Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lester Holt

Journalism is my first love. But music comes in a close second. What's important for me is that whatever you do, whatever your passion is, you should have another passion - something in your life. And when I put on that musician hat and I put the bass in my hands, I'm not Lester Holt the TV guy anymore. I'm just Lester Holt who likes music.

John Kolivas

Piano players are all wacky, and drummers just like to make noise. The bass player has to be responsible.

Steve Bailey

Pianists have the Van Cliburn competition and guitarists have a number of contests, as well, but the electric bass is such a young instrument, relatively speaking, that this sort of thing just hasn't happened until now. Victor and I have been talking about this for a couple of years because we go around the world and we bump in to people who just blow us away. They've been practicing for years on this stuff that nobody's ever heard. They might be well-known players or just hiding out in a practice room working on techniques we don't even known about.

David Wilkerson

I gave them a mandolin, fiddle and bass and God done the rest.

John Kolivas

If you play bass you'll always work. Every group needs a bass.

Dan Stephenson

In the spring of 2005 during a night shocking survey, we collected 119 bass per hour averaging over 2.5 pounds each. That is a very good number, and the body condition of each was excellent.

Scott Sickau

In some ways, it's a lot more technical than going out and throwing a streamer for bass or a little nymph pattern for bluegills or a popper for bass. Trout seem like they can be a lot more finicky.

Aaron Lazar

Christine Bass was my high school music teacher. She took a program on its last legs and within a few years turned into one of the best programs in the country. Our high school dominated national choir competitions all through her 20-plus year tenure.

Xia Donaldson

I like the tackle side a little more than the groceries. Fishing tackle doesn't go bad. I get a lot of fishermen coming in here. Some of them are going to Millerton, but most are going to Eastman and Hensley to catch some bass or trout.

Ken Hill

Food is your body's fuel. Without fuel, your body wants to shut down.

Pauline Frommer

I was in Rome, and located a Michelangelo expert. He took us to the church where Michelangelo's body was kept after he died until his family stole it back. It's a real insider-y way to the get the inside scoop on a city.

P. J. Harvey

Kids used to sit back and listen to lectures. Now they're leaning in. Body language has changed.

Veda Upanishads

Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.

James Gray

James Byrd at the time he was chained at the back of the pickup truck was alive, ... Not only was he alive, he was conscious at the time, and he was using his elbows and his body in any way he could to keep his head and shoulders away from the pavement.

Richard Neal

I would submit to you today that this is the easiest thing in this body that could be done with Democrats and Republicans to simplify the Tax Code.

Phillip Bloch

Ken has revamped his life - mind, body and soul. Everyone knows how difficult it is to change, especially when you've lived your life a certain way for more than four decades.

Atharva Veda

Just like the four main directions (North, South, East and West) the body also possess four openings or doors- the East door is Mouth, the West door is Rectum, the North door is Head while the South door is Private part.

Wanda Davis

Just like small women do things, like do their hair or do their nails and buy nice clothes to make that small body look good, full-figured women can do the same thing.

Vladimir Ustinov

His guilt is proven by all the evidence collected on all counts of the indictment,

Anderson Cooper

Their salt-and-pepper figurines that they had collected were sitting on the shelf untouched.

Niaz Siddiqui

The evidences we have collected show that it was a suicide attack.

D.J. Shockley

You've got to be cool and collected all the way. You're not going to throw five touchdowns every game. But this was a big game, and I knew my teammates needed me the whole game.

Alex Jamieson

These guys didn't do anything all year, and they collected a check.

Peg Stipetich

Any time you have collected more than 800 units, you can say it was a success.

Chris Rich

It's stuff I've collected or purchased at auctions,

Phil Jackson

It was pretty difficult to watch for a while. We collected ourselves and played. Full-court pressure is not an easy thing to do. We must have given up five or six baskets.

Tom Jackson

It was pretty difficult to watch for a while, ... We collected ourselves and played. Full-court pressure is not an easy thing to do. We must have given up five or six baskets.

