Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

PASSPORT, n. A document treacherously inflicted upon a citizen going abroad, exposing him as an alien and pointing him out for special reprobation and outrage.

James Mooney

Our priorities are national security. People linked to terrorism are number one. We are looking at the borders with interior enforcement - places that would be harmed by illegal terrorists working in places like nuclear power plants and airports. We are dealing with the criminal alien element. We can't be everything for everybody.

Tracy Mullin

Retailers don't want to alienate their loyal customers by making their return policies too strict, but they also need to create policies that discourage return fraud,

David Grinspoon

I was just so impressed with the diversity and inventiveness of the artwork submitted. To me, it bespeaks of a vast global awareness and excitement about imagining and exploring a neighboring world that is so like our own in some ways and so completely alien in others.

Ram Prasad

It is an alien place for me. Most of the locals here don't talk to us and there is a communication problem. And there is always fear of an attack.

Joan Kirner

Just by making a decision to stay out of politics, you are making the decision to allow others to shape politics and exert power over you. And if you are alienated from the current political system, then just by staying out of it, if you do nothing to change it, you simply entrench it.

Jon Katz

(Jesse) was alienated from school. He wasn't learning much. He didn't have a lot of teachers who were close to him. He didn't have social acceptance. He had never been invited to a party in high school. He's very much a loner.

Charles Albert Gobat

It is highly probable that in most cases, war could be avoided or ended. For discussions allow passion to subside, and to persuade alienated neighbors, or at least one of them, to listen to the voice of a conciliator is a step in the direction of peace.

Fairuza Balk

I was worried, I just couldn't relate to those neo-Nazi white power groups who hate everybody who isn't a white protestant. Those feelings were alien to me, so I went and found several groups of skinheads and hung out with them and tried to find out why they feel that way.

Henry Rollins

Our record is all finished, ... It's mastered, and now I have to come up with artwork and a kiss-ass video for MTV. They never play our stuff anyway, so it's just a gesture. We'll pantomime through some ridiculous situation on film and the record will come out at the end of the year. It's going to be a release that no one will hear.

Vincent DeLisi

Susan enjoys sharing her ideas with other artists. Her goal is to paint more and improve with growth in her artwork and also as a person.

Angie Brown

Overall I think the show went well, kudos to Miss Jeanie! It was well rounded. From artwork to singing, to spoken word to short films, I think it definitely stimulated the audience's senses.

Ellen Moryl

The artwork provides inspiration. It provides hope and also gives meaning. It makes sense out of things, and Dr. Hallett knows about the power of art.

Matt Jones

It gives them an option to learn new skills, get interested in artwork and be a part of their community.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

I think, for me, Julian Schnabel set a great precedent in being able to cross over so successfully. I feel like his artwork is kind of big, grand, and bombastic, yet the films that he makes are very beautifully sensitive, and I just feel that his filmmaking sensibility is very different from his artwork.

John Erskine

I thought maybe I'd get a couple more, ... but not like this. Everyone said they are addicting. I just like having artwork on my body.

Robert Rodriguez

Frank is such a great visual storyteller, that if you study his artwork you see that his Sin City books are already the best movies never seen on the big screen.

Nic Pizzolatto

There are websites of 'True Detective' artwork out there now, and it's beautiful. And I don't want to take that away from anybody. I know what it means to me. But I don't want to take away anyone's interpretation of the show.

Ianthe Exall

Regular donors are the safest donors and we need to foster this awareness in the community.

Mark Waters

Particularly in these high school-set movies, there's something about being in high school that's like a cauldron, a boiling pot of emotion and joy and heartbreak that you feel so intensely. Because you don't have any awareness yet, you don't realize that it's a finite time and feeling.

Chandrika Kumaratunga

Peace is a battle. Peace is never given freely, never acquired. Its conquest is the result of courage and of respect for others. It demands awareness and commitment from everyone. Peace is not the law imposed by the mighty, but that which is founded on equality and dignity of all peoples.

