Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yotam Ottolenghi

When I was a kid, there was always food to be had on the street in Jerusalem, but anything above a falafel stand was mediocre or worse.

William Cavendish

Use gentle means before you come to extremity, and whatever lesson you work him, and never take above half his strength, nor ride him till he is weary, but a little at a time and often.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

The Royal Society view is completely apolitical: it will judge anything based on the evidence. One of the big strengths of the Society is that is it widely perceived as impartial and above the fray. We'd like to make sure it stays that way.

Ezra Taft Benson

Disobedience is essentially a prideful power struggle against someone in authority over us. It can be a parent, a priesthood leader, a teacher, or ultimately God. A proud person hates the fact that someone is above him. He thinks this lowers his position.

Mark Shapiro

The only fulfillment I'll allow myself is when we're playing again in October and hoisting pennants above Jacobs Field. We can't stop now.

Chris Patten

The political situation is as hot as the temperature. I think frankly we are on a knife edge. There has to be some movement, I think, above all on the question of terrorism in order for us to see people pulling back from the brink. And that has to come soon.

Eliot Brenner

The pilot got the warning in the cockpit. He was climbing and then descended a few hundred feet. He then reported that the Air Force plane passed 500 feet above him.

Valentina Tereshkova

There was a lake beneath me, but the big, heavy parachute which had to be opened two miles above the ground couldn't be steered. My first thought was, 'Lord, they send just one woman into space, and she has to end up in the water.'

Vladimir Potanin

To create a big company, you need more partners, as it is hard to handle such a project alone. Such projects bring access to the expertise and management resources of the partners, and their connections above all.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Believe it or not, I'm as much a fan of a supper shortcut as the next person.

Yotam Ottolenghi

I'm a firm believer that the world should be your oyster when you're cooking. People should open themselves to other cuisines - there are a lot of hidden secrets all over the world.

William Hamilton

I simply can't believe nice communities release effluents.

William Kirby

Now, I believe that war is never inevitable until it starts, but there has been a great proclivity in human history, and including in recent history, for war.

William Hung

Whatever you believe in, and if you keep trying, you can eventually succeed.

William H. Gray

I believe there ought to be school choice, so that parents can choose within the public school system.

William John Wills

We all think we are right, or we should not believe as we do.

Whitey Ford

Army life was rough. Would you believe it, they actually wanted me to pitch three times a week.

Wesley Schultz

When I was a kid, award shows were super-interesting for me. But when I started making music, it was kind of hard to watch because I believed in what I was doing and yet knew I didn't really have a shot.

Yotam Ottolenghi

The taste of any simple tomato-based salad is dependent on the quality of the tomatoes.

Evangeline Lilly

If one day a TV series comes into my head, and that is what I want to write, I'll write it. It just depends what story is in my brain at the time.

David Beckham

I love a nice tailored suit, but I also like to dress down. It all depends on what mood I'm in.

Donald Johanson

What makes us human depends on what place on our evolutionary path we're talking about. If you go back six million years ago, what makes us human is that we were walking upright. That's all. If you go to 2.6 million years ago, it's the fact that we're designing and making stone tools.

Chrissie Hynde

When I hear myself singing, I hear Iggy Pop and Jimi Hendrix. There's a conversational thing going on. I suppose it depends on which The Pretenders song you're listening to.

Charles Koch

You pass a program and get people dependent on it, making it brutal to get rid of. The key is not letting it get started.

Charles Platt

The always-on economy, by definition, depends upon continuous energy.

Cameron Crowe

I try and direct environmentally, so that people don't feel like everything is going to depend on what happens when someone says, 'action,' so that they can literally be swimming in the warm water, and at some point the race begins, and at some point the race ends, but it is about being free to swim.

Diane Keaton

Because too much of my life was spent waiting to be seen. Hoping to be seen, hoping to be picked. Once you realize that you aren't looked at that way any more, other things start to happen and you have to depend on other things to get by.

Alexa Von Tobel

The time to save for the future is now. Thanks to compounding interest, the earlier you start putting money away for the future, the more you will save.

Jamal Crawford

We have lost some games earlier (this season) and guys have taken it to heart and are really working on it.

Silvia Pepino

What we have seen over time is a gradual pickup in underlying growth momentum. The strength we were seeing earlier in the year in the export side has started to spill over to investment.

Frank Romero

We didn't play very well. We had been moving guys over and getting hits with runners in scoring position. We had a lot of opportunities. We have to be better with two strikes. We're not doing the things we did earlier in the year. We have some people hurt and we've played a lot of different people. We're out of sync. We have to find a way to play better.

