Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gene Luen Yang

Nobody really knows for sure how the Boxer Rebellion started. It began among the poor, and the history of the poor is rarely written down.

Nimbus won the bid from among eight bidders.

No. 1, we're increasingly convinced that Qualcomm will be able to get a substantial royalty in all third-generation equipment, which will be based on its CDMA technology. No. 2, we're getting a growing amount of evidence that China intends to deploy CDMA nationwide. That was a big concern earlier in the year among some investors.

Bruce Campbell

Nissan conducted an Internet survey of 2,000 echo boomers, a majority of which said technology and gaming are among the most important attributes in their first car.

New Year's eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted; and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of darkness on other nights

Only reapers, reaping early/ In among the bearded barley.

On the morning of March 2, a terrorist attack was committed not far from the U.S. Consulate General in Karachi. Two car bombs were set off, killing and injuring a number of people. There are no Russian citizens among the casualties.

Only two mutations are needed for it to become easily transmissible among humans.

Ontario wood prices are among the highest in the world.

One of the big headlines is that network TV is strong. Overall, television usage among total viewers is up about 4 percent ... and the growth in cable is not coming at the expense of the broadcast networks.

One of the reasons there is reluctance among business users is that they have higher priorities.

Maggie Smith

There's this wonderful first assistant and he'll be saying, 'Now Harry goes down among the dragons.' You have to hold yourself together. Because if you lose it for a second then you're sunk.

Peter Paul Rubens

As to the 'St. Michael,' the subject is very fine, but very difficult, so I doubt that I shall find easily amongst my pupils one capable of carrying it out satisfactorily even after my own drawing. In any case, it will be necessary for me to touch it up carefully with my own hand.

Phil Schiller

It's always been about making the best Mac we know how. Among the many benefits are making it easy to use and affordable, with great features.

We have an epidemic of credit card debt in this country, especially among 25- to 35-year-olds. So giving up the use of credit cards is one of the most effective sacrifices many people can make to contain their spending and work toward homeownership,

Richie Sexson

We could just as easily have swept that series. We played that first game tough, we just came out on the short end. But we're excited. We feel like we've got a great team. I know a lot of people don't, but we do. Amongst ourselves, we think we're going to do a lot of things right this year.

We know that the negative sentiments are more prevalent among the middle-aged rather than the young,

We have very good and sound information showing increases in high-risk behaviors among men having sex with men since 1999,

Mavis Staples

If you don't get out among the people, how are you going to know what they need to hear about?

Peter Singer

Several countries - among them Austria, Costa Rica, Denmark, Finland, India, Israel and Sweden - ban or severely restrict the use of wild animals in circuses. In Brazil, a movement to ban wild animals from circuses started after hungry lions managed to grab and devour a small boy.

Patricia Marx

High heels weren't always a girl thing. In the fifteen-hundreds, the riding shoes of French noblemen were fitted with raised heels so that their feet stayed put in the stirrups. Over the next few decades, heels inched higher on dress shoes, particularly among men of privilege.

Penny Marshall

My brother and sister were much older. They were planned. I was not planned for. I was called the mistake, amongst other things.

Marcus Samuelsson

The dialogue and conversation about food is everywhere - television, chat rooms, social media outlets and among everyday conversations.

Sixty-six percent is the literacy rate in the Arab world. We have 58 million illiterate among adults in our part of the world.

Mario Monti

I have always been considered to be the most German among Italian economists, which I always received as a compliment, but was rarely meant to be one.

We are delighted to be supporting an important event such as the World Youth Day, ... The young people coming together in Cologne are our future. The message of tolerance, optimism and understanding among nations they are sending all over the world comes from Germany this year, in many ways a valuable sign in itself.

Bob McNair

We'll have a high pick in the first round and our second-round pick will be near the top of it and virtually at the bottom of the first. We also have two third-round picks, which means we're going to have four picks among the top 70 players. I think those four picks can have a significant impact.

We'll do, among other things, two performances in King's College, Cambridge, of Bach and a special program of Mozart's sacred music.

We'll let them know, ask them to please be careful and think about maybe switching. We'll make sure they're aware there's some concern about it among Tour members.

You do not discriminate among farmers based upon the natural disaster that took their crops. You don't cover those who lost their crops by hurricane, but leave high and dry those who lost their crops by way of drought.

To have a name amongst the 10,000 plus, that you can call your uncle, is a special thing.

To have a former governor on trial is a big deal even for Illinois. It just reinforces what is a very cynical attitude among Illinois citizens about politics and politicians. Our expectations and our standards are pretty low. Our politicians try very hard to live up to those low standards.

Blaise Pascal

Thus our first interest and our first duty is to enlighten ourselves on this subject, whereon depends all our conduct. Therefore among those who do not believe, I make a vast difference between those who strive with all their power to inform themselv