Famous Quotes & Sayings

Theodor Mommsen

If it was in the interest of Rome to extend her conquests towards the East, and to enter on the inheritance of Alexander the Great there in all its extent, the circumstances were never more favourable for doing so than in the year 716.

Katie McGrath

I spend a lot of time on eBay buying vintage. I also really like Alexander Wang, Miu Miu, Vivienne Westwood, McQueen and Balmain.

Phil Funkenbusch

When 'The Man Who Came To Dinner' opened on Broadway, everyone knew Alexander Woollcott. Today, no one knows him. And I'm not sure who is like that today. He was one of a kind, and it's such a different world.

P. J. O'Rourke

What Alexander Graham Bell thought up occupied less space than a flower vase. Now it's so small that I have to search all my pockets to discover I've received a spam text.

Kurt Schrader

I'm for fighting a war on terrorism, not a war in Southwest Asia that Alexander the Great couldn't win, the British Empire couldn't win, the Soviet Union couldn't win. That's stupid. It's a waste of resources; a waste of America's best and brightest.

Katherine Schwarzenegger

My go-to shoes for everyday would probably have to be either my white Converse that I've had since high school or my black Alexander McQueen flats with the skull on the top. It depends on my day.

Greek proverb

If Alexander wishes to be a god, let him set up as a god

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

I can easily imagine Socrates in Alexander's place; Alexander in that of Socrates - never

Bayard Taylor

I came to Berlin not to visit its museums and galleries, its operas, its theaters... but for the sake of seeing and speaking with the world's greatest living man - Alexander von Humboldt.

Steve Robinson

The real challenge in going under the belly was a robotics challenge, ... Jim and Wendy, they had probably the most challenging job of all. ... I had to find the gap fillers, and direct Wendy to take me there. ... Getting there was a big deal. Getting them out was not.

Terence Young

Transforming a line like that makes it into a belly laugh instead of a laugh against us.

Chuck D.

This will probably be on the same level - if not bigger - than the Ralph Bell crusade.

Gabrielle Zevin

I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter. I thought that this electric typewriter was about the most fascinating toy in the world - I liked the little bell and the sounds and the feel of the keys and especially the erase key.

LeVar Burton

We want a book to be a book. We'll have all the interactive bells and whistles but our intent is to engage young people in reading, not to show them a movie.

Alan Greenspan

We may be in a rapidly evolving international financial system with all the bells and whistles of the so-called new economy. But the old-economy rules of prudence are as formidable as ever. We violate them at our own peril.

Billy Rose

The pot filler, while certainly a nice and functional piece of equipment, is more of a bell and whistle than anything else,

Amy Turner

We're having belly dancers and flamenco performances throughout the festival.

John McLaughlin

Work has been undertaken to come up with a revised plan and a new application for an all-weather pitch to serve the pupils of Bell Baxter and to provide some community use. The meeting will give everyone the chance to see the plans and share their views.

Carl Clinton Van Doren

The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before the discovery, except in illiberal sects, that the novel is fitted both for honest use and for pleasure.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Mathematical discoveries, like springtime violets in the woods, have their season which no human can hasten or retard.

Charlie Chaplin

In Philadelphia, I inadvertently came upon an edition of Robert Ingersoll's Essays and Lectures. This was an exciting discovery; his atheism confirmed my own belief that the horrific cruelty of the Old Testament was degrading to the human spirit.

Charles Caleb Colton

We are not more ingenious in searching out bad motives for good actions when performed by others, than good motives for bad actions when performed by ourselves.

Charles Dickens

We must leave the discovery of this mystery, like all others, to time, and accident, and Heaven's pleasure.

Apparat

When I was 16, I really discovered good stuff like Detroit techno or gabba from Holland.

Tommy Wiseau

I always say that you don't have to like 'The Room', but you will discover something - maybe a tiny little thing - and say, 'Wait a minute, maybe I want to see more.'

Stefan Sagmeister

I had discovered that I'm much less special than I thought I am. So whatever I find true for myself, other people might also relate to.

Tom Cotton

At Harvard College, I discovered political philosophy as a way of life.

Alan Hansen

When George Graham was there they complained, harking back to better days, but I think that's a fantasy.

Phil Klay

Certainly, my exposure in high school to writers like Flannery O'Connor, Shusaku Endo, Fyodor Dostoevsky and Graham Greene was formative.

