Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yael Stone

I never want to be anywhere else than in the rehearsal room. I mean, it's so lame to say, but it makes me supremely happy to work with people and to talk and invent and laugh.

Todd Rundgren

I never thought a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland or anywhere else was a good idea.

Ivan Allen

Atlanta? I think it's the greatest city anywhere I know of.

Ismail Kadare

We cannot deny that 80 or even 90 percent of the spiritual treasures from the past 3,000 years have come from Europe. There is no other Greek theatre anywhere else in the world. There is no other Shakespeare, Dante or Cervantes.

Gail Tsukiyama

During the day, if I don't have any other commitments, I'm usually at my desk writing, revising, or researching anywhere from four to six hours.

William Fichtner

I have no problem having any actor from anywhere play a role. I'm excited for any actor that gets a job, I truly am. Even if it's a role that I'm up for and I don't get it, I never begrudge any actor having it work out for them.

Yann Martel

I'm happy pretty well anywhere on this big, beautiful planet.

Esme Bianco

You can't get anywhere in life without taking risks.

Phil Gee

The pilot was taken off-duty. He certainly didn't go anywhere near an aircraft.

Yolanda Adams

All of my lyrics are based on the one thing that's never failed me, and that's the Word of God.

Yanni

My music is based on melody and when I play the piano, it's as if I'm singing with them. When you try to transform that into a vocal, there was very little adjustment.

Irving Stone

My books are based 98 percent on documentary evidence.

William McDonough

I am very focused on large-scale deployments of renewable power and how we're going to get this done. Imagine our military bases covered with solar thermal collectors that could generate steam and electricity.

Whitey Ford

You kind of took it for granted around the Yankees that there was always going to be baseball in October.

Vivienne Westwood

We based the look on rock 'n roll right from the beginning.

Chuck Palahniuk

'Romance' is based on my entire creative process. I fall in love with an idea, obsess over it, isolate myself with it, and when I eventually introduce it to my friends, they all tell me that it's stupid.

will.i.am

You know, I do music. If you look under the hood of the industry I'm in, it's all based on technology. From radio to phonographs to CDs, it's all technology. Microphones, reel-to-reels, cameras, editing, chips, it's all technology.

Constance Wu

It's my privilege to be able to play somebody not myself. I'm an actor who creates characters based in voice, movement, emotional quality, speech.

Ellen Key

Just as little as terror - not even the terror of war - can save the world, just as little can hate ever be anything uplifting. Love is the only firm ground for peace - not only love for one's fellowmen, but first of all, love of one's country.

Brad Goreski

It's so cheesy, but I'm a firm believer in 'If you build it, they will come.'

Elbert Hubbard

To know when to be generous and when to be firm -- this is wisdom.

Edgar Watson

To know when to be generous and when firm -- this is wisdom.

Anirvan Banerji

Wage growth is firm but it's not that elevated.

Peter Senge

You go to any MBA program, and you will be taught the theory of the firm, that the purpose of the firm is the maximization of return on invested capital. I always thought this was a kind of lunacy.

David Hawkins

Who said the market was efficient? Every major firm on Wall Street has put out a study on this. I guess investors just didn't think it was real.

Ma Jun

I tell them the rules are made by the government. Every firm should comply. It doesn't mean they can't compete.

Ron Baker

We don't have a Top 100 firm yet, but there is movement.

Yotam Ottolenghi

You can really taste the difference between a shop-bought and a good homemade mayo.

Yanni

The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.

Yanis Varoufakis

I was told once by a leftwing scholar that as a Marxist, you have to do two things: always be optimistic and always have a view about everything. That advice still sounds good to me.

Thierry Henry

I've always loved New York; I've been visiting New York since 1996. People don't look at you like, 'What are you doing? What are you wearing?' There is also that thing that when people know that you have worked hard to get something, people have that respect for that here. You worked hard - good for you.

Iggy Azalea

I feel like 'Work' was a really good song for people to get to know me, as it's obviously biographical. With 'Bounce,' I wanted to make sure people know there's a fun side to me as well as the somber and serious one.

Ice T

I'm in a very good place to make records. Needing to make money off music is very dangerous.

