Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thom Yorke

I went to a boys' school, and I didn't realize that most guys join bands because they wanted to get girls. I was not really focused on that the way everybody else was.

Imelda May

I love festivals in that people seem to let their hair down more. I love that people run from stage to stage. I love going as a performer because you get to see band that you wouldn't necessarily go see.

Gerry Beckley

I do know many a band out there, because believe me, we've played with most of them, who are together because they have to be. They might not talk to each other offstage, but they realize they can earn a living by going out and keeping that music alive.

Gin Wigmore

I was in a band in Auckland, and I remember they all hated me. They had a big intervention. They said, basically, 'Gin, we think you suck.' I was miserable. I cried and cried. But looking back, that taught me about social skills and how to communicate with musicians.

Chino Moreno

A band like Depeche Mode would go out and record them hitting a trash can with a steel rod or something and recording it. And that would be one of their sounds of the drums. I love the creativeness of that kind of really raw sampling.

Chino Moreno

A big problem for me was opening for Limp Bizkit and Linkin Park, two bands that wouldn't exist if it weren't for me, straight up!

Keith Henson

The picture that emerges for humans in the previous several million years is that of a social primate living in small bands and villages.

Brittany Howard

Every time I'm home, it's like a vacation, but I've been playing in bands since I was 11. I guess our goals were always small goals. It started off my goal was just to be in a band. Then it was to have a drummer that would show up.

Brian Bell

Bands should definitely pay some dues and go through it, go to small clubs, build a fan base, all that kind of stuff, because it's not real, otherwise.

Yang Lan

In 1994, after four years of talking about travel on my first show, I realized I knew so little about the world - I knew so little about myself. I decided to quit my job and pursue a postgraduate degree in New York.

Thom Yorke

We toyed with the idea of making it a double album, but I think that would only have confused everybody even more, so we decided to stick with the songs we picked.

Ike Barinholtz

We decided we don't use the term 'fat' for me. We use the term 'juicy' for me. My wife's fine with it, but the rule is when I'm over double her weight, it's over.

Irving Paul Lazar

Sometimes I wake up in the morning and there's nothing doing, so I decide to make something happen by lunch.

Vivek Wadhwa

Writing a book is usually a full-time job that takes years. I didn't have years. So I decided to crowdsource content for the book.

E. O. Wilson

We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.

Becky G

When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.

Bethany Mota

I decided to launch a fragrance because Aeropostale approached me about creating one, and it's something that I kind of always wanted to do but didn't think it would actually happen. So when I heard I had the opportunity to create my own perfume, I got super excited.

Vidya Balan

Promotions can be seen in two ways - either you hate them, and they're a burden, and you are getting through with it, or you can enjoy them. I decided early on that I was going to enjoy them. I did 43 interviews in a day for 'Kahaani.'

Steve Abrams

We need to have more discussion by the public to see what teachers, administrators and the state of Kansas think about it. That is not likely to occur this year.

Mike Levine

Meyers has to get settled in his new position right now ... And I am getting settled here. If it comes up later, we will have that discussion then.

Byron Miller

We can't get into legal interpretations or discussion with the media at this time. That would be inappropriate.

Dick Cheney

I thought it was a good discussion of the issues, ... and we kept it to a high plane.

Carl Francis

We are in discussion with them as to what that language really means.

Bill Cowher

I will tell the players, as I've told the coaches, there will be no more questions about it, there will be no more discussion about it, our focus this week will be on the Indianapolis Colts. I don't think it will be a distraction at all and, having gone through the process myself, if anything it's inspiring to know there's an opportunity potentially for you.

Robyn Jones

We know it is only in the discussion phase, but it would be wonderful to have a library here.

Don Schiemann

We didn't really get much of a discussion on it at all. We were more focused in the meeting with him on (other) justice issues.

Dan Glickman

I have intentionally left open some of the more divisive questions, ... I think it's important to have a full national and international discussion of this issue.

Jerry Costello

We have an extensive system of highways, ports, locks and dams, and airports.

