supported by something supernatural.

Salman Rushdie

The West sees Iran as an important force in the gulf.

Salman Rushdie

In Iran, fundamentalism was fuelled to an extent by the regime of the Shah being supported by the West.

Stephen Kinzer

Iranians launched their constitutional revolution in 1906 and established their parliament soon afterward.

Helmut Schmidt

In those years,'80 was the, at the turn of '79/'80 you had the invasion of Afghanistan. It was the period in which the Americans attempt to liberate, to, to liberate the hostages in Iran and all these, all these things, the atmosphere was freezing - boycott of the Olympic Games and all that.

John Bolton

The only thing that will stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons is regime change in Tehran.

Michael Ledeen

The Iranians excel at identifying potential recruits for terrorist attacks, and then recruiting and training them.

Richard Ben-Veniste

Were there contacts over time between Iraq and al-Qaeda? Yes, there were efforts made to communicate. We found no evidence of collaboration in any effort to mount any kind of operation against the United States' interests.

Traian Basescu

Romania will continue to fulfil its obligations in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Robert Byrd

The money the president wants to borrow for Iraq will come directly out of the American taxpayer wallets in the form of Medicare and Social Security receipts. That's your money

Robin Hayes

I have been to Iraq on a number of occasions. I was with the first group that went in.

Sandy Berger

The possibility that Saddam Hussein will use his biological and chemical weapons to attack us, directly or in concert with terrorists, cannot be dismissed.

Vladimir Zhirinovsky

I've never signed any contract and never received a cent from Iraq.

Walter Cronkite

The invasion of Iraq was illegal from the start.

Walid Jumblatt

The Syrian regime is helping the insurgency in Iraq and allowing all kinds of militants to come in and out, and go to Iraq to attack random soldiers and innocent people.

Walid Jumblatt

We are all happy when U.S. soldiers are killed week in and week out. The killing of U.S. soldiers in Iraq is legitimate and obligatory.

Grant Hill

It wasn't popular for college athletics to embrace Title IX.

Will Wright

I think the primary thing that's made the Sims popular is that they're accessible,

Vance Havner

Popularity has slain more prophets of God than persecution ever did.

Jena Malone

If you took Lydia out of 'Pride and Prejudice' and put her into today, she'd be one of the popular girls,

Richard Lewis

You can't really find somebody that has been so prolific, so 'on the scene,' so popular and cutting-edge as Carlin, ... He is the Rolling Stones of stand-up.

Rep. Baxley

I want to tell you something about accountability: It's hard. It hurts. If you're going to do the right thing, it's not always going to be the popular thing.

Kathleen Hanna

Popularity is totally overrated.

Shigeki Maruyama

The LPGA is very popular in Japan, ... She will be a big star.

Karen Bell

It's just not as popular as is used to be.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Recover, reform and then rebuild ... year of reform.

Marc Holtzman

I want to rebuild this party, and I want to rebuild it long term.

Pam Dashiell

We are getting to something real so we can rebuild the community, not just a plan, but a blueprint.

Mark Davies

If we're going to rebuild, ... let's rebuild smart.

Tim Cox

We have one big step to go (in the rebuilding process), and I think this is the year for it.

Terry Gray

We thought this was going to be a rebuilding year.

Mike Milinkovich

We're rebuilding our Web site at Eclipse.org and we're using PHP,

Sergei Bubka

His statements are really crazy, we are really shocked.

David Wojciechowski

He?s going to play. It?s the state championship game.

E. O. Wilson

I was completely surprised at his statement (to resign).

Kate Saunders

It is not unprecedented that the two will be in the United States at the same time.

Quinnetta Claytor

We can do it, we can win state championships.

Will Durant

A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.

Willy Brandt

Peace, like freedom, is no original state which existed from the start; we shall have to make it, in the truest sense of the word.

Steve Lyle

Other states have called us, and are taking a look at it.

Taro Aso

international responsibilities and the state of reconstruction work.

David Schwartz

A lot of these structures are going to come down.

David Nicholls

As soon as she'd met him at the arrivals gate on his return from Thailand, lithe and brown and shaven-headed, she knew that there was no chance of a relationship between them. Too much had happened to him, too little had happened to her.

Nick Carter

OH MY GOD! In Thailand, they've got the spiciest food I've ever had in my life!

Izabel Goulart

I've never been to Thailand and I've only heard good things about it. I really want to make my way there.