Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Brokaw

My mother and father, with my newborn brother and me in the backseat of the 1938 Ford sedan that would be our family car for the next decade, moved to that hastily constructed Army ammunition depot called Igloo, on the alkaline and sagebrush landscape of far southwestern South Dakota. I was three years old.

Nicolle Wallace

Everybody wants to do 'The View.' It's this iconic show. When I worked at the White House, I used to watch the beginning to see what they were talking about. If a political topic was on their radar, I used it as ammunition with the president or the White House staff.

Christien Meindertsma

I followed this one pig with number '05049,' all the way up until the end and to what products it's made of. And in these years, I met all kinds people like, for instance, farmers and butchers, which seems logical. But I also met aluminum mold makers, ammunition producers and all kinds of people.

Ralph Hall

We apparently have lost 357 jobs and that is 357 disasters, ... We need to keep our team together and go to battle for those people and find something for them. They are on my mind more than any aspect of this ... I am concerned about Lone Star (Army Ammunition Plant).

Todd Cartner

We knew where the ammunition was and were able to get the fire out before it spread to that area.

Paul Ashworth

This will no doubt give protectionists in Congress some ammunition as the mid term elections approach.

Roger Toussaint

What the MTA has decided to do is pour poison on the deal in order to provide ammunition to the opposition, in hopes of having the contract voted down. It seems as if a decision was made by the state to sink the contract.

Christopher Harame

He had that (machine gun) straight up in the air. All of the ammunition was gone, but he was shouting at the top of his voice.

Mike Knezevich

Ridicule first, then shame and condescension are the weapons and ammunition - in the mental manipulation and psychological terrorism of the oppressed. Self-esteem, truth and fellowship among peers are their able defenses - in a counter-attack on the lies: of fear, inferiority and a mandatory deference - intended by the oppressors.

Rowan D. Williams

More perhaps than any war for centuries, the conflict that ended sixty years ago had for us in Britain the clear character of a moral struggle.

Jennifer Morgan

My hope is that the end product won't look like the draft. I am counting on Germany, France and Britain to ensure that this text is put into shape.

James Bamford

Maybe nothing will come of it. Maybe the next time he tries to enter the United States or Britain he will be denied, without explanation. Maybe he will be arrested.

Sarah Harrison

If Britain is going to investigate journalists as terrorists - take and destroy our documents, force us to give up passwords and answer questions - how can we be sure we can protect our sources?

Maajid Nawaz

For years, Islamists and other extremists have taken advantage of grievances of Muslims in Britain and have successfully identified ways to integrate them under one 'Islamic' banner.

Stephen Kinzer

From the 1920s into the 1940s, Britain's standard of living was supported by oil from Iran. British cars, trucks, and buses ran on cheap Iranian oil. Factories throughout Britain were fueled by oil from Iran. The Royal Navy, which projected British power all over the world, powered its ships with Iranian oil.

Ed Miliband

We have to create security for the working families of Britain, and that's what I'll do

David Bowie

I rate Morrissey as one of the best lyricists in Britain. For me, he's up there with Bryan Ferry.

Aguri Suzuki

I have made several trips to Britain in the last few months and, as far as the paperwork is concerned, I am clear. But there is little else we can do without Honda's assistance.

Robert Osborne

I did love 'The Artist.' I've seen it four times, and every time I see it, it gets better and better.

Kumail Nanjiani

When I started working on 'Michael And Michael,' it was my life for three to four months, and then suddenly it's gone.

Doug Smith

Let's spend the next four years working to polish the jewel that is Portsmouth. Let's go make great things happen.

Christopher Smith

Lots of drug sales, gang violence. We have had our house shot four times.

LaDainian Tomlinson

Losing your last three out of four games, well, it's incredible. I don't know where we go from here, but I think we need to have a gut check.

Bob Burke

Last year sales were up 32 percent. Sales for the fourth quarter were up more than 50 percent.

Joyce Thompson

Last year we worked with three or four (volunteers) and that wasn't really enough because some had to do it in Midland.

James Jackson

Last year, we lost a lot of games by one, two, three, four points on a regular basis. This year, a lot of those losses we turned into wins.

Thaksin Shinawatra

Seventy four of the culprits were killed and four were wounded,

Isabella Rossellini

There is often a great disparity between a director's personal style and the movies he makes.

Kristy Swanson

I can't ask for every movie I make to be great and brilliant. I can only try.

Mallory Ortberg

In the hands of a passive-aggressive person who wants to abdicate responsibility for things, texting is a great tool. You can really go nuts.

Malorie Blackman

Being the Children's Laureate has been educational, sometimes hectic, but most of all, great fun.

Jerry Reinsdorf

Like I said, Dennis has been of great value to our team.

Danny Kaye

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.

Danny Kaye

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.

Scott Peck

Life is difficult. This is the great truth, one of the greatest truthsit is a great truth because once we see this truth, we transcend it.

William Congreve

Let us be very strange and well-bred: Let us be as strange as if we had been married a great while; and as well-bred as if we were not married at all.

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

The hardest thing about being a full time chef is leaving my work behind when I go home at night. I'll toss and turn about a menu item or forget to order produce and wake up at 4 A.M. in a cold sweat over some artichokes.

Alexandra Paul

I know I'm an actor, but I'm not at all a believer in people watching a lot of TV. I've never had television in my home.

Alexandra Adornetto

(Beth) "I don't care anymore." I turned my face up toward Heaven. "That's not my home anymore. You are.

Italo Calvino

I feel so at home in New York that I don't have the urge to write about it.

Dave Gahan

Like every New Yorker, I have a love/hate relationship with the city. There are times it's overbearing, but when I'm away even for a little while, I can't wait to get home. I am a New Yorker.

Andy Landers

Let's be honest. It will be very much like a home game.

Benjamin Franklin

Let thy maidservant be faithful, strong, and homely

Joseph Gallagher

Lumber is up by about 25 percent over two weeks ago and carpeting and all the things that go into a home are up and spiked.

Greg McBride

Make sure you're in your home long enough to recoup those costs.

Abdul Kalam

When a nation is surrounded by weaponized nations, she has to equip herself.

Friedrich Nietzsche

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

John Bolton

There is no such thing as the United Nations.

David Miliband

We are a European nation - must stay one.

Cesare Beccaria

Happy is the nation without a history.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.

Edmund Burke

A nation is not conquered which is perpetually to be conquered.

Boris Johnson

I'm a one-nation Tory.

Adolf Hitler

Politics is history in the making.

Isabella Rossellini

It always amazed me that people believed I was this beautiful object.

Isabella Rossellini

I'm always a little worried when people have met me in person because I'm worried they'll be disappointed.

Rick Perlstein

Do people still read before bed? I play 'Words With Friends.'

Robert Mankoff

People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist.

Robert Mankoff

I don't think most people know what's going to be in their obituary, but I do.

Robert Teeter

There are not enough people out talking about the President positively.

Roger Penrose

Some people take the view that we happen by accident. I think that there is something much deeper, of which we have very little inkling at the moment.

Kristy Swanson

My parents were like the kind of people who read the 'Enquirer' and believed everything it said.

Malorie Blackman

I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.