Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dinaw Mengestu

The fact that I have always been deeply invested in politics, and African politics in particular, inevitably played a role in my first novel and, of course, in my decision to write about a handful of particular conflicts in Africa as a journalist.

Durado Brooks

The fact is, African Americans have not benefited equally from the improvements that are making a difference.

Amr Moussa

The real European-African partnership should be based on promoting development and liberating the African continent from its debts, which have been preventing economic progress and depriving Africa of its equitable share in the global economy,

Paul Kagame

There is no doubt that both regional states and Africa in whole will gain toward peace and stability in Burundi,

Thomas P.M. Barnett

An Obama administration truly looking to break with the molds of the past would stop treating Africa as an obligation and start treating it as globalization's next great opportunity, understanding that Chinese - along with Indians and Arab sovereign wealth funds - are natural partners in this process.

Aasif Mandvi

I think I would like to see more roles for South Asian performers that are more inclusive and part of the American Diaspora, the American tapestry, perhaps the way that African American and Hispanic roles have developed.

Toyin Odutola

My identity is not based on performance; it's based on something that's pre-determined by someone else, and I don't even understand what that is because I'm an African who came to America.

Todrick Hall

Now I've devoted my life to making sure that I can be a trailblazer for any other African American kids or any other gay kids or any other kids that just feel weird or uncomfortable and have their own issues and don't know how to express themselves. I want to be like a beacon for those kids now.

Tshepo Peege

We are going to isolate countries where these safety issues are a concern. The stigma that Africa carries leads people to fly non-African airlines and thereby deprive our airlines of opportunities to grow and expand.

David Cox

The proceeds go into a scholarship fund that is administered by the Goldsmith family. A large portion of the money is distributed to local charities on an annual basis through an application process.

Hamish Bowles

When I was 14, I entered British Vogue's annual talent contest and got a special mention. I went up to London to meet the editors and wrote about it in my high school magazine.

Greg Murtha

We'd get snow and rain, and then a lot of rain. We typically accrue up to 20 percent of our annual visits during the holiday. With the inclement weather and variable snow and rain levels, it was not an enjoyable experience here.

Dave Lindimore

We want to stress that the order of these projects isn't set in stone. The list is an estimate, and after annual inventory of streets, priorities will change.

Gary Thayer

The personal consumption expenditure (PCE) price deflator was revised from 0.7 percent annual rate to 1.0. That's still very low, but it was revised upward instead of downward. There is possibly some building inflationary pressure, but it's still very benign.

James Matthews

We are seeing annual bonuses, which used to be reserved for the professional-level employee, being used more broadly in lower levels in the organizations, represented in our study by the manufacturing employee.

Charles Wilson

This principle of annual improvement in real wages based on technology we also hold to be neither inflationary nor deflationary.

Robert Walzel

We've tried to combine ongoing things, such as the annual Scholarship Concert, into the Mozart concerts.

Timothy Noah

Why does Medicare have such difficulty accommodating a cut - no, wait, a trim to its annual spending increase - of two measly percentage points? Two words: baby boom.

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.

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.

Joyce Ma

When I met her in Hong Kong I was very touched by how she welcomed the eastern culture to be her own. And she was there, not now when China is open, but when it was during the cultural revolution,

Michael Callahan

Ultimately US companies in China face a choice -- comply with Chinese law or leave.

Tim King

We are going to launch our first joint venture in the middle of this year with China Resources (Holdings) Co Ltd, our largest franchise partner.

Tim McNulty

We are looking in many parts of the world and China is one of our focuses at the moment. We are currently surveying the landscape in China to identify any opportunities.

Chris Tinker

The real dilemma they have is future reserve growth. Shell isn't up to the game compared with BP.

John Rymer

We used to talk about open systems compared to very proprietary systems like the AS/400 where you could only get it from one vendor. It just isn't the same type of discussion any more.

Scott Aukerman

Working on 'Comedy Bang Bang,' we're there from 10-7, and that's a pretty light day compared to most other TV shows. Other shows, it's like 10-10.

Suzanne Fields

HBO has 28 million subscribers, small stuff compared to TBS, which can be seen in 88 million homes.

David Albright

What we did see is that when we compared this information on the high explosives, to the Internet, that these are much more polished, ... That they really did work with these formulas, tested these formulas, and developed a procedure of making these high explosives that led to effective high explosives in a safe manner.

