Famous Quotes & Sayings

Trent Reznor

Just spent the day discussing touring up through next summer, then played our asses off to the least responsive audience I can ever remember playing to. As I'm walking to the bus to leave Sacramento as soon as I can, I learn Jerome is back in the hospital. I have no idea what this means.

Wendy Liebmann

Here is this audience that is waiting to be plucked. They have a lot of money to spend, so they are a really big deal.

Frank Darabont

He's delighted with it, ... And indeed, I think that for him, this really came from the heart, this piece. So to have it represented well to the movie-going audience was quite a pleasure for him.

Laura Gordon

I thought Brand New was awesome! I only knew a few songs before I went but they put on a great show. The audience was really into it.

Larry Kane

I think the first factor is the music. I think the second is their individuality. And I really think the third was that if you take their music today, and you played it to an audience that never heard of the Beatles, and played their 20 or 30 best songs, the music would be as fresh today as it was in 1970 or 1966. It's timeless.

Alan Alda

I think the audience was aware that even when it was farcical, there was the sense that at some level this was about real experience.

Simon Cowell

I think the audience at home deserves better than that.

Katie Holmes

We try to portray a group of kids that the audience will want to be.

William Petersen

We thought we would have a niche audience of loyal viewers like 'X-Files' or 'West Wing.' But we have a huge audience that crosses all kinds of boundaries. It's unique. It's bizarre.

George Stavropoulos

In this show there is no fourth wall whatsoever. This show is completely wink-wink, nudge-nudge with the audience.

David Hare

If the purpose of the stumpy little NFT theatre under Waterloo Bridge is not to acquaint young audiences with Ozu, with Ophuels, with D. W. Griffith and with Agnes Varda, then what exactly does it exist for?

Audie Blaylock

I love to record and do new stuff. I also love to perform live because there's a connection between you and the audience.

Tom Stoppard

the bewilderment and incomprehension of critics and audience.

Paul Hawkins

It's hard to find your audience. It's really hit or miss. We could play some place for 50 people one place, or 1,700 people in Maine. I think that people who are Eagles' fans tend to be older, don't like the typical bar, don't want to be out late. So it's figuring out how to get them to see you,

Joe Mantello

The vultures who come to the first preview are not going to see a show that's in perfect shape. But we have four weeks of previews, and it's a question of how you make the best use of them. Of course the show has gotten better. I am confident in everybody in the cast, and audiences are loving it.

Mike Mills

I think that talking about the personal specificity, personal details, is how you get the big, big audiences - by talking about your relationships or your personal tragedies. If you reach out with that energy, you'll touch people.

Joe Cocker

My strongest audiences are in Germany and France - they stuck with me through my dark days in the '70s.

James Baker

Sky1 continues to bring the best from the US with Weeds mirroring its emphatic US reception from audiences and critics alike, Threshold exhibits the potential for an X-Files-style cross-over success and returning series Nip/Tuck and The 4400 are set to captivate audiences,

James Sullivan

Kids will reach whatever expectation you set for them.

Jim McDonnell

Kids come and they have no expectation that there's anything like that when they're feeding the ducks, ... You can imagine what could occur.

Lynn Gray

I would think you would expect a lot more than (1,000). They may have 10,000 people out there.

Paul Kim

I would say it was a shock. I think a lot of people expected him to remain in tenure for at least another two or three years.

Stone Gossard

J was open to our style from the get-go. They weren't expecting us to do something that was unnatural for us.

Greg Paulus

J.J. is going to get the looks. Sure, he missed his first four 3-pointers, but we knew he'd come back and hit the shots. We expect him to hit them and we look for him all the time.

Steve Fell

It always seems when you least expect it, that's when it really happens. It's a tough thing to really get a feel for.

Matt Stallbaumer

I addressed him: 'Come on, let's go.' I didn't expect to see him struggling to finish.

Joe Girardi

He was a different pitcher. He pitched much better. What we got from him was what we expected to get.

Mary Tavenner

We don't compare. It's not my poem is better than yours. We're like a chorus. Some sing alto, some sing baritone, some sing bass.

Tony Buzan

In 1971, when I was 29, I wrote my first volume of poetry. I am a poet, and I have published four books of my poems.

Jose Bergamin

The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair.

Jonathan Swift

From not the gravest of Divines, Accept for once some serious Lines.

Henry David Thoreau

My life has been the poem I would have writ, But I could not both live and utter it.

Muriel Rukeyser

If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger.

Muriel Rukeyser

Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.

Nikki Giovanni

ever been kidnapped by a poet if i were a poet i'd kidnap you put you in my phrases and meter....

Joseph Brodsky

Poetry is what is gained in translation.

Margaret Atwood

poetry is where the language is renewed.

Susanna Moore

The task of understanding the past is neverending.

Ryan Reynolds

I come from a family of cops, and all of them share that understanding that they put their lives on the line.

Robert M. Pirsig

There's so much talk about the system. And so little understanding.

Robert Jordan

Better to try understanding the sun than a woman.

Arthur Young

Resellers will need an understanding of messaging systems.

Markus Gandler

I just don't understand what is going on here. We have nothing to do with Walter Mayer.

Susan Gibbs

The cardinal's understanding is that he'll be here another two years or so.

Nate Mendel

Reiterating the belief that HIV is the cause of AIDS is an easy thing to do. Understanding the science and politics of the situation is much more complicated and requires study with a critical and open mind.

Milan Kundera

The reason is that everyone has trouble accepting the fact that he will disappear unheard of and unnoticed in an indifferent universe, and everyone wants to make himself into a universe of words before it's too late. Once the writer in every individual comes to life (and that time is not far off), we are in for an age of universal deafness and lack of understanding.