Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yahya Jammeh

The missile that downed the Malaysian plane, they say, is a Russian-made missile. But the weapons that are used in the barbarism in the barbaric act against the Palestinians were made by the West, and nobody is blaming them. Nobody talks about it; not even the U.N. Security Council can pass a resolution against Israel!

Isabella Bird

Can anything be more grotesque and barbarous than our 'florists' bouquets,' a series of concentric rings of flowers of divers colours, bordered by maidenhair and a piece of stiff lace paper, in which stems, leaves, and even petals are brutally crushed, and the grace and individuality of each flower systematically destroyed?

Yotam Ottolenghi

Pot barley takes longer to cook than pearl, but an overnight soak in water will speed things along. It's a robust grain that, if overcooked, won't collapse but will become more tender.

Will Thomas

We all know by now that Barack Obama is not a patriot. After all, he doesn't always wear a flag pin, and he objects to the idea that he should be required to in order to run for office.

Virginia Postrel

We've gone from a world in which Starbucks set a cutting-edge standard for mass-market design to a world in which Starbucks establishes the bare minimum. If your establishment can't come up with an original look, customers expect at least some sleek wood fixtures, nicely upholstered chairs, and faux-Murano glass pendant lights.

Abraham Lincoln

Oh, yes; you Virginians shed barrels of perspiration while standing off at a distance and superintending the work your slaves do for you. It is different with us. Here it is every fellow for himself, or he doesn't get there.

Chris Bohjalian

I live here in Vermont, in a village of barely a thousand people halfway up the state's third highest mountain.

Evangeline Lilly

When I hear the words 'Women should be barefoot and pregnant and in the kitchen,' I think, 'What. A. Dream.' There are no negative connotations to it.

H. Hart

The pig is already out of the barn as far as the effects of the yield curve on net interest margins. Margins will probably get modestly worse, but it won't be dramatic because the real negative impact has been absorbed.

Geoff Hoon

The Chief Whip's job is trying to make sure that the Government - and MPs elected as part of the governing party - deliver the promises that they were elected on. That's a healthy part of the democratic process.

William Henry Moody

At the conclusion of my argument I received very high compliments from the Chief Justice and later from other of the Judges. What they said I do not care to repeat.

Vivek Wadhwa

In my first company, Seer Technologies, where I was chief technology officer, we shied away from the media. We watched every word and were guarded in front of journalists.

Ellen Key

The present practice is to impress one's own discoveries, opinions and principles on the child by constantly directing his actions. The last thing to be realised by the educator is that he really has before him an entirely new soul, a real self whose first and chief right is to think over the things with which he comes in contact.

Chris Steele

The police chief wouldn't put his officers out on the street if their guns didn't work... so our firefighters want to know where is the fire chief to protect them on this issue.

Gary Goddard

The police chief will be the determining officer ... on a case-by-case basis,

Giuseppe Pisanu

The police chief has very clear instructions about that. I wish however that tomorrow's derby is tranquil.

Sherry Llewellyn

The police chief has indicated that this investigation is a top priority. We are working right now to develop a timeline of what happened.

Neil Strauss

Since I was 18, I've been under orders from magazines and newspapers - chiefly The New York Times and Rolling Stone - to step into the lives of musicians, actors, and artists, and somehow find out who they really are underneath the mask they present to the public. But I didn't always succeed.

Thomas Rutledge

Most communities want competition, they are glad to get another competitor in, it is not hard to get a franchise if you are competitor.

Lars Godell

Microsoft, in whatever form it will end up, will be a very strong competitor and a very innovative force.

Dixie Carter

We have one major competitor which does a good job at what it does,

Thijs Berkelder

You can expect much more consolidation to take place. Eliminating a competitor should be good for the pricing environment of the entire industry, and Intelsat can run their satellites more efficiently than before.

Brian Anderson

Willie's a good guy. He's a tough competitor on the field.

Hassan Adams

It'd be great. My feeling is I would love to have him. That's just me. He's a competitor that we could use. It's always good to have an extra perimeter guy you can go to, especially on the defensive end. Just as long as he handles his business, that's good. I wish him the best.