Hugh Panero

Stern effect. Howard Stern has raised the awareness of the entire satellite radio category.

Christine Johnson

Some of them were surprising and motivating. They bring awareness to some important issues.

Dave Schmidt

I'm hoping this brings parental awareness to the situation.

Kathie Bryson

I will not rest until there is awareness, education, testing, understanding, and tolerance for the 5 million Amercians with the HEPATITIS C VIRUS!

Charles Price

I think there's a greater awareness of people interested in parks to see that they're preserved in perpetuity so that fu ture generations . . . don't have to continue going back to the ramparts every few years to protect them.

Bill White

I think there's a general awareness that's caused a spike in our tire business. Right now we're seeing a bit of a fall off in the Firestone passenger tire business, but that's the only line we carry, and frankly, it's not as dramatic a falloff as I would have expected.

Sathya Baba

Mankind can find happiness only in unity, not in diversity.

C. S. Lewis

It takes all sorts to make a world; or a church. This may be even truer of a church. If grace perfects nature it must expand all our natures into the full richness of the diversity which God intended when He made them, and Heaven will display far more variety than Hell.

Laura Bush

I will pick a person who can do the job, ... But I am mindful that diversity is one of the strengths of the country.

Bertrand Russell

Diversity is essential to happiness and in Utopia there is hardly any. This is a defect in all planned social systems.

Kevin Bloom

I think it would be impossible to overstate the importance of fuel diversity in today's economy.

Tom Brady

He wanted students to understand the diversity of the world and it was something he said all the time to the kids. This is just so sad.

Bob Schneider

I can't perceive of a football playoff in the private school sector with a diversity of teams,

David Leitch

I think the president himself values diversity on the courts, ... It will be something that he'll consider. But I don't think it's more or less likely to be a factor because of poll ratings or anything else going on in the short-term news cycle.

Steve Marek

I think the nature of the people that live here has something to do with it. You have a fair percentage of people that want to stay here. They find a way to make a living and stay here. You have a good work ethic. You have a diversity of different groups of people.

Eric Kanagy

Part of the excitement about these 24-hour festivals is seeing where they will go. It will be interesting to see how everyone survives it.

Sheryl Lehr

Our plan was, if we want people downtown, we're going to have to do some fun things and generate some excitement and interest.

Betsey Johnson

There is an excitement about having nightmares.

Ned Yost

I think there will be a lot of excitement in spring training next year.

Ricardo Clark

Just from the talk in the city, I think Sunday is going to be a good day to experience what the season's going to be like and see the excitement in the fans. They'll get to see what our team is about and I think we're going to have a good season here.

Bill Bryson

The great failure in education, much of the time, is the lack of excitement and stimulus

Tim Schuldt

I think this shows how much excitement people have for this team and these players.

Mark Rein

It doesn't generate as much noise and excitement as Microsoft and Sony will, but Nintendo always seems to have a great product line and make a lot of money.

Phil Garner

It does generate a lot of noise and it's a lot of fun. And I think we play for that. We play for that excitement and that noise. It helps us a little bit.

Al Nash

Some of these places may not be as familiar, they are not going to be as heavily visited, which means that you and several fewer people are going to be exploring them this summer.

Sid Ryan

I am going to try to lower the temperature if I can. We're just exploring ideas, particularly over the weekend when the legislature's not sitting.

Mark Cuban

Just the process of exploring the options has been very difficult.

Rich Zurek

I think it is just a fascinating time. We are seeing the planets for the first time. Whether we are exploring through humans or by robots.

Josh Bernstein

I think its great that so many people are being turned on to exploring history,

Diane Setterfield

My liking for Scandinavian crime fiction led me into exploring literary writers from the same countries.

Brian Greene

Exploring the unknown requires tolerating uncertainty.

Tony Glover

Let's just say that he's exploring his options for the future.

Leon Bridges

I'm totally open to exploring different types of music. I just have to always remember to be true to who I am.

