Famous Quotes & Sayings

Liz Smith

I thought Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers were here dancing on black glass floors. And I thought everything was here. My idol, Walter Winchell was here.

Jamie Bell

I love the old Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly movies; they're so beautiful to look at. It's such a shame we don't make them anymore. Although, I don't know how you could make tap dancing current and topical.

Terry Teachout

Fred Astaire never let you see him sweat, but he sweetened his deceptively casual virtuosity with just enough charm to make it irresistible.

David Hallberg

No one around me was obsessed with Fred Astaire except for me. It just snowballed, really. I started with tap lessons. When I didn't have tap shoes, I taped nickels on the bottom of my penny loafers.

Max von Essen

I grew up with the movies of Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire and Judy Garland - these are the kinds of shows and the kinds of numbers in shows that I dreamed of being in and doing when I was a kid.

George Hamilton

I said I need a little more Fred Astaire and a little less Ricky Martin.

Sharon Stone

I loved old black and white movies, especially the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musicals. I loved everything about them - the songs, the music, the romance and the spectacle. They were real class and I knew that I wanted to be in that world.

Matthew Bourne

Astaire never thought of what he was doing as balletic, but Kelly was always trying to dance with women on points. And his choreography is so showy and flashy. He always looks self-satisfied to me.

Adam G. Sevani

I dug up my dad's old Fred Astaire tapes, and now I find him super-inspiring. He's, like, one of the best dancers.

Rush Holt

I would say the president has the power to help us get to the bottom of this matter. And we in Congress want to do this not so much for what has happened but to prevent such a thing from happening again.

Mike Woodson

I think it goes without saying that Joe is a huge piece to what we're trying to do in terms of turning this thing around and ultimately making the playoffs, which is the bottom line and why I'm here.

Brian Hill

He just has a lot of pain in that abdominal area, and we're just trying to get to the bottom of it.

Seth Shostak

The bottom line is that the position of the Sun relative to the stars slowly changes for any given date, and over the course of 26,000 years, it can easily slide between constellations. So you may think you're a Pisces, but you're actually an Aquarius.

Chip Babcock

There are so many insiders from the top and bottom who have pleaded guilty. I'm not sure as a juror I'd be too suspicious of them.

Gary Sheffield

The only thing that saved that man that night was I didn't have mine. That was it. Bottom line. I just slipped that night. But I won't ever slip again.

Peter Jacobs

I think the key is that next year, even though Boeing will see about a 15-16 percent decline in revenue, they should still be able to show improvement in the bottom line.

Alex Sanchez

We told them we understand that they are concerned about excessive risk. We also said we don't want the bottom to fall out of the market.

Gary Barta

Today, all of our teams -- minus three or four -- are either competing for a championship or are off the bottom of the standings. We've made huge strides. We've got to do that consistently now. We're getting good in a lot of sports. Now we talk about going from good to great, so we're consistently fighting for the top.

Kelvin Sampson

Kevin's in all our drills, ... He's shooting, doing his hook shot, shooting free throws. He's doing everything except contact.

Larry Kerr

John Hale is an exception to the rule because he's a true freshman who belies his experience. He picks things up well. He's smart, he's strong and physical.

Amy Fisher

I talked my friend into going with me. It was all adults except for us,

Lee Brumbaugh

He is totally unknown at present, except by historians. He is possibly the greatest unknown photographer.

William Dunkelberg

Historically, except for the dot-com hiring binge, this is a very solid number.

Alan Trammel

I thought we responded to everything well except for this last month. I think, looking back, it is fair to say that we hit a wall.

Meredith Mize

It is a great way to get your mind off stress. When you are climbing, nothing really exists except for you and the wall. When you are finished, you look down and feel like you have accomplished something.

Steve Alford

I thought all the teams were going to be better in our league, with maybe the exception of Illinois. I thought they'd be very good.

Dale Layer

I thought we did a pretty good job on everything except threes.

Lloyd McClendon

That's a miscommunication. In fact, Freddy did the right thing." ()

Barry McGuire

I was very laced with drugs myself, but Fred seemed to be even more so than me. That might have had something to do with it. That might have had something to do with nobody wanting to play my records, too, I don't know.

Jermaine Dye

You can let the game come to you and we did that tonight. We haven't had one of these in a while. The offense showed up and Freddy went out there and did what he needed to.

Haley Barbour

Fred may be right, and I may not have heard it, ... I do not recall his saying that.

Kelly Middleton

Fred (Hester) and Terry Stanfield have done a phenomenal job for years. It takes unbelievable organization to put this together.

Ozzie Guillen

Freddy is supposed to be a big-game pitcher. Everything is in Freddy's odds. He should be all right.

Dave Forney

To me, that was a sign. I was trying to spark the team, getting Freddy in.

Vladimir Putin

We are working in other areas [like ALROSA] as well, so there are no radical changes to our position. It is not the case when we have to, as we say, make a lot of fuss about it. In other words, we do not have to be obsessed with privatizing immediately and at any cost.

Tyra Banks

I'm obsessed with making women look and feel more beautiful than they ever thought possible.

Emma Watson

I'm not obsessed with books, I'm not obsessed with school and homework, and I'm not obsessed with not getting into trouble.

Gary Clark, Jr.

I'm obsessed with fuzz pedals.

Mika

I'm obsessed with plastic. I like the syntheticness.

Lea Michele

I am obsessed with Gwyneth Paltrow.

Kreayshawn

I'm obsessed with horrible movies.

Cameron Russell

I always wanted to become president! When I was a kid, I was obsessed with politics.

Shahid Kapoor

Personally, having an eight-pack is a high, but professionally, I cannot be obsessed with it. I'm an actor, not a body builder.

Rod Smith

I'm p---ed off, trust me. But what can I do about it now? All I can do is go to work tomorrow (and) look at the tape hard.

Harvey Korman

Tape Seinfeld for me.

Prince Philip

You were playing your instruments? Or do you have tape recorders under your seats?

Ronnie Milsap

As far as I know, no tapes exist from my years at 'T.J.'s.' I wish they did.

Eddie Van Halen

Imagine if Beethoven had a tape recorder. Then you'd know exactly what he meant. Maybe he meant 'Da da da da' instead of 'Boom boom boom boom!' Who knows?

Jake Gyllenhaal

I think as an actor you have to be open to your emotions - that's how you tap into other characters. Besides, by being so open I've come to terms with how screwed I am!

Doug Stanhope

I was 23 with a mullet doing lots of jerk-off material.I can't look at the old tapes now.

Anne Lamott

We all often feel like we are pulling teeth, even those writers whose prose ends up being the most natural and fluid. The right words and sentences just do not come pouring out like ticker tape most of the time.

Patti Hansen

I have everything in boxes. Thousands of those tapes. I've saved everything.