Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Hong

As long as I have the talent and there's a demand for the old Chinese man - whether he's a philosopher, or a master, or an old-time restaurant owner, or a villain, or a so-called good guy - I will always be working.

Jim Bowers

After looking at all of the 500 pieces, I think they were either some sort of game pieces or were used for trading by Chinese workers. I lean toward the game pieces, though.

Jack Ma

What we are doing is to design an on-line search engine for ordinary people, not just the engineers. We are more focused and a totally search engine technology will come to the Chinese market within three to five years.

Timbaland

I listen to a lot of alternative types of music: I listen to a lot of Chinese music, I listen to a lot of Asian music. It might surprise you, but I listen to a lot of Arabic music. And I don't care - music is music.

Tom Verlaine

I wonder what all those Chinese poets sound like in Chinese. I like their distilled quality.

Zhang Xin

It's a good thing that it is getting simpler to register a company in China, it is good that the exchange rate of our currency is getting more flexible and that it's getting easier for Chinese businesspeople to travel. All of this opens up our economy.

Martin Jacques

The Chinese view the state, not just as an intimate member of the family... but as the head of the family.

Martin Jacques

The Chinese state is constructed in an entirely different way from western states. Unlike European states, for over a millennium the Chinese state has not been obliged to compete for power with rivals such as the church, the aristocracy or merchants.

Hidenao Nakagawa

The Chinese side, of course, said there is no room for compromise. I told them that this issue is related to the public sentiments of the two countries. The mutual understanding of the two countries is important.

Farida Karoney

It was about midnight when hooded men raided our offices and ordered the night duty staff to switch off the transmission.

Jane Austen

She was determined, as she felt it to be her duty, to try to overcome all that was excessive.

Mary Wortley Montagu

Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power.

Ken Bacon

It's something that's on their mind every minute of the day when they're on duty and frequently when they're off duty as well.

Ben Nelson

Some decisions, like opening a fire hydrant to put out a fire, are easy to make. Other decisions, like deciding how to best distribute a drought-limited water supply among urban, rural and recreational uses, require careful deliberation.

Jack Jones

With humidity as low as this, you don't watch the fire creep, you just have to get out of its way, because it is moving quickly.

Anne Sexton

Despite my asbestos gloves, the cough is filling me with black, and a red powder seeps through my veins....

Ann Richards

I've been tested by fire, and the fire lost.

Simone Elkeles

Gettin' near the fire, chica, doesn't necessarily mmean you'll get burned.

Rumi

Shams, my body is a candle touched with fire.

Rumi

I am burning. If anyone lacks tinder, let him set his rubbish ablaze with my fire.

Rumi

Paradise is surrounded by what we dislike; the fires of hell are surrounded by what we desire.

Tom Peters

Ready, fire, aim. Do it! Make it happen! Action counts. No one ever sat their way to success.

Richard Estrada

So we said, let's organize this huge march of the pueblo, of the people.

Steve Lowery

It would be very satisfying after the start I had. That would be a huge accomplishment.

Octavio Dotel

This is huge in my country. Just huge.

Richard Sullivan

This is the first time we have been able to predict such a huge improvement in long-term survival,

Curtis Strange

When it first was played in 1987, it was a huge deal.

Terry Ryan

Last year we won 83 games, which was a huge disappointment for us. Eight, nine years ago I would have been thrilled to win 83. That's no longer the case.

Todd Whetsel

That was a huge win for our team. You don't want to have to be in that play-in game. Even if you win, you're playing Stratford in the first round and you don't want to see them in the first round.

Agnus Berenato

That was a huge victory for us, but we couldn't sustain it.

Marty Barnes

That was a huge steal by Kyle to set all that up.

Sherry Sylvester

Neither man ever met a tax increase they didn't like.

Hans Trousil

We not talking about any major increases here.

Virgil

Go on and increase in valor for this is the path to immortality.

Gerhard Schroeder

I think we can say that in the past seven years, we have increased respect in the world for our country, our Germany, and I am sure that we will safeguard that together,

Dale Timmermann

In past years, you have (chosen not to) increase the rates or not to increase them (as much as proposed through the formula).

Doc Rivers

It's our job to support him, increase the talent, so he can be on a better team and become a better player. And the better we get, the better he is going to be.

