Famous Quotes & Sayings

Italo Calvino

Although I am small, ugly and dirty, I am highly ambitious, and at the slightest flattery, I immediately start to strut like a turkey.

Laura DiDio

Mainstream Linux deployments are on a steep upward trajectory. Although they will not replace Windows, co-existence will be the order of the day.

Suzanne Fields

Mahmud Abbas is not Thomas Jefferson. The spirit of Patrick Henry has not emerged in Lebanon. Although more than a 140 Syrian intellectuals have protested Syrian troops there and signed a public statement opposing the occupation, these intellectuals are not in the league of our own Founding Fathers.

Robbie McEwen

Leon Van Bon led me out perfectly, but I started the sprint too early, couldn't finish it. Although I was going for a stage win, the intermediate bonus sprint and the green jersey gives me a lot of self confidence.

Samuel Butler

Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game; true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon.

Jon Heacock

Louis made a couple of good catches out there, although he did drop the first one we threw to him.

Tim Condon

Looks like a people plan as opposed to a business plan. The emphasis seems to be improving peoples lives by improving social infrastructure. I don't know if there are enough goodies to have an impact on financial markets although if the whole country feels better it would be good for markets.

Tod Tamberg

Many of the victims direct all their anger at Cardinal Mahony. It's unfair and somewhat misdirected, although understandable.

John Woods

Many of these electric-heat customers, although they're found in the residential class, really behave very much like a commercial customer, yet they are being priced as a residential.

Mike Williams

Last year was the most violent year so far, and that gave pause, especially given the fact that a lot of the European countries think that the United States is trying to dump the Afghanistan counter-terrorism mission on them.

Stuart Law

Many of these countries don't yet have good resale markets.

David Gilmore

Many of these countries are struggling to match rate hikes by the Federal Reserve,

Michael Driscoll

Many OECD countries already have 60% participation in higher education,

Claire McCaskill

Many countries struggle and never get to the point where people have faith that laws are executed fairly.

Daniel Tieken

So far, we have people from 21 different states and five different countries - including Japan, Singapore and England - looking at participating in The Great Scavenger Hunt.

Leo Bokeria

Milosevic could have been cured with the help of a surgical operation. Such operations are performed in many countries now.

Martin Jacques

Move beyond the educated elite, and the great majority in most countries outside Europe don't speak English.

Nicholas D. Kristof

Neither Western donor countries like the U.S. nor poor recipients like Cameroon care much about Africans who are poor, rural and female.

Dan Curtis

Life is extremely valuable, and you don't always get a second chance. What a way to be able to say thank you to someone.

Nell Fortner

LSU is a well-oiled machine. They are extremely talented, but we feel we are playing them at a good time.

Shane Valdez

Luke is extremely hard to score on. He's got good solid takedowns, he's solid on top and he's very hard to take down.

Ganiyat Adeduntan

Last year we got a taste of it. The first game we played extremely well and the second game we didn't play our game. We're going to try to get to the Sweet 16 - that's our goal.

Sean Comey

September will probably be an extremely unpleasant month at the pump. This goes to show that even if you're far away from where the hurricane hit, there's a ripple effect.

Sergio Gabrielli

Self sufficiency is an extremely unusual phenomenon nowadays.

Rochelle Aytes

'Mistresses' is about the lives of four women, each going through different versions of infidelity. Their longtime friendship is what gets them through extremely challenging times.

Gus Malzahn

McFadden and Hillis are good at everything including catching. If we match them up on the linebackers, it's going to be extremely tough.

Rachel Platten

My friends and family have always been extremely supportive, but the support I've received from fans has been so overwhelming. I love hearing all of their 'Fight Song' stories; I have been so inspired by so many of them.

Jill Davis

We're not disputing the fact that it is power intensive, but you get a transportation fuel which is needed in our economy. So for what you give up you get a lot out.

Paul Mariani

Lyric poetry is by its very nature elegiac - we write about what in fact is already slipping away from us,

Tom Izzo

Let's not anoint us a finished product because we're not. But I like the steps we're taking. I like the fact that players are having some fun doing it.

