Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yotam Ottolenghi

Rice and vermicelli is a common combination in Arab and Turkish cooking - it has a lighter texture than rice on its own.

John Dawson

The people are very nice. They're friendly. It's like you don't meet a stranger at these events because you've got Elvis as your common ground.

Bruce Braley

A populist is someone who fights for common sense economic policies that sustain and expand the middle class.

Dennis Ross

Security is something that serves Israeli interests and Palestinian interests. You have a common threat and you have a common enemy and it's important to deal with that as partners.

Noah Feldman

When we put our trust in diplomacy, it is not because it is an inspiring or uplifting discourse or because it helps us see the common humanity in others. The stylized circumlocutions of diplomats can make them seem ridiculous or irrelevant: they never seem to be talking about what is really going on.

Gore Vidal

What the Kinseyites and I had in common so long ago was the knowledge that homosexual and heterosexual behavior are natural to all mammals, and that what differs from individual to individual is the balance between these two complementary but not necessarily conflicted drives.

Charles Glover Barkla

We are all dwellers on this one small earth; we live one life, die one death; we have the same difficulties to contend with; we ought in common to fight the foes of ignorance and wrong.

Samuel Butler

Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.

Edmund White

Women and gay men have something in common after all: in that they are trying to deal with this goofy egotistical monster called a man.

John C. Calhoun

When we contend, let us contend for all our rights - the doubtful and the certain, the unimportant and essential. It is as easy to contend, or even more so, for the whole as for a part. At the termination of the contest, secure all that our wisdom and valour and the fortune of war will permit.

E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

When people contend for their liberty they seldom get anything for their victory, but new masters.

Pat Metheny

I would always contend that talent is an element, but over the long run, ultimately, a minor part of it all; it is mostly hard work.

Margaret Cho

Grow up and let anyone try to contend with the adult you.

Henry Ian Cusick

When I was filming 'Lost,' we'd be in the jungle. The only thing we had to contend with was the sound of the ocean. That was it, really.

Al Cohen

We had a lot to contend with last year after being moved off the turnpike. But we learned a lot.

Judy White

We've lived out here for nine years. We have never had to contend with this before.

Liz Nash

With the girls, if we do what we need to do the next 30 days and shave some seconds off our minutes, we should have a shot at contending for a state title.

Victoria Jackson

We have a team that can contend for a national title.

Wesley Schultz

I think the death knell for any musician is getting a job that you like and pays enough that you just stay there forever.

Chuck Palahniuk

Any real belief in death is just wishful thinking.

Yann Martel

You can't quantify human pain the way you can measure out sugar. Death comes one individual at a time.

Clark Gregg

The thing is, I love a great death scene - no good actor doesn't. Sorry, any actor, I should say.

Bruce Jackson

You've gotten words about those American and Iraqi deaths and mutilations, but precious few images.

Christina Baker Kline

For years I'd understood that publishing in paperback was the kiss of death.

Citium Zeno

No evil is honorable: but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil.

Ninon Lenclos

Love never dies of starvation, but often of indigestion

Nat King Cole

For years the Trio did nothing but play for musicians and other hip people. We practically starved to death.

Yoko Ono

Nothing is written in stone. So don't prepare yourself for a long and lucrative career. You might die tomorrow. Your gold holdings might become dust. Just make the music you want to make now and enjoy it.

Chuck Palahniuk

When working, my diet degrades to pizza three times a day, because I don't want to distract myself from anything.

Chelsea Clinton

We have to do whatever we can to ensure that no child dies of diarrhea.

Ben Harper

I grew up with a heavy diet of gospel, folk, and blues because those are kind of the cornerstones of traditional American music.

S. E. Hinton

'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback.

Beeban Kidron

We are increasingly offered a diet in which sensation, not story, is king.

Bonnie Tyler

I remember when the Atkins diet arrived; I lost 16 lb in the first month, but when I stopped, it all went back on again.

Chloe Grace Moretz

Well, I used to have a sister, but I never got to meet her because she died after two days, I think. So if I got a tattoo, it would probably have to be something to do with my sister. I actually want to get a tattoo when I'm older of something about her.

Cilla Black

If I can't eat the meal in a restaurant, and the waiter asks, 'Is everything all right, Madam?', I tell them that I'm on a diet.

