Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kurt Schrader

I'm for fighting a war on terrorism, not a war in Southwest Asia that Alexander the Great couldn't win, the British Empire couldn't win, the Soviet Union couldn't win. That's stupid. It's a waste of resources; a waste of America's best and brightest.

Katherine Schwarzenegger

My go-to shoes for everyday would probably have to be either my white Converse that I've had since high school or my black Alexander McQueen flats with the skull on the top. It depends on my day.

Phil Funkenbusch

When 'The Man Who Came To Dinner' opened on Broadway, everyone knew Alexander Woollcott. Today, no one knows him. And I'm not sure who is like that today. He was one of a kind, and it's such a different world.

Greek proverb

If Alexander wishes to be a god, let him set up as a god

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

I can easily imagine Socrates in Alexander's place; Alexander in that of Socrates - never

Denis O'Hare

When I did 'Racing Demon' by David Hare, I worked with Paul Giamatti, who had stacks of books in his dressing room. I was offstage a lot, so I would go read in his room. He was reading a four-part series on the Byzantine Empire by Alexander A. Vasiliev. I read two of those during the run of the play.

Adam Jaffe

Today's collaborative technologies are presenting a real challenge for patent law, ... and for the kinds of thinking that emerged at the time of Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell, when individual inventions seemed much more distinct, much less complex.

Sid Waddell

I want the little lassies who are thinking of going to a nightclub in Cardiff to stop to see what that guy's screaming for, or Grandma to put her knitting down to see why that guy's chatting about Alexander the Great. I'm after pulling in, whether it's in Manila, Beijing or whatever, the biggest possible audience.

David Carradine

'Born to play? Hmmm. Probably Romeo... or Hamlet, I guess. Also, I'd be a great Alexander the Great.

Rick Perlstein

When downed American pilots were first taken prisoner in North Vietnam in 1964, U.S. policy became pretty much to ignore them - part and parcel of President Lyndon B. Johnson's determination to keep the costs of his increasingly futile military escalation in Southeast Asia from the public.

Jay Rasulo

Like Disney's other theme parks and resorts around the world, Hong Kong Disneyland will offer the excitement of a day and night full of magic and begin what we hope will be a lifetime full of memories that will touch the hearts of millions, ... We will put a new face on family entertainment in Asia and bring smiles to the faces of all who come to visit us.

Andrew Gowers

Lex is one of the most important calling cards. It's very popular in the States and has an increasing name in Asia and Europe. We now produce more Lex online because the world is going online.

Steve Grossman

Let me be clear, the audit did not single out Asian Americans as Asian Americans.

Barry Hyman

Liberty is a compelling opportunity to penetrate or consolidate Europe, Asia and South American cable markets, but since it trades in the U.S. and it is dollar denominated, the foreign benefits will be somewhat muted.

Robert Niles

Let's face it. The obsession that the industry, especially cable channels, have to stories about missing, pretty white girls has gotten a little ridiculous. I don't know that the solution, though, is to start covering every missing black, Hispanic and Asian woman, too. Perhaps this is a moment for editors to take a moment and say, hey, wait, are we really doing the right thing here?

Haruhiko Kuroda

Minister Miyazawa told me that Japan's foreign exchange policy was unchanged, and that excessive weakness of the yen was undesirable for the Japanese economy as well as for the Asian and world economy,

Yasushi Fujibayashi

Mr. Tsurumi focused on those who lead their lives independently without being caught up in the frameworks of the state. And he presented the structure of Southeast Asia through things like shrimp and sea cucumbers.

Paul Newman

McDonald's new Asian Salad plus Newman's Own low fat Sesame Ginger salad dressing is a marriage of taste - just like mine.

Steve Grossman

Let me be clear, the audit did not single out Asian Americans as Asian Americans.

Robert Niles

Let's face it. The obsession that the industry, especially cable channels, have to stories about missing, pretty white girls has gotten a little ridiculous. I don't know that the solution, though, is to start covering every missing black, Hispanic and Asian woman, too. Perhaps this is a moment for editors to take a moment and say, hey, wait, are we really doing the right thing here?

Haruhiko Kuroda

Minister Miyazawa told me that Japan's foreign exchange policy was unchanged, and that excessive weakness of the yen was undesirable for the Japanese economy as well as for the Asian and world economy,

Paul Newman

McDonald's new Asian Salad plus Newman's Own low fat Sesame Ginger salad dressing is a marriage of taste - just like mine.

