Lingering, bottled-up anger never reveals the ‘true colors’ of an individual. It, on the contrary, becomes all mixed up, rotten, confused, forms a highly combustible, chemical compound then explodes as something foreign, something very different...

Here march the eaters of earth, the swallowers of rain.

She wanted to hold foreign syllables like mints on her tongue until they dissolved into fluency.

It was Queen Elizabeth who made me a foreign correspondent.

For the first time in years, he felt the deep sadness of exile, knowing that he was alone here, an outsider, and too alert to the ironies, the niceties, the manners, and indeed, the morals...

Saying that all documentaries are the same is like saying all foreign films are the same.

We have come a long way in terms of foreign policy.

The misfortune of a young man who returns to his native land after years away is that he finds his native land foreign; whereas the lands he left behind remain for ever like a mirage...

I was a foreign correspondent in Berlin in the mid-’90s.

Reality. Sometimes it comes through foreign eyes; because if you don’t know any better, you can’t see the worse. Or vice versa.

A block of blood should not have the word “cake” after it…they might as well say “shite gateau

Will: ‘Singing the praises of our fair city? We treat you well here, don’t we, James? I doubt I’d have that kind of luck in Shanghai. What do you call us there again?’Jem: ‘Yang guizi...

Almost everything Truman did in foreign affairs I approve of.

Reality. It is sometimes brought through foreign eyes; because if you do not know any better, you cannot see the worse. And vice versa.

New York is not going to be a foreign place to me. They didn’t revoke my visa.

Her name…was Mrs. marina Orlova, and she had grown up in Siberia. Later, she would tell him that she loathed the American custom of constantly smiling: “They are like chimpanzees,” she said, in her bitter...

It’s not easy for Chinese actors to do foreign films, and it’s not easy for foreign actors to do Chinese films.

When you’re in a situation that is foreign to you, you just have to pull yourself together and adapt.

I’ve only been to these foreign countries: Canada, L.A. and Miami.

La prima [canzone]tradotta in italiano con il titolo “Lo Straniero” rappresenta in fondo la condizione di tutti quelli che hanno la passione per le lingue. Siamo sempre stranieri, all’estero come nel nostro paese, figli di...

There is no budget for travel for a Shadow Foreign Secretary.

Einstein has a feeling for the central order of things. He can detect it in the simplicity of natural laws. We may take it that he felt this simplicity very strongly and directly during his...

Filmmaking has always involved pairs: a director coupled with a producer, a director alongside an editor… The notion of couples is not foreign to cinema.

Sina jinsi. Nguzo ya maisha yangu ni historia ya maisha yangu. Historia ya maisha yangu ni urithi wa watu waliojifunza kusema hapana kwa ndiyo nyingi – waliojitolea vitu vingi katika maisha yao kunifikisha hapa nilipo...

Historians will look back and say, ‘Foreign policy in the Ford presidency was very much dominated by Kissinger, with a kind of continuity from the Nixon period.’ Ford is not going to be remembered as...

Iraq is not occupied, but there are foreign forces on its soil, which is different.

Trying something new is like daring to speak a foreign language, you bite your tongue at first, memorize and thereafter sing it as if you were pretending to be unacquainted.

I’m completely Americanized – I have an American accent, an American wife – but a residue of me is foreign.

The South is like a foreign country to me!

If you think it’s bad now, my friend, wait till we reach a town!’ He shook his head and brushed at his tattered, dirty shirtsleeve. ‘Do try to remember we’re visitors-and not welcome ones-if you...

Spiritual love is when you see new faces as the oldest.

It was a very ordinary day, the day I realised that my becoming is my life and my home and that I don’t have to do anything but trust the process, trust my story and...

I like boys. I am not foreign; I was born and raised in Hickory County, Mo.

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

They were both lost in cities that would not pause even to shrug

Whenever you go on a trip to visit foreign lands or distant places, remember that they are all someone’s home and backyard.

While America will always, I think, feel foreign to me, New York City is my home. This is where I can construct my own identity freely and reject labels imposed on me.

If what you create seems to turn out much stranger than who you are as a person, it’s probably because your heart is talking.

There is one way to understand another culture. Living it. Move into it, ask to be tolerated as a guest, learn the language. At some point understanding may come. It will always be wordless. The...

I want to become foreign minister of India one day and then President of India.

How I wished during those sleepless hours that I belonged to a different nation, or better still, to none at all.

Like most arts, the link between the mind and the pen can chain you like an enslaved workaholic. Even on an intended vacation you suddenly have this killer urge to record whatever the vacation may...

The first and last weakness of his life, before him again. For a moment he felt himself blinded by his own memories; his own remembrances of the wits and wiles of Marian Halcombe that would...

Decolonization actually boosted slavery. As foreign powers withdrew from the colonies, people were enslaved by their own countrymen. And we see it in Africa, we see it in Asia.