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.

William Lashner

I like to think I'm writing in the tradition of Raymond Chandler, although I don't ape his style.

William Kirby

I don't believe that economic and cultural interaction automatically brings greater peace and understanding, although it may help in that regard.

Virginia Postrel

'Frankenstein' did not invent the fear of science; the novel found its audience because it dramatized anxieties that already existed. Although popular entertainment can, over the long run, shape public perceptions, it becomes popular in the first place only if it addresses preexisting hopes, fears, and fascinations.

Vincent Bugliosi

Although the evidence at this trial shows that Charles Manson was the leader of the conspiracy to commit these murders, there is no evidence that he actually personally killed any of the seven victims in this case.

Vincent Bugliosi

Although I've been a longtime Democrat (primarily because, unless there is some very compelling reason to be otherwise, I am always for 'the little guy'), my political orientation is not rigid. For instance, I supported John McCain's run for the presidency in 2000.

Conor Maynard

YouTube is an amazing platform for young musicians - although it's harder to get noticed now that everyone is on it.

China Mieville

Well I don't feel sectarian against sparseness, although I sometimes get a little chippy about this. I resent the way that a certain notion of parsimony has become the norm for skilful literary writing.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

I have had the same friends since college, although as time has gone on, the daily nature of those relationships has changed, such that it is not daily at all.

Don Rickles

When you do comedy, you can't please the world, although I'd like to think that most of my audiences were on my side.

Dave Morgan

We plan on being as busy as we can be all day. We had to start thinking about this as soon as they announced the teams on Sunday, but I am not going to complain about them being in the tournament.

Dion Cornett

When a resignation for 'family reasons' is announced that close to earnings, nine times out of 10 it means bad things. Red Hat didn't do a good job handling the news.

Larry Rice

When they first announced this, I said, 'Who?' ... I was hoping it would be somebody with a higher profile.

Brian Finnerty

When they announced it was going into the S&P, it ran up dramatically and held up. I think it's normal to get a little profit taking, even though the number was good.

Nicky Whelan

It's such a process to get a show off the ground initially. And then, to already have a second season announced is a dream come true for any actor.

Larry Ellison

We've announced an Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance, a bunch of low-cost commodity servers running Linux, integrated in our case, with InfiniBand - connected with InfiniBand vs. the traditional Ethernet.

Vanessa Castagna

We are confident that these decisions are right for Mervyn?s future growth and success, and are consistent with the strategy that we announced in September 2005.

Jim Connors

We're encouraged by our steady progress in winning back U.S. market share, ... We're a stronger company than we were a year ago when we announced the revitalization plan. Our goal in 2003 is to build on the foundation we laid in 2002.

Denise Van Outen

About four or five weeks after it was publicly announced I was no longer breastfeeding, I got a letter from the NHS saying they were being supportive of me, but basically, they were very disappointed I'd stopped.

Ezra Taft Benson

When our children obey the Lord and go to the temple to receive their blessings and enter into the marriage covenant, they enter into the same order of the priesthood that God instituted in the very beginning with father Adam.

Ellen Key

The simplest formula for the new conception of morality, which is beginning to be opposed to the moral dogma still esteemed by all society, but especially by the women, might be summed up in these words: Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Barbara W. Tuchman

After the war, when my husband came home, we had two more children, and domesticity for a while prevailed combined with beginning the work I had always wanted to do, which was writing a book.

Bethany Mota

In the beginning of my YouTube channel, I feel like I was doing what everyone else was doing, and I kind of felt very pressured to fit in with everyone.

David Hewson

Once you get over the culture shock, Filey is a pleasant spot, particularly at the beginning or end of the summer, when the hotels are half full. The brave go in winter, when the wind can be bitter and biting and Filey resumes its real life as a tiny, introverted fishing community.

Chris Abani

I was born in 1966, at the beginning of the Biafran-Nigerian Civil War, and the war ended after three years. And I was growing up in school, and the federal government didn't want us taught about the history of the war, because they thought it probably would make us generate a new generation of rebels.

Rick Pitino

This is not the beginning of American civilization where we need guns because it's the Wild, Wild West... There should not be guns in our society, and we all know that; politicians know that.

Charles M. Blow

The first memory I have in the world is of death and tears. That is how I would mark the beginning of my life: the way people mark the end of one. My family had gathered at Papa Joe's house because Mam' Grace was slipping away, only I didn't register it that way. For some reason I thought that it was her birthday.

Charles Koch

From the beginning of time, business has cozied up to government and gotten restrictions on competition and subsidies and stuff.

Becky G

Growing up, my family struggled to make ends meet, so I know how important organizations like The Salvation Army are for families to lean on in times of need.

Vince Gilligan

There are two ways of knowing if something ends badly: If you're honest with yourself, you just kind of know it. And then there's other people's reaction to it.

Peter O'Toole

No one should ever know where conduct ends and acting begins. Conduct unbecoming. That's what acting is.

