Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Twain

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

Norihiro Fujito

It is understandable that foreigners want to take profits for now.

Mahathir Mohamad

Foreigners who once colonized us, who have done nothing to help us, these foreigners have no good intentions,

Hideo Mizutani

Foreigners have, thus far, made a lot of money by investing in Japanese stocks which were relatively cheap.

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.

George Bernard Shaw

German and Spanish are accessible to foreigners: English is not accessible even to Englishmen.

Hideo Mizutani

Market participants are relieved as they now see the trend of foreigners exiting the Japanese market is over.

Evan Osnos

Living abroad has heightened my interest in how foreigners regard the strange places we encounter.

Olivier Martinez

I'll always be a foreigner.

Neneh Cherry

Frank Ocean is our modern-day Marvin Gaye. In our house, we have nothing but respect for him.

Doug Campbell

It's the perfect opportunity to give Minnie Lilley the recognition, and frankly the respect, that she deserves.

Jeff Blake

It's a buffer. We do them frequently, and quite frankly I think you're going to see them more often. Sometimes the way (to go) is to share the risk.

Drew Goddard

Like everyone else, I love 'Born Again:' that was a seminal work for me. Everything Frank Miller did on 'Daredevil' is like the Bible.

Sergei Lavrov

Frankly speaking, we don't see any other way for the steady development of the Ukrainian state apart from as a federation.

Ann Nelson

As a woman, I just don't think it's safe for me to walk Franklin Street alone.

Michael Heizer

The size thing is not some gimmick or attention-getting trick but a genuine undercurrent of the work. Frank Gehry for instance likes to imagine his buildings as sculptures. I like to imagine my sculptures as architectural.

James Malone

The team owner, Frank Rogers, is in shock, very surprised and stunned, as are all of us. He was there whenever we needed him. He was a lot of fun to be around, had a great sense of humor and was very friendly and outgoing.

Rebekah Brooks

'The Sun' had a good relationship with Frank Bruno. We did lots of interviews. He was a great character, very friendly to the media.

Chris Brown

There's never a right time to say goodbye.

Chris Brown

There's never a right time to say goodbye. But I gotta make the first move 'cause if I don't you're gonna start hating me.

Chinua Achebe

I don't want to be the one to tell somebody, You will not make it, even though I know that the majority of those who come to me with their manuscripts are not really good enough.

China Mieville

In time, in time they tell me, I'll not feel so bad. I don't want time to heal me. There's a reason I'm like this. I want time to set me ugly and knotted with loss of you, marking me. I won't smooth you away. I can't say goodbye.

Edith Wharton

There is someone I must say goodbye to. Oh, not you - we are sure to see each other again - but the Lily Bart you knew. I have kept her with me all this time, but now we are going to part, and I have brought her back to you - I am going to leave her here. When I go out presently she will not go with me. I shall like to think that she has stayed with you.

Daymond John

Poor people put a low value on themselves and their efforts.

David Hyde Pierce

We can't control what the ratings will be. It's like, if you're going to go skiing, do you hope you'll have a good day of skiing? Yes. Do you hope you won't break your leg? Yes.

David Icke

Terms like 'good' and 'bad' are extremely simplistic in what is a far more complex situation.

Ben Whishaw

I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.

Alan Bean

One of the great things about the universe is that it's fair.

Susan Gibson

We want to show people how they can look great for very little money.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Greatness depends on where you are coming from.

Edward Gibbon

[The] vain and transitory scenes of human greatness are unworthy of a serious thought.

Audrey Hepburn

My greatest victory has been to be able to live with myself, to accept my shortcomings. I'm a long way from the human being I'd liked to be, but I've decided I'm not so bad after all.

Athenaeus

Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness.

Arnold Palmer

Swing your swing. Not some idea of a swing. Not a swing you saw on TV. Not that swing you wish you had. No, swing your swing. Capable of greatness. Prized only by you. Perfect in it's imperfection. Swing your swing. I know, I did.

