Famous Quotes & Sayings

Amy Grant

Faith is salted and peppered through everything at Christmas. And I love at least one night by the Christmas tree to sing and feel the quiet holiness of that time that's set apart to celebrate love, friendship, and God's gift of the Christ child.

Gabriel Byrne

Generally speaking, I don't think people know a great deal about the Viking culture, apart from the label that is usually attached to them, either pillagers or deviants who came and brought back loot to Norway. It was an incredibly sophisticated, complex and layered culture. They had their own laws, many of which protected women.

David Suzuki

People don't even understand that every bit of our food was once alive. We take another creature, plant, animal, microorganism, tear it apart in our mouths. And incorporate those molecules into our own bodies. We are the Earth in the most profound way.

Norman Finkelstein

My original interest in the Nazi holocaust was personal. Both my father and mother were survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto and the Nazi concentration camps. Apart from my parents, every family member on both sides was exterminated by the Nazis.

Norman Finkelstein

Both my father and mother were survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto and the Nazi concentration camps. Apart from my parents, every family member on both sides was exterminated by the Nazis.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Introspection, or 'sitting in the silence,' is an unscientific way of trying to force apart the mind and senses, tied together by the life force. The contemplative mind, attempting its return to divinity, is constantly dragged back toward the senses by the life currents.

Paul Weller

The Jam went through a phase of wearing satin jackets. But that was pre-getting signed and making it, when we were still playing the pubs and clubs - around '75. Shocking, really - what would you call them apart from 'horrible?' We'd wear these white zip-up bomber jackets with black kind of loon pants and black and white shoes.

Amy Manco

We played well in the first half, but we shot ourselves a lot in the second half and it snowballed from there. We were falling apart and some things didn't go our way. We will learn from this and get better for the next game.

Hilleary Bogley

We probably searched about 100 apartments and houses.

Drummond Money-Coutts

I think that magic, at its root, is a very abstract notion. There's no real, approved definition. And, in that sense, it's like love; you can only see magic by the effect it has on people.

Alexa Von Tobel

There is no denying that auto-bill pay is easier and more convenient than keeping track of and remembering to pay all of your bills each month, so it makes sense to use it for fixed expenses that you have approved and that you're 100% comfortable with.

Anthony Bourdain

I'm married to an Italian woman, and I used to love cooking Italian at home, because it's one-pot cooking. But my wife does not approve of my Italian cooking.

Jade Jagger

We have lots of fruit trees and vegetables - we live endlessly on courgettes. I certainly wouldn't approve of a diet of McDonald's for my children.

Lawrence M. Krauss

One might rationally argue that individual human beings should be free choose what moral behavior they approve of, and which they don't, subject to the constraints of the law.

Iris Apfel

I don't happen to approve of plastic surgery. I think God put plastic surgeons on this earth for good reasons - people get burned or people might have a nose like Pinocchio and that has to be fixed. But to just chop yourself up to look a few years younger? You could come out looking like a Picasso picture.

Debbie Tower

We did take a close, careful look at the data. A signal cannot be approved at this time. Side street volume isn't just there yet.

Lindsay Pulsipher

In real life, my parents pretty much approved of all my boyfriends. I guess I was doing something wrong. I should have been more rebellious.

Gregg Kilday

The readers of these books spent a lot of time with books, they know them inside and out, ... They have very strong opinions how they should look on the screen. If you don't execute a movie they approve of, they can turn on you very quickly.

Leila Aboulela

Sudan is not Arab enough for Arabs and not African enough for Africans.

Menachem Begin

The Palestinian Arabs will have their autonomy, we will have our security. We shall live together.

Humam Hammoudi

Those who are representing the brother Sunni Arabs are not elected,

Lauro Baja

The Quartet - the United Nations, the European Union, Russia and the United States - must move past their formal meetings. The Security Council must go beyond presidential and press statements after its monthly meetings on the Middle East and the Arabs must do more that what they are doing now,

Henry Garza

We stood out. Me and my brother JoJo were the only two Mexicans in our whole school, and so was my little brother, in elementary school. We would have people come up to us and say, 'What are you?' and we would say, 'Well, what are you? We're just human like you!' They would just freak out. They thought we were Indians or Arabs or Iranians or something.

Paul Wolfowitz

The Iraqi people are going to have a chance to show the whole world what Arabs are capable of.

Rebecca Zeffert

These are places where Arabs and Jews would not normally travel and people they would not normally meet. The journalists write about what they find, how they feel and what they experience on these visits. Often their reactions are not necessarily what you would expect. It opens the door to a new type of dialogue between very different sectors of Israeli society.

Jalal Talabani

All Iraqis from Shiites, Sunnis, Arabs and Kurds are here,

Winston Churchill

The Arabs are a backwards people who eat nothing but Camel dung

William Clay Ford, Sr.

Leaving the board will relieve me of formal duties and give me more flexibility, but I still expect to spend as much time as possible with the extended family of Ford people and will gladly help the company and the board in any way I can.

Harold Levy

The policy of the Boy Scouts of American with respect to homosexuals is contrary to the policy of the Board of Education,

Paul Wolfowitz

The path to complete debt relief has now been cleared. We will move swiftly to give the bank's board of directors a paper outlining a compensation schedule and a monitoring system -- a process that can be completed within weeks.

