Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yolanda Adams

All of my lyrics are based on the one thing that's never failed me, and that's the Word of God.

Yanni

My music is based on melody and when I play the piano, it's as if I'm singing with them. When you try to transform that into a vocal, there was very little adjustment.

Irving Stone

My books are based 98 percent on documentary evidence.

William McDonough

I am very focused on large-scale deployments of renewable power and how we're going to get this done. Imagine our military bases covered with solar thermal collectors that could generate steam and electricity.

Whitey Ford

You kind of took it for granted around the Yankees that there was always going to be baseball in October.

Vivienne Westwood

We based the look on rock 'n roll right from the beginning.

Chuck Palahniuk

'Romance' is based on my entire creative process. I fall in love with an idea, obsess over it, isolate myself with it, and when I eventually introduce it to my friends, they all tell me that it's stupid.

will.i.am

You know, I do music. If you look under the hood of the industry I'm in, it's all based on technology. From radio to phonographs to CDs, it's all technology. Microphones, reel-to-reels, cameras, editing, chips, it's all technology.

Constance Wu

It's my privilege to be able to play somebody not myself. I'm an actor who creates characters based in voice, movement, emotional quality, speech.

Colm Meaney

There's no reason not to be in television now. You get to live at home and you're not on the road all the time, they pay you decent money, and the writing's good. You're not compromising for it, you know.

Rhonda Rompola

That was a very frustrating moment. Unfortunately, the official didn't hear me and I didn't want Cobb taking it, but she did have a decent look.

Gary Evans

We have tried to treat our people like we want to be treated. We try and pay a decent wage and have been fortunate to hire some really good people.

Rick Rudesill

We were getting decent looks, but they were going in and out. The panic set in and we stopped doing the little things to score.

Mark Riggin

With the experience that we have, we should have a decent year. A lot of these guys have three years of varsity experience. They know what I expect, and we want to win the section and win a playoff game.

Jim Whitesell

We're really thankful. It's a decent rivalry without over-the-top crazies. They saw a good game.

Henry Hewitt

Microsoft is about as exciting as General Motors in the 50s and 60s. This was a decent quarter but so what?

Chris Mitchell

Miami has a decent shot ... I have the opportunity to play early.

Steve Bates

You can be reasonably sure you're getting a decent investment there.

Timothy Noah

Being a teacher is back-breakingly difficult work. It is also extremely important work.

Robert Clark

The overall message we received from teachers is they are extremely pleased the program is available.

Sharon Johnson

The pendulum has just been swinging back and forth with the fundamentals in the market, ... This is an extremely short crop, but the big negative has been questions about demand.

Ian Stannard

The PCE deflator will be extremely important today. The market looks at this very much as one of Fed's main indicators. If it's strong the market will not only be looking for a rate hike at this meeting but next time around as well.

Ian Stannard

The PCE deflator will be extremely important today. If it's strong the market will not only be looking for a rate hike at this meeting but next time around as well.

Brian K. Vaughan

I was only ever part of 'Lost' - a very small part of an extremely talented writers' room, where as a writer, it's sort of your job to sublimate your ego and work in the service of the show and the show's voice.

Christien Meindertsma

Even if you are genuinely interested in what is in your products, it is extremely difficult and often impossible to find out.

Denis Napthine

I am extremely proud to have the honour and privilege to be the Premier of this great state of Victoria.

Gary Gaetti

That was the first World Series in an indoor stadium, so it was kind of a novelty. It was extremely loud. We've had very, very similar moments here where you can actually feel it on your body.

Yousuf Karsh

If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity.

Todd Rundgren

It's hard for me to say that what I'm doing isn't even really music, because deep inside of me, what I want to do is much greater than music.

Idina Menzel

I'm not great at multi-tasking, so when I do one thing... I like to do it 100%.

Idina Menzel

I don't think I ever really knew the right words to 'Hava Nagilah,' which isn't great for a Jewish singer.

