Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yotam Ottolenghi

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

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.

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.

Chris Abani

There is no living African writer who has not had to, or will not have to, contend with Achebe's work. We are either resisting him - stylistically, politically, or culturally - or we are writing toward him.

Barack Obama

My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.

Wole Soyinka

Some African leaders actually dare to suggest that democracy is a concept alien to traditional African society. This is one of the most impudent political blasphemies I can think of.

Dan Aykroyd

There's that old theory that humankind and this planet were seen as the centre of the universe. That was thrown away - how could we be so presumptuous? Well, I subscribe to that.

Mikhail Sholokhov

One might say that the novel is the genre that most predisposes one to a profound insight into the tremendous life around us, instead of putting forward one's own tiny ego as the centre of the universe.

Scilla Elworthy

Your 'hara' is here, where your uterus is if you're a woman, where the tummy sticks out if you're a man, the centre of gravity of the human body. It is the synthesis of our intellect, body and spirit, and by developing our consciousness of it, we can become incredibly rooted.

Olivia Newton-John

It feels really good to give back. I'm opening the Olivia Newton-John Cancer Wellness Centre in Australia.

Rafael Benitez

We have three or four months to get through. In January we need to reinforce the squad. We were thinking about a right-winger and centre half, everyone knows that, but when people say we left it until the last minute, that's not true,

Harold Feinstein

Coney Island was the centre of the world for me. I loved the rides, the hot dogs - I've never gotten over it.

Patricia Sullivan

We had him here at the centre before, with other songwriters for A Country Evening ,

Mohsin Hamid

Love places someone else in the centre of your being and your own self is blurred.

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

Most cities have a centre surrounded by suburbs, but London has numerous centres: it's the model of a twenty-first century metropolis.

Virginia Postrel

The glamour of twentieth-century air travel helped to persuade once-fearful travelers to take to the skies and encouraged parochial Americans to go out and see the world.

Bonnie Tyler

My mother was the only one who encouraged and inspired me for singing. She was singing all the time in the house, playing records also.

Rachel Friedman

Where has the peace movement gone? Here it is. You see that people are standing up and they want to make their voices heard and get encouraged by us and join us.

Sharon Creech

I loved English, and I did very well in it. A lot of teachers encouraged me to write, and because of that, it later made me think it was possible to be a writer.

Bill Davis

Tom had encouraged me and been an inspiration to me.

Glenn Crooks

We are looking at this as a springboard into the Big East. I'm disappointed and obviously we're not happy with the outcome, but we're going to use this to get better, and I feel that we have. I am encouraged by our direction.

Kevin Hall

We're encouraged that they put forth a plan that recognizes the need for considerable new spending on transportation.

S. Hughes

We're encouraged that many of these patients with SARS are improving, ... In spite of that, we know that this is a very severe illness.

Dan Geiman

We're encouraged by the company's results, particularly after reporting somewhat disappointing November sales.

Beeban Kidron

On telly, there's been a move towards entertainment - with some very high-powered, fast-moving dramas. Then we have the Internet, where we get our information but it's all in bite-size pieces. I think the documentary, as a form, actually speaks to what's missing.

Ray Charles

To me, music is entertainment - what else can it be? In fact, it's the only language I know of that's universal.

Colleen Hoover

As far as what readers can expect with 'Maybe Someday,' I'm not the type of writer who writes to educate or inform my readers. I simply write to entertain them.

Jeff Clark

We played a match up zone. And we wanted to put a lot of pressure on the wings to make it tough to enter it.

Seinabo Sey

Some days, I think maybe we should try and be a little more conventional, but every time I try, I fail, so I'm learning to not even entertain that thought anymore.

Tyler Hilton

Most entertainment careers aren't going to end in fame.

Virat Kohli

I am very happy playing and showing off my talent on the cricket field and have no plans to enter Bollywood.

Tinashe

Fashion is an extension of expressing who you are. I love to entertain and put on a show. And that's definitely a part of that.

