Famous Quotes & Sayings

P. J. O'Rourke

The problem in Afghanistan is really not so much land as water. It's a dry country with ample amounts of water running through it, but not to good enough effect.

Brenda Lee

The word matters in country music, and it always has. And everybody had lived those words in country songs.

Bob Ainsworth

We have tended in politics in this country to concentrate on the domestic, on the here and now - the 'what's in it for me'.

Ali Babacan

A country which has a population 99% as their faith in Islam can also be a country which are subscribing to the universal values of the E.U.

Douglas Alexander

Traditionally, diplomacy was done in an environment of information scarcity. Ambassadors would send back telegrams to foreign ministries, comfortable in the knowledge that their views of a country would be the only source of information the minister would see.

Michael Brown

This story's not about me. This story's about the worst disaster of the history of our country that stretched every government to its limit, and now we have to help these victims. That's all I've wanted to do.

Janet Parshall

Today we ask, 'How can a country with such a horrific record of human rights abuses, religious persecution, nuclear proliferation and espionage be deemed normal by any freedom-loving country such as the United States?'

Stewart Udall

Lady Bird Johnson did more than plant flowers in public places. She served the country superbly by planting environmental values in the minds of the nation's leaders and citizens.

Roger Waters

For an artist to go and play in a country that occupies other people's land and oppresses them, the way Israel does, is plain wrong. They should say no.

Rush Limbaugh

I've been to the Vatican more than anyplace else outside this country in the world. I am mesmerized by it.

Mark McKinnon

What strikes me when I leave Washington is the extent to which there's a huge disconnect between Washington and the rest of the country. The rest of the country is not hyper partisan.

George Jones

I loved Roy Acuff with all my heart, and I never dreamed I'd be able to meet him or see him onstage, or especially become good friends with him. For all this to happen, it's hard to explain what a dream this is when you love something as much as I love traditional country music.

George Miller

Did you know - and studies prove this - that 98 percent of all the Visine in this country runs down the side of people's faces?

Geoffrey Fisher

This country and the Commonwealth last Tuesday were not far from the Kingdom of Heaven.

Sarah McLachlan

I've been a fan of old country music, like Willie Nelson, Patsy Cline. I think I'm drawn to it because of the sense of sadness and sort of loss that a lot of good old country music has.

Every country possesses, it seems, the sort of cuisine it deserves, which is to say the sort of cuisine it is appreciative enough to want.

Wael Ghonim

The transition from dictatorship to democracy is always very difficult, and if you read a history of any country that went through this, it wasn't easy. And, you know, you don't end dictatorship one day and next day you have fully fledged democracy.

Walter Salles

I come from a country and also a continent whose identity is in the making. We're a very young culture, and I think that things are not yet crystallised.

Walter Salles

My father was a diplomat for part of his life and I jumped from country to country and culture to culture.

You don't know what the country is ready for unless you're pushing that envelope, and I was told that I couldn't develop 'Will and Grace'.

Virat Kohli

The joy of doing well as a batsman for your country is much more than that little joy of going for a party and enjoying music. It is a completely different high, and I get high by performances. That's what I enjoy now.

Avicii

For me there are two types of country: There's the shoot-yourself-in-the-head country, and then there's really good country music.

Alexis Arguello

I'm doing it, I took responsibility in my country and I've done it with my bare hands.

Beth Broderick

Nobody wants to sit where I'm sitting and say, 'Hey, this is the reality. I did two movies, six guest-star spots and I starred in a one-woman show, and I'm not making any money. I'm on TV every day in every country in the world, and I don't make any money.'

In my heart and soul, I am a West Country man, and ideally, my weekends are spent there.

Toby Stephens

I am a Londoner and I love my home. There are many things about this country which drive me crazy, but when I am in America, I feel wrong there.

Ted Sarandos

In the first week of release, 'Beasts Of No Nation' was the most watched movie on Netflix, in every country we operate in.

Tim Rice

I have always been obsessed with America, the geography, the history, and, of course, the music. I've been lucky enough to have travelled through the country a lot, and, in a kind of anorak way, I've noted which states I've visited and which ones I've been to most often and all that sort of detail.

Alexander Skarsgard

To turn off your phone when you go to your country house or you're on vacation for a few days is important. I turn off my phone and just check it once a day. I turn it on and, if it's an important message, I'll call back. Otherwise, it can wait.

Alexander Pushkin

Try to be forgotten. Go live in the country. Stay in mourning for two years, then remarry, but choose somebody decent.

We'd like to think we have a rule of law and not a rule of special interests in this country.

We were all sitting in the most oil-rich country in the world, and even when people could get gas, it was overpriced fuel trucked in by Halliburton from Kuwait and Saudi Arabia,

We don't know yet about Europe; it will go country by country and will depend on the reception in the U.S..