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.

Wesley Clark

I worked for the troops my entire time in the United States Armed Forces because we know in the United States Armed Forces that it's not the generals and the colonels that win battles, it's the soldiers: it's the people at the front, the mechanics with their wrenches, the drivers moving the logistics back in the rear.

Wole Soyinka

I don't know any other way to live but to wake up every day armed with my convictions, not yielding them to the threat of danger and to the power and force of people who might despise me.

Scott Nearing

War is an attempt of one group to impose its will upon another group by armed violence.

Alan Alda

I come armed with a really good ignorance. I don't strive toward ignorance. I come by it naturally.

Vitruvius

The thickness of the walls should be sufficient for two armed men to pass each other with ease.

Meles Zenawi

It is illegal to be a member of an organization that is challenging the constitution by armed force.

Nancy Gibbs

Adolescence, that swampy zone between safety and power, is best patrolled by adults armed with sense and mercy, not guns and a badge.

William Lyon Mackenzie King

If I am outspoken of the dangers of intemperance to members of our armed forces, it is because we are all especially concerned for the welfare of those who are risking their lives in the cause of freedom.

Bill Frist

The valor and courage of our young women and men in the armed services are a shining example to all of the world, and we owe them and their families our deepest respect.

Tom Rooney

Too many families and homes remain unnecessarily vulnerable to natural disasters like hurricanes. While mitigation will never eliminate the risk to homeowners, it could reduce loss and, in many cases, save a family's home. For every $1 spent on mitigation, $4 in post-storm cleanup and rebuilding is saved.

Henry IV

It is in the midst of disasters that bold men grow bolder.

Gordon McBean

We have an opportunity right now right after disasters while governments are more receptive to influence policy from the start.

Rohan Gunaratna

We haven't even started to think about this issue. But natural disasters shape leaders.

Niki de St. Phalle

The world has been experiencing a whole pattern of auto-destruction, whether in environmental disasters like Chernobyl or health disasters like AIDS.

Jane Porter

This has hit the school really hard. We have three Katrina disasters here in our school.

Brad Sherman

People who lived through the Northridge earthquake have a special sympathy for victims of another one of the worst natural disasters in our nation's history,

Kofi Annan

The American people who have always been the most generous in responding to disasters in other parts of the world, have now themselves suffered a grievous blow,

Larry Martin

Pastors and spouses and staff members were so involved in ministry to people after disasters that nobody was ministering to them. They were exhausted.

Evel Knievel

I have my tombstone already. A tombstone company in the East gave it to me when I jumped Snake Canyon. My plot is in Montana.

David Bailey

I'm not a philosopher, I'm just a simple boy from East Ham.

Brandon Jennings

I've never really been told my game reflects like I'm from Los Angeles. I'm always told that I have more of an East Coast type game.

Dennis Ross

I am the Counselor at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.

Desiree Rogers

I think the Social Office is really the office where East meets West. For those that don't know, the East side is typically the First Lady's side of the house. The West side is typically the President's side of the house.

Barack Obama

The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.

Alice Walker

I don't feel I've had a decent critic ever on the East coast.

Goldie Hawn

I've been practicing modalities of Eastern philosophy since about 1972. What I've learned through my meditation is a sense of equanimity, a sense of all things being equal.

F. Sionil Jose

Literature - Eastern and Western - abounds with stories, myths, legends about the search for youth, for eternal life.

Pamela Adlon

You can't regulate what these kids are being exposed to on the Internet. It's so way out of control. All you can do is just try to talk to your own kids.

Susie Gex

We've had kids whose parents want them to be exposed to Spanish. This is a good way to do this.

Leslie Cockburn

Journalism, for me, has always been a calling. There are things that must be exposed to the light, truths that must be uncovered, stories worth risking your life for.

Kirk Johnson

You've got 500 million years of history exposed here at Pulpit Rock, Garden of the Gods and in Manitou Springs,

Eric Olson

My fear is that the people who suffered the most when Hurricane Katrina struck will be the people who become most exposed to toxins.

Eduardo Sanchez

Many of these kids were not exposed to floodwater,

Jan Bowman

Many of our youngsters will never know this musical heritage unless they're exposed to it here.

