Famous Quotes & Sayings

Taslima Nasrin

I have lectured at the U.N. and travelled widely, giving lectures on human rights and gender inequalities in universities. But this is a life I do not wish to live. I don't want to be a showcase, I want to be in a battlefield where I can stand beside the oppressed and the poor.

I have a British voice and a rather formal one at that, having been brought up in post-WWII Britain. My voice is perfectly suited to the sort of book I write, I think. It would not fit a contemporary, besides which I do not know enough about the contemporary world to write convincingly or comfortably about it!

Dolores Huerta

Giving kids clothes and food is one thing but it's much more important to teach them that other people besides themselves are important, and that the best thing they can do with their lives is to use them in the service of other people.

He's a big boy. I've never even stood beside someone that big.

Scott Dixon

Going into (Turn) 5, I got beside him and he sort of closed the door as well, so I pretty much thought he knew I was there.

Going out and doing focus groups to find out that your customer wants blue buttons on the screen instead of red buttons is useful. But it's much more useful to have your customers creating those buttons beside you.

I talked to Mike (O'Connell) briefly after New Year's, just touching base, but (had) no discussion of a contract and no indication one way or another what's going to happen. Our doors are open. If they want to talk, we'll talk. But we're not asking. I think there are other things on his mind right now besides doing deals. The indications were that he's going to get back to me. We'll talk at some point, I think. But there's been no request or proposals back and forth.

I think it motivates the girls to some extend, and besides we like being under the radar screen. If the wins keep coming, we'll eventually get noticed. Besides, the rankings mean nothing once the tournament starts.

Sean Burke

It all unraveled in the second. They got their third goal, and then the fourth one and now it's just kind of beside ourselves. We just have to learn from this and not make any more of it than what it was and that was a one game defeat, all be it in an important game at a critical time of the year. But all it is one game.

Ben Olsen

It always feels good to score the first one -- even though it took me nine months to get it, ... We just screwed up on the goal we gave up. Besides that, it was good soccer. We kept playing well and today, finally, we buried a team. That's what we have been missing. Once we had the lead, the question was, could we get that third goal, could we get that fourth goal? We did it.

It certainly would be nice to have some buzz around the state. It sure would be nice to give people something to talk about in January besides football recruiting.

Ed Belfour

We talked about that after the game. The guys wanted to put her in the stall beside me.

Jeanette Winterson

We are friends and I do like to pass the day with you in serious and inconsequential chatter. I wouldn't mind washing up beside you, dusting beside you, reading the back half of the paper while you read the front. We are friends and I would miss you, do miss you and think of you very often.

Bruce Bochy

He was outstanding. What a nice job. B-Law gave us a great effort. He let one slider get away from him. Besides that, he was right on his game.

He was standing beside the RAI cameraman and said to Steve, 'Sign here.' I stopped Steve and said let's take care of business first.

He was the only person who was like, lucid, cogent, intelligent -- was reading a book, ... He was the only person I met in The Tenderloin besides me who was reading a book.

He who plants trees loves others beside himself

He hit the Patton Township cruiser beside me.

Dyan Cannon

He made me think differently... besides his smile makes my tummy warm.

He may be the brightest spot of the spring. Maybe besides Omar. He's pretty lean, but he's not the least bit shy.

Jason David Frank

I have high standards I hold myself to, besides Christianity.

I don't have any plan because meetings should have a purpose and we've already discussed our positions. So I'm not sure of the purpose to have a meeting, besides (that) I'm in Tokyo.

Moustapha Akkad

I did the film because it is a personal thing for me. Besides its production values as a film, it has its story, its intrigue, its drama.

I don't know what to do with them besides put them out with the regular trash.

I don't know what hitting uninhabited land accomplishes besides scaring the children. But then again, I'm not the defense minister.

Keith Brooking

I feel great about it so far. We're growing as a unit, progressing every week. When you have new faces and new guys playing in there beside you, it takes training camp and preseason games for you to gel.

I can't play golf for a while. I'm upset about it. That's the only thing I do besides coaching basketball.

Emma Lazarus

Give me your tired, your poor,/ Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,/ The wretched refuse of your teeming shore./ Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,/ I lift my lamp beside the golden door!

Herman Edwards

There are certain players that bring more to your team than just being a football player. If you're talking about Tony Richardson, he brings a whole lot to this team besides being a good football player. We're going to do everything we can to bring him back.

Murray Gell-Mann

Now, what that means is that there is fundamental indeterminacy from quantum mechanics, but besides that there are other sources of effective indeterminacy.

We're going to melt down all of ours down and make a glass parrot for the Brass Parrot. We'll hang it beside the cigarette machine.

World Cups are important because you have to ski well and gain confidence for the Olympics. You have to have other goals besides the Olympics because the Olympics is only one race.

We refuse the establishment of a state only in Gaza. Gaza is part of the occupied areas. A viable Palestinian state to live in peace beside Israel is only a state set up on the 1967 borders