Ving Rhames

Entertainment is needed, and so I do think escapism is needed.

Susan Kalla

The PDA market is evolving into a phone market.

Neil Peart

I'm learning all the time. I'm evolving all the time as a human being. I'm getting better, I hope, in all of the important ways.

Nina Easton

If you like Obama, if you like a Washington that offers free stuff and taxing the rich, that's what you get. I don't see him evolving as a president.

Luke Zeller

These great players get me open, and being able to knock down those shots just felt good. I think we're all comfortable in our roles and what they are. The team's kind of evolving as we go.

Gary Knight

Software is an evolving product. It's not static.

Eric Nylund

I don't look at it as writing a book in a videogame universe. I look at it as writing for 'Halo', which for me, transcends being just a great video game. It's evolving into a whole new mythology.

John Engler

I think this will be an evolving thing. We expect them to review this by fall, by October.

John Engler

I think this will be an evolving thing,

Matt King

We'll keep evolving and go as far as we can go.

Alexa Von Tobel

I think of all my time as existing in 15-minute blocks. Most people think in terms of 30-minute chunks, but I've found that when I free up more time, I waste it.

Katie Hafner

Sometimes an ethnographic inquiry will lead to new ways to use an existing technology or will generate new technologies.

Jonathan Marshall

The only alternative is that 100 percent of this gets paid by the existing tax base.

Jim Butler

Virtually every new development and even existing project owners are looking at a residential component.

Richard Boucher

We're not going to provide any quid pro quos for North Korea to live up to its existing obligations.

David Bondy

We found perhaps many of our existing policyholders would shift their work focus away from what they had been doing to trades and operations that were more in demand.

Ted Baker

The implementation of the two-referee system to support the New Standard of Enforcement of the existing Playing Rules has resulted in an increase to the number of officials required on our Officiating Team

Shane Kim

A lot of license-holders have existing partnerships. We're not necessarily the number one partner because we're generally focused on the single platform.

Stephen Chick

We've seen some existing home sales figures starting to look weak or negative. That's usually followed by a slowdown in sales at Home Depot or Lowe's after a six- to nine-month lag.

Trip Adler

We see ourselves as the world's digital library. That can be a lot more than books. We do want to expand to other types of content: sheet music, magazines, user-generated content.

Bradley Chicho

Plunderous is the palate I gift to you, openly I hug the universe of our friendship expanding its outer limit.

Vijay Kumar

We need to expand the use of surveillance.

David Sandman

We need to expand the home and community-based service spectrum.

Warren Christopher

You know, it's been President Clinton's dream that we'll have finally a fully integrated Europe; and the steps that NATO will take to expand to the East, that's a commitment.

Stan Pohmer

To be complete, to be a destination for food rather than just a place to pick up a few staples, Target really has to expand its grocery.

James Blankenship

We had to start expanding our offense. We had been too simple for too long, and we had to open ourselves up. We felt like this was a very important game for us.

Scotty George

We're really testing the patience of investors who have lost substantial sums of money. We're also testing technical levels, with stocks expanding or retracting as we get near key lows.

Seline Skoug

We're really hoping that in the next year or so, we can expand even more.

Nancy Pelosi

I always saw politics as an expansion of my role as a mom.

Iris Chang

When you take something extremely broad, then it is not a work of expansion or work of compression. It's hard because you have to decide what to throw out.

Richard Davis

We're long on talent and short on experience, as many expansion teams are. We're gonna play hard and these guys play to my style because they're tough. They're gonna hit you in the mouth.

Ludwig von Mises

Credit expansion can bring about a temporary boom. But such a fictitious prosperity must end in a general depression of trade, a slump.

Scott Aker

We've been focusing on expansion in recent years.

Mark Whitney

With the expansion and growth of our vital programs and services, we felt our web site needs to do more to market and promote these initiatives in the communities we serve.

Sherry Cooper

Worry not, the longest expansion in American history still has legs.

Megyn Kelly

You defended your Medicaid expansion by invoking God.

