Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yotam Ottolenghi

Chermoula is a potent North African spice paste that is ideal for smearing on your favourite vegetables for roasting.

William Kamkwamba

Clean water and power is our right as humans on this earth, and for too long, our governments in Africa have failed to provide these things.

Abraham Lincoln

Among the friends of Union, there is great diversity of sentiment and of policy in regard to slavery and the African race among us.

Constance Wu

Usually, I'll be auditioning for the third lead, and there will be Latina actresses, Indian actresses, African American actresses because it will be like, 'Let's check off this box. We have our lead white girl, and we need an ethnic slot.'

Victoria Morgan

The piece has been danced on four continents by 15 ballet companies. It's a very strange compilation of Bach blended with traditional African songs and rhythms. They kind of bleed in and out of each other.

Michel Jarraud

The past year has brought prolonged droughts to the Greater Horn of Africa and parts of Europe and Asia, Australia and Brazil. There were also a record number of devastating hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean.

Baz Luhrmann

Historically, epics are set in Africa or Asia or the Wild West, but if you make an epic today it's hard to disassociate from the contemporary realities of those places.

Chris Abani

African narratives in the West, they proliferate. I really don't care anymore. I'm more interested in the stories we tell about ourselves - how, as a writer, I find that African writers have always been the curators of our humanity on this continent.

Chris Abani

I read mostly Irish, African, Japanese, South American, and African writers. You can count on Scandinavian literature for a certain kind of darkness, a modern mythic style.

David A. Bednar

In the school of mortality, we experience tenderness, love, kindness, happiness, sorrow, disappointment, pain, and even the challenges of physical limitations in ways that prepare us for eternity.

Darell Hammond

The lack of free, child-directed play time for our kids today will have dire consequences for these future leaders, making them less prepared to solve complex challenges and problems.

Richard Rogers

There is no one-size-fits-all solution to the challenges facing our cities or to the housing crisis, but the two issues need to be considered together. From an urban design and planning point of view, the well-connected open city is a powerful paradigm and an engine for integration and inclusivity.

Tom Paulin

'Ulysses' is the greatest anti-racist text in the English language, and it challenges right from the beginning the vicious racism which lies near the foundations of the Irish Free State and of the Irish republic.

Tom Daschle

Let there be no doubt: the state of our union is strong - stronger than the terrorists who seek to harm us and stronger than the challenges that confront us. At the same time, we know that our union can be stronger still.

Patricia Dunn

We are delighted that John will be joining HP's board. He has an exceptional track record running one of America's largest companies. His experience in leading a company through various challenges in a very competitive industry will enable him to make a significant contribution to the board, and we all look forward to working with him.

Elizabeth Blackburn

Challenges in medicine are moving from 'Treat the symptoms after the house is on fire' to 'Can we preserve the house intact?'

Bill Owens

A renewed commitment to the freedom and opportunity of our people is the touchstone of our time. In this new century, where tests are many and challenges change with the shifting of the wind, we must hold fast to the principles that have made our nation the envy of the world.

Andy Garcia

I don't think lying has any ultimate justification. I don't think it ever leads to anything positive. The good fight to have is not to lie. That's one of the challenges in a way.

Colm Meaney

There's no reason not to be in television now. You get to live at home and you're not on the road all the time, they pay you decent money, and the writing's good. You're not compromising for it, you know.

Chang-Rae Lee

I can put together a pretty decent meal from whatever happens to be in the refrigerator and the pantry. I like the challenge of this sort of improvisation, the rigor of limitation and sometimes having to take a risk.

Mark Recchi

We played a pretty decent game and to lose like that at the end is tough. But we got a point. Look at the positives and make sure we stay focused on the right things and move forward from this.

Sebastiao Salgado

It is important what you eat now, what you do now. If we were interested in a sustainable planet where other generations have a right to a decent future, we would not live like this.

Thomas Mann

Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent.

Ben Mendelsohn

If you've been working since you were a teenager and working at a reasonably decent level, then you don't expect that you're going to be firmly in your 40s and start moving up in the world, if you like.

Bruce Rauner

Our government works should be treated fairly and appropriately; they should have a decent retirement, but not a gold-plated system where they can retire multimillionaires in their 50s.

