Famous Quotes & Sayings

Shamir

As far as long-term goals, one of my favorite artists ever is Tegan and Sara, because every single one of their albums sounds different. Or Beck. I want to be like that because I come from so many different types of musical backgrounds.

Jay Reatard

A single is really quick, man. You can get it out, and in two months have it on your merch table. And albums can take a really long time. But when you get done with an album, it's a lot more fulfilling.

Jon Landau

Aretha Franklin's 'Let Me in Your Life' is one of the few recent R&B albums that places the emphasis entirely and deservedly on a voice. Many R&B producers have been making records on which the singer is outshined by the song, the arrangement and the sound.

Robyn

The music industry used to be able to control a single dance on the very smallest level of when people are supposed to hear it, and when they're supposed to start liking it, and when they're supposed to start buying it. And that's trashed, you know, that big machine that takes control and works albums for a long period.

Mark Salling

'Ten' by Pearl Jam is still by far one of my favorite albums and is a big part of what inspired me to learn guitar.

Rashid Johnson

Race, class, childhood experience, the books I found on my mother's bookshelf, the albums I found in my father's basement - these things are all part of who I am and will always be a part of my work.

David Gregory

I set up playdates, and I'm a morning greeter for the car-pool line. I also make albums with the family photos. When the kids get older and go on their way, we'll have all those pictures to revel in.

Gillian Jacobs

I used to babysit. And the kids I babysat were huge Hilary Duff fans, and so we used to have dance parties every day to her music. So I am very familiar with the albums of Miss Hilary Duff.

John Oates

The world has accelerated to the point that, as far as the album as a form, I don't know if it's going to last that much longer.

Tommy Amaker

As coaches I think we have felt that wherever it lands it would be helpful to anchor it for a period of time, whether it's five or even a few years beyond that. I think we felt that we could build up some type of brand loyalty in a relation to where our tournament is.

Linda Ellerbee

Anybody who tries to sabotage Katie had better be well-armed, because she is the 500-pound gorilla. She's not somebody who is sitting next to Dan (Rather) or sitting next to Harry (Reasoner). ... She is the anchor of the CBS Evening News , and you sabotage her at your peril.

Mark Calvert

We are talking to four different casino companies and three nationally recognized retail developers. We have offers from some of them. However, we have not made a decision yet as to which casino operator will be the best anchor for the overall project.

Jools Holland

Early on with Squeeze, we played the Hope & Anchor with U2. Three people turned up. Then two left. Then the last person left. That's the least-attended show I've ever done.

Michael Carter

We've got a lot of key reserves coming back, and a lot of young players waiting to move up. I feel like we're going to be the anchor of the team.

Michael Hanson

We had to do this, we had to win that race. We gave our anchor man a chance, and he came through.

Andrew Kaplan

We expect Sears to remain an anchor and we are pleased to have them as a partner.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Cast all your cares on God; that anchor holds.

Debby Ryan

Have an anchor so that life doesn't toss you around.

Tom Barnes

People are trying to go higher quality -- but maybe not spend as much money -- and being more personal with things. This is making it harder on promotional-items people, because they do better when they can sell a bunch of stuff.

Mike Birbiglia

Sometimes I'll go to the grocery store and buy a bunch of groceries as though I knew how to cook, which I don't, and as though I was going to be home for the next six days, which I won't.

Kevin Klette

This is a special group of guys. They are a tight bunch of guys that love to play together.

Tom Sanvik

This is really something special. This team has so many positives and has really developed over the years into a mean bunch of girls that do not back down.

Ronde Barber

You never like to think you're rebuilding. But if you have a bunch of young guys who have to play? Yeah, you're rebuilding.

Kevin McHale

In San Paulo I went to the movies and by the time I left the theater there was a mob at the exit. I had never been in that kind of situation when we weren't on tour and there was a whole bunch of security. I'm a little dude, and out of nowhere to have 50 or 60 people come running towards me when I'm jut with my friend, it was kind of scary.

Bill Fennelly

We won the game a bunch of times, we lost the game a bunch of times but we made some plays when we had to.

Bill Bunch

Every single one of the petition signers signed an affidavit swearing that they watched the person sign their own personal signature on there. If there were any irregularities, we want them found out, we want that person prosecuted, but we know that also we had a whole bunch of extra signatures.