Dave Duncan

I thought last year was a miraculous year for him. And he definitely earned my respect last year as to what kind of pitcher he was, what kind of person he was, what kind of competitor he was.

John Desko

We know Joe's a competitor and he can be intense. I'm sure he'll be a great fit for West Point.

Sarah Klaassen

We were in striking distance most of the game, so maybe that's something positive that we can take away. But your immediate reaction after the game as a competitor is that you don't like to lose.

Twyla Tharp

People often say to me, 'I don't know anything about dance.' I say, 'Stop. You got up this morning, and you're walking. You are an expert.'

Bonnie Bassler

Bacteria live in unbelievable mixtures of hundreds or thousands of species. Like on your teeth. There are 600 species of bacteria on your teeth every morning.

Brooke Burke

I'm not a morning person. I'm really not.

C. S. Lewis

Something quite unexpected has happened. It came this morning early. For various reasons, not in themselves at all mysterious, my heart was lighter than it had been for many weeks. ... And suddenly, at the very moment when, so far, I mourned H. least, I remembered her best. Indeed it was something (almost) better than memory; an instantaneous, unanswerable impression. To say it was like a meeting would be going too far. Yet there was that in it which tempts one to use those words. It was as though the lifting of the sorrow removed a barrier.

Cecelia Ahern

And that is how Goodwin problems were always fixed. Fix them on the surface but don't go to the root, always ignoring the elephant in the room. I think that morning was when I realized I'd grown up with an elephant in every room of my life. It was practically our family pet.

Cecelia Ahern

Time cannot be packaged and ribboned and left under trees for christmas morning.Time can't be given.But it can be shared

Cecelia Ahern

I wake up in the morning and I feel like I’m missing something. I know that there’s something not right, and it takes me a while to remember what it is . . . then I remember. My best friend is gone. My only friend. It was silly of me to rely so much on one person.

Cecelia Ahern

Life is made up of meetings and partings. People come into your life everyday, you say good morning, you say good evening, some stay for a few minutes, some stay for a few months, some a year, others a whole lifetime. No matter who it is, you meet and then you part. I'm so glad I met you Elizabeth Egan; I'll thank my lucky stars for that. I think I wished for you all of my life" He whispered. "But now it is time for us to part.

Carrie Underwood

Every Wednesday, my husband and I have a study group with our friends. I attend church. We try to devote time in the morning, say a prayer.

Joe Carroll

I don't know who took me, ... I'm fine. I was treated reasonably well.

Antonin Scalia

I do not think my impartiality could reasonably be questioned.

B. F. Skinner

You can get along very well in this world by simply coming up with a quantity of reasonably valid statements.

Susanna Moore

Young writers reasonably say, 'I don't know what to write about,' so writing about yourself is a very literal way to begin.

Marsha Sinetar

All work done mindfully rounds us out, helps complete us as persons.

Samantha Fox

It wouldn't be fair to drag a child round the world, touring.

Lefty Grove

You've got a little round ball and a little round bat and anything can happen.

Amy Winehouse

I never went round to loads of managers saying 'this is what I have, this is my product and I'm going to be famous so you'd better sign me up.' They came to me.

Cliff Thompson

Overall, I'm happy. During the first round of the state tournament, you just want to get a win and get the jitters out.

Pat Toomey

Laffey was in Washington making the rounds and I spoke with him then,

Catriona Matthew

I am a little surprised, but delighted, to be back in it and with two rounds to go anything is still possible,

John Lennon

I would have turned round right then and walked away.

Peter Mandelson

If we scale back in Hong Kong, we should not scale back for the round as a whole. It is too important.

Kimberley Nixon

I think I'd like my own plane, stacked with all my favourite films.

Nomar Garciaparra

I've got a stack of them. I'm trying to get a feel for what I like and don't like.

Rainbow Rowell

That was the beauty in stacking up words--they got cheaper, the more you had of them.