Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

We have scaled the heights of Mount Everest, dominated the Southeast Asian games, we have won international beauty titles, and of course punched our way to triumph in the boxing world. Our people compete and win every day in every imaginable job throughout the world.

Ken Goldstein

We've seen the trade deficit widen each of the last four years at relatively the same pace. What's going to happen because of Asian flu is it will widen twice as fast this year as it did each of the last four years.

Alan Greenspan

The extent and pace of recovery of Asian economies currently experiencing a severe downturn will have important ramifications for prices of energy and other commodities, the strength of the dollar, and competitive conditions on world product markets,

Paul Wolfowitz

The face of Asia was changed dramatically for the better.

Georg Petersen

The problem with this country, as in many Asian countries is that a large portion of the chickens are raised by farmers in their backyard and even within the cities, people are raising chickens and this is very difficult to control.

Ella Maillart

When I crossed Asia with my friend Peter Fleming, we spoke to no one but each other during many months, and we covered exactly the same ground. Nevertheless my journey differed completely from his.

Suzanne Fields

American high school students trail teenagers from 14 European and Asian countries in reading, math and science. We're even trailing France.

Stefan Sagmeister

I am not a religious person myself, but I did look for nature. I had spent my first sabbatical in New York City. Looked for something different for the second one. Europe and the U.S. didn't really feel enticing because I knew them too well. So Asia it was. The most beautiful landscapes I had seen in Asia were Sri Lanka and Bali.

Terry Lanni

The proclivity of Asian people to gamble is pretty staggering. People borrow from loan sharks and gamble with it.

John Brady

We want to play well, but certainly not at the expense of playing players that aren't healthy. Our goal is for our team to be healthy for the first round of the NCAA Tournament.

Jeff Bowden

We have seen a lot of good linebackers with Miami and some of the teams we play, like N.C. State. He certainly ranks up there with them. I've always kind of had the feeling that when you get in the group with the top-five, it doesn't matter. You are so good at that point, you're good. He can change the game I know that.

Alex Rodriguez

We have to get better. We're a better team. We know what our potential is. Certainly I need to do a lot more offensively. I can only speak for myself. I've got to step up to the plate and do my job.

Rich Bowen

We have to find that out. We'll see. I'm not sure. The way they've been working we'll certainly be more competitive than last year. Whether we can compete with the larger schools and the co-op schools, this season will tell.

John Asher

We have no idea how those tickets got out there, but we certainly have no suspicion of any kind of internal source.

Ed McKelvey

Whenever you have a collapse in a particular output price -- and we certainly saw a lot of that following Asia's decline -- it places a lot of pressure on companies to deal with keeping their revenues up. In that context consolidation isn't a big surprise.

Michael Vaughan

We have played to win throughout the series and will certainly be doing that again,

Matt Murphy

The expectations certainly were on her this year. Everybody knew that she'd be the player to stop on our team. But she went out every night and produced. I knew I could always count on 20 points and at least 10 or 12 rebounds a game from her.

Horst Koehler

The fact that other people are worse off than us is certainly cold comfort for those in Germany who have to count every cent.

Robert Lacey

Monarch: The Life and Reign of Elizabeth II.

Howard Shore

I live in Tuxedo Park, N.Y. and spend time in the West Village, where my wife Elizabeth Cotnoir, a writer-producer and documentary filmmaker, has an office.

Kelly Butler

I have a sister who is Elizabeth. If my sister was waiting in traffic, she wouldn't say she waited for 40 minutes; she would say she waited for 42 minutes. I modeled Elizabeth after her.

Cindy Emfinger

I felt pretty good even when she got past Savannah because Michelle and Elizabeth and (goalie) were where they were supposed to be. (Roach) just made a nice play.

Christopher Hitchens

Say 'Toronto' or 'Ontario,' and the immediate thought associations are with a somewhat blander version of North America: a United States with a welfare regime and a more polite street etiquette, and the additionally reassuring visage of Queen Elizabeth on the currency.

Andre Leon Talley

There are no more Elizabeth Taylors. You could be fascinated by her, she lived so many lives, she lived far, she loved the jewels; she had gaudy taste but she had extraordinary talent.

Cate Blanchett

I think that the benefit of playing someone like Queen Elizabeth is that so much has been written about her, and there's so much speculation about her - was she a hermaphrodite? She's so mythologised, and there are a lot of images of her.

Charles Nelson Reilly

My friends are very rich. Elizabeth Taylor sends flowers the size of the bathtub. I'm not kidding.

Peter Roskam

I thought I had a handle on my priorities before Elizabeth and I lost our oldest son to stillbirth.

Carol P. Christ

The Goddess of Old Europe and Ancient Crete represented the unity of life in nature, delight in the diversity of form, the powers of birth, death and regeneration.

Klemens Metternich

When France has a cold, all Europe sneezes

Charles de Gaulle

It will not be any European statesman who will unite Europe: Europe will be united by the Chinese.

