Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barton Gellman

Rolf Ekeus, his appearance can deceive. He looks somewhere between an international diplomat and a mad professor. He's got that sort of shock of white hair and a slightly absent-minded way of speaking. But he's extremely sharp and very serious about power relationships.

Caskie Stinnett

A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.

Igor Ivanov

The resolution has made a real threat of war go away and opens the way for further work in the interests of a political- diplomatic settlement of the situation around Iraq.

Kurtis Cooper

We will respond through diplomatic channels. None of the U.S. attaches was or is engaged in inappropriate activities.

Nabil Sha'ath

We are in support of democratic, political, diplomatic process that would implement resolutions and save the people of Iraq. We want to make that clear, and I think some of the demonstrations did not make that clear.

Helen Clark

would now be able to resume friendly diplomatic relations.

Judith Kipper

US-Syrian relations are extremely strained. There is virtually no diplomatic discussion between the two.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We are not diplomats but prophets, and our message is not a compromise but an ultimatum.

David Cunliffe

Ive worked as a diplomat before I became a politician.

Robert Clark

The overall message we received from teachers is they are extremely pleased the program is available.

Sharon Johnson

The pendulum has just been swinging back and forth with the fundamentals in the market, ... This is an extremely short crop, but the big negative has been questions about demand.

Ian Stannard

The PCE deflator will be extremely important today. The market looks at this very much as one of Fed's main indicators. If it's strong the market will not only be looking for a rate hike at this meeting but next time around as well.

Ian Stannard

The PCE deflator will be extremely important today. If it's strong the market will not only be looking for a rate hike at this meeting but next time around as well.

Brian K. Vaughan

I was only ever part of 'Lost' - a very small part of an extremely talented writers' room, where as a writer, it's sort of your job to sublimate your ego and work in the service of the show and the show's voice.

Christien Meindertsma

Even if you are genuinely interested in what is in your products, it is extremely difficult and often impossible to find out.

Denis Napthine

I am extremely proud to have the honour and privilege to be the Premier of this great state of Victoria.

Jose Gil

We play pretty good at home. Actually, we play extremely well at home. But away from home, we just aren't comfortable. I'm plain tired of watching us lose in the first or second round.

Kurt Vonnegut

Younger scientists are extremely sensitive to the moral implications of all they do.

Dave Ramsey

I have done stupid with a lot of zeros on the end of it. I know what it looks like.

Ashok Kumar

The picture doesn't look pretty. It looks like all the territories disappointed.

Dan Veru

The outlook looks better as the market looks to the next six, nine months.

Samuel Butler

Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.

Lizzo

Everyone looks to an artist for something more than just the music, and that message of being comfortable in my own skin is number one for me.

Homer

I don't want to look like a weirdo. I'll just go with the muumuu.

Rick Carlisle

We're down a lot of players and it looks like we may be down another. We're in a situation where we have zero margin for error.

Jim Lovell

The moon is essentially gray, no color; looks like plaster of Paris or sort of a grayish beach sand.

Byron Sr

Up here, it looks like there's a park on nearly every corner. And when we go, we don't have to worry that we're going to be shot at. Back home, the drug dealers had taken over everything.

Lola Kirke

The oboe is the most maddening thing of all time. I'm struggling to play something that my oboe teacher was doing when she was much younger than I am.

Kristan Bromley

There is a touch of madness to it.

Jeff Horner

We just didn't make plays. I don't feel wore down. I'm just mad right now.

Nadine Johnson

We were just so grateful. We didn't get mad until nobody cared.

William Shakespeare

Though this be madness, yet there is method

William Shakespeare

He's mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf.

Charlotte Bronte

He made me love him without looking at me.

Alan Moore

As far as I can see, it's not important that we have free will, just as long as we have the illusion of free will to stop us going mad.

Alan Moore

On my fortieth birthday, rather than merely bore my friends by having anything as mundane as a midlife crisis I decided it might be more interesting to actually terrify them by going completely mad and declaring myself to be a magician.

