Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joe Henderson

I was joking but he took responded seriously: 'I would know, and I couldn't live with myself knowing that I'd only run 97 miles or whatever.'

John Fogerty

I wrote that song for my wife, and it's what some guy who's sitting under a tree would be singing to the woman of his life, telling her how wonderful she is. To me, that's more lasting than something that sounds like it belongs on a movie soundtrack.

Grandmaster Flash

We can come from our own particular point of view and lay it down. We should not be throwing verbal rocks at each other. We're all responsible to continue the growth of Hip Hop.

Solomon Burke

I walked out of the Chinese restaurant with a fat check, a record deal, and a box of shrimp egg foo yung!

Gavin DeGraw

I think it's important not to worry about that too much, because even if I was the next big thing, there would be another next big thing soon.

Otis Blackwell

I think the one that really happened was Fever with Little Willie John. But, it only went so far because Peggy Lee jumped on it.

Jerry Harrison

I think that the increased bandwith will make music and movie clips a lot more satisfying; but it won't sort out boring ideas or songs.

Adrian Belew

We expect to keep our writing sessions going until late spring, then to play some new material in a few secret club dates. The record will likely take a long time and may not surface until 1999!

Jimmy Chamberlin

What I see for the band by the end of this year is the Complex live at the Montreux Jazz Festival. I want my guys to be comfortable. I'm certainly not in this for the money, but I'd really like to see my guys make some money off of this stuff.

Byron Scott

I think the energy in the crowd has been a tremendous boost to our team. We've got a lot of young guys and they feed off that type of energy. When you have a college atmosphere and you have a young team, this is what they like to play in front of.

Joe Knight

We just have to go back to practice and prepare. Defensively, we had some breakdowns tonight. We just have to go fix it and come mentally focused next time. I'm pretty sure it's going to be a big-time atmosphere in there with a lot of people. We just have to learn how to tune the crowd out and just play ball.

Cliff Wilson

It has everything to do with the atmosphere of what's going on in Harrisburg. The late-night pay raise, the failure to deal with property tax reform.

Cameron Crowe

I just think if you play it, it seeps in, it seeps into the performances, it seeps into the atmosphere of the movie. And a lot of times I used the music ... while they were doing the scene.

Jamsheed Marker

Clearly, it's not possible to hold these consultations in an atmosphere charged with fighting. That has to stop. And that's a prerequisite. It's something that we've told all sides, and in particular to the Indonesian government,

Ed Moore

I'm totally opposed to this high-density situation that is invading the atmosphere of the community.

Richard Kerr

I'm concerned that if the property was sold it could be turned into trucking or construction company and ruin the atmosphere of the neighborhood.

James Womack

If there's anything going on in a particular bar and it's not the atmosphere I want or be in, I have a choice to go to a different bar.

Philip Green

I regard the recent barrage in the press as an unjustified attempt to discredit me and deeply disappointing. I believe the current atmosphere could only realistically lead to a bitterly and publicly fought takeover battle which, in my opinion, would now have a very damaging effect upon Marks & Spencer's employees and brand.

Ken Bacon

He just said that if you looked down several months out into the future and you reach a point in August or September or October where we might want to deploy ground troops, what is the type of planning timeframe that would be necessary in order to position NATO to do that,

Steve Spurrier

He is real sensitive to some of his colleagues in college, when a lot of people are saying he's going to get this job or that job. He doesn't want to be out there in August talking about that.

Stephen Flynn

What we have failed to realize is the terrorists showed us on 9/11 that we are vulnerable. And Katrina showed us here in late August and September that we are still a very vulnerable society--and the most vulnerable part of the population ends up without the lifeboat.

Chuck LaMar

Having said that, we saw him play the latter part of August and thought he had had enough. He had already gone from Double-A to Triple-A and we thought it was time for him to go home and get ready to play winter ball if he wanted to, or if not, get ready for spring training.

David Buik

It has been a long hard August with significant volatility. Twenty-one of the last 30 Septembers have yielded losses on the month. It is difficult to see that this September will buck the trend.

Rick Sherlund

Oracle has an August quarter, so we are more compelled to cut estimates now. Siebel is September, so we could wait, but the numbers just look too optimistic. Given cost reductions, the EPS cut for Oracle is small, but the growth rates for Siebel are much faster, so EPS reductions more significant.

Andrew Kenny

If you live in a city like Chicago, New York, San Francisco or Austin, this is not the last time you're going to see us. Though this is the last time we're going to get in a van in August and get out of the van in December. This is the last time everyone quits their jobs and does the whole shebang.

Herbert Hainer

Clearly there are challenges that Reebok will solve but these were not unknown when we made our offer in August and we remain fully confident in the synergies,

Charles Stanley

Clearly, events on July 7 and the British Airways strike in August had an impact on level of passenger growth ... as a result, BAA has revised its passenger-growth forecast slightly lower from 3.5% to 3% for the financial year,

Bronson Arroyo

Just one of those days that every hit they had, they were all mistakes and they smashed him,

Steve Dunn

I taught somewhere between 600 to 700 students while I was here. I can tell you those were great days in this old school building.

Tony Russa

He just had no feel. Everything he tried to do, he was missing his target. It was one of those days that he just didn't have a feel for the game of pitching.

Larry Rothschild

He knows that he does sides in between and the days he does them. I'll talk to him in the next day or two but the scheduling, as far as pitching, is not in our hands.

