Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard D. James

My filing system's really crap because I can never decide whether to sort things by studio, or year, or where I lived.

Richard D. James

I've always got to change something. All the tracks I've done in the last five years were made in like six different studios. It gets a bit complicated.

Robbie Coltraine

Once you've been doing anything for twenty-five years people start to notice you.

Rob Sheffield

Not being able to protect her from things was the most frightening thing I'd ever felt, and it kicked in as soon as we got together. With every year we spent together, I became more conscious that I now had an infinitely expanding number of reasons to be afraid. I had something to lose.

Rob Chapman

I'm an avowed modernist. I'm for the new thing. I came to the conclusion many years ago that rock music is essentially a conservative form.

Rob Chapman

The way I have progressed as a writer over the years is to try and stay true to the principles I absorbed.

Rob Halford

They were and still are a groundbreaking band. Even though they haven't released any new music in ages, you can put on the first Black Sabbath album and it still sounds as fresh today as it did 30-odd years ago. And that's because great music has a timeless ability: To me, Sabbath are in the same league as the Beatles or Mozart. They're on the leading edge of something extraordinary.

Richard P. Feynman

If the professors of English will complain to me that the students who come to the universities, after all those years of study, still cannot spell 'friend,' I say to them that something's the matter with the way you spell friend.

Richard P. Feynman

If you can't explain something to a first year student, then you haven't really understood .

William Faulkner

Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique.

William Hurt

The Alexander Technique has helped me to undo knots, unblock energy and deal with almost paralysing stage fright

Wen Ho Lee

I used the best technique that I knew to protect my files

Jacques Ellul

The individual who is the servant of technique must be completely unconscious of himself.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.'

John Arlott

The batsman's technique was like an old lady poking her umbrella at a wasp's nest.

Marshall McLuhan

Moral indignation is a technique used to endow the idiot with dignity.

Pablo Picasso

The more technique there is, the less there is

Paul Mooney

Robin Williams learned technique. He has the technique of being funny.

Will Gluck

There are not that many roles in comedies that are completely driven by a young actress.

Rebecca De Mornay

I've never committed to a role without a script.

Richard Schiff

I've been very lucky not to have turned down too many roles that I've later regretted.

Robert Mueller

In planning an attack, persons have various roles.

Ryan Reynolds

'Green Lantern' I screen-tested for twice. I fought for the role. And I'm glad I did, because I felt like I earned it.

Sandra Bullock

I was always longing to do, emotionally and physically, what my male counterparts always got to do. I just felt envious, every time I saw a movie that I was in awe of, and it was usually a male lead. And those kinds of roles weren't available. They just weren't being written.

Wislawa Szymborska

I don't know the role I'm playing. I only know it's mine, non-convertible.

Kit Harington

When you're a lead role, I'm learning that you set a tone for the movie in a way, like a director does, or like other actors do. But it seems like you set a mood on set.

Kevin Pollak

As rewarding as a good film role can be, there is just nothing like getting up on a stage and taking an audience for a ride.