Famous Quotes & Sayings

Usain Bolt

My relationship with everyone in Jamaica is good.

Usain Bolt

I can't really live outside Jamaica. I can be away, but only for a while.

Sylvia Plath

Sometimes I nursed starfish alive in jam jars of seawater and watched them grow back lost arms. On this day, this awful birthday of otherness, my rival, somebody else, I flung the starfish against a stone. Let it perish.

Michael Lee-Chin

Doing business in Jamaica is not easy, but it is rewarding.

Tessanne Chin

Being born in Jamaica, race was never an issue. It was always about the type of person I wanted to be, not the colour of my skin.

Plautus

And so it happens oft in many instances; more good is done without our knowledge than by us intended. [Lat., Itidemque ut saepe jam in multis locis, Plus insciens quis fecit quam prodens boni.]

Laurie R. King

I slept in the bedroom used by Sabine Baring-Goulds wife when I was researching The Moor, and later the Jamaica Inn on Bodmin Moor.

Lauryn Hill

I went to Jamaica for six months, and in Jamaica there was a lot of stillness.

John T. Flynn

Fascism is the consequence of economic jam and dictatorship is the product of Fascism, for Fascism cannot be managed save by a dictator.

Nas

Jamaican music can be aggressive, soulful, smooth and exciting all at once - just like hip-hop. At the same time, there's nothing like Jamaica in the United States. Jamaica is its own thing.

Michael Franti

When you're in Jamaica, unless you're in a tourist spot, you don't hear Bob Marley; you mostly hear dance hall music.

Ronnie Milsap

I often thought that if I had been working with Mark James at American Studios, I would have had a pop hit before I ever moved out of Memphis. But that didn't happen.

Merry Clayton

I was signed to A&M, I was signed to Lou Adler, who had a company within a company, which was A&M Records, and everything - James Taylor, Rita Coolidge, Carole King - I worked on all of that stuff.

I got out of a jam in the eighth. I got a little wild in the ninth and I just got beat.

Keira Knightley

She really thought what she and Jamie had was love, but it just wasn't meant to be.

Cassandra Clare

-Nunca dejaría de creer en ti -dijo-. Jamás. Lo que siento por ti...-Se atracó-. Es lo más grande que he sentido en mi vida. [pp.78]

Jack Irons

In January of 1995, my family and I moved to Seattle. Pearl Jam did the first of their live radio broadcasts, Monkey Wrench Radio, along with many other Seattle musicians.

Dee Brown

Me and James (Augustine) have been through this before as sophomores. You just have to play with a different mentality.

Jamie was our unquestioned leader. She always made a play when we needed her to.

Jamie was literally six steps out from winning the race.

Ozzie Guillen

Jamie can be tough on a lot of guys. It allows me to use my bench, but he can just be tough on hitters. Look at the numbers.

Toby Keith

James made every record ... that established my career.

James just stomped it and smoked everyone again.

James is their point guard. He's their leader.

Stanley Hauerwas

William James was not a prophet. He was a philosopher whose philosophy reflected his profound humanity.

I suppose you could say he succeeded where Johnny Murtagh and Jamie Spencer failed,

I think James was probably just tired from those long runs he had in the first quarter, so he needed time to rest.

Roger Moore

Well, I spent many years living in Gstaad and still visit there regularly - as my son and his partner Jamie have a restaurant there.

Horace

Now, that's enough. [Lat., Ohe! jam satis est.]

Jim Jefferies

Myself and Jamie Moffat did not agree on everything but he always knew I had the experience.

If he's ready, then we'd look at it. But we're not going to go in there and jam it down his throat.

John Grisham

I'm being followed so much I'm causing traffic jams.

Cassandra Clare

Go in peace, James Carstairs.