Gary Murphy

These funds will help with the expansion of our facilities so that we can better serve the rice growers in the area.

Chris Squire

I wouldn't object to working with any former member of Yes, really.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

The unformed is not worse than the over-formed. The former is nothing; the latter is mere appearance. Real form presupposes real life.

Rollie Massimino

We have a lot of friends. It's been a great run. . . . I've got about 15 or 16 of my former players tonight.

Remi Oyo

The prerogative of the return of former President Taylor remains that of the Liberian people and government.

Robert Taggart

Mr. Rizzo contended that he had given some $61,000 worth of jewelry and other gifts to his former girlfriend and that he wanted to compensated.

Kerry Healey

I don't think it's really good once you've lost an election to sit around, watch your former opponent, and swipe at them.

Alfred Adler

Let yourself be guided in your pedagogic interventions especially by the observations you have made on the results of your former interventions.

Laith Kubba

We have a policy to go after Iraqi funds whether they were abused by members of the former government or spent by international bodies.

Ivan Golde

There is a potential suspect, but it's not a former client.

Eve Ensler

I'm a feminist; I grew up with feminism, but I also think there's a way in which we need to shake things up so that we can push it further and in other directions.

Charles Sturt

I had no inducement to proceed further into the interior. I had been sufficiently disappointed in the termination of this excursion, and the track before me was still less inviting.

Esai Morales

I see myself being a father, hopefully a husband, but I'm very gun-shy. The older I get, the further the goalpost.

Gary Pruitt

We plan to maintain, sustain and further the journalism at these newspapers.

Tracy Morgan

The further you go, what, I'm gonna wait til I'm 80? Naw, I'm tellin' my story now. I was just moved. I was moved to tell my story. You know? People write books all the time.

Tamsin Greig

I try not to look any further ahead than the next cup of tea. You never know if that cuppa will come or not, do you?

Lao Tzu

Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows.

Abraham Lincoln

I think that slavery is wrong, morally, socially and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States, and I should not object if it should gradually terminate in the whole Union.

Nassau William Senior

That the powers of labour, and of the other instruments which produce wealth, may be indefinitely increased by using their products as the means of further production.

Sharon Doering

The patents that are expiring make up a significant portion of their results. They're not going to be one of the top growth stories -- probably only single-digit (percentage-wise) in 2000 and 2001.

Tiffany Shlain

The past year has been one of outrageous growth for the Internet, and it's not only become bigger, but better... more substantial and more mature.

Vint Cerf

It's the Industrial Revolution and the growth of urban concentrations that led to a sense of anonymity.

Jerry Howard

We are not just talking about slowing the growth of house prices. We are taking about house prices diminishing.

Alan Cohen

Personal growth is not a matter of learning new information but of unlearning old limits.

Stephen Dean

When we rank the stocks, we find more value stocks at the top of the list and more growth names at the bottom.

Stephen Mergler

When growth stocks start paying a dividend it is an indication that there are not a lot of opportunities remaining out there.

Anthony Chan

We're not going to get the 1.5 percent productivity growth necessary to produce all those jobs. Such a fall-off would be out of line with what normally happens.

Doug Hall

We are looking at a lot of growth and a lot of changes.

Siti Supari

The polio virus that hit Indonesia has been proven to have a high rate of attack,

David Kennedy

The overall picture is of an operator aggressively maintaining its market position in a highly competitive market, and sacrificing margin to do it.

Mike Vrabel

The Patriots have sort of become the measuring stick in the NFL, but that stick isn't very high right now.

David H. Murdock

Obesity is racing through America, everywhere. It's high time someone spent some money to do something about it.

Neil Peart

You have to know when you're at the top of your particular mountain, I guess. Maybe not the summit, but as high as you can go.

Rand Paul

The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Many of those people deserve to be in prison; however, some of them do not.

Gordon B. Hinckley

A nation will rise no higher than the strength of its homes.

Frank Quattrone

When we took Netscape public, if people wanted to invest in the web, that was the only stock that they could do it by investing in. So Netscape's market value was higher than it probably otherwise would have been if there were lots of other ways to play that theme.

