Famous Quotes & Sayings

Imelda May

In a way, I'm lucky that I was never classically trained and never went to a music college. I'm just from a normal working class family and happened to get obsessed with music as a teenager.

Ivar Giaever

While classical mechanics correctly predicts the behavior of large objects such as tennis balls, to predict the behavior of small objects such as electrons, we must use quantum mechanics.

Irving Harper

With a computer, there are too many choices, and I always liked working within limits. You know, if you look at Mozart, who had this strict classical framework - an allegro, an andante, a scherzo and a finale - you see that within that formula, he got results he might never have gotten if he had all the options in the world.

Ismail Kadare

For me as a writer, Albanian is simply an extraordinary means of expression - rich, malleable, adaptable. As I have said in my latest novel, 'Spiritus,' it has modalities that exist only in classical Greek, which puts one in touch with the mentality of antiquity.

Wynton Marsalis

Musicians like to converse. There's always interesting conversation with musicians - with classical musicians, with jazz musicians, musicians in general.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.

Richard Bellzon

The pen was his voice and the page his tears, when he was done; they called it a classic

Brittany Howard

It'll help you be imaginative if you listen to classical music. It helps you understand dynamics and how important they are to create an environment.

Barry O'Farrell

I don't favour ethics classes being an alternative to special religious education classes.

Carrie Fisher

Here's what I've learned: that someone can change the course of history with a box cutter.

Cheryl Strayed

I've learned so much as both a writer and a human.

Ed Belfour

I've learned not to be as maniacal as I used to be.

Colleen Haskell

I guess when somebody offers you a movie, you don't say no. That's what I've learned

Andy Rooney

I've learned... That it's those small daily happenings that make life so spectacular.

Andy Rooney

I've learned... That when you're in love, it shows.

Nick Offerman

I've learned through experience that to trouble celebrities with my handshake doesn't do anybody any good.

Nathan East

I've learned that, as much as you would like to, you can't trust everyone.

Katrina Bowden

I've learned to brush off many things.

Bethenny Frankel

I have failed so much, but I have learned so much more in life from my failures than my successes.

Dean Koontz

I have learned a great deal from novels. Some of it is even true.

Henry David Thoreau

I have learned that the swiftest traveller is he that goes afoot.

Gwen Stefani

I have learned to delegate.

Oliver Cromwell

I have learned that if you fear God, you have no one else to fear.

Emily Giffin

But I have learned that you can't just create your own timetable and will it to come true.

Terry Tempest Williams

As a writer, I have learned that each time I pick up my pencil I betray someone.

Henry A. Kissinger

I have learned, as I wrote, that history must be discovered, not declared. It's an admission that one grows in life.

Victoria Azarenka

I have learned how to better handle things as they come.