Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dead Prez

As artists we have a responsibility to organize and ensure that funds we raise for this cause are disseminated in a timely, fair and orderly fashion,

Dorothy Rothschild Parker

Authors and actors and artists and such - Never know nothing, and never know much

David Banks

As people continue to get more and more recorded content for free, one can assume that artists will attempt to make more money by performing live. And the artists are pretty powerful.

Charlotte Moore

Probably about 99 percent of the time I don't put my name on my stuff, ... I'm one of the very few artists without an ego. I'm just kind of an average artist. I'm not odd or bizarre.

Gallant

People had an idea of what R&B artists or pop artists usually say, which was like, 'Talk about sex, talk about partying, and be positive; don't be too much of a downer.'

George Carl

Normally, Collectables will reissue or repackage past projects of well-known artists in every style of music. However, occasionally they will discover a new artist and solicit them for a record deal. That's what happened to us.

Richard Andrews

Comparisons of different artists are a good way to get people to see the artists in a new way. It's a jolt. There's a lot of curiosity about these objects (from Allen's collection). Not many people have seen them.

Pat Connors

Detroit was just like a New York or San Francisco as far as having artists and the music culture, except it was more of a reflection of the Midwest and the car culture: a little hard-edged.

Tom Anderson

depends more on the artists we can find...I'm talking to about four bands right now.

Jeremy Teela

Other courses there's a lot of rest, you can work hard and rest, work hard and rest. And if you don't have as good a physiology, you can get away with the techniques of speed and power. But this kind of course, the guys who are genetically gifted ...

Charles Curtis

A plane is not just a big toy but a useful thing. You can use it for travel, research and of course fun, like sightseeing.

Matt Hasselbeck

The thing that I've learned through the course of this week is that it means a lot to a lot of people.

John McCarthy

Proposals to forbid golf courses have about the same motivations as proposals to forbid skate boarding, although the rationalizations are different.

Tiger Woods

I've played well here. But this golf course didn't really handle the weather too well, and this time of year, you get rain. We've been lucky to finish this tournament on time.

Jessica Bird

The stories are what they are in my head. They take their own course and refuse to be influenced by anything or anybody. So I just record what I see and hope that people like it.

Jim Brown

They all know that they have to play better. Most of it is course management and short game. We have really been trying to concentrate on that the whole year.

Kevin Eggan

The work that has been reported there is extremely important, so we are of course troubled by the allegations that have been made and are hopeful that they are not true.

Andrew Magee

This is one of the top-five golf courses on the PGA Tour already after just one practice round,

Akira Chiba

As far as Japan is concerned, the date of the talks is still under discussion.

Martin Lewis

As a guitar player, he was exemplary, ... So many musicians talked about how they wanted the George Harrison sound. The group the Byrds, in America, listened to Harrison and said, 'I want to be like that.' So many guitar players today emulate Harrison's guitar playing. You listen to his playing in the '60s, he doesn't sound out of date at all. It is as contemporary today as it was then.

John Hawkins

Once we get the documents, we will then take depositions and then, hopefully a trial date will be set,

George Schaefer

Deposit growth year to date has not been sufficient to fund loan growth or to prevent further contraction in the net interest margin,

Wu Dawei

The specific date of when the talks would resume is yet to be set.

Giovanni Bisignani

The target date is a must. Every year, we are printing roughly 350 million tickets. We will not print any more paper tickets by 2007.

Javad Vaeidi

The talks with Russia remain valid. The final date of this visit will be Feb. 20.

Mark Zandi

The surge in energy prices we have seen to date will be partially passed through to consumers.

Ryan Ford

The thing about eyewear is that it is so potent, ... There are very few accessories that, if you were not wearing anything, if you put on they would date you to a whole era. You could look the Thirties, the Fifties, and the Nineties just by your eyewear. It's like a pair of shoes because it is sculptural. It exists without a face. It tells a lot about where you are architecturally or aesthetically in a particular period in time.