As the light changed from red to green to yellow and back to red again, I sat there thinking about life. Was it nothing more than a bunch of honking and yelling? Sometimes it seemed that way. - Deep Thoughts (Saturday Night Live)

Tim Healy

Any game is scary right now. Tonight, it all came down to shooting.

Jeff Phillips

That's where the title came from. He still had things to say. It just wasn't in God's plan to say it in person.

Jay Tunnell

Our doubles came and he started kicking out and they started making threes. They really just started making plays.

David Kolata

Our experts came up with numbers that were substantially smaller than that.

Norman Adler

People say George Pataki came out of nowhere, that he wasn't a household name,

R. Ingram

People came up to me randomly and gave me hugs. The support has continued -- people who ordinarily wouldn't say anything come up to us and just hug us.

Ginger Mullins

People came up to me at the fire and stuffed envelopes of money in my pocket.

Bob Uecker

People don't know this but I helped the Cardinals win the pennant. I came down with hepatitis. The trainer injected me with it.

Jennifer Egan

People define themselves to some degree by the music that they listened to as teens. My mom had Elvis. Me, I had 'The Who' and later punk rock. Kids who came up in the '80s had other songs and bands. It's a way of placing ourselves culturally and temporally.

Phil Klay

People should be able to tell stories that are important to them to try and understand what they mean. I don't think you figure anything out on your own. Certainly not war stories.

G. H. Hardy

Anything we can do to help impart knowledge of our Constitution is important. If we spent a day recognizing, say, presidents or particular people, this certainly is the one thing we share in common - our Constitution. It's the thread that holds us all together.

Rovenia Brock

The older relatives in your family hold the keys to the information you're looking for, so it's important to be sure you learn as much as you can from them before they're gone. But remember, medical conditions were often a source of shame to older relatives in certain ethnic and racial groups, so it may take some cajoling to get them to open up and share what they see as family secrets.

Christian Slater

The older I get, the more I realize how important it is to have certain things that are really my own, parts of my life that I keep to myself.

Lee J. Cobb

After a certain point it grows to implied as well as articulated threats, and people succumb. My wife did, and she was institutionalized.

Simms Taback

After 'Old Lady' I showed this earlier version (of 'Joseph') to my publisher. I said, 'What if I redo this?' I made all new illustrations for it ... and I just lucked out. I feel a little vindicated in a certain sense.

Robert Tsao

After I have resigned from my position as chairman, I hope that all external criticism or pressure being exerted by certain authorities can be focused on me as an individual, and not on the company, shareholders, or innocent employees within the company.

Stevie Wonder

Some things are definitely our responsibility as individuals, and certain things are the responsibility of people committed to making sure everything is OK,

Lynn Coady

Something I've always written about is social expectations: that the eyes of the community are on you all the time, expecting you to line up with certain social norms, certain behaviours. Whenever you forgot about them, they'd be strongly reiterated to you, in no uncertain terms.

John Wells

A show like 'True Detective' is definitely a drama.

Dustin Maguire

Spencer's definitely our leader, on and off the court, by example. He doesn't yell. I don't think we need any of that.

Bruce Kasrel

Speed is never guaranteed. There's definitely high tide and low tide.

Jeff Gordon

Once you win more than one, it definitely puts you into an elite group and you are going to be looked upon different. You win one, you are looked at differently. Win two and it takes you to another level.

Warren Sapp

Now it's a pleasure to come to work every day because I get to work on my stuff. I get to sharpen my knife. And when it's sharp, you're going to get cut. Definitely get cut.

Justin Zwick

Now he's helping other receivers on what they're supposed to be doing. He's definitely been polished.

Sam Cowart

Not yet. I think I definitely will, once I walk into the stadium.

Ann Strother

Sometimes you're just going to have games like that for whatever reason. And just for us to be able to kind of push through it and tough it out, it's definitely a good sign. It's a sign of maturity for our team.

Sarah Wheeler

Sonja leads us vocally, but she also leads us by going out on the hill and showing us how to ski down it. She sets a great example, and she definitely showed that today (Thursday). We're going to miss her next year.

Herbie Hancock

Another thing that I noticed is a lot of people in the hip hop scene have a great respect for jazz and have incorporated by sampling some elements that come from jazz.

James Glassman

These long-run worries, there's an element of truth to them, but I think frankly the fears are exaggerated.