Robert Grimes

We have like a fourth the number of miners as we used to have, and the equipment is doing a lot of the work. And, I think that we are starting to get a lot of the other plants and everything like this, that would exist because, a lot of times when plants want to move into a state, they look at the lifestyle. Are the schools decent? Are the roads decent? Do you have, is there decent recreation? West Virginia has those things, now.

Fergal Smith

We had a pretty decent pull-back in spot gold, so I think there is some profit-taking here.

Robin Wright

A great life is to be able to ebb and flow.

Jon Hamm

It's such a capricious, strange existence, basing your life on the whims of others, and basing your ebbs and flows of confidence and lack of confidence on the fact that people either choose you or don't.

Jane Addams

In the unceasing ebb and flow of justice and oppression we must all dig channels as best we may, that at the propitious moment somewhat of the swelling tide may be conducted to the barren places of life.

Hillary Clinton

I can survive setbacks, I've survived a lot of setbacks in my life. I don't see them as anything other than the natural ebb and flow of life and politics.

David A. R. White

I think there is always an ebb and flow in Hollywood about what is current.

Walter Matthau

You can't do it with strangers. It takes about five years to get into the ebb and flow. If it's not working after five years, get rid of them.

Ovid

There is nothing in the whole world which abides. All things are in a state of ebb and flow, and every shadow passes away. Even time itself, like a river, is constantly gliding away .

Mike Thibault

It had to be fun to sit in the stands and watch, because you had such an ebb and flow to the game.

Michael Kennedy

It's always been an ebb and flow of interest and energy.

Victor Koo

The enhanced features of our ad products would require sufficient understanding from our sales force, advertisers, and agencies. To facilitate this, we have held multiple training sessions internally and road show events externally.

Audie Blaylock

What you see is what you get. There are no gimmicks. It's not like other forms of music where you have lots of stage props to enhance the show you have your instrument and your voice.

Li Shufu

Chinese... companies do not have to think about whether they do something to enhance their competitive edge in international markets.

Michael Eisner

We are keeping our eyes open, ... We are happy with what we got with the Fox Family acquisition. We will keep looking but we are not going to do it to get a good headline in the media. If we are going to do anything at all it will be to enhance the company.

Robert Wright

We don't have any plans to make acquisitions at this scale, but we will look at smaller acquisitions of tools or other things that enhance the site.

Jennifer Kluge

We had wanted to enhance our association magazine and had been talking about that for months.

Tim Schuldt

We've listened to the fans. They want more seating, food additions. All of it is meant to enhance the fans' experience.

Branford Marsalis

We have more faith in the music than the people at major labels have. I'm always thinking of ways to enhance the music and the way we think about it.

Bill Gates

The potential for all these exciting devices, smart objects and services to enrich and enhance the way we live is truly amazing.

Zubin Mehta

If North American musicians would only know how uncomfortable life is for European musicians.

David Walton

Boston has a lot of European qualities to it, and one of them is the charm of its above-ground trollies.

Daddy Yankee

'Limbo' has been one of the greatest hits of my career. A great response all over the world, not just Latinos but people in Europe and America.

Tamara Tunie

I have Native American blood. I have African blood. I have European blood.

Fernando Torres

After winning the European Championship with Spain, I know exactly how it feels to win a major trophy, and I know that, if we can win at Liverpool, it will feel the same or even better than it did with Spain.

Vaclav Klaus

I live in Europe and care about democracy and sovereignty of nation states there.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Show me one dictatorship in the world that has not been supported by the United States government or some European governments. It almost doesn't exist. I think a dictatorship and hegemony are part of the same phenomenon.

Lord Robertson

For years, European leaders have pointed out that Europe is an economic giant, but a military pygmy.

Martti Ahtisaari

We are convinced that Turkey would be a useful member of the European Union.

Don Rickles

If I have learned anything, it is to keep my wife happy by sending her lavish gifts. Other men can learn from my success and send their wives and girlfriends fresh flowers for birthdays, anniversaries, and of course, Valentine's Day.

Jeff Jackson

The penalties were an embarrassment. That's not hockey. There was no flow to the game.

Edward McKendree Bounds

The Holy Ghost does not flow through methods, but through men. He does not come on machinery, but on men. He does not anoint plans, but men - men of prayer.

Radhanath Swami

One who loves God sees everything in relation to God. Therefore, their love flows spontaneously toward everyone, at all times, everywhere. They even love those who wish them harm. If you love God, you can't hate anything or anyone. If the love one offers is met with hate, it doesn't die; rather, it manifests in the form.