Gary Gilot

The speeds with one-ways are 30 miles-per-hour. The speeds you'll see with a grid will be more in the 10 to 20 mile-per-hour range. Maybe it should be about downtown being a destination and serving more housing; more people living and working and shopping downtown.

Paul Rapp

This is the first big test for our trolley system, and we're looking forward to it. There's enough parking downtown if we utilize all of it.

Larry Taylor

You see everything, from downtown to uptown, all kinds of folks.

Pastor Birnbaum

There are some risks, but there are also risks in downtown San Antonio.

Ryan MacDonald

Downtown is a safe place now, but with it growing like it is, we need to ensure that downtown's going to be a safe place to be,

Rob Stillwell

Downtown had a record year, in spite of extraordinary fuel prices. We fly some 10,000 a month on our own charter.

Peter Judge

Downstream from the river there are about 100 homes as well as downtown Taunton,

Larry Reed

Eugene is small potatoes for Whole Foods. Whole Foods doesn't need Eugene, however Eugene downtown needs Whole Foods. If we pass on this rare opportunity there may not be a second opportunity.

Jack Ellis

Either we're going to do this downtown connector or we're not,

Mark Taffe

Saunders' winning time in the 100 fly was a personal-best by about two seconds - which is a fabulous swim.

Gary Waters

Quincy was fabulous in the first half. He kept us in there.

Victoria Beckham

I've been to parties in L.A. that are mind-blowing. I mean, quite literally mind-blowing. People get cellphones in the party bag, that sort of thing. Fabulous, fabulous parties.

Dawn French

If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush.

Andy Warhol

If you can convince yourself that you look fabulous, you can save yourself the trouble of primping.

Tabatha Coffey

It's a good giggle to look back at yourself in your 20s. You thought you were so fierce and fabulous, and it's just embarrassing.

Mary-Kate Olsen

I love getting amazing jackets, because you can wear your pajamas underneath and everyone's like, 'Oh fabulous jacket', and I'm like, 'You should see what's underneath'.

Dan Campbell

She threw a fabulous game -- I'm very pleased with the way she threw. She showed me a lot. She's a competitor, but she really showed me a lot.

Jeff Greenfield

I got into television because I hated it so, ... And I thought ... there's some way of using this fabulous instrument to be of nurture to those who would watch and listen.

Gary Hall

Any time it's Westfield-Herndon, South Lakes-Herndon, it's a little more intense. I thought our guys showed some great composure.

Dwyane Wade

Another win Wednesday will make us feel great about the way we're playing.

Carmen Bambach

A showdown of the two greatest rivals of the Renaissance.

George Peters

As a resident I'm actually happy they're doing it, I think it's going to be great for the community.

Tracy McGrady

As a team, we had great intensity to start the game. I think if we consistently do that and play the way we played in the first half and to come out in the third quarter, then we'll be all right.

Russ Borman

As a team, we played fundamentally well. Our guys did a great job.

Jim Yurwitz

As a freshman, she had a great day.

Rodman Philbrick

As a kid, books were my great escape and my salvation.

Joe Sakic

As a hockey player, it's great to be a part of this race.

Sharon Stone

I did a guest appearance on The Practice and loved it.

Smith Thammasaroj

At the moment, they (hotels) do not even have a map or instructions to tell the guests what to do in a tsunami.

Alexander Pope

For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest.

Donald Berwick

We are guests in our patients' lives.

Bruce Boxleitner

Well, maybe not ER because of its calibre, but if I were to do a guest shot on another drama, it might be looked at by Hollywood as a step down.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

I am a guest of the French language. My poems in French are born of my interaction with the French language, which is not the same as that of a French poet.

Michael Leunig

What makes an interview 'difficult'? Well, there are many reasons, but the end result is usually the same: The guest just doesn't seem comfortable answering the question.

Theophile Gautier

Brevity never fatigues; therefore, brevity is always a welcome guest.

Myrtle Reed

One uncongenial guest can ruin a dinner more easily than a poor salad, and that is saying a great deal.

Barbara Steele

The crew, like all Italian crews, was generous, warm, and enthusiastic.