Bob Wise

There will be set modifications and different graphic elements from what we do.

Mark Thomson

I see that as a huge issue for all of us with high-functioning kids in elementary school.

Dennis Quaid

What they will do is, you know the tabloids. They'll take one element of a story that may be true and they'll build everything around it. Take a picture and invent a story around it.

Robert Boswell

We lived on a farm outside a town of about 900 people. My father was the principal of the elementary school. It was a typical Southern town - there are a lot of churches, and it's dry.

Betsy Brandt

My son is pre-K and my daughter is in elementary school. So they don't watch the show. But my son knows that I'm on it - he says that 'Breaking Bad' is his favorite show even though he's never seen it. It's really great that he says that, because it makes me look like mother of the year.

Rusty Fumi

Every school from the elementary to the two middle schools to the high school, we had representatives of every school.

William Cullen Bryant

To me it seems that one of the most important requisites for a great poet is a luminous style. The elements of poetry lie in natural objects, in the vicissitudes of human life, in the emotions of the human heart, and the relations of man to man.

Damien Chazelle

Practicing is not normally fun. Sometimes people say they're practicing, but they're really just enjoying themselves and the instrument. That's not real practice.

Joe Legerski

You start wondering when that first victory is going to come. That victory made them relax and start enjoying the season.

Chad Jackson

There's not usually much to watch, so hopefully they're enjoying the sun.

John Fitzgerald

I am reading it more and enjoying it less.

Bill Cowher

Next year is the only future I've looked at. It's going to be starting over and trying to re-establish a group of guys that is going to be different than it was this year. But I can tell you that next week I'm going to be doing a lot of reflecting, and enjoying every moment of it.

Andy Blackston

I think these kids are just having a lot of fun right now, and that's really important. They are just together and enjoying being around each other.

Kiril Wachsmann

I don't want to think about that. I haven't given any thought to the fact that the next game we lose, that's it. I'm just enjoying this right now.

Rochelle Aytes

I don't want to look exactly the same in everything I do. And if I'm not identifiable, then that can be a blessing or a curse. But I'm fine with it. Because at the end of the day, I'm still working, and I'm enjoying what I do.

Dick Hunsaker

He's made significant improvement this year. I'm really pleased and happy with the progress he's made and I think he's enjoying the success he's having from the work it's taken to be a better player.

Deborah Moggach

A novel is utterly your own creation, a very private process. I think of a novel as a noun and a screenplay as a verb. In a novel, very little needs to happen; you can explore a person's memories and thoughts and fantasies. In a screenplay, it's all action; you must push the story on.

Jack Kenny

I feel that I accomplished what I set out to do: A solid family drama, with lots of humor, that honestly explored the lives of the Webster family. Good, flawed people who loved each other no matter what.

Michael Allweiss

I think the industry would view this as a significant defeat. This allows us to explore, I think, what they've been able to prevent from being explored in the past. It's very meaningful.

Kim Fisher

The green truck ran the red light and hit the white explorer. Then, the explorer flipped.

Sasha Roiz

It's been a lot of fun from script to script to get inside the mythology of 'Grimm.' We've been given a lot of freedom to explore the mythology as well as the backstories and interpersonal connections of the characters.

Eddie Palmieri

I want to explore all kinds of music, not get stuck in one groove. It's just my nature.

Ally Walker

I've done a lot of dramas, and I've done a lot of serious stuff - some really heavy stuff... which I loved, but I wanted to do something light and airy. I think the challenge for an actor is always to see which parts of you you can explore and go have fun with.

Kim Raver

I think what's so interesting for me is the different roles that I play. I love doing the research, and I love - I feel fortunate in the sense that I get to explore many different worlds, of things that I may not really get to learn a lot about.

Terry Jones

We are really doing it to explore their lives and see if they are (harming) real kids.

Colin McRae

Rally GB is obviously very special to me, and I am looking forward to giving the fans something to cheer,

P. James

We're gonna have some fun here. We always have a good time on this team. I've been getting out to see a few things and the fans have been great to me.

Brendan Fehr

I'm not a big fan of rehearsing.

Brad Delson

I was a big Transformers fan.

Kristin Bauer van Straten

Fans are afraid to meet me. They're sort of afraid for their lives and won't look me in the eye.

Cameron Diaz

I've always been a huge fan of Julia Roberts. Without her what would the world be like?

Alan Cumming

I'm not a fan of Twitter.

Bret Michaels

I do meet-and-greets at every show and meet a minimum of 20-35 fans at each.

Tim Tessalone

We use them for the fans and as a revenue generator,

Kathleen Blanco

We don't like looters one bit, but first and foremost is search and rescue.

Glen Davis

I feel we're gaining respect. We're doing something special here.

Evan Brown

The path to gaining respect is paved with knowledge and empathy.

Sharon Stone

People are afraid of changing; that they're losing something. They don't understand that they are also gaining something.

Kate Michelman

We're not losing the war, but the other side's gaining ground.

Steven Morrissey

I am hated for loving. I am haunted for wanting.

Nick Zano

I knew everything a woman hated even before I remotely knew anything a woman liked.

Gary Mormino

He was the most hated man in North Florida.

Shelley Berman

Though it sold very well, I hated The Edge.

Chris Squire

I couldn't get session work because most musicians hated my style.

Evangeline Lilly

I hated being a flight attendant. I did it for a month and then quit.

Kenneth Branagh

I choose to be inspired by things that have been done well in the past. So, I don't worry about being compared, because I think that does paralyze you.

Damon Dash

There are certain things I do because I am creatively inspired and artistic.

Simon Sinek

Words may inspire but only action creates change.

Shawn Achor

Happiness inspires productivity.

Max Lucado

If you concern yourself with your neighbor’s talents, you’ll neglect your own. But if you concern yourself with yours, you could inspire both!

Brad Lidge

If we weren't playing for anything, I don't know if he'd be doing this. It's got to inspire everyone to see him out there.

Jessie Miller

She is what inspired me. I was so angry.

Jason Mraz

Being out in nature inspires me as a writer.

Erin Heatherton

Music is definitely my mood master. It's a must have for me on set, and in my life to inspire and motivate me.

Chris Sullivan

I've been listening to them my whole life.

Denise Bishop

You're sitting here listening to everything we have to say, but there's nothing we can do about this.

Brett Ratner

Listening is harder than just acting. Listening is the hardest part.

Carla Bley

Listening is more important than anything else because that's what music is. Somebody is playing something and you're receiving it. It is sending and receiving.

Alan Vega

Lately I've been listening to some classical music again, some jazz.

Austin Carlile

To me, music is emotion and if when you're listening to it and it doesn't make you feel that, then it's not music.

Barbara Bush

You get nothing done if you don't listen to each other.

Brian May

I never took sheet music seriously. I could do better myself just by listening to other people and using my own intuition.

Amy Sedaris

If you see a shy person, ask them some questions like, 'Why are you so shy? Tell everyone, we're all listening.

Jonny Buckland

We can't wait to play our new songs live

Dan Hill

Songs sometimes are so connected to the sociology of the time.

Bob Blyer

I try to play a lot of songs that have 'love' in the title.

Liz Callaway

Time After Time/Dodsworth: New Songs from New Musicals.

Miranda Cosgrove

When I was 5, I started taking singing lessons, and then, after 'School of Rock,' I started taking guitar lessons. I would always write songs and play them for my friends, and I would play my guitar on the set a lot.

Billy Sherwood

I wrote songs with the guys from Air Supply for their record... So I was just writing songs.

Brandon Marshall

I try to live by the principles the Bible speaks on.

Brandon Sanderson

Yes, Bastille. I keep trying to get killed because it's inconvenient for you.

Brad Paisley

I changed my mindset and figured, Why not try to be really entertaining instrumentally?

Brad Feld

While I'm a venture capitalist who invests in early-stage tech companies, I often feel like a professional emailer and conference call maker. I try to spend most of my time doing whatever the companies we are investors in need me to do.

Jane Jacobs

It is hopeless to try to convert some borders into seams.

Jane Hirshfield

Zen taught me how to pay attention, how to delve, how to question and enter, how to stay with -- or at least want to try to stay with -- whatever is going on.

Cameron Diaz

I haven't been worried about my image so much as I have been trying to find projects to push myself further than before.

C. S. Lewis

You never know what you can do until you try, and very few try unless they have to.

Alan Dundes

In my introductory course, Anthropology 160, the Forms of Folklore, I try to show the students what the major and minor genres of folklore are, and how they can be analyzed.