Famous Quotes & Sayings

Timothy Noah

The central con of the political coalition assembled by Ronald Reagan and maintained by his successors was that government was a common enemy.

Ice Cube

South Central is just who I am. Even though I have a nice house, nice family, the rest of my generation is still in South Central L.A. My cousins, my brothers, my sisters, they don't wanna move out.

Zubin Mehta

I endeavor that all orchestras I conduct sound Central European.

Christo

And the most unusual and surrealistic place in New York City is Central Park.

Bill Cosby

Comedy Central is what these young people are viewing. The network speaks to their audience, which is saying, 'Give me fast jokes. Give me party stories and party language.'

Noah Feldman

Every generation gets the Constitution that it deserves. As the central preoccupations of an era make their way into the legal system, the Supreme Court eventually weighs in, and nine lawyers in robes become oracles of our national identity.

Chris Nelson

The 1980s was the last decade of large suburban expansion. The '90s were a re-sorting era, with the central city gaining population after decades of decline. Now we're in a decade trending toward a fairly large-scale re-sorting of the housing market away from the far reaches of suburbia.

That was a good redemption game for us. The girls knew that they played poorly the night before and wanted to show Central what we are really made of.

In the central Indian state of Orissa, mining has scarred the landscape, and it is already too late to secure most of the traditional elephant corridors.

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

I am a central European with an English education and a deplorable tendency to constant self-analysis. I am irritable and have weak nerves.

Today's surgery didn't improve Sharon's health. It is important to note that the central problem of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is the lack of consciousness, not the problem of his intestine area.

Rafael Benitez

We have a lot of strikers now and I am not thinking about another centre forward now, only trying to find a new central defender.

Darren McCarty

Usually with our 100-and-some-point runs, playing in the Central Division, you had it wrapped up.

Oscar Arias

We had the courage to face the superpowers that wanted a military triumph for each side they supported in Central America. We told them, 'No,' and presented a peace plan.

Oscar Arias

The Central American isthmus is a region of great contrasts, but also of heartening unison. Millions of men and women share dreams of freedom and progress.

David Vitter

My central question still remains .... Is there objective, written evidence from prior to her nomination that fully shows that she has a truly consistent and well-grounded conservative judicial philosophy?

Migrant workers are central to the economy in Florida and the rest of the country. We are the ones who pick the vegetables, clean the hotel rooms and work in the restaurants. If we stop for one day, everybody, including President Bush, will notice.

Mexico has perhaps, in some ways, a good practice, in which it has officials devoted precisely to hold those children, to retain those children that are crossing through our territory, who are coming from Central America.

Suzy Menkes

Who needs to graduate from Central Saint Martins in London or New York's Fashion Institute of Technology when a homemade outfit can go viral on YouTube with millions of hits?

John Bryant

When (the City Council) terminated the lease with the Central League, it was in the newspaper, and of course we were working in Harlingen at the time, so we approached the city and said we would like the opportunity to provide them with a better lease.

We just couldn't get over the hump. You have to give Madison Central credit.

We continue to see good results in many markets, including Latin America, Africa, Russia, Turkey, central Europe, Japan and China and stabilization in an increasingly focused North America,

I think this is an important first step for the central bank. They didn't want to lower rates too aggressively for fear of sending a signal to the markets that they thought things were completely falling apart.

Ben Bernanke

Most of the policies that support robust economic growth in the long run are outside the province of the central bank.

Grover Norquist

The central issue of our time - of all times - is the size, power and scope of government.

Alan Greenspan

We have a very special mission. We are in charge of the nation's currency and the central bank, because of that, is involved in everyone's daily lives. We are the guardians of their purchasing power.

The problem that the unions have is that, if in any way they are seen to be threatening the Olympic Games, they will threaten the central myth about new London.

Graeme Souness

Liverpool were magnificent and we were poor in the first half. They had some outstanding performers, especially in central midfield, and while we hoped for a reaction from their recent travels, there wasn't one.

Henry Morton Stanley

I was totally ignorant of the interior, and it was difficult at first to know, what I needed, in order to take an Expedition into Central Africa.

We are back on track in our quest to drastically change the face of public housing in Central Louisiana.

We're all really looking forward to the proximity to Central Park.

We played East Central football tonight. Smash mouth football.

Larry Alexander

We'd still be a host county. But I think what's happening now with the magnitude of the storms we're looking at is we're going to see a lot deeper intrusion by these storms when they get over Polk County or get over Central Florida.