Famous Quotes & Sayings

Beeban Kidron

We are increasingly offered a diet [by Hollywood] in which sensation, not story, is king.

B. B. King

I'd rather be B.B. King. That's the way I started. Let the heavy metal guys play heavy metal, let the others play the other ... I try to do what I do better, not get away from it.

B. B. King

I was glad to see other blues guitarists like Albert King have crossover successes like me. We played in the same places like the Whisky and the Filmore. When Albert made his guitar cry, he could cut you so deep!

B. B. King

I guess you can look at me, and tell I'm the old man. My name is BB King.

Big Sean

I really just appreciate good jewelry, clarity, gold. I think gold is made for kings and pharaohs - that's what I am. That's why I rock gold and, you know, stuff like that.

Big Sean

I think gold is made for kings and pharaohs - that's what I am.

C. S. Lewis

Let there be wicked kings and beheadings, battles and dungeons, giants and dragons, and let the villans be soundly killed at the end of the book. I think it is possible that by confining your child to the blameless stories of life in which nothing at all alarming ever happens, you would fail to banish the terrors, and would succeed in banishing all that can ennoble them or make them endurable.

C. S. Lewis

The New Testament writers speak as if Christ's achievement in rising from the dead was the first event of its kind in the whole history of the universe. He is the 'first fruits,' the pioneer of life,' He has forced open a door that has been locked since the death of the first man. He has met, fought, and beaten the King of Death. Everything is different because He has done so.

C. S. Lewis

As the king governs by his executive, so Reason in man must rule the mere appetites by means of the 'spirited element.'

Ronald Reagan

Status quo, you know, that is Latin for ''the mess we're in.''

Susie Porter

Places like Yale have hosted it in the past, and this year we were able to do so because of our strong development in Latin American Studies.

Dolores Huerta

went back to our old culture, the Latino culture.

Bianca Jagger

I think for the U.S. government the Sandinistas represented a threat to their dominance of Latin America.

Bianca Jagger

Most governments in Latin America have failed to recognize the rights of indigenous people and their right to their own traditional territories.

Carl Orff

The subject matter covered in Carmina stays pretty basic: love, lust, the pleasures of drinking and the heightened moods evoked by springtime. These primitive and persistently relevant themes are nicely camouflaged by the Latin and old German texts, so the listener can actually feign ignorance while listening to virtually X-rated lyrics. (Veni Veni Venias! Come, come come now!)The music itself toggles between huge forces and a single voice, juxtaposing majesty and intimacy with ease...

Carl Sagan

Science is only a Latin word for knowledge

Bill Bryson

English grammar is so complex and confusing for the one very simple reason that its rules and terminology are based on Latin, a language with which it has precious little in common.

Sebastian Pinera

I would say that the U.S. has overlooked Latin America. Their priorities have always been somewhere else. And that is a problem and that is a mistake.

Alan Cumming

I come more to Scotland than I ever used to, so I feel more connected to it, more part of the zeitgeist. You know when you realize you have a choice and I'm choosing my homeland. It's funny: when you get older these things creep up to you.

David Bowie

I had a fantasy that i'd drift up to Scotland and spend my life as a faux bodhisattua.

Alex Ferguson

But there is always that unpredictability about a derby match and that's what it was today.

Alex Salmond

We are Scotland's independence generation. And our time is now

Annie Lennox

The poetic side of me is Scottish.

Douglas Alexander

It was here in Edinburgh that in the 1980s I joined with many others to protest against Margaret Thatcher as she arrived to address the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.

Ciaran Hinds

I'm looking forward to locking swords with Douglas Henshall and working against the stunning backdrop of Shetland. I came to Scotland a lot in the 70s and 80s in various theatre productions and of course to film Hallam Foe but this is the furthest I've ever been.

Anne Boyd

But I fear, my lot being cast in Scotland, that beauty would not be content.

Ambrose Bierce

KILT, n. A costume sometimes worn by Scotchmen in America and Americans in Scotland.