Bill Gates

Microsoft, as we have been throughout the case, is very open to the idea of settlement. We don't think extensive litigation and the resources that involves are really good for anyone. We will see if that's a possibility,

RC Buford

I think (the summer) has been protracted, but I don't think it's been all that much different from other summers that have had extensive player movement.

Dave Howard

John Rocker is requiring extensive police presence in the ballpark.

Rachel Scott

We do have very extensive surveillance capabilities at the plant.

Paul Powers

Because of the extensive damage, there are many isolated outages that take more time to restore.

Rubin Carter

I have mandated to our staff to get out and meet coaches. They need to see our logo. They need to know that we are out doing extensive evaluations on their players academically and athletically. FAMU will be visible.

Ed Pinckney

He wasn't winded at all. He looked really good. Definitely, NBA shape is different, but he had extensive weight room work. He's always working out. He's going to be 50 years old and not gain an ounce of fat. He's a freak.

Kristanna Loken

I did extensive training and through that worked with a nutritionist, so I put on about 15 pounds of muscle mass.

Petrarch

For virtue only finds eternal Fame.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

A woman's fame is the tomb of her happiness.

Mitch Browning

Whoever gets him is going to get not only a tremendous player but a fantastic kid. In my opinion, he has Hall of Fame talent.

Chris Gray

John was a great player who will probably go to the Hall of Fame. He knew one speed and that was full speed.

Theodore Tilton

I won a noble fame; But with a sudden frown, The people snatched my crown, And, in the mire, trod down My lofty name

Doug Williams

I think if you look around the league at the linemen that are in the Hall of Fame, they are there because the teams they played on were very successful. And if you look at Russ Grimm, he's been to four Super Bowls. There's a reason why you get to four Super Bowls.

John McKee

Those Hall of Fame jockeys, they all worked really hard to get where they got. What we younger riders have to do is persevere to follow in their footsteps.

Mike Schmidt

Personally, I think the timing and manner of the book's release, given that it overshadowed the New York Hall of Fame news conference, sealed Pete's fate. For some reason, the commissioner wants to keep Pete on permanent hold.

William Shakespeare

I would give all my fame for a pot of ale and safety.

Wesley Clark

One of the things I learned in the military is sometimes you don't know what mistakes you make for a long time. But as you go through a campaign, there's lots of decision points you make, and you don't know whether those are gonna be the right decision points or not.

Chita Rivera

We're going to Puerto Rico, where we're gonna close. And we're so excited, we can't see straight.

Emma Watson

Now, honestly, every movie set that I go on, I walk onto set with the confidence that there is nothing that they can throw at me that's gonna surprise me.

Chris Phillips

The Patrons are quite sad, we're sad. But it's gonna be one hell of a party, to be quite honest with you.

Chris Evans

The past is the past, but if you're overanalyzing or trying to repeat it, you're gonna get stuck. I just had a wonderful youth, and I loved everything about it, so I really try and hang on to it.

Brittany Howard

Even if nobody cared, I'm still gonna make music.

Brendon Urie

I was gonna be a cosmetologist. I didn't really want to. I wanted to be in a band. It kind of worked out.

Nikki Sixx

In '85, I went through rehab and I wasn't ready. If you're not ready, you're not ready. You don't want to hear the truth, and you're gonna keep doing what you keep doing.

Adam Peek

We're really gonna have to work hard next year to make up for many key losses.

Carrie Underwood

I love scary movies. I like blood and gore, and I love Halloween movies.

Rickey Henderson

I'm a Hall of Famer and I'm still fighting for it because I love the game and I love to play.

Greg Bender

Usually, when he does these things, he'll give a talk, and then he and everyone else leaves and comes back the next day. Here, the students stayed together and were able to keep talking in the halls and the restaurants and lobby.

William Shakespeare

I charge thee, hence, and do not haunt me thus.

Pete Rose

I'm not sure Mark McGwire was a Hall of Famer to begin with.

