Famous Quotes & Sayings

Juan Cole

I speak Urdu quite a lot, too, and I read a lot of Persian.

Temple Grandin

I would not be here now if I did not have anti-depressants.

Robert Brustein

The primary function of a theater is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent.

Horace Mann

Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever.

Leon Kass

What does it mean to be an individual? What does it mean to flourish?

James Lipton

We teach them ballroom dancing, because for so much of their careers they will be partnering each other the way you and I are right now.

Carol Foreman

UNICEF's Voices of Youth has organized many Internet chats, like the one you participated in, among children and teachers around the world.

Dennis Banks

When the run is over, there will be a closing ceremony and the runners will return to the many distant lands from which they came.

Amos Alcott

Observation more than books, experience rather than persons, are the prime educators.

Laura Bush

As China reforms its economy, its leaders are finding that once the door to freedom is opened even a crack, it cannot be closed,

Joseph P. Bradley

As marriage and the family institution constitute the foundation and chief cornerstone of civil society, it is of the greatest moment that the marriage-tie should never be dissolved save for the most urgent reason. I cannot assent, however, to the doctrine that it should never be dissolved at all.

Alaa Makki

People cannot walk 10 or 12km, but the election commission isn't putting in more polling stations.

Karen Best

The symptoms teachers are experiencing are real; these teachers are ill. The BUT dismisses that nonsense because I don't understand how cancer, asthma, rhinitis or conjunctivitis falls into that category. We understand that it is a phenomenon, but it cannot be attributed to what is happening at Louis Lynch School.

Larry Coker

A fifth-year senior quarterback cannot give the opponent a touchdown before the half. That's totally a foolish play we can't have.

Mahela Jayawardene

The one-day series is gone and we cannot dwell on that.

Johnnie Burton

The oil from the platforms might be at 95 percent of pre- storm levels within 30 days or so. That doesn't mean it's going to go anywhere. There are terminals they cannot get to. There are refineries that are not ready to take the product.

O. Singh

After he danced his way through TV channels on Saturday dressed up as a woman and gave interviews in which he addressed himself in feminine gender, we cannot ignore the issue any longer.

Jeffrey Bryant

A culture that pushes God out of its world cannot expect to feel secure as if God were in it.

Rem Koolhaas

There's nothing Dutch about my architecture.

KC Boutiette

I was waving to all my Dutch fans, because that's all that's out there.

Marco Basten

The passing away of the grand old man of the training camp, the father of Dutch football, is an enormous loss for the football world.

David Davies

The price of a foreign holiday is a requirement to be put on the national identity register.

Linda Sherry

Be prepared for some runaround when trying to find out the fees for foreign transactions. A lot of representatives don't have a clue, so you have to be persistent.

Madeline Albright

But we have to do it in some way that does not harm our overall foreign policy interests,

Slobodan Milosevic

Since foreign military intervention or a war are out of the question, other means of destruction of Yugoslavia are being mentioned -- psychological, media and political pressures.

Margaret Thatcher

Fear is not the basis for foreign policy.

Mark Twain

They spell it Vinci and pronounce it Vinchy; foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.

Porter Goss

foreign policy team was all on the same page.

Soichiro Monji

Foreigners are selling and it seems that Japanese investors are also getting rid of stocks because they are worried about selling by foreigners.

Des Browne

Nuclear weapons are infinitely less important in our foreign policy than they were in the days of the Cold War. I don't think we need nuclear weapons any longer.

Paul Richards

The thought was that it was better to withdraw the proposal rather than risk a formal veto at this stage,

Candy Olson

We had to get more formal . . . and more transparent. It's not only that we do it well but also that people see it as well.

Ricky Martin

I had very steady and formal relationships with women. And I can say, I fell in love with women and it felt right.

Joseph Towle

If it was a formal confession, I would not be able to say a single word,

Jeff Lindsay

Getting yelled at by a furious woman should be a semi-formal occasion.

