Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pierre Corneille

A service beyond all recompense - Weighs so heavy that it almost gives offense

John Milton

As good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye

Herman Kahn

As for total disarmament, there are almost 50,000 nuclear weapons in the world today; even if they were banned, not all would be destroyed.

Mullah Bakhtiyar

As for the self-determination for the Kurds, this issue did not enjoy the support of Sunnis or Shiites, and we almost gave up this demand,

Robert Gottlieb

As for the once-revolutionary 'Agon,' after more than half a century, its lessons and revelations have been so absorbed into the language of ballet that it now seems almost conventional.

Milton Babbitt

As for the future of electronic music, it seems quite obvious to me that its unique resources guarantee its use, because it has shifted the boundaries of music away from the limitations of the acoustical instrument, of the performer's coordinating capabilities, to the almost infinite limitations of the electronic instrument.

Mike Colter

As an actor, you're trying to capture the nuances of real life, but voice work is almost over-acting.

H. Hunt

As a stimulus proposal, it's a non-starter. The economic impact is very, very small -- almost imperceptible.

Charles Kennedy

As a Scot, representing a Scottish constituency for almost the past 25 years, I do not harbour an overweening ambition to pronounce on each and every matter exclusively English.

Derek Loomis

As far as designing for girls, certain designs will cross right over.

James Wolk

As an actor, you're tied to the writing. You live and die by what's written for you. And you can elevate that to a certain extent, but really, that's your blueprint.

Jamie Shea

As a result NATO is taking certain precautionary measures.

Pankaj Mishra

As an Indian, you feel easily connected with certain histories in places like Indonesia, where one sees, because of the presence of the Hindu-Buddhist past, Hindus still living there or Muslims performing rituals that are instantly familiar.

Joel Robuchon

As a chef, you need to respect your guests and their needs. If they decide that they want to eat certain things and not eat others, if for religious reasons or just decide they don't want to eat certain ingredients, you have to respect that.

Alfred Mutua

As a government, we could not stand and look at people starving. WFP was only covering a certain part of the population. We were forced to use our network to save the lives of our people. At the end of the day, people were saved.

Eleanor Catton

As an artist, you need to be not at all entitled in your relation with the work. So money is kind of worrying. You can start to expect things if you're used to a certain level of comfort.

Joan Lunden

As a journalist I reported on health stories and certainly knew what I needed to do to be more fit and lower my risk of heart disease, but I wasn't incorporating it into my life, ... The more I learned about eating healthy and staying fit, the better my life became.

Rasmus Lerdorf

As a large collection of male geeks, we don't really know how to encourage/attract these female creatures. We certainly are not doing anything consciously to discourage females from volunteering and helping out.

Stephanie McDonald

As far as day-to-day life, he's a very happy baby. He's not miserable. He loves music. Knowing that he's not in any pain and that he can express his feelings is wonderful. It relieves us a lot. All we want is for him to enjoy his life.

Adrian Gonzalez

As long as the kids can get to enjoy this, they can take it back to their school and tell their friends about it, and get their friends to do well so they can come back here next year.

John Beilein

Rather than those gut-wrenching last seconds, it was good to just get some of these guys out of there and let them enjoy the experience of playing in the NCAA Tournament.

Karen Smith

People come from week to week, they enjoy each other and start forming friendships.

Jerome Flynn

I've always enjoyed the physical side of acting.

Darren Criss

I've always enjoyed fashion and dressing up for things, whether it's high fashion or play fashion.

Tamra Duncan

I've always enjoyed cooking, and I have just loved giving people recipes that can warm up a home.

Wilma Askinas

A friend is someone who sees through you and still enjoys the view.

Bill Steiner

See? We didn't want you to stress and miss out on enjoying your weekend.

Jason Calacanis

Back in the '90s, folks were not sure if they could trust the Web, and frankly, a lot of the services back then didn't provide massive value.

Rick Mazer

A number of those folks have moved over here.

Tim Sam

South Medford is something else. For them to be up there in the Les Schwab with Lake Oswego and have folks see them and still come away with South ranked No. 1, that says something right there.

George Cox

Texas has a lot of good newspapers and it's always gratifying to receive recognition from this group. I'm very proud of our winners, as well as all the other newsroom folks who work hard every day to put out our newspaper.

Tom Galloway

I see so many older folks get up there on ladders and try to do it themselves. They should keep that ladder in their garage.

Pat Ivey

The workshop is not open to the public, but lots of folks from the public will be taking part.

Nicole Andrews

There will not be a situation where folks in Rhode Island are having to scramble to find a new place to live by March 1.

Larry Hall

We had a waiting list then and we hope to have another one soon. Even though we lost some folks over the years, that group remains our largest.

Kenneth Miller

Curiously, these folks don't do research, they do public relations and lobbying,

Michael Cohen

People responded to Sandy. At public hearings, which can be so contentious, people would listen to Sandy's presentation and stand up and cheer.

Chris Sullivan

I've been listening to them my whole life.

Denise Bishop

You're sitting here listening to everything we have to say, but there's nothing we can do about this.

Brett Ratner

Listening is harder than just acting. Listening is the hardest part.

George William Russell

It is true the orator may make a myriad replica of his own passion out of those who listen to him. But that does not prove he is right or they are not fools.

Carla Bley

Listening is more important than anything else because that's what music is. Somebody is playing something and you're receiving it. It is sending and receiving.