Catherine McAuley

This is the spirit of the Order, indeed the true spirit of Mercy flowing on us.

Carmen Dolfo

We played a great first half. We played together and played great defense, but defensively we just couldn't get back into a flow in the second half.

Mike Mills

When a film works, the director had a lot to do with that, but the director also didn't have a lot to do with that. There are so many moving parts. It's really about being open to how the river is flowing and trying to get on the river.

Malcolm de Chazal

The flower is a jumble of thighs, the sun's harem - the most oriental thing imaginable.

Kris Janowski

We are happy that the governments have offered us a total of 85,000 places for refugees from Macedonia. The bottleneck, however, is the number of people who are actually being flown out. More people need to be flown out of Macedonia.

Colm Meaney

It's interesting because I haven't done a lot of period work in the past, but I always wanted to because I'm interested in history.

Rick Perlstein

I'm reverent toward my sources. History is a team sport, and references are how you support your teammates.

F. Sionil Jose

My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little.

Erwin McManus

When we look at history, we see history is made up of the heroes of their times. Yet, somehow we miss this when we put on the lens of the Scriptures.

C. J. Mahaney

Over the years, I have studied church history as well as the contemporary church, and I noticed how rare it is for a God-glorifying transition of leadership to take place in a local church.

Nikola Tesla

The history of science shows that theories are perishable. With every new truth that is revealed we get a better understanding of Nature and our conceptions and views are modified.

Trey Parker

That was a misconception among a lot of people - that Mormons are polygamist. No, they're not. I mean they obviously have that in their history, and there are some fundamentalists.

Christopher Koch

I make a rod for my own back because people see my novels as quasi documentaries. But it is never history that's the main event of my books. It's my characters.

Laura Anne Gilman

Every time we revise our history, we also revise the mythology of our history.

Billy Graham

The human heart is the same the world over.

Ellie Goulding

I'm not afraid, as a writer, of being emotional. I'm obsessed with human emotion, body parts, physicality.

Bonnie Bassler

Bacteria are single-celled organisms. Bacteria are the model organisms for everything that we know in higher organisms. There are 10 times more bacterial cells in you or on you than human cells.

David Hanson

The perception of identity is so intimately bound up with the perception of the human form.

Donald Johanson

When I realized, in 1978, that Lucy did represent a new species of human ancestor, and that I had an opportunity to name this new species, I realized this was a revolutionary step in understanding human origins.

Newt Gingrich

We're all human and we all goof. Do things that may be wrong, but do something.

Ricky Martin

The rights of homosexual people are human rights, and human rights are for everyone.

Nina Easton

Reality shows serve up juicy drama out of human shortcomings.

Gore Vidal

The human race is plainly nothing in eternity, but to us, in time, it is everything and ought not to die.

Denis Villeneuve

On a film crew, you can see very quickly that some people who are working with you are stronger than you. Then you have to have the humility to listen to them. And because very often they have better ideas than yours, it can be tough on the evil ego. But it makes a better film.

Anthony D'Angelo

The people who oppose your ideas are inevitably those who represent the established order that your ideas will upset.

Alan Cohen

When you are secure in who you are, you set the trend for your own life, and do not look to others to tell you how to live. When you know that every truth you seek is available within you, you will not place someone else's idea of how you should live, above your own.

Leona Lewis

I have my best ideas when I am alone.

Walter Benjamin

Tourism has affected Cuba, because tourists come and they bring racist, sexist ideas. They bring a whole vision that there are rich people all over the world and that's the way it should be.

Walter Benjamin

We’re taught at such an early age to be against the communists, yet most of us don’t have the faintest idea what communism is. Only a fool lets somebody else tell him who his enemy is.

Bill Gillette

We never had a waiting list for people who wanted to be on the board. We needed more people to come to the table and have everyone's ideas heard.

Ludwig von Mises

Not mythical material productive forces, but reason and ideas determine the course of human affairs. What is needed to stop the trend toward socialism and despotism is common-sense and moral courage.

Ludwig von Mises

The history of mankind is the history of ideas.

David Stiff

The problem with migration numbers is they come out too late.

Steven Starr

It is a new frontier. The migration of video onto the network is upon us, and the rules of that migration are being worked out as we speak.

Sue Clark

They are amazing. This migration is amazing. The whole system has to stay intact, not just the fir trees in Mexico, to preserve these treasures.

Ronald Reagan

A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.