Willie Kemp

Wayne, he's a great player, but we're moving on. We're still going to be friends.

Denis Waitley

The seeds of greatness are ideas you learn from people who've been great in their service to others.

Luke Nosek

If genetic research doesn't seemed to have lived up to its therapeutic promise, it's because sequencing is just too slow and expensive.

Catherine Dean

This is where one of the most important Americans lived during one of the most important periods in American history. Unfortunately, people don't even know we are here.

Harry Smith

This is the worst storm I've seen in the 46 years I've lived here.

William Frey

There is this 'Go East' mentality in California. Even people who have lived there most of their lives, when it comes time to retire are cashing out and leaving.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

It was a tall young oysterman lived by the riverside.

Peter Cardillo

Any rally is going to be short lived because someone can say the wrong thing (about earnings).

Stephen Adly Guirgis

I've lived with women, loved women, lost women. They've loved me, lost me, whatever.

Darrell Royal

I've lived in Texas 48 years now. Yes . . . I've been vaccinated and dipped.

Mark Wall

I've lived in Colorado, Utah, this is better.

Charles Dickens

What an immense impression Paris made upon me. It is the most extraordinary place in the world!

Edith Sitwell

White as a winding sheet, Masks blowing down the street: Moscow, Paris London, Vienna all are undone. The drums of death are mumbling, rumbling, and tumbling, Mumbling, rumbling, and tumbling, The world's floors are quaking, crumbling and breaking.

Ed Bradley

The Paris peace talks kept a roof over my head and food on the table and clothes on my back because if something was said going in or coming out, I had the rent for the month.

Arthur Rubinstein

When I sit in Paris in a cafe, surrounded by people, I don't sit casually - I go over a certain sonata in my head and discover new things all the time.

Diablo Cody

The public's appetite for frothy, flippant blondes has waned, but Paris Hilton still fascinates me.

Denzel Washington

What's a celebrity anyway? Paris Hilton's a celebrity. I'm just a working actor.

Charles de Gaulle

I cannot prevent the French from being French

Bill Viola

I hope we'll be able to see that in our lifetime: the end of the camera! When I'm in Paris, I'll buy a big bottle of champagne and I'll save it for that day, for the day when they'll be no more camera.

Camille Claudel

Sir Rodin convinced my parents to have me committed; they are all in Paris to arrange it.

Howard Dean

we're going to find a way to stay in one way or the other.

Byron Katie

Sleep just gives the ego a little time out. It has to stay strong in order to be something that it isn't.

Avril Lavigne

Keep holding on, cause you know we'll make it through. We'll make it through. Just stay strong, cause you know I'm here for you. I'm here for you. There's nothing you could say. Nothing you could do. There's no other way when it comes to the truth, but keep holding on, cause you know we'll make it through.

Blanka Vlasic

Sometimes your disappointments make you a stronger person for the future.

Deron Williams

We're just trying to stay alive. We're going to play 'til they tell us we can't play anymore.

Shawn Barber

The more things change, the more things stay the same.

Gary Brackett

It's exciting. But I'm not one to get content. I'm one for staying hungry. I think we can play better.

Dave Tippett

They play a game, and you have to stay with the game. You can't deviate.

Jason Bowen

They stayed right in there, and after the first 10 minutes, Greenwood was never a threat to us.

Lindsey Vonn

Vail's a very important place for me. Everyone kind of took me in and accepted me in that town, and they still have to this day. I wouldn't be a downhill skier if I hadn't been there.

Nate Gallick

When we got to our feet, I wanted to make something happen, so I took a chance. It worked out for me.

Eric Norris

Unfortunately, it took us this long to do this.

Scott Justus

They took us out of some of the things we wanted to do.

Mark Tennis

They took the head-to-head thing to a new extreme.

Brad Stiles

They took it to us in the first half.

Ricky Proehl

They took away a lot of things. They took us completely out of our game, and that's a tribute to them.

Larry Jacobs

It's not like he took this for granted.

Drew Barrymore

I took a poo in the woods hunched over like an animal,