Clyde Tombaugh

What you do is, you have your drawing board and a pencil in hand at the telescope. You look in and you make some markings on the paper and you look in again.

Ben Elliot

My obsession with eating out partly comes from having spent 10 long years at English boarding schools in the 1980s, where food was pretty low on the list.

Rebel Wilson

I was planning to go into law or politics. I was well known for my public speaking. I went to an all-girl boarding school with uniforms. It was very posh for someone like me who came from a world where my parents showed beagles and sold dog products out of a yellow caravan.

Frank Quattrone

We have a network of contacts, where there are very few boards where we can't reach out to the CEO or key board members.

Casey James

I love to play games. Anything that is competitive. I love to play darts, shoot pool, any video game or board game, anything like that I am all about. For me is more about spending time with somebody, hanging out and enjoying yourself.

David Rockefeller

Harvard has played an important role in my life. I was a student, Class of 1936, and I've been on the board of overseers. My experiences there shaped who I am.

Brad Goreski

I love my dad. There is no doubt about that. He is a wonderful man and a good person. Like many father/son relationships, we have our struggles, our misunderstandings, and our miscommunications. We are very different people, but also very similar at the same time.

Esai Morales

All I would say to people who doubt 'Caprica' is: Everything good starts slow.

Kenneth Darby

We know we can (do something special). There's no doubt in my mind, ... We know we could have done it last year, but that was last year and we're not really going to recollect on that. We're ready to show them what we can do this year and not really think about last year. Just perform.

David Hartquist

We have low expectations for the trip and doubt anything will result.

Juror No

We had no doubt that they were guilty.

Tony Mosa

We had no doubts that we made the right decision. They violated one of the standard rules that we have. Every team knows that you can't do that.

Theodore C. Sorensen

I think he's informing himself, reaching out and getting ideas and information and advice. I haven't the slightest doubt that internally taking shape in that marvelous brain of his is a philosophy of foreign affairs. But it would be premature to say that one is fully formed.

Dusty Dvoracek

When you watch the tape, you'll see we got after them. There wasn't any doubt to it at all. It was the key to the game.

Dear Abbey

The lack of faith is not doubt. It is certainty.

Adam Rapp

I'm pretty obsessive-compulsive, and I'm very fast. I tend to not write for a long period of time until I can't not write, and then I write first drafts in gallops. I won't eat right. I forget to do my laundry.

Brett Hull

I've said for years I could never figure out why Calgary ever drafted me. When I got there, I think they had eight or nine right wingers already. These guys were premiere players. It's not like they were extremely late in their careers, either.

Kurt Busch

Yeah, a little slicker. I've got it working in the draft now.

Doug Berry

We're elated to get him with a sixth-round draft pick.

Michael Posner

We're drafting rules of the road in the new global economy. We've made progress, but there's still a long way to go.

David Macinnis Gill

A novel is a big thing. It's difficult to hold the whole story in your mind, especially when you've finished a first draft and are still giddy from the flow of creative juices.

Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore

In a democratic set-up, people who are being governed should also be a part of the governing system. They should be drafted into the governance.

Billy Donovan

We could have had potentially seven or eight first-round draft picks in our league right now.

Roger Goodell

The draft is one of my favorite events because it is about football. People are focused on how their teams improve. It's a celebration of football. And most importantly, it represents a very important time in the lives of these men who are entering the NFL, and their families.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

Actually, I think that 'Seinfeld' tackles the same kinds of issues as 'Six Feet Under,' just in a different way.

Barack Obama

Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.

Dominic Cooper

Any son of a dictator, I'm sure, has major issues with their relationship with their father.

Lucy Walker

There are still people who have an issue working with a woman director. Women can be viewed as 'difficult' even though they work in the same way as men.

Nan Hayworth

Jay Townsend has offered, and I have accepted, his resignation from his position with my campaign. Now let's return to talking about issues that really matter to families: job creation, spending restraint and economic development.

Candice Patton

We would be silly to say that race issues don't exist in 2014.

Dick Cheney

The issue is that [Saddam] has chemical weapons.

Walter Benjamin

Hip Hop can be a very effective way to reach young people and teach them about current political and social issues.

Andrew Fegyveresi

We addressed the issue with Keith and he apologized for his inappropriate comments. Now, we move on.

Walter Alston

I do worry about tomorrow's game, but never about next year's job.

Constance Wu

I'm always hungry for the next thing. I'm never resting on my laurels.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.

Eric Fellner

You never get time at Working Title, sadly, to enjoy any film's success, because you're worrying about the next lot.

Paul Weller

I never, ever wanted to be the Rolling Stones. Bless their hearts, but I don't necessarily want to go on doing the same old thing for the next 10, 20 years... I could see how easy it is to get into that rut, the whole touring mindset.

Suranand Vejjajiva

We probably have to take it into consideration for our next step.

Chris Houston

We practically have a whole new team, so this is a rebuilding year. We plan to have some success here next year and the year after that, definitely.

Bob Newhart

I can't do a one-camera show. I don't know how to do that kind of show where you count in your head and then you do the next line.

Jim Christian

We had an unbelievable run in 2002, and that team will always be special in Kent State history. But this team will be in the very next paragraph.

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.