Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joseph Brown

He's a trumpet player so having a winds and brass focus is a real treat. He's very passionate and level headed and not the kind of director who throws things at you.

Doug Garrison

Hit television show American Idol is the perfect example of this. Thousands of hopefuls sing their heart out (sometimes very badly) for a shot at the brass ring of fame. Now, it looks like all you have to do is log on to eBay and make a bid.

Frankie Dettori

I couldn't shake Brass Hat off. He was always a threat.

Janet Norwood

He got up and headed, he was going to go to the computer, and I said, 'No, it's not the computer. I could see the big brass buttons reflecting light (through the front door). That's a sight I'll never forget. There's something inside of me that still says to this day, if we just hadn't opened the door.

Jon Tester

I play trumpet. And I took all the music courses in college, so I can also play the string instruments, keyboard, the brass and woodwinds - but only well enough to teach them. If you put a violin in front of me, you wouldn't say, 'My God, that guy can play.' It'd probably sound more like Jack Benny.

Mal Peet

In my seaside town, there is a plethora of benches, each one bearing a little brass plate commemorating a deceased occupant. You sit with ghosts.

Willie Martinez

I'm so proud of what Brass Hat has done for us. We had a great experience and we'd love to come back next year.

Scott Turow

I keep two sentimental mementos on my desk to remind me of two favorite men. There is an inkwell that my Uncle Seymour made, a brass grotesque he mounted on a marble base. And my grandfather's shaving cup is there, used to store pencils and pens.

Allen Johnson

The car uses two brass acetylene-fed headlights, which were missing, ... We found a matched pair that had been painted. The crazy thing is, we found them at two swap meets in two different states.

Mike Oliver

I wouldn't be surprised if some of it's showing up on eBay in some fashion, ... Some of that stuff can get expensive.

Anthony Noto

It is important to keep in mind that typically eBay's initial next year's guidance is extremely conservative. In fact, over the past 4 years, eBay has outperformed its original next year's revenue and earnings-per-share guidance by 13% and 23%, respectively.

Pierre Omidyar

The interesting thing was, I started eBay off as a hobby so it was free of charge.

Niklas Zennstrom

Today, over one million people now make their living on eBay, which is astounding.

Heidi Julavits

I spend far too much time on eBay buying lamps and upholstery remnants.

John Brewer

They scan it for $20 or $30 at most and on eBay get $175, $165, something like that.

Carlos Garcia

It's one thing if you're face to face with someone, but if you're jumping on eBay trying to get a last-minute lift ticket, you're probably going to be the victim of a scam.

David Duchovny

I've got huge tubs full of X-Files memorobilia that I can sell on eBay.

Chelsea Leyland

I love vintage shopping in flea markets, vintage stores and even Ebay.

Kyle Rase

I talked to the kids about giving free passes, free runners, those are very costly. There was a perfect example of that with all the free runners they had tonight.

William Shelton

I think it's a good example of wishing a problem away. Unfortunately, more than not, we face these issues as they arise. It's like putting out fires.

Thomas Wilson

He was a great example of love expressed that expands and does not contract.

Rob DiMaio

He led by example and the way he played. He didn't have to talk. He was one of those guys who just played.

Rod Marsh

He leads by example, but he also thinks about the game as well,

Roberto Luongo

Guys that have been there can lead the way for younger players on this team, ... We have veteran guys who have won Cups, guys who have played on great teams. They know what it takes and know what it takes to put pucks in the net. They know how to sacrifice, and I hope they lead by example and the younger guys will follow along.

Shyam Selvadurai

I knew I had to write about Canada. I just could not find in literature any examples of the immigrant experience that I've had.

Patrick Robinson

He's a good example of what can be done wrestling outside of the scholastic program. The vast majority of our kids don't. But they also play other sports. Wrestling is Dan's only thing.

Todd Chanko

Here, you have a great example of two sister operations with mutual needs being satisfied by the other,

S. Hughes

He just went AWOL (absent without leave) on us. I think he just lost his heart for the battle. But he was a lovely lad. They all seem to be lovely lads from Trinidad.

Daniel Inouye

Henry was an acquaintance of presidents and kings, but his heart was always with the native people of Hawaii, who are still struggling for their moment in the sun,

Roberto Torres

Have the heart of a lion and the mind of an eagle.

Robert Richardson

Her lungs were fine. It was just her heart.

