Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joe Henderson

I was joking but he took responded seriously: 'I would know, and I couldn't live with myself knowing that I'd only run 97 miles or whatever.'

John Fogerty

I wrote that song for my wife, and it's what some guy who's sitting under a tree would be singing to the woman of his life, telling her how wonderful she is. To me, that's more lasting than something that sounds like it belongs on a movie soundtrack.

Grandmaster Flash

We can come from our own particular point of view and lay it down. We should not be throwing verbal rocks at each other. We're all responsible to continue the growth of Hip Hop.

Solomon Burke

I walked out of the Chinese restaurant with a fat check, a record deal, and a box of shrimp egg foo yung!

Gavin DeGraw

I think it's important not to worry about that too much, because even if I was the next big thing, there would be another next big thing soon.

Otis Blackwell

I think the one that really happened was Fever with Little Willie John. But, it only went so far because Peggy Lee jumped on it.

Jerry Harrison

I think that the increased bandwith will make music and movie clips a lot more satisfying; but it won't sort out boring ideas or songs.

Adrian Belew

We expect to keep our writing sessions going until late spring, then to play some new material in a few secret club dates. The record will likely take a long time and may not surface until 1999!

Jimmy Chamberlin

What I see for the band by the end of this year is the Complex live at the Montreux Jazz Festival. I want my guys to be comfortable. I'm certainly not in this for the money, but I'd really like to see my guys make some money off of this stuff.

Len G. Murray

And on 25 January of each year and for many days before it and after it there is not an hour in the day or night when a Burns Supper is not taking place somewhere on this earth.

Len G. Murray

There are even more statues of Robert Burns than of any other figure in world literature. Indeed if we discount figures of religion, then only Christopher Columbus has more statues than he worldwide.

Ben Shapiro

Obama's entire foreign policy was predicated on the notion that by existing, he would bridge all gaps and bury all hatchets. Instead, the Muslim world burns his picture even as he tells them he respects their radicalism. It turns out that diversity is a one-way street for the devotees of global Islam.

Philipp Meyer

Your mind burns a lot of calories. Writing can feel like a physical workout.

Bruce Larner

Joe's a good player, but he's only a sophomore. His father used to teach at Okemos, so I had a feeling he'd have a big game for us.

Randy Price

He was a father figure to all of us.

John Cornyn

He did commiserate with me a little bit, ... I hope that he will be able to give the United States Supreme Court's ruling some coherence, because frankly they are way out of step with what the founding fathers intended.

Yiddish Proverb

Gold's father is dirt, yet it regards itself as noble

Todd Kolson

The people who are setting the foundation are the mothers and fathers. I think we are just giving students recognition for the good habits that parents are instilling in them. We can't wake up 900 students and make sure they always go to school. That's up to parents.

Dr. Denny

I will be the father of a 5-year-old once. I will work for 30 years.

Isaac Abraham

He was our father no one man can replace him.

Marcelo Balboa

He was like a second father to me,

Prince Frederik

He will be sleeping within an arm's length from his father and mother,

Paul Emsley

I have painted and drawn bulls for some time because of their density and all the symbolism they carry.

Philippe Starck

Everything I do is a symbol. Everything, has a meaning.

Edward Albee

I don't like symbolism that hits you over the head. A symbol should not be a cymbal.

Rene Magritte

People who look for symbolic meaning fail to grasp the inherent poetry and mystery of the images.

Jesse Jackson

If you wear a hoodie but aren't registered to vote, you got the symbolism but missed the substance.

Christopher Lasch

When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their own purposes.

George Edward Woodberry

I seldom deal in symbolisms; if there be hidden meanings in my verse, they are there without my knowledge.

Arthur Hardy

I think Mardi Gras is a symbol that we're down but not out.

Curtis Strange

I know he doesn't like the word 'ceremonial,'

Nikki Giovanni

Don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak.

Paramahansa Yogananda

No one appears on our stage unless the director has placed them there for our benefit

Charles Dickens

A word in earnest is as good as a speech.

Chris Cornell

The words you say never live up to the words in your head.

Louise Erdrich

It was enough just to sit there without words.

Joseph Seamon

O God, give me words to make my dream-children live.

Toba Beta

The word 'Atlantis' makes me think about two things, 'sophisticated' and 'corruption'.

Aristotle

... the science we are after is not about mathematicals either none of them, you see, is separable.