Ian Cameron

It is a less formal car, more streamlined, more about the individual.

Bill Coleman

The idea is to have those goals, and then throughout the year, talk about them regularly with your boss. It can be something as formal as a monthly or quarterly meeting, or simply giving them good news in the hallway.

Bill Nye

You're dressed in a tuxedo, you wear a bow tie. A bow tie with a tuxedo is more formal than a straight tie with a tuxedo.

Roger Clemens

So they gave me some medication and I'm going to treat it and that's all I can tell you from there.

Jose Vivas

The way I see it, God gave us life for some reason and took away life from others for some other reason. It's a mystery. Only God knows why.

Laura Wade

I'm not very good at sticking at things if I can't be successful at them. I gave up on sport a long time ago.

Andy Reid

There are plenty of things to work on, but they gave a great effort.

Daryl Patton

We're a pressure team. We're going to give up some big plays at time but overall ... we gave up some big plays but the kids responded usually with something positive right after that.

Robert Atkins

When I meet vegetarians who might have diabetes, pre-diabetes or massive obesity, I tell them they would be better off if they gave up their Vegetarianism.

Flip Saunders

The only negative was I wanted to play Carlos (Delfino) and I didn't. I think he could have probably helped us. We went with Mo, and Mo gave us energy.

Caitlyn Jenner

'Esquire Magazine' just gave me 'Father of the Year'. I'll put it right up there with my gold medal. I survived; that's why they gave it to me.

Ethel Andrus

What I spent, is gone; what I kept, I lost;/ but what I gave away will be mine forever.

Carla Bruni

Marriage is another trap. If you are someone who likes independence, it's another stamp against that. And you have to swear to fidelity.

Coco Chanel

A woman needs independence, not equality. In most cases, equality is a step down.

Arthur Schopenhauer

For, after all, the foundation of our whole nature, and, therefore, of our happiness, is our physique, and the most essential factor in happiness is health, and, next in importance after health, the ability to maintain ourselves in independence and freedom from care.

Andy Borowitz

All Americans mourn the passing of the author of the Declaration of Independence, George Jefferson.

E. F. Schumacher

Every increase of needs tends to increase one's independence on outside forces over which one cannont have control and therefore increases existential fear

Stephen Covey

Effective interdependence can only be built on true independence.

Sue Grafton

Society values cooperation over independence, obedience over individuality, and niceness above all else.

Tom Allen

Energy conservation is the foundation of energy independence.

Mercy Otis Warren

A superfluity of wealth, and a train of domestic slaves, naturally banish a sense of general liberty, and nourish the seeds of that kind of independence that usually terminates in aristocracy.

Todd Devereaux

North is very strong. We played with them for about 25 minutes.

Michael Griffith

North Dakota's is sort of a different pace.

Jay Grymes

Normal rainfall is not what we need. We need a wet spell.

Tahar Rahim

The mud is cold when you're in the north of Scotland!

Abdul Aziz

Now I can sell latex at normal prices.

Larry Rice

Technology is where there's momentum, ... That's been the norm and it's getting worse. People are going to go where they can make money.

Abraham Lincoln

The world will little note nor long remember what we say here.

Jeff Wangsness

You're going to see some real challenging-type stunts, more so than they normally would do.

Miley Cyrus

I don't have a normal life.

Jinny Sims

The teachers of this province are not going to be broken.

Bea Arthur

If you would have told me ten years ago I'd be doing this and being received like I am now, I'd say you're crazy.

Jerry Glover

I have never received one dime. This is all volunteer.

Volodymyr Lytvyn

I have not received the resolution for signing.

Rachel Johnson

After that I received 74 unsolicited text messages,

Eric Dubin

When you received Rosie, did you say, 'It's now you and me, kid?'

Horton Foote

I've lived long enough to know things go in and out of fashion, and things not well received now can be totally reversed years later.

John Spiak

This year we received more entries than we ever had.

Tyler Barnes

To say that we haven't received any (complaints) would not be true, but it has only been a handful.