Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian Kabateck

Many Armenians living in the Ottoman Empire during the early part of the last century deposited money, gold and other assets into Turkish branches of Deutsche Bank and Dresdner Bank.

Henry Grunwald

The new history is really ancient history newly discovered. Journalists are taking crash courses in the blood-drenched background of Serbs, Croats, Bosnians, North Ossetians, Armenians and Azerbaijanis.

Daron Malakian

If I was money-motivated, I wouldn't have joined a rock band with three other Armenian guys.

Orhan Pamuk

I repeat, I said loud and clear that 1 million Armenians and 30,000 Kurds were killed in Turkey, and I stand by that.

Adam Schiff

is a sacred obligation to ensure our country honors the past; there is no dispute that what happened to the Armenian people constitutes genocide.

Orhan Pamuk

Thirty-thousand Kurds and one million Armenians were killed in these lands and nobody but me dares to talk about it,

Orhan Pamuk

Thirty thousand Kurds and 1 million Armenians were killed in these lands and nobody but me dares to talk about it,

Jerry Costello

This was a tragic event in human history, but by paying tribute to the Armenian community we ensure the lessons of the Armenian genocide are properly understood and acknowledged.

William Saroyan

I used to be the fastest telegram messenger boy in all Fresno. My nickname was "Speed." Finally, I said, "Take back your nickname. This pace is killing me." Anyway, I still write fast -- it's my impatient Armenian nature. I'm keen to find out how my plots end, and if I write faster I'll find out sooner.

Charles Dickens

It would have been cruel in Miss Havisham, horribly cruel, to practise on the susceptibility of a poor boy, and to torture me through all these years with a vain hope and an idle pursuit, if she had reflected on the gravity of what she did. But I think she did not. I think that in the endurance of her own trial, she forgot mine, Estella.

Charles Dickens

I was a blacksmith's boy but yesterday; I am - what shall I say I am today?

Charles Dickens

"Then what can you want to do now?" said the old lady,gaining courage. "I wants to make your flesh creep," replied the boy.

Charles Dickens

The sum of the whole is this: walk and be happy, walk and be healthy. "The best of all ways to lengthen our days" is not, as Mr. Thomas Moore has it, "to steal a few hours from night, my love;" but, with leave be it spoken, to walk steadily and with a purpose. The wandering man knows of certain ancients, far gone in years, who have staved off infirmities and dissolution by earnest walking,-hale fellows close upon eighty and ninety, but brisk as boys.

Alanis Morissette

So many boys, so little time...

Alan Rickman

There's, like, marks next to an actor's name or something, and boy does that go up and down! Somewhere in there, which always causes my mate Miss Ruby Wax great hilarity, I was offered a biopic of Frank Sinatra. Even I knew that was a bad idea! They'll throw anything at you at certain times. So, you know, to thine own self be true.

Alan Bennett

We have fish and chips, which W. and I fetch from the shop in Settle market-place. Some local boys come in and there is a bit of chat between them and the fish-fryer about whether the kestrel under the counter is for sale....Only when I mention it to W. does he explain Kestrel is now a lager. I imagine the future is going to contain an increasing number of incidents like this, culminating with a man in a white coat saying to one kindly, "And now can you tell me the name of the Prime Minister?

Alan Alda

I had never really wanted to be famous. Everyone is supposed to want to be rich and famous, but as a boy I never knew what rich was, and the first view I had of famous made me leery.

Al Sharpton

I've never seen an effective boycott that didn't work.

Fisher DeBerry

The other team had a lot more Afro-American players than we did and they ran a lot faster than we did.

Bill Murray

Here's the thing, you just have to drive a lot faster, and if you don't get there, we're both fired.

Nathaniel Rateliff

My original project was called 'The Wheel'; there's a record out there called 'Desire & The Dissolving Man,' 'The Memory Of Loss' as well. There's also 'Falling Faster Than You Can Run,' also 'Closer'; all of that's on our website.

Megan Smith

We're going to get her times down faster once she gets in shape. She still has a ways to go on that, but she has a lot of natural ability.

Steve Jobs

We're going to keep going until we're faster than those guys,

Sandra Smith

We're going to have to figure out a way for students to go through school faster so more can come in.

Anatol Popovich

We're faster and plus we play a quicker game.

Joerg Appenzeller

Ultimately, it will be much faster than it is now.

Craig Forman

The process is very seamless, and allows us to handle more loans with the same number of people. As we go forward, we can give the brokers a faster response.

Giorgio Armani

The products that are moving out of the stores the fastest are those that are most expensive.

Atul Chand

This will perhaps be the fastest transition from ramp to store.

Wang Jianlin

Sunseeker is well placed to take full advantage of opportunities in China, one of the world's fastest growing luxury yacht markets.

Susan Walvius

She may be the fastest guard in the country. She's super quick and super fast.

Shane Koyczan

For me, poetry was... the fastest way to express what I was feeling, what I was going through.

