Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Stoessel

We were already looking at Southern California when he approached us.

Scott Clark

The fact that natural gas prices are competitive in California has to do with the lasting effects of the California energy crisis, which has continued to keep electrical prices high.

Bobby Julich

The professionalism (of the race) is what keeps the European teams coming back and what makes the American riders so focused. The Coors Classic and Tour Du Pont were huge things that got George and I into cycling and now it's up to us to inspire the next generation (of cyclist). I think the Tour of California can help up with that.

Tom Bissell

I'd been in Sacramento a day and already noticed the pervasiveness of its homeless problem. The city seemed like California without the masks or pretense: a place where dreams were occasionally made but mostly torn apart.

Thomas Starr King

I pledged California to a Northern Republic and to a flag that should have no treacherous threads of cotton in its warp, and the audience came down in thunder.

Dave Foley

The thing that really surprised me about strip malls in California, specifically Los Angeles, is that they have some really fantastic restaurants.

David Pogue

Scientists in California have discovered a chemical in the brain that causes use of Windows in otherwise normal human beings. It's called alcohol.

Gary Sinise

The University of Southern California has a wonderful social work department, and I was thrilled to find out that they have a whole veterans' initiative program there. They approached me, and I set up a scholarship that would go to a military-oriented person to learn techniques and skills to better help veterans.

Camille Guaty

My family moved from California to New Jersey in the beginning of my sophomore year of high school. I will never forget the first day in a new school, walking into the cafeteria during lunch and not knowing a single soul. I didn't feel confident enough to share a seat at just anyone's table.

Neil Meron

What the Toronto festival premiere did was to reinforce why we wanted to do this. People approached us and said they had no idea how talented Liza was. In the past few years, her skills have been too obscured by the tabloid headlines. It is fantastic to see her being celebrated for what she should be celebrated for.

Christine Harforth

Mendelssohn's music for A Midsummer Night's Dream consists not only of the celebrated Overture, the famous Wedding March and the scarcely less familiar Nocturne and Scherzo.

David Liss

Magic has been around forever, and it's also been in trouble forever. I'm not suggesting that there was ever a time when the practice of magic was celebrated by those in power. Actually, such practices were routinely demonized by monarchs and organized religions precisely because magic is inherently democratic.

Edward Hirsch

Poets have always celebrated grief as one of the deepest human emotions.

George Parnham

Only one mental health expert testified that Andrea knew that what she was doing was wrong, and that was the celebrated Park Dietz. Every other mental health expert ... testified that she was either incapable of knowing what she was doing was wrong or did not know what she was doing was wrong.

Julie Christie

One of the most celebrated people in the world desperate not to be recognized,

David Adams

Ian Bostridge is an enormously talented artist, hailed as one of the foremost interpreters of the Schubert repertoire today. We are thrilled to have the opportunity to present Mr. Bostridge and celebrated pianist Julius Drake in this uniquely intimate performance.

Hugo Chavez

celebrated by waving flags, dancing in traditional dress and wearing berets commemorating Ernesto 'Che' Guevara.

Joseph Zwilling

Because St. Patrick is the patron saint of the diocese, the day should be celebrated as a feast day.

Carol P. Christ

The Goddess of Old Europe and Ancient Crete represented the unity of life in nature, delight in the diversity of form, the powers of birth, death and regeneration.

Klemens Metternich

When France has a cold, all Europe sneezes

Charles de Gaulle

It will not be any European statesman who will unite Europe: Europe will be united by the Chinese.

Charles Caleb Colton

There is one passage in the Scriptures to which all the potentates of Europe seem to have given their unanimous assent and approbation...."There went out a decree in the days of Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed."

Jean Monnet

Europe’s nations should be guided towards the superstate without their people understanding what is happening. This can be accomplished by successive steps, each disguised as having an economic purpose, but which will eventually and irreversibly lead to federation.

Suzanne Fields

Many of the Europeans who want Israel to go away don't even know why they do. Nearly a third of those interviewed concede they have no idea what the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is all about. It's enough to know that Israelis are Jews.

Ronald Zarrella

The products shipped in Europe are from a plant in Europe.

Adrian Darley

The outlook for equities in Europe remains pretty reasonable over the next 12 months.

Brian Eno

In England and Europe, we have this huge music called ambient - ambient techno, ambient house, ambient hip-hop, ambient this, ambient that.

Tim Ruskell

We're higher than I would like. But with a transition, you're going to get this. People who aren't fitting are not going to be here.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Many ingredients are called 'earthy,' but none comes as close to fitting the bill as buckwheat. I'm mildly obsessed with the stuff.