Benito Mussolini

Yet if anyone cares to read over the now crumbling minutes giving an account of the meetings at which the Italian Fasci di Combattimento were founded, he will find not a doctrine but a series of pointers... It may be objected that this program implies a return to the guilds (corporazioni). No matter!... I therefore hope this assembly will accept the economic claims advanced by national syndicalism.

Walter Bugno

Don't read too much into the Italian newspapers.

Sonam Kapoor

I love Italian fashion - the sense of style that Italians have as part of their DNA. Nobody is like them.

Anibal Cavaco Silva

A president from a partner nation should not make comments on Italian politics.

Andrea Bocelli

My style in Italian is very old-style.

Andrea Bocelli

I love eating shabu-shabu in Japan - a kind of beef hotpot. But if you're talking about authentic, traditional food, then Italian cooking is one of the best in the world.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Of course, there's always one theater that shows some kind of European film. Now, fortunately, you have DVDs, so it's possible to get anything you want within a few hours. In those days, it was virtually impossible to get Italian films, or German films, or whatever. So I grew up with very standard, mainstream films.

Alfred Molina

There are many actors who have inspired me: Spencer Tracy for his incredible elegance and, of course, Cary Grant. But, there's also an Italian actor I admire a great deal: Alberto Sordi.

Adele

I've never had a problem with the way I look. I'd rather go for lunch with my friends than go to a gym.

Dolores Huerta

Every single day we sit down to eat, breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and at our table we have food that was planted, picked, or harvested by a farm worker. Why is it that the people who do the most sacred work in our nation are the most oppressed, the most exploited?

Anne Robinson

My accountant regularly asks to take me to lunch. I always say I can't afford it.

Andy Warhol

I used to have the same lunch every day, for 20 years, I guess, the same thing over and over again.

Stephen Hawking

It is said that there's no such thing as a free lunch. But the universe is the ultimate free lunch.

Suzanne Collins

While I was waiting...I ate your lunch.

Shelley Winters

Whenever you want to marry someone, go have lunch with his ex-wife.

Shelley Long

I really felt sometimes like I was physically pulling the plot, and it was heavy. I'm sure it didn't look great that I was going into my dressing room at lunch.

Neil Gaiman

I don't know why people would want to have lunch with writers. I've eaten with writers. We have appalling table manners, and rarely say anything other than 'Pass the salt' or 'If you're not going to eat that, can I have it?'

Brian Cox

An explorer of the universe is sexier than a musician.

Billie Joe Armstrong

That's the gamble that you make when you decide to become a rock musician. It's totally unpredictable.

Tony Levin

Like many musicians, I don't look back much... only concentrate on what music I'm doing, and occasionally look ahead.

Romain Rolland

Everything is music for the born musician.

Mary Timony

I feel really different from other musicians.

Elvis Costello

I'm a working travelling musician, but just on a bigger scale.

Greg Giraldo

If being a gangster were a prerequisite to being a musician, there'd be a lot less cello music, for example.

Frank Zappa

I'm just one of these unpopular musicians.

Wayne Shorter

If all you have is music, then you don't have music

Jorge Torres

This is something that should not be on places of education.

John Duncan

Those two places in South Portland are significant bottlenecks.

Dr. Seuss

You won't lag behind, because you'll have the speed. You'll pass the whole gang and you'll soon take the lead. Wherever you fly, you'll be best of the best. Wherever you go, you will top all the rest. Except when you don't. Because, sometimes, you won't.

Yotam Ottolenghi

There are tons of wonderful places to eat in London.

Adrian Smith

I get to fish a lot of wild and wonderful places on tour.

Margaret Turnbull

If TPF is not canceled, these are the places where we will search.

Lynsey Addario

Most people, when they meet me, one of the first things they say is, 'Why would you voluntarily subject yourself to war? Why would you go into these places where you know there's a risk of getting killed?'

Charlie Morgan

One of the things we stress is to make sure you are prepared. Do you have enough water? Do you have the right equipment? When we travel, there is a checklist of things, the type of places we stay in, for example.

