Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kate Bush

I think probably the only thing that is around in these songs is that I was really lonely when I wrote a lot of them. But it was really by my own choosing because I was devoting myself to songwriting and dancing and I wasn't really going out and seeing people.

Katharine Whitehorn

Hats divide into three classes: offensive hats, defensive hats, and shrapnel.

Sean Connery

His name is John Mason, a British national incarcerated in The Rock in 1962.

Stewart Gary

It hurts me not to have them. We can't pretend it doesn't matter. It's like a British Invasion set without the Beatles.

Jeremy Bulloch

I think The Empire Strikes Back had everything.

Rhianna Pratchett

I think the Dutch certainly get British comedy. And let's face it; a lot of it is pretty low-hanging fruit for the whole world now. There are probably tribes in the heart of the Papua New Guinean rainforest that know all the words to the Dead Parrot sketch.

T. S. Eliot

What do we live for; if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?

John Thaw

When he's solved that particular clue, then he's back to reality and he doesn't like it. I think that's why he drinks more than most.

Ian Gow

I think we have made a British degree affordable.

Virginia Woolf

Humor is the first gift to perish in a foreign language.

Lamar S. Smith

I am disappointed that the Senate would increase the number of foreign high-tech workers without including any safeguards for American workers.

Thomas Russo

He has had on occasion specific investments in foreign stocks, but this is different. He doesn't sound like he's making one-off purchases.

Denis MacShane

He never used the phrase 'ethical foreign policy'; instead, he said there should be an 'ethical dimension' to foreign policy.

Vladimir Putin

We should find other platforms, other forums for that [foreign policy], and there are plenty of them, including, for example, the UN and the Security Council.

Napoleon Bonaparte

International incidents should not govern foreign policy, but foreign policy, incidents

Tim Maluga

I generally don't respond to the e-mails I get from foreign players. They're looking for a full-ride and we just don't have that to often. I think that picking foreign players is a lazy way of recruiting.

Phil Klay

In State of the Union addresses, I always look at the foreign policy and military parts first, which are generally pretty minimal.

Enrique Pena Nieto

I plan to open Mexico's energy sector to national and foreign private investment.

Julia Gillard

I know people are looking at what's happening in Washington and then they also look at events in Europe, in Greece and Portugal and other places and worry about that.

Marguerite Dalianes

It's personal attention, seeing Greece from the inside out.

Michelle Paver

I loved the myths of ancient Greece and Egypt.

Michael Hudson

To save the banks, you would have to turn the entire Eurozone into Greece.

Inaki Saez

Greece are very comfortable playing at 0-0 and when they're 1-0 up and we have to be careful,

Ken Bacon

He anticipated that they would be able to land soon and move through Greece to their posts.

Bob Verbeeck

Kim has taken the initiative to thank her fans.

Alan Greenspan

I thought that the initiative that the Senate produced was very important and very effective,

Louis Brandeis

Organization can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgment.

Napoleon Hill

What is initiative? I'll tell you: It is doing the right thing without being told.

Rick Egelton

It (the GST cut) is their big initiative and it doesn't leave them a lot of room to do other things.

Noam Chomsky

Silicon Valley wouldn't exist without massive government spending and in fact initiative.

Kelly Miller

If initiative is the ability to do the right thing, then efficiency is the ability to do the thing right.

John Dewey

A society which is mobile, which is full of channels for the distribution of a change occurring anywhere, must see to it that its members are educated to personal initiative and adaptability.

Richard Ellis

They see the initiative process, quite rightly, as something that suits their needs very well.

Rob Lowe

I would've loved Jack Kennedy. I would've loved to have campaigned for him and supported him. I wish there were more like him today.

Joe Sims

I wouldn't be surprised to see Judge Jackson rule by the end of this week. He hasn't shown a lot of patience here recently.

Josh Beckett

Jack was right, ... He should have taken me over his knee and spanked me.

Ed Cange

Jack was a monster tonight. He was incredible.

Patricia Cornwell

Jack the Ripper is caught. We have done it together.

Meg White

Jack the only trick I ever played on you was never tricking you at all.

Bob Hartwig

Jackson was not targeted for any other reason than the physical condition, the location of it and being able to put students in other schools.

Dan Jenkins

Jack Nicklaus is the greatest winner I've ever seen.

DJ Paul

Jack Nicholson was patting me on the back and I didn't even know it. He walked up and said, 'Good job.' I turned around and was surprised.

Vance Havner

Some missionaries bound for Africa were laughed at by the boat captain. 'You'll only die over there,' he said. But a missionary replied, 'Captain, we died before we started.'

Roland Allen

Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love. If I do not love a person I am not moved to help him by proofs that he is in need; if I do love him, I wait for no proof of a special need to urge me to help him.

William Carey

Is not the commission of our Lord still binding upon us? Can we not do more than now we are doing?

William Carey

To know the will of God, we need an open Bible and an open map.

Alan Hevesi

Part of our mission in this project is to restore some of that confidence, ... But, that's going to take some pain.

Brad Gair

Our number one mission is to get people into something safe, sanitary, private, and out of public shelters as soon as we can.

Steve Smith

Our mission is to work prisoners in a businesslike manner. If you work in a businesslike manner, you have to make a profit.

Brian Morrison

Our mission is to make people as comfortable as possible as they're undergoing the treatment process.

Jan Chovanec

Our mission is to be ready 150 percent for the NCAA.

Roger Wicker

Talk about national interests: When we went in with Operation Iraqi Freedom, some of our allies, Turkey, for example, would not let us through. How much trouble did that cause us, because we were not able to go into Iraq through Turkey?

Rick Riordan

Turkey, Australia, and Japan are three of my top destinations.

Larry Hagman

But there is no withdrawal, but with tobacco there is terrible withdrawal, it is almost impossible for a lot of people. I did , I went cold turkey, they never had any patches in those days but grass was not difficult, alcohol not difficult, but tobacco - oh my god.

Orhan Pamuk

It is not my intention to explain Turkey, its culture and its problems. My literature has a universal concern: I want to bring people and their emotions closer to my readers, not explain Turkish politics.

Orhan Pamuk

There's been quite a clear upswing in nationalist sentiments. Everyone is talking about it, in Turkey as well.

Nick Hornby

It's love this and love that but of couse it's so easy to love someone you don't know, whether it's George Clooney or Monkey. Staying civil to someone with whom you've ever shared Christmas turkey- now there's a miracle.

Khloe Kardashian

When I did the cover of 'Cosmo International,' Turkey picked it up and I got a lot of backlash for it.

Peter Kenyon

Turkey's NATO membership is one thing that is forestalling the worst-case scenario - open conflict between Russia and Turkey - because neither Moscow nor the West wants a Russian NATO conflict to erupt.

Peter Lerangis

Dan watched in awe. "I didn't know you talk Turkey." "I speak Turkish.

Alison Bechdel

Who embalms the Undertaker when he dies?