Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eddie Izzard

We stole countries with the cunning use of flags! Yeah, just sail around the world and stick a flag in. - I claim India for Britain!They go, - You can't claim us, we live here! 500 million of us!- Do you have a flag?- We don't need a bloody flag! It's our country, you bastards!- No flag, no country, you can't have one! That's the rules that I've just made up, and I'm backing it up with this gun that was lent from the National Rifle Association.

We started backing up midnight to 2 o'clock in the morning, which suggests it was Asian-inspired.

We're still not sure whether all this is a planned strategy of the SPD leadership or if they are taking it step by step. It put the CDU under initial pressure, but it somewhat backfired, as Merkel's position has received firm and repeated backing from her state prime ministers.

We've got information about who's backing bin Laden and, in a lot of cases, it goes back to the royal family.

Don Wilson

What we're seeing is the foreign market backing off.

I'm trying to use people like Meredith Monk and Philip Glass and Terry Riley as the backing tracks for new pop songs. It's really hard trying to use the format and write a pop song on top of avant-garde music, so we'll see. It could be cool, or it could totally flop.

We've been looking for venture capital to come into the state to develop our resources. Now we've finally found some and the politicians are backing off.

That's all we've talked about is defense, defense, defense. Now we're coming out and backing up our talk.

Troy Murphy

That's all we've talked about is defense, defense, defense, ... Now we're coming out and backing up our talk.

The inventory build was two-to-three times greater than expected, and oil prices are backing off.

O. J. Simpson

These tags have an adhesive backing and can stick together. We have had occasion when the tag for one individual will be inadvertently placed in the envelope with another individual's tag.

Cindy Klassen

I know that they're all praying for me and really backing me up and that just means the world to me.

Raymond Felton

I'm not backing down from what I said, regardless of who says whatever about it,

Raymond Felton

I'm not backing down from what I said. I wasn't saying (it) to be bold or to be cocky. I was saying it because I have confidence in my team and my teammates. That's the mentality that I'm trying to bring to this team.

Kofi Annan

I hope you will give your full backing to all points of the strategy I have outlined. Let us ensure the United Nations play its role in this fight to the full,

The two candidates who had backing from organized labor got slaughtered last night. You have to conclude that protectionist arguments just aren't going anywhere.

The volume isn't overly heavy but there are a lot of orders on the trading desks backing up what's out there right now. There's a lot of committed capital on trading desks that's trying to be put to work.

Phil Garner

They'll let Jimmy control the clubhouse, and he'll get the backing from the front office because of his good relationship with Dombrowski from their time together with the Marlins.

When you lose to a team by nine goals, it can be very easy to just give up and not work hard when you play them again, but these girls didn't do that. They were in their face all night going after balls and not backing down, and that was very impressive.

Ultimately he's likely to be forced to compromise more, ... there hasn't been very much in the way of backing down.

This is the proverbial bounce, and it's encouraging that it bounced when it did, but is this the turn? This week there will likely be some backing and filling before the long holiday weekend.

Tony Stewart

This makes sleeping tonight a little bit easier. I don't ever remember being part of something like that. I'm not real excited about having to be in that situation (today). But if that's what it comes down to with five to go, trust me, I'm not backing out.

Larry Davis

They're a scrappy bunch. They aren't backing down from anyone, being their first year in Division I.

I played pretty well, ... When you've got a partner like that backing you up, you aren't going to get any bad shots. If she needs me to back her up, I'm there and if I need her to back me up, she's there.

James Wolfensohn

If you were in a job where it was unclear what the purpose of that job was and what the backing that you had was and who had the responsibility...you would probably wonder...if that was the thing you wanted to do.

I gave up a few more hits than I wanted to, but I got in my running backing up the bases.

Marc Singer

I never wanted to be a film director but after this experience I really loved it. I would love to do more documentaries but it's difficult to find backing for them.

It helped us a lot because we knew he wasn't mad. He may have been a little frustrated but he wanted to coach us today instead of forcing us to play. He saw we were playing for him, playing as a team. A lot of times when you lose poise, you lose focus. Today he was backing us up. I thought he did a very good job coaching us through this one. Very good.

I'm backing myself to show the lead to the other batsmen, ... It's going to be hard work, but we have to fight to save this match.

I?m backing her, as they say. I think that?s the expression.

I'm an emotional player. I like playing under pressure and the crowd backing us up. I like to get kills in the clutch.

If rates keep backing up we'll definitely have the stock market treading water for awhile.

If you're on a beach and you're running behind a pickup truck and somebody throws sand in your face all the time, you start backing up a little bit.