Randall Park

My hope is that shows like 'Fresh Off the Boat' open the door for even more of those kinds of characters for Asian actors and actresses.

Ernie Goss

No other state in the nation stands to derive as much of an economic stimulus from the opening of the Asian beef market as Nebraska. However, economic gains are going to be slow going as food-processing firms attempt to re-establish a beef presence in these foreign markets.

Haruhiko Kuroda

Now that many of the East Asian countries have enough reserves, there is no need to massively increase the reserves from here for many countries.

Taufik Hidayat

Now, they hold the World Cup every year, so it's like any Super Series. It's boring. To me, it's very boring. I think the players will always attend the World Cup. But for the fans, and also for most players, the Olympics and Asian Games will become more important. Nobody will look forward to the World Cup with anticipation.

Terry Lanni

I can't explain (it), but there's obviously something empirically fascinating to people in the Asian culture as far as gambling. They're big risk-takers in their businesses ... and they do the same in gaming.

Robert Palmer

I had an invitation to contribute a track to a Robert Johnson tribute album, and it was the first time I'd done anything like that in my life. I was not brought up with the blues or anything like that, and I really, really enjoyed it.

Robert Klein

I was brought up at 3525 Decatur Avenue, in the north Bronx, right next to Woodlawn Cemetery.

Robert Toombs

This position of this Northern party brought about the troubles of 1850, and the political excitement of 1854.

Robert Toombs

The mongers brought them together upon a mutual surrender of their principles.

Rohit Shetty

We are seeing a changed Mumbai, but having showcased Dharavi in 'Slum Dog Millionaire' brought shame and disgrace to our city. Whenever the firangs visit Mumbai, they must visit Dharavi; it has become a sightseeing spot. However, I feel saddened about it.

Jake McDorman

'Manhattan Love Story' has a very special place in my heart for many reasons. We were very sad to see it go. It brought me to New York, and there's nothing better than getting to go to work and fall for Analeigh Tipton every day.

Dave Power

Maggie really gave us a big boost. She picked up that third foul and I was a little worried about it. But we brought her in and she was instant offense for us. That's what seniors do.

Felix Umansky

Life for these Jewish gauchos was very hard. They had no tractors, suffered from locusts and made a pittance of a living - so my father went to find work in Rosario, married there and eventually brought the whole family over.

Ian Millward

Liam was a big part of our plans for next year. It is a big loss for the club. He was brought in for his talent and we were excited about having him here next year.

Sharon Salzberg

The first of the four noble truths of Buddhism, that there is suffering in life, was enormously important to me. No one had ever said it out loud. That had been my experience, of course, but no one had ever talked about it. I didn't know what to do with all the fear and emotions within, and here was the Buddha saying this truth right out loud.

Leo Buscaglia

You can be a follower of Muhammad or Jesus or Buddha or whomever. Always, they said that the most essential factor is to love your neighbor. And to love you.

Bodhidharma

A Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.

Pico Iyer

It's an old principle, as old as the Buddha or Marcus Aurelius: We need at times to step away from our lives in order to put them in perspective. Especially if we wish to be productive.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Maybe I am a prophet. I really hope one day there will come Confucius, Muhammad, Buddha and Christ to see me. And we will sit at a table, taking tea and eating some brownies.

Robert M. Pirsig

The Buddha resides as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain.

Zen Proverb

There is Buddha for those who don't know what he is, really. There is no Buddha for those who know what he is, really

Jillian Schurle

The Buddha was definitely with us tonight. Luck certainly didn't hurt in what we were trying to accomplish. We sensed that things were changing when Jenna got No. 3.

Shekhar Kapur

I often wonder when I make a film - I'm thinking of making a film of the Buddha - and I often wonder: If Buddha had all the elements that are given to a director - if he had music, if he had visuals, if he had a video camera - would we get Buddhism better?

Robert Fisk

American power in the Middle East is collapsing. It doesn't need much more than a shove, and it will - and that's not going to be a good thing.

Kent Baer

(Lynch has) great vision, tremendous speed. You've got to make him run east and west, not north and south. He's a game-breaker kind of back, the kind of back you'd love to have on your team. He's a tremendous ballplayer.

Hiroyuki Kitakata

Losing Iran supplies will have a massive impact on the market, and there is no way that other Middle East producers are going to be able to make up for that loss.

