Famous Quotes & Sayings

Neil Young

The people at the Chicago Tribune should be held responsible for this piece of crap,

The outlook for the semiconductor industry this year remains positive and demand for memory chips will be sustained.

We know when children have a place to play they live healthier, happier lives.

The first duty to children is to make them happy. If you have not made them so, you have wronged them. No other good they may get can make up for that.

Chad Smith

The Chili Peppers do a lot of improvising, but it's within the framework of song structures. The Meatbats is from a purely instrumental standpoint. But when you hear the term 'instrumental music' you think it's real serious stuff and everybody's playing a million notes and it's about playing fast. That's not what we do.

I do think all things in moderation. I mean, the thing to me - it actually doesn't bother me very much if people want to read chick lit. But it makes me, you know, sort of disheartened when that's all that people want to read.

Jack Kent Cooke

I have spoken to many, many Indian chiefs who say they have no objection whatsoever to the nickname.

We are not going to warm up at all during the day Friday, and it will turn windy. We are going to see wind chills tomorrow in the 40s all day long.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life's July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.

Herbie Hancock

When I was a kid, I won a contest and played a Mozart concerto with the Chicago Symphony, and I've written some movie scores, and I've been listening to orchestral music for years.

Liu Wen

Romantic music really stirs my soul. And, of course, I love Chinese music; it makes me feel closer to home.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

For some reason, I never felt the need to have kids. My wife feels the same. We don't feel a void. I don't think they would give my life meaning. I do think of the books as my children, though. Whatever is inside of me, I put into my books.

Walter Benjamin

When I was a child, if someone had talked to me about buying water, I would have thought it was a joke.

Bonnie Bedelia

We need children to play the parts in movies. I'm just glad it's not my kids.

Trade allegedly does not foster growth because when it begins, a flood of imports of factory origin destroys the handicraft manufacturing of the less developed country: the models for this are the effects of British exports of textiles and of iron in India and Chile in the first half of the nineteenth century.

David Hobson

You don't need Yucca Mountain to move spent fuel out of Chicago or out of Toledo.

It is a parent's responsibility to preserve the connection with their children, to preserve the relationship, so that the children can let go and become their own selves.

Xi Jinping

In the modern era, our nation experienced constant hardship and difficulties. The Chinese nation reached the most dangerous period. Since then, countless people with lofty ideals to realise the great revival of the Chinese nation rose to resist and fight, but failed one time after another.

Wang Leehom

I've just had a wonderful time doing Chinese music, and it's been so rewarding for me. I feel like there's so much potential in mandarin music, and there's so much, you know, ground left to be broken.

Azar Nafisi

Religion was used as an ideology, as a system of control. When they forced the veil upon women, they were using it as an instrument of control in the same way that in Mao's China people were wearing Mao jackets and women were not supposed to wear any makeup.

Tim Crouch

Children and teenagers don't easily relate to stories about kings and dukes, and to tell only stories about kings and dukes is to ignore the regular people.

We do a lot for children with sports in the city, and we want to do more in other areas, too.

We'd like to play the role of bridging between China and the United States and playing the role of pragmatic balancer -- to tell China there are ways to get out of this worsened relationship with the United States.

We definitely think, in children in particular, that this vaccine is as good or better than the standard flu shot, ... The children who received the vaccine, who were all preschool children, had a dramatic decrease in natural flu.

You dig yourself a hole and then you have to dig yourself out. We cracked back. We were down by 12, we were down by 13, we were chipping away. A good team makes you do something different with the ball, and they did.

We don't have that much influence over Chinese oil interests. We're watching. That's about all we can do.

When you see people happy and content with so little after they've lost so much, who can still find meaning and purpose, it makes our lives seem shallow sometimes. The children especially were always smiling. It was heartwarming to see; it gives you a whole new perspective.

We are quite upbeat about the China CTL projects.

Hudson Taylor

China is not to be won for Christ by quiet, ease-loving men and women... The stamp of men and women we need is such as will put Jesus, China, souls first and foremost in everything and at every time - even life itself must be secondary.

Yang Lan

I'm very curious to witness the historic transformation of Chinese women.

Sacrifices are concerned with the feelings of devotion and longing.

When a man sees something desirable, he must reflect on the fact that with time it could come to involve what is detestable. When he sees something that is beneficial, he should reflect that sooner or later it, too, could come to involve harm.

If knowledge and foresight are too penetrating and deep, unify them with ease and sincerity.