William Jefferson

I was intending to go to my neighborhood for sure if I could get there. I didn't know what the condition was, ... I was curious to know and everybody in my family was curious to know: What was the condition of our house? Was it underwater? Was it looted?

Jed Dickerson

Just looking to see the conditions of the lake. Kind of looking to see what I can see.

Chip Ganassi

I talked to Sterling about two hours ago, at that point Coo-Coo's condition had stabilized, but the next 12 hours are critical,

Francis Escudero

He did not fall to the ground but his condition was no longer normal so we rushed him to the hospital.

David Jones

(Greenspan) cut rates three times last year, but he said that the conditions that required those cuts are no longer with us. So the outside limit to what he is going to do is three hikes. My guess is that you will only end up with a couple of them, a quarter-point at the end of this month, one in August, and maybe one in October.

Rick Burkholder

His pain may get worse, it may get better, the condition won't, ... It's not like he's going to do a career-ending problem to his abdomen or his groin.

Nancy Snow

Historically, propaganda has always merged with recruitment because people must first be conditioned to become soldiers and fight strangers in distant lands. It's not a natural condition but must be manipulated to get people to join unpopular realities.

Robert Mellman

Historically, construction and starts have been highly sensitive to weather conditions during the winter months.

Steve Schmidt

It is a condition that needs to be addressed, so not to become a problem over time.

Ken Hill

Mistakes can be good things, because it is an unexpected thing.

Charles Warren

I was like, 'Wow,' something's going on here, ... Something good is about to happen.

Ramon Hernandez

I was looking for a fastball. I got it on the good part of the bat. It went where no one could get it.

Carl Pohlad

Kirby's too good a guy to have something like this (stroke) happen.

Buck Showalter

Kenny was effective. They've seen Kenny so much. They hit some good pitches for hits. He bent, but he didn't break.

Kevin Towers

Khalil is an exciting, popular player. We think he's going to have a real good year, offensively and defensively.

John Crumbley

(Key West) had a tough week this week, but (starting pitcher Daniel) Foltz pitched a good game. It was good to be in this type of pressure situation.

Michael Young

Kevin will be fine. He's going to have a big year. He's a good hitter. It's just a matter of getting him hot, and sometimes it takes a little longer than you'd like.

Jim Sullivan

Kevin's times this year are just a shade off of what Jesse Bentley used to run, ... I think he'll have a really good year.

Mike Darnell

I swear, it must (have been) 13 hours a day, ... And I still do. It's on all the time. I was sort of hypnotized by it as a kid, I think. I just loved it.

Michael Moser

He wants to show respect to the family, and if he were to say anything to the family, it would be he extends his sincere sympathies and they're in his thoughts and prayers. A day doesn't go by, an hour doesn't go by, that he doesn't think about this.

Steve Earle

You can listen to carpenters talk for hours in Ireland. The people have a relationship to words that I don't think you will run into anyplace in the world.

Tom Izzo

He's got to be going 100 miles an hour all the time.

Annelise Hoffman

I think it's like 21 hours a week (training time).

Roger Bedford

I think it's an outrage that these hours would be billed on a state holiday,

Brian Mehler

The purpose is to pay them for their work. They worked 20 hours per week -- it's like a part-time job.

Felix Bloch

It is indeed my profession to speak to students and I do this every week for several hours in the lecture rooms of Stanford University.

Christopher Poole

There aren't many sites like 4chan where you can pop in every hour and see all new stuff.

Robert Vega

He didn't want to go home. From what we know, he spent the past two nights sleeping in the woods.

Paul Stephenson

I think we were the better side on the night.

Wayne Gretzky

I will say it one more time, I said it the other night, I didn't bet, it didn't happen, it's not going to happen, it hasn't happened, it's not something that I've done.

Maria Hernandez

He's going to come out that gate, and I'm going to be here awaiting him. We are here day and night because we have hope.

Charna Halpern

He was here two nights in a row.

David Dinkins

I don't find myself sitting up nights saying, whom should I support?

Johnny Depp

He had watched the film for the first time that night and said it was brilliant.

Randy Winn

He had been getting me out with fastballs all night. I was able to get one over the plate.

