Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Cunliffe

Ive worked as a diplomat before I became a politician.

I was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on June 15, 1916. My father, an electrical engineer, had come to the United States in 1903 after earning his engineering diploma at the Technische Hochschule of Darmstadt, Germany.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We are not diplomats but prophets, and our message is not a compromise but an ultimatum.

Bobbi Brown

After I brush on my moisturizer, I'll dip the same brush into foundation and mix it with the lotion to make tinted moisturizer.

David Hockney

Who's going to ask a painter to see a diploma? They'd say, 'Can I see your paintings?', wouldn't they?

US-Syrian relations are extremely strained. There is virtually no diplomatic discussion between the two.

Joschka Fischer

When I heard that yesterday, I was very diplomatic and didn't pull a face. But in my head you could imagine what I was seeing: I saw people sitting around in dreadlocks with joints in their hands, and reggae music playing in the background.

On a DIP loan that size, I'm sure that everyone on the planet would be involved,

Harold Nicolson

She proceeds to dip here little fountain-pen filler into pots of oily venom and to squirt this mixture at all her friends.

We're hearing that some stations are dipping their toe in the water over $3 now.

Yesterday (Monday) was a technical rally. There's still a lot of uncertainty about a potential recession and about what's going to happen on the diplomatic front.

Barton Gellman

Rolf Ekeus, his appearance can deceive. He looks somewhere between an international diplomat and a mad professor. He's got that sort of shock of white hair and a slightly absent-minded way of speaking. But he's extremely sharp and very serious about power relationships.

Emma McLaughlin

If I could give a shout-out to anything in the childhood world, I have to say 'Daniel Tiger.' I want to write a love letter to everyone on that staff. It is so perfectly, thoughtfully, lovingly done. And as a parent, it is the one thing out of everything that we dip in to that really helps.

We're long past the point where you can just look at the DoD budget. Now we're dipping so much into war-related funding.

Ehud Barak

tough diplomatic battle. It is impossible to predict how long it will last or the results.

We want to be very clear, and not necessarily fuzz things up with diplomatic language that may get us in trouble down the road.

Adolfo Aguilar Zinser

I was never the diplomatic diplomat.

Jamie-Lynn Sigler

I have been very fortunate, working a lot in TV, and have been able to dip into the film world a little bit here and there.

Walter Murch

Take any writer you want in the 19th century: they wrote with quill pens, dipping a piece of goose feather in ink and writing. And yet we read those novels today, and if we're sensitive to them, we respond to them with an immediacy that is stronger than anything written today on a word processor.

A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.

Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest things in the nicest way.

Igor Ivanov

The resolution has made a real threat of war go away and opens the way for further work in the interests of a political- diplomatic settlement of the situation around Iraq.

Richard Holbrooke is known for many things, but I will remember him as an impressive, sometimes even intimidating diplomat who understood the value of culture in diplomacy.

Steve Simmons

On the heels of our win over No. 26 St. Louis, it's good to get this win. Everybody wanted to see if we were going to take a dip and we didn't.

One of the great goals of this meeting was to have people know each other and be able to communicate directly. We don't have time for the normal diplomatic procedures.

John Masefield

One road leads to London, / One road runs to Wales, / My road leads me seawards / To the white dipping sails.

one final ugly dip in the market to wring out remaining excesses.

Jamie Lynn Spears

I eat ranch dressing with my pizza; I dip it in the ranch. It is so good! I know, I am really weird .

Christopher Dodd

I don't think we've been muscular enough, if you will, at the diplomatic table. I don't disagree that we ought to leave the military option on the table.

I have many doubts we can reach a joint diplomatic platform, but I think we need to try.

I did not like fascists when I fought them as a diplomat for 23 years and I don't like them now in my own country.

Barry Goldwater

The only summit meeting that can succeed is the one that does not take place.

A. J. Cook

A lot of times you have to dip into the independent world to find the really great projects and the really great scripts. They're out there - you just have to search hard.