Kent Nelson

We are having a typical fire season - it's just a few weeks earlier than normal.

Mark Vitner

We're likely to see large upward revision to earlier data, so it'll be harder for January to show a big gain.

Charlie Johnson

We actually probably should have moved him down a year earlier because when we played really good teams, people were killing us at left tackle.

Ilya Kovalchuk

Yeah, Dany scored four goals earlier for Ottawa, ... so I wanted to do the same thing.

Krishna Sitaula

We were successful in foiling the king's plans to hold municipal elections earlier this month. Now our focus will be to come up with plans to force the king to give up power he grabbed.

Elton Brand

In the past, we might have folded, but we erased that 12-point lead and we're up three at halftime. It's a great, great feeling. It's much different than before.

I. Stone

Chandeleur Island pretty much was erased by Hurricane Ivan and it was starting to recover,

Cliff Lee

I give up two and Victor gets us back. That was huge. It was like he erased what I did and we were back to 0-0.

David Boyer

Then it erased it and wrote it again, and did it all day. People loved it.

Source Unknown

The written word can be erased -- not so with the spoken word.

Tim O'Brien

The world comes at me that way - comes at me in clumps of stuff, sometimes little vignettes and sometimes whole stories. And then the rest is erased by the internal filter that erases things for the same reason you'd forget swatting a mosquito.

Don Rickles

If I have learned anything, it is to keep my wife happy by sending her lavish gifts. Other men can learn from my success and send their wives and girlfriends fresh flowers for birthdays, anniversaries, and of course, Valentine's Day.

Jeff Jackson

The penalties were an embarrassment. That's not hockey. There was no flow to the game.

Edward McKendree Bounds

The Holy Ghost does not flow through methods, but through men. He does not come on machinery, but on men. He does not anoint plans, but men - men of prayer.

Radhanath Swami

One who loves God sees everything in relation to God. Therefore, their love flows spontaneously toward everyone, at all times, everywhere. They even love those who wish them harm. If you love God, you can't hate anything or anyone. If the love one offers is met with hate, it doesn't die; rather, it manifests in the form.

Catherine McAuley

This is the spirit of the Order, indeed the true spirit of Mercy flowing on us.

Carmen Dolfo

We played a great first half. We played together and played great defense, but defensively we just couldn't get back into a flow in the second half.

Mike Mills

When a film works, the director had a lot to do with that, but the director also didn't have a lot to do with that. There are so many moving parts. It's really about being open to how the river is flowing and trying to get on the river.

Malcolm de Chazal

The flower is a jumble of thighs, the sun's harem - the most oriental thing imaginable.

Kris Janowski

We are happy that the governments have offered us a total of 85,000 places for refugees from Macedonia. The bottleneck, however, is the number of people who are actually being flown out. More people need to be flown out of Macedonia.

Rachel Corrie

I've had this underlying need to go to a place and meet people who are on the other end of the portion of my tax money that goes to fund the U.S. and other militaries.

Camille Paglia

It is not true that I oppose government funding of the arts.

Jay Blanton

Those funds will plug back into the operation of the hospital.

Diane Phillips

Those funds can be spent wherever there is a need.

George Johnson

Those are going to go a long way toward investing in transportation systems. But we also need the state to step up to the plate and fund their share of what needs to be done.

Atul Lele

There is medium- and longer-term value in there for the government so they would be smarter holding onto it and placing it in the Future Fund if they didn't need the funds immediately.

Prince Royce

At 17, I was working at Sprint in the Bronx so I could make money to fund my own music.

Don Smithburg

We need funding to partially restore New Orleans.

Rachel Bronson

We know wealthy Saudis are funding terror. With higher oil prices, they just have more money to do so.

Red Cloud

They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they never kept but one; they promised to take our land, and they took it.

Nina Easton

I've made decisions along the way so I would be there for my kids, and it's kept me from going places I would have gone.

Paul Kagame

You kept quiet... When these victims wanted your help to survive, you kept quiet.

Phaedrus

The bow kept taut will quickly break, kept loosely strung, it will serve you when you need it.

Trevor Moore

If you got more than one letter from somebody who said they hated you, it meant they kept watching.

Jen Lancaster

When I got laid off, I would write my friends these 15-page-long emails. This was before people had personal emails, and my friends would tell me that I was going to get them fired if I kept sending them stuff, so I started a website.

Vonda Shepard

I just kept making records, touring in Europe a lot, and then I had a baby in 2006, so my life has been very, very much family-orientated.