William Henry Moody

It was an argument of rare power and eloquence.

Nancy Gibbs

Power is a tool, influence is a skill; one is a fist, the other a fingertip.

Christine Ebersole

There's a Zen to acting, by being in the moment. That's where the power is.

Meles Zenawi

In the urban areas, we have focused on infrastructure roads, telecommunications, power.

James Howard Kunstler

Generations will soon come into their power feeling differently about themselves than we do now, and in their re-enchanted world, they will wonder about us and what we did to their world, and what we thought we were doing.

Alan Cohen

The freest people I know are those who have the least to hide, defend or protect. Naked is powerful.

Nancy Gibbs

Power is not just political. It can be cultural; it can be spiritual.

Millard Fillmore

Upon you, fellow-citizens, as the representatives of the States and the people, is wisely devolved the legislative power.

Nydia Velazquez

Too often, the landlord-tenant relationship is unbalanced with all the power on the side of unscrupulous landlords.

Al Madrigal

I've always been 'ethnic friend,' without any serious moments, all jokes.

Jim Gillespie

We're not going to be taken seriously if we speak or we may not have a voice at all,

Alex Rodriguez

We're taking this (stretch run) as seriously as the playoffs.

William Shakespeare

There is nothing serious in Mortality

Scott Smith

We had discussions, but nothing serious enough to warrant any offers.

Mitt Romney

I read serious books, but every now and then, I read just for fun.

Alan Arkin

My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.

Bryan Ferry

As you get older, you get a bit more serious.

Bryan Clay

Repercussions are serious and they will take you places.

Brandon Jennings

During the lockout year, my focus was the basics, sharpening my moves, my fundamentals.

Margaret Cavendish

Women's Tongues are as sharp as two-edged Swords, and wound as much, when they are anger'd

Ken Starr

I said in sharp language that that practice was wrong.

Joe Glenn

I thought Jake would play a little better. Jake probably wasn't as sharp as I hoped.

Riley Wallace

It disappoints me that we're not as sharp as we should be at this stage. But it's a win.

Robert Goodman

Because there was such a sharp drop, the snap-back is going to be that much more violent on the upside.

Steve Roberts

He was real sharp for the most part.

Jeff Bower

We took a step back on offense. We weren't very sharp at anything on that side of the ball.

Brad Richards

I can just tell, personally, that we're just not as sharp as we were in the past,

Reggie Lewis

We were shocked when we had to go back out there on the onside kick.

Bryan Callen

Its always a shock to me when I get recognized.

William Arbaugh

would be shocked if they solved the problem.

Terry Pratchett

What's so surprising about bacon? I dunno, I suppose it comes as something a a shock to the pig.

John Barton

I never yelled, never screamed. I was in shock that it was still going on.

Peter Arnett

I am still in shock and awe at being fired,

Louis Sheldon

This is all tied to Jack? ... I'm shocked out of my socks.

Brigitte Bardot

I am shocking, impertinent and insolent that's how it is.

Pat Gillick

We were disappointed. At the same time, you can't say you're shocked or surprised that something like this would happen.

China Mieville

'Kraken' is set in London and has a lot of London riffs, but I think it's more like slightly dreamlike, slightly abstract London. It's London as a kind of fantasy kingdom.

Steven Patrick Morrissey

I am slightly shocked to have gone as far as I have.

Paulette Goddard

I'm always slightly embarrassed to meet other actresses of my vintage. We have so little in common. They're all so dedicated. I find - so desperate.

Ciaran Hinds

If you're venturing into territory that is slightly operatic, it all has to be done so carefully.

Lykke Li

I always feel like I've been slightly misunderstood. As a woman, you get judged for appearances or things like that I don't really care about.

Lena Headey

I think I look slightly like a horse. Hand on heart, I think I'm pretty average.

Anna Kendrick

I never have used a trainer. I'm slightly intimidated by the idea of somebody in my face.

Andy Serkis

I think when actors run away from their work that they're slightly crazy, really!

