Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Schumer

We have to get the feeling that they are on a path, in a reasonable period of time, to stop manipulating the currency, to let it float freely. It's a delicate game, it's a delicate gambit, because the Chinese are very sensitive about being pressured into things.

Zhou Xiaochuan

What the premier said means that China would continue to increase the flexibility of the RMB exchange rate in a gradual manner.

Brian Dolan

We've seen dollar/yen slip on that China comment.

Alan Tonelson

We have had 15 years of Chinese promises to improve intellectual property protection. They have all proved to be false.

Li Changchun

The CPC and Chinese government have always affixed prodigious moment to the inveterate friendly relations with Africa,

Lucie Morillon

We have so many cyber-dissidents in jail that we are trying to get out of there, and knowing that some of them are in jail with the help of Western companies is really frustrating. It's one thing to want to make money, to make profits. It's quite another one to become a weapon in the hands of the Chinese authorities.

George Bald

We have so many companies at Pease that are involved in international business. China is the world?s seventh-largest economy today and will likely be the fifth by the end (of 2006).

Tim Adams

The real issue is 'How do you help China integrate into the global economy in a way that maximizes growth and minimizes disruptions?

Jan Lambregts

There is a lot of focus on the visit and understandably so. China has shown last year that it will give into significant outside pressure. It wants to do as little as possible and escape a protectionist fall out.

Bruce Beresford

Everyone has seen photographs of Mexicans wearing those big sombreros. When you come to Mexico, the astonishing thing is, nobody wears these hats at all.

Craig Ferguson

A lot of the U.S. used to be part of Mexico, including Arizona. But they're a bit touchy about that right now.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I don't understand how they can call me anti-Latino, when I've made four movies in Mexico.

Michael Roberts

I find there's always something to do in Mexico City, at any hour.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

As a city, it is always compelling. But every day in Mexico City, I give thanks that I am alive.

Rob Allyn

We only read about problems on the border, drug smuggling, poverty and immigration, and we don't see that Mexico in many ways is a solution for the United States as much as it is a problem.

Josefina Vazquez Mota

I do not want to be president because I am a woman. Being a woman is important, but it's not the most important. I want to be president because we have the talent and the platform and the vision of a Mexico that we want for all Mexicans, not only for a select few.

Nobu Matsuhisa

Have you ever been to Mexico City and haggled with the locals over souvenirs? Well, in Peru, you had to negotiate like that to get the freshest fish at the market.

LisaRaye McCoy-Misick

I am such a vacation girl. I have little places that I go to frequently! If I am not too busy on a weekend, I try to go someplace like Mexico or Manzanillo or something like that.

Tom Sr

For me, I wasn't sure about the whole sliding thing. I didn't know if it (the knee) was going to pop.

Rich Brooks

There's no way we could have (practiced) on that a year ago, ... We'd have been sliding and standing in water.

Georg Hackl

I have one more title to defend. Every year there is a wok sliding championship. I am a two-time world champion.

Al Jarreau

I sang do-wop on the street corner before it was called do-wop.

Bob Marley

You can't find the right roads when the streets are paved.

Frank Roder

We've been complaining about 12th street for many, many years.

Darrell Sanders

We're taking it off the street one gram at a time.

Billy Joel

Why should I worry? Why should I care?There's just this street population, and I've got 'street savoir-faire'.

Elaine Stritch

New Yorkers stop me on the street all the time to say, 'You're terrific! You're the nuts!'

Nas

The sound of the '90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street - it's a feeling.

Dan Jenkins

I get 'USA Today,' the 'New York Times,' 'Wall Street Journal' and the 'Star-Telegram' at my doorstep. I can't do without them.

Angelo Vaughn

He was a street cop. He was someone you want to emulate.

Lynsey Addario

The fact is that trauma and risk taking hadn't become scarier over the years; it had become more normal.

Steve Hall

We're still on a trend that is taking us downward.

Diane Tuller

She's only going to get better. I don't like taking her off the court.

Ron Everhart

We're just waiting to see what happens. He's taking his time.

Joseph Bruno

years and years. He was not taking anything.

Debra Shaw

Never thought I would be taking this trip again,

Martin Kelly

I am taking it more as it comes (because it was unexpected),

Slobodan Milosevic

More time has been wasted by taking away my right to self-defense.

Steve Smith

I have a one-track mind. I was not taking the hitch. I wanted to go for the goal.

Carlos Castaneda

For an instant I think I saw. I saw the loneliness of man as a gigantic wave which had been frozen in front of me, held back by the invisible wall of a metaphor.

Carlos Castaneda

Intent is what sends a shaman through a wall, through space, to infinity.

Carlos Castaneda

Warriors do not win victories by beating their heads against walls, but by overtaking the walls. Warriors jump over walls; they don't demolish them.

Carlos Castaneda

Intent is not a thought, or an object, or a wish. Intent is what can make a man succeed when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated. It operates in spite of the warrior's indulgence. Intent is what makes him invulnerable. Intent is what sends a shaman through a wall, through space, to infinity.

C. S. Lewis

When the police arrived and found no lion, no broken wall, and no convicts, and the Head behaving like a lunatic, there was an inquiry into the whole thing. And in the inquiry all sorts of things about Experiment House came out, and about ten people got expelled. After that, the Head's friends saw that the Head was no use as a Head, so they got her made an Inspector to interfere with other Heads. And when they found she wasn't much good even at that, they got her into Parliament where she lived happily ever after.

Agnes Macphail

The way to get things out of a government is to back them to the wall, put your hands to their throats, and you will get all they have.

Aaron Sorkin

We live in a world that has walls and those walls need to be guarded by men with guns.

Aaron Sorkin

Rule of storytelling: When a character is shoved against a wall, shove them against a wall harder.

Charlotte Bronte

Too often do reviewers remind us of the mob of Astrologers, Chaldeans, and Soothsayers gathered before 'the writing on the wall' and unable to read the characters or make known the interpretation.