Cassidy Gifford

When I was younger, people kept making offers for different reality shows and stuff.

Laurie Holden

I'm a bit of a scaredy cat. Personally, I don't like to be kept up at night.

Clint Eastwood

Prime time for men is, say, 35 to 45. Then they level off and fall off.

Sergei Lavrov

We have become stronger economically; we have been successfully resolving the social problems, raising the level of living - the standards of living - of the population.

Tracy Adams

We didn't play up to our potential. If we did, this would be one scary team. Right now, we're playing to the level of our competition. Once we start dictating the play, we're going to take off.

Peter Gleckler

Volcanoes have a big impact. The ocean warming and sea level would have risen much more if it weren't for volcanoes.

Paul Singer

Opacity on extreme levels is not addressed anywhere, including Dodd-Frank.

Source Unknown

Three levels of organizational vision: 1. The Do-able 2. The Conceivable 3. The Previously Unthinkable.

Loren McManus

We know there was some level of dismemberment.

Isabelle Arthur

Unfortunately, this route had not met profitability levels that are necessary to sustain operations.

Rick Forney

We didn't set the tone and we got down big. I thought we had wide open shots, and we couldn't make them. We stayed with it, but just got down too far, and they had a nice level of comfort. We didn't play as well as we needed to play to win this game.

Mario Zawadzki

The political situation here doesn't help, but worldwide markets are falling.

Rob Enderle

The overseas market isn't saturated like the U.S..

Chris Walker

The overall market is down a tad anyway,

Michael Carty

The path of least resistance for this market is up right now.

Alan Ackerman

What you've got now is world markets whipsawing. It's a letdown, not a meltdown.

Greg Hill

What you've got here, essentially, is a very high-powered marketing operation--meaning Microsoft--versus Linux.

Carlos Ghosn

We are not particularly optimistic about the U.S. market in the next six months and next year.

Peter Hillyard

We are not going to plunge to $500 or $400. The market is going to stay within a price range of $540 and $650.

Charles Alexander

We did spot an opportunity in property at a time when the market was neglecting the sector.

Phil Klay

I don't want to act as though my deployment was particularly rough, because it wasn't. I had a very mild deployment; I was a staff officer.

Democritus

Magnanimity consists in enduring tactlessness with mildness.

George Taylor

I think it will keep raining well into March. I also think spring is going to be relatively mild and dry.

Chris Kozak

We've had a mild winter and we've got a higher-than-normal storage inventory.

Mike Scioscia

I think you can characterize it as a mild surprise that we are here.

Jerry Conway

Because of the mild weather we've been having there's no ice, and the seals now have to find an alternative place to pup.

Robert Webb

Ed Miliband is obviously a mild guy. I don't expect him to pretend to be a pugilist.

Darrell Smith

After the groundhog, they predicted a more mild winter. The storm took me by surprise.

Hitoshi Oshitani

If there are many mild or asymptomatic cases, we may have missed many cases.

Damon Lindelof

I saw myself as a teacher's pet but with a little of Ed Haskell mixed in. I was the teacher's pet, but that didn't mean that I was trying to pull one over.

Zygmunt Bauman

In our world of rampant 'individualisation', relationships are mixed blessings. They vacillate between a sweet dream and a nightmare, and there is no telling when one turns into the other.

Lauren Bacall

The big rule is that you must never get mixed up with a married man - never even look sideways at another woman's fella. Boy, I really was terrific at obeying that rule, wasn't I?

Christy Romano

I'm recording an album. It's sort of techno mixed with garbage - you, know, intense in-your-face music.

Allan Radel

We're a very mixed family, but a very, very tight family.

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Everyone is so estranged; no one is rooted. That's what I like to write about more than anything else. Everything being so mixed up. Racially mixed up, people moving from place to place, everything shifting.

Hannah Marks

I like a little bit of punk mixed with a little bit of feminine.

David Milne

The growth of a company like ours tends to be a relatively steady because, like some of the other successful mixed signal companies, we have a wide range of products servicing a wide range of end applications.

M. Thompson

We have played a lot at the SCG with mixed results.

Wendy Abrams

We are prepared to have about 200 travelers stay with us overnight because of these problems.

Brian Chesky

Our "overnight" success took 1,000 days.

Alexander Downer

Reports that I've had in now overnight are, I must admit, pretty bad,

Matt Smith

Overnight ratings are dead. It's just not the way TV is sold any more.

Tony George

He should be fine. They'll keep him overnight (Sunday) for observation.

