Foreign Quotes - page 9

I think the U.K. is too small to write about from within it and still make it seem foreign and exotic and interesting. (Mark Haddon)
There's something with the physical size of America... American writers can write about America and it can still feel like a foreign country. View quote
Mark Haddon
I didn't think much about foreign readers when I began 'Naruto,' but I knew that many of the artists who influenced me had already been accepted overseas. View quote
Masashi Kishimoto
Most people are under exposed to global assets, including foreign stocks, bonds and currencies. View quote
Mohamed El-Erian
To claim the World Bank is just an extension of U.S. foreign policy is just wrong. View quote
Nicholas Stern
You can learn all about the human condition from covering the crime beat in a big city - you don't need to go to Beirut for that - but a foreign correspondent begins to understand poverty from a different perspective. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government does it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
The goods of the world market are available for Cuba to purchase, but all the foreign exchange is monopolized by the regime, which uses it for its own power and pleasure. View quote
Robert Zubrin
Foreign policy can mean several things, not only foreign policy in the narrow sense. It can cover foreign policy, relations with the developing world, and enlargement as well. View quote
Romano Prodi
The Afghans are probably the world champions in resisting foreign domination and infiltration into their country. View quote
Stephen Kinzer
Splendid to arrive alone in a foreign country and feel the assault of difference. Here they are all along, busy with living; they don't talk or look like me. The rhythm of their day is entirely different; I am foreign. (Frances Mayes)
If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers. View quote
Bela Lugosi
My subconscious speaks in a foreign language. View quote
Deb Caletti
Thanks to Twitter, I learn about the revolutions in the Middle East via Arab activists and writers, not just from American foreign correspondents. View quote
Jacob Weisberg
I was a news reporter for 16 years, seven of them a foreign correspondent in the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. Perhaps the most useful equipment I acquired in that time is a lack of preciousness about the act of writing. A reporter must write. There must be a story. The mot juste unarriving? Tell that to your desk. View quote
Geraldine Brooks
The slow rejection of the foreign skin grafts fascinated me. How could the host distinguish another person's skin from his own? View quote
Joseph Murray
Do you know what a foreign accent is? It's a sign of bravery. View quote
Amy Chua
Switzerland has one of the highest per capita incomes in the world, the strongest currency and the largest financial center for foreign assets. And we're a small country with no natural resources. Switzerland is the world capital of dealing in stolen goods. View quote
Jean Ziegler
We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known. View quote
Carson McCullers
Capping the size of American banks won't eliminate the needs of big businesses; it will force them to turn to foreign banks that won't face the same restrictions. View quote
Jamie Dimon
A true world outlook is incompatible with a foreign imperialism, no matter how high-minded the governing country. (Wendell Willkie)
You, the foreign media, have been the companion of my people in its long and painful journey to freedom. View quote
Corazon Aquino
The overwhelming public sentiment in India was that no meaningful dialogue can be held with Pakistan until it abandons the use of terrorism as an instrument of its foreign policy. View quote
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Well, if you're talking about the current climate, there's a lack of content in American film because I think people are deeply confused about their emotions, and they don't regret certain aspects of their own foreign policy. View quote
Neil Jordan
I think Americans should have a policy of love. That should be the foreign policy, love. Export Love. View quote
Ziggy Marley