Dani Shapiro

I am devoted to my husband and son. I am devoted to the practices and rituals that imbue our lives with a sense of meaning and purpose, that help me to live my days in the most emotionally and intellectually productive manner. I am devoted to the idea of devotion itself.

Robert Wisner

Here in Iowa, there were a lot of nervous days during the summer due to hotter weather than in earlier years.

Christian Vieri

He's a good kid. We've been together for 20 days and have had a good time together,

Arlen Specter

Here you have a reporter in jail for 85 days and millions of Americans wonder why? I'm one of those.

Arnie Berman

Here we are seven days into the new quarter, and the pre-announcement season has been extremely mild,

Friedrich Schiller

Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.

Annika Sorenstam

I just thought that is pretty neat. She comes from a small town, just like I do, and I thought, 'Wow! If she can do that, maybe I can follow my dreams and one day be able to follow her path.

Jeff Mangum

I'm very influenced by the circus. A lot of the dreams that I have, I'm in the circus.

Lucy Lawless

I'm thrilled that women are encouraged to follow their dreams and I am equally pleased that young men are getting a new view of women: an unapologetic woman.

Hilary Clinton

In my dreams I meet six New Yorkers I screwed over. Whether I did it legally or not is irrelevant.

Henry David Thoreau

Do not lose hold of your dreams or asprirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.

Randy Smith

The last four years have been great. It's a lot of coaches' dreams to be at the state tournament, and it was a dream for me. But these are super, super kids. It's hard to let them go.

Jonathan Lewis

It's a game every kid who plays football dreams about playing in. This is just a dream come true.

Joe Girardi

I took this situation because I wanted this situation and I wanted these kids. We all want to help these kids succeed. We all want to help them realize their dreams and become great players.

Andre McGee

I think it did have to be this way, so he could get the ending he deserved.

Ronald Utt

I think as a consequence you are ending up with a program that is excessively costly and socially destructive.

Randy Sherman

I think that served as a lesson to them. Every thing ending up alright.

The Vikings

I just saw the shot, did my routine and it worked out. I'm very glad we finished before the rain and storms came. It was just really nice to have a good day and it was a good ending to the official season.

Heather Williams

I just do not want to be a part of ending that life.

Folarin Campbell

I know it. We wanted a better ending to our story, but it had to end some way.

Matt Reeves

It's crazy when you think about the 'Apes' franchise and how dark all of the endings are and how dark the movies are, and yet there's something very pleasurable about these movies. It really comes down to the potency of this idea, of seeing intelligent apes.

Allison Janney

I walk on the set every day since his ... you know, since his death, and feel a great loss. It feels like a very organic ending to the show with him gone because I just can't imagine doing it without him.

Brian Brohm

No, maybe before or maybe after the game when the game is ending up, ... Not while I'm actually out there during the game.

Vivien Leigh

I've been a godmother loads of times, but being a grandmother is better than anything.

Will Smith

I so connected to symbolically being able to turn lead into gold. My grandmother used to say, "Life give you a lemon, you go ahead and make lemonade." To me, that's alchemy.

Ursula K. Le Guin

It is not altogether a bad thing to have criminal ancestors. An arsonist grandfather may bequeath one a nose for smelling smoke.

Sandra Lee

My most cherished possessions are my grandma's letters and my vintage Martha Washington cookbook.

Zora Neale Hurston

Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the granddaughter of slaves. It fails to register depression with me.

Zach Galifianakis

I once walked in on my grandparents making love...And that's why I don't eat raisins.

Zac Efron

Don't get me wrong - I've gone to a club. But I'd much rather be with my close friends at home or a concert, or on a trip. I'll go dancing with my grandma. She likes to cut a rug!

William Feather

Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers.

Zhang Xin

I'm afraid what we are building today will not have the same impact and sustainability of the architecture of a 100, 500 or 1,000 years ago. The buildings of those days were miracles. We don't perform such miracles today. So we should be a little more modest. For my part, I'll be glad to show one of my buildings one day to my grandchildren and say: I'm proud of that.

Bobby Bowden

I'm pretty hot right now, because that was a pretty frustrating offensive performance,

John Oates

You've got to pay me to leave my house, spend the night in hotels and fly in airplanes. That's what I get paid for. Playing I actually do for free.

Bobby Burton

The hottest school in the country, period. And it has been for three years.

Jim Dixon

The hotter and sweatier you are, the better it tastes.

David Paulison

These people in hotels and motels must take the next step to find a better housing solution.

K. D. Lang

Justin Bieber looks like a lesbian. Hot as sh*t!

Kathryn Stockett

Who knew heartbreak would be so goddamn hot.

Louis Tomlinson

If I were a food, I'd be a Chili because you know.. I'm hot.

Franklin P. Jones

It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water.

Willard Van Orman Quine

Wyman's overpopulated universe is in many ways unlovely. It offends the aesthetic sense of us who have a taste for desert landscapes.

Jessica Young

This is a landscape bird. It specializes in using very small pieces of a very large landscape.

Marcel Proust

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

David Hockney

Enjoyment of the landscape is a thrill.

Mike Gold

I've been pleasantly surprised by the credibility, seriousness, and capabilities shown by these entities.

Tyler Walker

(Friday) has been a pleasant day all around.

Cassandra Clare

It won't be pleasant." "Nothing ever is.

Al Groh

He's probably come on a little fast, ... That probably was the pleasant surprise of it.

Kofi Annan

Mr. Volcker has said that 'the findings do not make for pleasant reading,' and I agree.