Victor Shum

Vehicle sales growth has been dramatic compared to last year. This suggests that the future demand for oil products will remain strong.

Pam Munger

This was a slow-paced game compared with what we played on Monday. We missed some shots that I don't think we should be missing at this point in the season ... (but) I liked some of the looks we had defensively.

Jermaine Jackson

There is nothing to be compared to this, 'cause we lost our brother, our hero. The world is mourning. We are mourning. The fans are mourning. It is unreal. Unbelievable.

David Yen

We are pricing our systems very, very competitively, even compared with the x86 standard.

Mike Brown

So it's compound problems, ... Somebody is not in their gap and then you miss the tackle and it turns into big plays.

Dr. McKinlay

There has been increasing concern about the use of mercury-based amalgam for filling teeth, even though we've been using exactly this compound for about 150 years.

Kent Houser

We are playing so different than we were a month ago. When we make a mistake now, we don?t compound it by making another or getting that deer-in-the-headlights look. We just keep playing.

Ferid Murad

What does that suggest when a compound this simple plays such an important role? To me it suggests that nitric oxide is one of the most primitive elements of cellular signaling, that it goes way back into evolution.

Bill Sexton

I think we helped them in the first inning with the double error. That inning is over with no runs if we make the play on that, but then we compound things with the mistake in the outfield as well.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

Valor is a soldierly compound of vanity, duty and the gambler's hope.

Robert Wisner

Delays from here on will further compound the lack of storage.

Neil Herman

Apparently, more Sun servers are sold running Oracle software than anything else. Weak results and guidance from Sun only serve to compound our near-term worries.

Samuel Butler

Compound for sins they are inclined to by damning those they have no mind to.

Daniel Niles

We've seen this how many times already this year -- three? ... A lot of these names could have 50 percent downside from here. Our big issue is, are the sequential declines (in revenue) over? I'd say no.

Jane Houlihan

We've seen lead levels dramatically decline in kids, PCB (polychlorinated biphenyl) levels decline, all because of direct government intervention that gets these out of the environment.

Michael Cloherty

There is a lot of following stocks around today. That was the big thing after the huge decline in the European equity markets - there was a lot of nervousness about what would happen in the U.S.

Tom Libby

There is definitely a movement downward. Everyone has been talking about the decline in big SUVs, but no one has really talked about this similar movement away from large luxury cars.

Tom Libby

There is definitely a movement downward, ... Everyone has been talking about the decline in big SUVs, but no one has really talked about this similar movement away from large luxury cars.

George Shiffler

Vendors are likely to see a fundamental shift in the market as they come to grips with the steep decline in mature-market desk-based growth and are forced to seek growth in other market segments.

Bob Lohn

We are taking the decline of these killer whales seriously and we will work to sustain and support this population.

Lewis Incze

We're seeing a definite decline in settlement rates. But we don't know how it will pan out in the fishery.

William Poole

There is no question that many households are suffering declines in real incomes.

Gavin Grant

We have to have a strong ACC Tournament. We were supposed to be like a 3 seed (in the NCAA), but I am pretty sure we are going to drop down from there. I think we have to go into the ACC Tournament like we did last year, knowing we had to win to get in. We have to win games. We don't want to be an eighth or ninth seed.

Ahmad Khatami

We want our rights and nothing more, and we will resist until our last drop of blood.

Rob Savage

We've seen the labs drop from five a month to nothing. That's not to say they're not out there.

Robert Wright

When I dropped her off at the shelter, I went to see how our house was. We have nothing except for a chimney, ... Pretty much, we had nothing left.

Sean Pertwee

When I drop my son off at school, I love walking around the outskirts of Hampstead Heath.

Thomas Middleditch

After going to theater school, and then subsequently dropping out, I would say that when I first went to Chicago and learned long-form improv, that was a far better acting workshop than any acting school I've been to.

M. Night Shyamalan

Being insecure - I'm a master, a virtuoso - they can be handing me the keys to the kingdom and all I can think is, I hope I don't drop the key.

Ken Warwick

Why should you take a drop in money?

Laurie Metcalf

You know, if a TV show dropped into my lap out of the blue, I would have a hard time turning it down because there just isn't the money in theater that there is on TV.

Carol Leifer

Growing up, it was always, 'If you buy kosher meat, they're killed humanely.' But I've seen so many horrible videos. What we thought was humane 100 years ago is not humane anymore. The ways animals suffer, I just couldn't be a part of it anymore.