Dan Evans

We've been very fortunate. It was an overnight success for us.

Nancy Brook

He would go on overnight canoe trips with his friends as long as he could.

Gary Hines

It was never portrayed from day one that this would be an overnight phenomenon,

James Daly

People say we were an overnight success. It took us a year to be an overnight success.

Tim O'Brien

When I have a book I enjoy, I'm partly in the book. I'm not just observing it.

Michael Panzner

You always get a little first trading session euphoria, which is partly psychological and partly technically related to inflows.

Martin Freeman

Half of us are partly German! Half our language and culture, generally, in Anglo-Saxon terms, is German.

Richard Artschwager

The drawing is already partly there - it's in the paper. And the paper is talking before you do.

Billy Corgan

You just reach a point sometimes with somebody where it just doesn't work.

Kaui Hart Hemmings

Hawaii is so complex; there are so many points of view, and there are so many experiences to see and to find.

Kristy Curry

We had a point to prove. We made a statement. We were tired of overtimes. We had something to say and we said it.

Jeff Gundy

When he (Alston) was not healthy, or out for a while, and we were without a true point guard, we were much more plodding. We want to be up the floor, which is what he does best.

Steven Patrick Morrissey

There has to reach a point where you've said enough.

Anthony Wollschlager

We didn't put up the points we wanted to. Obviously, there are still things we need to work on. Over the summer we're going to get this thing right.

Paul Guen

We are having discussions but we have not yet reached the point where we sign a contract.

Javier Solana

We still have points on which we are separated, but we are making progress,

Tony Catanzaro

We actually had more points then they did in the second half, but we were terrible in the first.

French Montana

Every time I look at Twitter, there's always somebody showing support.

Phoebe Philo

I do like the idea of women not showing too much, of them being quite reserved in a way, and quite covered.

Nicki Minaj

Like to me, I did the 'Harajuku' stuff. I did the crazy stuff. And now I kind of want to tone that back, and it's not toning my personality back, it's just showing like I don't only have to do that.

Joseph Altuzarra

A lot of my pieces are about easy seductiveness and accessibility in terms of showing skin.

John Cena

Whether you like me or you don't, I still dig showing up for work.

Brene Brown

There’s nothing more daring than showing up, putting ourselves out there and letting ourselves be seen.

Brene Brown

Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.

Barbara Walters

Well, it is a little different showing up at 4:30, 5 in the morning.

Jerry Glanville

Will we get them? The percentages won't be high. But you have to let them know you want them. We're showing them we have a strong interest.

Elaine Stritch

New Yorkers stop me on the street all the time to say, 'You're terrific! You're the nuts!'

Nas

The sound of the '90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street - it's a feeling.

Al Jarreau

I sang do-wop on the street corner before it was called do-wop.

Bob Marley

You can't find the right roads when the streets are paved.

Donnie Yen

A gesture, a smile, or just walking down the street is an expression.

Maria Rodriguez

You've got to go to the streets to get to the table.

Fernando Ferrer

You could go to any New Yorker on the street and they will tell you they are having an affordability crisis,

Frank Roder

We've been complaining about 12th street for many, many years.

Simon McBurney

I feel that if you can play on the streets or in a comedy club, then in a theatre it's a doddle because you've got an audience.

Michael Boss

The traders are for the most part are out. So we're just biding out time.

Le Corbusier

The mathematical phenomenon always develops out of simple arithmetic, so useful in everyday life, out of numbers, those weapons of the gods: the gods are there, behind the wall, at play with numbers.

Alan Cohen

All of your errors have not built a wall against your success. They have paved your way to it.

Walter Benjamin

I was sentenced to life plus 30 years by an all-White jury. What I saw in prison was wall-to-wall Black flesh in chains. Women caged in cells. But we're the terrorists. It just doesn't make sense.

Walter Benjamin

And if I know anything at all, it's that a wall is just a wall and nothing more at all. It can be broken down.

Banksy

Imagine a city where graffiti wasn't illegal, a city where everybody could draw whatever they liked. Where every street was awash with a million colours and little phrases. Where standing at a bus stop was never boring. A city that felt like a party where everyone was invited, not just the estate agents and barons of big business. Imagine a city like that and stop leaning against the wall - it's wet.

James Keller

Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: 'It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity.'

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

In the long, sleepless watches of the night, A gentle face the face of one long dead Looks at me from the wall, where round its head The night-lamp casts a halo of pale light.

Minna Antrim

Satiety is a mongrel that barks at the heels of plenty.

Dogen

Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment.