Imported Quotes

51 quotes by 50 authors

We need stable regimes in this part of the world [the Mideast] who will be partners and friends of ours, because the fact of the… — Colin Powell
Recasting fairy tales has become a publishing sub-genre in itself, and has been done both well and to the point of entropy. More interesting are… — Graham Joyce
Except by name, Jean Paul Friedrich Richter is little known out of Germany. The only thing connected with him, we think, that has reached this… — Thomas Carlyle
A leader should not be a man who arbitrarily imported his own ideas but the essential focal point for a group of people who trusted… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
He is likely to remain the one historian of the Sierra; he imported into his view the imagination of the poet and the reverence of… — Robert Underwood Johnson
The Jewish question exists wherever the Jews live, however small their number. Where it does not exist it is imported by Jew immigrants. We naturally… — Theodor Herzl
First, we have to find a common vocabulary for energy security. This notion has a radically different meaning for different people. For Americans it is… — Daniel Yergin
Our oil problems are only going to get worse. Our trade balance is only going to get worse. So we have to slow the growth… — Sherwood Boehlert
I collect imported teas, I have a few cupboards full! It's like wine, each has it's own flavour and you get into their little nuances. — Maggie Grace
Finland, and all the other European countries, we are too dependent on imported energy. We should be using a broader variety of energy resources. — Tarja Halonen
I imported the first Mac into England in 1984; you know, the beige box. I imported what I think were the first four that came… — James Dyson
We settled this continent without art. So it was easy for us to treat it as an imported luxury, not a necessity. — Arthur Erickson
Modernism in other arts brought extreme difficulty. In poetry, the characteristic difficulty imported under the name of modernism was obscurity. But obscurity could just as… — James Fenton
I only like two kinds of men, domestic and imported. — Mae West
Physical objects are conceptually imported into the situation as convenient intermediaries not by definition in terms of experience, but simply as irreducible posits comparable, epistemologically,… — Willard Van Orman Quine
Of course they're real people. They're Oompa-Loompas...Imported direct from Loompaland...And oh what a terrible country it is! Nothing but thick jungles infested by the most… — Roald Dahl
What is an adjective? Nouns name the world. Verbs activate the names. Adjectives come from somewhere else. The word adjective (epitheton in Greek) is itself… — Anne Carson
Character grows in the soil of experience with the fertilization of example, the moisture of ambition, and the sunshine of satisfaction. Character cannot be purchased,… — Stephen Covey
Jazz music, as is also the case with the old down-home spirituals, gospel and jubilee songs, jumps, shouts and moans, is essentially an American vernacular… — Albert Murray
Hollywood is in control of politics and has imported their action-filled movie scripts into the real world. — Kim Dotcom

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