Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mohsin Hamid

Love places someone else in the centre of your being and your own self is blurred.

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

Most cities have a centre surrounded by suburbs, but London has numerous centres: it's the model of a twenty-first century metropolis.

Neel Mukherjee

To be an Indian writer is to write, necessarily and inevitably, about politics, so it was a given that the story of the Ghoshes, the family at the centre of 'The Lives of Others,' should have a political soul.

Paula Zahn

Sir, you're not telling me that you just learned that the folks at the convention centre didn't have food and water until today, are you? You had no idea that they were completely cut off?

Jeremy Roenick

So look for him to come up with something. I know in Minnesota, Jacques is trying to do the same thing. It's interesting to see what's going to work. We're going to have to work in a lot of systems to try to counteract no red line. It's probably going to drive me out of my mind, but they're going to have to find something to counter long-ice passes and guys cheating through centre ice.

Rhys Ifans

I come from a culture where the pub is the centre of the community. The pub is the Internet. It's where information is gathered, collated and addressed.

Richard Flanagan

Perhaps the virtue of coming from a place like Tasmania is that you had the great gift of knowing that you were not the centre of things, yet life was no less where you were.

Christian Cooke

My girlfriend's dad runs the Prostate Centre on Wimpole St. in London, and he's chairman of Prostate U.K., which I think is the second-largest prostate cancer charity in Britain.

Phil Carlson

Friday night in Sauk Centre was a rough night. We started off playing tough but did not convert on key free throws once we were in the bonus. This led to some momentum for Sauk, and they capitalized.

Ryan Toohey

The real insult to New Yorkers is denying that serious problems exist.

Dick York

I'd managed to bite a very large hole in the side of my tongue before they could pry my teeth apart. By all evidence, and there's no denying it, that thing I had on the set was a fit.

Alfred Edward Housman

Nature not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.

Darell Hammond

In an era of parental paranoia, lawsuit mania and testing frenzy, we are failing to inspire our children's curiosity, creativity, and imagination. We are denying them opportunities to tinker, discover, and explore - in short, to play.

Acie Law

The play was for me to get the ball, but they did a good job of denying it. Joseph got to the basket, but couldn't make the play.

Stephen Fleming

We've got a good formula going and the harder it gets to score, the tougher it gets to get in the game and we're denying them really well.

Len Elmore

When people say it's a Princeton offense, it's not. But there can be no denying there are Princeton aspects.

N. Robert Hammer

There is no denying that downsizing can happen when a company receives private equity funding. It is unfortunate and hard on everyone who is affected.

Chris Jordan

American culture is not about experiencing our shame, it's about denying it. It's been that way our whole history.

Thomas Haden Church

When I moved to L.A. in 1989, the very first thing I did was this horrific pilot called To Protect And Surf.

Langhorne Slim

Some people don't like my songs because they think they're too simple or easy or not that thought-out. I feel like the way I write is pretty simple, in some ways, because I'm trying to connect. I want a lot of people to hear it, and be moved in some way.

Phillip Needham

We've also moved into Manitoba and Saskatchewan this year.

Alexander McCall Smith

The point of opera is that people are moved by the emotions and music.

Joan Johnson

She didn't want to be moved anymore, ... She said she wanted to stay here, and she didn't want to go back home.

David King

Let's just say we were pretty disappointed when Coastline Brewery moved downtown.

Paula Creamer

We're fine. I mean, it happened. It's done, and we've moved on.

Benedict Cumberbatch

[ Sherlock Holmes] has moved from being someone who was sociopathic, work-obsessed and slightly amoral, into being someone who has a certain degree of a private life, which is very, very private, with The Woman, or Irene Adler.

Jose DaCosta

We made an adjustment. Usually we play with one forward. We moved a second player up.

Tomas Transtromer

The language marches in step with the executioners. Therefore we must get a new language.

Joseph Barber Lightfoot

This is God's work. Therefore it must be triumphant. There is no place for misgiving or despondency.

William Shakespeare

She's beautiful, and therefore to be woo'd She is a woman, therefore to be won

Bill Joy

The fundamental problem with vi is that it doesn't have a mouse and therefore you've got all these commands.

Adam Weishaupt

The first task of the association must therefore be to form the young members.

P. J. O'Rourke

I usually agree with Rush Limbaugh; therefore I usually don't listen to him.

P. J. Harvey

It's so much in me to want to keep experimenting all the time. It's just inherent. Therefore I keep reaching for instruments I don't particularly know how to play, and then I become excited.

Jaime Herrera Beutler

I've enjoyed programming on NPR, but 'we're broke' and therefore all spending must be reduced.

Estelle

A lot of scarves are made to stand out and therefore not appropriate on your head, say, at work.