Clea Duvall

I was a loner in high school. I keep to myself, but I love life.

Matt Taibbi

There is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy is power.

Paul Thomson

We are trying to teach literature and literacy in a society which doesn't value it any more.

Marshall McLuhan

Only a fraction of the history of literacy has been typographic.

David Petersen

There is no such thing as a leap into literacy.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Literacy is so you can read the operating instructions.

African Proverbs

The pillar of the world is hope. - Kanuri proverb, Nigeria

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

You know, I don't think of myself as anything like a 'global citizen' or anything of the sort. I am just a Nigerian who's comfortable in other places.

Haz Iwendi

He is on the way to Liberia. He was sent by a Nigerian presidential jet.

Kevin Norrish

The Nigerian situation has the potential to get a lot worse. It's going to run and run.

Rick Mueller

The Nigerian rebels have shown they are able to interdict shipments. It won't be surprising if there are more disruptions.

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

My parents lost everything, all their savings, because we had to run from the Nigerian side to the Biafran side. We were Igbos.

Mark Waggoner

Traders are worried that if this situation deteriorates, supply from Nigeria would be at risk.

Ben Okri

You cannot come to a Nigerian restaurant without having pepper soup.

Peter Eigen

If Nigeria does not succeed, who else can succeed?

John Byrne

Ultimately it's going to be better for the patient. It's going to transform otherwise high-risk operations into lower-risk operations.

Henry Ford

Our policy is to reduce the price, extend the operations, and improve the article.

Mahatma Gandhi

At times, non-co-operation becomes as much a duty as co-operation.

Paul Costa

There is a possibility that we will have to stop operations by the end of the year.

Kofi Annan

when it comes to operations on that continent, we tend to do it on the cheap.

Ajay Singh

But since they have been a part of similar operations previously we are not ruling out the possibility.

Mark Cooper

Basically, you've got one and two in programming and one and two in system operations now all interconnected in a little knot.

David Moffett

I feel that the operations could and should have been performed a lot sooner,

Dale Timmermann

It makes our operations show that there's a big surplus when you don't have a big surplus.

Jeff Colton

It doesn't look promising for a wet spring at this point.

Danny Hale

He was our punter. And had a real promising future.

Richard Aboulafia

You're tapping in to the most promising revenue stream in the world.

Chris Williamson

This is quite unusual and it's a very promising result.

Tom Joyner

It's just unbelievable that a talent so young and so promising is gone,

James Mason

I'm not promising a state championship, but we should go far.

Syvelle Newton

They were promising me that I could play anything I want to, just like I'm doing now,

Anna Akana

One thing that I really like to do is, I'll look in the mirror, and I'll imagine that I'm rapidly aging, until I'm just a skull.

Cecilia Zalkind

We have some strong reservations about doing it as rapidly as it's being proposed.

Joel Fuhrman

When you eat healthfully, your body gravitates relatively rapidly toward a better weight.

Lisa Ellis

Simple sugars are absorbed into the bloodstream rapidly and used up quickly.

Jack Kilby

It was really a very small company when I started and it changed very rapidly during those first periods.

Lynn Coady

The thing about relationships is, the stronger they get, the more rapidly the realm of romance starts to overlap with the domestic.

Kenny Harris

The site is rapidly taking shape. We're very excited.

Scott McClellan

The United States is responding rapidly and robustly." ()

Jack Cheevers

We are working rapidly ... to remedy the situation.

Ferran Adria

There are many cultural prejudices. For instance, even though fresh fish is a regional staple, Catalans don't like sashimi.

Daniel Andrews

We know that we can steer it sufficiently to sample another region of the crater.

Antonio Guterres

We are really very concerned. The whole region is very unstable.

B. F. Skinner

We have a lot of regional qualifiers. We've been there before but now we want to get them to state.

Jared Ingersol

With this region being as strong as it is, it was important for us to get off on the right foot.

