Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stuart Murdoch

He delivered, but at first I had my doubts. He was quite brutal about taking a machete to songs if he thought they had too many verses; one song he completely halved. And he didn't like my acoustic guitar playing. Did you notice that, Chris? He would accidentally lean on the mute button. But I'm surprised and delighted with the way the record has turned out.

Steve Gulley

He's a bluegrass fanatic and loves acoustic music. He approached us, and it was a mutual thing. We did it through Ricky, and it worked out to be a great situation. We had a wonderful time in the studio. It was a mutual love affair with the music, and he brought us so many great songs.

Keith Richard

He's always been a good, smooth acoustic player, but the electric seemed like an untamed beast for him until this year.

David Sanborn

I think with the acoustic bass it allows you to explore the fuller dynamic range.

Jeff Ament

I think at that point we were aspiring to be a Led Zeppelin kind of a band where you could pick up your acoustic instruments or you could go out and rock or you could play a country song. I love all those bands we got mentioned with, but it never felt like we fit into that group very well. So the fact that they're still saying, 'The band that survived grunge' is kind of funny.

Keith Richard

He's been working on his electric guitar since we've been off the road, ... He's always been a great acoustic player, but the electric always seemed to run out of his hands. Now, I think he finally tamed the beast.

Jim Robinson

He's considered one of the finest in contemporary folk acoustic guitar. He's been voted in numerous guitar magazines as one of the greats. I'm excited to hear him.

Chris Beyer

Previously it was acoustic guitars, now it's taking a turn into more electric guitars.

Dan Hicks

I had different bands. I played with the Acoustic Warriors for the most part, without girl singers. It was the same kind of sound, acoustic guitar, bass, with violin and sometimes accordion, and the guys would sing, that kind of thing.

Jimmy Conrad

I was like, well, there goes my chance.

Roy Sommer

Kaspar took a selfish penalty. He goes after the referee -- what's he going to do? They scored twice because of that.

Ken Davis

Keeping it tuned up and keeping it well maintained it goes a long way.

Brett Lebda

Just throw it at the net sometimes and it goes in.

Julius Peppers

Jordan (Carstens) has played and Kindal (Moorehead) has played, so we feel good about those guys. You have to go to be ready when someone goes down.

Robert Gottlieb

Jodi Melnick is hotly self-absorbed. Her onstage musicians are much too loud, and like so many narcissistic performers, she goes on much too long: She's interested in herself; why wouldn't we be?

Craig Beesley

Judge is a different type of pitcher than Patrick. He goes right after batters.

Dana Martell

It can't just be something that goes on for one year and just stops. It has to keep going.

Bob Stern

It always raises questions when someone goes from one side to the other. One of the questions that comes up is, where is his loyalty?

Rosaleen Tallon

I will never go underground to remember my Marine firefighter brother. We are not doing the right thing at this sacred site.

Brad Milton

I have even been in the pits with our Marine team before.

Rob Halford

Their brilliant audio expert, who is a marine biologist, should really be looking after Flipper

Richard Dean Anderson

They are a fairly aggressive conservation organization that was started to protect the great whales particularly, but in general all marine life around the world. So those are the people I'm trying to attach my name to.

Willie Aames

I didn't become an actor because I wanted to act. Actually, I wanted to become a marine biologist. But most of all, I wanted to be accepted.

Woodrow Wilson

...We are intensely proud of their noble record and are glad to have had the whole world see how irresistible they are in their might when a cause which America holds dear is at stake. The whole nation has reason to be proud of them.

Richard Dawkins

Just imagine the banner headlines if a marine biologist were to discover a species of dolphin that wove large, intricately meshed fishing nets, twenty dolphin-lengths in diameter! Yet we take a spider web for granted, as a nuisance in the house rather than as one of the wonders of the world. And think of the furore if Jane Goodall returned from Gombe stream with photographs of wild chimpanzees building their own houses, well roofed and insulated, of painstakingly selected stones neatly bonded and mortared! Yet caddis larvae, who do precisely that, command only passing interest.

Robert Smith

I entirely approve the measures proposed by you in relation to the Marines who are lately captives in Tripoli. Therefore execute them.

Sandra Postel

Water is the basis of life and the blue arteries of the earth! Everything in the non-marine environment depends on freshwater to survive.

Armondo Cima

I think we are getting more used to each other. From that point of view we are making measured progress in that area.

Liu Jianchao

I do not think that progress of the talks needs to be measured by the signing of a document.

Source Unknown

Physical strength is measured by what we can carry; spiritual by what we can bear.

Mike Babcock

Can you replace anybody? Yes. Can you replace him with the same person? No. His contribution to our team is not just measured in what you see, no question about that.

