Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kate Bush

I think probably the only thing that is around in these songs is that I was really lonely when I wrote a lot of them. But it was really by my own choosing because I was devoting myself to songwriting and dancing and I wasn't really going out and seeing people.

Dean Rusk

I think we would be hard pressed to tell our own people why we are doing this with India when even the British won't do it or the Australians won't do it and the Canadians won't do it. We need to have those other flags flying on these joint enterprises.

Colin Greenwood

I think that we're not reclusive at all.

Timothy Garton Ash

I will never forget meeting Suu Kyi in Rangoon - now officially known as Yangon - some six years ago, when she was still able to leave her house.

Dennis Quaid

I didn't want to throw like an actress.

Geri Halliwell

I didn't want to leave the Spice Girls and immediately have a record on the back of that fame, so I waited to find out who I am and what I want.

Joseph Fiennes

I'd like to be a passion fruit. Not because it's passionate, but because someone I know is mad about them and has got me onto them.

Claire Bloom

I don't enjoy the life of an actress, but I don't want to go into that.

Sarah Sutton

I'd like to write a novel more than anything. I'm reading Tess of the D'Urbervilles at the moment, which is depressing me no end!

Michael Schiavo

He wanted to go out into the hall and have a fistfight. It was ludicrous.

Shirley Sippel

He'd be playing that old piano at the town hall waiting for the meetings to start.

Shawn Amos

Harlem's Apollo is probably the most well-known music hall in the world.

Nancy Cartwright

I will not whittle hall passes out of soap

Richard O'Brien

He shook-a me up, he took me by surprise. He had a pickup truck, and the devil's eyes. He stared at me and I felt a change. Time meant nothing, never would again.

Richelle Mead

Right. Because there’s no bigger sign of commitment than a Halloween dance

William Friedkin

Style is something that's extremely important, but it must grow naturally out of who and what you are and what the material calls for. It cannot be superimposed.

River Phoenix

Acting is like a Halloween mask that you put on.

Tucker Max

Halloween revolves around delicious candy, excessive alcohol, and horny women dressed as sluts. This also describes my vision of Heaven.

David Milne

The growth of a company like ours tends to be a relatively steady because, like some of the other successful mixed signal companies, we have a wide range of products servicing a wide range of end applications.

Lewis Carroll

Then the bowsprit got mixed with the rudder sometimes.

Mari Pehkonen

It's sort of mixed feelings. It's sentimental and it's also being scared of what could happen.

Douglas Altabef

It's a mixed picture. There's no question that the news is a lot better, but it may be priced into the market.

Bill Dreher

It was a mixed bag, ... What we got again, as we did in December, is this separation of winners and losers.

Christy Romano

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

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.

Melvin Mora

He threw outstanding. He mixed all of his pitches. The slider was working today (and) he worked out of jams.

Ken Hill

Music is about textures as well as melody.

Ken Hill

People don't have fun making music all the time.

Shamir

I was inspired to make music since I was 7 because my aunt is a songwriter.

Swae Lee

I write a lot of rhymes, but I don't really end up using them a lot of times, and I end up just freestyling. I like to write music, though, more than I like to freestyle, to be honest.

Andrew Lack

has got two revenue streams: one from our music and one from the sale of his iPods.

Steve Earle

Music was very influential on me as a kid.

James Blake

I think the music that you make, often it's even better if you identify with other people.

Brooks Yang

We talk about music and how we got involved.

Winnie Holzman

I think we put on a real old-fashioned musical in some ways,

Angie Dickinson

I think it was sexier when you didn't have to take it all off.

Richard Posner

The only rationale that the states put forth with any conviction-that same-sex couples and their children don't need marriage because same-sex couples can't produce children, intended or unintended-is so full of holes that it cannot be taken seriously....

Richard P. Feynman

Physics is to math what sex is to masturbation.

Richard P. Feynman

Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.

Richard Howard

Auden, who asked two things of an imagined world-that it be somehow like ours and somehow unlike-would be Ben Marcus's ideal reader, yet even without the poet's dire program, I am altogether taken by this hilarious and sexy alternative universe. Just imagine! it is all done with words instead of mirrors, so much more reliable and so much more heartbreaking. Thus Prospero enthralls his crew.

Richard Dawkins

Atheism is not a religion. Abstinence is not a sex position.

Richard Dawkins

Over the centuries, we've moved on from Scripture to accumulate precepts of ethical, legal and moral philosophy. We've evolved a liberal consensus of what we regard as underpinnings of decent society, such as the idea that we don't approve of slavery or discrimination on the grounds of race or sex, that we respect free speech and the rights of the individual. All of these things that have become second nature to our morals today owe very little to religion, and mostly have been won in opposition to the teeth of religion.

Russell Brand

Even as a junkie I stayed true [to vegetarianism] - 'I shall have heroin, but I shan't have a hamburger.' What a sexy little paradox.

Ronda Rousey

Strong and healthy is the new sexy.

Jeff Lindsay

We're predators; we don't eat meat because it's handy, we eat meat because we have a taste for blood.

Rex Harrison

Because I love the taste of meat I am a reluctant but dedicated vegetarian.

Roald Dahl

Pear Drops were exciting because they had a dangerous taste. All of us were warned against eating them, and the result was that we ate them more than ever.

Samuel Richardson

It is but shaping the bribe to the taste, and every one has his price.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The fastidious taste will find offence in the occasional vulgarisms, or what we now call slang, which not a few of our writers seem to have affected.

Van Horn

I have never tasted anything like it. It was so delicious,

Ashley Madekwe

The water in L.A. tastes like bleach. I literally have to make my tea with Evian water.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I have a pretty eclectic taste in the movies that I like to watch, and also in the movies that I'm inspired to work on.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is in bad taste," is the most formidable word an Englishman can pronounce.

Brian King

We try to keep the regulations down. That's an A.T. tradition as much as anything else.

Rocco Buttiglione

We desecrated the traditional values, but new values didn't come along.

Edith Wharton

traditions that have lost their meaning are the hardest of all to destroy.

Thomas Carlyle

Hardened round us, encasing wholly every notion we form is a wrapping of traditions, hearsay's, and mere words.

Steven Strogatz

When you create something new, you're breaking tradition - which is an act of defiance.

Tom Chapin

Mine is not a traditional music, but it comes from a tradition.

Robbie Williams

I come from the tradition of a big Irish family that loves to sing. I love to perform.

Michelle Obama

We're going to have to change our traditions, our history

Ted Rall

There was an honorable tradition of using anonymous sources that was ruined by Jayson Blair.