Sandra Ritchey

Her heart had just been working too hard.

Nanci Griffith

...here's to all the dreamers, may our open hearts find rest.

John Tortorella

He's been so much-maligned all year long but tonight his heart was as big as the building, especially in that third period he played.

Randy Rutledge

What do you tell the guys? All I can say is I'm proud of them. They got it done heart to win for each other.

Bryce Kaneshiro

I thought we had it. We had tons of opportunities, especially on the throw-ins. I thought we'd get two or three in. Right now, it's the worst feeling, but I'm proud of the guys. They left their hearts on the field.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Grief is so human, and it hits everyone at one point or another, at least, in their lives. If you love, you will grieve, and that's just given.

Janet Leigh

I was in that shower for seven days-70 set-ups. At least Hitchcock made sure that the water was warm.

Lori Cooper

Kim may also play some outside hitter for us this season.

Sue Adams

Kim hits a 3, and all of a sudden everyone just started playing.

Ryan Zimmerman

I wouldn't say I am a power hitter. I am a gap-to-gap guy. If I hit one like I did today, so be it.

Sarunas Jasikevicius

Jackson hit a lot of big shots. I thought that everyone stepped up. This was a big win for us.

Allison Johnson

Just like practice. I knew I just had to hit it hard.

Ron Whitehurst

Katy was hitting all her spots. She was able to pitch it inside and outside.

Tony Gwynn

He walks in my office and he's ready to hit the grind,'' Watson said.

Vance Havner

Our Lord approved neither idol worship or idle worship but ideal worship in Spirit and truth.

Samuel Rutherford

Consider, it is impossible that your idol sins and you can go to heaven together; and that those who will not part with these do not indeed love Christ at the bottom, but only in word and show, which will not do the business.

Wiz Khalifa

Your every breath of life is so precious, so don't waste any moment of life while sitting idol.

Walter Lippmann

It is better to catch the idol-maker than to smash each idol.

Karl Marx

England has to fulfill a double mission in India: one destructive, the other regenerating - the annihilation of old Asiatic society, and the laying the material foundations of Western society in Asia... When a great social revolution shall have mastered the results of the bourgeois epoch... and subjected them to the common control of the most advanced peoples, then only will human progress cease to resemble that hideous, pagan idol, who would not drink the nectar but from the skulls of the slain.

Natalie Cole

My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.

Nancy Pearcey

To adapt a phrase, idols have consequences.

Nancy Pearcey

But things that are intrinsically good can also become idols-if we allow them to take over any of God's functions in our lives.

Nicki Minaj

I'm just happy that 'Idol' producers gave me a shot on the show and to be able to show who I really was, because I feel like I'm every single woman.

Mark Clayton

When they log onto the Internet, all they're doing is revealing the winning combination of numbers. The method to reveal (them) is merely entertainment.

Ronald Walters

I don't know where the logic was that says she could overcome that. I don't understand why she got into it in the first place.

Robert M. Pirsig

The logic of science was infallible, and if the scientists were sometimes mistaken, this was assumed to be only from their mistaking its rules.

Zig Ziglar

Logic won't change an emotion but action will.

William Ralph Inge

In dealing with Englishmen you can be sure of one thing only, that the logical solution will not be adopted.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

All propositions are of equal value.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

A picture whose pictorial form is logical form is called a logical picture.

Robert Anderson

The tribes have got a powerful case, a very logical case.

Peter Thonis

This is a logical and predictable move by AT&T ( T ).

Chris Bucknam

I think it looks to be an outstanding stadium.

Matt Osborne

He didn't get many looks at the basket. But he picked it up defensively and he had six rebounds and six steals.

Bill Cowher

He can time things up and be very explosive. It looks sometimes like he's walking and not moving, but he can go from Point A to Point B very quickly. He's a very sudden player, and I think that's what makes him unique.

Quvenzhane Wallis

Doing the long lines - it looks easy when actresses do it: they just say it straight up, looks like they do nothing wrong, they just keep going, but it's not like that.

Frank Taylor

He's a big, strong, really good-bodied horse, and he looks really fast.

Mark DiCamillo

I think it's a two-step process and it looks like he's successfully getting people over in terms of step one to the undecided column. But there's a segment of voters who are withholding judgment. They know who Schwarzenegger is, but they are not sure.

Mark Billingham

I think women tend to write about how violence feels, whereas men tend to write about what violence looks like.