Ian Frazier

I was friends with Russians who said I should see Russia. I went there in '93 and it was so exciting, and I went to Siberia and had a great time.

Ian Mckellen

Bolton School has a great tradition in the liberal arts.

Ismail Kadare

In antiquity, there were three regions in southern Europe: Greece, Rome, and Ilyria. Albanian is the only survivor of the Ilyrian languages. That is why it has always intrigued the great linguists of the past.

Gaines Adams

I want to be a great player. I don't want to play for the money. I don't want to play for fame. I'd just as soon no one knew who I was. I want to play football because it's football.

Gad Elmaleh

There were two things I used to do to seduce girls: jokes and music. Since I'm not a great pianist, jokes were my thing.

Gordon Strachan

He has been immense for us this season.

Matthew Stewart

We're just one rock surrounded by this immense universe.

Ken Livingstone

I could not cherish London and not value Jewish London. The contribution of Jews to London is immense - politically, economically, culturally, intellectually, philanthropically, artistically.

Sarah Hall

I used to dislike bookshops immensely as a child and was won over only later in life.

Willa Holland

I enjoyed 'The OC' immensely but I want to expand my horizons more before repeating myself.

Nimrat Kaur

I run on the beach in the mornings. I've also immensely enjoyed CrossFit with Dheepesh Bhatt.

Luise Rainer

I had immense ambition to become a really valuable actress.

Noam Chomsky

Pakistan will never be able to match the Indian militarily, and the effort to do so is taking an immense toll on the society.

Sigi Schmid

My objective is that we want to win a title this year. If it doesn't happen, we are going to be immensely better than last year. It doesn't take that long to turn around a team.

Bill Bryson

Most of what has lived on Earth has left behind no record at all.

Barry Mann

One other thing, if it's possible, as songwriters, you should also develop yourself as record producers.

Dick Pound

I think one is right to say some of these records are pretty suspect,

Martin Nissenbaum

Have your records tied up as neatly as possible, so you're not shuffling through records,

Wayne Patterson

From all of our records and correspondence with EPD, they have done that.

David Sanborn

I just kinda like playing. I don't necessarily go on tour to promote my albums. I'm on the road all the time. The fact that I have a new record is out is a coincidence.

Bryan Ferry

Get down with your old Allman Bros. records!

Agnetha Faltskog

When I was 15 I became a full-time singer in a band. At 18 I made my first record.

Chantal Kreviazuk

I listened to my record and hear lots of influences. And it's very rich... it's got a wide spectrum.

Dan Hendricks

I think this is a very deep, talented group.

Joel Thompson

We're not the most talented squad. We have to outwork our opponent.

Thomas Needham

From what they tell me he is a smart, hardworking and talented person.

Jeff Bzdelik

I don't know that it was anything (SDSU) did that really factored into that. But they are just so much more talented than they have been in the past.

Virat Kohli

Irrespective of whether you have talent or not, one has to work hard. Just being talented doesn't mean anything; you can end up wasting it before you realize.

Ricky Woods

I think they may be the most talented team we've ever played.

Joe Girardi

He's a talented young man. You know what, he's going to make some mistakes.

Tommy Bowden

He's as talented a tight end as we've had here in a while, but doesn't understand the tempo.

Carl Taylor

He's a very talented young man. He is really the only one that does that (voice call) especially at his age.

Chris Blackwell

I was touring a lot... I loved the touring because you could really feel the audience. You were much closer to everything.

Bruce Dickinson

I'm not going to do any more solo touring.

Trent Reznor

Touring in the past, the show was just something you had to do to get to the after-show,

Liam Gallagher

I'm not going around touring the U.S. when I've got nowhere to live.

Andy Partridge

I felt pressured by continuous touring.

Daniel Johns

Touring doesn't kill me and I can handle it.

Cyril Cusack

I have been on my own all my life except during those touring days.

Daniel Johns

The touring for this album was definitely going to be the most intense touring we've done.

Jake Shimabukuro

When I was growing up, there was no such thing as a touring ukulele player.