East famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I've benefited from the best of both societies and both cultures, East and West.
-- Abdallah II -
The creation of Physics is the shared heritage of all mankind. East and West, North and South have equally participated in it.
-- Abdus Salam -
I dont see a lot of movies that portray the East Village as well as I think they can.
-- Adam Rapp -
The future belongs to you. Should anyone insult you, tell yourself this: I am a child of destiny who will unite East and West and change the world.
-- Adeline Yen Mah -
Slowly, very slowly, like two unhurried compass needles, the feet turned towards the right; north, north-east, east, south-east, south, south-south-west; then paused, and after a few seconds, turned as unhurriedly back towards the left. South-south-west, south, south-east, east...
-- Aldous Huxley -
Here again we witness the single outcome of a worldwide process, with East and West yielding the same results, and once again for the same reason: Men have forgotten God.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
I come from a very la-ti-da East Coast intellectual family - or so they think.
-- Alexandra Wentworth -
I am the East. I have philosophies, I have religions, who would exchange them for airplanes?
-- Ameen Rihani -
I live in the East Village, and occasionally people will recognize me there. When I'm in Williamsburg, I always get recognized. Midtown, not so much.
-- Andrew Rannells -
Students and their families carry more responsibility for student success in the East.
-- Andy Hargreaves -
I think we've put ourselves in a position that if we can go into the Big East and compete at the level that we aspire to compete at, we'll get out of this what we want.
-- Andy Kennedy -
Being from the Midwest, I would say that I like that East Coast mentality, it's more direct. What you see is what you get.
-- Angie Everhart -
Per capita the East Germans drank more than twice as much as their West German counterparts.
-- Anna Funder -
I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold or all the riches that the East doth hold.
-- Anne Bradstreet -
Taiwan matters because of its vital role in spreading democracy in East Asia. Taiwan matters because of its strategic importance to promote peace in the Pacific region.
-- Annette Lu -
People in the East Conference are starting to see how good the twins are. They make my job easy. I just go to the net and look for holes and they keep finding me.
-- Anson Carter -
In this arid wilderness of steel and stone I raise up my voice that you may hear. To the East and to the West I beckon. To the North and to the South I show a sign proclaiming: Death to the weakling, wealth to the strong!
-- Anton Szandor LaVey -
I don't ever want to be hugely famous because I had a little taste of it after 'East Is East' and 'Bend It.'
-- Archie Panjabi -
We are having the single worst recovery the U.S. has had since the Great Depression. I don't care how you measure it. The East Coast knows it. The West Coast knows it. North, South, old, young, everyone knows it's the worst recovery since the Great Depression.
-- Arthur Laffer -
For me, growing up in Harlem and then migrating down to SoHo and the Lower East Side and chillin' down there and making that my stomping ground... That was a big thing, because I'm from Harlem, and downtown is more artsy and also more open-minded. So I got the best of both worlds.
-- ASAP Rocky -
It's been interesting to see how similar audiences in the East and West are, actually, and how it makes you realize that when politicians emphasize the differences between our cultures, it's usually because it benefits them more so than us.
-- Asghar Farhadi -
And they just saw me on that and - from the time I was 11 until I was 12, I guess. And then when I had just turned 13, they asked me if I wanted to tour with Johnny Cash back East.
-- Barbara Mandrell -
Although born in a prosperous realm, we did not believe that its boundaries should limit our knowledge, and that the lore of the East should alone enlighten us.
-- Baron de Montesquieu -
Syria is geographically and politically in the middle of the Middle East.
-- Bashar al-Assad -
Carved above the lintel were the words SCIENTIA POTESTAS EST. Science points east, I wondered? Science is portentous, yes? Science protests too much. Scientific potatoes rule. Had I stumbled on the lair of dangerous plant geneticists?
-- Ben Aaronovitch -
News is that which comes from the North, East, West and South, and if it comes from only one point on the compass, then it is a class; publication and not news.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
I do not want to see perpetual warfare in the Middle East.
-- Bernie Sanders -
Mark you for death, won't even talk that East or West crap. From Watts to Lefrak, it ain't where ya from, it's where's your gat.
-- Big Pun -
If you get a chance to go outside of the country, you start examining where you're from and some of the thought processes. Like when I finally got away from the east coast for a while, and I came back there was just this underlying anger that I never noticed before, because I was born there and just dropped right into it.
-- Bill Burr -
I have an affinity for Africa, especially East Africa, and Kansas looks very much like that.
-- Bill Kurtis -
It's east to see without lookin' too far that not much is really sacred.
-- Bob Dylan -
I made a fairly bold pledge that I wanted Virginia to be the energy capital of the East Coast.
-- Bob McDonnell -
I went to college in Vermont, and then stayed in the East Coast.
-- Bret Easton Ellis -
It was because of my great interest in the West, and my belief that its development would be assisted by the interest I could awaken in others, that I decided to bring the West to the East through the medium of the Wild West Show.
