Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kofi Annan

We are pressing ahead with our contingency planning and we hope to be ready to work with the African Union as we move forward to the implementation of the anticipated decision by the (UN) Security Council that we push ahead with the transition.

Rande Gerber

There are some great opportunities, including selling the land. If that happens, George and I will invest in something else in Las Vegas ... and George will donate his profits to the African Debt Relief Project.

Martin Jacques

Where the costs of entry are minimal, there is a wide avenue of opportunity for those with little or nothing, which is why football is just about the most democratic sport of all: African and Brazilian footballers compete on a level playing field with their rich white European counterparts.

Nnedi Okorafor

'Who Fears Death' addresses the push and pull in African culture that powerful women face when their culture has certain duties and beliefs that can stifle them.

Hiram Rhodes Revels

The Legislature, which was elected under the Constitution framed and supported by colored men, declared that a man having more than an eighth of African blood in his veins was ineligible to office or a seat in the Legislature of the State of Georgia.

There is no way that we know what is going on between the African American and the Asian American. We don't understand what an Indigenous American is. We don't understand what a Latino American is

Eddie Murphy

Theres this little box that African-American actors have to work in, in the first place, and I was able to rise above that box. I could have done a bunch of movies where I stayed as the Axel Foley or Reggie Hammond persona. But I didnt want to be doing the same thing all the time. Every now and then, you crash and burn, but thats part of it.

Hafeez Khawaja

WD's steady growth in the MENA region encouraged us to further expand our operations in this region. We will enter new, untapped regional markets, and at the same time strengthen operations in existing ones. At the centre of WD's expansion strategy are the rapidly evolving and promising African markets, such as Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Libya, Nigeria and Kenya. The former three have high IT literacy levels.

Cassandra Wilson

Being black, I'm involved in the reparations movement. It's focused toward the African-American audience. We could begin to heal.

Ken Hitchcock

We?re going to have to make some adjustments. We honestly don?t know how this is going to work for us until we play some exhibition games.

Pat Quinn

I think they are pushing each other right now and it has helped them. I don't know if I'll play them together when the season starts, but right now in the exhibition games, they've been getting better and better.

Nick Saban

I think that he needs to play some, I really do. With only one exhibition game under his belt, he probably needs to play a little bit more in this game.

Mike Babcock

We think he's a premier defenseman in this league. He had a stellar exhibition (season).

Mike Babcock

We think he's a premier defenseman in this league, ... He had a stellar exhibition (season).

Brian Schneider

I don't think you are going to feel that from us right now because it has the E- word in front of it. It's only an exhibition game. But this rivalry is going to turn into an unbelievable rivalry. It has the potential to be good.

David Brown

The painting was only outside France once, in 1955, when it was in a Giorgione exhibition in Venice.

Carlos Delgado

We'll be playing exhibition games anyway, so I don't think it will be any different. You can get hurt doing anything. ... You can't live your life scared, so you've got to just go out and play.

Douglas McGrath

It has a very prison-like look, ... It also has those fields and cows. It sure is beautiful. It looks like an exhibition hall.

Alan Paton

The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.

Lennon Parham

There's nowhere in New York to go and have your emotions to yourself. People just look the other way because every day people see someone crying on the subway!

Alan Woods

With nowhere to smoke in the pub or the office, smokers are nipping outside for a cigarette.

Jack Falahee

If I wasn't acting, I would sail professionally. Nowhere specific, but I'd sail to Bermuda, South Africa, ya know, get paid to race in Regattas, I think that'd be pretty rad.

Marilyn Rush

We have to be out Friday. But we have nowhere to go.

David Gest

Here we are on a vacation and out of nowhere she starts going to the mini-bar. And I come in and she's violent. And I was stunned.

Albert Reynolds

The IRA have nowhere to go. I've stripped away all their excuses, one by one.

Neil Marshall

My belief is that if you start a film all the way up at level 10, you've got nowhere to go.

Shonda Schilling

When we realized how many people had nowhere to go, we didn't just want to make a donation.

Charles de Gaulle

I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.

Alanis Morissette

I don't want to be your other half. I believe that one and one make two.

Alan Arkin

Marriage requires searing honesty at all costs. I learned that from my third wife.

Akio Morita

We treat employees as a member of the family. If management take the risk of hiring them, we have to take the responsibility for them.

The most important relationship in your life is the relationship you have with yourself. Because no matter what happens, you will always be with yourself.

Hugh and I have been together for so long that in order to arouse extraordinary passion, we need to engage in physical combat. Once, he hit me on the back of the head with a broken wineglass, and I fell to the floor pretending to be unconscious. That was romantic, or would have been had he rushed to my side rather than stepping over my body to fetch the dustpan.

David Thewlis

I'd had a relationship with a French girl, a Japanese girl, an American girl, a Filippina and she was there all the time - a Lancashire girl. I thought: 'It's a Lancashire girl I was looking for. Why didn't I realize it?

Cary Grant

To succeed with the opposite sex, tell her you're impotent. She can't wait to disprove it.

Lance Armstrong

Where to start? ... This has been a long, love-hate relationship between myself and the French.

Nicki Minaj

Like to me, I did the 'Harajuku' stuff. I did the crazy stuff. And now I kind of want to tone that back, and it's not toning my personality back, it's just showing like I don't only have to do that.

Eric Woods

We're showing the film to show the underbelly of the porn industry.

Elma Damon

We're showing growth. It's pretty slow, but it's more up than down.

Joss Whedon

For me, the act of telling the story and showing it to somebody is almost gravy.

A. Johnson

Just showing off my personality. Once I get in the end zone, that's all it is.

Hideo Kojima

The painter has total control over what they're showing to the viewer.

Robert Horan

He wasn't showing affection, he was killing them. Do you understand that?

Tiki Barber

I think we have the components, but we've got to keep showing that we can win a lot of different ways, like we already have,

Bob Baffert

He just had little pesky injuries. He's showing his stuff now.

Alan Watts

Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity, and that wherever it is so applied it lends an unmistakable quality to the work.

Alan Clark

Give a civil servant a good case and he'll wreck it with clichés, bad punctuation, double negatives, and convoluted apology.

Alan Bennett

If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.

Alan Ayckbourn

A gentleman ... sleeps at his work. That's what work's for. Why do you think they have the SILENCE notices in the library? So as not to disturb me in my little nook behind the biography shelves.

Al Kaline

You've got to get good habits of working hard so that when that play comes up during the regular season that you're able to complete it and do it the right way.

Akio Morita

Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.

Chloe Sevigny

I do a dance-based cardio workout infused with circuit training, and emphasizing strength and alignment.

Bill Schmidt

Very enthusiastic and very intelligent. I know he'll work at it.

Dmitri Mendeleev

Work, look for peace and calm in work: you will find it nowhere else.