Famous Quotes & Sayings

Martin Rees

Manufacturing doesn't just mean building cars and metal-bashing; it includes making pharmaceuticals and hi-tech electronics. A crucial part of the process is the research and development that allows better and greener products to come to market. Britain has traditionally had a strong science and engineering base.

Gordon Strachan

I went to see him and I didn't see too many managers clambering over from Britain to watch him,

Pankaj Mishra

Like the Britain of Beaverbrook and Kipling, Japan in the early twentieth century was a jingoistic nation, subduing weaker countries with the help of populist politicians and sensationalist journalism.

Jamie Bamber

It frustrates me that Britain can't make something like 'CSI' or 'The Sopranos'. Instead, British TV puts soap in primetime while every other civilized nation leaves it in daytime. Viewers should be more demanding.

Paul Wilkinson

It is fair to say that in the past London and Britain as a whole have been seen as a convenient place to operate international support networks.

Annika Sorenstam

Maybe somebody from Britain will go, ... They don't have to travel far.

R. Ingram

I am happy to be in New Britain this season. Going to Double-A is a big step and I'm really excited about the opportunity.

Sarah Harrison

If Britain is going to investigate journalists as terrorists - take and destroy our documents, force us to give up passwords and answer questions - how can we be sure we can protect our sources?

Maajid Nawaz

For years, Islamists and other extremists have taken advantage of grievances of Muslims in Britain and have successfully identified ways to integrate them under one 'Islamic' banner.

Lindsay Sanderson

Regan is going to be a great addition. He's a man and can go to the net. He also has a rocket from the outside. He'll be a big threat to the other teams.

M. J. Rose

Recognize that the great majority of us aren't trained actors and entertainers. Usually, it's not our faces, our bodies, our personas or our stage presence that sells our books. It's our stories, our visions and our voices.

Brian Smith

Reid just had a great tournament. Pinning the No. 1 see and the No. 3 seed - just great.

Anatole France

Religion has done love a great servive by making it a sin.

Douglas Laycock

Religion and morality are playing a greater role than they did 20 years ago.

Nadia Petrova

Our parents made great sacrifices and that is the main reason why many of the Russians are at the top today.

Tiki Barber

Our quarterback is playing so great right now. You can see how he's improving exponentially each week.

Source Unknown

Ordinary people think merely of spending time. Great people think of using it.

Paul Vachon

(Parker) is a great player. She's what everyone said she was.

Tony Gwynn

Harold is the Pied Piper of Little League baseball,

Rachel Joyce

In writing about Harold and Maureen with their terrible unspoken secret, and all those people that Harold meets as he walks to save a friend's life, I was trying to celebrate the ordinary people.

Bob Storman

This is turning into a crusade. You're seeing the grass-roots movement that got Harold Washington elected. ... The numbers are going to go up. You're going to have more troops on the street.

Tom Stoppard

As a writer, Harold has been unswerving for 50 years,

Mischa Barton

Paris isn't my rival. I met her one or two times and she's making out there's this big rivalry between us and there so isn't.

John Perkins

We never met Kirby, we didn't know Kirby, but you feel like you know him. He was part of our lives, with going to games.

Jamie Clayton

I was always just so feminine. I don't think anyone who ever met me would describe me as a man.

Julio Franco

That was awesome. They cheered more for Puerto Rico than they did the Mets. I thought this was supposed to be a Mets town?

Tie Domi

I was tougher when I was younger so when they tried to get met I threatened everybody,

Michelle Hall

I think Metro sets teams up for the playoffs. Metro is one of the toughest leagues. You have to come to play.

Terry Matterson

It hasn't really moved. He's met one of his managers. It's probably a 50-50 situation at the moment.

Christian Camargo

Juilliard is wonderful in that they don't pick just one way of working. They give you a palette. There is method acting. There is a lot of attention to Shakespeare and verse.

Daniel Snyder

I don't know Sally Jenkins. I've met her once. I wouldn't know her in an elevator.

Nicola Sturgeon

One of Ed Miliband's shadow ministers has said he would never vote for the renewal of Trident.

Lemuel K. Washburn

If there were no ministers and no priests, how long would there be any churches?

Alexander Downer

Yeah, well I'm not aspiring to be the Prime Minister.

Tom Paulin

Teachers are the ministers and priests of culture, its practitioners and its emissaries.

Brian Clough

Resignations are for Prime Ministers and those caught with their trousers down, not for me.

Lord Caradon

Better to make prime ministers out of prisoners than prisoners out of prime ministers.

Francis Atterbury

The priesthood hath in all nations, and all religions, been held highly venerable.

Little Richard

No, I've never truly been a minister.

Margaret Thatcher

Advisers advise, and ministers decide.

Tsutomu Takebe

It is a private visit and I would like to respect the Prime Minister's visit to the shrine,

Sonia Gandhi

I don't disown our responsibility and my responsibility as Prime Minister,

Chang-Rae Lee

I often think that the prime directive for me as a teacher of writing is akin to that for a physician, which is this: do no harm.

Uzi Landau

We must not give in to the prime minister's regime of intimidation.

Douglas Hurd

If Margaret Thatcher had been Prime Minister at the time, there would have been no Treaty of Maastricht.

Ehud Olmert

Every prime minister ... has the responsibility to provide security for his people.

Brian Mulroney

If your only objective is to be popular, you're going to be popular but you will be known as the Prime Minister who achieved nothing.

Benjamin Franklin

I am in the prime of senility.

Stephen Glover

Where is our prime minister? All that can be said is that he is out there somewhere.

Vincent Lecavalier

I think he thought I was going on my backhand but I stayed with my forehand.

Mitch Kapor

If only I'd stayed on the West Coast, I might have made something of myself.

Charles Stiles

I have intentionally stayed out of that discussion.

Felix Hernandez

I threw it and it just stayed up there. It was an error.

Milan Hejduk

If it was a regular-season game, I would have stayed in there for sure,

Chris Palmer

If Tim had stayed healthy, I think ultimately he would have been successful (in Cleveland).

Kellie Pickler

When we went to Iraq, we stayed in one of Saddam's palaces. It was kind of creepy. If those walls could talk, there's no telling what stories they'd tell.

Robert Hogan

He was ducking down, and he kind of stayed moving,

Ian Scott

I was surprised it stayed right there so I could go get it.

Ricky Rudd

I wish it could have been a little better, better than Tony ran, ... But it didn't work out that way.

Ian Mckellen

Tony Blair is not a villain, but he's played the part very well.

Peter Steele

If someone told me when I was 16 or 18 years old that I'd be doing a side project with Tony Iommi, I wouldn't have believed it.

Ethan Suplee

I think anything Tony Kaye would've done would've been interesting, definitely. And worth seeing.

Audra McDonald

I used to practice Tony speeches in my bathroom with my hairbrush.

Louise Nurding

I'm a big fan of Tony Blair. I'm not saying that I think his judgment has always been right, but I look at him as a person.

Jeff Gordon

I'll take part of the blame. I think Tony should take part of it as well.

Bette Midler

I already have a Tony for my Broadway concert in '73. It's one of the most precious things I've won.

Jez Butterworth

I understood very little about the significance of the Tony before, but I've learned that it makes a huge significance to whether or not your show is going to run.