Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alafair Burke

I was downright obnoxious. In second grade, we had some program where we kept a public list of all the books we read. I think it even included the number of pages. In my nerdy mind, having the longest and most impressive list was somehow going to make up for the fact that I couldn't climb a rope or do a backwards summersault in PE.

Stan Perkins

I was a chunky little kid, and when they sat me in that wagon, it tipped backward and I banged my head on the (concrete) floor. I was howling pretty good, but Dad went outside and cried his eyes out.

Neil Strauss

All this stuff is backward engineered from what works. Nobody sat at a computer and invented these techniques. They watched guys who are successful and broke it down to what works.

Tony Vis

All of a sudden (in the second half) we started to play vertical, where now we're playing forward basketball rather than looking to throw the ball backward and going side to side. We got our players out running.

John Updike

The good ending dismisses us with a touch of ceremony and throws a backward light of significance over the story just read. It makes it, as they say, or unmakes it. A weak beginning is forgettable, but the end of a story bulks in the reader's mind like the giant foot in a foreshortened photograph.

Joe Ferrer

The horse went over backward once and came down. He got his left foot out of the stirrup but he couldn't get his right foot out in time.

Shawn Mendes

The first year I started hockey, I didn't know how to skate, so I got on the ice with all of the hockey players, and we were doing drills where we had to go backwards in figure eights. And I could not skate, and I just kept falling on my butt, and it was very embarrassing.

Joan Baker

Everyone's bent over backward in the Whitesboro school district,

Robert Greenstein

The new data are particularly troubling for working people, showing backward movement for most workers. In short, the census data provide new evidence that, as in 2002 and 2003, the recovery was neither robust nor broad-based.

Simon Spurr

Even though it's not a widely appreciated yarn, any suit made from a mohair-wool blend travels exceptionally well. The retention of the mohair fiber bounces back and minimizes any creasing that occurs whilst traveling. Mohair also breathes really well, keeping you cool or warm, and is therefore extremely versatile.

Bob Lilley

I think we've made a number of good signings and we've blended them with a very strong core group from last year.

Heidi Klum

I think it's really nice to have a documentary-style show where talented people are actually doing something. It's not just some stupid show where people blend up worms.

Michael Cimino

I watched them blend pinot noir and chardonnay, ... I thought if I could blend natural flavors with grape juice, I could do the same kind of experimenting.

Thomas Kinkade

I blend time frames in my paintings. I tend to like things without the reference of time. A garden could be now, it could be 100 years ago. It's a garden. When I paint hometown settings, things like that, there is a sense of embracing an older life, but I have to say I like to mix time frames. I like to paint what could be now, if the right cars were on the street.

Ann Druyan

He had a passion for democracy, for people to make informed decisions so they can think critically, ... He was rare blend of science and poetry and social consciousness.

John Schuerholz

He gets those guys to subjugate their individual egos and blend them into one team ego. It's an ego of one.

Robin Reynolds

Our 2005 player field will feature the perfect blend of both solid veterans and rising stars. This year, fans will be able to see some of the most exciting players in women's tennis today.

Sally Drucker

Pine is porous, and you have to work it in and blend it for a uniform look. A good finish is the hardest part.

Dave Ramsey

I would not pre-pay. I would invest instead and led the investments cover it.

Michael James

Jack couldn't find a wall he didn't want to run into. He'd write insulting cover letters to editors. When I'd say, 'Jack, you're shooting yourself in the foot,' he'd launch into a tirade about the worthlessness of a life lived untruly to oneself.

E. Helm

Joe Biden and I consulted in my office Wednesday night past, for about four and a half hours and we covered 21 differences and resolved them.

Andre Patterson

J.J. makes a lot of open 3's and off of picks. C-Lo just discourages defenses because guys will be hanging all over him, and he's still going to make it. He's a tough cover for anybody.

Lance Schulters

It all ties together. We cover well and it gives the linemen more time to get there and get pressure. That (total) speaks volumes for the guys up front. But they couldn't get there if we don't do our job as well.

Lance Schulters

It all ties in. We cover and give the linemen more time to get there.

Dennis McNally

It hurt his art, and it hurt his soul, ... And it covered up the symptoms of his health problems.