Jerret Smith

He likes the contact. They all pick hard, but running into Graham is like running into a wall. You can't get through him.

Robert Harris

My parents were interested in history and the world. My father read Graham Greene and Georges Simenon and was a strong trade unionist and Labour supporter.

Madonna Ciccone

I've always danced and exercised. I can't imagine not doing it. I'll be Martha Graham in my 90s doing contractions on the floor.

Richard Hale

Graham was declared to ride the horse as it was a 48-hour declaration race.

Bill Doba

Graham hasn't missed yet. And actually, Langley is kicking off better than Graham.

Al Franken

Hey, (Rep. Lindsey) Graham is going to give some reply. Why don't you come to this press conference?

Amy Waldman

I'm kind of a mash-up of taste - Graham Greene and Jane Austen; W.G. Sebald and Alice Munro.

Mark Patterson

Whenever someone takes a lesser role in the operations, it's not too uncommon to see this type of thing.

Marjorie Gubelmann

When you're young, you worry about what other people think. The older you get, the less that matters.

Donald Sterling

When you're winning, anything you say has value. When you're losing, the less you say, the better.

Katrina Kelner

We were already worried about the 2004 paper and this doesn't make us any less worried.

John Landgraf

There is a lot less overt bigotry in America.

Celso Senise

There is a lot less money for high-risk investments and no liquidity. The polls are not enough.

J. C. Watts

The popular things become more popular and the less-popular things get less popular.

Cael Sanderson

Unless you continually work, evolve, and innovate, you'll learn a quick and painful lesson from someone who has.

Dan Savage

There are so many people out there with less shame talking about their problems.

Debi Mazar

My wrists, which are tattooed with my daughters' names, are always occupied by a watch.

Rose Angel

My time right now is occupied with family.

Ariel Sharon

It's not occupied territory, but disputed territory, and that is the real thing, ... It is disputed territory.

Charles Lamb

Tis unpleasant to meet a beggar. It is painful to deny him; and, if you relieve him, it is so much out of your pocket.

Charles Spurgeon

Feel for others - in your pocket

Edgar Allan Poe

I have before suggested that a genuine blackguard is never without a pocket-handkerchief.

Eddie Vedder

Gave her love away, put it in my pocket when it should of been framed!

Mark Latham

Macklin is as useful as pockets in your underpants.

Billy Graham

Do you want to trust your life in God's pocket or keep it in your own?

J. Horton

If they want to get into the pockets of this school district, I am not going to vote for it.

Dan Rather

They may have turned this up, whether you had the Paula Jones case or not. But again maybe not, but again that's like if a frog had side pockets he'd probably wear a handgun.

Andrew Jackson

I carried $5000 when I went to Washington. I returned with barely $90 in our pockets.

Jan Egeland

We have received zero pledges for this appeal,

Nyoman Kandun

We have just received the results (from the WHO) and they are positive.

Dimieari Kemedi

Most of these militants received their first weapon from the ruling party.

Heber J. Grant

Let every Latter-day Saint give value received for everything he gets, whether it be in work, or whatever he does.

Giselle Davies

Nothing is back yet. The IOC has not received the results.

Hariadi Wibisono

I have just received confirmation from Hong Kong.

John Spiak

This year we received more entries than we ever had.

Tyler Barnes

To say that we haven't received any (complaints) would not be true, but it has only been a handful.

Horton Foote

I've lived long enough to know things go in and out of fashion, and things not well received now can be totally reversed years later.

Made Pastika

We want to search things that may be overlooked. We need to search and re-search again.

Matt Rosoff

MSN may want to sell search to AOL.

Nicholas Sparks

So I put out a search for him,

Arkady Volozh

We never set up Yandex to imitate what others were doing. We've been in the business longer than other search engines and have created many original products.

Debbie DeCarlo

I find myself searching faces, but they all look the same.

Victoria de los Angeles

To search for a pianist, it is very difficult; sometimes you find one.

Chris Grinde

To go zone was just kind of searching to see. We were searching for something to be a little better.

Corey Thacker

We've done a lot of soul searching throughout the year. We had to find out who we really were as a team.

Daunte Culpepper

We don't have to search for a different personality. We just have to do what we do.

Bill Gates

I get more spam than anyone I know.

Graham Chapman

Spam, spam, spam, spam... Spam, spam, spam, spam.