Quotes About Foreigner

Thomas Chatterton Williams

I was never very interested in my own experience, I think, in fact, if my films have a common link, maybe it's being a foreigner - it's common for people who are born abroad - they don't know so well where they belong.

I've gotten used to being a foreigner.

People don't know what it's like being the foreigner until they are one.

American rock was, and still is to some extent, a closed shop. REO Speedwagon, Toto, Boston, Foreigner all those bands, and I wouldn't be able to tell which from which.

I never expected to adapt so quickly, but if you are a foreigner it's up to you to adapt to English football because you can't change it. I think I've achieved something in the way I adapted.

The Greek word barbaros at first just meant a foreigner who spoke a different language.

In Paris, one is always reminded of being a foreigner. If you park your car wrong, it is not the fact that it's on the sidewalk that matters, but the fact that you speak with an accent.

Such reclamation would be an arduous process, one that would entail reconnecting with the Bible itself, which evangelicals claim as the basis for their authority. There they will find sobering words about care for the needy, clothing the poor, visiting the prisoners, and welcoming the foreigner as one of their own.

How funny to see the foreigner in a farmer's work hat, like a fish that has put on clothes. Around

Mi chiamo Davide Griffo e sono mortificato per avere alzato la voce, ma non capivo quello che il suo agente mi andava dicendo. È straniero?». Montalbano preferì sorvolare.

Like Alec, his complexion was almost swarthy. But the Indian sun had darkened Aidan's still more, so that his skin was a dark, burnished hue that made him appear almost a foreigner- particularly when combined with the beard he'd grown, the patch he'd still worn over one eye upon his return home.

When you're a foreigner, at the beginning you are far away from the culture. Then, little by little, you start to interact with people, have friends, have a life, and then you feel more comfortable.

When a man has been burned once with hot soup he forever after blows upon cold rice"; so these men of China will think long before trusting again a foreigner with their silver.

I'm not the only foreigner who took up golf while living in Jakarta.

Look at the mess we've got ourselves into,' Colonel Aureliano Buendia said at that time, 'just because we invited a gringo to eat some bananas.

What are you looking at, foreigner?" the guard demanded roughly. The smile was a little unsettling. A prisoner shouldn't smile at his captors like that. "I'm just making sure I can remember you," Gilan told him. "Never know when that might be useful.

originalmente, bárbaro no significa salvaje, sino extranjero)

Every person is also a citizen of some country. In their country, they have rights and responsibilities. In every other country, they are a guest.

I'm very happy to be a foreigner in Japan, and I can't think of a more wonderful place to live, but at the same time, I would never want to be Japanese, because they are subject to stresses that I am not.

Japan functions on the basis of everyone sharing certain assumptions, where each person knows his part in a larger whole. The foreigner sits outside and is threatening. If he comes in, that's the most threatening of all.

I was thrilled to hear Mick Jones wanted me to be involved in celebrating 40 years of Foreigner. I spent three years as their drummer and had a great time.

I think being a foreigner and talking about Hollywood allowed me to use some cliches and some references that an American would maybe not use.

We are not from this country, and people want to harm us. It's easier to hurt someone who is not from here than someone who is. People think we don't know what the laws are, and they try to hurt you. Many people want money. We have to take care of ourselves.