Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yael Naim

I like finding that common point between another song and my music. It's like between people; you can be of religion or another, from this country or from another country, but we're all basically the same. It's just the same with songs.

Glenn Tipton

It'll be basically a live album, but it will also include songs, Judas Priest songs, the audience have never heard before, because we felt we wanted to give the kids something else, something they haven't already bought.

Ze Frank

The naked mole is, like, the ugliest freakin' creature in the world. It is so radically, unbelievably disgusting. And the star-nosed mole is also. It looks like it snorted a firecracker. They live way underground, and to get footage of them is basically impossible.

Zac Efron

I think the only real knowledge I had before I went to Iowa was what I learned from 'Food Inc'. But once I got there and developed these extensive relationships with the farmers, I realized that we're basically made of corn.

Will Yun Lee

My father was one of the first Tae Kwon Do Masters to come to the states in the '60s. He had one of the first all-African-American fighting teams, and I was basically raised in a karate studio since I was 3. It's part of my blood, competing, and all that stuff was responsible for a lot of me just growing up.

Warren Stephens

It's difficult to make your clients understand that there are certain days that the market will go up or down 2%, and it's basically driven by algorithms talking to algorithms. There's no real rhyme or reason for that. So it's difficult. We just try to preach long-term investing and staying the course.

Vivek Wadhwa

You have to live in Silicon Valley and hear the horror stories. You go and hang out at the cafes, and you meet entrepreneur after entrepreneur who's struggling, basically - who's had a visa problem who wants to start a company, but they can't start companies.

Ben Affleck

I have a lot of influences. I like to sit down with the cinematographer a month before, and we'll watch pieces of 20 or 30 movies. You're basically the sum of all the experiences you've ever had, and they're sort of shaken up in you and reproduced in the things you create, and that includes seeing movies.

Scott Olson

The only real configuration work is basically just deciding what policies you want to enforce in your network and configuring our device to help you do that.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

I don't want people to go to a film of mine because they feel guilty, like, 'I have to support it because there's black folks in there.' I want them to go because it's a good movie.

Chuck Palahniuk

The folks who read my books are so passionate about each one of them that the people making my movies are more afraid of my readership than they are of me.

Paul Johnston

We have a mandate to return the hurricane protection system to pre-Katrina levels by June 1. The folks out there are really working like crazy. We've got folks pounding steel 24 hours a day.

Mark Zuckerberg

We pay attention to every demographic in every country, so we're going to focus on building things that teens are going to like, and we're also going to focus on building things that other folks are going to like.

Patty Loveless

When I listen to my own records, I always think, 'Oh, I could have sung that so much better.' But you have to finish something and turn it in. If I didn't have folks who say, 'Come on, we need the record now,' I probably would never finish one.

Robert Bennett

Most of the information we're getting is self-reported. If it turns out these self-reported statements are accurate, the folks won't feel much in the way of Y2K.

Ray Lovell

Most folks will stay with their relatives or friends when these things happen.

Jim Nicholson

Most folks in Skaneateles don't get to stay for free in multimillion-dollar vacation estates; don't get to travel free on planes paid for by the taxpayers,

Abraham Lincoln

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be

Yotam Ottolenghi

You can really taste the difference between a shop-bought and a good homemade mayo.

Yanni

The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.

Yanis Varoufakis

I was told once by a leftwing scholar that as a Marxist, you have to do two things: always be optimistic and always have a view about everything. That advice still sounds good to me.

Thierry Henry

I've always loved New York; I've been visiting New York since 1996. People don't look at you like, 'What are you doing? What are you wearing?' There is also that thing that when people know that you have worked hard to get something, people have that respect for that here. You worked hard - good for you.

Iggy Azalea

I feel like 'Work' was a really good song for people to get to know me, as it's obviously biographical. With 'Bounce,' I wanted to make sure people know there's a fun side to me as well as the somber and serious one.

Ice T

I'm in a very good place to make records. Needing to make money off music is very dangerous.

Idina Menzel

I used to be someone that needed nine hours of sleep; otherwise, I didn't think I was going to sound good when I sang, and I was very disciplined and anal about my preparation. When you become a parent, there just isn't that time, you know?

Idina Menzel

I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, Motown, pop - and that inspired what kind of music I started to write.

Ivar Giaever

Understanding truth is the primary objective of science, not doing good for the world.

Malik Rose

We pushed it and got up the floor. Now we just have to get into something.

Albert Young

When you saw us getting pushed back over things that were non-existent ... come on. I don't know what to say about that.

Ted Ligety

My parents never pushed me to ski race. It was my choice and something I really wanted to do. I would have rebelled if they had pushed me, and I wouldn't have had the same passion.

Ricky Ford

Sri Lanka pushed us all the way. We've been tested and bounced back stronger every time.

Gordon Richards

But that's not to say they're not here - they just got pushed over the sides,

Jake Eakin

I got up to try to stop him, and he just pushed me.

Stansfield Turner

I think he's being pushed out or made a scapegoat,

Andre Patterson

I'm not getting pushed around as much, and I still have the quickness I've always had.

Chris Bostic

That pushed me to go in -- do something for my country.

Wislawa Szymborska

You have to remember all the time that there is a comical side to everything.

Carl Sagan

Even through your hardest days, remember we are all made of stardust.

Bill Vaughan

These are days you'll remember. If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony, remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.

Tilda Swinton

till I was about 17. I can't remember why I stopped. I've tried (to suck my thumb) since, but it doesn't work anymore.

Eric Osmundson

I thought oh, not again. I remember my first year here was a similar situation.

Christian Moody

Julian just went up, and I can't remember who he dunked on, but who he dunked on will remember it.

Beck

I remember you would record a guitar part, and we would have to sit there for 15 or 20 minutes waiting for the computer to process it. You'd see the little wheel spinning on the computer, and you'd be praying that the hard drive didn't crash and you didn't lose the performance.

Juanita Johnson

I was thinking, 'Well, this is easy.' Three-fourths into it, I remember sweating. I hadn't sweated in a long time.

Larry Anderson

I was here for Camille and I'm leaving. I was here and I remember it well. I don't want to be here for another one.

Tom Gregory

They really are the ruby slippers of our time.