Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Clarke

Knowledge is the only instrument of production that is not subject to diminishing returns

Jerry Hunt

I taught myself to play the piano. I've always been able to play, the minute I could get my hands up. I've always wanted to play the piano. It's the only instrument I've ever really liked, and it's the only one that's ever interested me.

Mark Rechtin

He could pretty much pick up a musical instrument and play.

Paul Rosenthal

I thought, 'A serious instrument has to be made of wood, varnished, treated.'

Umberto Eco

The only truths that are useful are instruments to be thrown away.

Ike Turner

Piano's really my instrument ,and that's what they'll see when I get to Tokyo this time. They never saw me play the piano.

Reese Witherspoon

A lot of work. A lot of vocal coaching, a lot of instrument training.

Charles Petzold

All modern MIDI synthesizers are capable of polyphony, which means they can play more than one note at a time and more than one instrument at a time.

Steven Squyres

The Beagle 2 is excellent, ambitious. Ours are excellent, but we have different instrument packages and different aims. I don't see the material for the controversy.

Angus T. Jones

Jake from 'Two and a Half Men' means nothing. He is a non-existent character.

Janet Weiss

Just really be yourself, and if being yourself means you play two snare drums and nothing else, then play two snare drums and nothing else! Really figure out who you are and how you want your drums to feel because it's a very emotional instrument.

Craig Williams

I think it means a lot to the stable

Jerry Jeff Walker

'Gonzo' means taking an unknown thing to an unknown place for a known purpose. But sometimes we're lost in an unknown place for no known purpose.

Chris Higginbottom

Going to the state tournament means lot for our team, the school and the community. I think it's been six years since they've been, and to go in my first year here, there's just nothing sweeter.

Matthew Glotzbach

We're in the first inning of an extra-innings game. By no means are we at the point where search is perfect.

Ralph Norris

We've got to look at ways and means of being more competitive. We operate in a market.

Roy Oswalt

To get 20 is great, but to get to the playoffs means more.

Ed Howat

I think that number is staggering. It means a lot to have a rate that high.

Alan Cropsey

When he was in the United States Senate, he was noted as an intellectual powerhouse,

Richard Paul Evans

I have a penchant for fresh notebooks and mechanical pencils. It seems every time I go to the store, I buy a new notebook. I have dozens of them just sitting around.

Ronaldo

I don't want my fans to have the same disappointment as me when I was refused by some players to sign my notebook when I was young.

Truman Capote

At one time I used to keep notebooks with outlines for stories. But I found doing this somehow deadened the idea in my imagination. If the notion is good enough, if it truly belongs to you, then you can't forget it-it will haunt you till it's written.

Rick Riordan

I wondered if she'd ever written on her notebook: GEB + NUT = TRUE LOVE or MRS GEB.

Virginia Woolf

A very elementary exercise in psychology, not to be dignified by the name of psycho-analysis, showed me, on looking at my notebook, that the sketch of the angry professor had been made in anger. Anger had snatched my pencil while I dreamt. But what was anger doing there? Interest, confusion, amusement, boredom--all these emotions I could trace and name as they succeeded each other throughout the morning. Had anger, the black snake, been lurking among them? Yes, said the sketch, anger had.

Virginia Woolf

The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantelpiece forever.

Virginia Woolf

When I am grown up I shall carry a notebook—a fat book with many pages, methodically lettered. I shall enter my phrases.

Sarah Caldwell

That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions.

Emily Lyons

I was in the right place, just at the wrong time that day.

Dwyane Wade

I was in the right place at the right time to get the bucket.

Denny Green

J.J. is the starter. I said that a long time ago.

Ronny Jenkins

I take my vacation this time of year every year.

Leslie Cohen

I think it'll be time at the end of this year for them to go off and try something new, ... It'll be torture. It'll be torture.

Mary Lambert

I think I streaked one time when I was 16, which was scary.

Greg Martin

It can be time consuming. It took off a lot of pressure.

Iain Dowie

He did brilliantly for us in the time he was here,

Cynthia Johnson

He didn't get the time that we may feel he deserved, and he may not get it in this lifetime. But before it's all over with, he will get it.