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.

Eric Kraus

We have never ventured globally into hair care, ... And our whole enterprise is on a global basis.

Dave Clark

We have replaced the informal knowledge sources with people who are pretty savvy with how the enterprise works.

Palitha Kohona

There is a limit to entertaining excuses. The package of excuses may have now run out.

Tom Goodman-Hill

If you can sit all generations of a family down and entertain them and, at the same time, leave them talking about existential notions, then that's fantastic.

Thomas F. Wilson

The Delorean was an inferior automobile, and nearly impossible for a person of normal size like myself to enter and exit.

Tim Allen

It's true; I have a skill and it's... it has not related to acting, it's not related to auditions, it's not related to studios, not related to public whim. It's whether I'm funny or not and whether I can entertain people.

David LaChapelle

I'm part of what I consider the entertainment industry. For my photos to be entertaining, they have to be provocative and new.

Eloise Mumford

My dad's a scientist, and my mom's a teacher, so I didn't grow up in a family that was into the entertainment world at all.

Eric Stonestreet

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a clown. I didn't want to be an actor, I wanted to join the circus and entertain people.

Frank Turner

We were at an impasse and had been talking for an extended period of time.

Eula Biss

My own thinking is often clarified and extended by talking with students.

John Desmond Bernal

Anticipation of movement, through muscular innervation and memory, by its retention of nerve impulse images, extend the present to the limit of a second or so.

Heather Murren

We are pleased to extend our service to the communities of Nevada.

Scott Atkinson

We're still refocusing on this area, the neighborhood, family, extended family, friends, people who would have a reason to be in the house, to be in this neighborhood -- the same thing we were doing yesterday,

Scott Henderson

We might have a facility here in Bastrop to handle some of the people who won't be able to go home for extended period,

Robin Cook

There is no purpose in extending the talks any further,

Scott Peck

Love is the will to extend one's self-in order to nuture-one's own or another's spiritual growth.

Sam Smith

Last year we extended it, and it worked so well. We have a lot of retired people in the area, so many people can work during the week and many of them do.

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.

Carlos Ghosn

The most interesting information I can have about a competitor is the cost.

Charles Clarke

We have a son that plays for one of the schools. I'm very interested in men's basketball.

Paul Patton

We have no interest in pursuing it at this time.

Rob Young

We have no idea if there is an interest. But we won't know unless we ask. And we are going to start doing that on Monday.

Charlie Chaplin

I don't need interesting camera angles, I am interesting.

Charles de Lint

Don't start brooding about that, too," she says. "Everybody's got a piece of stranger inside them. It's what lets us surprise ourselves and keeps things interesting." -Lupita

Charles de Lint

I'm not Chinese. I thrive in interesting times.

Douglas Chickering

We have renewed interest in bowling, so we are going to revisit it at our meeting and find out the level of interest.

John Hull

The problem with interest rates are that you are not modeling a single number, you are modeling a whole term structure, so it is a sort of different type of problem.

Charlotte Church

The cast and the crew made me feel really welcome. Towards the end it just got better and better.

Jane McGonigal

We are moving towards a new form of collective intelligence.

Preity Zinta

I am very reactive towards everything. There are some who don't react at all, they absorb everything quietly, while I'd go all out and show my expressions. This is not part of some tamasha I do; I do it because it's part of my personality. To each his own.

John Calvin

dispensers and administrators of the Devine beneficence towards us.

Samuel Larsen

I'm a Christian, and I'm not judgmental towards anyone. I think that's really important.

Allison Scagliotti

I do feel more towards certain characters who have depth and intelligence.