Bill Williams

We're honored to be able to present this rose. We think it's a fitting commemorative for the pope.

Birgitte Hjort Sorensen

Don't worry about not fitting in. The things that make people think you're weird are what makes you you, and therefore your greatest strength.

Barry Sternlicht

I suppose I was a frustrated artist. I like fitting things together, and there are plenty of different ways to do that with real estate.

John Ritchie

You can never know that things will work, but they do seem to be fitting into each other more.

Ban Ki-moon

New York is one of the greatest cities in the world. It is a fitting host to its many international visitors, who can come to witness first-hand what a vibrant multicultural democracy looks like.

Emmanuelle Seigner

I don't like the idea of fitting into a mould so as to conform. What I like is the danger, the difference - being unpredictable.

Daniel Harris

Today wasn't fitting for him, I don't think, so everyone's pretty disappointed.

George Parnham

We want to save ourselves as much of his future as we can.

Patrick Callahan

We want to protect the lake in the future and for our children.

Mohammad Khan

We want job opportunities and a good life, a good future for our children,

Charles Caleb Colton

If that marvellous microcosm, man, with all the costly cargo of his faculties and powers, were indeed a rich argosy, fitted out and freighted only for shipwreck and destruction, who amongst us that tolerate the present only from the hope of the future, who that have any aspirings of a high and intellectual nature about them, could be brought to submit to the disgusting mortifications of the voyage?

Charles Simmons

Live only for today, and you ruin tomorrow.

Luiz Scolari

We've shown how the future can be -- more cheerful, more united.

Kris Allen

When I was 17, I broke up with my future wife.

Frances Johnson

The people of Liberia can be proud that they have successfully participated in this important step for the future of their country.

Tom Rath

I'm a researcher, so I'm realistic that there's nothing I'm doing that's going to prevent me from getting cancer in the future. But I can slow it down.

Nicola Sturgeon

The fact is Scottish Labour has lost its way.

Lucy Powell

We in the Labour party owe it to the people we represent to make sure that we offer a choice at the next election between our Labour values and those of the Conservatives.

Bible Bible

Let there more work be laid upon the men, that they may labour therein; and let them not regard vain words.

Astrid Lindgren

I have been very interested in labor movement. If I could have wished another life, I would have loved to be a pioneer woman in the beginning of labor movement.

Karl Radek

Thus in such a Labour Party there can be no question of independent policy.

Nicola Sturgeon

Voting Labour in the past hasn't protected Scotland against Tory governments.

Adam Smith

Labor was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things.

Johann Lamont

The Scottish Labour Party and its renewal are more important than me.

George Herbert

Whether shall the Oxe goe, where he shall not labour?

Charles Henry Parkhurst

Any supreme insight is a metaphor.

Aristotle

The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor.

Aristotle

Metaphor is halfway between the unintelligible and the commonplace.

Robert Schmuhl

Branson is a metaphor for red state America,

Paul Ricoeur

The dictionary contains no metaphors.

John Green

You live for pretentious metaphors.

R. Buckminster Fuller

We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking...

Florence King

Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.

Gerald Edelman

Early human thought proceeded by metaphor,

Kim Polese

We have no preset notion of how the model will look.

Thierry Mugler

I want my models to be bigger, stronger and taller than common mortals. I need superwomen and supermen.

Tariq Anwar

My dream is to make Katihar a model district. I have no personal ambition.

Tao Okamoto

I started to model because I thought I could use it as an excuse to others, like, 'Yeah, I'm tall because I'm a model.'

Enrique Pena Nieto

The coalition is a model that has no place in a presidential regime such as in Mexico. It fits in parliamentary models, but Mexico has a presidential regime.

Jessica White

There's so many misconceptions about me and my personality. People think I'm not a nice person, you know, or maybe a diva; not just about me, but the misconceptions of other models as well, or supermodels.

Louis Navellier

Our system is dynamic, always shifting gears. What I do is I build models to beat the market.

Caitriona Balfe

Modelling wasn't a passion of mine, so that made it get old kind of quickly. I was getting very frustrated.

Cameron Russell

Modelling is no better or worse than many other professions, but it is more obvious, more accessible.

Daryl Manning

We shared some stories, got to know each other.

Arlen Specter

Should (the information) have been shared if it could have prevented (the) 9/11 (attacks)?

John Lovelock

We don't think it was being shared for profit.

Alice Stewart

They called the Hogs. They shared stories about their time there.

Jennette McCurdy

I never shared a room growing up because I was the only girl.