Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tex Hall

We have to get down to the brass tacks. If this is going to move, we, as tribal leaders, have got to put a (settlement) figure in this bill. Right now, it's blank. We can't leave it blank.

George Duke

They had too many classical piano players. I didn't have their chops. I couldn't keep up with them. But they also had a brass scholarship for trombone and they didn't have any trombone players. So I knew I could get that one!

Charlize Theron

This case was only settled seven years ago, and you go, 'How dare you sit back as a young female and think the feminist movement happened in the '60s, some bras were burned and now everything is fine'?

Bible Bible

For brass I will bring gold, and for iron I will bring silver, and for wood brass, and for stones iron: I will also make thy officers peace, and thine exactors righteousness.

Trombone Shorty

When I was a kid, my friends and I formed a band, Trombone Shorty's Brass Band. When I was six, I was a bandleader for my brother's band.

Tuppence Middleton

I was very, very shy in public and school, and quite loud and brash at home.

Robert Gordon

The brass in this instrument has been in use for nearly 500 years. Modern products often serve our needs for a few years or months before discard, jeopardizing the sustainable use of scarce metal resources.

Steve Kernkraut

Any business they do on the Internet is going to be very profitable for them. They have the infrastructure. They don't have to create it. And additionally, the profit margins on their bras and underwear and lingerie are spectacular, while the other e-commerce companies have very narrow margins.

Mark White

The synth allows me to breathe with woodwind and brass players and opens up phrasing possibilities not possible with standard guitar.

Shane Pendley

When you've been burned your always going to have your hand on the pull cord...the right one makes you forget you have the parachute on.

John Glover

The most devastating thing was the level of tragedy, with the land and burned up livestock. The fire front at one point was 31 miles wide.

Chris Hope

It's just us. It's how we play and how we want to play. He had burned us in the first game, and we weren't going to let it happen again. We just feel if we do things smartly and unpredictably, it's really hard to stop us consistently.

David Mann

A lot of people felt very burned by that, and it probably underlies a lot of what's going on now. But ... somehow, someway, they've got to get together.

Jonathan Eunice

A lot of energy was being diffused and burned up in the process.

Alan Simpson

They're talking about things that, if I had talked about, they would have burned my humble butt.

David Carter

For a generation of consumers who have known Nike for being nothing less than their brand, it's their generation's Coca-Cola, burned into their consciousness, burned into an entire generation. The same can't be said for Adidas.

Terry Moore

There was this pool of money sitting in the retirement funds, that was not part of the (state treasury). A couple of legislatures burned up that surplus. We came back to ground zero and then we got into the loss years.

David Strathairn

I tried all different kinds of tobacco to see which would be the least crippling and I ended up with pipe tobacco, ... I found that that burned less harshly. It also smelled better.

Frank Rogers

We want to send a clear message that we will not tolerate people threatening or intimidating victims or witnesses in any case we work.

David Icke

There are many things that we can understand, but in the end it is a case of 'anything is possible'.

Freddie Shepherd

We always intended to take our time over the appointment of a full-time manager and that is still the case as we consider our options very carefully.

Mike Foley

We also think they're trying to take the other parks and slice off pieces of them too. This is sort of a test case to see if they can get away with it.

Louis Stokes

There are, in the King case in particular, some names of confidential informants, persons to whom we promised confidentiality in return for their testimony. We have put their testimony in the public domain, but feel that their names should continue to be anonymous.

Guenael Rodier

We are pretty confident that unfortunately it (the girl's) is a human case of H5N1.

Guenael Rodier

We are pretty confident that unfortunately it is a human case of H5N1.

Joe Gibbs

We've all kind of been in a similar situation. In my case it was a racquetball tournament,

Grant Hedgepeth

We've actually run into one case that was well over $100,000 in damage and it's still a misdemeanor. That's bad.

Tim Curley

It's just a terrible tragedy and our hearts go out to the Dare family.

Charles Darwin

A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life

Mark Rydbom

They've become my surrogate sons. They're real good kids and you hate to see it end like this. But when you dare to dream big, you set yourself up for something like this. They'll rebound from this and you haven't heard the last from them.

Phil Collins

If a musician dares to get out of the box he's been put in, people get confused. They want people where they can find them! I am fortunate in some respects as I've always been known as someone who 'moves around' and tries different things. But generally, we are supposed to stay where we're put.

Deborah White

People dare not price in the surpluses they see.

Marshall Wittmann

This is radioactive. This is the issue that dare not speak its name.

Jim Lewis

That's his job, and don't you dare take that away from him,

John Updike

I know more about what it's like to be elderly and infirm and kind of stupid, the way you get forgetful, but on the other hand I'm a littler, wiser, dare we say? The word 'wisdom' has kind of faded out of our vocabulary, but yeah, I'm a little wiser.

Alain Delon

In love, we have to dare everything if we really love.

Carol Vorderman

How you look has become ridiculously disproportionate to what you do. Critics are more harsh on female presenters.

Elaine Donnelly

We have never seen so many female soldiers. They are mothers. Some of them are single mothers ? great numbers of them. And we are sending them to fight our wars in a way that is unprecedented, not just in American history, but in history around the world.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The female of the genus homo is economically dependent on the male. He is her food supply.

Alexa Von Tobel

When I was planning LearnVest, everyone told me I had to talk to Ann Kaplan, one of the first female partners at Goldman Sachs. Within five minutes of our meeting, she totally got the idea - and by the time I left, she was a seed investor.

Tyga

There's not a lot of pretty, young female artists that's out. It's a lot of talent out there, but they don't know how to go about it. I feel like there should be way more sexier women in hip-hop and R&B then it is - more originality.