Gerry Keesling

We've got to make him hurry. We have to make him a little uncomfortable in the pocket. We have to make sure we cover their receivers.

Gail Lowe

We've freed up the largest sum ever to cover those expenses.

Chris Moore

He can split through two guys, and nobody knows how he got through,

Larry Coker

He knows that there is that window of opportunity and he has to respond,

Freddy Adu

He knows me, so he'll probably know what I'm up to, but I've matured a lot since I went pro,

Felipe Alou

He knows we need him real bad. Even if he's not up to par.

Tony Amonte

He's been in the No. 1 spot before so he knows the pressure, he knows how to play.

Brian Gionta

He's been around a lot longer, so he knows more than I would.

Mike Shula

He's doing OK. He knows it's going to be a long haul, and he's ready.

Doug Chapman

He was impressive. He has an all-court game. He knows when to come to the net. He plays within himself. He?s be a solid No. 1.

Len Sommers

I don't have any problems with him missing as long as he knows what he has to do and the time period that he knows he has to do it.

Pierce Brosnan

I have had a singing teacher in L.A. for many, many years just to work on my voice as an actor.

Ruben Studdard

Dairy products are not good for a singer.

Travis Tritt

If you're gonna sing, sing loud.

Robert Wyatt

When I'm singing I try not be a singer with a capital S. I just try to get it out so I feel comfortable with it.

Rod Parsley

God loves to hear your singing - so sing.

Robin Trower

It was an experience being on a Beatles tour. They weren't very good. The singing was great, but the playing was a bit weak.

Wes Moore

Life's impermanence, I realized, is what makes every single day so precious. It's what shapes our time here. It's what makes it so important than not a single moment be wasted.

Tracie Bennett

I'm not a singer. I'm a musician, which is different.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

Peace; come away: we do him wrong/ To sing so wildly: let us go.

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.

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 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.

Rob Sheffield

A song nobody likes is a sad thing. But a love song nobody likes is hardly a thing at all.

Rob Sheffield

Thanks to the greatest invention of recent years, the MP3-playing alarm clock, I can now choose the song that wakes me up in the morning.

Rob Sheffield

Our lives were just beginning, our favorite moment was right now, our favorite songs were unwritten.

Rob Sheffield

If all music did was bring the past alive, that would be fine. You can hide away in music and let it recapture memories of things that used to be. But music is greedy and it wants more of your heart than that. It demands the future, your future. Music wants the rest of your life. So you can't rest easy. At any moment, a song can come out of nowhere to shake you up, jump-start your emotions, ruin your life.

Tre Cool

Life is like breakfast: you just mix all ingredients 'cause in your stomach it will all come together.

Rick Danko

Paul Butterfield and I had a band together at one point.

William Jennings Bryan

Evolution is not truth; it is merely a hypothesis-it is millions of guesses strung together.

Virginia Woolf

But when we sit together, close,’ said Bernard, ‘we melt into each other with phrases. We are edged with mist. We make an unsubstantial territory.

William Shatner

I love the concept of togetherness and the entwinement of marriage.

William J. Clinton

The ideals that bind us together are as old as our nation, but so are the forces that pull us apart.

William Albert Allard

Words and pictures can work together to communicate more powerfully than either alone.

Yvette Nicole Brown

Christ's strength is manifest in our weakness, so if we had everything together there would be no need for Him.

Wilfrid Laurier

A colony, yet a nation - words never before in the history of the world associated together.

Bob Greenly

Justus is very much a work in progress, ... but he's getting better all the time.

Mads Mikkelsen

I take my work enormously seriously. When I do something, it has to feel right. Everything has to be right.

Dan Kane

It can happen. We just all have to work together.

Glenn Storch

I think it's going to work out fine.

Alan Siegel

I think the law should be comprehensible not only to those who work with it but also to those who are governed by it.

Michael Osterholm

I think that potentially neuraminidase inhibitors may work if you are already on them as prophylaxis (prevention),

Ben Kuehne

It had nothing to do with her work as a lobbyist.

Irwin Cohen

I think this works for New York City.

Sienna Guillory

I think that, with homoeopathy, if you get the right mix, it works 20 times quicker than conventional medicine.