Famous Quotes & Sayings

Todd Rundgren

I used to have sort of mixed feelings about a producer whose only skills seemed to be going into the studio, schmoozing the artists and making them feel good. I can see now that in some cases, that's what you have to do because that's the only way you're going to get them to produce.

Idina Menzel

I wish I had read more and majored in literature rather than theatre. I think I would have been a better artist for it. I am trying to play catch-up now.

Inara George

I was raised in Topanga Canyon. It's an eclectic community up in the Santa Monica mountains. A lot of musicians lived there - Joni Mitchell, Neil Young - as well as artists and craftspeople.

Glen Hansard

My life at home is super simple. My local bar with my mates, cooking for my mother, making tables, planting vegetables: It's the classic idea of the artistic existence.

Virginia Postrel

Lofts were never supposed to be homes. They were vacant old factories and warehouses, taken over by artists looking for cheap space and good light.

Clive Thompson

Truly huge artistic collaboration on the Internet seems to work only if the gang has a well-defined objective.

Elaine Stritch

If I see a great performance on television, onstage, in the movies, I go to work the next day with a renewed energy and less fear. These great artists take me out of my life and make me want to go there.

David Byrne

Some artists and indie musicians see Spotify fairly positively - as a way of getting noticed, of getting your music out there where folks can hear it risk-free.

David Byrne

Some folks believe that hardship breeds artistic creativity. I don't buy it. One can put up with poverty for a while when one is young, but it will inevitably wear a person down.

Phil Castellini

We've got some guys coming down to spring training --(Mario) Soto, (Tom) Browning and George Foster. We're trying to get a hold of Barry now. I think that's what we're trying to do, is get some of this tradition back, this winning culture that has been so long known with the Reds.

Aaron Klein

Widely distributed reports have noted in January 1968, Obama was registered as a Muslim at Jakarta's Roman Catholic Franciscus Assisi Primary School under the name Barry Soetoro.

Brian Giles

When the competition is great, you kind of feed off that. Definitely with Barry and Moises (Alou) and the professionals they have, you have to get up for them. If not, they're going to knock you around the park.

Mark Amirault

I'm hoping to get track-side for that one. It's equivalent to being next to your favorite baseball payer or Barry Bonds, in the presence of legends.

Joe Blanton

We were 15 games under .500, and Barry always remained positive. We started bad, and he never gave up. He kept pushing us. He's 27 now, with six years in the big leagues and a Cy Young Award. We didn't want to lose a great teammate.

Michael Toups

We earned this championship. We took the best shot Fontainebleau had to offer. They played a strong game and never quit. That is what you expect from a Barry Dotson coached team.

Barry Goldwater

Nixon should get his ass out of the White House-Today! Barry M

Felipe Alou

Barry was supposed to go four at-bats, but we had some long innings at night. I just didn't think one more at-bat or one trip to the outfield was going to do that much. He got a good workout.

Jay Herkelman

Barry was really good, and he was good yesterday. He's been really focused. We knew he's had the talent all year. He showed some spurts midway through the season, and late in the season, he's giving us good minutes. He has the talent, and now he's figuring out what to do with it.

Ellen G. White

God requires his servants to walk in the light, and not cover their eyes that they may not discern the working of Satan.

Etel Adnan

Once I put down a color, I never cover it up. If you are born a musician, why become a banker?

Bethany Mota

BB cream is my lifesaver! It's so light on my skin, plus it protects and gives me coverage at the same time. My favorites are from Maybelline and Smashbox.

Dev Hynes

I like to blur the line between remix and cover version and new song.

Vidya Balan

I enjoy the sari. I think it's the sexiest garment ever. It shows you the right amount, it covers the right amount, it's extremely versatile, it suits every body type, it suits every face.

Steve Anderson

That was the standard. So it's hilariously loud. I'd rather listen to a loud record than a quiet one. And it covers up when you mess up, too.

Neil Budde

That was the genesis of the full coverage of Yahoo News.

Jay Wright

We just didn't do a good enough job today covering the 3s. When they hit those 3s they are a very difficult team to beat.

Jay Wright

We just didn't do a good enough job today covering the 3s, ... When they hit those 3s they are a very difficult team to beat.

Idina Menzel

My favorite thing of all time is a New York City weekend when there's a blizzard. Everything gets really quiet, and everyone goes to the movies and the park.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

'Out of Sight' is one of my favorite films ever. Love Steven Soderbergh. 'Goodfellas' was a huge influence on me in terms of the use of camera. 'Black Orpheus,' a beautiful love story that very few people actually have seen, and that was an influence on 'Beyond the Lights,' too, in terms of the look of the film.

Zoe Kravitz

I love shopping in New York just because you walk around and find a little store you've never saw before, and you're like, 'Oh what's that? This is my new favorite place.' I love that about New York.

William Taylor

Newlyweds, they have this ideal, this picture of what marriage is like, something similar of their favorite memories growing up. If only it were that simple.

Vanessa Hudgens

I always used to watch 'Labyrinth' and 'The Neverending Story.' Those were like my two favorite movies that I would watch over and over and over again.

Brittany Snow

I think my least favorite hair color was the hair color that I had in 'Pitch Perfect 2.' They really wanted me to be dark red, and I wanted to be lighter like I was in the first movie, but they didn't want that. But I rocked some light red for a year, after it faded.

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

The only thing I find difficult to watch - horror movies - not that I don't like them. Like 'The Shining,' it's one of my favorite movies, but it's terrifying. I feel like I've watched a marathon afterwards.

