Famous Quotes & Sayings

Herman Cain

I'm not offended if you call me an African American. I prefer a black American.

African Proverbs

Dogs do not actually prefer bones to meat,it is just that no one ever gives them meat. Akan proverb, West Africa

Robert Harris

It was a minor injury. He was running when it happened. We took him to hospital in South Africa because we just wanted to make sure he was okay, and that done, he is now back to work.

Carsten Fritsch

It's likely to be another difficult year for the rand. As the yield gap narrows, that will make it more difficult for South Africa to attract the investment it needs.

Gerry Adams

It's good to be here with your heroes and heroines. South Africa has been a beacon for freedom-loving nations, and what you have here is not only about the past but also about the future.

Derrek Lee

It's easy to take a team like South Africa lightly because we didn't know anything about them. But we didn't and we played well today.

Phil Lilienthal

When the whites ruled South Africa they displaced three to four million people from their land. Pre '94 it was pretty tough, we mostly work with kids from that area.

Mo Ibrahim

Nobody in Africa loves to be a beggar or a recipient of aid. Everywhere I go in Africa, people say, 'When are we going to stand up on our feet?'

Mo Ibrahim

I don't subscribe to the narrative that Africa is backward because of colonialism.

Michael Brady

elected to make tough decisions, and this was one of them.

Gore Vidal

I was like everyone else when Obama was elected - optimistic.

Gabrielle Giffords

I was elected six times to represent southern Arizona, in the State Legislature and then in Congress.

Saint Patrick

That which I have set out in Latin is not my words but the words of God and of apostles and prophets, who of course have never lied. He who believes shall be saved, but he who does not believe shall be damned. God has spoken.

Stephen Leacock

I am what is called a professor emeritus—from the Latin e, 'out,' and meritus, 'so he ought to be.

Tom Felton

[In the Flash my character] is not even CSI, it's forensic, talking about the stratum corneum...Yeah, I was referring to my Latin book often to make sure I pronounce things correct.

Sofia Vergara

I love dancing to Latin music, so I have a trainer who dances with me for an hour three times a week.

Sofia Vergara

I never thought I would get such a perfect role in 'Modern Family.' A lot of TV shows now are looking for more Latin women.

Gio Gonzalez

It's an honor to represent a Latin culture.

Ira Gershwin

If I'm a guy who doesn't seem so merry, It's just because I'm so misunderstood. When I was young I ate a dictionary, And that did not do me a bit of good. For I've absorbed so many words and phrases— They drive me dizzy when I want to speak. I start explaining but each person gazes As if I spoke in Latin or in Greek.

Carl Sagan

Science is only a Latin word for knowledge

Bill Bryson

English grammar is so complex and confusing for the one very simple reason that its rules and terminology are based on Latin, a language with which it has precious little in common.

Anita Roddick

But the minute we went public on the stock market, which is how our wealth was created, it was no longer how many people you employed, it was how much you were worth and how much your company was worth.

Christopher Shays

We will come and make a longer trip soon,

Ed Goeas

Running away from the president makes the situation worse.

Ben Nelson

Anytime the president visits Nebraska its good for Nebraska.

Calvin Coolidge

I always figured the American public wanted a solemn ass for president, so I went along with them.

Ronald Reagan

How could an actor become president?

Buck Henry

We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.

Herman Cain

Just call me Mr. Cain. And in 2013, they can call me Mr. President.

Henry David Thoreau

God is only the president of the day, and Webster is his orator.

Jerry Falwell

If I were president of the United States, I would include Moslems in my presidency.

Jeremy Clarkson

Tonight, the new Viper, which is the American equivalent of a sportscar in the same way, I guess, that George Bush is the equivalent of a President.

James Hansen

There's no win for us in talking about this.

Dorothy Allison

I wanted her to to go on talking and understand without me saying anything. I wanted her to love me enough to leave him, to pack us up and take us away from him, to kill him if need be. (107)

Adolf Hitler

I don't talk for the sake of talking. I do become intoxicated with sound. When I open my mouth, it's to say something.

Allen Ginsberg

You say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening. If you're grasping to get your own voice, you're making a strained attempt to talk, so it's a matter of just listening to yourself as you sound when you're talking about something that's intensely important to you.

Anthony DeCurtis

Interviewing is a lot like talking, but you have to guide the conversation. You have to know what you want and go about getting it.

Andy Stanley

Learning never takes place while you're talking.

Robert Barry

I usually, if I give a talk, I don't usually prepare anything. I just say - you know, I may stop talking by showing some video or slides of what I do but mainly I try to respond to what problems people have with my work.

Tommy Chong

I love to meet my fans, and after every show I usually hang out for a few hours, talking to my fans, signing autographs, and selling T-shirts.

Tom Brady

It's just part of whatever motivates guys and whatever they say. Ultimately it comes down to how well you play. What I've learned over the years, a lot of guys talk. What you need to do is go out there and play, back it up. They've been able to back it up, so that's why it works for them. Hopefully we can go out there and do our talking on the field.

John Green

I do my precalc homework, and then when I'm done I actually sit with the textbook for like three hours and try to understand what I just did. That's the kind of weekend it is--the kind where you have so much time you go past the answers and start looking into the ideas.

Nick Hornby

…I've had a bad week." What's happened?" Nothing's happened. I've had a bad week in my head, is all.

Denise Van Outen

At weekends, I've been going on long but steady-paced four-and-a-half-hour bike rides.

Oriana Fallaci

The most humiliating thing a woman can be is a coquette.