Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yahya Jammeh

What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.

Abraham Lincoln

I do not think I could myself be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.

Chris Carter

My brother is a scientist. He's a professor at MIT. He brought science fiction into my world.

Evangeline Lilly

'The Squickerwonkers' was the story I wrote when I was on 'The Hobbit.' And I brought it to Comic-Con and sold out a thousand copies I had printed.

Mike Perry

The peddler exhibit will show people how important their role was to society. People depended on them because they brought in supplies such as pots, pans, needles and threads.

Mikhail Margelov

The outrage that the Danish newspaper brought about is gaining such momentum that the world community must focus on the events.

David Selby

And it was so special, and to tell you the truth that's how I feel about the whole thing, I mean when I meet someone that has watched the show, and it has brought such joy to them, it just makes you feel so good.

David Suchet

I'd love to be remembered as a character actor who brought illumination to roles in wonderful plays and who delivered performances that made people think and rethink those roles.

Vladimir Prelog

An object is chiral if it cannot be brought into congruence with its mirror image by translation and rotation.

Thomas Wolfe

Death the last voyage, the longest, and the best.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

I hate to fly. I'm deathly afraid of it.

Wesley Schultz

I think the death knell for any musician is getting a job that you like and pays enough that you just stay there forever.

Chuck Palahniuk

Any real belief in death is just wishful thinking.

Yann Martel

You can't quantify human pain the way you can measure out sugar. Death comes one individual at a time.

Clark Gregg

The thing is, I love a great death scene - no good actor doesn't. Sorry, any actor, I should say.

Bruce Jackson

You've gotten words about those American and Iraqi deaths and mutilations, but precious few images.

Christina Baker Kline

For years I'd understood that publishing in paperback was the kiss of death.

Citium Zeno

No evil is honorable: but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil.

Donald Newhouse

I have never lived through any time in my career when there haven't been grave challenges facing newspapers.

Nik Wallenda

I'm facing Niagara Falls - the wind and the mist and the dark and the peregrine falcons - and I'm going to stay focused on the other side.

Donald Clark

Wilmington Hoggard will be a tremendous test for us. We will be facing a lineup that is solid from top to bottom.

Scott Kinsaul

It does feel different this year. We are much more prepared on what we will be facing and what it feels like to play in a state championship game.

Jared Bernstein

The problem isn't simply that families are facing higher prices, particularly at the pump. It's also that they're facing lower wages. If wages were keeping pace with inflation, the pinch wouldn't be as hard.

Habibul Bashar

We have not been used to facing such situations where we could win the match and have learnt our lessons.

Paul Wolfowitz

We are in a new era, we are facing new risks, and we must have new capabilities, ... As an alliance, we have never been stronger.

Peter Ward

It doesn't surprise me -- gold is facing some big problems.

Kevin McDonald

I stunk as a player, ... Facing those guys, I knew what a pro player looked like, and I knew I wasn't going to be one.

Mark McKinnon

News is virtual now. It is not 24-hour news cycles; it is instant news cycles. It is live. News is live all the time, around the clock.

James DePreist

I thought it would be better to starve slowly over there than instantly over here.

Richard C. Armitage

I have a visual mind, so when I read a book, I get an instant picture in my head and it's very clear.

Rich McKay

I don't remember a proposal on instant replay that sought to open up all penalties for review.

William Ackman

I don't think we're going to get the instant value that we would have from the spin-off, but we'll get it over the long term and that's just fine.

Bobby Johnson

I don't know who voted in instant replay, but it about stopped my heart.

Bobby Johnson

I don't know who in the world voted in instant replay, ... But it about stopped my heart.

Rich Brooks

I don't know why we have instant replay if we won't at least look at it,

Charles Simic

A poem is an instant of lucidity in which the entire organism participates.