Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hubert Vedrine

Resorting to force is not desirable in the current situation, and would not solve the problems we are confronted with.

Scott Kaupin

Manchester would be hiring a very qualified town manager for their town. I think Manchester would be a perfect position for him. It's a similar town the size of Enfield; probably many of the same issues that he would be confronted with day to day.

John le Carre

I don't know the literary world; I was scared of being confronted with famous names, not knowing what they had written. It was occupied territory I was entering.

Nick Hornby

I'm a liberal, unrepentantly so, but I often wonder and fear what would happen if I were confronted by any of my liberal beliefs, by somebody who actually who wanted to put them into practice.

Daunte Culpepper

I look forward to meeting my accusers in a court of law, so they can be confronted with this lie. In the end, the truth will come out and I will be vindicated.

Wayne Ayers

I think their desired stance is to stand pat for an extended period of time rather than cut rates, unless they are confronted with an external shock to the global financial system.

Stephen Kinzer

No one will ever be able to say what the comandantes would have done with their historic opportunity in Nicaragua if they had not been confronted with civil war.

Oliver North

What I am saying to you, and you know what I'm talking about, what they are confronted with,

Michael Leunig

Many people first encounter Jesus during childhood when they are suddenly confronted by a horrifying statue of a man nailed to a cross, and this is often a most unfortunate and repulsive beginning.

John Tesh

Oprah was famous for going to a garden party and ad-libbing. She could literally interview people for a half hour about nothing, and it was entertaining. She had her own show before she had her own show.

Charles Churchill

Statesman all over, in plots famous grown,/ He mouths a sentence, as curs mouth a bone.

Bill Cowher

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Julie Nelson

That was his famous saying, ... He would never let them leave feeling like they had failed.

Andy Roddick

That's the weird part for me, ... Being famous never feels normal. I don't know if it will ever become normal.

Vic Peters

That says something in itself. It's still one of the most famous bonspiels in the world.

David Baum

It isn't about how famous you are or how much money you have.

Marvin Oliver's

I was very fortunate. You hear the names of entertainers, famous people who lose their lives not getting a kidney.

Gore Vidal

I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.

Horace Engdahl

I think he is unassailable from a literary point of view, ... On the other hand, there may be some people who think he's too established.

Ian Mcewan

Something is missing in our culture. We can't quite celebrate the scientific literary tradition.

Aberjhani

Literary genres and techniques tend to take form in one's mind somewhat the way computer templates provide form for different computer tasks.

Siri Hustvedt

It's not as if I've been unlucky. My books have been published and reviewed. I haven't lived through terrible literary suffering!

Andrea Hirata

I think what matters most in literary work is the context, not the text.

Paul Theroux

Japan, Germany, and India seem to me to have serious writers, readers, and book buyers, but the Netherlands has struck me as the most robust literary culture in the world.

Jeffrey Eugenides

One of the reasons I like Barthes more than other writers of that ilk is because he had a literary quality.

Ellen Potter

I resisted children's writing for a long time. I saw myself as a writer of literary fiction. But I had so much more fun writing kids' books.

Tawni O'Dell

I write literary, not commercial, fiction - or so I've been told by my publishers who are proud I write literary fiction but secretly wish I wrote commercial.

Debi Mazar

My wrists, which are tattooed with my daughters' names, are always occupied by a watch.

Rose Angel

My time right now is occupied with family.

Ariel Sharon

It's not occupied territory, but disputed territory, and that is the real thing, ... It is disputed territory.

Anton LaVey

When walking in open territory, bother no one. If someone bothers you, ask him to stop. If he does not stop, destroy him.

Islam Karimov

We have not made commitments to make our territory and airspace available,

Daniel J. Boorstin

The most promising words ever written on the maps of human knowledge are terra incognita, unknown territory.

Anders Fogh Rasmussen

I condemn the entry of a Russian so-called humanitarian convoy into Ukrainian territory without the consent of the Ukrainian authorities and without any involvement of the International Committee of the Red Cross.

Brian Eno

I'm fascinated by musicians who don't completely understand their territory; that's when you do your best work.

Chord Overstreet

Its not weird being recognised, but its weird having to stop what youre doing to take pictures or sign something. But the fans are the reason you have your success, so it comes with the territory.

Bill Zollars

This, ... is kind of uncharted territory for all of us.

Isabelle Eberhardt

For now it seems that by advancing into unknown territories, I entered into my life

Felix Klein

Projective geometry has opened up for us with the greatest facility new territories in our science, and has rightly been called the royal road to our particular field of knowledge.