Famous Quotes & Sayings

Simon Jenkins

Without history we are infants. Ask what binds the British Isles more closely to America than to Europe and only history gives a reply. Of all intellectual pursuits, history is the most supremely useful. That is why people crave it and need ever more of it.

Rem Koolhaas

Without a tighter union, Europe will disintegrate

Timothy Radcliffe

Christianity will only make a contribution to the future of Europe if it can prove that people like Sam Harris are wrong and that we can make peace.

Timothy Radcliffe

The key question for the future of Europe is whether these faiths will live together in peace or whether they will tear Europe apart.

One thing that has been fascinating to me is the exploding interest in traditional American barbecue in Europe. We Americans have historically always imported food ideas from other places, and now we are exporting this gastronomic treasure called barbecue.

Tom Verlaine

There were a lot of things I listened to, but so-called pop music never killed me, you know, the type of stuff that always seems to make it on the radio. The whole radio thing seems so... it's like they've accepted the whole "new wave" thing only because this kind of pop element came into it. In Europe they really love emotion, but here it's like, "let's stay away from it because we might cry or something".

Russell Means

What the American Indian Movement says is that the American Indians are the Palestinians of the United States, and the Palestinians are the American Indians of Europe.

Romano Prodi

We have to give ourselves a constitution which marks the birth of Europe as a political entity.

Roy Hattersley

Labour has converted to Europe because Europe has converted to socialism.

Susan Rice

In this day and age, the U.S. and Europe do not have the luxury of focusing solely on a single region.

Segolene Royal

I dont want a Europe that is just a free-trade area attached to NATO. Even less do I want a Europe where its everyone against everyone, and social and fiscal dumping replaces solidarity.

Shimon Peres

We had a lot of support - don't give me "the world", just the televisions. In America we enjoy support,China is neutral, India is for, in Europe they're divided.

Lee Majors

My fiancee and I recently eloped. We went on a fabulous honeymoon to Europe, and I was able to see and do everything I wanted without worrying about taking it easy.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We go to Europe to be Americanized.

Laurent Fabius

I am a partisan and artisan of Europe. But I draw the lessons of my experience in government.

Laurent Fabius

The single currency should allow the European Union, and therefore France, to balance its monetary strength with the United States. It should help us adjust to the development of China.

Laurent Fabius

We on the left who are pro-European and Internationalist wish to unite the peoples under a social model.

Laurent Fabius

This revision of the Constitution will not be perfect. But at least the Constitution will not be inflexible. It will be a step towards the Social Europe which we wish.

Laurent Fabius

But Maastricht was not the end of history. It was a first step towards a Europe of growth, of employment, a social Europe. That was the vision of Francois Mitterrand. We are far from that now.

Laurent Fabius

There are 20 million unemployed and what does the Constitution offer us in the Europe of 25, 27 and soon to be 30: policies of unrestricted competition to the detriment of production, wages, research and innovation.

Laurent Fabius

If the US economic landing is soft there will be no consequences (for Europe).

Laurent Fabius

Thanks to the euro, our pockets will soon hold solid evidence of a European identity. We need to build on this, and make the euro more than a currency and Europe more than a territory... In the next six months, we will talk a lot about political union, and rightly so. Political union is inseparable from economic union. Stronger growth and Euorpean integration are related issues. In both areas we will take concrete steps forward.

Theresa May

As we conduct our negotiations it must be a priority to allow British companies to trade with the single market in goods and services but also, to regain more control of the numbers of people who are coming here from Europe.

Marc Ribot

Jazz is a music of great achievements but speed and chops serve a different function in jazz.

Marc Newson

I've always listened to a lot of film music, actually.

Marc Newson

I was sort of open to do anything, I was free.

Marc Newson

Then I started to do furniture and interiors for a friend and just to get stuff in a magazine, and then slowly started to build up and started to doing exhibitions.

Marc Newson

You know some people say that you make watches or perfume bottles, it's all different things.

Marc Newson

To create well I have to be in a good mood, happy and cool.

Marc Newson

I was much more interested in making things than in designing them.

Marc Newson

I don't have any furniture of mine in my room.

Marc Jacobs

We're developing things, but I don't know what we'll go with for the show, so I don't like to talk about it.

Marc Maron

When I was a bit older I had all of the George Carlin records, all of the Steve Martin records, all of the Cheech and Chong records and all of the Richard Pryor records.