Adam McKay

I think when a lot of actors hear improv, they think of throwing a line in or doing a slightly different take.

Felix Hernandez

When you work somewhere and you feel comfortable, you don't want to leave. You want to stay there forever.

David Duchovny

Fame does lead to money, which I don't have a close relationship with. I'm the kind of guy who never sees the money - it all goes somewhere else. I don't understand it, I don't like to deal with it. I have a fear of not having it, because I grew up without it.

Dido Armstrong

It's great to just disappear, grab a suitcase, switch the answering machine on and just go somewhere else.

Beth Orton

Norfolk is not on the way to anywhere, you don't stop off on the way somewhere else - it's an end in itself. You have to want to go there; it's an effort.

Rajneesh

Your so-called religions have made you very tense. Because they have created guilt in you. My effort here is to help you get rid of all guilt and all fear. I would like to tell you: there is no hell and no heaven. So don't be afraid of hell and don't be greedy for heaven. All that exists is this moment. You can make this moment a hell or a heaven - that certainly is possible - but there is no heaven or hell somewhere else. Hell is when you are all tense, and heaven is when you are all relaxed. Total relaxation is paradise.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Where there's water on Earth, you find life as we know it. So if you find water somewhere else, it becomes a remarkable draw to look closer to see if life of any kind is there, even if it's bacterial, which would be extraordinary for the field of biology.

Henry Rollins

Capitalism does what it does and money doesn't belong to anybody. It just stays in someone's wallet for a while, then it goes somewhere else. It always goes somewhere and it is always about to go somewhere.

John Baldacci

Why go somewhere else and start up all over again?

Louise Brown

People still come up to me and ask whether I am Louise Brown or if they've seen me somewhere else before.

Evel Knievel

I can't keep track of my hospital time. It all sort of blurs together.

Karl Pilkington

With evolution, things are always changing, so I sort of think: Should we all be growing three heads?

Jason Fuchs

When you work for DC, it's sort of like working for the CIA. You have a vow of silence.

Nikki Reed

I play characters that are pretty; I play characters that are sort of intimidating and confident, but that doesn't necessarily mean that I'm that.

Nikki Sixx

If you're getting different prescriptions from different doctors, there has to be some sort of check and balance in there somewhere.

S. T. Joshi

I am sort of a tea addict. I structure my day by cups of tea.

Susanne Bier

I don't feel I have an issue with listening or understanding English in any sort of way.

Barbra Streisand

It is sort of boring to stay in the same spot. You know, I didn't set out to become the first to do this, the first to do that. It was just that my interests were so diversified.

Alan Greenspan

I was sort of shocked when it all of a sudden turned out that I got all A's through college, with the exception of two B's in the first term. I never envisaged myself as summa cum laude.

Sarah Palin

We're red, white and blue, and President Obama, we are through with you.

Banksy

The one thing you can rely on is if you get disturbed halfway through a painting and it looks a bit naff, then someone will preserve that piece, remove it and a few months later it'll be paraded round Sotheby's by people wearing white gloves.

William Shakespeare

How ill white hairs become a fool and jester!

Alan Shearer

No money in the world can buy a white England shirt.

Alan Keyes

Increasingly, I wonder if there are any outrages that would be sufficiently ominous in their effects upon liberty and unequivocal in their moral perversity to awaken the American people to the tyrannical spirit that envelopes the Clinton White House.

Charlie Gonzalez

Under President Barack Obama, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus has been invited into the White House and given a seat at the table. Hispanics are serving in unprecedented numbers at the highest levels of this administration, including in the Cabinet.

Charles de Lint

You know how we'd get along better? If everybody'd just remember how we're all related. White, black, Asian, skin. No difference. All the bloodlines go back to that one old mama in Africa.

Charles Dickens

The meagre lighthouse all in white, haunting the seaboard, as if it were the ghost of an edifice that had once had colour and rotundity, dripped melancholy tears after its late buffeting by the waves.

Alan Watts

Black implies white self implies other