Shigeru Omi

many people have been exposed or potentially exposed.

Harry Connick, Jr.

There are more than 300,000 families in the Gulf region that lost their homes and are waiting for peace of mind. The hurricane exposed the sad reality of poverty in America. We saw, in all its horrific detail, the vulnerabilities of living in inadequate housing and the heartbreak of losing one's home.

Danielle Brown

We've had floods before, ... but nothing like this where houses sat in water for two, three weeks.

Rick Barry

We know what it's like to go through something like this, with the Hurricane Ivan floods last year,

Mike Easley

These floods are going to be worse than anticipated yesterday.

Gordon Sinclair

As long as sixty years ago, when I first started to read newspapers, I read of floods on the Yellow River and the Yangtze. Who rushed in with men and money to help? The Americans did.

Ed Silliere

Some of those refineries in Texas, they're at sea level. It's a table top, it floods every easily.

Inez Fung

It's one thing to say when it's going to rain, but how do we know when there's going to be a flood? We're still not good at predicting floods or droughts, but we hope that's just one out of many things our model can help us predict.

Susan Wilson

During the floods of '93 and '95, there were opportunities that surfaced where we could improve the integrity of the levee.

Pat Buchanan

The Mississippi River is like immigration--it's enormously nourishing . . . but if it floods its banks, it can become a problem. And that is what's happened here.

Rowan Atkinson

We are in the stickiest situation since sticky the stick insect got stuck on a sticky bun.

Jeff McNeely

Some people who study insects think there may be as many as 100 million species out there.

Robert A. Heinlein

Specialization is for insects.

Edmund Burke

The little, meagre, shrivelled, hopping, though loud and troublesome insects of the hour.

Andrea Arnold

I love insects. They are amazing.

Cornelia Funke

The spoken word is nothing. It hardly lives longer than an insect! Only the written word is eternal. - Balbulus

M. Wolfe

If the lilacs bloomed earlier, it could mean we had a milder winter, so look out for potential insect outbreaks.

Simon Cowell

I'm not sure who has the right to say that you have better taste than somebody else, because essentially what you're doing is calling millions of people morons.

Ban Ki-moon

The United Nations has a proud record of helping millions of people in mine-affected countries.

Nandan Nilekani

I'm in politics to make the lives of millions of Indians better.

Malala Yousafzai

I have learned so much from Nelson Mandela, and he has been my leader. He is a perpetual inspiration for me and millions of others around the world.

J. A. Konrath

We all need to focus on our writing. Because the millions of readers out there don't care about your blog.

Katy Perry

I want to sell out arenas and sell millions of records.

Susan Ertz

Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

F. Stone

Let's just say it would be in the millions of dollars,

Mike Burkett

So many millions of people don't feel like their vote has any meaning. There is no reason why younger people can't be a unified force.

Henry David Thoreau

How sweet is the perception of a new natural fact!

Amy Adams

My natural response to a stressful situation is to shut down. I do weird things, like, I don't cry, I get really cold.

Lasse Hallstrom

It's just, for me, the natural standard: a woman should be able to decide over her own body.

Naomi Campbell

What I like about gyrotonics is you feel like you really elongated yourself for the day... As we all get older, everything changes and moves, and there's natural ways to exercise. I think it's important, and I think it's something that can help keep things in place.

Starsmith

When I've worked with established artists, I've naturally been more restricted, but you still have to take risks and push yourself to do something different.

Neil Cross

I don't get on with novelists, don't enjoy their company. Once you've worked for a publisher, you understand the species, see them in their natural habitat, and it's not always pretty.

Dusty Baker

We are going to try to take him at a natural progression to have him ready when the season starts. We are going to watch him closely.

Chester Brown

It's not so much that I got that idea at some point, it came up naturally because of the improvisational nature of the story I was telling.

Mitchell Baker

People are more naturally protective of what they create than of what they consume.

Yuvraj Singh

People who don't know me, how will they know what I am really like? They will only see me on the field, only see me in an advertisement. People who know what kind of a guy I am will tell you I'm a very open person.

Yoko Ono

Most people like to hear sounds they are used to.

Yoko Ono

Many people do remember their births, but they deny it.

