Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vidya Balan

I enjoy the sari. I think it's the sexiest garment ever. It shows you the right amount, it covers the right amount, it's extremely versatile, it suits every body type, it suits every face.

David Snyder

We prefer United for its service and because it covers most national routes,

Wadah Khanfar

When an international news organization covers a story in Somalia, Yemen, Sudan or wherever, they will fly a crew to go there, spend a few days, interact with some officials and analysts, most of the time English-speaking elite, and file the story and go home.

S. Walker

To Kill A Mockingbird' is one of the great American books. It covers some important topics like censorship, literacy and gender, which are still very much prevalent today as they were during that time.

Keith Cox

We needed people to practice on. We did 100 free covers at lunch, 150 at dinner, to work out all the things we needed to.

Beck

If we look at the fact that record covers are essentially advertisements for the music, we acknowledge a function and purpose to draw in the prospective buyer.

Jonathan Tropper

I played piano in a covers band, but that didn't especially help with girls. There is never a piano around after the shows. Guys with the guitars were the ones who got lucky.

Ben McClelland

I never thought that in three months, we'd have five originals and at least 40 covers to play. We've really enjoyed ourselves in the midst of hard work." ()

Mike Thompson

The income from sales now covers the expense of materials but I expect this to improve.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Swiss chard is undervalued in Britain. It's a great substitute for spinach and keeps its shape well.

Yotam Ottolenghi

A great ratatouille is one in which the vegetables interact with each other but are still discernible from each other. The trick is to cook them just right: not over, not under.

William Shatner

I love technology. Matches, to light a fire, is really high tech. The wheel is really one of the great inventions of all time. Other than that, I am an ignoramus about technology.

William Shatner

In entertainment, whether it's movies or television or whatever, I'm a great audience, but I don't remember the names of the people I've seen or the groups that I've heard.

Wentworth Miller

I know what it takes to go from the point where someone's looking at a newspaper article, and thinking, 'Oh, this would make a great TV series,' to the point where you're actually on a set and there's a camera aimed at someone.

William Manchester

He was a great thundering paradox of a man.

Wes Anderson

Every time you do a take on a movie, you're not sure if it's going to succeed. Even if you have a great cast, like we had, every scene you're kind of waiting for the release. 'Oh, yes; it happened. We got it!' There's always the possibility that it's just not going to work.

Zubin Mehta

The New York Philharmonic is a tremendous opportunity, a great orchestra.

Abraham Lincoln

I have great respect for the semicolon; it is a mighty handy little fellow.

Matt Taibbi

There is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy is power.

Paul Thomson

We are trying to teach literature and literacy in a society which doesn't value it any more.

Marshall McLuhan

Only a fraction of the history of literacy has been typographic.

David Petersen

There is no such thing as a leap into literacy.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Literacy is so you can read the operating instructions.

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.

Benoit Mandelbrot

Until a few years ago, the topics in my Ph.D. were unfashionable, but they are very popular today.

Laurence J. Peter

Bore : A fellow who can change the subject back to his topic of conversation faster than you can change it back to yours.

Brandon Sanderson

...somehow the old philosophers could make even the most salacious topics seem boring.

Bruce Feiler

Americans know more about religion than almost any other topic.

George Stigler

In the 1950s, I proposed the survivor method of determining the efficient sizes of enterprises, and worked on delivered price systems, vertical integration, and similar topics.

Ezra Pound

There is no topicmore soporific and generally boring than the topic of Ireland as Ireland, as a nation.

Herman Melville

Let us waive that agitated national topic, as to whether such multitudes of foreign poor should be landed on our American shores;let us waive it, with the one only thought, that if they can get here, they have God's right to come.

Ramez Naam

Whatever my current beliefs are, on any topic, they're all open to being changed by the right facts and the right evidence.

Randa Abdel-Fattah

When you exist in the centre of a debate, as a topic, a hypothesis - otherised and stigmatised - you become the prop in a proposition.