Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Verlaine

I wonder what all those Chinese poets sound like in Chinese. I like their distilled quality.

Zhang Xin

It's a good thing that it is getting simpler to register a company in China, it is good that the exchange rate of our currency is getting more flexible and that it's getting easier for Chinese businesspeople to travel. All of this opens up our economy.

Ronald Jones

Failure of any member to register by the deadline will be viewed as an indication that the member is not interested in participating/competing in 2006.

Arabian Proverb

Throw a lucky man into the sea, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth.

Richard Leakey

Echoing the criticism made of his father's habilis skulls, he added that Lucy's skull was so incomplete that most of it was 'imagination made of plaster of Paris', thus making it impossible to draw any firm conclusion about what species she belonged to.

T. D. Jakes

I grew up in hospitals. My father was sick. So I grew up in hospitals from the age of 10. Got to see a lot of suffering.

Harper Lee

I suppose she chose me because she knew my name; as I read the alphabet a faint line appeared between her eyebrows, and after making me read most of My First Reader and the stock-market quotations from The Mobile Register aloud, she discovered that I was literate and looked at me with more than faint distaste. Miss Caroline told me to tell my father not to teach me any more, it would interfere with my reading.

Iyanla Vanzant

For most of my life, I believed that my father had broken many of my bones. They were emotional and psychological bones; things no one could see, things that caused me to limp through life clutching for and holding on to people and situations that often rendered me immobile.

Rebecca West

Were I to go down into the market-place, armed with the powers of witchcraft, and take a peasant by the shoulders and whisper to him, 'In your lifetime, have you known peace?' wait for his answer, shake his shoulders and transform him into his father, and ask him the same question, and transform him in his turn to his father, I would never hear the word 'Yes,' if I carried my questioning of the dead back for a thousand years. I would always hear, 'No, there was fear, there were our enemies without, our rulers within, there was prison, there was torture, there was violent death.

Russell Baker

A man writing a letter is a man in the act of thinking, and it was an exercise Reagan obviously enjoyed. After his first meeting with Gorbachev, for example, he sent a 'Dear Murph' letter about it to his old friend George Murphy, a former senator and actor who had once played Reagan's father in a film.

Umberto Eco

My father was an accountant and his father was a typographer.

Salman Rushdie

Anyone who reads my work will see that there are often difficult relationships between fathers and sons.

Bobby Robson

The first 90 minutes of the match are the most important.

Morris Chestnut

My idea of a perfect holiday is spending time with the family, waking up on Christmas morning or Thanksgiving morning, watching football all day, having the family come over, people you haven't seen.

Michael Beasley

We had a lot of football players on the team then. Once we got out of football mode we started making strides.

Trevor Brooking

I come from a generation where I couldn't even contemplate such a thing. I find it amazing. You can become a multi-millionaire as a club player without playing international football. But international football is about individual pride and wanting to perform at the highest level. If I got picked at 41, I would have played, even if I thought I would make a fool of myself. I just wanted to play for my country.

Ryan Giggs

I've put myself forward to be involved. Whether I get picked, we'll have to wait and see. Obviously everybody is excited about it, about the Olympics coming to London and the football being played in different parts of Britain.

Xabi Alonso

I've still got Paul Scholes' shirt at home which I swapped with him once. When I was at Liverpool he was one of the players I liked most. Maybe he's not valued as much as he should be in England because of the style of football there and because he keeps a low profile. Perhaps he would have been more valued in Spain, where midfielders like him form part of the 'ideal.' Fans in Spain rate him very highly and I admire him a huge amount.

Zinedine Zidane

Messi makes the difference most of the time. In particular, he is always going forwards. He never passes the ball backwards or sideways. He has only one idea, to run towards the goal.So as a football fan, just enjoy the show.

Zinedine Zidane

Obviously fashion is a completely different world from football.

Jeff Mullins

Playing football gave me the option of having school paid for while doing something I love,

Terri Mitchell

All-American players go from four points in the first half to 20.

Morgan Betscher

We thought we got gypped a little. We thought we'd get a four or a five.

Sasha Roiz

I went to theatre school for four years and just wanted to do theatre. I had no ambition to be on TV or to be on camera. I just wanted to go to New York or London and be on stage... I did a lot of theatre in Montreal, got involved in TV in Toronto and then moved to L.A. I hope that film and TV will take me back to theatre.

Josh Pastner

He's a very mobile four man who can really shoot it (and is) a very, very good athlete.

Tom Serratore

He's going to get 200 points if he lasts four years.

Keith Alexander

He's going to be missing for at least four to six weeks. It's a big blow.

Pete Asadourian

He?s been waiting for this. He?s been on the varsity team for four years and he got a taste of this his freshman year. He wants to keep going. He?s our captain. He?s our leader.

Joe Thornton

Hopefully we can look back and say that's how we got into the playoffs. We had 20 guys show up tonight. We're hoping we can reel off three or four in a row and keep it rolling.

Dana Keeton

When they saw him, at least four men took off on foot, and that ensued a massive search on foot, involving about 60 of our units and several units from other agencies.

Kary Moss

We haven't heard of jails taping what should be confidential conversations. That's wrong.

Aidan White

No. That is not what I heard him say.

Isaac Asimov

What would I do if I knew I only had six months to live? Type faster.

Jacob DiPietre

They've already been in the process of doing that for several months now.

Doug Nelson

When we saw the site come up for sale, we said we've got to be part of this.

Orla Brady

If I saw my 15-year-old self now, I'd think I wasn't that bad, but back then I perceived myself as awful.

Jessica Savitch

The single life is not one I willingly chose for myself.

Maria Callas

Only when I was singing did I feel loved.

Linda Chavez

Their prejudice allowed white Southerners to look the other way when blacks were denied their most basic human rights, and it encouraged the worst of them to engage in unspeakable acts of cruelty and violence.

Pete Rose

I'm not bad (his speed). I'm no Joe Morgan, but I'm pretty good for a white guy.

Joss Stone

People say I'm the white Aretha Franklin. I wish I was her.

Kevin Hart

I love soft-cotton white T-shirts.

Kelly Osbourne

It's funny that all these goths paint their faces with such white make-up and that is the actual colour of my skin, I am that pale!

Lennox Lewis

There is just one rule about boxing: never bet on the white guy.

Joseph Campbell

As a white candle / In a holy place, / So is the beauty / Of an aged face

Karl Popper

no matter how many instances of white swans we may have observed, this does not justify the conclusion that all swans are white.

Kanye West

I don't know if this is statistically right, but I'm assuming I have the most Grammys of anyone my age, but I haven't won one against a white person.