Alan Vega

Lately I've been listening to some classical music again, some jazz.

Austin Carlile

To me, music is emotion and if when you're listening to it and it doesn't make you feel that, then it's not music.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Within each individual young person you meet, you have the same fields to plough. The trick is just to wake them up, to sharpen their ears for what's already there in the music.

Jane Fonda

Real love and intimacy can be much more possible when you're older.

Winston Churchill

(Prime Minister Joseph) Chamberlain loves the working man - he loves to see him work

Nancy Young

People plan their vacation around it. Seniors come from all over the state. They love to see the students and talk to them.

Carl Jackson

People still love (the picture) today. People know me from that.

Karin Slaughter

People forget that writers start off being readers. We all love it when we find a terrific read, and we want to let people know about it.

Mike Tirico

... On TV, you can get a sense of this is some place you would love to go play.

Apolo Ohno

Oh, I can't wait. It's so beautiful, the people, the culture, and we all love the food. It's going to be spectacular.

Larry Hagman

Oh, he's such a miserable crud. I love him. I really do.

Tom Maurer

Oh, he's going to love that. I never wanted him to go out on the perimeter.

Ron Santo

I've always loved this stadium. I'm going to miss it.

Nathaniel Rateliff

I've always loved soul, R&B, doo-wop and blues, and I've wanted to make a record like that for years.

George Nichols

This is our way of putting him to rest and showing him how much we loved him. He wanted to retire here. He might be gone, but we'll still let him live here.

Jason Michaels

That showed a lot of people on this team something. Personally, I loved it.

Todd Turner

And you won't get him to do it. He is very respectful and has a lot of affinity; he loved his time there.

Saint Augustine

Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all.

Andie MacDowell

My mother and I used to watch 'Maude,' and I think she loved 'Maude' because my mother wanted to see strong women out there with a voice.

Mark Hines

We wanted to tell them that we loved them.

Paul Lambert

To me he was a romantic. He loved the night sky. . .

Struan Robertson

The BPI didn't want to sue its customers, but it will do to stop them stealing music.

Sandra Boynton

the sounds of the words are music in a way.

Alexander Hanson

'The Sound of Music' is set in 1938 in Austria at the time of the Anschluss.

Matt Jordan

The song was unreleased -- rejected. There should be a voice for music that doesn't get heard.

Sterling Knight

I've always had fun with music, but I prefer to listen to it rather than sing.

Max Schneider

I've always been a fan of just writing songs and making music.

Alex Ebert

I've always been around musicians and always been the songwriter who doesn't end up playing the music.

Shane Harper

I've actually been playing music ever since I was a young a kid. I got my first guitar when I was about 7 or 8 years old, so I've always been doing music.

Adam Krier

I've always done music, since I was 13. I really don't know what I'd be doing if I wasn't doing music.

Jane Austen

I was quiet but I was not blind.

Tommy Bond

We didn't talk about it. It was real quiet in the dugout.

Anne Rice

Then, are you master of us all? You didn't teach her that. Was she supposed to imbibe it from my quiet subservience?

Daniel Day-Lewis

I find it easier to work when it's quiet.

Ang Lee

If the movie is quiet I generally feel the audience is busy. That's when they're working.

Taylor Dane

Forget things and have a quiet moment.

Ray Comfort

George Harrison was known as the quiet Beatle. Quiet people are often quiet because they are deep thinkers.

Roger Federer

Once you find that peace, that place of peace and quiet, harmony and confidence, that's when you start playing your best.

Rumi

This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say. I don't plan it. When I'm outside the saying of it, I get very quiet and rarely speak at all.

James Wolpert

I want to learn - there's so much I have to learn about what it takes to be a recording artist, about what it takes to go on tour.

Nathan Sawaya

I see the world in rectangles. If I am talking to someone, I find myself analysing their face, working out how to recreate it in bricks.

Jonny Buckland

We can't wait to play our new songs live

Dan Hill

Songs sometimes are so connected to the sociology of the time.

Bob Blyer

I try to play a lot of songs that have 'love' in the title.

Liz Callaway

Time After Time/Dodsworth: New Songs from New Musicals.

Miranda Cosgrove

When I was 5, I started taking singing lessons, and then, after 'School of Rock,' I started taking guitar lessons. I would always write songs and play them for my friends, and I would play my guitar on the set a lot.

Billy Sherwood

I wrote songs with the guys from Air Supply for their record... So I was just writing songs.

Brett Ratner

I look for stuff that I'm passionate about.

Anthony Weiner

You've gotta stop making stuff up.

Art Spiegelman

There's a therapeutic aspect to all making, but the nature of working is to compress, condense, and shape stuff, not to just expunge it. It's not just an exorcism.

Benjamin Booker

Blind Willie Johnson is a pretty big vocal influence. He can be very harsh, like gargly, gruff vocals, but also just slip into some very delicate, vulnerable soft stuff. I like that combination.

Burton Rascoe

I am so constituted that I had rather read bad stuff than nothing.

Al Yankovic

As it turns out, there is a thing called the Internet, and stuff does go out there whether the suits like it or not.

Alain de Botton

We read the weird tales in newspapers to crowd out the even weirder stuff inside us.

Jamie Luner

I love playing the vamp, and I get sent out for a lot of that stuff, maybe because I do it well.

Conor McGregor

I don't know why anyone would want to do that politics stuff.