Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yahya Jammeh

What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.

Abraham Lincoln

I do not think I could myself be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.

Chris Carter

My brother is a scientist. He's a professor at MIT. He brought science fiction into my world.

Evangeline Lilly

'The Squickerwonkers' was the story I wrote when I was on 'The Hobbit.' And I brought it to Comic-Con and sold out a thousand copies I had printed.

Mike Perry

The peddler exhibit will show people how important their role was to society. People depended on them because they brought in supplies such as pots, pans, needles and threads.

Mikhail Margelov

The outrage that the Danish newspaper brought about is gaining such momentum that the world community must focus on the events.

David Selby

And it was so special, and to tell you the truth that's how I feel about the whole thing, I mean when I meet someone that has watched the show, and it has brought such joy to them, it just makes you feel so good.

David Suchet

I'd love to be remembered as a character actor who brought illumination to roles in wonderful plays and who delivered performances that made people think and rethink those roles.

Vladimir Prelog

An object is chiral if it cannot be brought into congruence with its mirror image by translation and rotation.

Yotam Ottolenghi

The difference between brown and white rice is that the former is not milled. With the outer bran and germ intact, the rice is therefore chewier and nuttier.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Like brown rice, black rice is unmilled, and it is the dark outer husk that makes it so nutty and chewy. It's also why it takes longer to cook than many other rices.

Matt Groening

With Charlie Brown, it was about loneliness and isolation. I always thought that the thing about Charlie Brown and those characters was the absence of the parents. Half the strip was about who wasn't there. The parents were never in the picture.

Buddy Bell

That was a rocket. It didn't surprise me that Brown didn't catch that one.

Marissa Jaret Winokur

I've had the exact same brown hair all my life, and my whole life, people have been telling me to change my hair.

Tom Izzo

We had one stretch where we felt we were getting clobbered in there and Dee Brown took over. A combination of the two is not a pretty sight.

W. S. Gilbert

Mike Brown was our first choice and only choice.

Michael Chertoff

Mike Brown talked about the need to take seriously this hurricane ... It was difficult to know where on the Gulf Coast it was going to land.

Eli Pariser

Michael Brown taught us that vital national positions must be filled with qualified candidates, not political friends with little experience.

Keith Cieplicki

The only frustrating thing is that we haven't had all the pieces in place. The group that's healthy has gotten a lot better. They have great team chemistry, so really, and it's even hard for me to believe, that I've really enjoyed coaching this team. None of us like losing, but it's a pretty mature group. I hope for their sake we get a few more wins.

Shek Borkowski

The payoff is to make the national team. The pay is very good there, as well as in the reserve pool. So the reason these players come here is so they can train under high quality coaches and hopefully get a shot with their national teams.

Joshua Johnson

The past two games the coaches were trying to see who was going to be their go-to guys.

Carmelo Anthony

The past two days, George (coach George Karl ) has been stressing that if the playoffs were today, this is who we'd play. We wanted to make a statement right away and tell them this is what they'll see if they play us.

John Schweitz

The 3-pointer is normally not part of our game plan, but today it was. I don't like to do it, but I have to coach to our players' strengths. I'm a fool for not doing this sooner.

Denis Fitzgerald

The announcement has been made now to end the ongoing speculation in regard to the coaching position next year.

Matt Hasselbeck

That was fun n a little sloppy at times, but some of the most exciting plays I've seen all year. Coach Fox promised, by the end of the week, 'We'll put a smile on your face.' All the Seattle guys were smiling.

Jennifer Wilson

That was the kind of do-or-die games that the fans love. But for coaches and players, that was a tough game.

Jamar Smith

That was vital to the game because until then we'd just been trading baskets. I wasn't nervous because coach told me I'm not a freshman anymore. I'm a sophomore.

Zakk Wylde

With Nine Inch Nails, it's all Trent Reznor. So when we get a new record from Nine Inch Nails, it depends on what side of the bed Trent's waking up on and what he's been eating lately and what he's been into. Because he's preparing the whole meal.

Evangeline Lilly

If one day a TV series comes into my head, and that is what I want to write, I'll write it. It just depends what story is in my brain at the time.

David Beckham

I love a nice tailored suit, but I also like to dress down. It all depends on what mood I'm in.

Donald Johanson

What makes us human depends on what place on our evolutionary path we're talking about. If you go back six million years ago, what makes us human is that we were walking upright. That's all. If you go to 2.6 million years ago, it's the fact that we're designing and making stone tools.

Chrissie Hynde

When I hear myself singing, I hear Iggy Pop and Jimi Hendrix. There's a conversational thing going on. I suppose it depends on which The Pretenders song you're listening to.

Todd Heap

We can't let it be a disadvantage, that's for sure. Those guys are a huge part of our game. But all this depends on how the other guys prepare.

Pierre Omidyar

Ebay's success as a company depends on the success of the community of sellers.

Osamu Takashima

Most market players have already factored in another 25-basis point hike in the key federal fund rate in the FOMC meeting next month, but whether the Fed will keep raising rates in May depends on economic data, such as the CPI.