Wang Guangya

The region is already complicated, we don't want to make it more complicated. We are not so enthusiastic about more resolutions.

Frank McDonald

We're getting into a new region of space never seen before.

Tony Prentice

In my opinion, this was the toughest region in the state.

Ian Mckellen

When I left Cambridge, I applied to regional repertory theaters in the U.K. and got accepted by one of them... And here I am, still at it.

Ferran Adria

There are many cultural prejudices. For instance, even though fresh fish is a regional staple, Catalans don't like sashimi.

B. F. Skinner

We have a lot of regional qualifiers. We've been there before but now we want to get them to state.

Ian Mckellen

When I left Cambridge, I applied to regional repertory theaters in the U.K. and got accepted by one of them... And here I am, still at it.

Kathy Raymond

We've transformed what was a very regional type of tournament into a world event.

Richard Aboulafia

It has a big feel in a regional jet.

Duane Gubler

Singapore probably underscores the need for regional controls.

Grant McCasland

Once you win that, you concentrate on winning the regional championship.

Tim Sampson

This development is part of a regional transportation solution.

Bobbi Dunn

You're going to have to win at your own course, or you're not going to make it (into the regional tournament). Then you look at our region, and it's going to be a shootout, too.

Scott Benedict

That's what he does. He's been steady all year.

Wayne Primeau

He was just a steady guy. Never flashy, but he was a big part of their championship teams.

Randy Thompson

Oh, my gosh, it's been pretty steady all year.

Harriet Tubman

I said to de Lord, 'I'm goin' to hold steady on to you, an' I know you'll see me through.'

Scott Cross

He's just been really steady for us inside.

Peg Stipetich

Our slowest time through the day was from 2-4 p.m., but we were still busy. It really was steady throughout the day.

Elaine Jennings

There has been a steady stream all day.

Lauren Cercone

We're going to set our strategy and do what we think it takes to win. It won't be cheap.

Bill Gates

Every new change forces all the companies in an industry to adapt their strategies to that change.

Jack Welch

When it comes to strategy, ponder less and do more.

Jack Welch

Shareholder value is a result, not a strategy . . . Your main constituencies are your employees, your customers and your products.

Peter Drucker

Mission defines strategy, and strategy defines structure.

Jamie Shea

Part of our strategy is to be able to effectively encircle Yugoslavia for 360 degrees.

Patricia Grogan

We need to put a clear, structured suicide preventions strategy in place,

Henry Mintzberg

Most of the time, strategies should not be formulating strategy at all; they should be getting on with implementing strategies they already have.

Henry Mintzberg

Strategy-making is an immensely complex process involving the most sophisticated, subtle, and at times subconscious of human cognitive and social processes.

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.

Drew Carey

When the show's in production, we work for three weeks at a time and then take a week off.

Tom McLean

We're averaging about three a day right now in Citrus County.

Van Cleve

We had only three weeks to make a totally life-changing decision,

Mark Erickson

We were still with them through three (quarters), though.

Joey Porter

Three on the road? Nothing we've never done before.

Virginia Kennedy

Trophies can take over your life. So I keep them in three areas.

Brian Kerr

We got the three points. That's all you can say. ... We have to do much better on Wednesday.

Rowan Alexander

Whether it is 1-0 or 6-0, it is three points.

William Shakespeare

Shall I never see a bachelor of three score again?

Vivienne Westwood

I am in my own head most of the time.

Zubin Mehta

New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.

Zubin Mehta

I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras.

Yakov Smirnoff

When you like something, you find time to do it.

Evangeline Lilly

I'm a bit delusional, but every time I do a job, I think I'm retired.

Donatella Versace

At that time of the supermodels, celebrities didn't want to be in fashion; they thought they were more intellectual and interesting than anyone in fashion.

David Bailey

I could develop a picture by the time I was 12.

David Byrne

I've got nothing to say most of the time.

Brittany Howard

The first time I learned how to play, my guitar was out of tune. I didn't know it; I just started writing songs.