Vasco De Gama Quotes & Sayings

Bob Saget is the bear from the Golden Crisp box. — King Tuff

Oh, I get it," I said. "It's a parable. Cute. Let's go eat. — Christopher Moore

My work was fairly theoretical. It was in recursive function theory. And in particular, hierarchies of functions in terms of computational complexity. I got involved in real computers and programming mainly by being - well, I was interested even as I came to graduate school. — Dennis Ritchie

Promises didn't mean much...Anything could happen when all was said and done. — Allison Brennan

We lived, as usual, by ignoring. Ignoring isn't the same as ignorance, you have to work at it. Nothing — Margaret Atwood

I don't show much of anything. — Cora Carmack

Riker tells Data to just get on with it already, so Data says Ferengi are like Yankee traders from 18th-century America. This indicates that, in the 24th century, the traditional practice of using 600-year-old comparisons is still in vogue, like when you're stuck in traffic on the freeway, and say, Man, this is just like Vasco de Gama trying to go around the Cape of Good Hope! — Wil Wheaton

Somewhere between a friend and acquaintance - a frequaintance, as it were. — Rachel Cohn

I was precocious enough to watch the news and read the papers, and I can remember October 1956, the simultaneous crisis in Hungary and Suez, very well. And getting a sense that the world was dangerous, a sense that the game was up, that the Empire was over. — Christopher Hitchens

You, sir, are a ray of sunshine.
-Percy Jackson — Rick Riordan

Marco Polo had been to China; Vasco de Gama had discovered the route to the Cape. The continent was in ferment, in movement, whereas the Mexican world was ... absolutely hermetically closed. The arrival of the Spaniards must have been like the arrival of people from Mars ... totally unsuspected aliens. The shock must have been profound ... I think it's one of the reasons behind the downfall of the Aztec Empire. In a sense, I think the Aztec Empire died of astonishment, more than anything else. — Carlos Fuentes

You're important to me ... I don't like being away from you. And sometimes ... you make me want to smile. — Suzanne Wright

What I worry about is the lack of understanding in society around the world that there is a divide in the world between those who have and those who do not. — Magdi Yacoub

I want to be known for my acting, not for my breasts. — Emilia Clarke

I would rather fail doing God's work than have a pseudo-victory being co-opted by someone else. — Otis Moss III

In February 2003, I signed a three-year contract with MSNBC to host a talk show. Having recently decided not to run again for governor of Minnesota, I was still a pretty hot commodity. The show was originally scheduled for an hour, four nights a week. — Jesse Ventura