Wolfgang Schauble

It is clear to us that we will have to become more involved in our neighboring regions so that the migration pressures aren't so high there. Of course the budget negotiations will be difficult, as they always are.

William Shatner

If I'm given an opportunity to do something, I do it. Or else I fool around with it.

Frank Marshall

I'm a big fan of documentaries. I've always loved them, and I've just never had the opportunity or the time to make a feature.

Boris Johnson

What I worry about is that people are losing confidence, losing energy, losing enthusiasm, and there's a real opportunity to get them into work.

Douglas Conant

You have the opportunity to make a tremendous impact on the lives of the people with whom you work and live. Make the most of it.

Tommy Lasorda

You get an opportunity to do something for your country, you better get out and do it.

Tom Rooney

As a prosecutor, I've been in prisons. I've had the opportunity to see what they're like in America.

Alexa Von Tobel

Tax time is the perfect opportunity to jumpstart your spring-cleaning by tackling your financial to-do list.

Steven Spielberg

The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves.

Doug Ewell

We had an opportunity to end it in overtime, but it didn't fall.

Bridgett Williams

The policy they got is just a policy. The students are running the show.

John Whiting

The policy says any new schools being built,

Gideon Ezra

The policy of restraint is over. This is a law-abiding country, and that is how everyone has to behave.

Tessa Jowell

The policy is not wrong and... time will prove it right,

Gary Orfield

The policy is essentially a product of negotiation, of power and discretion, not law.

Nigel S. Wright

Public policy has been a passion of mine. For three decades, I've had some involvement in the political process.

William Shakespeare

Policy sits above conscience.

Brenda Holloway

Motown's policy was to build one act at a time or their favorites.

Wim Duisenberg

Our policy is to be as transparent and as predictable as possible,

Alessandra Ambrosio

My little girl, Anja, is really excited. We had a baby shower yesterday and she took the presents from everyone for me and was telling them, 'No, it's my baby.'

Ewen Bremner

As parents, I think we're always novices, and every day presents a new challenge.

Michael Watkins

I think the superintendent makes the recommendation, presents it and we vote on it.

Darin Lee

Murphysboro presents a whole different challenge. It's going to be a very, very tough sectional.

Jim Crews

They switch some, they play a little zone, they play man. They look different all the time. That presents problems.

Neil Kinnock

I'd like to be remembered as somebody who tried to promote justice.

Lydia Lenker

Those are agricultural products. We do promote Tennessee products.

Ben Bernanke

The ultimate purpose of economics, of course, is to understand and promote the enhancement of well-being.

Casper Dien

When I do a film I go out and promote it.

Charles Pickering

Mississippi, in trying to promote racial harmony, is on the right track at the right station doing the right thing.

Dale Groutage

Sen. (Craig) Thomas has had at least 17 years to promote that technology.

Todd Rundgren

So there was a way for you to get promoted and survive as an artist without worrying about AM radio hits.

Karine Vanasse

When I have to promote things now, sometimes I realize that I had a movie in mind, but in the end, it's a vision of somebody else, so I have to promote their idea.

Andrew Weil

We have known for many years that we need vitamin D to facilitate calcium absorption and promote bone mineralization.

Bill Parcells

Creatures of similar plumages habitually congregate in places of closest proximity.

Maureen Johnson

Proximity doesn't breed familiarity.

Twyla Tharp

My dancers expect me to deliver because my choreography represents their livelihood.

Frank Taylor

That was between Rick Hamlin, who represents La-Van, and the Treasury Department,

Jeremy Osborne

He represents that person or that thing that everyone is waiting for.

Jonathan Fox

No one represents their interests, here or in Mexico. They have to speak up and do it themselves.

Ed Keon

When things seem very risky it often represents opportunity.

Laura Smith

It represents me. My old room was from when I was 6 or 7. This room is more up-to-date.

Robert Clark

For myself, and a lot of other students, Gen. Powell represents what can be possible.

John W. Snow

Social Security represents an $11 trillion unfunded obligation. And when I say unfunded obligation, I mean we have to come up with $11 trillion at some point to make the system whole.

Inder Singh

We view this as a particularly important win for Lucent as it represents its first large-scale IMS deployment with a US carrier.

Dick Franti

We still had our share of mistakes, but we made our way through it. We didn't let them get us down.

Alan Watts

...[W]ords can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.

