Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ken Williams

Jose is a pitcher we have pursued for some time. Adding a pitcher of Jose's caliber gives us a solid starting rotation for the remainder of this season and into the future.

Graham Elliot

Chicago's always been known as this meat and potatoes place, and a lot of restaurants play that up. They try to outdo each other by adding another 10 ounces, so their 80 ounce steak becomes a 90 ounce steak with 10 pounds of mashed potatoes on the side.

Kim Komando

Here it's a little less drastic, ... You're adding color functionality, but it's not so much where you have some comparable products today that could get immediately cannibalized right out of the gate.

Sarah Fisher

Having new people and adding to the few positive players that remained from the previous year is like a fresh start,

John Milton

He's gone and who knows how he may report/ Thy words by adding fuel to the flame?

Deborah Cox

I think it's his perception of knowing how to make a record build, keeping the integrity of the song in the music and really adding a lot of musical elements to compliment my voice and to compliment the song.

Carlos Rodriguez

I think the change is not going to make much of a difference in terms of service because security is on patrol all the time, regardless of where the headquarters is located. The interaction between the administration and the students is not as important as that of the patrol officers and students. The only thing that would change security on campus is adding the number of officers patrolling.

Mike Ramsey

We're one week away from trial, and they are adding things. I don't think the judge will tolerate it at this late date.

Takeo Spikes

We take it as a compliment. ... But do we stop? Nah. If anything, you're just adding more gas to the fire.

Geddy Lee

Other times, I'll just sit with the lyrics and, basically, the lyrics will inspire me to write a particular melodic part or vocal melody.

Geddy Lee

I like to feel I can use any piece of equipment that strikes me at the time and I don't want to be overly obliging to any company.

Randy Bachman

The first album's influences were James Taylor and Coco, and then they switched to Credence Clearwater Revival and Rolling Stones on the second.

Stephen Pope

The European car industry is really delivering the type of product that people want to buy, at the price that they are willing to pay.

Alannah Myles

Make sure you love what you do or it will eat you alive.

Alex Lifeson

Not particularly... the reason is because we made a promise to ourselves years ago that whatever we did in the studio we would try to recapture live.

Eric San

It's something I've been working on for about two years and I just finished doing the inking about three days ago, so I'm pretty excited.

Deborah Cox

I've done that I was touring a couple of years ago with R. Kelly and the Lillith Fair, I would do the late night underground gigs as well because it's always around those times that there was a hot song, either on the radio or in the clubs, it would just be simultaneous.

Sebastian Bach

They don't have the edge that I need. I'm not interested in reliving 1988.

Sean Maher

It always takes a moment for me to process something like that, ... I think I'm prepared for it, but it's like receiving a really generous compliment that leaves you at a loss for words.

Joel Quenneville

He's a threat every night. He's got jump, he's got energy. I think that's a great compliment for a young kid: knowing that each and every night (the team is) getting something from him.

Aly Michalka

I think it's important to see where compliments are coming from - if they're compliments about your inside, your heart, or if they're about your physicality or your personality.

Aly Michalka

I think you can learn a lot about a guy from the way that he talks to you and the way that he compliments you. If he's complimenting you when you're just walking down the street and it's something completely pure and of the moment, then that's something you can take to heart.

J. M. Roberts

I think that's a nice compliment to these guys and their effort. I like my team.

Ken Hitchcock

We look at that as a compliment, first of all,

Robert Wagner

Anytime anybody impersonates you, it's a great compliment.

Walter Jon Williams

If you can find collaborators whose strengths compliment your own, the result can be more than the sum of its authors.

William Feather

Everybody knows how to utter a complaint, but few can express a graceful compliment.

Shakira

I feel comfortable in my pop shoes. They let me walk in any direction. I like to go from one extreme to the other. One day I feel that I want to do a song with reggaeton influence, I do it. The next day I feel I need to do a song with rock elements to it, I do it.

