Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Scott

The British system had requirements, including Latin. I'm not positive you ever had to know Greek, but there are certainly kinds of curricula where you had to know Greek too. I think in Britain there was the most mindless, repetitive sort of learning.

I just wanted to keep consistent and keep true to America and not seem contrived. I didn't want to seem contrived at all with any song choice that might be a detriment to my journey on 'The Voice.'

I think I shall return to America even a better patriot than when I left it. A citizen of the United States, travelling on the continent of Europe, finds the contrast between a government of power and a government of opinion forced upon him at every step.

The argument that somehow we've got to get rid of minority scholarships so that we can have a free and fair America implies that we have a colorblind society where minorities are equal in their pursuit of funds to go to school.

We have no desire to convince anyone that there is only one way by which faith can be acquired.

Whether the family goes on a spiritual basis or not, the alcoholic member has to if he would recover. The others must be convinced of his new status beyond the shadow of a doubt. Seeing is believing to most families who have lived with a drinker.

We are not cured of alcoholism. What we have is a daily reprieve contingent on the maintenance of our spiritual condition. Every day is a day when we must carry the vision of God's will into all of our daily activities.

Whitey Herzog

We need just two players to be a contender. Just Babe Ruth and Sandy Koufax.

Whitey Herzog

The only way to make money as a manager is to win in one place, get fired and hired somewhere else.

Wesley Morris

Anyone who watches a lot of television, or listens to pop music, is familiar with a certain vision of America. If not exactly colorblind, this America is one in which different races easily interact, in which a white person might have an Asian boss, Hispanic stepson, or African-American frenemy.

Venus Williams

Some people say that I have an attitude- Maybe I do. But I think that you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does- that makes you a winner right there.

Billy Graham

I don't think the Christian Right dominates America in the way some in the media believe they do.

will.i.am

America has to be not just an idea but a living, breathing thing.

Chuck Zito

There's probably about 150 charters in the world. We're the biggest international club there is.

Chuck Zito

Then we have a World Run, where representatives from all the charters meet.

Ben Harper

So it's not so much that I set out to do something different, it's just that the songs themselves require their own individual voice and attention.

Cab Calloway

The only credit I can give them. They synchronize wonderful. That's all. They synchronize very - you would have thought that they were actually acting, but they were synching all the time, and that's a rough job.

Allen West

In Obama's case, we've enabled affirmative action to find a home in the nation's highest office. There you have it. I said it and I stand by it. America fell for the gimmick candidate, disregarding every fact and warning sign in the rush to have 'the first African-American president.'

Living in America means enjoying freedoms that people in many other countries cannot.

Chen Ning Yang

I think America is a new country. It is a young culture. The spirit of the opening of the West is still with the Americans. It's a very practical and individual-based kind of philosophy that had worked in America for a long time, had been very successful. And the spirit is very much there.

Tre Cool

We have a thin candy shell, I'm surprised you didn't know that.

Dexter Gordon

Darlin... be-bop is the music of the future.

Della Reese

It's the truth and people need to hear the truth.

Charlaine Harris

America is obsessed with youth. We all want to look young forever, and vampires do. They are caught in their prime, if that's when they've been turned. And they'll be that way forever.

Cathy Rigby

I'll talk to kids afterward and somebody will always say, 'I'll leave my bedroom window open for you.

Don Gibson

When I wrote those two songs, I couldn't have been any closer to the bottom.

Bo Jackson

First of all, I really never imagined myself being a professional athlete.

Bo Jackson

As a 9th grader, I competed with the high school kids and out of 600 people, I finished 10th.

Lionel Richie

Taking time to sit back and watch and think about what you've seen is important. Traveling did a great deal to me. I found that when I travel and just sit in the corner and watch, a million ideas come to me.

Louis Tomlinson

One thing that I miss because we spend a lot of time in America is English food, like cooked breakfast and Sunday dinners.

Kenny Rogers

Know when to hold 'um, know when to fold 'um and know when to walk away from cameramen.

Oscar Arias

An overall trend of political moderation in Latin America makes for far less interesting headlines, but it also makes for far better lives for our people.

Steve Blake

We have to withdraw from this undemocratic institution and ensure that these people no longer have any influence on British affairs. We would like to see other European nations do the same thing. I think that will happen.