Famous Quotes & Sayings

Isaac Asimov

The whole business is the crudest sort of stratagem, since we have no way of foreseeing it to the end. It is a mere paying out of rope on the chance that somewhere along the length of it will be a noose.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

When I can make Of ten small words a rope to hang the world! "I had you and I have you now no more.

Adam Schoenfeld

Bandwidth is a big growth category, ... It's an important trend that the Internet sector offers some choice and segmentation.

Chris Culos

Now, it's an extremely big name to live up to, but it kind of fits. We had all played in other bands before, and so this was our musical revolution, where we could finally play the music we wanted.

Billie Armstrong

Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a life-style. There are a lot of bands around who claim to be punk and they only play the music, they have no clue what it's all about. It's a life-style I chose for myself.

Augusten Burroughs

But my favorite band is Curbside Life, out of Chicago.

Steve Winwood

A band is not a marriage. There are no oaths of allegiance. If you feel your life will be better served by splitting up the group, you've got to do it - but of course it does cause problems.

Craig Ferguson

A friend of mine that I was in a band with started me on Kafka, which in turn led to Camus and Sartre.

Butch Vig

We're a bunch of geeks. We're not cool at all. We're the geekiest band out there, let me tell you, so it's an honor to do the theme song for such a cool international spy.

S. Walker

We do not view this in any way as treating them as second-class citizens. We don't view our band as second-class citizens just because they're playing before the (football) game,

Fred LeBlanc

A tour bus, a rock band and the clothes on my back. It's real heart-breaking to see the place that you grew up, the place that you've identified with all your life going through such chaos.

Jason Katims

Any show I'm working on, I want the stories to always be about something, and to have the potential to be emotional. That's the kind of story that I like.

Burt Reynolds

All you really have in the end are your stories.

Charles Colson

The first 20 stories written about a public figure set the tone for the next 2,000 and it is almost impossible to reverse it.

Eduardo Galeano

So many stories, and to choose which ones to tell and how to tell them. The words, they will tap me on the shoulder and they will speak to me: Tell me! Tell me! The stories choose me.

Stephen Sondheim

The Tonys ignored West Side Story. The Tonys ignored Gypsy. It's a kind of public humiliation.

Stephen Sondheim

The last collaborator is your audience ... when the audience comes in, it changes the temperature of what you've written. Things that seem to work well -- work in a sense of carry the story forward and be integral to the piece -- suddenly become a little less relevant or a little less functional or a little overlong or a little overweight or a little whatever. And so you start reshaping from an audience.

Tim O'Brien

By telling stories, you objectify your own experience. You separate it from yourself. You pin down certain truths. You make up others. You start sometimes with an incident that truly happened, and you carry it forward by inventing incidents that did not in fact occur but that nonetheless help to clarify and explain.

Tim O'Brien

Let the story tell itself.

Tim O'Brien

But this too is true: stories can save us.