Jaron Lanier

You have to be somebody before you can share yourself.

Jason Miller

We're not going to share our playbook with the other team.

Edgar Quinet

What we share with another ceases to be our own....

Bertolt Brecht

Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.

Cecilia Bartoli

So I like to make music, and I like to share music. This is also a gift.

John Rawls

The intolerant can be viewed as free-riders, as persons who seek the advantages of just institutions while not doing their share to uphold them.

John Templeton

Share prices fluctuate more than share values.

Hosni Mubarak

What is wrong with strengthening the opposition? You lose nothing, ... But let them abide by the rules.

Jerry A. Webman

The rise in equities helped strengthen the economy.

Bob Graham

We need to make is to strengthen the position of the director of the CIA.

Vladimir Putin

The strengthening of our statehood is, at times, deliberately interpreted as authoritarianism.

Carly Fiorina

I managed Hewlett Packard through the worst technology downturn in 25 years, the dotcom bust.

Vint Cerf

You don't have to be young to learn about technology. You have to feel young.

Todd Burns

We had anticipated this technology coming, so we didn't do a lot of hiring.

Iris Apfel

Technology is a wonderful thing, but I think it's violently misused.

Dick Cheney

It used to be you needed to have a very large sophisticated state before you could even have a nuclear weapon... Now the technology is widespread enough. It doesn't take very many people to be able to cobble together a devastating attack, and all it takes is one.

Dax Shepard

I'm of the opinion that the technology is in a place where there's really no excuse not to just make your movie.

Daniel Suarez

I've read one too many thrillers that had really horrible technology in them.

Peter Jackson

Once upon a time, sound was new technology.

Larry Phillips

We just didn't have the technology. It's a very unfortunate situation.

Natalie Coughlin

Ties are pretty rare. I don't think I've ever tied anybody.

Theresa Hamilton

We really want to make this an entire-valley event. We all know someone. We're all tied together. This valley is very interconnected.

Forel Davies

Another title, but we'll probably be tied with Vista, so it's not so great. That tarnishes it a little for me.

Matt Brown

I kind of tied the two together (music and art).

Chelsea Handler

We women have to stick together.

Dominic Modise

We have a lot of young girls, and they need to understand how to work together as a team.

William Shakespeare

They met so near with their lips that their breaths embraced together.

Jack Johnson

love's just a waste of energy and life's just a waste of time so why don't we get together we could waste everything tonight

William Shakespeare

Crabbed age and youth cannot live together: Youth is full of pleasance, age is full of care.

Linda Evans

We haven't all been together for a really long time.

Bob McNair

We'll get together this week and get all that wrapped up.

Charles de Gaulle

One can unite the French only under the threat of danger. One cannot simply bring together a nation that produces 265 kinds of cheese.

Charles de Lint

It's all those stories and how they braid together that tells us who and what and where we are

Donald Trump

I think the World Trade Center should be rebuilt as the World Trade Center, only stronger and one story taller. I hate what they're doing with the World Trade Center site.

Benjamin Franklin

No nation has ever been ruined by trade.

Daniel Hannan

Most British people are keen to remain in a European free trade zone; and most EU states are keen to keep us there, because we buy from them more than we sell to them to the tune of £40 million per day.

William Shakespeare

Music, moody food Of us that trade in love.

Brenda Fassie

I am a shocker. I like to create controversy. It's my trademark.

William Daley

Our trade laws, which are all WTO-consistent, are used very rarely,

Ashley Gronewoller

I would have traded all that for a win in this game.

George Herbert

A trade is better then service.

Christine Lagarde

There are goods that are outside trade and in the public domain and that should be reserved and protected.

William Quigley

I never wanted to be someone who's asking someone to put my work in their gallery. I wanted to be asked.

Walead Beshty

My works look to how images are produced, but specially based upon how the material reacts.

Zubin Mehta

The 'New York Times' reviews of my work have been evenly divided - favourable and unfavourable.

Wynton Marsalis

I generally work right up to when I have to do something - I'm always doing a lot.

Don Shula

You try to get the most out of the talent. Make 'em work and let 'em play.

David Byrne

Work aside, we come to New York for the possibility of interaction and inspiration.

Colonel Sanders

I always hired widows with children, because they had to work and didn't have any foolishness about them.

Brooke Burke

I've always done ab work, even when I was pregnant.

Dennis Christopher

Work has been my lover - I've shied away from any commitments.