Famous Quotes & Sayings

Imelda May

In a way, I'm lucky that I was never classically trained and never went to a music college. I'm just from a normal working class family and happened to get obsessed with music as a teenager.

Ivar Giaever

While classical mechanics correctly predicts the behavior of large objects such as tennis balls, to predict the behavior of small objects such as electrons, we must use quantum mechanics.

Irving Harper

With a computer, there are too many choices, and I always liked working within limits. You know, if you look at Mozart, who had this strict classical framework - an allegro, an andante, a scherzo and a finale - you see that within that formula, he got results he might never have gotten if he had all the options in the world.

Ismail Kadare

For me as a writer, Albanian is simply an extraordinary means of expression - rich, malleable, adaptable. As I have said in my latest novel, 'Spiritus,' it has modalities that exist only in classical Greek, which puts one in touch with the mentality of antiquity.

Wynton Marsalis

Musicians like to converse. There's always interesting conversation with musicians - with classical musicians, with jazz musicians, musicians in general.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.

Richard Bellzon

The pen was his voice and the page his tears, when he was done; they called it a classic

Brittany Howard

It'll help you be imaginative if you listen to classical music. It helps you understand dynamics and how important they are to create an environment.

Barry O'Farrell

I don't favour ethics classes being an alternative to special religious education classes.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Most fish require a short cooking time, but cephalopods are the exception to this fishy rule. As with some cuts of larger land beasts, the longer they're cooked, the more tender they get.

Nancy Gibbs

The path of progress cuts through the four-way intersection of the moral, medical, religious and political - and whichever way you turn, you are likely to run over someone's deeply held beliefs.

Bill Cowher

That was really one of the tougher cuts that we've made.

Source Unknown

Time invested in improving ourselves cuts down on time wasted in disapproving of others.

Max Beerbohm

Vulgarity has its uses. Vulgarity often cuts ice which refinement scrapes at vainly.

Peter Jackson

The theatrical versions are the definitive versions. I regard the extended cuts as being a novelty for the fans that really want to see the extra material.

Harry Sprouse

(White's) shifty, he has good moves, he keeps moving, he sees the field well, he makes great cuts -- I'd love to have him.

Bruce Allen

We feel good we have 46 guys we know we would dress to play the Vikings, ... We just have to see what else is out there. We've gotten about 18 of the teams' cuts right now. We're going to work (Saturday) night making sure we know everybody who's on the wire.

Ned Riley

I think it would be difficult for Kerry to prove that the tax cuts were not effective.

Chuck Palahniuk

My parents used to fight a lot, and I think they fought a lot at night, and they would turn the television up to hide the sound of their fighting.

David Friedman

I fought for years and spent a fortune fighting and never got anywhere.

Brodie Croyle

That was a tough Texas Tech team. They fought and fought and fought.

Donald Rumsfeld

that will redefine how war is fought and won, and how the peace is kept.

Steve Koehler

That was a hurtful loss. We started with zero energy, very lethargic. But the girls fought back in the second half.

Manson Hill

We could have given in there and quit. For a long time, we couldn't find our rhythm, but we stayed patient and fought back.

Matt Blair

We could have folded, but I'm really proud of how our kids fought back.

Craig Manning

We played OK. The girls fought hard and had a good attitude, and it was enough for today. But we still have things we can work on.

Sam Taylor-Wood

I feel lucky to be getting older. The fact that I made it to 30 and then 40 was big enough. So I can't get too down on getting older; otherwise, it kind of undoes everything I've fought for.

Don Yaeger

John Wooden made a name as a coach but also a life as a mentor.

Robert McClure

The American people are always well-served in having a person like John Palmer as their public trustee." ()

Mike Johns

That was something that John had seen the play before. It's actually a play we've run on the JVs and had some success with it and it was right there.

Scott Brooks

I'm very thankful to players like John Stockton and Spud Webb. They've made it possible for someone like me to make it. I think teams are actually looking for one player under 6-feet now, because they make things happen.

