Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yanni

I don't like to define my music. To me, music is pure emotion. It's language that can communicate certain emotions and the rhythms cuts across genders, cultures and nationalities. All you need to do is close your eyes and feel those emotions.

Imelda May

In 2008, I was in a London park when I came across a fledgling crow that had fallen from the top of an oak tree. A woman happened to be passing, and she said that she rescued animals, so she invited me back to her house. It turned out she was the wife of Jeff Beck. Jeff was there, and we ended up jamming together.

Ian Anderson

I've always felt that some of my best lyrics are less than three minutes long, and it's great when you can do that - be succinct and get the message across in a simple, clear idea.

Irving Stone

The biographical novel is a true and documented story of one human being's journey across the face of the years, transmuted from the raw material of life into the delight and purity of an authentic art form.

Isabella Bird

The situation of Leh is a grand one, the great Kailas range, with its glaciers and snowfields, rising just behind it to the north, its passes alone reaching an altitude of nearly 18,000 feet; while to the south, across a gravelly descent and the Indus Valley, rise great red ranges dominated by snow-peaks exceeding 21,000 feet in altitude.

Ismail Kadare

I first came across the script for 'Macbeth' between the ages of 11 and 12; it was the first book that shook my life. Because I did not yet understand that I could simply purchase it in a bookstore, I copied much of it by hand and took it home. My childhood imagination pushed me to feel like a co-author of the play.

Gale Harold

If anyone can crack the publicity nut and figure out how to not come across hammy and contrived, I'd love to talk to them.

George Allen

When I was elected Governor, we had an audacious agenda that naysayers said couldn't be enacted with a Democrat majority in the state legislature. However, we worked across party lines and enacted historic reforms. Working together, we cut taxes by more than $600 million.

Zoe Kazan

I love to walk around New York. Honestly, that's like the best thing, to walk over to Park Slope and go visit my friend Betty and take her dog out in the park or go walk across the Brooklyn Bridge. I really dig being outside and getting to see everybody in the street.

Imelda May

'Love Tattoo' I recorded without a record company. I'd gotten turned down by the record companies - they said they didn't get me, which is fine, I suppose.

Walt Mossberg

Whether you are a consumer, a hardware maker, a software developer or a provider of cool new services, it's hard to make a move in the American cellphone world without the permission of the companies that own the pipes.

Virginia Postrel

Viewers don't care how big media companies are. They care whether they can dump those they don't like, whether because of lousy service or because of crummy shows.

Elizabeth Warren

I want millionaires and billionaires and Big Oil companies to pay their fair share.

Patrick Holden

The pioneering companies that developed the market -- the successful ones -- are now making a lot of money. We are now seeing the second tier of companies that are currently marketing conventional foods realizing that they've got to get involved.

Stephen Levy

The overall trend is that companies can do very well, without it spilling over into job growth. I think 'modest' is the correct word.

Hal Stratton

The penalty process is just one piece of the process by which we keep families safe, ... The idea is not just to penalize, but to publicize those penalties to serve as a deterrent to those companies that might not meet safety standards or constitute substantial product hazards.

Roger McNamee

The PC industry is having a terrific year, particularly if you are one of the big four producers. Those companies are growing twice as fast as everyone else in the industry and gaining very rapidly.

Justin Welby

The pay of many of our top executives in big hundred companies in the U.K. is outrageous and even obscene.

Isamu Akasaki

Japanese is a very strange foreign language for European people.

Giles Foden

To realise belatedly that there are Swahili epic poems which rival their European equivalents for sweep and power has been exciting.

Zubin Mehta

If North American musicians would only know how uncomfortable life is for European musicians.

David Walton

Boston has a lot of European qualities to it, and one of them is the charm of its above-ground trollies.

Bernard Berenson

The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others.

Bertrand Russell

If we compare Europe with other continents, it is marked out as [another] persecuting continent.

Gordon Brown

The American and European positions have got to move. It is about making new proposals on agriculture.

Markos Kyprianou

We have already taken all steps necessary. Once it has touched European soil, then we have raised all the measures we should take,

Peter Kenyon

We have the Vodafone contract, we are back in Europe and we will make sure the mix is proper with success on the pitch.

Gary Parlin

(Barker) threw very poorly in practice on Tuesday.

Andy Robinson

We were awful, we started poorly and never got in the game. At no stage did we put any pressure on the French.

Ernie Els

For the average player, most three-putts happen because of a poorly judged first putt from long range.

Lloyd Church

I told the guys, this was an ugly win, but I've never seen a pretty loss, so we'll take it. We can play much better, but when you play poorly and still win, you've got to be pleased.

Raymond Loewy

Noise is a parasite. Anything noisy is poorly designed.

Douglas Wood

I would rather read a poorly structured story that has fresh ideas than a tightly structured one with cliches.

Jody Siegle

The students who were in those schools were very poorly served in the time that they were there.

Jerramy Stevens

If you start out poorly like that, the tension only mounts every game.