Famous Quotes & Sayings

Clyde Edgerton

Because I was born in the South, I’m a Southerner. If I had been born in the North, the West or the Central Plains, I would be just a human being.

Jana Kramer

I have an amazing family. I was raised in a wonderful mid-west family.

Charles Marion Russell

The West is dead... you may lose a sweetheart but you won't forget her.

Ai Weiwei

The world is a sphere, there is no East or West.

James Arness

What made us different from other westerns was the fact that 'Gunsmoke' wasn't just action and a lot of shooting; they were character-study shows.

Mark Ruffalo

I want to do a western. Nobody does westerns anymore.

Djimon Hounsou

I always hope for the better for the continent and what I know comes from Africa. Living in the West we feel like we're so removed from the continent that we can somewhat shut off.

They're a lot better than what we play on the Western Slope.

Georgie Fame

Suckle was the first West Indian DJ and he had this fantastic source of music.

Mark Steyn

The industrial powerhouse of 1950 [Detroit] is now a crime-ridden wasteland with a functioning literacy rate equivalent to West African basket-cases.

Henry A. Kissinger

Revolutionaries are rarely motivated primarily by material considerations-though the illusion that they are persists in the West.

Eric Lefkofsky

The West coast money and the East coast money, in an ever-increasing manner, is finding its way to Chicago.

Peter Jackson

One of the first movies I ever saw was 'Batman,' based on the TV series with Adam West and Burt Ward.

Queen Rania of Jordan

Polls show that Arabs admire a lot of the Western values, cultural aspects in the West. It is more about policies than about way of life.

Shunryu Suzuki

Even if the sun were to rise from the west, the Bodhisattva has only one way.

Steven Wright

It's like the Wild West, the Internet. There are no rules.

Steven T. Katz

The poet laureate of England talked about murdering Jews on the West Bank.

Stephen Hawking

The concern here is that financial services become a kind of tech-led Wild West.

Shahrukh Khan

I am happy making the films I make and I would like the West to be impressed with what we do from India.

Ramakrishna

If you want to go east, don't go west.

Ernst Toller

Per capita the East Germans drank more than twice as much as their West German counterparts.

I've benefited from the best of both societies and both cultures, East and West.

Richard Leakey

Whether or not all this came to pass in an East African ditch, I wouldn't like to say. Perhaps it happened in North Africa or further west, but Africa was definitely the place.

Rudyard Kipling

Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.

Wallace Stegner

The Westerner is less a person than a continuing adaptation. The West is less a place than a process.

Soulja Boy

My first single I was nominated for a Grammy with 'Crank That,' and I lost a Grammy to Kanye West, but it was still such a big deal for me to be nominated anyway.

Henry David Thoreau

Many are concerned about the monuments of the West and the East -- to know who built them. For my part, I should like to know who in those days did not build them -- who were above such trifling.

Jamal Lewis

If I'm going east and west, nothing's happening

Jhene Aiko

I always go to my Kanye [West], Jay-Z. I go back to alot of the stuff that I know for sure that I like.

George Bernard Shaw

Rebecca [West] can handle a pen as brilliantly as ever I could and much more savagely.

The West remains obsessed by the caste system.

George Stoneman

I have therefore concluded to apply for the privilege of becoming a Cadet at West Point.

George Steiner

Monotheism at Sinai, primitive Christianity, messianic socialism: these are the three supreme moments in which Western culture is presented with what Ibsen termed "the claims of the ideal." These are the three stages, profoundly interrelated, through which Western consciousness is forced to experience the blackmail of transcendence.