Tim Jackson

I think you put the combination of those three elements together and you've got a real premiere festival,

Tom O'Neil

It has all the elements that the Globe voters like. It has an important social message. It has A-list stars. It's part of the public debate.

Tupac Shakur

I want there to be a life for the street element. Instead of we always getting shut out. Instead of defenseless, having power.

Donald Tsang

I suggest we work on all these elements and reach the final destination of universal suffrage as quickly as possible.

William Shakespeare

His life was gentle, and the elements / So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up / And say to all the world, / This was a man!

David Barrett

I?m not usually very impressed with him as a speechmaker, but I thought his speech had most of the right elements for being a really good presidential speech.

Roger Bannister

The mile has all the elements of drama.

Christopher Hill

The issue is the tactics of how we express the elements of the document.

Ken Zimmerman

Keeping the matches just may be therapeutic for everyone.

Joe Schmidt

keeping pressure on the ball, controlling the opponent's set plays and team defense.

Jack Dean

Just to be within one shot of Beaufort, I'm ecstatic. When were not keeping up with Beaufort is when I'm not happy.

Stephnie Weir

There are so many examples of people who have flourished by keeping their nose to the grindstone and doing their thing. Be persistent and don't give up.

Drew Stanton

Having that (run-and-pass) threat is really nice in keeping people off-balance.

Larry Smith

It didn't make sense keeping the property industrial. It would have been underutilized that way.

Don Dunn

I was disappointed in him because he has a lot of potential. He was not playing up to his potential. He was lazy. He wasn't keeping up with his academics.

Margaret Spellings

We're on the way to keeping that promise.

Brad Ranson

I think we got the cobwebs out in the second quarter. At first, we were a little nervous. I thought the key was the second quarter, getting up by a big 10 points and just keeping the lead throughout the game.

Chris Porter

Knowing you're a part of this ... is something.

Fernando Alonso

Knowing what it takes to win a title, I think they need a year running at the top first. Next year is more realistic for them. They'll make a big step at some point.

Ben Wallace

Knowing Tony, I know he wouldn't go in the stands for no reason. You've got to protect your family.

Katha Pollitt

knowing that it's there for them if they really need it.

Tiki Barber

Knowing Stray, he'll play. He was walking around, but he wasn't walking all right. But he's always ready to play, even when he's hurting, he's OK.

Manny Acta

Knowing Pedro, he doesn't want to participate just to participate.

Bubba Tyer

Knowing Jon, he might have taken it off.

Mark Lewis

Knowing it's going to work is the rarest part of that equation. It was all at once for us.

Stan Cliburn

Knowing him, he'll want to get in the lineup as soon as he can.

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.

William Fonville

Today in the music industry, it's all strictly business.

Winnie Holzman

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

Richard C. Armitage

I went into musical theatre, which I'm not really cut out for - I'm not as skilled at it as other people.

Tre Cool

I had trouble fitting in, in a musical sense. A lot of drummers get sidetracked by the instrument. It can engulf you.

Rick James

I decided to build up my band in Buffalo because Buffalo was where I had originally built up my own musical strength.

William Shenstone

The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical.

William Shatner

I love the musicality of words.

Samuel Rogers

And the Sabbath bell, That over wood and wild and mountain dell Wanders so far, chasing all thoughts unholy With sounds most musical, most melancholy.

Richard Rodney Bennett

Being on a musical quest was something I always enjoyed.

Wayne Rooney

I listen to 50 Cent, Jay-Z, Stereophonics, Arctic Monkeys; also the musical Oliver - I can sing every tune.

Walter Molony

We think 2006 will be another record for second-home sales.

David Walker

I think a lot of teams would probably have the same record if you look at who they've played,

Jeff Corey

I think they have a much better team then their record indicates.

AJ Michalka

I want make more records with my sister. I want to go on the road. I want to tour around the world. I want to continue to make great films and work with incredible directors that I respect and look up to.

Brian Setzer

He was just thrilled, ... He said, 'Oh my gosh, you want to record that old song? I think I got it up in the attic!'

Regina Spektor

I don't really make records chronologically.

