Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ethan Mentzer

I like songs that are so damn catchy that you wake up in the morning with them in your head.

John Cleese

It's a catchy tune. Hopefully you'll be hearing it on a football terrace near you, very, very soon.

Seth Godin

So sure, start with a slogan. But don't bother wasting any time on it if you're merely going for catchy. Aim for true instead.

Benny Blanco

Everything needs to be catchy because a listener is either going to stay with the song or lose interest in the first five seconds. But people also like those songs they can relate to and say, 'Yeah, I went through that.'

Sonny Terry

In them days I just as soon died-except for my harmonica. It was like a friend who didn't give a damn if I could see or not.

Sam Ervin

I'll have you understand I am running this court, and the law hasn't got a damn thing to do with it!

Denny Green

I'm just surprised I'm not doing a better damn job. The job I thought I could do, I've not been able to do right now. And I'm not happy about it.

Mac Smith

The new lift was put in for the sport of skiing. That's pretty damn cool. Because of our numbers, though, it could become economically viable.

Jill Lepore

Damning taxes is a piece of cake. It's defending them that's hard.

Craig Stadler

It's so much fun when I make putts, ... and I made damn near everything.

Lauren Willig

People who would never sneer at sci-fi and murder mysteries have no trouble damning the whole romance genre without reading one.

Steve Hoffman

It's just fun. You get people doing all kinds of different things. You're getting to see all these people who are really conservative finally let their hair down once and enjoy life, instead of being so damn serious about stuff.

Michelle Samarel

It was the last game of the tournament and we only needed to double out. I needed a double 16 and hit a single 16 double 8 with one dart remaining. Damn that felt good!

Ashley Donnell

I watched the news this morning and I was shocked. I saw the picture and was like no, it can't be.. you must be talking about somebody else.

Woody Allen

If I just got up in the morning and had no place to go and was retired or something, I would sit there and I would be thinking, "Gee, what is the purpose of life? Why are we all finite? Why do we get old and die? Is there nothing out there? Why is it so tragic? Why do our loved ones perish? Why do we generate?" So who wants to think about that stuff?

Woody Allen

In real life I'm not the character I play in my films. I'm reasonably competent, I work very hard, I'm disciplined, I lead a very middle class life. I work in the mornings, I have lunch, I practise my clarinet, I go to the movies, I eat out in restaurants or watch ball games on television or at the ball games.

William Scranton

The first one, obviously, was walking into my office at eight o'clock in the morning on Wednesday, and being told there was a telephone call saying that there was an incident at Three Mile Island, and that it had shut down and that beyond that we didn't know.

William Scranton

I was scheduled to give my first official press conference that morning anyway, 'cause I was chairman of the Governors Energy Council and I was making a press conference with regard to energy policy.

William Scranton

And at ten, or whatever time, in the morning we had the press conference, what we knew is there had been an incident at Three Mile Island, that it was shut down, that there was water that had escaped but it was contained.

William Scranton

By Thursday morning, we'd gotten over the worst of it.

William J. Clinton

I want our nation to take responsibility to make sure that every single child can look out the window in the morning and see a whole community getting up and going to work. We want these young people to know the thrill of the first paycheck, the challenge of starting that first business, the pride in following in a parent's footsteps.

William J. Clinton

Promising too much can be as cruel as caring too little.

Dan Hill

Songs sometimes are so connected to the sociology of the time.

Smokey Robinson

I had been stockpiling Gospel songs for other artists, and had planned to submit them to Gospel artists.

Bob Blyer

I try to play a lot of songs that have 'love' in the title.

Todd Rundgren

I don't know what the inspiration for most of songs really mean until I finish them. For the most part, I'm going for a visceral impression, and I write the words last.

Jonny Buckland

We can't wait to play our new songs live

Liz Callaway

Time After Time/Dodsworth: New Songs from New Musicals.

Miranda Cosgrove

When I was 5, I started taking singing lessons, and then, after 'School of Rock,' I started taking guitar lessons. I would always write songs and play them for my friends, and I would play my guitar on the set a lot.

Bob Weir

Songs go through cycles for me. And sometimes I lose my passion for some of them.

Billy Sherwood

I wrote songs with the guys from Air Supply for their record... So I was just writing songs.

William Booth

We must wake ourselves up! Or somebody else will take our place, and bear our cross, and thereby rob us of our crown.

Ozzy Osbourne

I don't know who Ozzy is. I wake up a new person every day.

Ovid

Difficulty is what wakes up the genius.

Natalie Coughlin

I generally wake up at 4:30, have breakfast No. 1, then get to the pool by 5 a.m.

Lewis Black

You realize that for all the shenanigans that go on in the big circus of politics, everybody wakes up and goes to work.

Lucy Larcom

God be thanked for the thinkers of good and noble thoughts! It wakes up all the best in ourselves, to come into close contact with others greater and better in every way than we are.

Eric Thomas

I've got a reason for living. When I wake up, there are individuals who are counting on me to be my best and live my maximum life.

Bailee Madison

I wake up to an email from the writers with the new script, and I always get so excited because I know it'll be better all-around than the script from the week before.

Austin Carlile

Wake up and create a purpose for yourself. Don't ask the meaning of life, ask yourself the meaning of each given day.