Igor Luksic

Regardless of our ambitions to become part of the E.U., we have to keep in mind that Turkey is also a very strong voice that can represent the needs of our region in wider terms in global platforms.

Shane Oliver

Our market will be largely hostage to what's going on globally this week.

Silvio Berlusconi

It is an historic meeting of global significance.

Steve Shaw

The 3GPP really legitimized UMA. It's no longer just a vendor-driven initiative; it's now a global effort.

Bill Gates

It has been a great year for global health to get more visibility. The more people know about it, the more they want to act.

Nauman Barakat

It is not 9/11 in its devastation or its impact on global demand. Therefore this sell-off will be very temporary.

Thomas R. Insel

I was sure I was going to be a doctor of global health or tropical medicine in some underdeveloped country.

Quincy Jones

Seattle is like a global gumbo, a melting pot with all kinds of people - the rich, the poor, white people, some Chinese, Filipino, Jewish and black people - they're all here.

Yoshihiro Maruyama

For Xbox, Japan really is a key, important market in the global strategy that we have,

Tony Judt

Why is it that here in the United States we have such difficulty even imagining a different sort of society from the one whose dysfunctions and inequalities trouble us so?

Joseph O'Neill

I think you sense the metaphorical resonance of what you're writing without analysing it too carefully. That leads you down dead ends. You stop imagining things and start writing towards these themes.

Paul Bloom

I think what a lot of fiction is, is the imagining of the worst so as to prepare ourselves.

Richard Bausch

The fact is, for all the critics' talk about me as a realist, I'm making everything up - everything. It is all about imagining with me.

Arthur Blank

He started crying, I started crying. It's like one of your children. He's a 23-year-old who's imagining the worst. It's painful.

James Loney

During my captivity, I sometimes entertained myself by imagining this day. Sometimes, I despaired of ever seeing it. Always I ached for it. And so here we are.

John Green

You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth...

John Green

And imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.

David Patterson

I'm impressed with one or two of the newcomers.

Janet Miller

I'm impressed with how well it's gone. It works very well as a different way of getting to MPs.

Drew Lewis

I'm impressed with how knowledgeable he is in not only football, but in life.

Jason Bradbury

Landon pitched well. They were struggling with his off-speed stuff and he kept them off balance, and I was impressed with that.

John McGinnis

I was really impressed with the questions that were asked.

Michael Pena

I was really impressed when I met Will the police motto, 'protect and serve', really means something to him,

Jack Warner

I was really impressed by Lindsay's race. It was hot, and for her to go out there with that time was great.

Jon Hampton

I was pretty impressed because Macon was one of the better teams we've played this season.

John Mooney

I was real impressed with Latrobe. They have a young team.

Carl Sagan

But our preferences do not determine what's true.

George E. Brown, Jr.

The vast majority of politicians think they are functioning on high principle.

Richard Leakey

I can't think of any other region in the world which is such a vast source of fossils.

Maurissa Tancharoen

Marvel is a very vast and diverse universe.

Carl Sagan

It's hard to kill a creature once it lets you see its consciousness.

Carl Sagan

She had studied the universe all her life, but had overlooked its clearest message: For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

Carl Sagan

We are one species. We are starstuff.

S. Jay Olshansky

The vast majority of studies say anti-aging supplements don't work.

Michael Keaton

The vast majority of Pittsburghers don't come from any kind of serious dough.

Rudy Gay

That will be a ways away. Whenever that happens, it happens. Right now it's just me and my team.

Devin Brown

There are so many different ways you can do that.

Mike Sanford

I feel like we've improved, and we still have a long ways to go. By far, we have not arrived.

Chris McCray

It can only go one of two ways now, up or down. I think this year we really want it." ()

Tom Daschle

I think it's important for us to try to find ways to work together,

Jesse Berger

For me the play is about preservation and transformation as ways of storytelling.

Roger McNamee

Motorola to me in some ways is a very disappointing company,

Mike Stoops

More and more we need to find ways to get them on the field. They are very athletic, and I think they can contribute.

Jacob Lew

There are lots of ways to work together.