Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Corallo

Our position that U.S. courts have no jurisdiction over non-U.S. citizens being held in military control abroad is based on long-standing Supreme Court precedent,

Noam Chomsky

Rendition is just sending people abroad to be tortured.

Paul Mackel

Japan is signaling that they're not concerned about the pace of the decline in the yen, so people are going to continue to push the yen lower. Japanese investors are continuing to buy bonds abroad and we see more scope for yen weakness.

Valerie Whittlesey

It has been intentional and systematic in its initiatives in international education. The implementation of the QEP will be the effort of the entire campus. Every unit on-campus will be consulted in the development and implementation of the QEP. In order to impact student learning in the area of global understanding and engagement, those responsible for curricular experiences, co-curricular experiences, community engagement, study abroad experiences and all other administrative functions together with students will make the dream of the QEP a reality.

David Rubin

It is no secret that the image of the United States abroad is not as positive as it must be. To the degree we can help to repair that image by introducing these visitors to American views of democracy, a free press and the role of citizens, we will have provided a valuable service to our country.

Paul Steiger

I strongly suspect that there is a relationship between the rise in deaths and incarcerations abroad and the infringement of press freedom at home.

Gong Li

The world looks at China as a big place with a lot of people, a good place to make money. And because so many Chinese families send their kids abroad to study, they are familiar with foreign cultures, so Hollywood films are very successful in China.

Queen Mary

My parents were in short street, so they had to go abroad to economize.

Harold Wilson

From now the pound abroad is worth 14 per cent or so less in terms of other currencies. It does not mean, of course, that the pound here in Britain, in your pocket or purse or in your bank, has been devalued.

Bill Pecoriello

restructuring and reorganization plans don't seem to be fully completed yet.

Houston Nutt

That was good then. I'm glad they cheered. I wish we would have completed it. I would have stood up and cheered if we completed it.

Gary Jobson

I woke up at the end of this past summer and thought, 'I've just completed my 50th year in sailing.' I'm 55 and started when I was six.

Mao Asada

I'm so happy to have completed the two triple axels. I wasn't really thinking about winning this championship too much. I was more concerned with trying to land the two triple axels.

Garry Kasparov

I don't have to run for Presidency in Russia to feel good about myself. I already completed more than many people could have dreamed of.

Michael Patrick Hearn

Frank Baum knew at once he had written something special when he completed 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.'

Max Pirner

Four years ago, we had paving crews working all over Forest Cove. We were promised that the striping would be done when the paving work was completed, but when the paving was completed we were told they could no longer stripe the streets.

Ron Sims

King County has completed a remarkable financial turnaround that any corporation would envy.

Dan Stessel

It is a $23 million project divided into three phases, and it is currently in the second phase. We are currently doing work on the eastern end of the platform, and Phase II will be completed this fall. Phase III will shift to the west end and will be six months in duration. The entire project will be completed by next spring.

Alan Curbishley

Our recent record in the League Cup is appalling.

Kevin Quinn

Our first team goal was to get an opportunity to get to (the Penguins Cup game). Now that we've won it, obviously our road doesn't end until we win our last game and that's the state championship.

Jurgen Klinsmann

Our World Cup preparations are firming up but the door remains open for interesting candidates.

Paul Ince

Rio can play that holding midfield position for England - the kid is good enough to do it. Sven should be looking at Rio to do that in the World Cup because I think he is awesome. He can play centre-half, right-back, anywhere.

Jonny Wilkinson

Right through to the end of the last World Cup game, I still couldn't bear the thought of not being perfect or letting people down.

Carl Edwards

Maybe if we can get us a win this weekend, we can get on the roll we need in the Cup Series, too.

David Small

Mama had her little cough. Once or twice, some quiet sobbing, out of sight... Or the slamming of kitchen cupboard doors. That was her language.

Jacqui Cooper

I want to win another world championship and another globe (world cup title).

Sigi Schmid

I want to those three guys not to be fringe national team players, but national team players as the team prepares for the World Cup in 2010.

Dan Hawkins

I was always fascinated by toys, and I just never outgrew it,

Patrick Moore

I was always fascinated by this place. I always thought it was mysterious.

Michelle Monaghan

I was just fascinated with how everyone else in the world lived, and I was interested in telling their story.

Joaquin Phoenix

I was fascinated that this was the same person.

Anthony Waters

I was fascinated by Leontyne Price for obvious reasons,

Neil Jackson

I think people are always going to be fascinated about the haves and have nots - about the divide between the servants and the rich families upstairs.

Michelle Monaghan

I'm still really fascinated with characters and people and telling their stories.

Joe Carnahan

I am fascinated by that notion of people are never as they seem. And that doesn't make them good or bad. It's just we don't ever really show ourselves if we don't have to.

