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.

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.

Erik King

Don't say you want to be an actor and not know how to read a script. Don't give up 15 minutes before the miracle comes. Everyone's career ebbs and flows, especially if you're African American. That's the time to dig in and keep your instrument sharp.

Erik Hersman

The emergence of a hardware product from an African company marks a phase-change point for tech invention. The BRCK shows that great ideas can come from anywhere, that innovation comes from solving real problems with constrained resources.

Eric Holder

While he was in the service, in the South and in Oklahoma, he was refused service at a couple of places where he was in uniform, and was told that African Americans, blacks, Negros, were not served. And in spite of that, I've never known a man who loved this country more than my father did.

Kandyse McClure

The very first role I ever played was as a 17-year old South African girl who dreamed of being a star and left home to meet her mother in the big city so that she could pursue that dream. I left South Africa and met my mother in Vancouver and not long after that was given the opportunity to perform on the stage and have people chant my name.

Mandy Ohman

We have name brands but we don't mark them up outrageously high.

Rusty Anderson

We were touring and he heard some of my music and wanted to play on it and I said, 'Well, let's see, maybe we should do a brand new song for it?'

Hu Jintao

We have pursued profound change without ever giving up China's unique brand of socialism, and so have been able to bring about great reforms,

Paul Lawson

The fact that McDonald's is brave enough to even contemplate a creative idea that doesn't carry the famous Golden Arches is testament to their ongoing commitment to shaking up perceptions of the brand in the UK.

Tom O'Connor

The exposure is terrific. It's great brand identity for the school.

Ian Fraser

The face that presents the news is in a sense the brand of the news.

Eric Noble

The problem with three brands is there's one too many. Mercury has no place in Ford's corporate line-up anymore.

Eric Noble

The problem with those three brands is there's one too many. Mercury has no place in the North American market or in Ford's corporate lineup anymore.

Stefan Sagmeister

There are brands out there in the world that have an incredible influence on the culture. Numerous ones are badly done.

Matthew Uto

We were big shots down there in the cellar of The Enterprise building. My father and the older Charlie Fuller were good friends.

Hwang Suk

There is no doubt that we produced 11 patient-specific stem cells and possess the core technology to create them again.

Alessio Vinci

The pontiff reiterated his opposition to stem cell research

David Pogue

Everyones always asking me when Apple will come out with a cell phone. My answer is, Probably never.

Carl Sagan

Every cell is a triumph of natural selection, and we’re made of trillions of cells. Within us, is a little universe.

Eduard Buchner

We are seeing the cells of plants and animals more and more clearly as chemical factories, where the various products are manufactured in separate workshops.

Lori Singer

It is an attention-getter. I mean, it's hard to ignore a woman lugging a cello around.

Kara Swisher

Equipped with two cell phones - one for work and another for home - I like to think of myself as a kind of 21st-century digital pioneer, ready to network, fax, page, e-mail and - oh, yes - talk at will.

Jim Ramstad

Mr. Speaker, the scientific evidence is overwhelming that embryonic stem cells have great potential to regenerate specific types of human tissues, offering hope for millions of Americans suffering from debilitating diseases.

Mel Rapozo

We have no problem with any other department in the county. Normally, we send a request, we get a response.

Joaquin Phoenix

What the training did was teach me to trust my equipment and trust the other people that I'm working with, ... The firefighters will say, 'You should always be scared. If you're not scared then you should get out of the department because that's when you get hurt.' You have to have a level of fear and a level of respect for what it is you're doing, and if not, I think it breads a level of complacency, which is very dangerous.

Thomas P.M. Barnett

The Department of Homeland Security is a strategic feel good measure. It's going to be the Department of Agriculture for the 21st century. TSA - thousands standing around.

Stephen Cambone

The third group is focused on counterintelligence and security. I think the reason for that is fairly evident, in terms of vulnerabilities of the department and the harm that can come to it by failing to detect when we have, in fact, been harmed.

William Mathews

We are proud to be working with the Department of Corrections for our 20th year.

Phil Garner

We are probably a little stronger in the pitching department and probably a little weaker in the offense department. I don't know how that's going to work out.

Kate Reardon

Personal shoppers in big department stores are seriously under-used.

Peter Urbanowicz

We've tried to separate the two issues. We have others issues with the Department of Justice regarding Medicare.

Terry J. Lundgren

I had 13 job offers out of college. I went to Bullock's department store and had a fantastic interview, but was skeptical. I knew retail didn't pay much.

Ashton Irwin

Wearing green underwear today, I feel like a frog.

Brian Tracy

You cannot eat every tadpole and frog in the pond, but you can eat the biggest and ugliest one, and that will be enough, at least for the time being.

Beth Orton

When I was really young I used to collect frog spawn. I made a pond out of an old sink and I loved to spend hours watching the frogs grow.

William Joyce

I raised frogs every spring in our house from tadpoles and by end of summer our house was overrun with frogs.

David Hare

When they speak, dead frogs fall out of their mouths.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

The tadpole poet will never grow into anything bigger than a frog.

Donnie McClurkin

It's a poor frog that doesn't praise his own pond! - Donnie McClurkin

E. B. White

Humor is like a frog. You can dissect it to see how it works, but by then, it's dead.

E. B. White

You can dissect a joke just as you can a frog. But it tends to die on you.

Steve Huling

We have to find some high jumpers. We graduated two seniors who did very well.

Langhorne Slim

To be very honest, I never thought I would graduate from high school. I got very lucky to get into an alternative high school, which really saved my butt.

Lorrie Moore

When I was in graduate school, I had a teacher who said to me, 'Women writers should marry somebody who thinks writing is cute. Because if they really realised what writing was, they would run a mile.'