Robert Crumb

I still can't spend a lot of money on records at collector prices. There's something in me that just won't allow me to do that. But I will trade my artwork, which I know is worth thousands of dollars.

Robert Wyatt

This constant pressure from record companies to come up with a hit single or something like that, I find completely tiresome.

Warren Buffett

An irresistable footnote: in 1971, pension fund managers invested a record 122% of net funds available in equities - at full prices they couldn't buy enough of them. In 1974, after the bottom had fallen out, they committed a then record low of 21% to stocks.

Ricky Fante

I wrote the song in tribute ... at the time she was murdered,

Dan Hill

Songs sometimes are so connected to the sociology of the time.

Estelle

Labrinth is a super talented singer, producer, songwriter from London.

Nick Cave

I would hate to think my songs were giving advice to people.

Robert Cray

Normally when we go in and write the songs we write, we think about doing a cover, but never a covers record. That would be, for us, a concept. We don't want to have a concept!

Rob Thomas

I've had the pleasure of working closely with Marc Von Em as a singer, but when I heard his original stuff, I asked him to open up a 10,000 seat gig. Just him, his guitar, and his songs. He killed it!

Rob Sheffield

Every moment of my life has a soundtrack, so I never know when some song is going to jump me by surprise and bring the memory alive.

Rob Sheffield

Singing what's in your heart? Naming the things you love and loathe? You can get hurt that way. Hell, you will get hurt that way. But you'll get hurt trying to hide away in all that silence and leave your life unsung. There's no future without tears. Are you really setting your hopes on not getting hurt at all? You think that's an option? You clearly aren't listening to enough Morrissey songs.

Rob Sheffield

The Word 'Repulse': I hate this word. I believe 'repel' is a perfectly good word, and 'repulsion' is the noun, as well as the title of an excellent Dinosaur Jr. song. A compulsion compels you; an impulse impels you. Nobody ever says 'compulse' or 'impulse' as a verb. So why would you ever say 'repulse'? This word haunts me in my sleep, like a silver dagger dancing before my eyes. Renee looked it up and I was wrong. But I still kind of think I'm right.

Carl Jung

If you insist on the chase," I say, my voice much surer than I feel."Then you better start training. 'Cause, dude you're in for a marathon.

Richelle Mead

No," he said, voice thick and husky. His fingers dug into the chair's arms. "You'd better not get too close." I stopped, laughing softly. "You don't strike me as the assaulting type, Mortensen." "Yeah, well, there's a first time for everything.

Richelle Mead

Only what?” I asked. I could barely hear my own voice. He turned his gaze back to me, firm and unflinching. “Only… more human.” And that was it. All the anger and sorrow vanished. There was nothing in me. Nothing at all. I was empty. “Get out,” I said.

Richelle Mead

Roza." His voice had that same wonderful lowness, the same accent . . . it was all just colder. "You forgot my first lesson: Don’t hesitate.

Richard Ben-Veniste

Without the tape-recorded evidence demonstrating irrefutably, in Nixons own voice, his knowledge of and active involvement in obstruction of justice, it is likely that Nixon would have escaped impeachment and removal from office.

Russell Brand

What should happen is a little voice in your head, like Jimmy Cricket in Pinocchio, will go 'But Russell, that bird, that's a creature like you, if you kill it it'll be all sad' and you go 'F***, alright. I won't kill it then.'

Trey Songz

Never forget the morals instilled in you and what really matters in Life. Never let other voices of other people drown out your inner voice

Tricia Helfer

Most of the time, with voice-overs, you're recording before they've got the graphics, and you also don't get a whole script. I get my lines, as I show up that day. You don't know what the rest of the story is, so you really rely on the people in the room that you're working with, so they can fill you in on what's going on, right around your particular lines.

Rick Riordan

Annabeth's voice caught on the word friend. Percy was a lot more than that. Even boyfriend really didn't cover it. They'd been through so much together, at this point Percy was part of her--a sometimes annoying part, sure, but definitely a part she could not live without.