Sam Bush

Of course, I wasn't old enough to get in these places back then,

Dana McClintock

We've been talking and are still talking about new platforms of all sorts." ()

Shari Arison

I don't think of myself as a powerful person. But I do use the platforms I have to make a difference in the world. Anyone who has a position where they can make a difference should use it.

Sundar Pichai

When you run a platform on scale, you have to make sure it's truly open. That way, not only do you do well, so do others.

Jim Yong Kim

The relationship between the prefrontal cortex and the amygdala fundamentally changes with meditation.

Arthur C. Clarke

After their encounter on the approach to Jupiter, there would aways be a secret bond between them---not of love, but of tenderness, which is often more enduring.

Richard G. Scott

The key to successful missionary work is a close relationship between the missionaries and the members. Creating an environment in working with members that will bring more into the Church.

Brian Weiss

Forgive the past. It is over. Learn from it and let go. People are constantly changing and growing. Do not cling to a limited, disconnected, negative image of a person in the past. See that person now. Your relationship is always alive and changing.

Wang Jianlin

I know Bo Xilai well. But our relationship was based on our work; we didn't have a personal relationship.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Everybody's friend is nobody's.

Eckhart Tolle

[Relationships] do not cause pain and unhappiness. They bring out the pain and unhappiness that is already in you

Britney Spears

I think it's a positive for girls not to depend on guys.

Eleanor Porter

My relationship with "Pollyanna" is a very personal one, because Pollyanna got me through my childhood.

Graeme Simsion

Restaurants are minefields for the socially inept

Rob Stevens

When I went to school, I didn't think I would have a restaurant so quickly, but I always wanted to get back downtown. Paine's is kind of a place for everyone.

Ben Crane

To this day, the first thing I do when I walk into a restaurant is take off my cap.

Brandon Sanderson

For now, I only wish to make a simple acknowledgement of the woman who held the power just before me. Of all of us who touched it, I feel she was the most worthy.

Auguste Rodin

The more simple we are, the more complete we become.

Ayelet Waldman

The Q I loathe and despise, the Q every single writer I know loathes and despises, is this one: 'Where,' the reader asks, 'do you get your ideas?' It's a simple question, and my usual response is a kind of helpless, 'I don't know.'

Brian Tracy

The better organized you are in the simple things, the more spontaneous and free you can be in the ore important things.

Brad Goreski

Putting on a new pair of glasses or sunglasses is a simple way to completely transform your look - just like a new hairstyle.

Jane Hirshfield

A poem makes clear without making simple. Poetry's language carries what lives outside language. It's as if you were given a 5-gallon bucket with 10 gallons of water in it. Mysterious thirsts are answered. That alchemical bucket carries secrets also, even the ones we keep from ourselves.

Jan Koum

Be simple and reliable

Jamie Farr

I tried to make it a simple as possible for people so they could pronounce my name.

Calvin Coolidge

The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.

Charles Bukowski

I don't know if this is true to you but for me sometimes it gets so bad that anything else say like looking at a bird on an overhead power line seems as great as a Beethoven symphony. then you forget it and you're back again.

Aleister Crowley

Having to talk destroys the symphony of silence.

Alfred Schnittke

I attempt to compose symphonies, although it is clear to me that logically it is pointless.

Dave Brubeck

When I was 20, Shostakovich was my favorite composer. I still find his Fifth Symphony wonderful, with its outstanding themes and rhythms. That's the piece that made me want to be a classical composer.

Andre Previn

You can chase a Beethoven symphony all your life and never catch up.

Tom Brown, Jr.

Immerse yourself in nature’s symphony and let your senses burst with joy.

Michael Tilson Thomas

But a large symphony orchestra basically is a repertory company and it has a very enormous repertoire and it is important for the performers to be able to know how to shift focus so that they instantly become part of the sound world that a particular repertoire demands.

Michio Kaku

What is the universe? The universe is a symphony of vibrating strings...we are nothing but melodies. We are nothing but cosmic music played out on vibrating strings and membranes.

Sharon Long

Some of it will go to have the Tupelo Symphony back with us this year.