Famous Quotes & Sayings

Shirley Manson

We just wanted to make a record that sounded cool. So we stole from hip-hop, we stole from techno and blues and mashed them all up.

Al MacInnis

I am truly honored that the Blues have elected to retire my number, and I'm flattered to join the list of players who have been recognized before me. I will always consider myself part of the Blues family and will look back on my playing days here with fond memories of my teammates, my coaches, the staff and, last but not least, the fans.

Merry Clayton

I got put out of my church choir because my pastor said, 'We can't have baby sister singing the blues and coming in here and singing on Sunday morning.'

John Brady

I think there are a lot of wannabes...but I don't think there's another Lee Atwater, ... but no one can play blues guitar with B.B. King that I know of and also run a presidential campaign...

Larry Neal

For the blues singer, the world is his text... like any artist, the blues singer has the task of bringing order out of chaos.

Benicio Toro

I listen to all types of music. I have been in Memphis recently, so I've been listening to some blues like Muddy Waters, and some early Elvis.

Sally Brown

It?s a lot of fun for everyone who plays and everyone who comes to watch. People really get into it. Last year?s Town Hall team dressed in St. Patrick?s Day garb, while the year before they brought us out of the winter blues with a Hawaiian dress theme, complete with leis. You forget the fact that it?s a fund-raiser.

Sharon Bradford

For her to call us and cry the blues to us, you know, about how she's feeling and stuff.

Eric Burdon

One of my reasons for living in California is its close proximity to Mexico. The Latin influence is in every corner of the community. My love of Spanish music hasn't wavered since the '50s. I could hear the blues voicing from the Flamanco families and I always dig for inspiration in Latin music.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

As California is home to more legal immigrants than any other state in the country, we would shoulder a disproportionate share of this federal funding reduction,

Tom Kotchman

A scout from California with the Texas Rangers said, 'Who's that kid? I said, 'He's a high school kid.' I didn't tell him he was my son. ... Other scouts said, 'You know how to evaluate everybody else but your own kid.

Hallye Jordan

The California Supreme Court has reviewed and denied no less than seven state habeas corpus petitions, two in the last week.

Dian Grueneich

The California Solar Initiative is the largest solar program in the country, and I hope it will be a model for other states.

David Strow

The California market is the No. 1 source of customers. Anything that can be done to make the trip easier is something we wholeheartedly endorse.

Bob Holthus

The California horse is going to be tough. We'll just have to try to run him down.

Jim Brickman

As I was getting older, my songwriting changed, so I moved to California because I wanted to be surrounded by the opportunity in and around it and to meet the right people.

Brian Newbacher

As many legislators have pointed out, what's good for California is not necessarily good for Pennsylvania.

Laura Blackann

As one of only three California representatives on the Appropriations Committee, Congressman Doolittle frequently supports well-deserving projects throughout the state.

Ricky Carmichael

As far as the five wins at Daytona, it really feels great. It's pretty amazing. I love this race. It's close to home, and I've always done well here. I really enjoy it. It's fun for me. It's special.

Stephen Vaughan

As far as the club is concerned, the issue is now a closed book, and nobody at the club will comment any further on the matter.

Hans Schwab

As far as quality is concerned, we are very close to the feeling you experience on a private aircraft, with the difference that we are a scheduled service.

Steve Lyons

As expected, we experienced payback in September following a strong performance to start the quarter. We're optimistic we can close the year on a positive note with the introduction of our new mid-size cars.

George Scalise

As expected, the semiconductor industry should close out 2002 with modest but sustained overall growth,

Hank McKinnell

as close to zero as you can get.

Sathya Baba

As close as you are to GOD, so close is GOD to you.

Brian Sabean

as close as two can be without being brothers.

Steve Capps

As close as it is to us, it's not in a very good spot. It's in terrible shape.

Jeff Melvoin

Rain usually makes me feel mellow. Curl up in the corner time, slow down, smell the furniture. Today it just makes me feel wet.

Cindy Klassen

Racing down the last corner and going down the home stretch I thought in mind that Anni could come by me at any point. I just wanted to stay together, keep my technique strong and finish strong.

Gregg Brandon

Defensive ends and corners are the hardest guys to recruit.

Patrick McGreevy

An officer just noticed the man from the corner of his eye as they were going by,

Alex Honnold

Anything called the Teflon Corner is not sweet for free-soloing.

Jennifer Gordon

The southwest corner is just bloodied. Roads are like skating rinks. It's just catastrophic.

Vic Morrow

Stories come from other shows at other studios where only 2,000 rounds were actually used and the money for the other 3,000 went right into the studio pockets. Corners were cut and that production suffered. Knock wood, that hasn't happened to us.

