Famous Quotes & Sayings

Scott Henson

They have a structural accountability problem; they're federally funded, state managed and locally staffed, therefore accountable to no one.

Tim Lockwood

It's their money. It comes from local revenues. They can do what they want with it. It's part of the local-control issue.

Jean Turner

There will be a separate local option levy budget, separately tracked.

Bob Montgomery

It's about as local as you can get.

Jeff Sessions

Progress will require a united federal, state and local effort.

Steve Hamilton

People are still in shock, I guess, or just dazed at what happened. It's tough on people here because there aren't that many local places where people can find work.

Dave Keller

People at local shows like the hard-core sound and screaming.

Herb Landau

The state, county, and local governments here really don't support us that well.

Timothy Tyson

The movement was really local in Rocky Mount.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Charles Dickens

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

Charles Dickens

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Charles Studd

Had I cared for the comments of people, I should never have been a missionary.

Charles Stross

In general, a little controversy isn't harmful: if anything, it gets people interested.

Charles Stanley

I certainly respect other people's opinions, but I would not vote for a woman to be the pastor of a church.

Charles Spurgeon

The Lord's people have always been a waiting people.

Charles Spurgeon

People will not receive the balm of the gospel unless they know something of the wounds that sin has made.

Ed Sullivan

I wouldn't have Elvis Presley on my show at any time.

Terry Wogan

All reality TV shows are a triumph of voyeurism. They choose contestants who are ill-suited and slightly freakish.

Steve Forbert

It's not like making records is terrible. Still, I do find the writing of the songs and the live shows to be the things that give you the most clear picture of what it's all about.

Norman Wisdom

I've done seven shows at the Palladium - long running shows I'm talking about.

Paul Pierce

I majored in criminal justice. I like 'CSI,' all that, '24.' I watch those shows on A&E, if I watch TV. I don't really watch TV shows.

Drew Bledsoe

A win like this shows what we can be when we get out of our own way,

Irwin Shaw

The theater went from just weekend shows to Wednesday and Thursday also,

Judy Gold

I've never been on one of these shows where you have to make alliances and be a team player.

Carine Roitfeld

The most important thing is posture: when you get old, it's the way you walk, the way you stand, that shows it.

Chad Smith

Drums all have their own particulars - each drum has a place where they sound the best - where they ring out and resonate the best, and the head surface isn't too loose or too tight, mainly so you get a good rebound off of the head.

Charles Ives

My God! What has sound got to do with music?

Bob Black

Looking for work sounds almost as bad as finding it.

Bill Laswell

Sound comes out of a life experience.

Herbie Hancock

You don't know what that's going to sound like; you just do it because the urge is there.

Casey Abrams

If you're a good singer, you're going to make anything sound good.

Carl Jung

Metaphysical assertions, however, are statements of the psyche, and are therefore psychological. Whenever the Westerner hears the word “psychological,” it always sounds to him like “only psychological.

Calvin Trillin

Do my ears deceive me, or can I actually hear the sounds of worms turning? You say a turning worm makes no sound? But how about a chorus of turning worms?

Calvin Trillin

As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.