Foreign Quotes · Page 14

“They were both lost in cities that would not pause even to shrug”

— Monica Ali

I could never see a book written in a foreign language without the most ardent desire to read it.

— Bayard Taylor

Some major American publishing houses still seek work by foreign writers.

— Stephen Kinzer

The vaults of Buckingham palace are groaning with priceless, useless freebies from foreign dignitaries.

— Tina Brown

Foreign languages was the only thing that interested me when I was at school, so playing in another language... it is quite…

— Tom Wlaschiha

I think the next president needs to lead on cultural issues and experience, particularly on foreign policy.

— Sam Brownback

In most cases, cables are marked secret not because the U.S. requires it but because those speaking to us - the foreign…

— Elliott Abrams

My father worked for the Foreign Office, so he was away a lot of the time. We were a very volatile family.…

— Amanda Donohoe

Now there is a cultural change under way in the Foreign Service.

— Lawrence Eagleburger

In the Bill Clinton years, the foreign leader who visited the White House most often was Yasser Arafat - 13 times.

— Elliott Abrams

There's something about the Foreign Service that takes the guts out of people.

— Evan G. Galbraith

China continues to welcome foreign investment, and the door will open even further.

— Li Keqiang

It's important to understand that oil and renewables do different things. Wind and solar are for power generation, so they don't replace…

— T. Boone Pickens

It's not easy for Chinese actors to do foreign films, and it's not easy for foreign actors to do Chinese films.

— Zhou Xun

The dirty little secret of foreign correspondents is that 90 per cent of it is showing up. If you can find a…

— Geraldine Brooks

I saw a '60 Minutes' piece on Google as a place to work. It was such a foreign concept from what I…

— Vince Vaughn

There is a slam-dunk case for extending foreign language teaching to children aged five. Just as some people have taken a perverse…

— Michael Gove

I'm not one of those critics that believes U.S. foreign policy is confused, or stupid, or misinformed, or well-intentioned but it goes…

— Michael Parenti

I think I can hold every portfolio - defense, finance and Foreign Ministry. I think personally I'd like the foreign office.

— Avigdor Lieberman

When the States already had nuclear weapons, and the Soviet Union was only building them, we got a significant amount of information…

— Vladimir Putin

Austria, Germany and the U.S. South did not disappear as a result of their currencies' ruin. Although many people suffered, most people…

— Robert Higgs

When a company is not being guided by the products they make and what the customers need, but by how they can…

— Charles Koch

I used to play a lot of foreign women in my youth because I was prettier then. I would go for interviews,…

— Kate O'Mara

Saying that all documentaries are the same is like saying all foreign films are the same.

— Terry Zwigoff

The United States has been fighting African pirates since the early days of the republic - battles so formative that, among other…

— Nick Turse