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We are living in a different world now. You can see it everywhere in international relations: It was noteworthy that, after his visit to Washington, the Chinese president's next stop was Saudi Arabia.
Author:
Daniel Yergin
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I'm not sure whether Los Angeles borders on the ocean or on oblivion. I always feel that I'm two steps away from the other side when I'm out there. It's more like a vacation place or a place to visit than a place to hunker down.
Author:
Jeffrey Wright
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I then wrought at my trade as a tailor; carefully attended meetings for worship and discipline; and found an enlargement of gospel love in my mind, and therein a concern to visit Friends in some of the back settlements of Pennsylvania and Virginia.
Author:
John Woolman
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Sometimes when I visit my sister and her two children, I wonder if she missed a lot by getting married. Right now, nothing could be further from my mind than getting married.
Author:
Natalie Wood
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While I've lived in L.A. since 1985, I'll always consider Chicago my home town and have much affection for it. My parents and sister still live there so I try to visit as often as I'm able.
Author:
Douglas Wood
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In the year 1857, passing through Washington on our return from the annual visit to Philadelphia, I had the distinguished honor of visiting a President for the first time.
Author:
John Wise
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My visit this autumn is an opportunity to continue that rich tradition of visits between Canterbury and Rome.
Author:
Rowan Williams
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In spite of holidays when I was free to visit London theatres and explore the countryside, I spent four very miserable years as a colonial at an English school.
Author:
Patrick White
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I'm always happy to have the President visit North Carolina. Unfortunately, the citizens of North Carolina who could be most adversely affected by the President's plan have not been invited to the discussion.
Author:
Mel Watt
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The Round-Up is a wonderful community celebration, and I greatly enjoy the chance to visit with residents and see so many families enjoying the festivities offered throughout the week.
Author:
Greg Walden
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Through the harsh design of fate, Florida was dealt the unfortunate circumstances of bearing the brunt of not one but two hurricanes, and it appears more dark clouds are poised to visit the Sunshine State.
Author:
Ginny Waite
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I was going to visit IBM for six months as a visiting scientist. Now, six months is a lot of time, so I came with a whole list of projects that I might want to work on.
Author:
Wietse Venema
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Mother considered a press conference on a par with a visit to a cage of cobras.
Author:
Margaret Truman
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When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere.
Author:
Calvin Trillin
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I used to think about how nice it would be to visit the planets. Of course, I didn't expect to see in my lifetime what has happened. I knew it would happen some day, but it came along faster than I at first thought.
Author:
Clyde Tombaugh
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However, the occasional visit of success provides just the excitement an engineer needs to face work the following day.
Author:
Koichi Tanaka
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I'm an anglophile. I visit England regularly, sometimes three or four times a year, at least once a year.
Author:
George Takei
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The studio rented a house for my wife in Los Angeles under a phony name to keep reporters away. Whenever I wanted to visit her and my children, I would have to sneak in the back door after dark.
Author:
Max Sydow
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I don't visit my parents often because Delta Airlines won't wait in the yard while I run in.
Author:
Margaret Smith
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Captain Fisher, the commander, with a party of young ladies from the city and gentlemen belonging to his ship, came one day to pay me a visit in the midst of a deluge of rain.
Author:
Joshua Slocum
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As I travel around Idaho and visit with seniors, I hear almost universal concern about the rising cost of health care, particularly the cost of prescription drugs.
Author:
Michael Simpson
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We need to work our level best in this legislative session to help grow Montana's economy, so that grandchildren can stay in Montana, grandchildren can visit their grandmother and grandfather by driving across town, not flying across the country.
Author:
Brian Schweitzer
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My parents came to visit every two months and brought plenty of books.
Author:
Mathias Rust
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Visit with your predecessors from previous Administrations. They know the ropes and can help you see around some corners. Try to make original mistakes, rather than needlessly repeating theirs.
Author:
Donald Rumsfeld
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I was born not too far from Minneapolis, so it's nice to come back and visit.
Author:
Marion Ross
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I went to visit my father to tell him that I was going to go to college and become an architect - that was my dream. I was like, yeah I graduated from school, but it's not like you showed up for that. But all he was worried about is whether or not I wanted money from him.
