Quotes About Riyadh

#1. the government-controlled Saudi daily Al-Riyadh published a column declaring that "the Jews' spilling human blood to prepare pastry for their holidays is a well-established fact.

Stephen Greenblatt

#2. Marriage equality is a term so ridiculous on its face that when you hear it mentioned, you would think you were in Riyadh. Years from now, perhaps we can lose the equality part, the same-sex part and call it what it is - marriage.

Henry Rollins

#3. In Riyadh, there's going to be a huge project that will house at least 12,000 units with inhabitants of approximately 150,000 people. It's like a city within a city.

Al-Waleed Bin Talal

#4. Riyadh or Sharjah weren't exactly high on my list.

Manil Suri

#5. As a nation, Kuwait has been, arguably, free of freedom itself. Claimed in turn by Constantinople, Riyadh, and Baghdad, Kuwait has survived by playing Turks off Persians, Arabs off one another, and the English off everyone.

P. J. O'Rourke

#6. You take one bomber and deploy him in Baghdad, and another is manufactured in Riyadh the next day. It's exactly like when you take the toy off the shelf at Wal-Mart and another is made in Shen Zhen the next day.

Thomas Friedman

#7. Jeddah is the natural cultural capital, an old fortified port on the Red Sea, the home of merchants and immigrants. Jeddah is historic, confident, less threatened by new ideas. Riyadh today is bible-belt fierce, and brash.

Patrick Tom Notestine

#8. Seek justice from tyrannical governments not with your hat in your hands but with a rifle in your fist.

Emiliano Zapata

#9. Drugs have destroyed many lives, but wrongheaded governmental policies have destroyed many more. I think it's obvious that after 40 years of war on drugs, it has not worked. There should be decriminalization of drugs.

Kofi Annan

#10. So what if those stupid roosters don't want to crow?
If we've learned to live without men, we can learn to live without cocks.

James Canon

#11. I get twitchy if I don't pick up a guitar or sit at the piano every now and then ... I have to do it; I don't have a choice.

Julian Lennon

#12. Misfits aren't misfits among other misfits.

Barry Manilow

#13. There are so many unknowns, and so many possibilities. Sometimes there are things you can say, and talking makes it better. But sometimes, there are no words.

E. Katherine Kottaras

#14. Being drafted by the Montreal Canadiens, that was the greatest moment in my career. And stealing the Stanley Cup in 1978 and bringing it back to my hometown of Thurso.

Guy Lafleur

#15. Failure is ... the highway to success.

Og Mandino

#16. Body of yin, soul of yang.

Philip K. Dick