Quotes of Local - somelinesforyou

“ They realized that the chief danger in aerial warfare from an excitable and intelligent public would be a clamour for local airships and aeroplanes to defend local interests. ”

- H. G. Wells

“ What is at stake is less a theory of cultural construction than a consideration of the scenography and topography of construction. This scenography is orchestrated by and as a matrix of power that remains disarticulated if we presume constructedness and materiality as necessarily oppositional notions. ”

- Judith Butler

“ Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government, too. ”

- Richard Nixon

“ Iran poses the most serious long-term threat to regional stability. ”

- Ehud Barak

“ The situation in Iraq is dangerous but the regional situation is also very complicated and precarious. ”

- Joschka Fischer

“ The circle of our understandingIs a very restricted area. ”

- T. S. Eliot

“ I'm all for it. In these days, regional marketing is the only way to survive. ”

- John Howard

“ Laughter is regional: a smile extends over the whole face. ”

- Malcolm De Chazal

“ Sin is geographical. ”

- Bertrand Russell

“ I don't feel restricted by the language: I feel more free. ”

- Olivier Martinez

“ On my way here I passed a local cinema and it turned out you were expecting me after all, for the billboards read: The Mummy Returns. ”

- Margaret Thatcher

“ Hitler produced a local lab experiment; he provided me with an ideology in the same way that Marx provided one for Lenin. My task is to turn this ideology into a world movement. ”

- George Lincoln Rockwell

“ There is a story that when incoming jets throttle back for the approach to Belfast's Aldergrove Airport, the pilots tell their passengers to put their watches back to local time - 1690. ”

- Russell Miller

“ You have the biggest impact on controlling, on affecting local lives as mayor. It's so much more important than being a state legislator. ”

- Dick Murphy

“ I think it's important for his own credibility. ”

- Patrick Leahy

“ It's going to be very, very tough to replace you as a Governor General. Or to pay off your MasterCard. ”

- Paul Martin

“ This boils down to regional homeland security,... the nearest fighter jets available in an emergency may be as far away as Fresno, Calif. ”

- Maria Cantwell

“ Woody makes a movie as if he were lighting 10,000 safety matches to illuminate a city. Each one is a little epiphany: topical, ethnic, or political. ”

- Gene Wilder

“ There are quite a few votes to be won by saying we will tax advertising or stop it. ”

- Barry Day

“ Zoning is a local government issue, and we're looking at the regional picture. ”

- Alan Clark

“ Minister MacKay, as you all know, has deep roots in Atlantic Canada and is very familiar with PEI and its provincial government. He will serve Islanders well in our new cabinet. ”

- Stephen Harper

“ It is in the nature of the New Yorker to be as topical as possible, on a level that is often small in scale and playful in intention. ”

- Brendan Gill

“ The big failure here has been the National Party which has sold out rural and regional Australia today... to the big end of town. ”

- Bob Brown

“ The other side must know that Azerbaijan is capable of securing its territorial integrity through war. ”

- Ilham Aliyev

“ The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris. ”

- Honore de Balzac

“ It's a great opportunity for me and hopefully a great opportunity for the state of Pennsylvania to make some changes. ”

- Lynn Swann

“ We are capable of fighting two major regional conflicts. ”

- Donald Rumsfeld

“ China is an active participant in and staunch supporter for the regional cooperation in Asia. ”

- Li Zhaoxing

“ A local company has more accountability. ”

- Paul Hawken

“ I was never restricted. I was never told what to do. ”

- Ray Harryhausen
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