Alan Hevesi

The new reforms have increased the value of the franchise,

Michael Moskow

Even without an increase in inflation expectations, it will take appropriate monetary policy to keep inflation well contained,

Connie Kelliher

That is the smallest percentage increase since the plan was established.

Alice McDermott

The thing that fiction can do is look from the inside out rather than from the outside in. Even memoir leaves me somewhat frustrated. I think now we need a poet to uncover what isn't on the surface.

Kevin Reilly

Put a show in its time period, leave it in its time period, start it on time.

Fred Droes

It would be unacceptable to leave it there if it didn't work. We would come down and take it out or modify it.

Barry White

Leave me alone. I'm fine.

Stuart Desjarlait

There's still a lot of sadness. This is going to take years to get over. A lot of the students, I think they have to graduate, leave the building, get away from that.

Warren Beatty

so I can't say enough positive things about Kazan. I would leave it at that. I love the man.

Herb Sendek

Obviously, in a situation like this, as you're well aware, we're really not at liberty to talk about it. Right now, he's practicing with our team. He's going to class. That's where I think we need to leave it.

Andy Fila

(O'Brien) said that he can't leave the kids. He doesn't feel right leaving them, which I can appreciate.

Dr. Jain

Perhaps they would rather leave such things to chance.

Conor McGregor

To do anything to a high level it has to be total obsession.

Claude C. Hopkins

Every reader of your ad is interested, else he would not be a reader. You are dealing with someone willing to listen. Then do your level best. That reader, if you lose him now, May never again be a reader

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

What is a shame is that there isn't stuff that is as great as 'Oz' on a consistent level around today.

Anna Lee

Intruder on level one. All aliens, please proceed to level one.

Tony Goldwyn

If you're playing with the best, you just rise up to that level

John Wall

The main thing I do is to carry myself as best as I can on my pro level.

Jeffrey Eugenides

To be inclusive you must accommodate different levels of sophistication.

Francis Fukuyama

If networks are to be more efficient...this will come about only on the basis of a high level of trust and the existence of shared norms of ethical behavior between network members

Flannery O'Connor

Those who have no absolute values cannot let the relative remain merely relative; they are always raising it to the level of the absolute.

Joseph Biden

No. 1, on the police training, we've wasted 17 months,

Frank Serpico

The problem is that the atmosphere does not yet exist in which honest police officers can act without fear of ridicule or reprisal from fellow officers.

Robert Peel

The police are the public and the public are the police

Steven Patrick Morrissey

I know L.A. well, but it's a police state.

Joseph Wambaugh

The Onion Field, that one got pretty close to me because I was a cop when it happened. I saw some of the indifference that my police department showed to the surviving officer.

Karl Turner

It seems like to me, police made a lot of procedural errors.

Nikolai Shepel

They took back roads and there may have been no police posts, so that's why they got through without obstacles,

John Campbell

They said, 'we could protect you if you'll tell us what you know,' ... But she said, 'I don't know anything,' and left. There is no allegation that the police took any affirmative step at all to provide protection.

Matt Strauss

It's the No. 1 destination for police in Price Hill.

Susan Smith

It's probably time to do the whole policy over.

Derrick Brooks

We wanted to stop Willis McGahee. If he's able to run the football, then that takes a lot of pressure off a young quarterback.

Roger Ortmeier

We just jumped on them right from the start. We put the pressure on them, which was good.

Allen Iverson

I don't put pressure on myself. I just compete.

Tony Parker

The pressure is there, ... Especially when you're trying to win the championship.

Brian Cashman

I don't know how much more pressure there can be. Whatever it's going to be, it'll be.

J. K. Rowling

There was no press involvement, there was no pressure. Life was very pure and it became more complicated.

John Pavlik

I don't think there was any pressure from another country.

Chris Bosh

It's real important but I don't put too much pressure on myself.

Elliott Sadler

It's ungodly . . . the pressure that we get as drivers,

Eugene White

Every day we wait puts our students at a disadvantage.

Phil Rizzuto

Well, that kind of puts the damper on even a Yankee win!

Mack Strong

He comes out to compete. He comes out and puts up MVP numbers.

Nathan Vasher

If you're ready, you should run. It puts you a step ahead.

Mike Jacobs

It was a big boost. When you start off with three runs, it puts them on the defensive.

Amy Martin

The response has been overwhelming. I don't know any other word,