Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yanni

When you do music concerts at Taj Mahal and the Acropolis, you have to be careful about your performance being appropriate with the place that surrounds you. It has to be appropriate to the culture - it should fit the building behind you, the environment you are playing it in and the culture of that place.

Natalie du Toit

It is wonderful to say that your days behind a school desk are over. It's just another phase in your life.

Duane Blackburn

We have a good nucleus of kids coming back and another solid group coming up behind them. We'll be a challenge, no doubt. Kids like Wolf and (sophomore) Guy Price and some of the others, they will augment Chandler at the lighter weights. My assistant, Bo Ramsey, has done a wonderful job bringing all of them along.

Keith Newman

We've gotten some people back on our side. We haven't gotten them all back. But the more we win, the more we think we can get them behind us again.

Sean Hill

We have to make sure we come out with a little more fire in the first period and take the play to them because when you don't, you're playing from behind all night, ... That's when you get penalties and when you get put away. And that's what happened.

Kirk Ferentz

Usually when you see a stat like that, at least for a team like us, that's an indicator you're coming from behind and you've got a lot of work to do. But you've got to give our opponent a lot of credit. They played a great game.

Hope Davis

Usually the wife and mother who's left behind is the wronged one, the one holding the family together, ... In this case, she's just as self-absorbed as he is and isn't too much better with the kids.

John Lawhon

Usually someone will develop into the leading scorer later in the season, and we'll have a bunch of players behind him. I'd rather have it like this.

S. Hughes

With the entire staff of the fishing group working behind the scenes to secure donations, we're hoping to raise many thousands of dollars that will go directly to impacted families and individuals in the fishing industry.

Nina Easton

Events like Hurricane Katrina and the Minnesota bridge collapse suggest a national infrastructure that has suffered from lack of tending.

Anthony Chan

We will see a moderation ? but not a collapse ? in consumer spending,

Milos Forman

I remember in 1968 when we were in Cannes, in the festival, and we were supposed to be there 10 days, and the second day the festival collapsed because the French, you know, film-makers raised the red flag in the festival and ended the festival.

Kenneth Fisher

Most investors give too much credence to the theory that prices are rational; they presume that a market collapse must have been justified by serious economic trouble.

Allen Collins

When that collapsed we lost thousands of dollars,

Jim Ott

We just collapsed over those last six holes. We started out poorly, played really well for a long stretch, then finished poorly. We seem to go through peaks and valleys as a team rather than just as individuals.

Rafer Alston

I thought he was going to collapse out there.

Sean Callow

We are not talking about a collapse next year or a recession, but we are predicting a pretty significant fall in prices.

Robert Kiyosaki

The Spanish Empire eventually collapsed because of its expensive taste for warfare and conquest.

Bob Lambert

When you take those three complexes alone, you're talking about hundreds of units.

Jim Haslett

We've been in four complexes in four weeks, I've been in three hotels, now an apartment. But that (performance) had nothing to do with where we live or what we do. We sucked on that field today.

Jim Haslett

You know, we take this thing day by day. I've been in four complexes in four weeks ... three hotels, now an apartment. But that has nothing to do with what we did on the field today -- we sucked on that field, if you want to know the truth.

Anne Heche

I searched so hard for a part that was so complex

Cynthia Lennon

John was closest of all to Paul; their relationship was very complex.

Chris Bates

Newer complexes generally go for higher rents than older ones.

Jim Haslett

I've been in four complexes in four weeks, ... I've moved offices numerous times. I think three hotels and now an apartment.

Rakesh Khurana

Leadership is based on complex phenomena.

Jim Haslett

In the situation we're in right now, we're living day to day, ... I don't know how many teams have ever traveled this much. We've been in four complexes in four weeks. But that had nothing to do with the way we played.

Rick Perry

If you're looking for a slick politician or a guy with great teleprompter skills, we already have that. He's destroying our economy. I'm a doer, not a talker.

Malala Yousafzai

If you don't focus on the future generation, it means you are destroying your country.

Dave Barry

While you are destroying your mind watching the worthless, brain-rotting drivel on TV, we on the Internet are exchanging, freely and openly, the most uninhibited, intimate and, yes, shocking details about our "CONFIG.SYS" settings.

