Famous Quotes & Sayings

Slavery in West Africa, and in Rome and in the Mediterranean, was something different than slavery in America.

Clint Eastwood

I tried being reasonable, I didn't like it.

Clint Eastwood

Ever notice how you come across somebody once in a while you shouldn't have messed with? That's me.

Albert Bushnell Hart

England and France were rivals, not only on the continent, but in the West Indies, in India, and in Europe.

Jana Kramer

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

Jose Maria Aznar

We in the West should stand by our core principles.

Bill Cowher

Yeah, I know he discovered the West Indies; it wasn't America. But the whole thing with Columbus was that people had been telling him, 'Don't go. The world's flat.' But he kept going. He found land.

Bertrand Russell

If the West can claim superiority in anything, it is . . . in science and scientific technique.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Georgie Fame

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

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

Ken Curtis

I've thought about doing other dramatic roles besides westerns, but I grew up in the West and I know the West.

Ken Curtis

Of course, western is my native music,

George H. W. Bush

We can realise a lasting peace and transform the East-West relationship to one of enduring co-operation.

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.

Noam Chomsky

The West Bank is essentially imprisoned.

Mia Wasikowska

Traveling to Russia and Germany and being able to see the world at a young age was really cool for me, and I really liked that.

Mark Ruffalo

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

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.

Ezra Stiles

The British merchants represented that they received some profit indeed from Virginia and South Carolina, as well as the West Indies; but as for the rest of this continent, they were constant losers in trade.

Jamal Lewis

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

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.

Jamaica Kincaid

Had the Holocaust happened in Tahiti or the Congo, as it has; had it happened in South America, as it has; had it happened in the West Indies, as it has - you must remember that within fifty years of Columbus's arrival, only the bones remained of the people called the Arawaks, with one or two of them in Spain as specimens. Had the Holocaust committed under the Nazis happened somewhere else, we wouldn't be talking about it the way we talk about it.

James Frey

He pulled out turned west and started driving towards the glow it was thousands of miles away, he started driving towards the glow.

George Ayittey

In the West, the basic economic and social unit is the individual; in Africa, it is the extended family or the collective.

Octavio Paz

Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.

Mahatma Gandhi

The socialistic conception of the West was born in an environment reeking with violence.

Mahatma Gandhi

The West has yet to discover anything so hygienic as the Indian toothstick.

Eric Lefkofsky

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

Henry A. Kissinger

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

Luther Allison

In the States, it takes you a lifetime just to get from Chicago's South Side to the West Side.