H. Hart

We're here so graduate students know we have housing on campus.

John Cena

My most string-beanish, I guess, is when I was 15 years old. From 15 to 16, I went from 155 pounds to 215. By the time I graduated from high school, I was between 235-250.

Scott Hall

We would require more of students to graduate than traditional public schools.

Solange Knowles

We are already paying bills, having responsibilities most people don't have even when they're 24 and haven't graduated from college.

Patricia Lessnerkraus

She graduated from high school with perfect marks.

Judy Shepherd

She wanted to graduate early. She had high priorities, and she knew what she wanted. At one time, she said she wanted to be a veterinarian.

Annalee Newitz

When I was a lecturer at UC Berkeley, I wrote a book about monsters.

Eric Schaefer

There was always a lecturer during the shows named Elliott Forbes, but since there were 15-20 of these road shows going on, there were 15 or 20 Elliott Forbes. It was really a multimedia experience.

Todd Simmons

We have never had a problem with the nuclear reactor and it has been here for 38 years.

Alan Sugar

If there was a market in mass-produced portable nuclear weapons, we'd market them, too.

Jane Jacobs

While politicians, clergy, creators of advertisements, and other worthies assert stoutly that the family is the foundation of society, the nuclear family, as an institution, is currently in grave trouble.

Benjamin Netanyahu

The Iranian acquisition of nuclear weapons would be infinitely more costly than any scenario you can imagine to stop it.

Edward Abbey

The one great gift to humankind from our nuclear physicists has been the nuclear bomb. How can we ever thank them?

Ban Ki-moon

Nuclear terrorism is one of the most serious threats of our time. Even one such attack could inflict mass casualties and create immense suffering and unwanted change in the world forever. This prospect should compel all of us to act to prevent such a catastrophe.

Ban Ki-moon

Nuclear disarmament is the only sane path to a safer world.

Billy Connolly

The great thing about Glasgow is that if there's a nuclear attack it'll look exactly the same afterwards.

Charles Bass

U.S. nuclear technology is one of this nation's most valuable secrets, and it should have been protected.

Dean Koontz

I can love October in September. September doesn’t care.

Ben Bernanke

September and October of 2008 was the worst financial crisis in global history, including the Great Depression,

Benazir Bhutto

I am planning to return and contest the October elections in Pakistan.

Abdullah Gul

I can't see any problem that will prevent the start of talks on October 3,

Brian Alexander

We'll just have to wait until October for that to happen.

Ian Shepherdson

The rebound in expectations since October is still big enough to signal strong first-quarter consumption, but not a sustained boom.

Mark Hendrickson

We need to do what we can to spoil people's October plans.

Richard Hadlee

We've come up with these combinations and they're quality sides - but by the time October comes, are they all going to be fit?,

Boris Tadic

To say that all is as it was before would be dangerous. Serbia after October the 5th is different, but it is quite simply not different enough,

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.

Trey Burke

There are leaders vocally, and there are leaders by example. I think I'm starting to become better at being a leader vocally, just talking on the court.

Bryan Ferry

It must be really hard to be starting out in music now.

Al Leiter

I like starting. It's pretty cool.

Kurt Vonnegut

We'd all do well to start over again, preferably with kindergarten.

Brian Tracy

If you were starting over today, what would you do differently? Whatever your answer, start doing it now.

Lawrence Frank

We're starting to see what we need to do to win.

Terrie Archer

We're starting to get some of the registrations in.

Kim Smith

We're starting to get on a roll. Things are going well for us.

Gary LaGrange

We're starting to get back to work today.

Carol Kane

It's very hard to remain a student in life.

Peter Flynn

We want students to take these tests very seriously,

Andrea Ruedi

We'd especially like to see students from the hospitality program.

Robert Mason

We have a school, ... The students know they have a school.

Jane Jacobs

One wonders at the docility of the students who evidently must be satisfied enough with the credentials to be uncaring about the lack of education.

Jan Morris

To the stern student of affairs, Beirut is a phenomenon, beguiling perhaps, but quite, quite impossible.

Kenyon Martin

I know the game well. I'm a student of basketball; I know what it takes to win.

Bob Inglis

I voted for the Deficit Reduction Package with significant heartburn over the student aid provisions.

Jim Henderson

Until now students take the tests and nothing is done with the information.

Davis III

We got to watch a lot of their match. We suggested that we go around them, but that didn't go over real well.

Jayne Anne Phillips

Character and story are suggested by the voice in the words themselves.

Joseph Tate

I never once suggested that she should not testify. It was just the opposite. I told Mr. Abrams that the waiver was voluntary.

Carl Edwards

Whatever it is your doing out there, don't lose hope, you just keep digging and things can work out. I'm proof.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

A reply to Olbers' attempt in 1816 to entice him to work on Fermat's Theorem. I confess that Fermat's Theorem as an isolated proposition has very little interest for me, because I could easily lay down a multitude of such propositions, which one could neither prove nor dispose of. []

Said Musa

We have much work ahead, to stand still.

Chris Garza

When you're young, you don't know why you do what you do. But 14 to 18 are the most important years. That's when you have to work the hardest.

Stephanie McGilvrey

We want her to go back to Mexico. That was all she worked for.

Trent Yawney

We've still got some work to do. It's a work in progress.

Aaron Tveit

Especially like right now, I'm not shooting a show so you get to act. You get to do that stuff, kind of treat everyone as 'All right, throw the paint against the wall and see what I can do with this and what people say.' I think it's a great mental workout because you have to ready something, learn something fast. It's good to stay on your toes and keep sharp if you're auditioning.

Alan Ladd

I'm working myself to death.

Kim Delaney

We've still got a lot of work to do.