Lee Smolin

Science moves fastest when there's plenty of debate and controversy.

Paul Watson

Bluefin tuna is sort of like the cheetah of the ocean. It's the fastest fish. It's a warm-blooded fish. But it's got a $100,000 price tag on its head.

Curt Reed

West Frankfort was supposed to win. ... but, it isn't always the biggest, fastest or strongest that wins, but it's the guy who thinks he can.

Jason Kantor

Right now it's probably the fastest growing drug sector.

Eric Shinseki

No veteran should have to wait for claims. If there's anybody impatient here, I am that individual.

Gretchen Rubin

If you're impatient while waiting for the bus, tell yourself you're doing 'Bus waiting meditation.' If you're standing in a slow line at the drugstore, you're doing 'Waiting in line meditation.' Just saying these words makes me feel very spiritual and high-minded and wise.

David Coverdale

Amateurs in professional situations make me very impatient.

Trevor Noah

I've never been afraid to fall in love, nor impatient to find it.

Italian Proverb

He who is not impatient is not in love

Jim Padilla

I get impatient too but I also don't walk on water.

Douglas Coupland

I'm not patient - and I'm getting more impatient as I get older - but I am disciplined about writing, and I want that on my tombstone: 'He wasn't patient, but he was disciplined.'

C. S. Lewis

One must never be either content with, or impatient with, oneself.

William Wordsworth

Surprised by joy -- impatient as the windI wished to share the transport.

Tom Stoppard

When I was in my teens, I was very, very keen on being the author of a book. What the book was was secondary. I wanted it to be in hardback. I didn't care how thick or thin it was, and I didn't actually care what it was about.

Peter Capaldi

What's now shocking is I can't say anything publicly without it having a life. Not because I have extraordinary views but because people are keen on conflict, so they'll make that the story.

Jeremy Corbyn

Some colleagues have said they would not be very keen on working with me, but I am sure these things were said in the heat of the moment.

Gerry Eckenrode

This program is all about winning right now. The kids have a keen sense of refusing to lose.

James Allan

We are keen to get our photograph on the wall. It will be there forever.

Cherie Lunghi

I'm mad keen on recycling because I'm worried about the next generation and where all this waste we're producing is going. It has to stop. I wash out my plastic containers and recycle envelopes, everything I possibly can.

Virat Kohli

Never at any point did I feel like missing a training session. I was very keen on improving as a cricketer and as an international player.

Jonathan Powell

Politicians do not enter into wars lightly. It is usually the military themselves who are keener to become involved.

Nathaniel Mason

He has a keen sense of understanding of what we're trying to do in the automotive industry.

Aden Young

I'm only the messenger.

Anita Hill

I became the messenger who had to be killed

Amelia Barr

A good message will always find a messenger.

William Shakespeare

For what good turn? Messenger: For the best turn of the bed.

Norman Vincent Peale

When the student is ready, the messenger appears.

Greta Van Susteren

Cameras in court are just messengers; don't blame them, blame the participants.

Jacqueline Winspear

Coincidence is a messenger sent by truth.

George Eliot

Music sweeps by me as a messenger - Carrying a message that is not for me

Lewis Carroll

He's an Anglo-Saxon Messenger - and those are Anglo-Saxon attitudes.

Charles Spurgeon

I have my own opinion that there is no such thing as preaching Christ and Him crucified, unless we preach what nowadays is called Calvinism. It is a nickname to call it Calvinism; Calvinism is the gospel, and nothing else.

Alan Alda

Almost everybody that's well-known gets tagged with a nickname.

Demetri Martin

Cottonballs are an example of something I'd want to buy, but not have as a nickname.

Kent Evans

People have had nicknames as long as people have been walking,

Patrick Schwarzenegger

My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.

Christopher Poole

As a teenager, I used to use the nickname 'Moo' as a moniker online, and then I turned into 'Moot' for fun, which I didn't even realize was a real word at the time, and it just stuck with me.

Scott Pelley

It's not the nicknames, it's how they got the nicknames that matters.

Snoop Dogg

Ain't nothing greater than an x-rater with a nickname like Vibrator.

Nicolas Chamfort

Chance is a nickname for Providence.

Sean Smith

We started picking up the pace and that's the type of team we are.

Edwin Way Teale

For observing nature, the best pace is a snail's pace.

Bil Keane

Time goes by at such a pace,it's funny how it's easy to forget her face

Arthur Golden

of course the pace of change never slows, even when we've convinced ourselves it will.

Christopher Hill

We are going to have to pick up the pace if we are going to get there,

Dennis Stock

At the incredible pace most of us live, the arrested image becomes of maximum necessity.

Brett Lee

I am keen on helping Indian bowlers but I am not seeking a full-time role. But yes I am really keen on helping out pace bowlers across the world,

Augustus

What is done well is done quickly enough.

James Devlin

We have to play our pace and not the other team's.