Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ice Cube

Sports without music, it's nothing but a game. Music adds the emotion.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Pomegranate molasses is ubiquitous in Arabic cooking: it's sweet, sour and adds depth.

William Kamkwamba

Climate change is important to Malawi, but many people see alternative energy more as a means to skip the government and get electricity and power. Deforestation is a huge problem in Malawi, which only adds to the problem. People cut down trees because they have no power to run electric stoves, etc. So they use firewood.

Ellen Key

For thousands of years, poetry has been picturing love as a mysterious and tragic power. But when anyone says the same thing in plain prose, and adds that life would be colourless and poor without the great passions, then this is called immorality!

Beeban Kidron

The devices that our kids use are shipped from the factory with every possible audio, visual or vibration alert switched on. Each new app, website, tweet and message adds another layer of intrusion - each intrusion is cynically designed to get a response, and each response creates an appetite for another intrusion.

Chris Robinson

There's the conventional wisdom, of which I have none, where you get a record deal, you get a publicist, you get a campaign, and you do the tour, but none of that adds up to things like nuance and subtlety and dynamic.

Barack Obama

I want to be very clear: I will not sign on to any health plan that adds to our deficits over the next decade.

Richard P. Feynman

The fact that the colors in the flower have evolved in order to attract insects to pollinate it is interesting; that means insects can see the colors. That adds a question: does this aesthetic sense we have also exist in lower forms of life?

David Smith

The acquisition of the Gannett stations strengthens station clusters in the Northeast and the Midwest, and adds to our growing presence in Florida,

Yael Grobglas

Israel has a fantastic film industry, and many times we are known for our political films or films that have to do with the army. I love the fact that we can show that there are films coming out of Israel that are just for fun.

Yanni

I love the road, and I love coming in contact with the fans. They talk to me and that's irreplaceable. But when I get tired, I head to the studio and I am in there for a long time.

Tim Burton

There's something about seeing this little inanimate object coming to life that's just very exciting. That's why with 'Nightmare' I held out for so long to do it.

Imelda May

Ooooh, I love Nashville! It seems like everywhere you walk, there's great music coming out of every wall.

Idina Menzel

For me, 'Rent' was all about coming out of myself, finding out who I was, learning the power I could have as a performer. And 'Wicked' was about harnessing all that strength.

Ian Mckellen

Will I miss Gandalf? Well, I don't miss him, because people are constantly coming up to me mentioning him and talking about him, so I don't feel that I've lost contact.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

'Beyond the Lights' was my fourth film. I gained a lot of knowledge, and I'm excited to share that with young filmmakers because I know how lost I was coming out of film school with that question of 'What's next?'

will.i.am

Coming out with records when you're in a big, successful group that plays stadiums, that's scary to come out by yourself.

Chris Bohjalian

If you are stymied as a writer, if it's just not coming together, then take the pressure off and don't feel that you need to write 1,000 words today; just write one really good sentence.

Betsey Johnson

There is an excitement about having nightmares.

Bill Bryson

The great failure in education, much of the time, is the lack of excitement and stimulus

Pat Meehan

There's an excitement to officiating a well-played game. A lot of discretion, a lot of judgment comes into play.

Jeff Gordon

We have to keep our fans watching not just at home on TV but here at the racetrack too. This is where you sell people on the speed and excitement of racing.

Pearl Cleage

I worked in Maynard Jackson's first campaign, and I remember the excitement we felt when he won.

Mark Rein

It doesn't generate as much noise and excitement as Microsoft and Sony will, but Nintendo always seems to have a great product line and make a lot of money.

Phil Garner

It does generate a lot of noise and it's a lot of fun. And I think we play for that. We play for that excitement and that noise. It helps us a little bit.

John Maloney

I'm a little disappointed in the excitement about GM closing. I don't feel it, but I know others do. We need to help these people keep their jobs.

Brendan Witt

I'm all for change. It's about excitement and entertainment, right? The way to do that is with more goals and more scoring.

Tom Tylutki

That weapon was fired at least 20 times.

