Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lester Holt

Journalism is my first love. But music comes in a close second. What's important for me is that whatever you do, whatever your passion is, you should have another passion - something in your life. And when I put on that musician hat and I put the bass in my hands, I'm not Lester Holt the TV guy anymore. I'm just Lester Holt who likes music.

Bobby Bayliss

Then we played Fresno State and had a close 4-2 with them. Stephen Bass deserves a great deal of credit for that match.

Giorgio Moroder

'Take My Breath Away' had that interesting bass line, which I hear quite often. It had that terrible change of key, which Terri Nunn hated, but I loved.

John Entwistle

With bass, especially bottom end, the vibration has to happen on stage otherwise the feel is wrong. This is why you can't scale the equipment down too far.

Chris Squire

The flukey part of it is, back in the early days, I had that guitar decorated with all kinds of crap wallpaper, 'Flower Power' - then that got all shaved off. And during the course of cleaning the bass up again, some of the wood got shaved down, and it probably became a lighter body than the stock factory model.

Larry Aggus

What happens when the water gets down to the low 40 s is the bass suspend off the points and in the standing trees. That's been the pattern for years.

Jeff Ross

We are trying to make it a trophy bass lake ... a place you can go and catch the fish of a lifetime.

Dave Holland

I started playing with a group of young people when I was 13. I turned professional when I was 15 and I played dance halls, this on bass guitar.

Harmony Korine

I never liked socially conscious rap. I like rap that's physical, that's about a beat and bass and repetition.

Keke Palmer

I don't wish for anything. Wishing for a million dollars feels greedy. I just wish for the best for me.

Katherine Paterson

The best thing about being a writer is it gives you readers who understand your deepest feelings and fears.

Mike Gansey

Kevin is one of the best all-around players in the conference. He's obviously one of the best shooters and his inside play has improved this season. Kevin is a big part of our team.

Peter Laviolette

I would think that we're going to take the best players available.

Pat Brisson

Jack thought long and hard about it. It was very flattering for him that Carolina was so interested but Jack just feels his development is best served by staying another year at school. It was a tough decision but Jack feels good about it.

Chris DiMarco

Jack's the best, the best of all time, and to make that putt for him is what it's all about, ... We wanted to get a win for him so much. Last night, we had a great, emotional dinner. Everybody got up and talked, and I think everybody said they wanted to go out and win this for Jack. And to do that is unbelievable.

John Bogle

Jack Brennan is the best person I could possibly have found,

Ed Oakley

I would say it's in his best interest, at this stage of the game.

DeMario Williams

I would say this was my best game. I've had better games playing 'D' than I did tonight. This was one of my best shooting games. But as a team I don't think we played defense as hard as we should have.

Emily Watson

I had to learn to play the cello to concert standard.

Michael Christie

In celebrating Shostakovich, it's difficult to decide which works not to do. I've decided on two concertos ? the one for cello that Giora conducts and the First Piano Concerto.

Alexandre Bouzlov

Oh, the cello comes in different sizes. I started with a smaller cello. But once I started playing, my teacher noticed that I had the hands for it. I also loved it. I couldn't stop playing.

Beverly Cleary

I particularly enjoy cello music because our daughter plays the cello. I have listened to her practice for so many hours that I am familiar with the music written for that instrument. I am also fond of the popular music of the 1930s because my future husband and I danced to it so many Saturday nights when we were in college.

Joshua Roman

I used to practice cello while watching TV and films. I watched several complete TV series this way, including 'Lost' and 'The Wire.' As a kid, I'd read books while playing.

Steve Stone

She was some sort of queen of something. I don't know. She probably won a lot of contests. I remember she played the cello particularly well.

Todd Stephenson

I think this has to be the first time in the history of spring training a cello has been hit.

Dev Hynes

Cello is my first instrument, then piano, drums, bass, violin, recorder, saxophone, but I'd never play them live!

Luka Sulic

We wanted to make a powerful cello sound in order to show to the world the possibilities of the cello and to use it in a different way than the classical way they are used to. We wanted to play something exciting, something crazy, something to draw younger generations to this great instrument.

Carl Pohlad

Kirby's too good a guy to have something like this (stroke) happen.

Kevin Towers

Khalil is an exciting, popular player. We think he's going to have a real good year, offensively and defensively.

Herb Cytyrn

Jake is a very good skier and I wouldn't be surprised if he made it to sectionals.

Bill Walsh

I would say that we made a lot of good trades, but that may have been the best.

Alan Greenspan

Keeping out competitively priced goods would materially lower our standard of living.

Tim Kohs

Kayla can guard any kid in the state and make them miserable. In the past, I've always had one or two kids who raised the level of the team by their intensity at practice and their commitment. McCarthy and Finn are as good as any kids I've had like that.

Ken Auletta

Journalists prize independence, not teamwork. Journalists understand waste is inherent to good journalism ... that good reporting and writing is hard to quantify.

Bobby Cox

John is not 100 percent. But if he's 95 percent, that's good enough.

Hector Garcia

John has pretty good quickness for a big guy,

David Cash

I wouldn't say it's pressure. We played our way into this position we can play our way out of it.

Stephen Jackson

He was aggressive. He didn't let the referees get in his head, he just played well. He's getting a feel for the game.

Jerry Slocum

He just played tremendously tonight. I'm proud of the way they all battled back tonight.

Shaquille O'Neal

I've always been a leader. Every team I've played on, I've led my way.

Jeff Beeman

He's a really smooth player. I wish he played for me.

Jerry Sloan

I thought we played with a lot more purpose tonight than we did the other night.

Luke Poore

I thought we played well. They just wore us down.

Jim Ferraro

I think you?re going to see us (in the tournament). We have a lot of young girls, but they have played well together.

Derek Robey

I was disappointed yesterday with the way we played in the third quarter. We reminded them of that and told them they had to come out more determined.

Joshua Bell

What drew me to the violin was mastering the instrument technically, which I'm continuing to do.

Tommy Cooper

I inherited a painting and a violin which turned out to be a Rembrandt and a Stradivarius. Unfortunately, Rembrandt made lousy violins and Stradivarius was a terrible painter.