Kacey Musgraves

Lee Ann Womack is from near where I grew up in East Texas, so I've always looked up to her. I sang a lot of Dolly Parton as a kid and a lot of traditional western swing, like Patsy Cline and Roy Rogers.

Tony Blair

So for those who sometimes say that the process in the Middle East is hopeless we say we can look at Northern Ireland and take some hope from that.

Kevin Pittsnogle

Momentum helps, but last season, we went to the Big East with no momentum. We're in the same situation again.

Aaron Gray

One of our goals is to get a bye in the first round of the Big East Tournament.

Stacey Snider

Munich. If you're on either side in an extremist way on the issue of the source of the Middle East conflict, you're not going to just be upset, you're going to be really upset. Is that the reason not to make it? That was the gist of all of our conversations.

Frank Holmes

Money will flow to where there are solid returns on capital. There are great opportunities in Eastern Europe and other emerging markets. We're seeing economic growth twice that of the U.S. but stocks are trading at a discount.

Frank Holmes

Money will flow to where there are solid returns on capital. There are great opportunities in Eastern Europe and other emerging markets. We're seeing economic growth twice that of the U.S. but stocks are trading at a discount.

Brad Taylor

From what we can see, it's a trend that is moving into Eastern Washington from Western Washington.

John Fusco

I grew up in the unlikely place of Connecticut. The Eastern Woodlands. It was semi-rural where I grew up. I was fascinated by the Piqua and the Mohegan Indians of that area.

Suzy Merchant

She's the face of Eastern Michigan basketball. She can do it all.

George Grey

I remarked constantly, just at sunset, in these latitudes, that the eastern horizon was brilliantly illuminated with a kind of mock sunset. This in a short time disappeared, to be soon succeeded by another similar in character, but more faint.

Goldie Hawn

I've been practicing modalities of Eastern philosophy since about 1972. What I've learned through my meditation is a sense of equanimity, a sense of all things being equal.

F. Sionil Jose

Literature - Eastern and Western - abounds with stories, myths, legends about the search for youth, for eternal life.

Mark Connolly

What we have seen in Eastern Europe, particularly in some of the former Soviet republics, is just a very accelerated increase in infection, primarily through intravenous drug use.

Shalrie Joseph

We are not going to sit back, even when we are on the road. We will keep doing what got us to the top of the Eastern Conference.

Richard P. Feynman

The extreme weakness of quantum gravitational effects now poses some philosophical problems; maybe nature is trying to tell us something new here: maybe we should not try to quantize gravity.

Jeremy Corbyn

Loyalty is about the party and the movement... if you want a better and more effective party, we've got to open ourselves up much more to our membership and our supporters.

Alexander Dubcek

Many legitimate forms of ownership, mainly cooperative and communal, had not been used to any effective extent mainly because of the imposition of Stalinist restrictions.

Peter Ashdown

Sen. Hatch probably spends that much in a week. I am very effective at managing money.

Robert McLaughlin

One of the things that make these lines effective is that they grab your attention.

Stephanie Marquis

No one is really sure why people are being infected. This is usually a very effective vaccine.

Ed Goren

No one has been as effective as quickly as Troy,

Tim Thompson

No one ever wants to see moose hit, but at least now we'll see a more effective method of distributing the meat.

David Levine

Only a limited number of states have laws and regulations in effect to protect borrowers.

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.

Euripides

Friends show their love in times of trouble.

Chris Hillman

You know what I do on Sundays? I sing in a choir. I sing in a Greek Orthodox choir, and I'm the only hillbilly tenor in the Orthodox Church.

Sophocles

Men may know many things by seeing; but no prophet can see before the event, nor what end waits for him.

Sophocles

It's a terrible thing to speak well and be wrong.

Sophocles

A soul that is kind and intends justice discovers more than any sophist.

Sophocles

Look and you will find it - what is unsought will go undetected.

Sophocles

Whoever understands how to do a kindness when he fares well would be a friend better than any possession.

Sophocles

All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.

Sophocles

I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or a weightless shadow.

Ralph Trine

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Tom Lewis

MLK really left his mark even today and influences us in our community.

Alexandra Shipp

My influences are, number one, hand to Jesus, Halle Berry. I think that she's so brilliant, and I love everything that she does, even 'Catwoman.'

Jonathan Lethem

My fiction has been influenced by the visual arts, though not in obvious ways, it seems to me. I don't offer tremendous amounts of visual information in my work.

