Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Mel Brooks

I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.

Jose Maria Aznar

We in the West should stand by our core principles.

Bertrand Russell

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

Gore Vidal

Remember, I'm West Point, where I was born. My father went there.

Garry Kasparov

The West can't come up with anything to deal with Moscow, except appeasement.

Octavio Paz

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

Ayn Rand

Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth.

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

Ernst Toller

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

George H. W. Bush

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

Georgie Fame

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

Mark Ruffalo

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

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.

John Malkovich

I never really did a western western.

Leona Lewis

I've had tonsilitis and I'm not sure if I can sing on Saturday [whilst out on the town in the West End]

Jung Chang

I no longer have the terrible nightmares that I used to have. Mao had just died in 1976, and China began to open up. For the first time scholarships to go to the West to study were awarded on academic merit.

Paul Kagame

The West is anything but altruistic.

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.

Noam Chomsky

The West Bank is essentially imprisoned.

Ken Curtis

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