Carolyn McLaughlin

South Pearl Street is a gateway to the city, and the corner of Madison and Pearl should be representative of the distinctive neighborhoods in our city.

Chris Capuano

It was tough. I was trying to establish that inside part of the plate. If I can get in there for strikes, I'm usually pretty successful. I don't know if they were missing by a couple inches or what, but I just couldn't nail that inside corner like I usually do.

Jason Gore

Sometimes you just have to dig a little deep. Hopefully I will learn a little from this and still become a better player.

Mike Huckabee

Quit Digging Your Grave with a Knife and Fork.

Dan Fellman

The rollout is slowly starting to happen, but we have a long way to go, ... As the number of conventional theaters with digital projectors increase, so will the number of theaters we serve.

James Allan

This is awesome. Everybody gets excited about this. It makes digging in all that mud worthwhile.

Michael Vaughan

That's just Nasser for you. He fights really hard when people have a dig at him. He's had great input into the team and it was a really important innings for us.

Ricky Gervais

That’s the other thing I learned that day, that the truth, however shocking or uncomfortable, in the end leads to liberation and dignity.

Edward Young

Where boasting ends, there dignity begins.

Bruce Catton

Yet there is a dignity in the human spirit which can become most clearly visible in the moment of defeat and disaster.

Arabian Proverb

Because I have been athirstI will dig a well that others may drink.

Martin Freeman

As a result, these families are being destroyed.

Lawrence Summers

Raising personal savings is an imperative for American families and an imperative for the national economy,

David Fraser

Our thoughts and prayers are with the families and loved ones of these soldiers.

Darko Milicic

Our families have been fighting for long time.

Gerald Newman

Our families are a very important part of our volunteer work.

Kim Hunter

Other families have waited six weeks, maybe more, before their loved ones were found, ... Without it, they wouldn't have found Paul so quickly, and the wait would have been worse. It saved me a lot of heartache.

John Evans

A photograph doesn't tell the story of the families who you meet who were the victims of this hurricane. Somehow, they remain resilient, and that's what I'm going to remember most about this trip.

Jeremy Hardy

The thing that interests me most about family history is the gap between the things we think we know about our families and the realities.

Rebecca Stead

I've met seven homeschooling families through many, many extracurricular activities such as fencing. I don't have a point of view of homeschooling. For some families, homeschooling works.

Bible Bible

A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.

Serj Tankian

As a kid, you see something that you know in your heart is true. Its such a huge hypocrisy that it makes you think, Well, if this is a truth that I know about thats not officially accepted, at least in this country, then how many other truths are there that are under the surface that need to come out?

Timothy Waterhouse

A way to a woman's heart is kindness and tenderness!

Gladys Pozza

As I volunteered more and more, I realized that I liked that more. That's where my heart went out. I spent a lot of time volunteering and being involved with the church.

Lauren Fine

Rather than meeting the chef, we heard more from the CFO and even had a review of the financials.

Edward Davis

realized that he could not do justice to a hearing today.

Don Fowler

People used to come from miles around to hear him make speeches.

Joey Estrella

Our seniors have been the heart and soul of our team all year. The way they've played, they'll be tough to replace, but we're looking for our underclassmen and recruits to hopefully step up next year.

Eric Schwartz

People say, 'I never knew we had so many deer.' We hear that a lot.

John Vessey

You have to set your "shove-it" tolerance someplace. But you also have to recognize that you, too, may be wrong, and that in two weeks' time you'll be "old what's-his-name" and won't be able to influence the situation at all.

Andrew Stanton

I almost feel like it’s an obligation to not further the status quo if you become somebody with influence and exposure.

Curtis Hanson

Rob Lowe, who I thought was really good in the movie [ Bad Influence], had his performance overshadowed by this sort of tabloid approach to him and the movie.

Ambrose Bierce

DECIDE, v.i. To succumb to the preponderance of one set of influences over another set.

Robert Harris

Orwell has always been a huge influence on me.

Tony Robbins

The person with the most certainty in a given situation will influence the other.

Thomas Harris

You cant reduce me to a set of influences.

Scott Weiland

Bowie's obviously my biggest influence.

Steven Morrissey

You are bound to pick up influences.

Jaime Camil

It would be very ungrateful of me to turn my back or stop doing work in Latin America.

Alfredo Stroessner

The state of siege was necessary. There was subversion in Latin America. It was more of a preventive measure. It wasn't used much.

Augustus

May it be my privilege to have the happiness of establishing the commonwealth on a firm and stable basis and thus enjoy the reward which I desire, but only if I may be called the architect of the best possible government; and bear with me the hope when I die, that the foundations which I have laid for its future government, will stand deep and secure.