Colum McCann

'Let the Great World Spin' at the end talks a lot about connections and light and possibility and the fact that the world doesn't end. Even in the darkest times, we have to go on.

Perry Hill

Louie's value is the fact he can help a pitching staff.

Eric Christensen

Lee's not a factor for anything but shipping interests,

Eric Wold

Many of the factors that have negatively impacted sales over the past year are lessening.

John Casesa

Several factors should prevent an outright decline, as spending per unit will likely remain strong.

Yolanda Clark

missed the fact that this passenger was a positive match.

Charles Osgood

While some of us may know than others about certain things, it is the thinnest slice of all that is, or could be known. In that sense, we are all profoundly ignorant.

Elfriede Jelinek

Love points the way. Desire is its ignorant advisor.

Jeff Bishop

I'd like them to be as ignorant as possible.

Source Unknown

I don't know whether to keep silent and let people think I am ignorant or open my mouth and release all doubts.

Chinua Achebe

That we are surrounded by deep mysteries is known to all but the incurably ignorant.

David Walker

I know that the blacks, take them half enlightened and ignorant, are more humane and merciful than the most enlightened and refined European that can be found in all the earth.

Benjamin Franklin

We are all born without knowledge, but curious. With curiosity we should be able to learn as much as possible. With curiosity, it has to take a lot of work to remain ignorant.

Barry Gibb

I like blues but it is music I am too ignorant to understand.

Brian Herbert

An ignorant friend is worse than a learned foe.

and City

Like any member of the family, they managed to ignore the faults.

Joe Schwarzer

Mitchell was a tireless promoter of airspace, but he ignored military protocol,

Dave Davis

Matt's idea, as it is with all injuries, was to ignore it and it would go away.

Randy Pausch

When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.

Bonnie Raitt

People say, 'Gee, you don't really do political music.' Well, I sing a lot of songs about how men and women and lovers treat each other, and none of us want to be talked down to or belittled or ignored or disrespected... So I'm proud to be a feminist.

Neil Innes

Viv had this kind of stage presence where you couldn't ignore it. He walked onstage, he looked dangerous. You just didn't know what he was going to do.

Peter Schuyler

Could it be that all those reports coming from our own intelligence that Bush ignored was right all along? Could it be that the UN was right all along?

Denise Martin

We can't ignore new technologies, new information that indicate there are risks.

Hugh Johnson

The one thing you don't want to ignore is the stock market itself,

Jan C. Ting

Learning to distinguish the illegal immigrant from the legal immigrant does not solve the problem of illegal immigration.

Dan Stein

Millions of American workers, in all sectors of the labor market, have seen their jobs and wages undercut by the phenomenon of mass illegal immigration.

James Altucher

My grandfather was an illegal immigrant for the 60 or so years he was in the United States. I had another great-great-grandmother on my mom's side who snuck in in a suitcase.

Tommy Chong

The trouble when you're doing something illegal is that you know what you're doing. You're lying to your parents, you're lying to your kids. The only person you can't lie to is yourself.

Jose Antonio Vargas

I found out that I was illegal when I was 16. I'm gay. I'm Filipino.

Jaime Suchlicki

Only those who are doing something illegal should be worried about the U.S. government's actions.

Jo Handelsman

Some of it is outright illegal behavior, but most of it is subtle. It makes women feel undervalued and not respected.

Eugene Brezany

If they see illegal activity, of course, they're going to report it. But we are not law enforcement, and we don't want to be perceived as law enforcement.

Roger Wicker

The issues surrounding illegal immigration are wide-ranging and complex, but there is no question about the need to secure our borders.

Michael Harrison

Many said that what was going on was terrible, and that immigrants participating should go back to Mexico.

Ken Simonson

If a substantial percentage of the immigrants took the day away from work, that would have a noticeable impact on construction.

Angelo Amador

If they want to have their wall, fine. What we want is to make sure that we let immigrants in legally.

