Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arsene Wenger

I didn't know the English were good at swimming. I have been in this country for 12 years and I haven't seen a swimming pool.

Antoni Tapies

Which country is real, mine or the teacher's? My wish is that we might progressively lose our confidence in what we think we believe and the things we consider stable and secure, in order to remind ourselves of the infinite number of things still waiting to be discovered.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

One is a member of a country, a profession, a civilization, a religion. One is not just a man.

Bill Vaughan

The nature of our constitution makes eloquence more useful and more necessary in this country than in any other in Europe.

Bill Vaughan

I certainly hope the strengths and values of this country hold up to comparison to other cultures.

Bill Vaughan

An American presidential campaign resembles a forced march through enemy country.

Bill Vaughan

It has been preached in every country, taught everywhere, but only believed in by a few, because until we get the experience ourselves, we cannot believe in it.

Bill Vaughan

Were the Inhabitants of Italy charming as their Country, all other Regions would be depopulated I think.

Bill Vaughan

NATO will not become involved in partitioning that country, .. We're not going to engage in an operation that will fix demarcation lines. This is one country, and it will remain one country.

Bill Vaughan

My father asserted that there was no better place to bring up a family than in a rural environment.... There's something about getting up at 5 a.m., feeding the stock and chickens, and milking a couple of cows before breakfast that gives you a lifelong respect for the price of butter and eggs.

Bill Brandt

It is part of the photographer's job to see more intensely than most people do. He must have and keep in him something of the receptiveness of a child who looks at the world for the first time or of the traveler who enters a strange country We are most of us too busy, too worried, too intent on proving ourselves right, too obsessed with ideas to stand and stare Very rarely are we able to free our minds of thoughts and emotions and just see for the simple pleasure of seeing. And so long as we fail to do this, so long will the essence of things be hidden from us.

Bill Bryson

In a funny way, nothing makes you feel more like a native of your own country than to live where nearly everyone is not.

Bill Bryson

All the things that are part of your heritage make you British - that makes this country what it is. It's part of your history. And here, unlike America, it's still living history.

Bill Bryson

I had to drive to Minneapolis once, and went on a back road just to see the country. But there was nothing to see. It's just flat and hot, and full of corn and soybeans and hogs. Every once in a while you come across a farm or some dead little town where the liveliest thing is the flies.

Bill Bryson

I can't imagine there has ever been a more gratifying time or place to be alive than America in the 1950s. No country had ever known such prosperity.

Bill Burr

Like I said, you guys in the media will treat the dumbest jack**s in the entire f***ng world like they won a Pulitzer prize for journalism and will put that level of weight on it, like they're an ambassador to some country we're trying to establish trade with.

Bill Hicks

Sometimes my dad even gets on this kick--'You hate this country'....I have to tell him...I just hate being lied to.

Jim Hall

I think they should have better things to do. I mean, here's a man who's lost his life serving our country and I think it's a shame.

Ben Roethlisberger

I think they can count on me. And I want them to be able to count on me.

I think the silent majority -- the people of this country -- will have the last voice on this whole matter.

I think these revelations should matter to voters because I think ethics should count for something in a public servant.

Janet Reno

I think the world of Louis Freeh, ... We've had discussions, disagreements and arguments. Some people equivocate about what they really think. Louis Freeh is a person I could count on to tell me exactly what he thought.

Harold Pinter

I think the world is going down the drain if we're not very careful, ... It's a very dangerous world as we all know, and I don't think this country (Britain) is helping at all.

It is a way to protect our employees, as well as the plant employees and the county employees,

It is a tangible demonstration of the seriousness of the United States in not permitting illegal migration into the country.

Richard Holbrooke

It is a struggle of great historic consequence. Indonesia is one of the most important countries in the world, the world's third largest democracy,

It is a pact that remains in favor of the farm export policies of the rich countries and big emerging countries ... and does little for the majority of farmers.

Lex Lasry

It is a sad, sad situation to be in this courtroom in this country hearing a prosecutor saying to a jury that one of the things he relies upon is that Mr. Thomas thought about something.

Roy Moore

It is a sad day in our country when the moral foundation of our law and the acknowledgment of God has to be hidden from public view to appease a federal judge,

John Hartson

It is a sad day for me because I have loved playing for my country and representing the Welsh people for a number of years.

It is a real increase in head count and percentages, and it has been trending upwards every year since 1999.

Fernando Alonso

It is a nice feeling to have those records but when you are on the track, they don't count for anything.

It is because the administration is hostile to silver; and thus it is surrendering this country to the Shylocks of the Old World who have made war upon it.