Roger McGuinn

That's my favorite subject because it really levels the playing field for artists these days. You don't have to sell out to the record company. You don't have to get a five hundred thousand dollars, or whatever, and pay them back for the rest of your life to record a record.

Rosecrans Baldwin

Venice, Italy, is one of my favorite cities, a place I've been lucky enough to visit twice.

Peter May

The political reality is that seismic safety, like hurricane protection, is not a mass politics issue,

Craig Fugate

We've got roughly 4 to 6 million people right now who are experiencing hurricane or tropical storm-force winds.

Joe Becker

We've learned a lot in the last months. We have taken a large number of steps to be better this hurricane season. We will be more prepared for the worst-case scenario.

Mark Lambert

We're working to make sure we're prepared for the 2006 hurricane season.

Harry White

We have no time to waste. Everything we do is targeting to getting the sinking done before the start of hurricane season.

Jeff Smith

Unfortunately that hurricane is sitting right on top of my search area.

Matt King

One of the recommendations is you may need to water the trees more after a storm or hurricane for quite a while until it's able to put new roots out.

Kerry Emanuel

I was skeptical that the increase (in hurricane intensity) would be sufficient to observe by now ... (but) the increase has been much more than we would have guessed.

Rob Young

I have been doing hurricane research for the better part of 20 years now, and there was nothing unusual to me about any of the satellite imagery of Katrina, ... It's laughable to think it could have been manmade.

Bill Burr

Think about the amount of crap the US has done! Between slavery and the genocide of the Native Americans - if any of that had been filmed like [Adolf] Hitler, we'd never live it down.

Robert Patterson

Here, we tell the story: why the people came here, what they did when they got here, going back to the Native Americans and coming all the way forward.

Lynn Williams

I didn't want to do something on Native Americans or Rosa Parks and this seemed interesting.

Dave Barry

Thus the white men and Native Americans were able, through the spirit of goodwill and compromise, to reach the first in what would become a long series of mutually beneficial, breached agreements that enabled the two cultures to coexist peacefully for stretches of twenty and sometimes even thirty days, after which it was usually necessary to negotiate new agreements that would be even more mutual and beneficial, until eventually the Native Americans were able to perceive the vast mutual benefits of living in rock-strewn sectors of South Dakota.

Chief Seattle

Every part of the earth is sacred to my people.

Chief Seattle

Your religion was written on tablets of stone, ours on our hearts. 8. We are part of the earth and the earth is part of us.

Chief Seattle

All things are bound together. All things connect.

Chief Seattle

We do not own the freshness of the air or the sparkle of the water. How can you buy them from us?

Chief Seattle

The whites, too, shall pass - perhaps sooner than other tribes. Continue to contaminate your own bed, and you might suffocate in your own waste.

Katie Johnson

We can't go back to New Orleans because there's nothing left,

Walter Baumy

We have never seen this in the New Orleans district.

Tim Chapman

When you think about it, there's not much between New Orleans and Atlanta. We're going to need shelters here.

Donald Payne

We are New Orleans folk. We aren't going anywhere.

Warren Williams

Our son is a first respondor and had to stay back in New Orleans and do search and rescue,

Jay Campbell

or any other humanitarian service organizations because it's vitally important to the people of New Orleans and the surrounding parishes who need food, shelter and clothing.

Joe Horn

But it's not about the New Orleans Saints now. It's about all those people on those cots trying to find their kids.

Gary Griggs

I would not rebuild New Orleans where it is.

Christine Mitchell

Now, parents will start to return to the city. I think this symbolizes to a lot of people that, yes, New Orleans is back and will accommodate families.

Anthony Coley

We have to make sure it works. A victory for us is to make sure that savings are passed on to the consumer.

Ken Lewis

I wish we had passed the school bonds.

Craig Patrick

We didn't sense that there was any problems with the shoulder. He passed the physical.

Chris Clarke

I was saying, 'You've got to get up; you've got to get up,' ... He said, 'I'm getting up.' I went to get help, and when I got back, he'd passed away.

Tim Powers

I have more questions than answers. I wonder, could a lot of these teachers have passed this test in the '70s?

Petr Sykora

I don't think we passed any shooting chances. He just made saves. He was the difference.

Sen Brownlee

If it had one more vote it would have passed the Senate.

Jon Banner

We've been wanting to do it for a while, we talked about it more seriously after Peter passed away.

James Buchanan

Greencastle took us out of our game. We passed well vs. Fannett-Metal, but Greencastle played us physical and made their opportunities.

Janis Ian

A radio show recently did a beautiful eulogy of me.

Marcelo Porto

Stocks that were most favored recently are being penalized now.

Evanna Lynch

My cats - I have Luna who's just had kittens recently and we called one of them Dumbledore. They're nice but they're not like their characters.

Agnetha Faltskog

I would like to sing the theme tune of a big film - something like 'Titanic.

David Icke

If I get a computer and I tune it to the Internet, it will pick up the Internet from the invisible realms that I can't see.

Calvin Harris

There are a lot of mindless moments in my tunes.

Adam Baldwin

A lot of the television industry is so cookie-cutter. In general, there are so many shows that are easy and bland to watch. You can tune in at any time and know exactly where you are in the story arc because it's pretty much the same every week.

Donald Curtis

An aware person is in tune with all the powers of God and makes them his or her own.

Chuck Grassley

All week Senate will be on the Stimulus/Porkulus Bill. Tune in C SPAN

Anthony Hopkins

There's many a good tune played by an old banjo.

Carlos Castaneda

...to tune the spirit when someone is trampling on you is called control

Colum McCann

The Irish are great for their tunes, but all their lovesongs are sad and their warsongs happy.