Jim Boeheim

Most of the people in the Hall are on a different level from me,

William Shakespeare

Be as thou wast wont to be. See as thou wast wont to see.

William Shakespeare

In the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear!

William Shakespeare

Methought I was enamour'd of an ass.

Nigel Farage

I have become increasingly used to the Tory party mimicking our policies and phrases in a desperate effort to pretend to their members they are still Eurosceptic.

Bertrand Russell

Is the set of all sets which are not members of themselves a member of itself?

Rodney Stark

The more members of the clergy that are out there working to expand their congregations, the more people will go to church.

David Phelps

Members are very much scrambling to see what's going to happen,

Lambis Nikolaou

I was the only one of the 104 members who did not vote.

Paul Dee

He's always talking about all the members of the NFL that had played at the U.

Jim Moran

I think it's difficult for members of Congress to be as independent as they need to be in their voting.

Marty Brown

Frankly, I don't think they've worked members very much, and then all of the sudden we get an ultimatum. It just doesn't feel to me like there's been enough groundwork done.

Darren Shan

You stole from a member of the undead

Wayne McCants

We have membership in all of the surrounding counties. Our participation is growing.

Pranab Mukherjee

I feel that when the reforms in UN take place and the Security Council will be expanded in the permanent membership category, India will have a place, I hope so, but first it is to be expanded.

Michelle Sommers

The split in the membership coincided with the split in the board.

Chris Patten

I sometimes think that perhaps we should offer Mexico membership of the United States

Mark Blondin

I'm so proud of our members. The overwhelming unity and solidarity of the machinist union membership won this strike.

Mark Blondin

I'm so proud of our members, ... The overwhelming unity and solidarity of the machinist union membership won this strike.

Buzz Hargrove

It was a tough set of bargaining, ... To get that kind of endorsement from the membership is just exhilarating.

Joe Mullins

This allows us to customize our services to the membership base.

Mike Skarr

Quantity in membership is important, but it's more important to have quality members.

Michael Panzner

You always get a little first trading session euphoria, which is partly psychological and partly technically related to inflows.

Martin Freeman

Half of us are partly German! Half our language and culture, generally, in Anglo-Saxon terms, is German.

Tim O'Brien

When I have a book I enjoy, I'm partly in the book. I'm not just observing it.

Richard Artschwager

The drawing is already partly there - it's in the paper. And the paper is talking before you do.

Yahya Jammeh

Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.

Yossi Vardi

In the end, I think that people that are not willing to take the risk to fail are not true entrepreneurs.

Yancy Butler

Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are telling you it has powers. I would be a little skeptical myself.

Ian Mckellen

I don't think many people will re-read 'The Da Vinci Code.'

Ian Mckellen

People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'

Irwin Thomas

I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.

Irwin Rose

I don't have any hobbies. You know, I'm very embarrassed when people ask me what are my hobbies; I don't have any hobbies. I mean, it's just enough to keep up with the things I'm trying to solve.

Isiah Whitlock, Jr.

Usually, when you're working or you're on set, everything is very guarded. At parties, people have a tendency to relax.

Imani Hakim

When people say, 'If you could do anything else, what would you do?' I would be an actress. That's something that I would do - I can't see myself doing anything else.

Cecelia Ahern

For the yesterdays and todays, and the tomorrows I can hardly wait for - Thank you.

Charles R. Swindoll

We want the safety of yesterday even though we know it's not where God would have us.

Maurice Maeterlinck

To disdain today is to prove that yesterday has been misunderstood.

Christopher Hill

Yesterday was a long day, ... Let's see if we can do a little better today.

Steve Kline

I wouldn't say yes or no to that,

Charles Spurgeon

I am but of yesterday, and know nothing.

Chang-Rae Lee

In this difficult era the most valuable commodity is the unfailing turn of the hours and how they retrieve for us the known harbor of yesterday.

David Icke

Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut, that held its ground.

Bill O'Reilly

When I die, I don't want my demise to be used as a political rally, and that's what happened yesterday.