Famous Quotes & Sayings

Theophile Gautier

Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

Imelda May

I'm lucky to come from a very musical family. If you put a record on and turn the volume up, there's a pretty good chance you'll have a lot of people dancing very quickly.

Imelda May

Everybody told me that if I insisted on doing rockabilly music, I'd never have a chance of selling any records. In fact, I lost count of how many people told me to ditch it all together, in favour, I guess, of sounding like everybody else.

Ice T

When I first started out in music, I was so negative. I was knee-deep in the streets. Then my friends started going to jail. They said, 'Boy, you better start taking this seriously; you got a chance to do something with your life.' That's when I realised I had to focus. The music led to the acting.

Ice T

'New Jack City' was a perfect marriage of music and film. They used a lot of musicians: myself, Christopher Williams. People that were popular because of their music were given the chance to act. And the soundtrack was incredible.

Gillian Armstrong

You rarely, in the professional world, have the chance to express yourself as an individual.

Venus Williams

If the sun comes up, I have a chance.

Bill Gates

If you're low-income in the United States, you have a higher chance of going to jail than you do of getting a four-year degree. And that doesn't seem entirely fair.

Chino Moreno

A chance to work with the guys from Isis sounded like a lot of fun. I've always been into the atmospheric sounds they had created with that project and felt my sense of melody would meld well with theirs.

William Godwin

If a thing be really good, it can be shown to be such.

William Godwin

There is reverence that we owe to everything in human shape.

Richard Whately

Preach not because you have to say something, but because you have something to say.

Richard Whately

All men wish to have truth on their side; but few to be on the side of truth.

Richard Whately

In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed; we see the most indistinctly the objects which are close around us.

Ricky Gervais

Look, just tell me where that lemon came from and I'll shut up and go away.

Henry Chadwick

Most Americans think Abner Doubleday invented the game but he had little or nothing to do with cricket.

Henry Chadwick

The Nationals tried hard to recover the lost ground. The final result, however, was the success of the Forest Citys by a score of 29 to 23 in a nine innings game, twice interrupted by rain.

Margaret Cavendish

As for my brothers, of whom I had three, I know not how they were bred.

Yousuf Karsh

If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity.

Todd Rundgren

It's hard for me to say that what I'm doing isn't even really music, because deep inside of me, what I want to do is much greater than music.

Idina Menzel

I'm not great at multi-tasking, so when I do one thing... I like to do it 100%.

Idina Menzel

I don't think I ever really knew the right words to 'Hava Nagilah,' which isn't great for a Jewish singer.

Ian Frazier

I was friends with Russians who said I should see Russia. I went there in '93 and it was so exciting, and I went to Siberia and had a great time.

Ian Mckellen

Bolton School has a great tradition in the liberal arts.

Ismail Kadare

In antiquity, there were three regions in southern Europe: Greece, Rome, and Ilyria. Albanian is the only survivor of the Ilyrian languages. That is why it has always intrigued the great linguists of the past.

Gaines Adams

I want to be a great player. I don't want to play for the money. I don't want to play for fame. I'd just as soon no one knew who I was. I want to play football because it's football.

Gad Elmaleh

There were two things I used to do to seduce girls: jokes and music. Since I'm not a great pianist, jokes were my thing.

Randy Foye

He?s driving. I?m sleeping on the way back.

Dave Adams

He had been sleeping the whole time and was totally disoriented,

Ted Purdy

Sleeping on a lead? I'll let you know tomorrow.

Keith LeGree

The sleeping disorder, that didn't even come up in trial. I had said something about it, but it had nothing to do with the trial.

Carolyn Clark

It's better than sleeping with the mosquitoes and the bugs. I'll take anything to get there.

Joe Torre

I don't know if he was sleeping or not, ... because he never budged.

Steven Lima

What we're doing in sleeping is a very old evolutionary phenomenon.

Scott Chandler

You can't really worry about it. It's nothing that's going to keep me from sleeping at night.

William Williams

My surface is myself.Under whichto witness, youth isburied. Roots?Everybody has roots.

Sean Badding

We're just scratching the surface in Turin. The television will become more obsolete.

Hal Joseph

We are just scratching the surface right now.

Tom Kleckner

There's three types of mines, and what we have in Texas is surface mining.

David Lynch

Surface cures are not going to get rid of the torment that's inside.

Gary Hume

The surface is all you get of me.

Ivan Pavlov

While you are experimenting, do not remain content with the surface of things.

Bill Cowher

It may have been more that we're working out on a different surface than what we usually work on in Pittsburgh.

Nikki Sixx

If you actually dissect the lyrics in 'Motley Crue', you'll notice that there's a lot going on beneath the surface.

Carrie Fisher

Waiting, done at really high speeds, will frequently look like something else.

Carrie Underwood

I would love to see more women making their mark in the music that I love so much ... There are so many more out there just waiting for their shot. I hope they get it!

Carl Safina

But one doesn't wait for a revolution. One becomes it.

Bill Bryson

Energy is liberated matter, matter is energy waiting to happen.

Bill Bryson

In the countryside, litter doesn't have a friend. It doesn't have anybody who's saying, 'Wait a minute, this is really starting to get out of control.'

Bethenny Frankel

You choose happiness. You don't wait for it to choose you.

Bill Burr

I don't mind it. I just space it out. Every other week I go out. I used to get some time to myself but I've been pretty busy lately. But I've had it the other way, where I'm staring at the phone waiting for it to ring, so this is definitely better.

Bill Hicks

The role of the comedian is to say 'Wait a minute' when a consensus starts to form.

Ken Henderson

We have been waiting all year to put it all together.