Willie Aames

I think there are people that have very addictive personalities.

William Shatner

I like making people laugh. It comes off and shines in everything I do.

Wentworth Miller

They told me at the end of that test that they wanted me to be a part of this project. I walked out and had a moment of clarity where I thought, not many people will ever have this moment.

William Clay Ford, Sr.

I think sports are a wonderful diversion. People can relate to sports very easily. It's a quick study.

William Sleator

Stories develop from things I read and also from my own experiences and experiences of people I know.

Will Poulter

I need to try and get away from that brat role, or people are going to think I'm a natural brat.

Wislawa Szymborska

You have to remember all the time that there is a comical side to everything.

Idries Shah

You have not forgotten to remember; You have remembered to forget. But people can forget to forget. That is just as important as remembering to remember - and generally more practical.

Tilda Swinton

till I was about 17. I can't remember why I stopped. I've tried (to suck my thumb) since, but it doesn't work anymore.

Mignon Waterman

You know, I don't remember when I didn't cook.

Ryan Madson

You know, I really don't remember what he said.

M. Wolfe

Those who do remember it (the past) will find new ways to screw up

Charlie Chaplin

Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.

Charles Spurgeon

How gentle and tender ought we to be with others who are foolish when we remember how foolish we are ourselves

Charles Spurgeon

Unerring wisdom ordained your lot, and selected for you the safest and best condition. Remember this, had any other condition been better for you than the one in which you are, divine love would have put you there. You are placed by God in the most suitable circumstances. Be content with such things as you have, since the Lord has ordered all things for your good.

Chita Rivera

Southern California, they have been amazing. They're totally with us.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

One identity is as a television writer, which is very classically Southern California, but another of my personae is as a New Yorker cartoonist.

Patrice Motsepe

South Africans are caring, compassionate and loving people.

Yahya Jammeh

Apartheid was in South Africa; now it has been transferred to Palestine.

Charles Dickens

The Northern onslaught upon slavery was no more than a piece of specious humbug designed to conceal its desire for economic control of the Southern states.

Belle Boyd

The secession of the Southern States, individually or in the aggregate, was the certain consequence of Mr. Lincoln's election.

Charles Kuralt

A true Southerner will never say in 2-3 words what can better be said in 10-12.

Fred Coan

We've got kids, I'm sure, who have never been out of South Carolina.

John Shelton Reed

The nature of the South is changing faster than the stereotypes are. Much of the South now looks like San Jose. Is it still southern?

Alan Cohen

No matter what has happened, let today be new.

J. Stoltzfus

Today was a make-nice day, and I think it went well.

Ted Jr.

Today was a big, big win for us.

Paul Roos

Today that didn't happen, we've got to work out why?

Ludwig von Mises

What mankind needs today is liberation from the rule of nonsensical slogans and a return to sound reasoning.

Peter Diamandis

Today we have made history. Today we go to the stars.

Giselle Davies

Today we have a totally different and accountable system.

Thomas Froehlich

We've made an announcement today and there is no other decision.

Alan Perlis

We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat's next-to-last theorem.

Kapil Sibal

If the tsunami was coming, it would have come by now,

Bob Scott

It was like a tsunami for which you had warning.

Eugene Tempel

The tsunami was on a completely different scale,

Laura Gunn

We know there are more victims out there.

Jennifer Garraway

We have to do something for the victims and that's why we do this program.

Rep. Schultheis

You don't want to make two victims from the same crime.

Phoebe Snow

It's no sin to admit that you feel vulnerable and lost.

Alan Pardew

You feel vulnerable when you hear things that are not being said

William Morris

We are potentially vulnerable in just about anything we do anywhere.

Lana Parrilla

To be vulnerable, to be raw, to virtually expose your guts, I like doing that.

Dan Glickman

Agriculture is particularly vulnerable to the whims of nature,

Matisyahu

When you meet somebody who is vulnerable, there is an attraction. There is something to that. There is beauty there.

Patricia Cornwell

I won't put myself in a position where I'm vulnerable.

Mahatma Gandhi

The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members

Jean Houston

Vulnerable is a catch-all word like "love" and "schizophrenia."