Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bruce Sterling

It's going to be really interesting to see what the heroin market does in the next two years or so. One thing you can be pretty sure of. The Afghan peasants who grow poppies won't get rich. The money will end up in places like Dubai.

Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair

One of the main characteristics that differentiates Dubai from other commercial centres is its openness to innovation and the freedoms it grants people and institutions to operate.

One transaction will catapult Dubai into the heavyweight league of port operators. There will never be an opportunity like this.

Ilie Nastase

I am thrilled at the prospect of being in Dubai after more than two decades,

Mark Mobius

I have just come back from Dubai and there is a lot of interest in India.

Ilie Nastase

I have been to Dubai more than 20 years back. It has been a while since I last visited the place,

Jakaya Kikwete

If we invest in logistic centers, improve on infrastructure and create a facilitative environment, we can easily turn Dar es Salaam into another Dubai of its kind.

Chantal Sutherland

I hope I'm one of many to come in the Dubai World Cup, and hope I see more women making it at this level. There are a lot of great female jockeys.

Dubai is the victim of its own success.

Dubai is a place with few rules, but one of the few things tightly regulated is port security, and that's why the U.S. Navy feels comfortable using Dubai more than any other port in the world.

Dubai has succeeded in making the world smaller and racing bigger.

Duncan Hunter

Dubai has a reputation of being the place where you go in ... if you want to ship something with anonymity.

George Saunders

The cool parts - the parts that have won Dubai its reputation as 'the Vegas of the Middle East' or 'the Venice of the Middle East' or 'the Disney World of the Middle East, if Disney World were the size of San Francisco and out in a desert' - have been built in the last ten years.

Fareed Zakaria

The tallest building in the world is now in Dubai...

Fareed Zakaria

The tallest building in the world is now in Dubai, the biggest factory in the world is in China, the largest oil refinery is in India, the largest investment fund in the world is in Abu Dhabi, the largest Ferris wheel in the world is in Singapore.

Charles Schumer

The silver lining to the Dubai Ports World fiasco is that we are finally focused on the vulnerability of our ports.

David Scott

What this unfortunate Dubai Port episode has done is put a question mark over the United States as a destination for investment.

David Cohen

I'm going to Dubai to ride him. He's just got so much speed, and you can see he's got a ton of heart, too.

John Lawson

It is the commencement of a battle. I suspect Dubai Ports are not going to sit on their hands. Shareholders will get more at the end of the day.

Martina Hingis

It's really great to be back after all this time. I have very nice memories because I was the first female player to win the title here (in 2001). Hopefully these memories will inspire me and it will be a good week for me in this great event. I was always impressed with the modernity of Dubai and all that it has to offer.

Elliott Abrams

Dubai must crack down on rampant smuggling, and the U.A.E. federal government has significantly stepped up pressure.

Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum

Dubai will never settle for anything less than first place.

Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum

There is no Dubai and Abu Dhabi; we are one. Whoever doesn't understand this should do their homework before they start talking. We will be there for each other when we need it.

Patricia Arquette

There's something I really like about network TV. You have this humongous audience, tens of millions of people, and you really can be in a little hut in Thailand; you really can be in the middle of an apartment in Dubai. There's something about public entertainment that I always liked. I like smaller movies, and I like public entertainment.

Kevin Pietersen

I love living in London but I would like to buy a place in Dubai and spend a few months of the year out there.

It has helped us a lot that we haven't travelled so much as in some previous years when we went to Dubai and London. We have been able to put a lot of hard work in at the gym.

Retief Goosen

I putted very well in Dubai and just need to get my ball-striking going.

Frankie Dettori

The horse was very special and I was part of the Dubai Millennium fairytale. So to have something like this in the Godolphin museum is very good.

Kevin Hart

If you want to appeal to everyone, you can't do a world tour and expect black people to show up at every date - when you're in Australia, when you're in Dubai, when you're in Indonesia.