Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pras Michel

The record Clef and I did was just sitting there. So I said, Clef, I got a record, hit a verse on it. He just went in, messed around and ended up doing the hook too.

Dan Boone

We don't want others to get sucked into it and end up in the same trouble the original promoters ended up in.

Rod Thorn

Obviously, we had a list of guys and he was at the top of our list. When we made the deal, we were very happy with it. It ended where it ended. We had a lot of discussions to the possibility of amending the deal, but we weren't able to come to any mutual agreement.

Matt Reeves

I was obsessed with movies, and it ended up being the tool with which I could make friends. Because I was too painfully shy in other circumstances, I would say, 'Hey, do you want to make a movie?' And that's how I made friends, and it was also my escape.

Emily Moorkamp

I was not going to let my girl shoot it. I didn't want a repeat of Hillcrest, but she ended up passing it off.

Marcia Muller

I was never a good journalist, because I would make things up. A lot of people frowned on that, which is why I ended up in fiction.

Meaghan Rath

I would love to do films. It's just the way things happened for me - I ended up doing a lot of TV.

William Kovacs

Microsoft succeeded in taking the initiative on the appeal, ... I don't think the government really thought through all of the possible scenarios, and Microsoft ended up outmaneuvering them.

Tom Hank

Who knows what I would have ended up doing with my time if it wasn't for Mr. Farnsworth.

Jose Vivas

The way I see it, God gave us life for some reason and took away life from others for some other reason. It's a mystery. Only God knows why.

Laura Wade

I'm not very good at sticking at things if I can't be successful at them. I gave up on sport a long time ago.

Daryl Patton

We're a pressure team. We're going to give up some big plays at time but overall ... we gave up some big plays but the kids responded usually with something positive right after that.

Caitlyn Jenner

'Esquire Magazine' just gave me 'Father of the Year'. I'll put it right up there with my gold medal. I survived; that's why they gave it to me.

Ethel Andrus

What I spent, is gone; what I kept, I lost;/ but what I gave away will be mine forever.

Bill Clinton

You gave me the ride of my life, and I've tried to give as good as I got.

Undersheriff Hudson

She signs the statement. She has me write it out; she doesn't want to write it out. By the way, she didn't want it recorded; I gave her an opportunity.

Sarah Gadon

Since 'A Dangerous Method,' I've had meetings with everyone from J.J. Abrams to the producers of 'Drive.' And they all have the same thing in common; they say: 'Wow you worked with Cronenberg.' He gave me instant film cred.

Frank DeSalvo

He surrendered it. He just voluntarily gave it up, forever. He's going to get out of the business.

Dave Navarro

And I've also come to the conclusion that, as far as guitar solos and things like that are concerned, it's more important to complement the music rather than take away from it.

Robby Benson

I started playing guitar when I was 6 or 7 years old, and I think that, within a week of getting my first guitar, I started writing music. I just love it.

Donald Fagen

As jazz fans, it was amusing for us to play jazz harmonies on these big, ugly electric guitars.

Ace Frehley

I went to my friend's house one day, and he had an electric guitar he had just bought with a tiny little amp. I turned the volume up to 10 and I hit one chord, and I said, I'm in love.

Dr. John

In 1972, I recorded Gumbo, an album that was both a tribute to and my interpretation of the music I had grown up with in New Orleans in the 1940s and 1950s. I tried to keep a lot of the little changes that were characteristic of New Orleans, while working my own funknology on piano and guitar.

Andy Summers

I've got four or five records in my head at a time that I try to work on and I would like to do a guitar trio record next - since The Police I've mostly made records with keyboards.

Ray LaMontagne

When I pick up the guitar, it's a melody, and that's what drives the lyrics. It's bits and pieces of truth, but it is storytelling.

Syd Barrett

I'm full of dust and guitars.

Syd Barrett

I never felt so close to a guitar as that silver one with mirrors that I used on stage all the time.

Gary Edwards

We were just holding on. When we tried to get that push, we just didn't have it.

George Becker

China's a rogue nation, ... We should hold our congressional leaders accountable.

Bengie Molina

I got a hold of it. I didn't think it was going to stay fair, but it did.

Steve Cummings

If you are going to sit on it, you want it to hold you.

Robert Mahon

I wouldn't hold out a lot of hope.

Reyshawn Terry

He's an animal. You can't hold a player like that down.

Nick Reid

He's our secret weapon. We've been holding him out the first two games. We let him loose today.

Charlie Smith

Jess didn't hold anything back ... she went right after it.

Bruce Bowen

Kobe is the ultimate competitor, so any time we can hold him in check, we're happy.

