Quotes of: Foreign-land Keyword

Foreign interventions always end badly.

Stephen Kinzer

When I'm in a foreign city, I like to get to know it like a local.

Kyle MacLachlan

A good proportion of foreign nationals in jobs in the UK are in semi or low-skilled occupations.

Iain Duncan Smith

Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I was a member of the Politburo for seven years, a foreign minister.

Eduard Shevardnadze

This is still a big barrier for me and it is for a lot of foreign actors.

Chow Yun-Fat

[repeated line] MO's computer: Foreign contaminant!

WALL·E

The purpose of sports - even foreign sports - is not to bore people.

P. J. O'Rourke

I did a lot of stunts, so the harness work isn't foreign to me either.

Victoria Pratt

The purpose of farming is to deprive other species of the land and sequester it for our own use. But by perfecting the art of monoculture, it has become too easy for us to exterminate everything else, leaving no wild plants, no food for insects, and ...

Tristram Stuart

America's always been a great place to be crazy. It just used to be harder to make a living that way.

Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free

You can’t put much on paper before you betray your secret self, try as you will to keep things civil.

I Could Tell You Stories: Sojourns in the Land of Memory

One problem with the work of the New Critics was that their close readings, no matter how brilliant, could not deliver all they seemed to promise.

Reading the Waste Land: Modernism and the Limits of Interpretation

Step and land, step and land. That's all travel was. Throw in some running and a change of scenery. No big deal, right? And so, off he went. Off they went together.

Nuts to You

Faeries, come take me out of this dull world, For I would ride with you upon the wind, Run on the top of the dishevelled tide, And dance upon the mountains like a flame.

The Land of Heart's Desire

It's a good thing to see that people can heal after they've been broken, that they can change and become something different from what they were before.

A Land More Kind Than Home

Enemy-occupied territory---that is what this world is. Christianity is the story of how the rightful king has landed, you might say landed in disguise, and is calling us to take part in a great campaign of sabotage.

Mere Christianity

Most of the time, if you treat people right, you don't have to be afraid of them.

Other Lands Have Dreams: Letters From Pekin Prison

My response landed me in hot water. A dirty dish also landed in hot water. If I weren’t such a raging feminist, maybe I’d buy a dishwater instead of scrubbing them all by hand.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

In our gliding experiments we had had a number of experiences in which we had landed upon one wing, but the crushing of the wing had absorbed the shock, so that we were not uneasy about the motor in case of a landing of that kind.

Orville Wright

We've gone from the image of India as land of fakirs lying on beds of nails, and snake charmers with the Indian rope trick, to the image of India as a land of mathematical geniuses, computer wizards, software gurus.

Shashi Tharoor