Al Horford

We were struggling on offense in the first half so I did whatever I had to do to get us going. I knew I had to get everyone fired up.

John Durham

Most of the N.C. militia men ran after they fired their first shot of the first line.

Doug Lowenstein

Microsoft fired the first salvo, if you will, in 2005, and the rest of the parties will join the battlefield in 2006.

Jeff Mitchell

You can get real fired up for the Saints. I mean, they knocked us out of the playoffs. We feel for what they're going through, but that shouldn't be an issue.

Daniel Briere

It fired up our will when we heard things like the more the series went on, the tougher it would go for us. Those were just motivation points for us.

Jamie Mayne

I think she was fired up and made about (injuring) her knee (in the first quarter).

Mark Carmon

Thousands and thousands of rounds were fired here during training.

Roger Sharp

(My teammates) have been waiting for me to do that all year. It got us relaxed and got the team fired up.

Inga Cadranel

When we were growing up, we had all these crazy, in-your-face guys around the house. For us, it was like, 'Ugh! Actors again.'

Val Kilmer

I've been very fortunate and met the guys that have become, basically, philosophers and have a kind of sensibility about life that's very precious.

Chuck Palahniuk

When I first used to tour, guys would come up and say, 'Where's the fight club in my area?' and I would say, 'There isn't one.' And they'd say, 'No, no, you can tell me, you can tell me.'

will.i.am

When you think about the guys who started Twitter, and the Google guys, and the Facebook guys and the Napster guys, and the Microsoft guys, and the Dell guys and the Instagram guys, it's all guys. The girls, they're being left behind.

Alberto Martinez

The overriding theme of these numbers is that these guys are pretty much tied, and will likely stay that way for a long time.

Brian Bell

The guys in the Twins understand that the better Weezer does, the more people will probably care about us.

Wade Henderson

We have a lot of young guys who haven't jelled yet. It's tough when you lose (last year's seniors), but you have to learn to play without them.

Mark Marquess

We have a lot of young guys and we'll see where we stand.

Lindsey Hunter

We need to have our showers, there's some guys in here who should be showering more often than they are.

Tina Brown

When Obama heralds another 'teachable moment,' it means he has already made an egregious rookie mistake.

Will Chase

'Miss Saigon' taught me what it means to help carry a big show, and it had some of the most gorgeous songs wrote.

David Wenham

My representation overseas can't stand me doing theatre because it takes me out of action. But it's what I want to do. If it means passing up other possibilities, them's the breaks.

David Foster

With Celine Dion, we were selling 25 million records a pop. 'Pop' stands for 'popular.' It means we're plugging into the masses.

Dev Hynes

'Chamalkay' is an old Guyanese slang word. It means a 'young mischievous girl.' It's not derogatory, but it isn't over complimentary, either. It was probably a word I just Googled one day, and the song kind of played into the feel of that.

Mickey Rourke

The acclaim I'm getting for 'The Wrestler' means everything in the world to me. But it also means I can't take my foot off the gas pedal.

Charles Gargano

That was why we privatized the World Trade Center, by means of a 99-year net lease.

Marcus Samuelsson

For many sports fans, the onset of fall only means one thing: It's football season!

Mary Ellen Mark

What you look for in a picture is a metaphor, something that means something more, that makes you think about things you've seen or thought about.

Barack Obama

You know, one of the things I think you understand as president is you're held responsible for everything, but you don't always have control of everything, right?

Carl Sagan

We go about our daily lives understanding almost nothing of the world.

Bill Buford

The most important knowledge is understanding what you can't do.

Rick Wakeman

I always say that it's about breaking the rules. But the secret of breaking rules in a way that works is understanding what the rules are in the first place.

Riquena Farmer

Why would someone do this to him? I don't understand why.

Karen Clay

Why would she take off? ... I don't understand that.

Vince Young

Just interview. I don't feel like I have to show a lot. I think they understand me, have been watching me for a long time.

Stephen Hawking

If you understand the universe, you control it, in a way.

Emma Stone

I was very lucky with the parents I was blessed with. I don't think it could have worked out any better. They've always been so understanding of me and understanding of what I want to do.