Jarkko Nieminen

The second set was huge. I knew at the end of the second set that I could win.

Jasper Johns

The only logical thing I can think of is that I knew there were such things as artists, and I knew there were none where I lived. So I knew that to be an artist you had to be somewhere else. And I very much wanted to be somewhere else.

Joan Baez

I see a young man playing 'Plaisir d'Amour' on guitar. I knew I didn't want to go to college; I was already playing a ukulele, and after I saw that, I was hooked. All I wanted to do was play guitar and sing.

Kristi Toliver

As soon as it left my hand, I knew it was going in. I knew I was going to take that shot. Big-time players take big-time shots.

Billy Henning

As soon as I saw the name on the postcard I knew who it was. You could've knocked me over with a feather.

Roy Harper

As soon as I heard skiffle, I loved it and I knew that I wanted to play it.

Jill Gaudelli

We knew it was credible. More educational and less commercial.

Bill Jones

We knew it was coming. It was just a matter of how much and when.

Joby Scroggs

We knew going in that they were going to zero in on Kevin, who still had 115 yards in the game. Now, we've got another weapon - teams have to prepare even harder.

Alex Ferguson

Myths grow all the time. If I was to listen to the number of times I've thrown teacups then we've gone through some crockery in this place. It's completely exaggerated, but I don't like people arguing back with me.

Alexa Chung

I mix my own lipsticks, so I don't really keep track of the brand as it's usually a number of them I've smushed together.

Alice Walker

I don’t need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends I can be certain of.

Richard Bach

Numbers are limits, and perfection doesn't have limits.

Robert A. Heinlein

To assess the intelligence of a committee, divide the IQ of its stupidest member by the number of members.

Ross Kemp

Some people figure that if they're part of a gang then they have less of a chance of being killed, because they are in larger numbers. But the problem with this is that it will lead to people doing stuff that they wouldn't usually do.

Vernon Jordan

A lot of companies make diversity a part of the performance goals against which an executive gets paid. Just as you have to make a certain sales number, you have to make a diversity number to get your bonus.

Patricia Ireland

The opposition has moved from a blaming the victim to blaming the victim's advocate's statistics. Irrespective of what the numbers are, it's far too many.

John Philip Sousa

America can well expect to develop a goodly amount of composers for she has a goodly number of people.

Charles Terry

I've played 654 concerts. That's never been done.

Joel Rankin

Every team we've played the second time, we've played them better. You look at the shooting percentage; it's not even close.

Champ Atlee

We have not played fundamentally sound baseball...we really made our own bed.

Larry Eustachy

We were just one or two plays away from pulling it out. We played well enough to win.

Brenda Frese

I didn't have to say a word to them before overtime. They know it's their time. They played with so much confidence.

Larry Penley

Most of the teams that have won here have played No. 18 very, very well.

Colin Cushman

Megan played great. We're a young team, so I'm not too surprised that we had some problems.

Michael Lehmann

My first movie, 'Heathers,' had played at the festival, so I had a little bit of a Sundance connection, but I didn't really know about the Labs.

Scott Rolen

No different than any other year. Played it the same as every year, no swings the first time out.

Richard Kovalcheck

I feel like we got in a rhythm towards the end there,

John Burnside

What makes me write is the rhythm of the world around me - the rhythms of the language, of course, but also of the land, the wind, the sky, other lives. Before the words comes the rhythm - that seems to me to be of the essence.

Eric Chaon

We got into a rhythm at the same time.

Jamie Lynn Spears

I'll probably do a lot of acting first, then go to singing, but I am going to definitely sing someday. So when I do start singing, buy my album!

Janis Joplin

I can't talk about my singing; I'm inside it. How can you describe something you're inside of?

Linda Eder

Though it's a tribute to her, ... I'm not sitting there thinking 'How can I do it just like her' when I'm singing these songs.

Andrea Corr

I really love singing.

Amy Winehouse

If I heard someone else singing like me, I would buy it in a heartbeat.

Alfredo Kraus

I don't have the will for singing but I must do it.

Alfredo Kraus

Singing is a form of admitting that I'm alive.

Don Henley

I have a bad back partially from playing the drums and singing. I used to have to hold my body in such a position that my spine got out of alignment.

Clare Bowen

Music's always been a big part of my life, but it kind of all happened in one big ball of storytelling rather than splitting acting and singing apart.

James Marsh

I've always worked very efficiently on small budgets, both in documentaries and in features.

Mitch Ashmore

We have not executed well all year on things like that. We made them make a play, and it just worked out well.

Michael Keaton

I worked at a PBS station called WQED in Pittsburgh.