Bob Sweeney

I just think success has to be measured by a lot more than test scores.

Dr. Bailes

In many ways, we are in uncharted territory in predicting his recovery. The long-term outlook will be measured in weeks and months and not days.

Pope VI

everyone else was a surprise, at least as measured by public speculation prior to the conclave.

George Voinovich

They should be measured on it and if they don't meet the standard, they get docked for it.

Kara Carney

It's not tangible. The passage of time is measured differently.

Steve Page

They are wrestling with a lot of the same pollution problems that we wrestled with several years ago and that, to some extent, we still are grappling with.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Pollution is merely a resource that isn't being used properly.

Lawrence M. Krauss

We now know that we are more insignificant than we ever imagined. If you get rid of everything we see, the universe is essentially the same. We constitute a 1 percent bit of pollution in a universe . . . we are completely irrelevant.

Brian Swanson

There wasn't enough pollution for a wholesale cleanup.

Patrick Moore

There are a lot of strains on the infrastructure, our roads, our schools, and I think that sometimes the problems haven't been anticipated.

Kristin Accipiter

I think it's here to stay, but there are problems to be ironed out.

Judy Orihuela

He's been very cooperative. We've had no problems with him whatsoever so far.

Timothy Fisher

The range of a vehicle on one tank should be about the same as what we have today, 300 to 400 miles. And the fueling process should be about the same as what we're used to, it shouldn't take much more time than it takes today. And there are some serious problems with that.

Philip Russell

He had a lot to live for and, in the short term, he had problems, but he was not despairing.

Bob Bowlsby

I never would have taken the first step if I thought I was going to risk problems at Iowa. That was an important part of this process.

Kurt Johnson

In the end, it didn't matter, ... because we had transmission problems with it not going into second gear.

Mark Hodsdon

I just don't have problems with it anymore. If I don't take it, then it will happen. But if I do, then it's not a problem at all.

Christopher Hill

Clearly, they have some problems with the draft, but we have some problems as well.

Gitesh Pandya

Just like with any trend, when you get too many players, you start to get some strikeouts.

Jay Hopson

It all starts with him. He can do it all.

Danielle Santos

It can't get any worse than Georgia. I think we're going to start going up from here.

August Wilson

It ain't nothing to find no starting place in the world. You just start from where you find yourself.

Tom Coughlin

He is starting to go through the throwing motion, ... He's doing soft-toss, not for any distance.

Nick Saban

Guys, let's get off this starting quarterback thing.

Lauren Bacall

There were times, sure, I wanted my career to go better. But once it starts to go downhill, you can never get back, or only to some degree.

Sven Eriksson

He showed he is important even if he starts on the bench.

Bob Carr

I think it's important that we don't start leaping at shadows,

Alan Trammel

He's a keeper. We'll be watching him for years.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

I was kind of amused, and shocked. At first I was watching it with my children. Then I said 'Children, OUT!

Andy Robinson

It has been killing me watching from the stands, I want to get back into the action,

Turner Gill

I'll be watching right up front. Won't everybody?

Gavin Henson

I'll probably be watching it at home, with Charlotte.

Brian Urlacher

If I was someone, I'd do the same to us after watching that film.

Madonna Madonna

I had the same thing when we were watching Live 8,

Jack VanDerhei

It's kind of like watching a glacier move.

Brenda Johnson

It was surreal, just watching her. But this wasn't her first rodeo.

Wallace Stevens

So, too, if, to our surprise, we should meet one of these morons whose remarks are so conspicuous a part of the folklore of the world of the radio--remarks made without using either the tongue or the brain, spouted much like the spoutings of small whales--we should recognize him as below the level of nature but not as below the level of the imagination.

Warren Farrell

The problem is that Americans care more about saving whales than saving males.

Wavy Gravy

Well, this week for example, I was just in Los Angeles making a documentary for German television on whales. They had tried to get me in England where they missed me.

George Gaylord Simpson

I don't know where to put whales. I'm sticking them here, but I don't have any reason for it.

Lupe Fiasco

The rewards we get by being those weird guys going against the grain to me are way more massive than selling a million billion records. I like climbing mountains or going on undersea dives for whales and stuff like that.

P. T. Barnum

Never attempt to catch a whale with a minnow.

Oliver Goldsmith

If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.

Paul Watson

All of the great whales are endangered.

Paul Watson

I have been honored to serve the whales, dolphins, seals - and all the other creatures on this Earth. Their beauty, intelligence, strength, and spirit have inspired me. These beings have spoken to me, touched me, and I have been rewarded by friendship with many members of different species. If the whales survive and flourish, if the seals continue to live and give birth, and if I can contribute to ensuring their future prosperity, I will be forever happy.