Author:
Jake Roberts
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We loved being in Russia and would love to go back again, especially to visit my namesake.
Author:
Eric Roberts
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Seeing the show is like a visit to the fountain of youth for parents and the children.
Author:
Cathy Rigby
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I had the sets that meant so much to this character built - right in my home, especially the kitchen, which was important both for her character and for your introduction to her when Albert comes to visit.
Author:
Debbie Reynolds
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I believe that transatlantic relations are very important and that President Bush's visit to Brussels, in a few days, will have a major impact on that.
Author:
Jean-Pierre Raffarin
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Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.
Author:
J. Priestley
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You travel across the country, you visit departments, you give talks, you talk about the work at your laboratory - what's going on, what the opportunities are there - you talk about your own research.
Author:
Frank Press
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There were the phone calls and Elvis had asked me to visit him in Los Angeles. This was in 1962.
Author:
Priscilla Presley
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I speak fluent Hebrew and even dream in Hebrew when we visit there, once or twice a year.
Author:
Natalie Portman
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I have had many opportunities to visit universities all over the world in the past 50 years.
Author:
John Pople
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At the lodge the chief gave me many particulars which were relative to the late visit of the Spaniards.
Author:
Zebulon Pike
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He taught me never to smile, which helps me when I visit disaster sites.
Author:
Emo Philips
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There were two free public libraries within walking distance of my home; I remember taking six books home from every visit, the limit set by the library.
Author:
Martin Perl
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Once I even took the train to Utrecht, forty miles from Amsterdam, with my yellow star, this star which I still have. Why did I go? I just wanted to visit some friends. I was a little bit crazy, a little bit insane.
Author:
Abraham Pais
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We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.
Author:
George Orwell
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Now that it's officially summer, here's my advice to parents who want to continue teaching their kids during the next two months and learn something themselves: visit Civil War battlefields.
Author:
Marvin Olasky
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A visit to a cinema is a little outing in itself. It breaks the monotony of an afternoon or evening; it gives a change from the surroundings of home, however pleasant.
Author:
Ivor Novello
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I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figure out the language; distant enough to get me decent medical techniques and a ticket to the Moon.
Author:
Larry Niven
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One night I went to see Bobby at the Flamingo. Because he was my hero, I would visit him for inspiration.
Author:
Wayne Newton
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Design schools are good, I guess, sometimes I visit schools, but they are very very limiting.
Author:
Marc Newson
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No presidential candidate should visit Las Vegas without condemning organized gambling.
Author:
Ralph Nader
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I always wanted to get out of Tokyo and in 1977, New York seemed like the most interesting place to visit. I didn't intend to live here- I just wanted to get out and see what was happening. I just happened to stay here then.
Author:
Ikue Mori
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I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me.
Author:
Eugenio Montale
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Socrates didn't care to visit the theater, as a rule, except when the plays of Euripides (which some think, he himself had helped to compose), were performed.
Author:
Moses Mendelssohn
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Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.
Author:
H. Mencken
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We want you to visit our State of Excitement often. Come again and again. But for heaven's sake, don't move here to live. Or if you do have to move in to live, don't tell any of your neighbors where you are going.
Author:
Tom McCall
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Last year I traveled to the Middle East to visit with troops in Kuwait, Iraq, and Afghanistan.
Author:
Kenny Marchant
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I would go visit my mom on Sundays, and my brother was working on stuff. I'd go in there and sing a little melody, then we started working with words and the next thing you know it was just born organically without really trying.
Author:
Taryn Manning
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And then I went to visit my sister in the states and all of a sudden it was just like, it's like... it's like the movie Wizard of Oz when all of a sudden it changes from Black and White to glorious Technicolor.
Author:
John Mahoney
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It was post war. It was very gray, very dreary. Everything was still rationed when I first saw the United States in 1951. I went over to visit my sister who was a war bride.
Author:
John Mahoney
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I try to visit people in hospitals when I can, smiling and joking while I'm there. But when I leave, I just start crying.
Author:
Loretta Lynn
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As one went to Europe to see the living past, so one must visit Southern California to observe the future.
Author:
Alison Lurie
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When I was filming 'The Haunting Hour', my co-stars Emily Osment, Brittany Curran and I paid a visit to a haunted house - all dressed up as vampires! We really confused the workers.