Camille Paglia

There are no female geniuses because there are no female Jack-the-Rippers.

Camille Paglia

Male conspiracy cannot explain all female failures. I am convinced that, even without restrictions, there still would have been no female Pascal, Milton, or Kant. Genius is not checked by social obstacles: it will overcome.

Carl Jung

Hitler's unconscious seems to be female.

Diego Rivera

Through her paintings, she breaks all the taboos of the woman's body and of female sexuality.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I’m very feminist in the way I look at the world, and that worldview must somehow be part of my work.

Audre Lorde

I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.

Louis C. K.

Stereotypically speaking feminists can't take a joke. ::audience boo:: See?

Carl Andre

I'm a feminist. I've always been in favor of women.

Agnes Varda

Society is so slow. A feminist is a bore.

Lina Wertmuller

For years, the feminists thought of me as an army sergeant. I was too macho for them.

Camille Paglia

Whiffle [whine and wheeze and snuff and sniffle]: The annoying scratchy sound made by weepy feminists as they lament the sufferings of women and, houndlike, sniff out evidence of male oppression.

Caitlin Moran

Let's all go and be feminists in the pub.

Caitlin Moran

Women are feminist by default.

Zell Miller

What has happened to the party I've spent my life working in?

Robert Gottlieb

Writing happened to me. I didn't decide to start writing or to be a writer. I never wanted to be a writer.

Frank Beamer

We'll see what took place and I'll talk with everyone about what happened before I make any more statements.

Diana Henderson

We are getting real weather. That has not happened for a while.

Nancy Donovan

Unfortunately, I think what's happened is, there's been so much underground work done to prepare the surface that you don't see a lot of that from the roadway.

Bill Tierney

We knew what happened last year. We lost to this team 17-4. We knew how they could score, and we knew we had to not let that happen to have a chance.

Robert Lanza

It's just a real shame that this has happened to him.

Hans Eichel

It's a shame it happened like this, but we have to respect it.

Hal Brown

A lot of them you don't get to know because it happened so long ago, ... We're so lucky to be able to honor (the past presidents), to meet them. Because of their leadership is why we're here today.

Frank Newport

There are debates, there are ads, and all that stuff so you're going to have movements up and down.

Cecily Brown

I love the trick of painting. You can have the movement within the still thing, but it is completely fixed. And that illusion is constantly exciting.

Harry Shum, Jr.

When it comes to acting, you really have to create movement which in some ways is dancing. And dancing, I feel is very important to act as well. I wouldn't put one over the other.

Bryan Clay

I'm excited to be a part of the Olympic movement again.

Carl Jung

Hitler's movement is near to Mohammedanism.

Bob Harper

CrossFit is all about constantly-varied, high-intensity movements. And to do these movements, you have to have a certified coach to take you through this - or any type of physical activity.

Cheech Marin

I was part of the draft resistance movement in LA where we did demonstrations at the draft centre and burned our cards and made a lot of trouble on campus.

Chad Caldwell

There may be some room for movement on our end.

Peter Nivio Zarlenga

Divide your movements into easy-to-do sections. If you fail, divide again.

Jennifer Miller

At first it was very nerve-wracking but we settled down and it was such a blast.

Mayme Olson

We all just settled here and stayed here.

Ray Willis

We just had to get a rhythm. They settled themselves down.

Josh Daniel

Now that everything is settled down, I'm really considering going out.

Martin Jol

I always like to play with a settled team. If you see my teams I always play with the same if they are fit,

Don Cameron

I didn't say anything, really. We just settled down. We had two new starters out there. I told them to settle down, keep battling, and things will go our way.

Anne Hafeli

I'd say it was more jitters at the beginning. ? But I think we settled at times.

Pat Summitt

I thought she was tremendous when she settled down.

Laura Evans

I went through three different titles before I settled with this one,

Denis Leary

I love to smoke. I smoke seven thousand packs a day!

John Powell

I wanted to play music from the age of seven. I suddenly fell in love with it and that's what I was going to do, or to be involved with music. It was just speaking to me at a level that as a seven year old I suddenly realized the world was capable of supporting in my head a lot more than what I was understanding verbally and visually.

Jim Hood

They started working the phones, trying to get six or seven people,

Flip Saunders

I told him I'd like to do this seven more times in two or three months.

Diane von Furstenberg

I loved the seventies.

Dave Chappelle

Listen, here it is: Technically, I never quit. I'm seven years late for work.

David Ishii

Really? I don't remember. Seventeen under? That's pretty good.

Crystal Ramsey

It was unfortunate. You can't let a team like Durant get up by six or seven points, especially in a short game.

Joe Rowe

I've been waiting for this for seven months.

Ed Bradley

The only thing I'd ever done with news was to read copy sitting at the microphone in the studio.

Deepa Mehta

I've never seen or heard of a mob sitting down to read a film script.

Bill Murray

I didn't get into this position by being like a stiff sitting on the set in a folding chair. I did it by walking around on the streets and stirring things up.

Celia Cruz

If I don't work, I'll be sitting on the couch watching TV, eating popcorn and getting like a cow.

Andy Brandt

When we get a lead, we have a tendency to sit back.

Tom Rathbun

Work at that site has just come to a standstill.

Paul Phillips

We've got everything documented, got it all in a book, we're just sitting here waiting.

Bill Gates

Look At The Clock When You Are Sitting idle. But Never Look At The Clock When You Are Working.

Mary Bowen

We boarded up the windows and were going to sit and wait out the storm.