Famous Quotes & Sayings

Phil Klay

Certainly, my exposure in high school to writers like Flannery O'Connor, Shusaku Endo, Fyodor Dostoevsky and Graham Greene was formative.

Robert Harris

My parents were interested in history and the world. My father read Graham Greene and Georges Simenon and was a strong trade unionist and Labour supporter.

Richard Hale

Graham was declared to ride the horse as it was a 48-hour declaration race.

Bill Doba

Graham hasn't missed yet. And actually, Langley is kicking off better than Graham.

Alan Hansen

When George Graham was there they complained, harking back to better days, but I think that's a fantasy.

Madonna Ciccone

I've always danced and exercised. I can't imagine not doing it. I'll be Martha Graham in my 90s doing contractions on the floor.

Jerret Smith

He likes the contact. They all pick hard, but running into Graham is like running into a wall. You can't get through him.

Al Franken

Hey, (Rep. Lindsey) Graham is going to give some reply. Why don't you come to this press conference?

Amy Waldman

I'm kind of a mash-up of taste - Graham Greene and Jane Austen; W.G. Sebald and Alice Munro.

Colm Meaney

It's interesting because I haven't done a lot of period work in the past, but I always wanted to because I'm interested in history.

Rick Perlstein

I'm reverent toward my sources. History is a team sport, and references are how you support your teammates.

F. Sionil Jose

My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little.

Erwin McManus

When we look at history, we see history is made up of the heroes of their times. Yet, somehow we miss this when we put on the lens of the Scriptures.

C. J. Mahaney

Over the years, I have studied church history as well as the contemporary church, and I noticed how rare it is for a God-glorifying transition of leadership to take place in a local church.

Nikola Tesla

The history of science shows that theories are perishable. With every new truth that is revealed we get a better understanding of Nature and our conceptions and views are modified.

Trey Parker

That was a misconception among a lot of people - that Mormons are polygamist. No, they're not. I mean they obviously have that in their history, and there are some fundamentalists.

Christopher Koch

I make a rod for my own back because people see my novels as quasi documentaries. But it is never history that's the main event of my books. It's my characters.

Laura Anne Gilman

Every time we revise our history, we also revise the mythology of our history.

Zac Goldsmith

I think sometimes if you are too interested in day-to-day politics, you lose sight of the long term.

Yoko Ono

I think it's nice to let people know that there is an invisible part of the world. I think there are many people now who are interested in the invisible world.

Christina Baker Kline

As a novelist, I have always been interested in how people come to terms with difficult, life-altering events.

John C. Calhoun

Remember, it is a deep principle of our nature not to regard the safety of those who do not regard their own. If you are indifferent to your own safety, you must not be surprised if those less interested should become more so.

Charlie Trotter

Any fool can be happy. What I'm interested in is satisfaction. There's got to be more to life than just being happy. You've got to be fulfilled. You've got to be satisfied; philosophically satisfied is what I mean.

Teri Garr

People aren't so interested in seeing movies about women's problems.

Vint Cerf

I just am a huge cheerleader for getting kids interested in science and technology.

Andy Murray

People say to me, 'You don't seem that interested in interviews.' Well, you know, I'm not, often. I'm not going to talk tactics with the press, so you are left with talking about how you are feeling; for me, it is not the most interesting thing to be doing.

Alan Alda

I think most people are interested in our origins; once we understand, it might be easier to become the people we'd like to be. Or, better, become the people we think we already are.

Nicola Sturgeon

Voting Labour in the past hasn't protected Scotland against Tory governments.

Astrid Lindgren

I have been very interested in labor movement. If I could have wished another life, I would have loved to be a pioneer woman in the beginning of labor movement.

Nicola Sturgeon

The fact is Scottish Labour has lost its way.

Bible Bible

Let there more work be laid upon the men, that they may labour therein; and let them not regard vain words.

Lucy Powell

We in the Labour party owe it to the people we represent to make sure that we offer a choice at the next election between our Labour values and those of the Conservatives.

George Herbert

Whether shall the Oxe goe, where he shall not labour?

John F. Kennedy

The American Labor Movement has consistently demonstrated its devotion to the public interest. It is, and has been, good for all America.

Adam Smith

Labor was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things.

Johann Lamont

The Scottish Labour Party and its renewal are more important than me.

Chris Moneymaker

I'm comfortable with the hold 'em, Omaha and stud high-low. But the other two games aren't my strongest games. I'm not comfortable at all with razz or stud.

Dick Cheney

That intelligence capability is enormously important to the United States, to our conduct of foreign policy, to defense matters, to economic matters. And I am a strong supporter of it.

Walter Benjamin

I couldn't see how we could seriously struggle without having a strong sense of collectivity, without being responsible FOR each other and TO each other.

Walter Benjamin

Only the strong go crazy. The weak just go along.

Walter Benjamin

A revolutionary woman can't have no reactionary man. If he's not about liberation, if he's not about struggle, if he ain't about building a strong Black family, if he ain't about building a strong Black nation, then he ain't about nothing.

Bob Stapleton

There is a very strong wireless system out there.

Mary Landrieu

We were getting very strong vibes that this was the way they were leaning,

Daniel Basse

We need volatility to make money. We need strong demand.

Ludwig von Mises

The desire for an increase of wealth can be satisfied through exchange, which is the only method possible in a capitalist economy, or by violence and petition as in a militarist society, where the strong acquire by force, the weak by petitioning.

Donald Trump

I think the World Trade Center should be rebuilt as the World Trade Center, only stronger and one story taller. I hate what they're doing with the World Trade Center site.

Benjamin Franklin

No nation has ever been ruined by trade.

Daniel Hannan

Most British people are keen to remain in a European free trade zone; and most EU states are keen to keep us there, because we buy from them more than we sell to them to the tune of £40 million per day.

William Shakespeare

Music, moody food Of us that trade in love.

Brenda Fassie

I am a shocker. I like to create controversy. It's my trademark.

William Daley

Our trade laws, which are all WTO-consistent, are used very rarely,

Ashley Gronewoller

I would have traded all that for a win in this game.

George Herbert

A trade is better then service.

Christine Lagarde

There are goods that are outside trade and in the public domain and that should be reserved and protected.

James Nesbitt

When you're brought up in a Unionist culture, you can't help but feel Unionist.