Famous Quotes & Sayings

Isabella Bird

Above Hilo, broad lands sweeping up cloudwards, with their sugar cane, kalo, melons, pine-apples, and banana groves suggest the boundless liberality of Nature.

Yotam Ottolenghi

When I was a kid, there was always food to be had on the street in Jerusalem, but anything above a falafel stand was mediocre or worse.

William Cavendish

Use gentle means before you come to extremity, and whatever lesson you work him, and never take above half his strength, nor ride him till he is weary, but a little at a time and often.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

The Royal Society view is completely apolitical: it will judge anything based on the evidence. One of the big strengths of the Society is that is it widely perceived as impartial and above the fray. We'd like to make sure it stays that way.

Ezra Taft Benson

Disobedience is essentially a prideful power struggle against someone in authority over us. It can be a parent, a priesthood leader, a teacher, or ultimately God. A proud person hates the fact that someone is above him. He thinks this lowers his position.

Barack Obama

And so our goal on health care is, if we can get, instead of health care costs going up 6 percent a year, it's going up at the level of inflation, maybe just slightly above inflation, we've made huge progress. And by the way, that is the single most important thing we could do in terms of reducing our deficit. That's why we did it.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

What you need, above all else, is a love for your subject, whatever it is. You've got to be so deeply in love with your subject that when curve balls are thrown, when hurdles are put in place, you've got the energy to overcome them.

F. Sionil Jose

Japan is very cosmopolitan - it values its origins, but a world view hovers above this narrow perspective. The interest of the Japanese in their folk culture is transcendental.

Antoine Halff

We have an economy that has shown signs of slowing. With energy prices at extremely high levels -- and now moving above those levels -- this is kind of a double whammy,

Yotam Ottolenghi

A food processor, or even one of those small bowls that fit on a stick blender, is a real treasure. No, that's not an overstatement.

Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange

Here in the Netherlands there are towns that take part in the throwing of toilet bowls for a laugh.

Christine Pelosi

My earliest memories of my mom were of her multi-tasking - preparing dinner while checking on homework and housework; clearing the dinner plates while setting out bowls for breakfast; making sure we ate our breakfast while lining up bread, lunch meats, apples, and snacks assembly-line style so we could make our lunches.

Jon Kehler

That was huge for our kids. Making the Junior Nationals team was like the Super Bowl for them.

Kevin Buckler

That was the most expensive bowl of onion soup I ever bought.

Daniel Graham

That was two years ago. It's a whole new year. I'm pretty sure he's watched that and studied up. I can't count on what happened in the Super Bowl. It went pretty good in the Super Bowl but it's a whole new year.

Michael Marsh

That works out nice for Bowling Green because we happen to live in the center of the county.

Robert Killebrew

That was really the last thing we were looking forward to as far as the Rose Bowl and national championship go. It's kind of heavy, so I'll probably just wear it once in a while.

Leon Washington

That will be a Christmas gift for my little brother and my little nephews. I don't really get into video games and stuff like that. Every year when we go to a bowl game it's a cheap way for me to get Christmas gifts for my family.

Yahya Jammeh

As far as I am concerned, LGBT can only stand for leprosy, gonorrhea, bacteria, and tuberculosis, all of which are detrimental to human existence.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Fusion food as a concept is kind of trying to quite consciously fuse things that are sometimes quite contradictory, sometimes quite far apart, to see if they'd work.

Iggy Azalea

As far as people whose style interests me, I'd say Grace Kelly, Gwen, Spice Girls, Victoria Beckham, and that nanny called Fran.

Ian Mckellen

Capitalism offers you freedom, but far from giving people freedom, it enslaves them.

Garry Wills

I don't get far enough into a boring book to hate it.

Glenn Ford

Nothing ever changes as far as Westerns are concerned. They are the same today as they were years ago.

George Allen

My mother is French-Italian with a little Spanish blood in her. I've been raised, and she was, as far as I know, raised as a Christian.

Donald Trump

As far as single payer, it works in Canada. It works incredibly well in Scotland.

William John Wills

Our journey so far has been very satisfactory: we are most fortunate as regards the season, for there has been more rain this winter than has been known for the last four or five years.

David Swacker

The people around here are very hard-working. Many of them work at plants. And that is representative of what we have on the football field.

Carl Pohlad

Seldom do we experience the charisma and character of a dynamic personality such as Lou Holtz, the very successful former football coach of Notre Dame. Lou has left his distinctive mark of success everywhere he has coached. Winning Every Day is not just a catchy phrase, but with Coach Holtz, a way of life.

Arsene Wenger

I am supposed to take the bullets and absorb them. Like a bear. A polar bear.

Arsene Wenger

In England, football is important for everybody.

Arsene Wenger

Thierry Henry could take the ball in the middle of the park and score a goal that no one else in the world could score.

Arsene Wenger

The moral values I've learnt in my life I've learnt through football.

Arsene Wenger

The best football players in the world still earn very little money compared to people who really earn money.

Arsene Wenger

You ask me: 'Was he a fair player?' I say: 'No, I'm sorry, for me he was not a fair player.' I just think I respect him highly as a quality player. I did not like some things he did on the football pitch and I have the right to say that. It's not because you are older, suddenly, that you are a saint.

Arsene Wenger

We have tried to get closer to them, but we never copied anybody, we always tried to play our football

Yotam Ottolenghi

You can really taste the difference between a shop-bought and a good homemade mayo.

Yanni

The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.

Yanis Varoufakis

I was told once by a leftwing scholar that as a Marxist, you have to do two things: always be optimistic and always have a view about everything. That advice still sounds good to me.

Thierry Henry

I've always loved New York; I've been visiting New York since 1996. People don't look at you like, 'What are you doing? What are you wearing?' There is also that thing that when people know that you have worked hard to get something, people have that respect for that here. You worked hard - good for you.

Iggy Azalea

I feel like 'Work' was a really good song for people to get to know me, as it's obviously biographical. With 'Bounce,' I wanted to make sure people know there's a fun side to me as well as the somber and serious one.

Ice T

I'm in a very good place to make records. Needing to make money off music is very dangerous.

Idina Menzel

I used to be someone that needed nine hours of sleep; otherwise, I didn't think I was going to sound good when I sang, and I was very disciplined and anal about my preparation. When you become a parent, there just isn't that time, you know?

Idina Menzel

I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, Motown, pop - and that inspired what kind of music I started to write.

Ivar Giaever

Understanding truth is the primary objective of science, not doing good for the world.

Kim Clijsters

I don't think I've even practiced in these conditions. It was so tough out there today.

Gil Haskell

We've been watching him for two weeks. We've watched all the film we can watch. We've practiced a lot. We'll be fine. We'll just see how it goes.

Joe Hession

He just wasn't interested. He waited for his teammates and practiced his putting. He's always trying to get better.

Confucius

He does not preach what he practices till he has practiced what he preaches.

Matt Light

We practiced all week in this, ... and, let me tell you, it got old quick.

Kevin Cosgrove

He was a little sluggish to start out with. It showed that he hadn't practiced for awhile.

Tyrone Willingham

There's always going to be that. He hasn't even practiced with the (first or second units). Hopefully, he'll regain it quickly.

Falun Gong

It's been seven years since I practiced it in public,

Allan Ray

I've practiced two times already and the practices were great. My vision is back 100 percent, and I'm ready to get back out there and just play.

Phil Garner

You just have to trust your scouts in that regard.

Iain Dowie

We need as many youth team scouts as possible.

Tony Rasmus

The more scouts that are here, the better he pitches.

Ron Fussell

There must have been 40 to 45 scouts there. It was amazing.

Michael Wilbon

He's the one all the scouts want to see right now. Everyone is talking about this guy.

C. S. Lewis

Whatever men expect, they soon come to think they have a right to; the sense of disappointment can, with very little skill on our part, be turned into a sense of injury. (senior devil speaking)

Colleen Kennedy

We have a lot of seniors this year,

William Shakespeare

This senior-junior, giant-dwarf, Dan Cupid; Regent of love-rhymes, lord of folded arms, The anointed sovereign of sighs and groans, Liege of all loiterers and malcontents.

Paul Lancaster

Without (Christie) in the first half, we'd probably have been down 10. That's senior leadership.

Ebonie Halliburton

He wanted us to concentrate more. He wanted us to show more senior leadership. I think we did that tonight.

Diane Watson

Among seniors, Social Security is the sole source of income for 26 percent of nonmarried women.

Catherine Ashton

I am proud of the fact that women have been recognised as being as capable, as able to do the senior jobs in Europe as any man.

Charlie Gonzalez

After a lifetime of working, raising families, and contributing to the success of this nation in countless other ways, senior citizens deserve to retire with dignity.

Alan Clark

There's nothing so improves the mood of the Party as the imminent execution of a senior colleague.

Patrice Leconte

I've always done 20 things at once. It's my way of staying alive, not to keep one dish cooking, but several dishes going. And I'm pretty organized.

Gene Robinson

We have been very successful in several of these searches.

Alex Knott

Those are several times more than the average. It shows you that this is going to be a very costly election.

Rob Kardashian

I won state cross-country competitions several times during high school.

William McKinney

We have stalled in several different fashions. We just camouflage it a bit. A lot of times, we look like we are about to go, and we are not trying to go.

Hanoi Hannah

And we also read Newsweek, Time and several newspapers.

Ruth Winstrom

We're going to be there for several days.

Bruce Raynor

On several occasions, we intervened with the mayor. We had several conversations with Roger.

Edward Gramlich

I think it is more than several weeks for me!