Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Light

I think the 20,000 employees of immigration and customs enforcement have got to be scratching their heads, and saying, am I going to take orders from this particular person who has never held a gun in her hand?

Viktor Khristenko

Launching the Customs Union to the full will take at least two or three years.

Kevin Kwan

I think snobbery is one of the oldest customs in the world, and the rich will always find ways to rank each other and make themselves feel more special than others.

Chelsea Levine

I have always wanted to experience living in another country. I want to learn their customs and the way they do things.

Samuel Freeman Miller

History teaches us, in no mistaken language, how often customs and practices, which were originated without lawful warrant, and opposed to the sound construction of the law, have come to overload and pervert it, as commentators on the text of Holy Scripture have established doctrines wholly at variance with its true spirit.

Lynn Flewelling

The real world is the fantasy writer's scrapbook. Real history, real geography, real customs and religions are all invaluable sources of guidance and inspiration.

Nancy Kress

Even if your novel occurs in an unfamiliar setting in which all the customs and surroundings will seem strange to your reader, it's still better to start with action. The reason for this is simple. If the reader wanted an explanation of milieu, he would read nonfiction. He doesn't want information. He wants a story.

Michael Osterholm

To be able to move smallpox simply means to have a device within a writing ink pen that could very easily pass any customs officer, could easily pass through a metal detector, and you could have enough smallpox in there to start the world's worst epidemic.

Leila Janah

We think the way out of poverty is to view the poor as producers, and the Internet is probably the most efficient tool we have for tapping this capacity. Because you don't need roads. You don't need customs officials who are friendly. You don't need to manage shipping and delivery schedules. You don't have to worry about tariffs.

Dan Griswold

More ships dock at the Port of Dubai than at any other port outside the U.S..

Douglas Coupland

I have trouble with seafood because it tastes like a dock.

Derek Taylor

The docks were said to be quite tough, but there were pubs you didn't go into if you were a respectable... but um, I never felt a sense of danger in Liverpool.

Andy Rooney

I've learned .... That when you harbor bitterness, happiness will dock elsewhere.

William Shakespeare

Nothing teems But hateful docks, rough thistles, kecksies, burs, Losing both beauty and utility.

Mitch Glenn

There's a giant by this dock that I've got to try for. I'm talking 3 pounds.

Sue Clark

We see all those people going down that river everyday and not a place to stop so, we're excited about having a place for them to dock and visit us.

Piet Smith

It's quite a large fire on the side of the mountain facing the dock area.

Richard Meyer

It's going to be good. When I retire I can just wheel my luggage down to the dock and go for a cruise.

Howard Dean

Some of the generals have said we can withdraw some of the troops. ... We have others saying, we're not going to leave. These people do not know what they are doing,

Sergei Ivanov

We should reduce the number of generals and admirals to maintain the ratio of one senior officer per thousand servicemen.

Franjo Tudjman

I haven't mentioned another argument, The Hague tribunal. It is clear our generals and all of you who are sitting here now with me could end up there, too.

Umar Juoro

There is a conflict, there's no question about it. The generals are unhappy.

Marianne Williamson

Abraham Lincoln went through 12 generals before he got Ulysses S. Grant. He had never done a Civil War before.

Bill Herrion

At times we looked like the Washington Generals on defense. Their guys were wheeling around in the post and laying it in.

Ken Bacon

Enterprising generals and admirals will always find ways -- very good ways -- to spend more money.

Philip Gibbs

The cheery optimism of our generals always thought we were going forward, and therefore it was not worth while making ourselves comfortable and safe.

Sarah Davis

People have been cooped up in their house all winter. They want to get out and this is the perfect weekend.

Kathleen Blanco

Start making preparations to leave now ... Prepare your family, prepare your house for evacuation.

Jim Hagan

Some legislators left the State House to join us and get on the right side of the issue,

Dan Hawkins

I might actually have them pull that house around the track.

Billy Corgan

I grew up in a house of no love or emotion - it kind of sticks with you.

Cecelia Ahern

There is absolutely nothing wrong with returning to the house you grew up in every now and again. It's good for the soul.

Carrie Brownstein

For a while I had somebody that came to clean my house that turned out to be in a band that I really loved.

Carrie Fisher

I am a spy in the house of me. I report back from the front lines of the battle that is me. I am somewhat nonplused by the event that is my life.

Bernard Berenson

[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached.

Robert Bach

Japanese software will be developed. It will be a breakthrough in Japan.

Steve Sawyer

The Americans, Saudis and Japanese have got what they want.

John Danforth

I was to Japanese visitors to Washington what the Mona Lisa is to Americans visiting Paris.

Shu Qi

I have a lot of Japanese fans, but in Korea they seem to go crazy for me. I don't know what it is, but they seem to like my style.

Clyde Prestowitz

I think the Japanese are in a very tough dilemma,

Pam Gregory

She got to see some of the Japanese skaters doing quad jumps and triple Axels, and it got her motivated.

Makoto Watanabe

She has shown that at 36, it is not too late for a Japanese woman to get married and have a family,

Liu Jinping

Since then there's been no boycotts of Japanese products at all.

Toshihiro Wada

We are going overweight in Japanese stocks, which have a strong momentum and solid fundamentals.

Nicola Sturgeon

One of Ed Miliband's shadow ministers has said he would never vote for the renewal of Trident.

Lemuel K. Washburn

If there were no ministers and no priests, how long would there be any churches?

Alexander Downer

Yeah, well I'm not aspiring to be the Prime Minister.

Tom Paulin

Teachers are the ministers and priests of culture, its practitioners and its emissaries.

Brian Clough

Resignations are for Prime Ministers and those caught with their trousers down, not for me.

Lord Caradon

Better to make prime ministers out of prisoners than prisoners out of prime ministers.

Francis Atterbury

The priesthood hath in all nations, and all religions, been held highly venerable.

Little Richard

No, I've never truly been a minister.

Margaret Thatcher

Advisers advise, and ministers decide.

Stefan Hell

Calling on each molecule one by one? No way. I just told all of them to be quiet - except for a selected few.

Jim Kerr

She's a leader, and she doesn't have to say much to be one. She's been selected as our teammate of the year for several years, and that's something that's voted on by the players.

Nate Robinson

The whole time from when I was selected for it, I've been watching film of Spud Webb.