Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eric San

We're on tour to kind of explain why we do what we do, how its done and how we put it together.

Eric San

I realized that we were all sort of conspiring, well, not conspiring against each other, but all this cloak and dagger stuff and I was like; what is this?

Bruce Cockburn

There was a lot more music than the size of the place would indicate.

Bruce Cockburn

All I ever thought was, 'I'm going to do this as long as I can, and if I can't get paid at it, I'll be a bum doing it.' And so, here I am.

Bruce Cockburn

The trouble with normal is it always gets worse.

Chantal Kreviazuk

When I get up and play, I'm not having to sell myself because people are coming in with an open mind even if they haven't heard me before.

Gordon Lightfoot

I try to keep it light and positive most of the time, whereas earlier on I didn't always do that.

Deborah Cox

So I did 'Something Happened on the Way to Heaven' and the original version is a ballad. The original Phil record is uptempo but we slowed it down and made it a ballad.

Jarome Iginla

That one wasn't so funny because he got hurt.

Benjamin Disraeli

When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.

Demetri Martin

Stand up is really fun because if I think of a joke or a funny idea, then I can just go and tell some people and if they laugh, they laugh right away.

Demetri Martin

I was in my friends garage, and he had; a kite, a yo-yo, and a boomerang. I was like "Dude, you have abandonment issues"

Damon Runyon

The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet.

Blake Lively

When I say something funny, I don't laugh.

Billy Magnussen

I want to be known for my performances and doing my craft well, not for funny stuff I post on Twitter or whatever.

Chris Givens

We've had people look at us funny when they see us together somewhere. They think that's odd for some reason.

Marilyn Fitzgerald

We all thought it was funny when Caitlin said her off-season training for softball (at Marist) involves a lot of swimming workouts.

Ricky Gervais

I've probably done the odd thing. I've probably done more than I would have done and some things you don't say no to. You don't say no to working with "The Simpsons"... the greatest comedy show on television. You mustn't. Even though going to my bad judgment, I remember saying that all I can do is make this show slightly worse.

Marina Warner

The more one knows fairy tales the less fantastical they appear; they can be vehicles of the grimmest realism, expressing hope against all the odds with gritted teeth.

Patricia Clarkson

The odds are not in your favor the older you get, especially if you're a woman in this business.

John Stuart Mill

The strongest of all arguments against the interference of the public with purely personal conduct, is that when it does interfere, the odds are that it interferes wrongly, and in the wrong place.

Nick Cave

If you're Australian, you feel it in your bones because you're at odds with everybody else, except other Australians, in the sense that people always seem to be behaving strangely. People always seem to be behaving the wrong way, in a different way. You say things and there are silences.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

If you roll dice, you know that the odds are one in six that the dice will come up on a particular side. So you can calculate the risk. But, in the stock market, such computations are bull - you don't even know how many sides the dice have!

J. Cole

I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.