Dan Gilroy

Has Werner Herzog ever said anything that wasn't true? What a brilliant fountain of wisdom. Everything he touches I'm just fascinated by.

Rick Harper

It doesn't make sense to think of them as two counties. They are joined at the hip.

Rosemary Palmer

He was persuaded that if he joined the Marines he would get a new sense of purpose.

Michelle Ryan

I was shy and really into my school work and my drama. Then I joined 'EastEnders' at 16, and it was work, work, work. You become very isolated. I rarely went out and so didn't get to meet anyone.

Eduard Limonov

He has joined us without any conditions. Yegor stands for red, Soviet-style nationalism.

Darin Strauss

My first book is about twins who are attached: two people who are joined and can't escape each other.

Richard Adams

My heart has joined the thousand, for my friend stopped running today.

Bill Campbell

Since she joined us, we haven't lost a match. She really makes a difference.

Will Poulter

I joined the after-school club, School of Comedy, which progressed wildly, and in quite a Hollywood way. It sounds like 'School of Rock', right up to trying to raise money to pay for a venue in Edinburgh.

Vint Cerf

When I first joined Google in October of 2005, I was warned that I shouldn't be offended if people were doing their e-mails while a meeting was going on.

Dan Stephens

We'll aggressively pursue ... (the lawsuit) as was planned.

John Hume

That's the strategy that myself and my party have pursued and are pursuing.

Bakul Dholakia

If we wish to rub shoulders with them, then we have to pursue a similar strategy.

Kerri Strug

I think it's just really important for youth today to have a passion and pursue something seriously.

Lin-Manuel Miranda

I like the quiet it takes to pursue an idea the way I pursued 'Hamilton,' but I couldn't write a book, because there's no applause at the end of writing a book.

Oona Chaplin

I loved being on stage, but I told myself that if I didn't get into RADA, I wouldn't pursue an acting career. I did get in, though, and that was that.

Tod Kowalczyk

We've got to find a way to pursue the ball.

Jim Margolin

We often receive threat information. We run it out. We pursue it.

Hussein Chalayan

I wanted to be a pilot, but I was always drawing bodies. When I realised I wanted to pursue something creative, my parents pushed me towards architecture.

Allard Baird

Out of respect to him, I'd rather have him do that.

Koyie Hill

I think they'd rather get somebody for me, though. It would look better.

Simon Leung

I think the timing is going to be more towards the end of this year rather than earlier.

Terry Bradshaw

I will tell you what I feel, right or wrong. I don't want to do it. I would rather make you laugh. But that's my job. I did it. Archie's mad. I understand.

Jon Karkow

I think he was thinking more about the end of the runway approaching rather than the birds.

Joker Phillips

It didn't take long for me to say yes. Once we started talking, he said that we had been on the up and up with him and that he'd rather come here.

Michael Long

I think I would rather that he didn't run.

Brian Penn

It could have been worse. They could have been using grenades rather than eggs.

Craig Berman

He really wants to get back to the work he's been doing for 15 years in search rather than running a company.

Kevin Rahm

My intent was to go to law school... And then what I realised quickly is what I wanted was to be on L.A. Law.

Katie McGrath

I grew up in a small town in Ireland and didn't know any actors. I never thought it was a viable job. It wasn't until I was on 'The Tudors' that I realised it was a possibility.

Douglas Adams

I briefly did therapy, but after a while, I realised it is just like a farmer complaining about the weather. You can't fix the weather - you just have to get on with it.

James Nesbitt

I started a French degree at university, but packed it in when I realised I really wanted to be an actor.

Cyrus Broacha

I realised that a television show on political lampoon was one genre that was missing.

Catherine Tate

I've realised I need a gnawing, nagging, anxious doubt when I wake at 4 A.M.

Selenis Leyva

I did sketch comedy with a troupe at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe.

John Lloyd

I can help you shape your sitcom, I can help you think about what could make your sketch show better, but it won't help you get you a commission.

Dennis Crowley

Stop sketching and start building.

Dennis Crowley

Stop sketching. Start building.

Artie Lange

To tell you the truth, I always wanted to be a sketch comedian and a comedy actor.

Jim Rash

When I teach sketch writing, there's still a beginning, middle and end.

Vincent Van Gogh

My sketchbook is a witness of what I am experiencing, scribbling things whenever they happen.

Richard Codey

Well, at least it was until Aug. 12, 2004.

I. Stone

I want to wait until I get the right heart.

Rita Ora

The album is never finished until it's on the shelves!

Daniel Walker

that will go on until your grandchildren are dead.

Lofa Tatupu

I won't even think about it until I get there.

Corey Brewer

I won't know what everyone is going to do until I guess, a week from now.

Ichiro Suzuki

I won't know until I wake up (today).

Enid Goldstein

I was up until 1 a.m. (Monday) cleaning.

Johnny Gimble

I didn't really get crazy about Bob Wills until 1940.