Author:
Cody Linley
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I grew up thinking of snow as a luxury you visit.
Author:
John Landis
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I have always felt that if a man gives you a solid gold key to his door he is entitled to the courtesy of a visit.
Author:
Hedy Lamarr
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My message to the Americans, to the American President, is that I am coming from Poland, which is in good shape; it is much different than ten years ago when last state visit from Poland was here in the United States.
Author:
Aleksander Kwasniewski
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I was fortunate enough to visit a lot of beautiful places around the world. The most astonishing and memorable experiences were my trips to Africa and Australia.
Author:
Karolina Kurkova
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I have a lot of boyfriends, I want you to write that. Every country I visit, I have a different boyfriend. And I kiss them all.
Author:
Anna Kournikova
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After my first visit to Japan, in 1960, to work on a joint model building project at Osaka University, I maintained a continuing interest in the country and the entire Far East.
Author:
Lawrence Klein
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I really wish we could stay longer in the countries we visit, but I've been lucky to have visited most of them before, because I've done a tremendous amount of travel.
Author:
Phil Keoghan
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Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man, youth never.
Author:
Anna Jameson
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He'll come back to visit, but not to stay, not to live.
Author:
Joseph Jackson
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A lot of people would rather tour sewers than visit their cousins.
Author:
Jane Howard
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Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.
Author:
Katharine Hepburn
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When I first encountered the name of the city of Stockholm, I little thought that I would ever visit it, never mind end up being welcomed to it as a guest of the Swedish Academy and the Nobel Foundation.
Author:
Seamus Heaney
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A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.
Author:
Thomas Hardy
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You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry, don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.
Author:
Walter Hagen
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I went out to visit Dorsey Burnette, after I graduated high school.
Author:
Jimmy Griffin
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So, like I said, I will visit Jeffersonville more often because I now have a little getaway house up there.
Author:
Genevieve Gorder
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I'm sorry that we have to have a Washington presence. We thrived during our first 16 years without any of this. I never made a political visit to Washington and we had no people here. It wasn't on our radar screen. We were just making great software.
Author:
Bill Gates
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I like to visit my horse, have a walk with my dog.
Author:
Cornelia Funke
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I wish I had more time to visit schools.
Author:
Cornelia Funke
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When I was a junior, boys were allowed to come visit me at the house. We could sit on the porch until about 8 o'clock at night; that's when it started getting dark. That was it.
Author:
Daisy Fuentes
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A first visit to a madhouse is always a shock.
Author:
Anna Freud
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This occasion is personally very meaningful and I hope to visit Korea again if I have the chance.
Author:
Cathy Freeman
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When I went back to visit my native Berlin after World War II, I noticed that the only thing I really remembered from my childhood Berlin days is the shoe store.
Author:
Lukas Foss
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As the lower parts of the Japanese houses and shops are open both before and behind, I had peeps of these pretty little gardens as I passed along the streets; and wherever I observed one better than the rest I did not fail to pay it a visit.
Author:
Robert Fortune
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I hope that by going to visit the pope I have enabled everybody to see that the words Catholic and Protestant, as ordinarily used, are completely out of date. They are almost always used now purely for propaganda purposes. That is why so much trouble is caused by them.
Author:
Geoffrey Fisher
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I've tried writing. Two days later I'd go visit it and say, Jesus Christ, who wrote this crap?
Author:
Dennis Farina
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This is my first visit to Africa, a region where President Bush has voiced a deep passion for fostering and encouraging economic development, investment and trade.
Author:
Donald Evans
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This is my first opportunity to visit this part of North Africa, so I am going to be able to go back home and talk about this beautiful country and encourage Americans to travel here.
Author:
Donald Evans
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A brief visit to Nepal started my insatiable love for Asian art.
Author:
Richard Ernst
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My visit to the United States has also given me the opportunity to emphasize the objective of establishing close and intensive links between the Turkish and American peoples, scholars and businessmen.
Author:
Recep Erdogan
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I kept telling everyone I wasn't going to Washington to stay. I go to visit.
Author:
John Engler
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Well we really meant you to visit Paris in May, but the rhythm required two syllables.