Ted Cruz

We need to remain a nation that doesn't just welcome but that celebrates legal immigrants who come here seeking to pursue the American Dream.

Frank Sharry

But even if we win today, it's only one step. Immigrants pay a lot in taxes and don't get a lot back.

M.I.A.

I don't think immigrants are that threatening to society at all. They're just happy they've survived some war somewhere.

Steve Camarota

Any suggestion that immigrants and natives do fundamentally different kinds of work is just silly.

Brad Baldia

This is a very important day for all immigrants and all Americans.

Charles Spurgeon

Learn to say no; it will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin.

Eduardo Galeano

The human murder by poverty in Latin America is secret: every year, without making a sound, three Hiroshima bombs explode over communities that have become accustomed to suffering with clenched teeth.

Eduardo Galeano

We Latins are known for jabbering on.

Eduardo Galeano

I am astonished each time I come to the U.S. by the ignorance of a high percentage of the population, which knows almost nothing about Latin America or about the world. It's quite blind and deaf to anything that may happen outside the frontiers of the U.S.

Eduardo Galeano

Latin America is part of the world which was for many years condemned to the system of power where intimidation had more strength than the vote.

Eduardo Galeano

I'm a writer obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past of America and above all that of Latin America, intimate land condemned to amnesia.

Eduardo Galeano

Recordar: To remember; from the Latin records, to pass back through the heart

Edward Abbey

If there's anything I hate, it's the vibraphone. And the cha-cha-cha. And Latin rhythms generally.

Dionne Warwick

Rural communities in Africa, South Asia and Latin America are where the majority of hungry people are and the inequality that exists between women and men in these communities is holding back progress. These women have a very tough time, so much is expected of them.

Michael Roberts

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

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.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Ana Castillo

Mexico. Melancholy, profoundly right and wrong, it embraces as it strangulates.

Donald Trump

Mexico will not be taking advantage of us. They will not be having open borders.

Mark Krikorian

Low-skilled Americans suffer something like an 8 percent reduction in their wages because of low-skilled immigration.

Mark Geragos

Seventy percent of what's in there is not true.

Mirko Mikelic

Maytag produces 99 percent in the U.S., and they are just not price competitive.

Chris Cooney

Only 10 percent say very unfavorable after 20 years of work.

Craig Hansen

I feel like I'm ready. I feel like my game's 100 percent right now.

Enrique Pena Nieto

There are many commitments I have made for reducing poverty. One is to reform social security. Social security reaches only 44 percent of Mexicans. One of my goals is to give social security to all the people.

Melissa Etheridge

I would say I'm 97 percent back now,

David Buck

I would say 99 percent of what's out there on the road right now is not a safety hazard, not an impediment.

Kyle Cavanaugh

I would say 95 percent of the affidavit is fine.

Bobby Flay

My first trip to the racetrack was with my grandfather, Willie Flay, and it was at Belmont Park,

Chris Cornell

If I had a musical identity that was definable then it would be time to get into painting or something else. Race car driving.

Diane Ravitch

Research does not support any part of Race to the Top

Dennis Prager

There are surely times when a conservative and a liberal would agree. We would agree on how moral it is to discriminate on the basis of race. There's absolutely no light between those two positions. It becomes a little more complex when you talk about law as opposed to morality.

Denis Kearney

They have stolen the public lands. They have grasped all to themselves, and by their unprincipled greed brought a crisis of unparalleled distress on forty millions of people, who have natural resources to feed, clothe and shelter the whole human race.

Denis Diderot

Which is the greater merit, to enlighten the human race, which remains forever, or to save one's fatherland, which is perishable?

Denis Diderot

Those authors into whose hands nature has placed a magic wand, with which they no sooner touch us than we forget the unhappiness in life, than the darkness leaves our soul, and we are reconciled to existence, should be placed among the benefactors of the human race.

Edgar Allan Poe

The Bostonians are really, as a race, far inferior in point of anything beyond mere intellect to any other set upon the continent of North America. They are decidedly the most servile imitators of the English it is possible to conceive.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here.