-- Buffalo Bill -
After I left LA... it was like waking up. And so I moved back east and stopped auditioning.
-- Casey Affleck -
Astolaine Bombast, catalogue woman, ordered up like a rare steak, 'plees make shore she is pritty and a whyt gurl if you have enny'.Well, she's pritty enough for homesteading but takes no ribbons at the fair. After three dead babies that fellow wanted his money back, pack her up in a box and ship her east to the wife factory.
-- Catherynne M. Valente -
Look to the East, where up the lucid sky; the morning climbs! The day shall yet be fair.
-- Celia Thaxter -
Experience has shown that the trade of the East is the key to national wealth and influence.
-- Chester A. Arthur -
You don't know whether he's thought through how this is going to affect the Middle East.
-- Chris Matthews -
Hong Kong represents the kind of Asia with which both West and East are comfortable, ... ... It offers, in that sense, a vision for the future of Asia.
-- Chris Patten -
I should not proceed by land to the East, as is customary, but by a Westerly route, in which direction we have hitherto no certain evidence that any one has gone.
-- Christopher Columbus -
I found that part of it towards San Salvador extending from north to south five leagues, and the other side which we coasted along, ran from east to west more than ten leagues.
-- Christopher Columbus -
It is true that Christianity is not bound up with any particular race or culture. It is neither of the East or of the West, but has a universal mission to the human race as a whole
-- Christopher Dawson -
From the east comes the sun, bringing a new and unspoiled day.
-- Clinton Lee Scott -
I always thought the biggest failing of Americans was their lack of irony. They are very serious there! Naturally, there are exceptions... the Jewish, Italian, and Irish humor of the East Coast.
-- Colin Firth -
I would want to conceive of philosophy as grounded in the very long humanist tradition that is the best of the West, which is open to the East and North and South.
-- Cornel West -
You've never seen Manhattan 'til you've flown right up the East River. It's beautiful.
-- Cory Lidle -
Democrats are calling Christine O'Donnell 'the Sarah Palin of the East.' Really? She's a loud, emotionally unstable woman from Delaware. That's not Sarah Palin, that's Joe Biden.
-- Craig Ferguson -
Companies in the East put a lot more emphasis on human relationships, while those from the West focus on the product, the bottom line. Westerners appear to have more of a need for achievement, while in the East there's more need for affiliation.
-- Daniel Goleman -
The West believes the East, deep down, wants to be dominated, because a woman can’t think for herself
-- David Henry Hwang -
The problems that the world faces - from nuclear proliferation to climate change - can't be tackled by the West alone. They need a coalition of not just West and East, but they need a coalition of Christian and Jew and Muslim.
-- David Miliband -
I didn't grow up in one place, so I never had a certain mentality. I have some aspects of growing up in Texas, but I also have a lot of East Coast family. I would have loved to grow up on the East Coast.
-- Debby Ryan -
I am the Counselor at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
-- Dennis A. Ross -
The distinction that Jews have themselves always made between Jews of German origin and Jews of East European origin is as stringent as that between Boston Brahmin and Boston lace-curtain Irish, though much finer.
-- Diana Trilling -
I've found there to be a tremendous amount of East Coast snobbery in the journalism world.
-- Diane Lane -
American future lies in the East. The great free markets of the Pacific Rim are the American destiny.
-- Donald Freed -
I meant no harm I most truly did not, but I had to grow bigger so bigger I got. I biggered my factory, I biggered my roads, I biggered the wagons, I biggered the loads, of the Thneeds I shipped out I was shipping them forth from the South, to the East, to the West. To the North, I went right on biggering selling more thneeds. And I biggered my money which everyone needs.
-- Dr. Seuss -
In the West, people tend to look at life as spectators, but in the East, people are the thing.
-- Duane Michals -
I kind of grew up on the East Coast, lived in New York for a while, then moved to L.A. So I'm not a New Yorker at all, but I'm much happier in New York; I've always liked it better.
-- Dylan Walsh -
There is not a thought that is being thought in the West or the East that is not active in some Indian mind
-- E. P. Thompson -
I had the advantage of reading the book, and when the script was first submitted to me, it was just another gangster story - the east side taking over the west side and all that.
-- Edward G. Robinson -
There was an Old Man of the East, Who gave all his children a feast; But they all ate so much, and their conduct was such, That it killed that Old Man of the East.
-- Edward Lear -
The Orient that appears in Orientalism, then, is a system of representations framed by a whole set of forces that brought the Orient into Western learning, Western consciousness, and later, Western empire.... The Orient is the stage on which the whole East is confined. On this stage will appear the figures whose role it is to represent the larger whole from which they emenate. The Orient then seems to be, not an unlimited extension beyond the familiar European world, but rather a closed field, a theatrical stage affixed to Europe.
