Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard D. James

My filing system's really crap because I can never decide whether to sort things by studio, or year, or where I lived.

Richard D. James

I've always got to change something. All the tracks I've done in the last five years were made in like six different studios. It gets a bit complicated.

Robbie Coltraine

Once you've been doing anything for twenty-five years people start to notice you.

Rob Sheffield

Not being able to protect her from things was the most frightening thing I'd ever felt, and it kicked in as soon as we got together. With every year we spent together, I became more conscious that I now had an infinitely expanding number of reasons to be afraid. I had something to lose.

Rob Chapman

I'm an avowed modernist. I'm for the new thing. I came to the conclusion many years ago that rock music is essentially a conservative form.

Rob Chapman

The way I have progressed as a writer over the years is to try and stay true to the principles I absorbed.

Rob Halford

They were and still are a groundbreaking band. Even though they haven't released any new music in ages, you can put on the first Black Sabbath album and it still sounds as fresh today as it did 30-odd years ago. And that's because great music has a timeless ability: To me, Sabbath are in the same league as the Beatles or Mozart. They're on the leading edge of something extraordinary.

Richard P. Feynman

If the professors of English will complain to me that the students who come to the universities, after all those years of study, still cannot spell 'friend,' I say to them that something's the matter with the way you spell friend.

Richard P. Feynman

So this piece of dirt waits four and a half billion years and evolves and changes, and now a strange creature stands here with instruments and talks to the strange creatures in the audience. What a wonderful world!

Samuel Johnson

Towering is the confidence of twenty-one.

Henry A. Kissinger

If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twenty percent.

Terence McKenna

Impressionism is simply twenty minutes into LSD.

Thomas A. Edison

I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom. Seventy-five of us worked twenty hours every day and slept only four hours — and thrived on it.

Taylor Swift

We're in our twenties and we don't know anything and it's awesome.

John Bytheway

Oh, seriously--how could you be miserable with twenty thingamabobs AND a snarfblat?!

Joan Collins

When I was 49, I posed for Playboy - I was very flattered to be asked. I was quite honoured, really, considering that most of the models they feature are in their twenties.

Katherine Heigl

I look back at my twenties and see that I was much less confident.

Kurt Vonnegut

Scientific truth was going to make us so happy and comfortable. What actually happened when I was twenty-one was that we dropped scientific truth on Hiroshima.

William Beveridge

Unemployment is like a headache or a high temperature - unpleasant and exhausting but not carrying in itself any explanation of its cause.

Rudyard Kipling

In the jungle, life and food depend on keeping your temper.

William Hazlitt

Good temper is one of the greatest preservers of the features.

Nick Hornby

But then, that was the trouble with relationships generally. They had their own temperature and there was no thermostat.

Sean Paul

It's about ladies, as usual. I'm telling the ladies I got the right temperature to keep them warm.

Linda Ellerbee

co-dependence...taking someone else's temperature to see how you feel ...

Lewis Carroll

Why, what a temper you are in!

Julie Delpy

I avoid confrontation. When I'm on set I never snap at anyone. I don't have a temper.

John Irving

As it was, things went from bad to worse, as they often will when amateurs are involved in an activity that they perform in bad temper – or in a hurry.