Author:
Vernon Duke
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They're trying to beat out this movie, the Ring, which is a similar idea. Our movie is about a website you visit and die in three days. Their movie is about a videotape you watch - and die in three days.
Author:
Stephen Dorff
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So when people go to the park this summer, they are not going to have the same quality of a visit. There is not going to be a ranger out on the trail to tell them about the important cultural and historic areas within the Olympic National Park.
Author:
Norm Dicks
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Hey bands, you're all welcome to fly me to some exotic location and I'll record you there, Y'know that right? You don't have to come to this God forsaken place. Hope I can visit you all in Australia one of these days that would be hot! We'll talk again soon.
Author:
Jim Diamond
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I love Spain. I go back two or three times a year usually to visit friends and ride horses.
Author:
Bo Derek
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The Kalahari is brilliant - and easy to visit.
Author:
Nigel Dennis
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They are few in the midst of an overwhelming mass of brute force, and their submission is wisdom; but for a nation like England to submit to be robbed by any invader who chooses to visit her shores seemed to me to be nonsense.
Author:
George Combe
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Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds.
Author:
Charles Colton
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One day, people will be able to buy tickets to visit space.
Author:
Leroy Chiao
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Theo does comedy now, and he's traveling around the country doing comedy, and I actually just saw him, he's from Louisiana, and I just saw him when I went home to visit my family in Louisiana. I saw his comedy show and he was brilliant.
Author:
Trishelle Cannatella
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It is not unprofessional to give free legal advice, but advertising that the first visit will be free is a bit like a fox telling chickens he will not bite them until they cross the threshold of the hen house.
Author:
Warren Burger
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But now I'm getting that spiritual motivation to visit Africa.
Author:
Dennis Brown
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I was in Kashmir last weekend. Went to visit one of my sweaters.
Author:
Albert Brooks
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Having a baby changes the way you view your in-laws. I love it when they come to visit now. They can hold the baby and I can go out.
Author:
Matthew Broderick
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The workplace should have a place where the kids can visit. They should have places at the mother's or the father's work where professionals can have their kids visit them whenever they feel like it.
Author:
Eric Braeden
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Santa Claus has the right idea - visit people only once a year.
Author:
Victor Borge
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A group of us started a community center in Santa Monica. We've tried different programs, and three have worked really well. A poetry group. Once a week we visit Venice High and talk to girls at risk.
Author:
Lisa Bonet
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I did send a girl a plane ticket asking her for a visit, I guess that's quite romantic.
Author:
Orlando Bloom
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We have one of our priests in prison right now, Steve Kelly, for his antiwar actions, and three of us in the community are forbidden to visit him because we're all convicted felons.
Author:
Daniel Berrigan
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I intend to travel to Okinawa and to visit with Okinawa officials and the citizens of Okinawa at an early date. I will send my best analysis of that situation, including the local attitudes, back to Washington, to the government there.
Author:
Howard Baker
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I've been to Nepal, but I'd like to go to Tibet. It must be a wonderful place to go. I don't think there's anything there, but it would be a nice place to visit.
Author:
David Attenborough
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When I was eight years old I went to visit my brother who was working on a movie of the week with my mother and I saw how much fun he was having and I decided I wanted to try it too.
Author:
Mackenzie Astin
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But I definitely see us playing a major role in St. Louis in the years to come. We already provide service to 95 percent of the markets St. Louis travelers visit the most. And we're adding capacity in some of the most important markets.
Author:
Gerard Arpey
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I live in Italy. I visit my family in Switzerland.
Author:
Ursula Andress
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If we had loads of money as a family, things would be different and they'd come to visit more and I'd get to spend more time here. But I'm laying down roots in America so when I'm there, just being at home, it's harder to break away from that.
Author:
Rick Allen
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We believe that visa quotas should be lifted and people should visit anywhere they wish freely.
Author:
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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People should have freedom in their pilgrimages and tours. They should come and visit historical monuments and sites - let's say the sites around Iran - where they can easily engage in wide- scale contacts with others.
Author:
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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He was certainly in a confused state. I used to go and visit him in Callan Park. They were really - to me they were the best poets those two writing in those days but it wasn't very encouraging because, well, they weren't getting far were they?
Author:
Robert Adamson