Drake Bell

My first two records were influenced by the Beatles and the Beach Boys.

Elizabeth Drew

Money buys access; access buys influence.

Billy Sherwood

I was so influenced by Yes then that things started to sound very much like Yes.

E. P. Thompson

I would be naive to think that it's not going to be heavily influenced by a lot of things he's taught me.

Josh Trank

Because videogames are so inherently influenced by movies, to take a movie and literally create a videogame out of it, you're immediately setting limitations and expectations on what that game can be.

J. G. Ballard

I was in Shanghai when the Japanese invaded China. I was there in Shanghai when, the morning after Pearl Harbor, they seized Shanghai.

Clint Eastwood

This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country.

J. J. Johnson

Mr. Duncan will be meeting with our investigators tomorrow.

John Ashbrook

Mrs. Schmidt had a meeting with Mr. Tancredo about his support for her. We understood it to be an endorsement.

Michael Brown

meeting the needs as they are communicated to us.

Joe Gottfried

None of this was a reaction to the situation with the University of Mississippi. Our meeting with him as the result of it being the end of the season.

Mike Blagdon

I can't give you any real answers. That's the reason for the meeting Thursday.

Connie Boesen

I'm a little surprised by all of this, and I think before tonight's meeting I had no idea this was the format.

Diane Swonk

If they move between meetings it's usually a move to shore up confidence.

Roy Wilson

If this continues, we set up meetings and they don't show, it is going to take a long, long time.

Bob Gibbs

We plan on having a meeting next week with the appropriate people. The problems with the project should be ended.

Sonia Gandhi

I don't disown our responsibility and my responsibility as Prime Minister,

Chang-Rae Lee

I often think that the prime directive for me as a teacher of writing is akin to that for a physician, which is this: do no harm.

Abhisit Vejjajiva

We have no problem with the prime minister's offer.

Stephen Glover

Where is our prime minister? All that can be said is that he is out there somewhere.

Benjamin Franklin

I am in the prime of senility.

Ehud Olmert

Every prime minister ... has the responsibility to provide security for his people.

Brian Mulroney

If your only objective is to be popular, you're going to be popular but you will be known as the Prime Minister who achieved nothing.

Douglas Hurd

If Margaret Thatcher had been Prime Minister at the time, there would have been no Treaty of Maastricht.

Tsutomu Takebe

It is a private visit and I would like to respect the Prime Minister's visit to the shrine,

Albert Schweitzer

The Bhagavad-Gita has a profound influence on the spirit of mankind by its devotion to God which is manifested by actions.

Edgar Allan Poe

It is clear that a poem may be improperly brief. Undue brevity degenerates into mere epigrammatism. A very short poem, while now and then producing a brilliant or vivid, never produces a profound or enduring, effect. There must be the steady pressing down of the stamp upon the wax.

Laura Linney

I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.

Patrick Rothfuss

It's profoundly disorienting to go from zero to celebrity.

Charles Caleb Colton

That extremes beget extremes is an apothegm built on the most profound observation of the human mind.

David Kim

If we begin to see how the gospel is able to change our work, it can have a profound effect on our sense of calling and the meaning behind the work that we do day-in and day-out.

Catherynne M. Valente

Metamorphosis is the most profound of all acts.

David Brainerd

No amount of scholastic attainment, of able and profound exposition of brilliant and stirring eloquence can atone for the absence of a deep impassioned sympathetic love for human souls.

Audre Lorde

We recognize that all knowledge is mediated through the body and that feeling is a profound source of information about our lives

Jonathan Fox

No one represents their interests, here or in Mexico. They have to speak up and do it themselves.

Ed Keon

When things seem very risky it often represents opportunity.

Twyla Tharp

My dancers expect me to deliver because my choreography represents their livelihood.

Jeremy Osborne

He represents that person or that thing that everyone is waiting for.

Inder Singh

We view this as a particularly important win for Lucent as it represents its first large-scale IMS deployment with a US carrier.

Vincent Sollitto

This represents one of the more atypical inquiries we get.

Frank Taylor

That was between Rick Hamlin, who represents La-Van, and the Treasury Department,

John W. Snow

Social Security represents an $11 trillion unfunded obligation. And when I say unfunded obligation, I mean we have to come up with $11 trillion at some point to make the system whole.

Robert Clark

For myself, and a lot of other students, Gen. Powell represents what can be possible.