Famous Quotes & Sayings

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

You'll be bothered from time to time by storms, fog, snow. When you are, think of those who went through it before you, and say to yourself, 'What they could do, I can do.'

Beeban Kidron

Making a big commercial movie is hard when you think about how many of them flop.

Bebe Neuwirth

People are at their happiest if they are true to themselves. I think that applies to their chosen profession, friends and relationships. It goes for your health too. If you are true to yourself, it seems to me everything should work out pretty well

Beck

For the records I've work on over the last 10 years, I get sent the really compressed version and the non-compressed version, and oftentimes you end up going with the more compressed one because it's what people's ears are attuned to. I think the bigger problem is saturation and people being desensitized.

Beck

I do think music sounds better when it's on tape and more simply recorded.

Beck

Sometimes, I think the way the music business has been destructive and the way the fans are been put through it and try to navigate through it, so much is so foreign to what musicians would actually want to do or what would be natural to them.

Beck

I think it's interesting being American, the expectations for an American guy, and the image that has to be projected. 'Oh, I can't wear pink,' that kind of stuff. There's none of that in Europe.

Beck

I think trying to be offbeat is the most boring thing possible.

Beck

I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.

Kit Williams

Recreating the South Pointing Chariot is particularly challenging because none of the original technical drawings remain in existence.

Ali Abdullah Saleh

Regarding Syria, we already call for dialogue between Syria and all parties concerned, in order to avoid any kind of escalation in the region which may expose the whole area to chaos.

John Fahey

Regarding fame, fortune and Oregon I do wish I had more money.

Mary Morrison

Recent experience in Latin America illustrates that governments remain central to infrastructure provision. Not only is public funding sometimes indispensable, but the state has an essential role to play in partnering and overseeing private operators and protecting consumers.

Norman Schwarzkopf

... Recalling back to Operation Desert Storm, I can't help asking myself: Wouldn't it be great for our armed forces and for America if we could have another commander-in-chief named George Bush with Dick Cheney on his team?

Ronald Reagan

Recession is when a neighbour loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.

Jonathan Gilbert

Reinventing the wheel is sometimes the right thing, when the result is the radial tire.

George Miller

President Bush should immediately realize the colossal mistake he has made in signing this order and rescind it and ensure that America puts its people back to work in the wake of Katrina at wages that will get them and their families back on their feet.

Carl Pope

President Bush nominated someone who has consistently opposed protecting public health and public lands. American families deserve an interior secretary who actually values our natural heritage. America deserves someone who will promote safe energy policies that protect sensitive lands and wildlife habitat, instead of giving over our public lands to developers and the oil and gas companies.

Dick Cheney

Had the decision belonged to Senator Kerry, Saddam hussein would still be in power today in Iraq. In fact, Saddam Hussein would almost certainly still be in control of Kuwait.

Akbar Rafsanjani

Yes, Kuwait and other states in the region.

Dalai Lama

Tibet is not like Kuwait. Kuwait has oil.

Jesse Jackson

If the American people in a matter of months can love the people of Kuwait, whom they have not seen, they can love the people of our nation's capital just as well.

Jesse Jackson

There have been more people disenfranchised in Washington than there have been in Kuwait.

Lawrence Korb

If Kuwait grew carrots we wouldn't give a damn.

Saddam Hussein

The ruling family in Kuwait is good at blackmail, exploitation, and destruction of their opponents. They had perpetuated a grave U.S. conspiracy against us.... stabbing Iraq in the back with a poisoned dagger.

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

What's happened recently in Pakistan, India and Kuwait only goes to show that it's futile to imitate Western democracy. They've ended up exactly where they started.

Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

It has been rumored that we have fired scud missiles into Kuwait. I am here now to tell you, we do not have any scud missiles and I don't know why they were fired into Kuwait.