Ellen Key

The serious questions that are talked out or strangled with red tape are more numerous than those that are killed by silence; the number of people whose ideas are knocked on the head in societies is greater in our day than that of the solitary fighters who go under.

Donald Trump

Years ago, I predicted that Iran would take over Iraq. Iran and Iraq used to fight back and forth.

Ken Anderson

We played 13 tonight and they all rose to the occasion. We kept working and fighting to make this happen. I'm proud of these girls.

Joe Biden

Fighting corruption is not just good governance. It's self-defense. It's patriotism.

Michael Vick

When I got hit, it was painful, but I got up and was able to walk, ... I was able to go back out there and fight it out like I always do.

Le Corbusier

You don't start a revolution by fighting the state but by presenting the solutions.

Johnny Gonzales

We did what we had to do to win. We are fighting for that third playoff spot and the kids worked hard for the victory.

Jim Brandt

We are not engrossed in total sunshine, but we're in good shape. We have a pretty good set of sunshine laws. The problem is fighting off exceptions. Every time the Legislature meets, there are exemptions considered. Accumulation of exemptions is our great potential problem.

Alan Cohen

You empower what you fight.You withdraw power from what you release.

Joseph Conrad

Words, as is well known, are great foes of reality

William Allingham

If any foes of mine are there, I pardon every one:I hope that man and womankind will do the same by me.

Joseph Conrad

You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends.

Yotam Ottolenghi

If I must choose between healthy and tasty, I go for the second: having only one life to waste, it might as well be a pleasurable one.

William Shatner

At 40, I went to bed for three days. I thought my life is over.

Will Chase

'Story of My Life' was essentially a two-man musical play. In hindsight, I don't know if there was room for a two-man musical on Broadway.

Wendi McLendon-Covey

Pulling away from your parents, that's the natural thing to do; that's how life progresses.

Henry David Thoreau

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.

Abraham Lincoln

I was born and have ever remained in the most humble walks of life.

Evel Knievel

There's just no stopping me. I went through life big-bang-banda-boom-bada-boom.

Evangeline Lilly

If you're going to tell stories about life, you have to include a woman in your story.

Emma Watson

I've never understood having crushes on people who you don't know in real life.

Christine Gregoire

I couldn't do that as attorney general. Why? Because they are my clients. You can't say they're not doing what they ought to be doing when you are the attorney general.

Evel Knievel

Women are the root of all evil. I ought to know. I'm Evel.

James F. Amos

You just look at the world, and you see things unraveling, and you say, 'I wonder what we ought to do?' Things are seldom crystal clear.

Val Guest

At those times I got into... I suppose you call it a rut. I used to do comedy, comedy, comedy and I suddenly thought I ought to break away from this somehow.

Walter Kirn

In a world that's smarter than it used to be and, in some ways, smarter than it ought to be, stupidity has a way of making us seem all the more human.

John Maynard

Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking.

Louis Stokes

Firstly, we have personnel records of persons we hired, persons we fired, reasons we fired them and so forth. These records have nothing to do with the assassination of the president and, therefore, ought to remain in the files.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If you treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

Edward Gramlich

If you want to keep politicians out of the Fed's business, which we do, then we ought to stay out of their business. That's one viewpoint.

Douglas Jerrold

Treason is like diamonds; there is nothing to be made by the small trader.

Mike Shula

We've got some work to do. I think we made a small step.

David Suzuki

Despite the international scientific community's consensus on climate change, a small number of critics continue to deny that climate change exists or that humans are causing it. Widely known as climate change "skeptics" or "deniers," these individuals are generally not climate scientists and do not debate the science with the climate scientists...

Cary Grant

It takes 500 small details to add up to one favorable impression.

Barry Diller

I've not conducted my life in the service of smallness.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Often small acts of service are all that is required to lift and bless another.

Diana Gabaldon

There was a feeling, not sudden, but complete, as though I had been given a small object to hold unseen in my hands. Precious as opal, smooth as jade, weighty as a river stone, more fragile than a bird's egg. Infinitely still, live as the root of Creation. Not a gift, but a trust. Fiercely to cherish, softly to guard. The words spoke themselves and disappeared into the groined shadows of the roof.

Anton Chekhov

There are no small number of people in this world who, solitary by nature, always try to go back into their shell like a hermit crab or a snail.

Dean Koontz

Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.