Charles Caleb Colton

There is one passage in the Scriptures to which all the potentates of Europe seem to have given their unanimous assent and approbation...."There went out a decree in the days of Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed."

Jean Monnet

Europe’s nations should be guided towards the superstate without their people understanding what is happening. This can be accomplished by successive steps, each disguised as having an economic purpose, but which will eventually and irreversibly lead to federation.

Suzanne Fields

Many of the Europeans who want Israel to go away don't even know why they do. Nearly a third of those interviewed concede they have no idea what the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is all about. It's enough to know that Israelis are Jews.

Ronald Zarrella

The products shipped in Europe are from a plant in Europe.

Adrian Darley

The outlook for equities in Europe remains pretty reasonable over the next 12 months.

Brian Eno

In England and Europe, we have this huge music called ambient - ambient techno, ambient house, ambient hip-hop, ambient this, ambient that.

Bo Ryan

We have played three straight NCAA Tournament teams in fairly hostile environments.

Pansy Tlakula

The process has been fairly smooth with only minor hiccups.

Robert Garrison

We did fairly well considering we've only had most of the girls for about a week and the Texas schools were in their third or fourth meet.

Jon Holmes

The performance of the national team is very important. This season soccer has been fairly abysmal.

Gunter Grass

When I am working on an epic-length book, the writing process is fairly long. It takes from four to five years to get through all the drafts. The book is done when I am exhausted.

Tom Davis

We're still in discussions with some of the other sports. Hockey, in our judgment, has a fairly weak system.

John Anania

We're looking for a relatively good year in 2006, given that wages are up and the labor market is fairly tight.

Dr. Crofford

We've got everything. We have in a fairly manageable size a number of microenvironments.

Andy Roberts

When you put your heart and soul into something for 10, 15 years, it's a career. You do it in the hopes you can be fairly evaluated and make it to the major leagues.

Tony Hawk

There's a stigma to skating. People think of it as a kid's sport. People kept telling me I couldn't possibly make a living out of it. Then they said I couldn't keep it up in my 30s. And here I am in my 40s, and I'm still improving my skills.

Catherine Booth

There is no improving the future without disturbing the present.

David Marsh

This was a strong day for us, so we should have scored a lot of points. We did, and I am very pleased with that. We will have to keep improving from here.

Tom Hall

The people who don't know about him will know by year's end. He's the total package. He's big, he's strong, he's quick, he's aggressive. Nothing but upside to him. He's a kid who I think will be big-time if he keeps working and improving every week.

James Barnes

With this investment, we are improving the quality and safety of the rail and preventing rail defects.

Andrew Dorais

She has been improving all season long and really peaked at just the right time.

Houston Nutt

We're going to have to be ready. Not only running the football, we need to keep improving our passing game. Our receivers are going to have to be ready. I just think everybody, tight ends, backs, you can't be one dimensional in this league.

Brett Pierson

People wanted more hours. There wasn't as much mention about online appointment systems or improving technology in general.

Johnny Ensing

Peter is really improving. He's improving his places and that's what I am looking at right now.

Carlos Ghosn

China will be the answer to Japan's problems.

Carlos Ghosn

You don't implement change easily in Japan unless you explain very clearly why you need to do this change, how you're going to do this change and what's going to be the outcome of this change. If you offset or you forget to explain one of these three steps you're not going to do it.

David Milne

Clearly, Japan is a most important market for digital consumer products.

David Sylvian

During the lifetime of Japan I became very neurotic, very paranoid.

David Suzuki

On December 7, 1941, an event took place that had nothing to do with me or my family and yet which had devastating consequences for all of us - Japan bombed Pearl Harbour in a surprise attack. With that event began one of the shoddiest chapters in the tortuous history of democracy in North America.

David Suzuki

Each time I visit Japan, I am reminded of how Canadian I am and how little racial connection matters.

Tao Okamoto

I started modeling with a very negative part of me - I didn't really like myself or how I looked because I was very tall for a Japanese girl.

Akio Morita

If you don't want Japan to buy it, don't sell it.

Akio Morita

Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.

Robert Johnston

We have no plans for any major shakeup at this point,

Tim Wilson

We were at a crossroads, whether we were going to have to doze it in or do some major repairs.

Tariq Anwar

Bio-Technology is expected to play a major role in improving productivity.

Eliot Spitzer

While 2013 will not see a major national election, we can be sure that most Republicans will obstruct and some Democrats will appease.

Erin Morgenstern

I don't have any particular rituals, I sometimes like to write in longhand when I'm searching for ideas but I do the vast majority by typing, I can't always keep up with my thoughts longhand. I'm not a coffee shop writer because I feel obliged to order more coffee and then I end up over-caffeinated.

Chick Hearn

You can't please everybody all the time, but you can please a majority.

