Top 528 Regional Quotes & Sayings

Bollywood works as hard as regional cinema makers.

Place is character. And all writing is regional.

Clients are becoming more global; they're realizing that markets are more interconnected. It's no longer the local regional clients buying the local regional flavors. It's everybody asking for everything.

Local and regional food systems are about opportunity.

It can be argued - and rightly - that Taiwan is not just another regional issue: after all, the Chinese regard it as part of China. But Taiwan is also a regional issue for three reasons. First, the overthrow or even the neutering of democracy in Taiwan, which is what Beijing effectively demands, would be a major setback for democracy in the region as a whole. Second, if the Chinese were able to get their way by force in Taiwan, they would undoubtedly be tempted to do the same in other disputes. And third, there is no lack of such disputes to provoke a quarrel.

I think regional parties are very important if they fulfil regional aspirations.

I owe all the name and fame I have earned to regional cinema.

Both our nations [Malasian and American] are committed to building a regional order where all nations play by the same rules and disputes are resolved peacefully and this visit will be an opportunity to continue deepening our cooperation on behalf of regional stability and prosperity.

The African Development Bank is one of the most aggressive advocates of regional integration.

Regional theatres don't patronise their audiences, and they're not afraid to do big, bold things.

My paternal grandmother drove ambulances during the regional Blitz, in Birmingham.

Great art is a regional thing. I'm not saying my art is great. I recognize what I think is great about music is often on a regional level.

I don't know of any Internet service that opens on a regional basis.

There is certainly an economic disparity between Bollywood and the regional film industry.

Maybe I'm a serial regional writer. First here, then there, across the map.

Any move by Israel to end the conflict with the Palestinians by unilateral moves - such as annexing the West Bank, delinking Gaza and declaring that there be no further diplomatic process - will lead to strong regional and global reactions, as well as intensify efforts at the UN and in civil society to brand Israel as an outlaw state dangerous to regional and world peace and guilty of criminal behavior.

I enjoy watching regional cinema; they have always been my favorite.

We have to convince people about the relevance of regional parties, and we are doing that.

I am a lucky regional theater actor who happened to get a good role.

Southern writing is regional: it includes dialect, settings, and cultural traditions from that region. However the themes and story conflicts are universal. My challenge is to write regional fiction without falling into the trap of nostalgia. There are important issues facing the south that I believe should be raised in the stories to make them contemporary, believable, and relevant to today's readers.

I was on leave from local and regional politics, as long as I was a Minister.

Factors affecting effective regional cooperation are mindsets and perceptions emanating from the past

After school, I was planning to jump from regional theater to regional theater.

Under our regional cooperation projects, we are building roads and bridges. The scope of regional cooperation [with China] is constantly growing.

While Bollywood still remains my priority, I always wanted to do regional cinema. There are so many people who don't know Hindi, so I decided to do regional films wherein even those who don't know me can see my work.

See in old days, there were only two parties nationally, Congress and BJP... Now there are regional leaders. Time has come to pick up regional leaders in these national parties and build political campaign around them who can challenge regional parties.

We are a regional party, and our interests are for the people of Odisha.

Divide the world into regional groups as a transitional stage to world government. Populations will more readily abandon their national loyalty to a vague regional loyalty than they will for a world authority. Later the regions can be brought together all the way into a single world dictatorship.

Language is so specific to art, all the way to the past in China. Previously, people were not allowed to include various regional dialects in their films, but in every film that I've made, I've maintained the regional dialects of the characters because I wanted to make films that were locally specific.

Factors affecting effective regional cooperation are mindsets and perceptions emanating from the past.

With calm, knowledgeable precision, Daniel Ziblatt wades into the adjacent swamps of federalism and nineteenth-century European history, emerging with hands full of gems. Beneath the tangle of great statesmen and national culture he discovers conflicting regional political interests, sharp regional variations in political capacity, fearful defenses against excessive democracy, coercive conquest of weak states, and unintended consequences galore. Read, think, and learn.

You can't tag me as a regional actress.

India is a regional power. It does not need anything to establish it.

We must decentralize to deal with regional satraps.

I knew I wanted to be an actor, and I didn't necessarily need or want to be famous or a celebrity actor. But I wanted to be somewhere where there would be no ceiling on what I could accomplish, and I felt like if I stayed in St. Louis I might have a really great regional theater career or something, but that I wasn't going to be able to get much further than that. And it felt like New York and L.A. were the two places where you could end up being a TV star or you could end up doing regional theater, which would have been fine as well.

Currently, I bowl regional tournaments out of the PBA Southern Region.

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

Whatever I have been doing in regional cinema, is restricted to the region.

I have done my regional cinema very meticulously and regarded it above everything.

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

Regional exchange can be a source of growth and development, and of enhancing good governance.

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

In any symmetrical war in today's world, it is necessary to have regional support.

In a sense, what we do with the regional development agencies is to give them resources to look at the deficiencies in the economy in the regional areas, so they can address themselves to that.

A bugbear of mine is bragging rights in regional derbies: it would be a lot more worth to the regional game if we did something special in European rugby.

There are absolutely amazing people running regional theatres, and amazing regional companies.

Good cinema has no regional or linguistic boundaries.

People used to say I'm regional, but I'm not... We all have the same human condition.

I have done regional films before. They have a different flavour and promising future.

I've always said that Guy Clark is a regional songwriter without being regional. He's global. His craft is like, well, Larry McMurtry would be an example. I kind of see Guy Clark and Larry McMurtry in the same wave.

Things have to be straightened out to keep Lebanon away from regional conflicts.

The arts are usually the first thing to be cut in schools or regional programs.

My wheels are running. My investments are local, regional and international.

What I do is not regional comedy, and it is not based in the southern area.

The potential for regional conflict in the absence of an internationally active America is real.

The developing coherence of Asian regional thinking is reflected in a disposition to consider problems and loyalties in regional terms, and to evolve regional approaches to development needs and to the evolution of a New World Order.

But Australia faces additional regional and global challenges also crucial to our nation's future - climate change, questions of energy and food security, the rise of China and the rise of India. And we need a strong system of global and regional relationships and institutions to underpin stability.

My most lucrative job in college was a stint as the regional Dodge Girl.

Drag is very regional.

We are all proud to be British. But we also feel more local and regional allegiances.