Idina Menzel

I used to be someone that needed nine hours of sleep; otherwise, I didn't think I was going to sound good when I sang, and I was very disciplined and anal about my preparation. When you become a parent, there just isn't that time, you know?

Idina Menzel

I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, Motown, pop - and that inspired what kind of music I started to write.

Ivar Giaever

Understanding truth is the primary objective of science, not doing good for the world.

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Everyone is so estranged; no one is rooted. That's what I like to write about more than anything else. Everything being so mixed up. Racially mixed up, people moving from place to place, everything shifting.

Cody Wright

You can do it yourself, but the trick is to make sure you get it in the right place, you get it mixed up well and it's as sterile as possible.

Dan Miller

We do sell a lot of mixed roses.

Hannah Marks

I like a little bit of punk mixed with a little bit of feminine.

Omar Vizquel

On the road, it's going to be a mixed feeling. But at home, he'll get the support.

Neneh Cherry

The race is your face. Obviously, I come from a mixed background. Who I am and how I look and being black.

M. Thompson

We have played a lot at the SCG with mixed results.

Lauren Bacall

The big rule is that you must never get mixed up with a married man - never even look sideways at another woman's fella. Boy, I really was terrific at obeying that rule, wasn't I?

Christy Romano

I'm recording an album. It's sort of techno mixed with garbage - you, know, intense in-your-face music.

Michael Rigas

I've got the powder on my doorstep, now what do I do with it?

Peter Stuyvesant

Powder and provisions failing, and no relief or reinforcement being expected, we were necessitated to come to terms with the enemy.

George Orwell

The object of powder is powder.

Linda Murphy

I just sprinkle shrimp with curry powder and sugar and broil them. Yum,

Hod Lipson

Basically, any material you can squeeze, melt or generate into a powder, you can print.

C. S. Lewis

To make Christianity a private affair while banishing all privacy is to relegate it to the rainbow's end or the Greek Calends.

Cecelia Ahern

As the rain falls and the sun shines, they grow, grow, grow; minds so open, they go through life aware and accepting, seeing light where there's dark, seeing possibility in dead ends, tasting victory as others spit out failure, questioning where others accept. Just a little less jaded, a little less cynical.

Bill Bryson

By the time I had finished my coffee and returned to the streets, the rain had temporarily abated, but the streets were full of vast puddles where the drains where unable to cope with the volume of water. Correct me if I'm wrong, but you would think that if one nation ought by now to have mastered the science of drainage, Britain would be it.

Bill Bryson

I have a small tattered clipping that I sometimes carry with meand pull out for purposes of privateamusement. It's a weather forecast from theWestern Daily Mail and it says, in toto: 'Outlook: Dry and warm, but cooler with some rain.

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

In the year 1657 I discovered very small living creatures in rain water.

Ted Ryan

It has rained a lot of the time, but it didn't rain a lot.

Jenson Button

It is disappointing but we can't stop it raining here,

Karen Minton

Most of the rain will stay south of us until this afternoon.

Becca Fitzpatrick

When it comes to reflexes, I'm like a cat. I'm Catwoman. I'm invulnerable. The only reason he got a piece of me is because of the rain. Cats don't like water. It impairs us. It's our kryptonite.

Warren Miller

The best thing about skiing backwards is you can see where you've been.

Bethenny Frankel

In life, no two days are the same for me. It's like a snowflake.

Willi Glanznig

Groomed isn't really what you want because when you go to the World Championships, the snow is heavy.

Vittorio Feltri

He has never skied in his life. He doesn't even know what snow is. He only understands football.

Dick Armey

Jamestown colony, when it was first founded as a socialist venture, dang near failed with everybody dead and dying in the snow,

Dave Barry

I now realize that the small hills you see on ski slopes are formed around the bodies of forty-seven-year-olds who tried to learn snowboarding.

Dave Barry

Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough.

Cary Fukunaga

In snowboarding, you're constantly aware that people are so technically brilliant at what they do, and you feel like, "Ugh, I'll never be able to do that."

Charles Caleb Colton

Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase.

Charles Simic

Only brooms Know the devil Still exists, That the snow grows whiter After a crow has flown over it