Luc Ferrari

When the Domaine Musical started up, I wasn't part of it. They were the major players in contemporary music at that time, braodcasting old and new composers' work. And I wasn't one of them.

Peper Long

We're still shooting for December, barring anything major or unforeseen.

Bertolt Brecht

With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.

Timothy Noah

Markets can do many wonderful things, which is why I'm glad to live in a capitalist country.

Firas Askari

Obviously, a little more tepid than what markets were expecting.

Brian Finnerty

I don't think it's the reason the markets are down, but I think it's a big weight around the market's neck. It's like an anvil.

Mary Schapiro

I don't feel any pressure at all to go along with anybody. I feel pressure to do the right thing for U.S. markets and U.S. investors.

F. Stone

We need to do something about how these live markets are treating species.

Barry Ritholtz

Markets are frequently ahead of, and often out of sync with, the economy.

Barry Ritholtz

Getting more and more of our news from the social network is having significant repercussions for markets - and your money.

Mario Zawadzki

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

Alan Ackerman

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

John Pomfret

Working overseas is more difficult in that it's much more complicated to get people to open their hearts to you and to tell you information.

Chris Moller

It's important to understand that it's actually the broadcasters, the overseas broadcasters that have said 'no'.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Mathematics is the queen of science, and arithmetic the queen of mathematics.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Mathematics is the queen of the sciences

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Mathematics is the queen of the sciences and arithmetic [number theory] is the queen of mathematics. She often condescends to render service to astronomy and other natural sciences, but in all relations, she is entitled to first rank.

C. S. Lewis

But as for Lucy, she was always gay and golden-haired, and all princes in those parts desired her to be their Queen, and her own people called her Queen Lucy the Valiant.

C. S. Lewis

His face had become very red and his mouth and fingers were sticky. He did not look either clever or handsome, whatever the Queen might say.

Alan Titchmarsh

I'm a big fan of the Queen. She carries herself well, as does the Prince of Wales, despite getting lots of stick.

Charles Sumner

Give me the money that has been spent in war and I will clothe every man, woman, and child in an attire of which kings and queens will be proud. I will build a schoolhouse in every valley over the whole earth. I will crown every hillside with a place of worship consecrated to peace.

Ricky Gervais

I feel sorry for people in power. I feel sorry for the Queen, in a way, that she hasn't had a normal life. It'd difficult for me to hate anyone. Immediately someone's unpopular, I feel sorry for them.

Brande Roderick

I'll take being on Baywatch over being Prom Queen any day.

Christine Baldauf

We're getting there. It's been a long two weeks off where we didn't play crossovers, so we had two weeks without games. We're slowly getting back into it.

Billy Collins

I learned snails don't have ears. They live in silence. They go slowly. Slowly, slowly in silence.

Dan Johnson

We're approaching this slowly and methodically. There's a lot of work to be done.

Mike Hill

I think it went really well. The word is slowly spreading. We're starting to get more people.

Dawn Staley

This team is the most undisciplined team that we've had. They're just really undisciplined. They're not a team. This is the first team that's not a team, so we're going to get to the problem. We'll slowly but surely get to it, but we'll get to it.

Tim Brewer

We've got a pretty solid team all-around. We like to get up and down the court.

Paul Woods

Shannon has always been real solid for us,

David Granger

Make sure they're solid so they make you look substantial, not too slight.

Trevor Carritt

Cedar Rapids Prairie is a solid team with no weak weight classes.

Nic Beaver

We have to be solid between our ears. If we play our game, I'm not worried at all.

Martin Pyykkonen

This seems, on balance, a solid report, with nothing wrong in the quarter,

John Blackburn

We competed well in non-conference play and have had solid practices.

J. J. Johnson

We are solid up front. It has just taken some time to feel comfortable in our system.

Rory Bruer

I think it's a good, solid start for us,

Joel Edgerton

To me, 'Warrior' was a real turning point - probably one of the greatest experiences I've ever had as an actor on set.

Andrew Klink

When we got that fumble, that was the turning point.

Bjork

Now that rock is turning 50, it's become classical in itself. It's interesting to see that development.

Jack Olsen

We're turning over every rock, so to speak.

Elisa Massimino

I think things are really turning on this.

Steve Cox

I think Knute Rockne is turning over in his grave.

Douglas Muzzio

Voters understand that turning a bureaucracy like that around is like turning around a battleship,

Barry Trotz

That was the turning point. That was a big save.

Agatha Christie

I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.

John Bradshaw

In a sense, all of my books have been about a 'poisonous pedagogy,' which engenders a culture of obedience, this underlying theme of patriarchal systems.

Liz Williams

Because contemporary paganism is essentially so new, its underlying ethical structure is not particularly sophisticated.

Mark Bradford

Everything I do has an underlying political question.

Todd Williams

It's something within his joint, most probably the cartilage, and it could be something underlying from the old injury.

Edward Miller

They want to use it, but it can't be put out there. It's going to be an underlying part of the campaign.