Steve Peck

He does that night in and night out, he makes the big save.

Keira Knightley

I find more interesting roles for women in period pieces. I do personally like watching period films; I think you can really get lost in the fantasy of them.

David Horowitz

I wouldn't be persuaded to be here if it wasn't for 20 years of being on campuses and seeing this.

Nastassja Kinski

Just now, I've been working all the time and I don't have much of a personal life.

Jerry Brookings

I actually had a little R&B group, and Tito performed with me once.

Kofi Annan

Guatemala is going through the most promising period of its recent history,

Graham Taylor

Shearer could be at 100 per cent fitness, but not peak fitness.

Walter Salles

There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present.

Dale Decker

There are SMA pavements that have been down for 10 years, and there's no rutting. It's performing well when done properly.

Scott McCallum

What you don't read about, it's never a story of the 98 percent who are doing things right and view this as a public service and want it to work.

John Gunter

I would've never thought that 40 pounds would make that much of a difference.

Warren Cuccurullo

I went from 118 pounds to 135 pounds in a few months. But, I still didn't know anything about food.

Rufus Wainwright

I have earned hundreds of thousands of pounds, but I can't seem to get to grips with money.

John Salley

I'm John Salley, and I'm a vegan. I'm a vegan because I'm only four pounds heaver than I was in 1989.

Rich Harden

I'm down to 191 pounds. I'd like to get to 196-198 by the time the season starts. I was 197 before I got sick. It sure stayed with me awhile. To me, getting back to around 197 pounds is a big deal.

Eric Idle

John Cleese once told me he'd do anything for money. So I offered him a pound to shut up, and he took it.

S. Walker

You don't have to be 6-4 and 280 pounds to be a kicker,'' he said.

Kathy Najimy

There was a time when I was 312 pounds. And I've been all different weights.

Nicole Richie

I am naturally a thin person and I am 5'1" and putting on five or 10 pounds, that looks like a lot on me.

Jim Goetz

It's shocking we don't see more engineers and entrepreneurs interested in enterprise.

Ann Marsh

It?s shocking to the family, it?s shocking to the friends.

Phil McNichol

It was shocking today. I just wish it was shocking in the other direction.

Michael Nicosia

This is shocking to me, I thought we'd be up.

Brigitte Bardot

I am shocking, impertinent and insolent that's how it is.

Jane Smiley

I don't know - is everything the U.S. does a shocking embarrassment?

Maria Semple

My first novel didn't sell well. It was really painful and humiliating and shocking to me.

John Roberts

This would be shocking even in a Third World country.

Hank Blalock

It is just part of Spring Training soreness. If this was during the season, I'd play through it.

Richelle Mead

What am I supposed to do with a wool coat? Especially here in Palm Springs?” “Sleep with it,” he suggested. “Think of me.

Truman Capote

June, July, all through the warm months she hibernated like a winter animal who did not know spring had come and gone.

Truman Capote

Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Since inequalities of privilege are greater than could possibly be defended rationally, the intelligence of privileged groups is usually applied to the task of inventing specious proofs for the theory that universal values spring from, and that general interests are served by, the special privileges which they hold.

William Zinsser

The sound of the bat is the music of spring training.

William Jennings Bryan

You came to tell us that the great cities are in favour of the gold standard; we reply that the great cities rest upon our broad and fertile plains. Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic. But destroy out farms and the grass will grow in the city...You shall not press down upon the brow of labour this crown of thorns. You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.

Virginia Woolf

I cannot remember my past, my nose, or the colour of my eyes, or what my general opinion of myself is. Only in moments of emergency, at a crossing, at a kerb, the wish to preserve my body springs out and seizes me and stops me , here, before this omnibus. We insist, it seems, on living. Then again, indifference descends.

Woodrow Wilson

Our civilization cannot survive materially unless it is redeemed spiritually. It can be saved only by becoming permeated with the Spirit of Christ, and being made free and happy by practices which spring out of that spirit. Only thus can discontent be driven out and all shadows lifted from the road ahead.