Celia Rivenbark

I'm what is known as perimenopausal. "Peri", some of you may know, is a Latin prefix meaning 'SHUT YOUR FLIPPIN' PIE HOLE'.

Al Gini

The term power comes from the Latin posse- to do, to be able, to change, to influence or effect. To have power is to possess the capacity to control or direct change. All forms of leadership must make use of power. The central issue of power in leadership is not Will it be used? But rather Will it be used wisely and well?

Charles Clarke

I am not in any way opposed to medieval studies (or for that matter Latin).

Desi Arnaz

My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that's why you seldom hear of ulcers in Latin America.

Connie Willis

I was on a walking tour of Oxford colleges once with a group of bored and unimpressable tourists. They yawned at Balliol's quad, T.E. Lawrence's and Churchill's portraits, and the blackboard Einstein wrote his E=mc2 on. Then the tour guide said, 'And this is the Bridge of Sighs, where Lord Peter proposed (in Latin) to Harriet,' and everyone suddenly came to life and began snapping pictures. Such is the power of books.

Charles Spurgeon

Learn to say no; it will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin.

Michael Short

There are no new charges, no evidence, and multiple people living in that house.

Peter Russell

The principal artists' rooms are so big that in New York 12 people would be living in them,

David Russell

We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic

Garret Anderson

Very obviously, they've pitched well not making mistakes, living on the corners,

Caroline Shaw

Living in New York City, you have to keep trying to do a lot of things.

Boyd Palmer

We have survived. There is plenty of living to do.

Marcus Aurelius

How strangely men act. They will not praise those who are living at the same time and living with themselves; but to be themselves praised by posterity, by those whom they have never seen or ever will see, this they set much value on.

H. Hart

I don't like this kind of excitement. But living on U.S. 40 and I-70, if you are between the interstate and the highway, it just happens.

Stephen Evans

I don't mourn the dead. I mourn the living.

James Brolin

Any girl that's got a $500,000 table and $5 shoes, I'm in love with.

O. J. Simpson

As a teenager and even still now being 21, it's always love questions -- it's always so confusing.

Nicholas Sparks

A WALK TO REMEMBER is about the power of first, true love and the way it transforms an individual.

F. Sagan

At seventeen, you tend to go in for unhappy love affairs.

William Butler Yeats

A woman can be proud and stiffWhen on love intent;But Love has pitched his mansion inThe place of excrement;For nothing can be sole or wholeThat has not been rent.

Johnny Depp

a woman who would steal your love when your love is all you really have isnt much of a woman

Michael Cohen

As long as people are willing to get wet and have fun, we'd love to have them.

Stanley Hauerwas

Ask yourself: if that is what Jesus is all about - that is, getting us to love one another - then why did everyone reject him?

Bible Bible

As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.

Struan Robertson

The BPI didn't want to sue its customers, but it will do to stop them stealing music.

Henry Giles

A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Jason Mraz

Professionally, I want to keep playing music; I can't escape that.

Josh Homme

People think that when they're playing it safe, they're trying to preserve what they have, but there is no preservation of what you have in music. There's no safety in music.

Kaskade

People don't listen to terrestrial radio. They don't find their music that way. They don't get their news that way. They go to blogs. They go through Sirius/XM. They go through all these different places.

AJ Case

After Wild Child, I had pretty much had it with the music business.

James Michael Tyler

Acting-wise, I did a web series. I play a music agent in a series called 'Keeping Up with the Downs.'

Katie Melua

The style of music I make now, that only started when I was about 15,

E. O. Wilson

The show is particularly significant because it was the same show, performed in 1989, that was the first musical in our new theater at its present location,

Tom Davies

I think there are several reasons for that.

John Hurt

I've done some stinkers in the cinema. You can't regret it; there are always reasons for doing something, even if it's just the location.

Doug Gottlieb

There are reasons why teams are 8-9 seeds.

David Hill

Of course, we really don't know what we're doing, since this is so new, ... But we think we've put something together that's pretty cool.

Gavin Grant

Definitely. I've been on a mini-tear since then.

Sarah Parcak

Archaeologists have used aerial photographs to map archaeological sites since the 1920s, while the use of infrared photography started in the 1960s, and satellite imagery was first used in the 1970s.

Martin Freeman

I've always liked clothes, since I was a kid.

Drew Tate

I wanted to go make the tackle since I had thrown (the interception). That's pretty much it.

Robert Long

I wanted to do this (cosmetology) since I was a very little girl,

Bill Walker

I wanted to be in pageants since I was a little girl,

Shawn Horcoff

Terrible. The worst I've ever been part of since I've been a professional.

Ali Hewson

Sadly, I haven't had a brain cell since I had children.