Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brent Plater

Green sturgeon are on the brink of extinction, and we have a moral obligation to ensure that this ancient creature survives for future generations to enjoy.

Shari Arison

For most of my life, I have received messages - images and worded communications, sometimes even in an ancient language - that came to me from above.

Edward Hirsch

I think ancient cultures incorporated death into the experience of life in a more natural way than we have done. In our obsessive focus on youth, on celebrity, our denial of death makes it harder for people who are grieving to find a place for that grief.

Margaret O'Brien

I was always fascinated, even as a child, by antiques and ancient times. I always felt I should have been born in the 17th or 18th century. They really had a big stone castle with authentic furniture.

Robert Owens

We may look through ancient and modern history, yet scarce find a sovereign to whom God offered the privilege of bestowing on humanity a boon so vast.

Jack Gleeson

I'd like to be an academic, a philosophy lecturer if possible. I'd do a Masters in Ancient Hebrew maybe, and a Ph.D. hopefully, if I get in.

Anne Dudley

I'm very interested in the color of sound. And I'm very interested in the juxtaposition of different things, ethnic instruments juxtaposed with symphonic instruments, and I'm interested in the ancient and the modern. I don't know why, but it has always been something that's fascinated me, from when I first heard a symphony orchestra I wanted to know how those sounds were made.

Bill Bryson

Incidentally, disturbance from cosmic background radiation is something we have all experienced. Tune your television to any channel it doesn't receive, and about 1 percent of the dancing static you see is accounted for by this ancient remnant of the Big Bang. The next time you complain that there is nothing on, remember that you can always watch the birth of the universe.

John Burnside

In many traditions, hawks are sacred: Apollo's messengers for the Greeks, sun symbols for the ancient Egyptians and, in the case of the Lakota Sioux, embodiments of clear vision, speed and single-minded dedication.

Marcus Giles

Just looks like he's wearing the wrong color blue.

Serena Kim

Italians at the end of the day are Europeans. This Cuban guy is a person of color and a political refugee.

Andy Klatt

He is the only quarterback I have ever seen that actually looks for the other color helmet, and then tries to hit it. He hunts for tacklers, and wants to punish them for trying to tackle him.

David Bryant

Here we are in 2005, and a lot of the stuff is still going on today. People are still judging each other on how much money they have or their race, ... It's not about the color of skin but about people respecting one another for just being people.

Gerald Smith

It confirmed everything I had read about the colored fair in terms of the size of the crowd. For me, it just made it real. It is one thing to hear about it and read about it, but when you see it, it makes all the difference.

Louis Amundson

I thought we showed a lot of poise as a team. We stayed together when Colorado State made their run at us. The guys hung in there and it's a great win for us.

Sarah Price

I thought by now people would realize people just want to be people. I think there needs to be a time-out for the whole color thing.

Holger Schmieding

Whatever the color of Germany's new government will ultimately be, the pace of structural reforms is likely to be slow.

Steve Gunderson

It is not like the sky is falling. The presence of mercury in Colorado lakes is kind of spotty and it is fairly complicated because there is no pattern.

Richard Lugar

The larger hope of reaching a political settlement between all the major ethnic groups has not been realized.

Kim Kardashian

They say I look like a different ethnicity, and nobody's been recognizing me.

Freida Pinto

I find it very interesting these days that films are bringing in so many people of different ethnicities, and I'm proud to be a part of that cultural shift.

Kathleen Mullan

The disparities vary so much. It isn't one race or ethnic group that's always worse off.

Norman Finkelstein

I don't think it's a good thing to have Christian states, Muslim states, or any kind of ethnic states.

David Mitchell

As long as our civilisation keeps trundling along generally forwards, then there is the possibility of a future where ethnicity is merely an interesting badge, not a uniform you can't take off.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

After Zorro, people spoke Spanish to me for ages. I'm Welsh but that movie instantly gave me a new ethnicity.

Joe Lhota

I've been marching in every single ethnic nationality parade all throughout the City of New York. We're all Americans first and foremost, but people understand their heritage and it's good to see.

Archie Panjabi

Sometimes my ethnicity is relevant, other times not. I definitely get the best of both worlds.

Kit Harington

We are fascinated with our own history, and we are fascinated with the Romans because they were millennia ago, and yet they still capture our imagination because they were actually so similar to us. They were very civilized. They had a very similar political system.

Dan Hawkins

I was always fascinated by toys, and I just never outgrew it,

Greg Nichols

He was just so fascinated by everything about golf he'd do whatever you wanted him to do.

Gary Hume

I'm more and more fascinated in my own work. I work from 10 A.M. until about 9 P.M., but it's not an obsession, it's a pleasure. There's never enough time.

Jen Kirkman

If I write a joke, sometimes people will call it a 'lie,' and I'm fascinated with that.

Nastassja Kinski

I'm fascinated by older people, but I need young people.

Peter Capaldi

I'm fascinated by fire. When I was four, I wore an American fireman's hat all the time, and I still have one in my office today. Glasgow used to be called 'Tinderbox City;' there were always fires, people getting killed.

Errol Morris

A lot of stories that have fascinated me are tabloid stories that have come from other newspapers, like 'The New York Times.'

Norman Mailer

There was no one ever in American life who was remotely like Truman Capote. Small wonder, then, if people are still fascinated by him.

Dorothy Smith

I was in on the meeting with the developers. I heard their presentation, and I liked what they said.