Robert Brown

Who fished the murex up? / What porridge had John Keats?

Brian Schweitzer

You know, if John Kerry could do what I do, he'd be president,

Pam Smith

I think John is a splendid selection. He's calm, mild-mannered, and he really knows how to get things done.

Dick Muir

John will get anything up to a half.

Joaquin Phoenix

John wasn't (Jimi) Hendrix. It was real simple ... we rehearsed a lot.

Bruce DuMont

How you look saying something matters. Kerry has to look warmer, fuzzier, more comfortable and more likable.

Dusty Baker

He likes being with the team and we like having Kerry around,

Katie Lowes

Kerry Washington is a mentor to me. She is so strong and smart. She's also so giving and supportive.

Kim Gordon

I like that show 'Ray Donovan' - I'm obsessed with that. He's in Hollywood, he's some kind of a fixer, but he's also kind of a thug. And 'Scandal,' the D.C. one with Kerry Washington.

Steve Foley

I think we did one of the things we set out to do, and that's try to get on Kerry Collins, get as much pressure as we can, kind of get him out of his rhythm a little bit. We had some success there, so I think that was a big part of our (overall) success.

Bill Richardson

Our objective is to show the personal side of Sen. Kerry -- his character, his Vietnam service, his leadership qualities,

Dusty Baker

It's not about Kerry as much as it is about us.

Jamal Qureshi

Under a Kerry administration we'd likely have a much more interventionist SPR (Strategic Petroleum Reserve) policy,

Peter Greene

If Kerry were to win his policies would be more restrictive on business.

Marty McOmber

This wasn't a surprise. This is why we proposed the legislation.

Eric Hausler

What's proposed in New York is not competitive.

Abbas Zaidi

We have proposed Karachi as a Test and a one-day venue.

Stephen Byers

The proposed merger...might result in a substantial lessening of competition,

Christo

Some of the projects we've proposed over the years have been refused. But we never do other people's ideas; our ideas come out of our two hearts and our two heads.

Howard Miller

I think what he's proposed is accommodating It's gorgeous.

Paul Omodt

They've got to go through the whole proposed settlement in there.

David Lennon

That is false. They have proposed nothing to us other than threats, concessions and substandard conditions.

Edward Hennessey

There was no relationship, there was a proposed relationship,

David Crystal

Swearing makes an excellent relief mechanism

Kathleen Blanco

There doesn't seem to be any relief in sight,

Larry Rice

We'd get some sort of relief rally, ... And then we'd have a sobering up.

Ann Brashares

Sometimes it is a relief to be invisible

Phil Flynn

We are not completely out of the woods yet, but we saw a lot of relief yesterday (Tuesday) and that trend is continuing,

Cindy Shaw

Some of this is just a little relief rally,

Susanne Beauregard

I think it was a relief to her.

Susan Manning

Since this play is about six women from Louisiana, we wanted to do something for the relief effort.

Ron Nelson

It's just getting them showers, someplace to get some relief from the heat, because they got nothing down here.

Hans Trousil

We have been working to keep the tax levy down.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I could get you to smile like that, and without sales tax.

Grover Norquist

The American taxpayers are a powerful force. They don't want their taxes raised.

Grover Norquist

Income should be taxed one time at one rate, not again and again.

Deb Kottel

You do not need to be a tax expert. In fact, you can be a tax idiot.

David R. Ellis

No, in Lethal Weapon I was a taxi cab driver that Mel jumps in front of the taxi and pulls me out of the car and steals the taxi. Then I did some other indie driving for some of the car sequences.

Alan Sugar

I don't like paying 50 per cent of tax.

Calvin Trillin

The ceiling on taxation of capital gains reflects the national belief that speculation is a more worthwhile way to make a living than work.

Jason Chaffetz

You dont raise taxes in times of such uncertainty.