Famous Quotes & Sayings

Scott Anderson

The peculiarities of my childhood, of constantly moving through so many different cultures, of always being the outsider, may have made me extraordinarily self-sufficient, but it had also bred a certain detachment, a sense that the world was a place to explore rather than truly inhabit. This manifested as a kind of shyness, even timidity.

Thomas Kyd

My son - and what's a song? A thing begot within a pair of minutes, thereabout, a lump bred up in darkness.

Lewis Gordon Pugh

Britain has bred many great explorers, but they seem to get so little coverage compared to soccer and rugby players.

Chris Larsen

Until now, financial institutions have controlled who is able to obtain credit and the rates people pay. Over time, this one-sided control has bred inefficiencies and excessive margins -- leading to higher rates for borrowers, and restricting people who have money to lend from entering and generating income from this vital and lucrative market.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

We have bred multiple generations of people who have not experienced knowing where you are the moment a news story broke, with that news story being great and grand and something that elevates society instead of diminishes it.

Paul Watson

We're close to losing our essential diversity. Look at our wheat crops - we rely on a handful of grain crops and plants that we've refined and bred over hundreds of years.

Hugh Wirth

The problem is these dogs are bred solely to fight, so they have a very low threshold of tolerance of other dogs and if they feel as though they're threatened in any way, this genetic conditioning kicks in and they become a raging beast,

William Congreve

Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an university: but the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.

William Hastie

History informs us of past mistakes from which we can learn without repeating them. It also inspires us and gives confidence and hope bred of victories already won.

Neel Mukherjee

India introduced Britain to vegetarianism - see Tristram Stuart's excellent first book on this - and it is possible, indeed all too easy, to be a vegetarian in India and eat extraordinarily good, varied food every day, with very few 'repeats.'

Natalie Massenet

Britain has the most creative, dynamic and nimble fashion industry in the world.

Michael Ashcroft

When I was in my early twenties, I hoped one day to own a Victoria Cross, the ultimate decoration in Britain and the Commonwealth for bravery in the face of the enemy.

James McAvoy

Shooting films in Britain is always difficult, because we've never got enough money to make them.

Michael Douglas

She is such a tremendous spokesperson for Britain in general, and Wales in particular, that it hurt to see how she was treated in this whole process.

Ed Miliband

We have to create security for the working families of Britain, and that's what I'll do

Alice Lowe

One thing about television in Britain is that they're so scared about complaints. It curbs a lot of drama.

David Miliband

I am the 'change Britain' candidate. We can only change Britain through a united Labour Party and I am the unity candidate. I have got support from the Left and the Right of the party.

Tony Blair

cement the new modern relationship between Britain and India.

Chris Tinker

The real dilemma they have is future reserve growth. Shell isn't up to the game compared with BP.

John Rymer

We used to talk about open systems compared to very proprietary systems like the AS/400 where you could only get it from one vendor. It just isn't the same type of discussion any more.

Scott Aukerman

Working on 'Comedy Bang Bang,' we're there from 10-7, and that's a pretty light day compared to most other TV shows. Other shows, it's like 10-10.

Suzanne Fields

HBO has 28 million subscribers, small stuff compared to TBS, which can be seen in 88 million homes.

David Albright

What we did see is that when we compared this information on the high explosives, to the Internet, that these are much more polished, ... That they really did work with these formulas, tested these formulas, and developed a procedure of making these high explosives that led to effective high explosives in a safe manner.

Victor Shum

Vehicle sales growth has been dramatic compared to last year. This suggests that the future demand for oil products will remain strong.

Pam Munger

This was a slow-paced game compared with what we played on Monday. We missed some shots that I don't think we should be missing at this point in the season ... (but) I liked some of the looks we had defensively.

Jermaine Jackson

There is nothing to be compared to this, 'cause we lost our brother, our hero. The world is mourning. We are mourning. The fans are mourning. It is unreal. Unbelievable.

David Yen

We are pricing our systems very, very competitively, even compared with the x86 standard.

Scott Henderson

Watching the coverage yesterday, all of the places the reporters were looked real familiar,

Ray Kelly

We're going to slowly reduce our coverage to what it was pre-Oct. 6,

Maria Sharapova

Women's tennis players are getting as many sponsors and media coverage as men, and our TV ratings at the Grand Slams are pretty much equal to and often better than the men, so I don't understand the rationale for paying the men more than us.

Jack Curry

Media Coverage of Volunteering, Philanthropy and the Nonprofit Sector,

Vincent Schiraldi

Media coverage of these dramatic killings has created a misperception that schools are dangerous.

Jackie Speier

Seniors and the disabled will soon have new health coverage options now that the Governor has signed SB 375 into law,

John Harbaugh

We're going to have to start doing a better job with our coverage teams. It's not so much that we aren't tackling. We're not staying in our lanes. All our guys are moving inside, and they're jumping to the outside.

Bruce Shearer

We're going to have to play good pass coverage and play honest. If we can stop the pass, we'll be fine.

Lalit Modi

With Nimbus Sport's excellent track record and very competitive cost, BCCI has secured for itself and its fans a fantastic level of TV coverage never before seen in India.

Doug MacGregor

We have no interest in a name on a masthead. With any partnership, you want the whole to be greater than the sum of the parts.

Bill Buckner

We want it to be a great destination year-round, make it a place to go play and stay.

Dusty Baker

We were trying everything to get him his victory. It was a great run by Greg. The guys wanted to win for him, and we left him in in the ninth to have that opportunity.

Alan Ladd

I've always had a great respect for the picture business. It's been good to me

Charlie Chaplin

There is greatness in everyone.

Charles Sumner

The true greatness of nations is in those qualities which constitute the greatness of the individual.

Charles de Gaulle

Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.

Charles de Gaulle

France cannot be France without greatness.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.

Maury Yeston

The extraordinary thing about Irving Berlin is that he's like the American Mozart! It seems as if his songs were always there. How do you put together songs like 'Always' or 'Cheek To Cheek'? Songs of his are, frankly, perfect.

Todd Blackadder

Ulster seemed to get their tries effortlessly whereas we had to work for ours.

Carolina Herrera

Work doesn't seem to interfere with my life. I have time for everything, even time to be alone.

John Sacchi

We're in a situation where we just can't stop the bleeding. We keep trying to put band-aids on the wound, but nothing seems to help.

Jim Rash

When you stop thinking about something, the idea comes to you. It seems to work.

Ben Stein

I have to tell you I never in my life anticipated getting this old, this fast. It seems as if I were 25 just a few days ago.

Laurie Lee

With three kids, it seems like I'm always shelling out $5 here and $5 there,

George Robinson

Wow, isn't that convenient? ... It's going to be hot, and it doesn't seem that expensive.

Dan Ariely

There's something about [cyclically] doing something over and over and over that seems to be particularly demotivating.