Graham Chapman

We received a letter from a lady who was incensed about my moral depravity, as though I was destroying the underpinnings of society.

Hank Johnson

The myopic obsession of the Tea Party with destroying health care reform and wounding the president has led Republicans astray.

Ryan Newman

We're not taking anything away, we're just trying to keep some vandalism-oriented people from destroying it.

Aamir Khan

Because they want more advertisements, they are destroying what is a very important part of the society - news reporting. It is wasting important national space that should be used in a more productive manner.

Al Williams

I have a gut feeling we are slowly, inch by inch, destroying quality education for all students.

Steve Scott

I feel disgusted that he would have anything to do with the Olympic movement after nearly destroying the Olympics.

Yahya Jammeh

Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.

Yossi Vardi

In the end, I think that people that are not willing to take the risk to fail are not true entrepreneurs.

Yancy Butler

Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are telling you it has powers. I would be a little skeptical myself.

Ian Mckellen

I don't think many people will re-read 'The Da Vinci Code.'

Ian Mckellen

People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'

Irwin Thomas

I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.

Irwin Rose

I don't have any hobbies. You know, I'm very embarrassed when people ask me what are my hobbies; I don't have any hobbies. I mean, it's just enough to keep up with the things I'm trying to solve.

Isiah Whitlock, Jr.

Usually, when you're working or you're on set, everything is very guarded. At parties, people have a tendency to relax.

Imani Hakim

When people say, 'If you could do anything else, what would you do?' I would be an actress. That's something that I would do - I can't see myself doing anything else.

Allan Hale

We're visualizing spreading it around a little bit,

Angela Ross

We're all spread out now. We just come here - it's just like she was Big Mama.

Steve McClain

Give Vegas credit. They spread us out and executed.

Georg Petersen

It confirms what we have thought for a while, that the H5N1 virus is widely spread in Indonesia.

Greg Smith

We spread things around pretty good, especially in the first quarter.

Joe Sims

We're begging. We're going after any organization that will give us money. We're spreading the word wide and far,

Jane Goodall

The more we spread the word, the further it will go and more it will change!

Daniel H. Wilson

If the knowledge is spread, it cannot be stamped out.

Brooke Astor

Money is like manure; it’s not worth a thing unless it’s spread around.

Benjamin Netanyahu

We will take whatever action is necessary to protect our people,including against the terror tunnels that they are trying to dig against us.

Barry Commoner

If you can see the light at the end of the tunnel, you are looking the wrong way.

Benjamin Netanyahu

I would say we want to stop the firing of rockets, for sure. But we also want to dismantle the terror - the tunnel - the terror tunnel networks that we have uncovered.

Edward Norton

I tend to have a kind of tunnel vision when I'm looking at an individual piece.

Aristotle Onassis

I've just been a machine for making money. I seem to have spent my life in a golden tunnel looking for the outlet which would lead to happiness. But the tunnel kept going on. After my death there will be nothing left.

Ayrton Senna

It was like I was in a tunnel. Not only the tunnel under the hotel but the whole circuit was a tunnel. I was just going and going, more and more and more and more. I was way over the limit but still able to find even more.

Ben Fountain

Maybe the light's at the other end of the tunnel.

Annie Dillard

Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery, like the idle, curved tunnels of leaf miners on the face of a leaf

Stephen Jay Gould

Great theories are expansive; failures mire us in dogmatism and tunnel vision.

Walead Beshty

My works look to how images are produced, but specially based upon how the material reacts.

Shane McAnally

When something works on a huge level, everybody does it.

Frank Thomas

If I'm in a cast, I can't do it. We'll see how it works out, but I'll be around.

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

The 21st-century curator works in a supremely globalised reality.

Andy Reid

We'll see what's out there. We've evaluated a lot of players. We'll see how it all works out here.

Cy Coleman

We're doing a workshop over the first two weeks of December, I believe, with Graciella Daniele directing it.

Val McDermid

Walking by water frees your creativity. I don't know how it works - there's something about it that's liberating.

Ira Glass

Honestly, I am so ignorant of how dance works that I can't even imagine a story that you would want to tell through movement.

Romesh Gunesekera

Sri Lanka is a part of my background: it's not where I live, but it's what I want to explore. And I find it works very well to explore through fiction.