Greg Beratlis

I would've liked to have heard something out of his mouth. Yes, anything. A plea for his life or just his opinion on what went on over the last two years,

Mark Mandel

John is never at a loss for words. But when he heard the news, he was speechless.

Billy Donovan

I think in this tournament, they've been able to inspire a lot of different people, people that maybe are really, really in need. I heard Jim talk about some stories of some people and the letters he's gotten. To me, that's what his team has been all about.

George Thorogood

I take it that some of you people have heard this song before.

Felicity Huffman

I actually haven't heard the phrase 'overnight success,' but I know that most of the world doesn't know who I am.

Oprah Winfrey

I also heard I was helping you find a house because I wanted you near me.

John Thompson

He didn't say, 'I'm going to kick down this wall. I've heard him talk about it, and he was honest about what he did. He said, 'I'm going to win this championship, and this is what I've got to play with.' He wasn't even thinking about anything else, but they never listened to him. So he's not the one perpetuating the lie. We all are. It's crazy.

Crystal Merillat

He knew that was me talking if he heard that.

John Kessel

Kafka is not interested in documenting the manners and mores of any particular place; he is not interested in probing the psyche of individual characters.

Lisa Presley

Having kids was the smartest thing I've ever done. They're little sponges who come into the world with a clean, shiny slate and such pureness. I'm interested in having more kids.

Ron Hilliard

He should have a big year. He's been rated by Dennis McCarty as one of the top linemen in the state. Michigan State, Penn State and Rutgers are very interested in Dan.

Robert Baker

I thought we were interested in saving time.

Eddie Campbell

I thought about this, I thought these people are ringing me about horror. I don't think I like horror, I don't think I'm interested in horror.

Rand Paul

I think young people of all races are interested in justice; maybe not so much taxes and regulations, but they're interested in justice and the right to privacy on the Internet.

Dan Quayle

I think the American people want to have substance and not glitz. They're not interested in slick slogans, ... Meet The Press.

Sean McGowan

The people who are obviously most interested in it obviously went out and did it already. He doesn't even talk about it.

Dan Hicks

I was always looking to record, but how much I actually pursued it was another thing. The major labels weren't that interested in me, and the smaller labels didn't have any money to do anything.

Rudy Vallee

I hope always to be busy, even if only directing an orchestra in the pit. However, I should prefer to produce movies or be the directing head of a radio corporation.

Marco Beltrami

I had come from an orchestral background, but I didn't really have any orchestral pieces for film.

Kevin Brownlow

I thought Michael Mortilla was an orchestra unto himself!

Joey Fatone

If you combine good flavors, food turns into an orchestra.

Leonard Slatkin

The role of an orchestra in the 21st century isn't just playing, it's about developing future audiences and performers.

Placido Domingo

When facing symphonic orchestras which have played some works five thousands times, you have nothing to do.

James Levine

There is no relationship between the gestures and what an orchestra will do.

James Levine

Its just that, when the orchestra look at me, I want them to see a completely involved person who reflects what we rehearsed, and whose function is to make it possible for them to do it.

James Levine

It's just that, when the orchestra look at me, I want them to see a completely involved person who reflects what we rehearsed, and whose function is to make it possible for them to do it.

Ben Howland

He didn't want to go. Sounds just like coach.

Martin Freeman

I think acting is all about the other people. Sounds like a worthy thing to say, but it's true.

Robert Blake

I'd like to say that I said that because it sounds lovely. But I have no recollection that I said that.

Cindy Davidsmeyer

I did talk to him (after the angioplasty) and he sounds wonderful.

Stephen Rea

I never watch TV. I know I'm missing so much, aren't I? I'm probably not. I can't stand popular TV. I've got too much to do to watch it. I know that sounds pretentious and pompous, but there you are.

Susan Howatch

If you are a Christian, you want to give as much as you can away. It sounds pious, but it's not a duty; it's a kind of joy.

Ed Schafer

I know it sounds crazy. But it works in the lab.

Fred Taylor

I know it probably sounds like we won a championship or something, but I feel good.

Alex Winston

I like real instruments, and try to stay from anything that sounds too synthetic.

James Gray

Actors want to work with you but they want you to do their thing. Actors, whom I love with a blind partiality, sometimes they want to be soloists in the symphony, not a part of the orchestra.

Ludwig van Beethoven

From the glow of enthusiasm I let the melody escape. I pursue it. Breathless I catch up with it. It flies again, it disappears, it plunges into a chaos of diverse emotions. I catch it again, I seize it, I embrace it with delight... I multiply it by modulations, and at last I triumph in the first theme. There is the whole symphony.

Paulo Coelho

Each day for me is a musical note that I use to compose the symphony of my life.

Georg Solti

The joy of working with the Chicago Symphony was immeasureable.

Johannes Brahms

A symphony is no joke.

C. S. Lewis

Perhaps the experience had been so complete that repetition would be vulgarity - like asking to hear the same symphony twice in a day.

Charles Sanders Peirce

And what, then, is belief? It is the demi-cadence which closes a musical phrase in the symphony of our intellectual life.

Charles Mingus

I'm too busy playing. When I'm playing I don't pay attention to who's listening. When I was listening I listened to symphony orchestras, Beethoven, Bach, Brahms, Stravinsky. You don't listen to one instrument; you listen to music.

Deepak Chopra

Our biological rhythms are the symphony of the cosmos.