-- Edward Said -
It doesn't bother me that I'm not a household word on the East Coast. Baton Rouge, Raleigh, Minneapolis - I'm so popular in these cities where you've never imagined an East Coast comedian working.
-- Elayne Boosler -
The sun sets in the west (just about everyone knows that), but Sunset Towers faced east. Strange!
-- Ellen Raskin -
The First World War, and especially the latest one, largely swept away what was left in Europe of feudalism and of feudal landlords, especially in Poland, Hungary, and the South East generally.
-- Emily Greene Balch -
The West coast money and the East coast money, in an ever-increasing manner, is finding its way to Chicago.
-- Eric Lefkofsky -
You must go to Mahometanism, to Buddhism, to the East, to the Sufis Fakirs, to Pantheism, for the right growth of mysticism.
-- Florence Nightingale -
The problem is that the East is producing missiles and the West is producing pacifists.
-- Francois Mitterrand -
Take the understanding of the East and the knowledge of the West-and then seek.
-- G. I. Gurdjieff -
I was surprised when I finally moved to Boston and the East Coast, to discover that there weren't that many vibraphone players around. And I was the only one playing with four mallets.
-- Gary Burton -
The mercy of the West has been social revolution; the mercy of the East has been individual insight into the basic self/void.
-- Gary Snyder -
It's really an honor to be included in such an incredible lineup of chefs. The team Borgata has assembled is by far one of the best on the East Coast.
-- Geoffrey Zakarian -
I make no apology for saying that in the East End of London a new party of labour, with a small L, is being born
-- George Galloway -
Let us not forget the East Bank of the (River) Jordan, where seventy per cent of the inhabitants belong to the Palestinian nation.
-- George Habash -
Let Him easter in us, be a dayspring to the dimness of us, be a crimson-cresseted east.
-- Gerard Manley Hopkins -
Where I grew up in the North-east, the community there, and the way people relate to one another, goes very deep. But I dont define myself as a Northerner in that I dont live in the North.
-- Gina McKee -
In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
-- Guy de Maupassant -
Brunei Darussalam is one of the oldest kingdoms in South East Asia.
-- Hassanal Bolkiah -
There's always trouble in the Middle East. I can't recall any time in my life when there hasn't been trouble there.
-- Helen McCloy -
The cause of the break with the tradition of antiquity was the rapid and unexpected advance of Islam. The result of this advance was the final separation of East from West, and the end of the Mediterranean unity.
-- Henri Pirenne -
I have heard something said about allegiance to the South. I know no South, no North, no East, no West, to which I owe any allegiance.
-- Henry Clay -
Southward with fleet of ice Sailed the corsair Death; Wild and fast blew the blast, And the east-wind was his breath.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -
The Philippines is in a strategic position. It is both East and West, right and left, rich and poor. We are neither here nor there.
-- Imelda Marcos -
Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.
-- Irving Berlin -
The Washingtonian said it shouldn't be built. The gallery's East Building is now considered a triumph, and members of the American Association of Architects have voted it one of the best buildings of all time.
-- J. Carter Brown -
I was halfway across America, at the dividing line between the East of my youth and the West of my future.
-- Jack Kerouac -
Delaware is the only state east of the Rockies that is allowed under federal law to offer sports betting.
-- Jack Markell -
If I'm going east and west, nothing's happening
-- Jamal Lewis -
The way the world is going, it's technology driven. And it isn't just driven by the old super powers, it's driven by the far east and new emerging economies.
-- James Dyson -
Eurasia's main axis is east/west, whereas the main axis of the Americas is north/south. Eurasia's east/west axis meant that species domesticated in one part of Eurasia could easily spread thousands of miles at the same latitude, encountering the same day-length and climate to which they were already adapted.
-- Jared Diamond -
You can't go east and west at the same time.
-- Jean Charest -
There was mass hysteria in the Chess Recording Studio when I did the "Shapes of Things" solo ... they weren't expecting it, and it was just some weird mist coming from the East out of an amp.
-- Jeff Beck -
If it's easter than east and wester than west, it must be north.
-- Jessica Day George -
We cannot continue to see the Middle East in the context of 9/11. We must see it in the context of 2011.
-- John F. Kerry -
Our children were mostly brought up and educated in the Churchill suburb east of Pittsburgh. Each summer, we took them back to England for an extended period.
-- John Pople -
I was the one that brought it in, but not only for the north-east, for every area so we can develop all the regional economies, lift up the national productivity, get greater wealth and share it more evenly.
-- John Prescott -
The north-south line of 'the mountains,' meaning the Cascade Range, forty miles east of Seattle, is a rigid political frontier.
-- Jonathan Raban -
I was born in a family of landless peasants, in Azinhaga, a small village in the province of Ribatejo, on the right bank of the Almonda River, around a hundred kilometres north-east of Lisbon.
-- Jose Saramago