Alex Jones

Every time we look, they're killing Jews.

Craig Stevenson

I think we?re pretty close. It looks very good.

Jake Delhomme

I thought because we had never run it out of that formation at all -- I just thought it was the perfect call.

Craig Carpenter

We took our CEO, who is not a technologist, through the new setup wizard with no problem. It was the perfect test case.

Mel Kiper

I think that makes a lot of sense. For the type of scheme they play, he would be perfect for what they need.

and City

I will never be the woman with the perfect hair, who can wear white and not spill on it.

Richard K. Morgan

Evolutionary theory informs our understanding of some frankly inexcusable social behavior and renders it perfectly normal.

Richelle Mead

Takes a lot of tries before you hit perfection." He paused to reconsider that. "Well, except for my parents. They got it on the first try." (Adrian)

Richelle Mead

He was too perfect, despite being one of the most imperfect people I knew.

Richard Baxter

This life was not intended to be the place of our perfection, but the preparation for it.

Truman Capote

She had only one flaw. She was perfect, otherwise whe was perfect.

Steve Stirling

He's a real steady presence, on and off the ice. He has two championship rings and that's impressive.

Rocky Marciano

In the ring, I never really knew fear.

Wladimir Klitschko

I never fought in my life outside of a ring.

Mickey Spillane

I played in a movie called Ring of Fear with Clyde Beatty and Pat O'Brien.

Joss Whedon

Let freedom ring, unless it's on vibrate.

Alan Faneca

They got the rings and we went home.

Tiffany Jackson

Sometimes our doorbell will ring at 1 in the morning.

Douglas Hamilton

That's how we think the jovian rings are formed,

Richard Grimes

Standing in the ring awaiting the first round to start is not the time to think; I wish I'd trained for this. 

Justin Gray

I take tough shots all season. I do take a lot of them. You end up making some.

Andy Reid

He wanted to go deep. He wanted one more shot deep.

Doug Gay

He unloaded a shotgun on them. He killed one and maimed the other one.

Brad Buckman

He could have made any shot he chose.

Barbara Saunders

Having a special strategy is critical. You can't use the shotgun approach,

Nick Harkaway

'Gone-Away World' was a shotgun blast, an explosion out of the box I'd put myself into writing film scripts. 'Tigerman' is shorter, tighter, more crafted.

Frank Sciolla

It didn't matter. We were getting lay-ups. We were getting all the shots we wanted. They just weren't going in.

Mike Shanahan

We feel like he's got some skills. We like the way he plays. When you take a shot on somebody, you're not really sure it's going to work out. But we thought it was worth a gamble.

Keith Bogans

We've got to make the shots when they double-team Yao. That's what it comes down to.

Pierce Brosnan

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

James Nesbitt

I don't know a single person who doesn't regret the things that they did to hurt their parents, or the things they didn't say to them.

Michael R. Bloomberg

had to work every single day of his life.

Ruben Studdard

Dairy products are not good for a singer.

Travis Tritt

If you're gonna sing, sing loud.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Nothing worth doing can be accomplished in a single lifetime.

Sara Bareilles

I'm a traditional singer-songwriter. I have a more organic sound.

Rebecca De Mornay

When I was very young I wanted to be a professional horseback rider. Then I wanted to be a pop singer. Then I wanted to be a psychiatrist. Then I wanted to be a movie director.

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.

Rick Baker

I think you've been on television plenty, Ed,

Annabella Sciorra

I don't have a television, so I don't know what they do,

Will Estes

I don't really get a chance to watch much television.

Tucker Carlson

The best thing about television news is, it's immediate. Everything at a news network happens quickly.

Wolfgang Puck

Television in the '80s was very limited. There was no Food Network.

Micky Dolenz

In 1962 I was 17, so I was definitely watching the dance shows on television.

Jools Holland

'The Tube' was the first time the plebs had gone on the television. The lunatics taking over the asylum.

Joni Mitchell

I used to be monastic, almost. Now I'm like a Tibetan that has discovered hamburgers and television. I'm catching up on Americana.

Joni Mitchell

My life came down to being a granny and watching a lot of television.

Ron Redmond

There are tens of thousands in there who are probably going hungry,

Jake Shulaw

He's doing a lot more wrestling now. But sometimes it comes back because he's drilled in thousands and thousands of times.

Mark Schultz

Wrestling will be around forever. It's been around thousands of years. It's going to be around till the end of time.