Famous Quotes & Sayings

Giles Foden

Writing about Africa by Africans has been part of my literary apprenticeship, standing alongside works by authors such as Joseph Conrad, Joyce Cary and Graham Greene as influences.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

I would love to play alongside Wayne Rooney. He does the running of two or three players and makes a lot of space. We would be the perfect combination.

Barack Obama

I've been fighting with Acorn, alongside Acorn, on issues you care about, my entire career.

Mark Zuckerberg

Hackathons are these things where just all of the Facebook engineers get together and stay up all night building things. And, I mean, usually at these hackathons, I code too, just alongside everyone.

Larry Hughes

We have a lot of history. Playing alongside him, we know each other's tendencies.

Peter Jackson

Being honoured with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame alongside the names of some of my childhood heroes is slightly surreal and incredibly awesome.

Cliff Martinez

You'll know if you're a famous composer if 20 years from now your name appears on a pull-down menu in Band in a Box, alongside Hans Zimmer.

Andrew Pyle

We are now seeing the lags from currency appreciation kick in, alongside more uneven growth south of the border.

Hafeez Khawaja

We are committed to supporting our distribution partners and helping boost their efficiency. WD has been participating in major trade shows alongside its distributors, besides organizing various workshops and technical seminars.

Twyla Tharp

My father always said, 'I don't care if you're a ditch digger, as long as you're the best ditch digger in the world.'

Twyla Tharp

Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is the result of good work habits.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Custard is controversial: what makes it a custard, how best to cook it and, crucially, is it to be eaten or put in a pie and thrown?

Yani Tseng

It's very easy when you have someone in front of you that you can chase. You want to be No. 1 but now I feel like I have to play well because everybody looks at you as a best golfer. So that's why I put more pressure on myself.

Thucydides

We should remember that one man is much the same as another, and that he is best who is trained in the severest school.

Timothy Noah

There's a growing consensus that the best way to defeat communism in Cuba is to get its citizens hooked on American goods.

Thomas Friedman

I can see a day soon where you'll create your own college degree by taking the best online courses from the best professors from around the world - some computing from Stanford, some entrepreneurship from Wharton, some ethics from Brandeis, some literature from Edinburgh - paying only the nominal fee for the certificates of completion.

Idina Menzel

I used to take 40 minutes to warm up before going on stage. If you want to spend time with your child as well as having a career, you have to get up there even if your head's a mess. It's made me more relaxed, and I'm having some of my best shows.

Idina Menzel

I'd been a wedding singer through college, but after a few years of doing my best renditions of jazz standards to clinking glasses and the sound of forks on salad, I thought, 'Oh God, if this is all I do, I'll never be able to live with myself.'

Donald Trump

I'm competitive, and I love to create challenges for myself. Maybe that's not always a good thing. It can make life complicated.

David A. Bednar

In the school of mortality, we experience tenderness, love, kindness, happiness, sorrow, disappointment, pain, and even the challenges of physical limitations in ways that prepare us for eternity.

Kofi Annan

The people and government of Pakistan are faced with an extraordinary challenge and we need to make an extraordinary effort to support them, ... What is needed is an immediate and exceptional escalation of the global relief effort to support the work of the government of Pakistan.

Amelia Earhart

Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail their failure must be but a challenge to others.

Clyde Tombaugh

It was depressing, very depressing. I worried about how I would make a living. I didn't want to stay on the farm. It didn't offer the challenge I wanted and yet, without a college education, I felt that I was really out of luck.

Darell Hammond

The lack of free, child-directed play time for our kids today will have dire consequences for these future leaders, making them less prepared to solve complex challenges and problems.

Richard Rogers

There is no one-size-fits-all solution to the challenges facing our cities or to the housing crisis, but the two issues need to be considered together. From an urban design and planning point of view, the well-connected open city is a powerful paradigm and an engine for integration and inclusivity.

Carrie Fisher

Kevin Smith is a very challenging conversationalist and Jay has many great stories.

Berkeley Breathed

It was a huge challenge to learn digital painting well enough so that computers don't pop into mind when one sees one.

Yayoi Kusama

The reason I collaborate with Louis Vuitton is that Louis Vuitton is number one in the world, and I am honored to work with them.

Richard Rohr

Yes, the natural world is the first and primary Bible. We have not honored it, so how could we, or would we, know how to honor and properly use the second Bible, when it was written.

Mark Patton

I thought I'd be an extra. Then it comes to this. I'm honored to be a part of it.

Angie Harmon

I'm so thrilled and honored to stand here with America's first lady, Laura Bush.

Katie King

I won the state championship and I got nominated and that was enough for me. I always want to win, but I was just honored to be here.

Trevor Hoffman

I was honored to have that opportunity to go out and get it done,

Peggy Corrigan

I was really shocked, very honored and very humbled. That was 30 years ago. I didn't really feel like I'd done anything special. I just did it because I loved it.

Charles Chafer

We're pleased that he selected us and we're honored to have him,

Peter Schaffer

He has nothing but the utmost respect for Mr. Wilson and would be honored to interview for such a prestigious job.

Yahya Jammeh

Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.

Yossi Vardi

In the end, I think that people that are not willing to take the risk to fail are not true entrepreneurs.

Yancy Butler

Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are telling you it has powers. I would be a little skeptical myself.

Ian Mckellen

I don't think many people will re-read 'The Da Vinci Code.'

Ian Mckellen

People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'

Irwin Thomas

I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.

Irwin Rose

I don't have any hobbies. You know, I'm very embarrassed when people ask me what are my hobbies; I don't have any hobbies. I mean, it's just enough to keep up with the things I'm trying to solve.

Isiah Whitlock, Jr.

Usually, when you're working or you're on set, everything is very guarded. At parties, people have a tendency to relax.

Imani Hakim

When people say, 'If you could do anything else, what would you do?' I would be an actress. That's something that I would do - I can't see myself doing anything else.

Scott Mills

We can't go out and be everywhere, ... With the public's help, we are taking these 'grows' down one by one.

Annemarie Conroy

We're taking these 300 whether we get reimbursed or not.

Bob Hunter

I thought I was going to be a reporter, taking notes,

Robert Fowler

We can all look and see what is taking place.

Chris Carter

We are not taking walking wounded on the plane.

Jack Evans

There are not even any discussions about it taking place around here.

Geno Auriemma

I think she's taking it pretty seriously. You know, it's that time of the year.

Mohammed Kamal

We are taking nothing for granted. We're taking this vote seriously.

Debra Shaw

Never thought I would be taking this trip again,