Bob Bennett

We just want to make sure it's safe. It just depends on how many folks we've got to help.

John Calipari

I think I learned it from Larry Brown.

Xavier Niel

Mark Zuckerberg did his own software for Facebook, and Larry Page and Sergey Brin made their own for Google.

Chauncey Billups

We're going to miss Larry Brown, but so many times it was just about Larry. It was always, 'Larry did this, Larry did that,' with the result that I don't think the players got enough credit.

Carl Reiner

We were all up there, Dick and Mary and Rosie and Larry Mathews and I looked around and I said, inadvertently, 'Look at this, we could do a show,'

Neil Innes

Larry only ever wrote one song, and he wrote that with Tony Kaye, I think it was, from Yes.

Theo Epstein

My relationship with Larry is one that spanned about 14 years; we've had a very successful working relationship,

Brendan Barnicle

Larry will go out of there in a pine box.

Shai Agassi

Larry is a very smart man. You can quote me on that.

Phil Jackson

Larry has been in this situation many more times than I have, ... It is very unique for me.

Mario Zawadzki

The political situation here doesn't help, but worldwide markets are falling.

Rob Enderle

The overseas market isn't saturated like the U.S..

Chris Walker

The overall market is down a tad anyway,

Michael Carty

The path of least resistance for this market is up right now.

Sheryl Kingstone

The $500,000 offer is a very tactical marketing move.

Peter Fontaine

We have to wait and see how this storm develops, ... We don't have a sense of panic in the market yet.

Peter Fontaine

We have to wait and see how this storm develops, going into Texas. We don't have a sense of panic in the market yet.

Joseph Cohen

Today the markets are already priced for imperfection,

Ned Riley

Today the market anticipated possible problems over the weekend. If nothing happens, we might have a better Monday than we've been having.

Idina Menzel

The first album I ever owned was 'A Star is Born.'

Peter Jackson

Once the film is out and a lot of people are seeing it, it becomes almost owned by the cinemagoers of the world.

Bill Shorten

We're not slaves if we're workers, we're not owned by our employers.

Ron Darling

One thing about that team is they owned this town.

Daniel Petrocelli

I would have never owned those ugly-ass shoes.

Frank Hamblen

If I owned a team or was in charge, I'd want Phil Jackson, also.

John Conley

From 1992 to 2000, Motorola owned the project.

Italian Proverb

Years and sins are always more than owned

Robert Cahill

It has a lot of history. My grandparents owned this and my son is planning on taking it over. I'm not going to quit now? I'll keep going.

David Steinberg

I rewrote it and I took all your notes. Read it again, that kind of persistence paid off.

Nancy Pelosi

The American people paid the price of corruption.

Fabio Barbosa

We have that right and we paid for it. We're not going to give it up without compensation.

Robert Kiyosaki

Most employees only want to know how much they get paid and how much time off they get - they probably don't have the mission in their souls.

Claudia Smith

I worked all my life, paid for my house, just remodeled it and then boom. It's hard. There's nothing to do. I don't know what's next.

Chris Hall

I was very pleased with Michael's performance in only his second paid outing.

Andy Irons

On my waves I just did as many turns as I could and it paid off.

John Hopkins

If a student has already paid tuition for his or her university, that's it, we don't take any money,

Aaron McGruder

It astounds me that good, responsible white people paid for this show.

Ivar Giaever

You need to be curious, competitive, creative, stubborn, self-confident, skeptical, patient and be lucky to win a Nobel.

Abraham Lincoln

True patriotism is better than the wrong kind of piety.

Carl Cohn

The pattern that you will find in the people I appoint is they have extraordinary people skills,

John Ross

The patients that are now in the waiting room and the ones that are in ambulance stretchers can't come into their departments because there's actually no place to put them.

Hans Blix

The patience that they require for themselves now was not anything that they wanted to give to us,

Boris Yeltsin

The patience of the public and of the president is not limitless,

Napoleon Hill

The path of least resistance makes all rivers, and some men, crooked.

Rick Santorum

My work with Patriot Voices actually dovetails very well into the work I'm going to be doing with EchoLight. I'll be traveling around the country, doing a lot of radio interviews, a lot of media interviews, so I don't see that as all inconsistent.

Bernard Barton

Patience wins the race.

Joe Manganiello

Well, being 6' 5', pull-ups are my nemesis. I have really long arms so I have to do twice the work of someone with short arms to get the weight up there.

Grace Gealey

I am very disciplined with my skin - I tone and I moisturize my skin twice a day. I also exfoliate, and I try to get a facial, like, once every two months.

Aaron Krach

It was 1989, and there was a big brouhaha that he was so old and so gray. Now, we wouldn't think twice about it.

Dave Lewis

We come up every year once or twice a year.

Rand Paul

Black unemployment is twice white unemployment and has been for decade after decade.

Vic Koenning

I've never had that before, in how many years of coaching? So we've had it twice in two games, so we've got to get that squared away, too.

Phil Jackson

The win wasn't important for me, it was important for the team, ... But getting the win is twice as nice.