Mike Fisher

We played well at all ends of the rink, from the goaltender out.

Tyler Hilton

Just true to form with life sometimes - what you're trying to do doesn't necessarily work out, but what ends up happening can be a lot better. I just relax and say whatever is going to happen - happens.

Kelis

The key to sauces is having patience. I'm not a patient woman, but I learned with sauces that you have to get everything on a slow roll and layer the flavors. That's where you get robust tastes: it starts one way and ends another.

Christina Aguilera

In the end you’ll see you won’t stop me.

Alice Sebold

I think it's an interesting thing to me, because we have this desire for everything to be explained to us. But if you go through your daily actions, very little ends up having a written-down explanation for why things happen, or why people do specific things.

Ronnie Barker

In a packed programme tonight, we will be talking to an out-of-work contortionist who says he can no longer make ends meet.

Siti Supari

The polio virus that hit Indonesia has been proven to have a high rate of attack,

David Kennedy

The overall picture is of an operator aggressively maintaining its market position in a highly competitive market, and sacrificing margin to do it.

Mike Vrabel

The Patriots have sort of become the measuring stick in the NFL, but that stick isn't very high right now.

David H. Murdock

Obesity is racing through America, everywhere. It's high time someone spent some money to do something about it.

Neil Peart

You have to know when you're at the top of your particular mountain, I guess. Maybe not the summit, but as high as you can go.

Rand Paul

The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Many of those people deserve to be in prison; however, some of them do not.

Gordon B. Hinckley

A nation will rise no higher than the strength of its homes.

Frank Quattrone

When we took Netscape public, if people wanted to invest in the web, that was the only stock that they could do it by investing in. So Netscape's market value was higher than it probably otherwise would have been if there were lots of other ways to play that theme.

Clea Duvall

I was a loner in high school. I keep to myself, but I love life.

Ellen Key

War can be prevented only by broad-minded statesmanship - a statesmanship that understands how to enlist people's interests in a leading cause.

Danny Glover

The points leader (Ferris) had nothing for me. Once I got outside, I was gone.

Bobby Jindal

I think the American people are looking for real leadership. That's what I've done in Louisiana, that's what I'll do in America.

George MacDonald

Sad, indeed, would the whole matter be if the Bible had told us everything God meant us to believe. But herein is the Bible greatly wronged. It nowhere lays claim to be regarded as the Word, the Way, the Truth. The Bible leads us to Jesus, the inexhaustible, the ever-unfolding Revelation of God. It is Christ "in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge," not the Bible, save as leading to Him.

Norman O. Brown

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Larry Hoff

We played well in spurts. I thought our second quarter (20-4) was pretty strong, and we maintained that lead through the end.

Nelson Wolff

We played a quiet role, I think, ... as long as we've got the right leadership there.

Tom Coburn

We need real leadership, Democrat, Republican and independent to stand up and say, we have to live within our means.

David Chang

The process and organization leading up to cooking the egg can tell you a lot about the cook.

William John Wills

Our clothes are going to pieces fast. Send provisions as soon as possible.

Jamey Wright

We have the pieces to the puzzle. We have a lot of weapons.

Kathay Lovell

We've been down this road before with non-performance of redevelopment property. I don't want to go down that road again. That's a valuable piece of property.

Karlyn Supple

We have a lot of speed. We just have to put the puzzle pieces together.

Alan Shepard

I must admit, maybe I am a piece of history after all.

Cary Elwes

Im something of a history buff. Its deliberate that a lot of my films have been period pieces.

Calista Flockhart

I don't watch the show - only bits and pieces of all of them. The only one I sat through was the pilot.

Charlotte Moore

We started off with a lot of different things, pieces here and there,

Eartha Kitt

I have been nominated three times. I have the little pieces of paper to prove it.

Dustin Hoffman

And that's another reason to make this movie: We can put plays on film now, at a relatively small cost, and they will reach an audience they would never have reached otherwise.

Pam Edwards

We probably could have won that game. It was 2-2 at the half. Who plays lacrosse and has a 2-2 first half?

Grant Wistrom

When Goings went out, that really dampened things for them. Then they have to be one-dimensional and that plays right into our hands.

Charles Ramsey

Those are just not winning plays, and you've got to make those plays down the stretch.

Jeff Jackson

Those are difference-makers. Those are plays we need to finish.

Maryann Mitts

We just didn't connect. We didn't make the plays and they did.

Kelly Sears

We just didn't come up with the plays at the right times.

Brian Hill

We had our chances. That's what it comes down to in tight games. Who is going to make the shots, make the plays at the end of the game.

Rhett Bomar

We have the plays that will work and we know what to do.

Neil Harbisson

If we extend our senses, we will consequently extend our knowledge.

Eknath Easwaran

We become in part what our senses take in.

Mark Bedenbaugh

That takes away from one of your senses.

Diane Ackerman

There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of our senses.