Aaron Sorkin

I don't want to analyze myself or anything, but I think, in fact I know this to be true, that I enter the world through what I write. I grew up believing, and continue to believe, that I am a screw-up, that growing up with my family and friends, I had nothing to offer in any conversation. But when I started writing, suddenly there was something that I brought to the party that was at a high-enough level.

Alan Titchmarsh

I wish we could grow up about it, I'm sure we are contributing to global warming, and we must do all we can to reduce that, but our climate has always changed. The Romans had vineyards in Yorkshire. We're all on this bandwagon of 'Ban the 4x4 in Fulham'. Why didn't we have global warming during the Industrial Revolution? In those days you couldn't have seen across the street for all the carbon emissions and the crap coming out of the chimneys.

Charles Dickens

... the woman who grows up with the idea that she is simply to be an amiable animal, to be caressed and coaxed, is invariably a bitterly disappointed woman. A game of chess will cure such a conceit forever. The woman that knows the most, thinks the most, feels the most, is the most. Intellectual affection is the only lasting love. Love that has a game of chess in it can checkmate any man and solve the problem of life.

Sherri Shepherd

Growing up, we didn't have any money - we shopped where you picked your shoes out of a bin. When I was little, I said, 'When I grow up, I'm going to have nice shoes.'

Ricky Gervais

I had great memories of growing up in a working class estate. I remember it being sunny all the time. So we're putting that on screen. It's not people wallowing in degradation.

Ricky Gervais

Americans are brought up to believe they can grow up to be the president of the United States. Brits are told, It won't happen to you.

Susan B. Anthony

... God allows the wheat and the tares to grow up together, andthe tares frequently get the start of the wheat and kill it out. The only difference between the wheat and human beings is that the latter have intellect and ought to combine and pull out the tares, root and branch.

Alan Abramowitz

The population is growing and there could still be impacts from the hurricanes last year,

Chase Carey

We have recognized that our churn rate was too high, and we have been monitoring the credit,

Alan Watts

But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.

Mark Langan

This rates up there as one of the worse we have ever seen.

John Kline

Let's get one thing straight: No one wants Stafford loan interest rates to increase.

Judy Garland

Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else

Lawrence Yun

Obviously, many renters have become homeowners as rates have fallen.

Derek Jeter

I hate the treadmill. I hate it. You really don't have to be on it that long, something like 20 or 30 minutes. It's all about getting your heart rate up.

Bill Gross

It's sort of like a teeter-totter; when interest rates go down, prices go up.

Lenny Klompus

When Secretary (Tom) Ridge was here, everyone was saying we were rated triple-A.

Charles Dickens

The Northern onslaught upon slavery was no more than a piece of specious humbug designed to conceal its desire for economic control of the Southern states.

Brad Paisley

I can't see this world unless I go/ outside my southern comfort zone.

Brad Pitt

I'm most comfortable with the Southern dialects, really. It's easy, for example, for me to do Irish because we've got Irish heritage where I come from.

Jamie Foxx

I'm a southern gentleman.

Fred Coan

We've got kids, I'm sure, who have never been out of South Carolina.

Bill Hicks

Been on what I call my Flying Saucer Tour--appearing in small Southern towns--in front of handfuls of hillbillies.

Charles Kuralt

A true Southerner will never say in 2-3 words what can better be said in 10-12.

Samantha Bingham

Many, many of them are from southern Louisiana.

Belle Boyd

The secession of the Southern States, individually or in the aggregate, was the certain consequence of Mr. Lincoln's election.

Daniel Hannan

Most British people are keen to remain in a European free trade zone; and most EU states are keen to keep us there, because we buy from them more than we sell to them to the tune of £40 million per day.

Benjamin Franklin

No nation has ever been ruined by trade.

Brenda Fassie

I am a shocker. I like to create controversy. It's my trademark.

William Shakespeare

Music, moody food Of us that trade in love.

Stan Eby

My sense is there will not be a rehearing and trade will continue. But we have to be watching all the time.

Gray Davis

I don't care. My trademark is I say what I think, for better or for worse.

Barbara Castle

I remember a big meeting with the hosiery trade in Harold's ministerial room.

Marissa Mayer

We think this will be a very useful tool, but you will have to give up some of your privacy. For many of us, that trade off will make a lot of sense.

Dave Checketts

When we traded him, I would say that was probably a lose-lose. It didn't work out well for anyone.