Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Henrik Clarke

Had Elijah Muhammad tried to introduce an orthodox form of Arab-oriented Islam, I doubt if he would have attracted 500 people, but he introduced a form of Islam that would communicate with the people he had to deal with. He was the king to those who had no king, and he was the messiah to those some people thought unworthy of a messiah.

Eddie Reese

When I came here, Texas had the greatest facility in the world at the time. What also attracted me to UT was the fact that I wouldn't lose as many good swimmers to the academically prestigious schools, because swimmers could also get a great education here.

Paul Jennings

Like any other sort of fringe activity, you find that people are attracted to it because there's something that it fulfills that their daily life doesn't.

Hermann Hesse

Love must not entreat, nor demand. Love must have the power to find its own way to certainty. Then it ceases merely to be attracted and begins to attract. Your love, Sinclair, is attracted by me. When it begins to attract me, I will come. I will not

Larry Charles

I grew up in Brooklyn, New York. I grew up in a very Jewish neighbourhood and thought the whole world was like that. My parents were secular, but I went to a very Orthodox Jewish school, and I really got into it. I found it all fascinating, and I was just kind of really attracted to the metaphysical questions.

Langhorne Slim

I guess I'm attracted to people who are singing about love or life, and they have a particular passion that I can connect with.

Joanna Lumley

I don't think men are that attracted by glamour. I think women are attracted by glamour. I think men are attracted by a sense of friendship.

Vin Diesel

There are a lot of films that explore sci-fi, ... What attracted me to the script is the fact that this film stands on its own. The characters and their relationships are interesting by themselves, without the creature element. In many ways it's a modern day 'Lord of the Flies.'

Victor Shum

There is certainly the possibility (of prices hitting USD70). The recent events have attracted speculators and oil has become a lot like an investment.

David Brooks

Emotion is the foundation of reason.

Baron Davis

I am the donation to the foundation.

Antony Garrett Lisi

I always found it satisfying that gravity was described by Einstein's geometric theory of general relativity.

Russ Pate

We always found the right person at the right time for the right job. Of course, you need volunteers, and we had so many who contributed.

Blaise Pascal

Happiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external things, but in God and in ourselves as united to him.

Johan Cruyff

My foundation now has some 120 football pitches laid out for children, a lot of them immigrants. We live in a multicultural society.

Robert Barnes

When I was a young man, I was overly sensitive to things, and I found it difficult to eat when I was nervous.

Jared Kennedy

We're glad we can get the news out that this is an option. We were just glad we found out about it.

Doug Tobin

We're glad he's found and he's reunited with his loved one.

Kevin Kwan

I grew up at a time in Singapore - the '70s and '80s - where it was still possible to go riding around the island barefoot. And I was one of these kids that was just climbing trees and running around the neighbourhood.

George Romero

When I grew up, there was no such thing as videotape, TV was B&W.

Tyra Banks

I grew up wearing a uniform to school, and now I have my stylist come to my apartment and create outfits for me to wear. Otherwise, I'd never get dressed.

Sherman Alexie

You'd never know it from reading the rest of the Native writers, but Indians actually grew up with American pop culture.

Italo Calvino

Of course, I'm of the generation that grew up with Hemingway and Faulkner as strong influences.

Mallory Ortberg

I grew up in a home where reading was a big deal.

Lex Luger

I grew up in Buffalo, New York, and was a big Bills fan.

Odette Annable

I used to try to pick locks because I grew up on my grandparents' farm and I started my own little spy club. I would go around the farm and try to break into the shed and try spying on my grandpa. It was ridiculous.

Elton John

I grew up at my grandmother's house and she had a beautiful garden. I used to hate mowing the lawn and weeding, which is what you do when you're a kid.

Lesley Ann Warren

I was terrified, terrified in 'Songwriter,' because there I was, New York Jewish girl, singing country-western onstage with Kris Kristofferson and Willie Nelson. I mean, forget it. I was so terrified.

Calvin Trillin

Following the Rumanian tradition, garlic is used in excess to keep the vampires away... Following the Jewish tradition, a dispenser of schmaltz (liquid chicken fat) is kept on the table to give the vampires heartburn if they get through the garlic defense.

Avigdor Lieberman

The vision I would like to see here is the entrenching of the Jewish and the Zionist state...I very much favour democracy, but when there is a contradiction between democratic and Jewish values, the Jewish and Zionist values are more important.

Hankus Netsky

People were sort of stopping having the traditional Jewish music in weddings and ceremonies. And I kind of liked that stuff.

Meir Kahane

Jews have been in Egypt since Biblical times, and Alexandria had once been, at least partially, a Jewish city.

Louis D. Brandeis

It is not wealth, it is not station, it is not social standing and ambition which can make us worthy of the Jewish name, of the Jewish heritage. To be worthy of them, we must live up to and with them. We must regard ourselves their custodians.

Anita Diament

I have a 10-year track record of writing for the Jewish community.

Saeb Erekat

The amendments mean pursuing Jewish settlements and not resuming the negotiations from the point where they left off.

Amy Heckerling

To tell you the truth, in the old Jewish shtetls, if your husband died, sometimes they'd have you marry the brother, and my grandparents were actually stepbrother and stepsister.

Blaise Pascal

Orthodoxy on one side of the Pyrenees may be heresy on the other.

Judy Gold

When you see another tall woman on the street, you nod, sort of like Orthodox Jews.

Dominique Moceanu

I was raised into the Romanian Orthodox culture by my parents, and most notably my mother, who is a profoundly religious and spiritual woman.

Abraham Kuyper

Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism.

Aldous Huxley

Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.

Bertrand Russell

Orthodoxy is the death of intelligence.

N. T. Wright

Within orthodoxy, there is always a danger of faith collapsing into fear.

Erma Bombeck

When you're an orthodox worrier, some days are worse than others.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.