Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Korda

An ounce of hypocracy is worth a pound of ambition.

Kate Fox

The British male is either reticent, tongue-tied and awkward, or boorish and crass, and he usually consumes too much alcohol. English male flirting tends to be very circuitous, and involves a lot of insults rather than compliments.

Alan Johnson

The British government was disappointed that the meeting did not make more progress but relieved it did not end in failure like Cancun and Seattle.

John Scarlett

The skills of the British intelligence community are a great national asset.

Rhona Mitra

I wanted to go out and experience the fields.

Shahid Malik

the most profound challenge yet faced by the British Muslim community.

Martin Rees

Some things, like the orbits of the planets, can be calculated far into the future. But that's atypical. In most contexts, there is a limit. Even the most fine-grained computation can only forecast British weather a few days ahead. There are limits to what can ever be learned about the future, however powerful computers become.

John Deacon

No, we have our ups and downs, but we're all very up at the moment.

Faith Hill

Thank you, fans, very much. She would say that in a British accent. ... She's a fantastic director, one of the greatest that I've ever had the pleasure to work with. She's in London editing another video for me for a song called 'Stealing Kisses.' It's amazing. It was an honor to work with her, and I know she would ... thank the fans and she would thank hair and makeup. There was a lot of hair. There was a lot of makeup. It was just very exciting to do it.

Tim Hatten

Demetrius is probably the fastest guy to ever play here and that's saying a lot.

Paul Edwards

Wind is the fastest growing source of power generation in the world and we think Manitoba can be a world leader in the development of wind power.

Lawal McCray

He's not the fastest kid in the world, but he's tough and he's a shifty runner. He gave us some problems." ()

Steve Cox

He?s a great athlete. He?s a gunner on punt team, because he?s right there with our fastest guys. He runs a 4.7 40-yard dash. He can do practically anything.

Hans Arnesen

I think this race is going to be aggressive. There are a number of teams out there that have solid riders that are going make the race fast. They aren't going to sit in the pack and have the slower (teams) stay around. From the start, this race is going to be played out to be one of the fastest races in recent years.

Derek Parra

I went from skating my fastest times this summer to just being fatigued by the stress of the divorce. It really hurts when I can't talk to my daughter.

Brett Lee

Growing up, you look at guys like Jeff Thomson as heroes, so going past him is pretty special.

Barbara Kingsolver

But nothing on this earth is guaranteed, when you get right down to it, you know ? I've been thinking about that. About how your kids aren't really YOURS, they're just these people that you try to keep an eye on, and hope you'll all grow up someday to like each other and still be in one piece. What I mean is, everything you get is really just on loan. Does that make sense?" Sure,"I said. "Like library books. Sooner or later they've all got to go back into the nightdrop.

Bruce Kennedy

We're growing up, and we've got growing pains,

Brad Pitt

Indian cinema seems to be growing very well at its own pace.

Jane Campion

I think women don't grow up with the harsh world of criticism that men grow up with, we are more sensitively treated, and when you first experience the world of film-making you have to develop a very tough skin.

Janet Jackson

A lot of people who start work at a very young age never grow up because they never got that opportunity to be a child, so they hold on to that and still do a lot of childish, silly things.

Demi Lovato

Growing up in America, I never really appreciated my culture. I knew what being Hispanic was, but I thought that since I didn't look Hispanic, I was white.

Demi Lovato

I'm getting older and the performance onstage was definitely, it was a bit sexier, but it wasn't too much. I don't want to scare off my fans. At the same time my fans are growing up with me, and I don't want to go way over the top.

Bruce Feiler

When I was growing up, I, like many Jews, cheered what appeared to be the receding of faith from everyday life. The further religion got from our lives the better our lives would get, I thought, because persecution had been such a burden to Jewish families for generations.

John Davidson

I still like Maverick Tube, which is the largest provider of tubular product to that industry,

Robert McKinley

If you're looking to transfer a $5,000 balance, you need to look to the largest issuers.

Dan Woods

The largest need right now is to move students out of there,

Edmund Daukoru

The oil market has remained well-supplied with crude.

Frederick Tsang

The whole market is quite weak and there's quite a lot of selling of futures and red chips.

Bill Gurley

Marketing executives like big budgets, as big budgets make it easier to grow the top line.

Robin Li

The market is fast-moving, fast-growing. Things that are true today may not be true tomorrow.

Bob Dinneen

E85 is going to be a much more significant market for us down the road. But you have to get more vehicles on the road that can use E85, and you need more outlets.

Mike Viracola

The trend on the market is still down,

Kate Warne

What an ugly day. A day you didn't want to be around to watch. It was just a market that was nervous and unhappy about the news of the day.

Skrillex

There's been not a dime spent on marketing for any record I've ever put out.

Mark Skousen

No one spends someone elses money as carefully as he spends his own.

Andrew Griffin

The second one, I thought it was going to fall.

Maya Angelou

Life sometimes gives you a second chance.

Shelli Haferbecker

If it wasn't the first shot, a lot of times it was the second and third shot.

Gary Thelander

He ultimately was the source of the second victim.

Chris Hammond

I always start pretty strong. When I do struggle, it tends to be in the second half.

Ron Gardenhire

I think the second time around we'll see where we're at here.

Duane Starks

Starks said. ''I just think we executed more in the second half.

Colin Cushman

Standish in the second half, that's the story right there. She's the real deal.

Mark Teixeira

That could be it exactly. The first day, I didn't sleep at all. The second day, yeah, a little bit.

Brian Eno

It's not the destination that matters. It's the change of scene.

Donald Miller

Everybody has to leave, everybody has to leave their home and come back so they can love it again for all new reasons.

Clare Boothe Luce

the only time travelers are really gay is when they are traveling for no good reason at all.

Christopher Walken

I like to go to work, and also, I don't have any kids. I don't have any hobbies. I don't like to travel. So going to work is kind of it.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Travel makes all men countrymen, makes people noblemen and kings, every man tasting of liberty and dominion.

Anna Louise Strong

Strong I am one of those who never knows the direction of my journey until I have almost arrived.

Daniel J. Boorstin

The traveler used to go about the world to encounter the natives. A function of travel agencies now is to prevent this encounter.

Daniel J. Boorstin

The modern American tourist now fills his experience with pseudo-events. He has come to expect both more strangeness and more familiarity than the world naturally offers. He has come to believe that he can have a lifetime of adventure in two weeks and all the thrills of risking his life without any real risk at all.

David Foster Wallace

For me, boviscopophobia is an even stronger motive than semi-agoraphobia for staying on the ship when we're in port.

Thomas Sowell

When all is said and done, the Constitution of the United States is a set of words on a piece of paper. The only way that the Constitution can protect us is if we protect the Constitution.

Michael Lewis

The United States stock market, the most iconic market in global capitalism, is rigged,

Melinda Gates

I'm constantly saying to myself, 'I'm lucky I was born in the United States.

Paulo Coelho

In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.

Strom Thurmond

New People: Miscegenation and Mulattoes in the United States.

Jeffrey Goldberg

There's nothing that the United States can do. Nothing that would change systems in the Middle East, nothing the United States can do that would make the Middle East a better place.

Jim Bishop

Perhaps the best thing which can be said about newspapers in the United States is that they are in chronic disagreement with each other. That is what is meant by a free press.

Jesse Helms

The interests of the United States are better served by demanding reform and seeing that reform takes place than by removing our influence from the UN.

Hillary Clinton

There is a hunger for the United States to be present again.