Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Watts

In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.

Alan Rickman

I do feel more myself in America. I can regress there, and they have roller-coaster parks.

Alan Grayson

The Republican health care plan: don't get sick ... The Republicans have a back up plan in case you do get sick ... This is what the Republicans want you to do. If you get sick America, the Republican health care plan is this: Die quickly!

Alan Grayson

If you get sick, America, the Republican health care plan is this: Die quickly.

Alan Greenspan

Skilled shortages in America exist because we are shielding our skilled labor force from world competition. [Visa quotas] have been substituted for the wage pricing mechanism. In the process we have created [a] privileged elite whose incomes are being supported at non-competitively high levels by immigration quotas on skilled professionals. Eliminating such restrictions would reduce at least some of the income inequality.

Alan Ball

I guess in America we're so sold on this ideal of the perfect, well-adjusted family that is able to confront any conflict and, with true love and understanding, work things through. I'm sure they do exist, but I never knew any of them.

Al Sharpton

I cannot imagine where we would have been without BET. Many like me who operate in black America can only get our balanced story told nationally on BET talk shows.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

There is no doubt that America is a superpower of the world and we cannot ignore them.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

America is laughing her way to Hell.

Daymond John

Pioneers get slaughtered, and the settlers prosper.

Elizabeth Blackwell

It is not easy to be a pioneer - but oh, it is fascinating!

Ameen Rihani

The footsteps of a pioneer become ultimately the highway of a nation.

Amy Winehouse

I'd like to be remembered as someone who wasn't satisfied with just one level of musicianship ... as someone who was a pioneer.

Meryl Streep

Margaret Thatcher was a pioneer, willingly or unwillingly, for the role of women in politics,

Joanne Harris

Of course I didn't pioneer the use of food in fiction: it has been a standard literary device since Chaucer and Rabelais, who used food wonderfully as a metaphor for sensuality.

Joan Lunden

It's not always as comfortable blazing the trail as it is walking on it.

Major Taylor

In a word I was a pioneer, and therefore had to blaze my own trail.

Indira Gandhi

Rebels and non-conformists are often the pioneers and designers of change.

Cheryl Strayed

Of all the things I’d been skeptical about, I didn’t feel skeptical about this: the wilderness had a clarity that included me.

Arthur Balfour

Herbert Asquith's clarity is a great liability because he has nothing to say.

Booker T. Washington

An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.

Brian Kernighan

Mechanical rules are never a substitute for clarity of thought.

Kenneth Branagh

I'll tell you what I'm grateful for, and that's the clarity of understanding that the most important things in life are health, family and friends, and the time to spend on them.

Kenneth Cranham

I've always liked texts that you immediately understand. I suppose the playwrights who really speak to me are Edward Bond, Joe Orton and Harold Pinter. I've been in six different Pinter productions - I love the clarity of his language. He has this way of using words - there's a thrill to them.

Nadine Smith

She had a strength and clarity in the things she said. And a consistent vision of what whole justice looks like.

Antisthenes

The investigation of the meaning of words is the beginning of education.

Charles Bukowski

there's no clarity. there was never meant to be clarity.