Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yael Grobglas

Back home, almost everything I did, I did in Hebrew. I went to drama school in Hebrew, my whole career was in Hebrew, and to switch languages was something that was fascinating and more complicated than I expected it to be, even though I've been speaking English since I could speak.

Yanis Varoufakis

In occupied Iraq, the introduction of new paper money took almost a year, 20 or so Boeing 747s, the mobilisation of the U.S. military's might, three printing firms, and hundreds of trucks.

Tina Brown

Even as the whole world tries to hang on to its job, there is also this weird parallel sense - almost a covert longing - that the old corrupt structures on which that job depends needs to be, ought to be, swept away.

Ice T

My father was a dark-skinned brother, but my mother was a very fair-skinned lady. From what I understand, she was Creole; we think her people originally came from New Orleans. She looked almost like a white woman, which meant she could pass - as folks used to say back then. Her hair was jet-black. She was slim and very attractive.

Idris Elba

If you are going to call a film a 'black film' then you have to make a film that represents everyone that's black, which is almost impossible. That is why white films are not called white films, they are just called 'films.'

Isobelle Carmody

I have never forgotten the almost mystical power over an audience a storyteller has, when the story is deep and links you.

Gavyn Davies

Almost everyone will find something in our services worth paying for.

Donald Trump

You've seen my statements; I do very well. I don't mind paying some taxes. The middle class is getting clobbered in this country. You know the middle class built this country, not the hedge fund guys, but I know people in hedge funds that pay almost nothing, and it's ridiculous, OK?

Zadie Smith

It seems to me that we often commit ourselves wholly to something while knowing almost nothing concrete about it. Another word for that, I suppose, is 'faith.'

Nas

'Life Is Good' represents the most beautiful, dramatic and heavy moments in my life.

Gerald Davis

We haven't seen a dramatic or significant increase in drive-offs.

Michelle Monaghan

You kind of get to see Ethan in some dramatic and emotional moments, which I think is really appealing.

Daniel Markewitz

We found a dramatic increase in acidity and a steady depletion of nutrients over this 30-year period.

Holliday Grainger

'The Borgias' is quite good because it does stick quite steadfastly to historical fact, so a lot of people who are interested in the historical element will love watching it, but they were also a ridiculously dramatic family.

Richard D. Zanuck

'Portnoy's Complaint' was very far out there, and movies have always worked when you have either a funny situation between two or more people or a very dramatic situation. There's not that much difference.

Lykke Li

I'm always looking for silhouettes that seem 'invisible' to the eye, as in that it's so well-tailored to your body that you won't even notice what you're wearing. It needs to be dramatic in a subtle way.

Brett Hoselton

Have they made significant improvements? The results suggest that we're not seeing any sort of a dramatic turnaround in the organization.

Johann Koss

He said he would do something big. I was shocked. I had not expected it to be so dramatic and fantastic.

Bob Mann

Glaciers are slow-moving, melting and receding. As they move ... remains often times will melt out and become exposed.

Kerry Smith

I talked to them about the glaciers before and they weren't so fussed about it because they said they could just work around them and they are retreating anyhow.

John D. MacDonald

If you would be thrilled by watching the galloping advance of a major glacier, you'd be ecstatic watching changes in publishing.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Compare the torrent and the glacier. Both get where they are going.

Ai Weiwei

Dont retreat. Retweet!

Juvenal

When your armour is on, it is too late to retreat.

Don Marquis

The female of all species are most dangerous when they appear to retreat.

Edward Abbey

Fence straddlers have no balls. In compensation, however, they enjoy a comfortable seat and can retreat swiftly, when danger threatens, to either side of the fence. There is something to be said for every position.

Mary McCarthy

Our language, once homely and colloquial, seeks to aggrandize our meanest activities with polysyllabic terms or it retreats from frankness into a stammering verbosity.

Joseph Stalin

Die, but do not retreat.

Isaac Barrow

Sin is never at a stay; if we do not retreat from it, we shall advance in it; and the farther on we go, the more we have to come back.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Wit never appears to greater advantage than when it is successfully exerted to relieve from a dilemma, palliate a deficiency, or cover a retreat.

George W. Bush

The proper response to difficulty is not to retreat. It is to prevail.

Phil Garner

We just went over signs again. Just a refresher course.

Franz Kafka

One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

Saul Williams

The MC has to be just that, a master in control. They can show no signs of weakness.

Richard Lobb

But we're not waiting for signs to show up.

Rosette Lerias

There are no signs of life, no rooftops, no nothing.

Peter Scobie

There are tentative signs things are slowing. It's not a foregone conclusion.

Bob Newman

We had all the signs out for 'Save the Armory,' but that's all set away now. It's really very encouraging and it hasn't always been that way.

Kevin Earley

Now there are no street signs and no landmarks. It was really tough trying to navigate.

M. Wolfe

I still think we could be better, though. We showed signs in the first inning of being very good. We let up after that.

Carl Rogers

what is most personal is most universal

Carol Moseley Braun

Im committed to universal health coverage and education.

Jan Peter Balkenende

Freedom is a universal value.

Harold Bloom

Shakespeare is universal.

Kodi Smit-McPhee

In L.A., I live right across from Universal Studios.

Maz Jobrani

You know, funny can be universal.

Stephen Sondheim

Musicals are so expensive to put on the stage that you have to have the backing of a corporate, you have to have Universal Studios or Disney or somebody to put in the money.