Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ji-Hae Park

I would not want the limitations held by the name of a classical musician. I want many people to enjoy my music much beyond just classical music fans. I think the term, 'violinist,' keeps me distant from the audience. I want to communicate with them more.

David Sowerby

I think it is still a classic 'show-me' stock.

George Thorogood

The reason it has lasted for 30 years is for one reason and one reason only: Classic Rock radio.

Stieg Larsson

Writing detective stories is about writing light literature, for entertainment. It isn't primarily a question of writing propaganda or classical literature.

Joshua Cohen

There are so many classic Big Brother warning books: the Internet is a horrible, controlling thing, as if it has a consciousness or political agenda.

Dan Harmon

Emotionally, shows like 'Cheers' and 'Taxi' were classic sitcoms when I was growing up.

Herbie Hancock

I was a jazz purist at the time, I had tunnel vision about jazz and classical music,

Aleksey Igudesman

I was able to turn to classical music many people, who saw my programs live and on YouTube, and this is one of the nicest achievements I can have.

Kunal Nayyar

I went to the University/Resident Theatre Association auditions. Deans come and watch you in this theater. You have three minutes, and you have to do two contrasting monologues - at that time, this is 2003 - one classical and one contemporary.

Glenn Beck

I was in Washington, D.C., on the morning show, by the time I was 18, programming a station by 19, No. 1 in the mornings. I think I was making, I don't know, a quarter of a million dollars by the time I was 25.

Clay Johnson

Katrina has sharpened everyone's focus on spending the taxpayers' dollars wisely.

Ray Manzarek

John is going to get about a million dollars for doing nothing. He gets an equal share as us, and we were out there working. A free million bucks. That's a gig I'd like.

Mark Dobson

I also want to make sure student tax dollars are spent responsibly. Regardless, they are spent on the students who pay them.

David Brazil

We've done well with their contract-in dollars and in service.

John Heisdorffer

I think it's possible. We have about a half million dollars walking into the office or by mail every day.

Chuck Adams

He needs a million dollars to be able to be noticed.

Harry Smith

I'm proud of myself. People who spent time with me afterward said, 'You're such a humble person.' I'm talking about myself now, but in the game you don't get portrayed as you always are. I want to come away with more than a million dollars with my honor and integrity. And I did that.

Susan Jackson

The last thing we want is for these dollars (for free tutoring) to go unused.

Bill Freeman

Just patriotism, ... No matter what went down, we were supporting our own nation and land.

Greg Puhalski

He didn't play too badly. It's just a matter of getting a little rust off.

Doug Miller

He comes up with a lot of big plays no matter where you put him.

Sally Field

The only thing that matters to me is getting to the work - getting to do the work. And I don't really care where it is: whether it's on stage or on television or in film.

Sloane Crosley

Going to a museum is one of those inexplicably tiring things. You're not actually doing anything, more shifting your weight from room to room than walking. And yet it is one of the more tiring things one can do, no matter how thrilled you are by the exhibits.

Brian Beckwith

His success is all to him. It's all a matter of how he thinks each night and how he prepares for each game.

Dave Duncan

His stuff is there, it's just going to be a matter of time. He'll get into the swing of things.

Arlen Specter

I think it's more a matter for them than us because we've got ... a lot of matters which take precedence over this for our own time,

Rocky Juarez

I think it's just a matter of time before I get a shot at a world title or an opportunity to be back on television.

Eric Swanson

I think in the long run, it'll pay off,

Harry Anderson

What you get when you come here is you pay way too much for my stuff, but you get it signed by me, demonstrated by me,

Darren Clarke

He said, 'You do know which TV tower I was talking about, don't you? I said, 'Yeah, the one on the right.' And he said, 'No, it was the one on the left.' It was all my fault. I didn't really pay that much attention.

Keith David

I don't think they're going to pay me to play Mufasa.

Woody Hayes

You don't get many chances to pay back what's been done for you. Take them.

Woody Hayes

You can never really pay back. You can only pay forward.

Sarah Palin

There's no free ride. Someone always pays and if you don't know who that someone is, it's probably you.

Richard M. Nixon

Anybody who wants to be an ambassador, wants to pay at least $250,000.

Richard M. Nixon

Make sure you pay your taxes; otherwise you can get in a lot of trouble.

Bob Hughes

We try to keep it rock 'n' roll. Everybody's welcome.

Christopher Lee

We threw a lot of rock yesterday, and we're throwing more rock this afternoon.

Scott Bertoli

I thought Wednesday was rock bottom. Apparently, it can get worse.

Dick Bennett

I think Batista's the rock on that team.

Chris Blight

He's been a rock back there for us.

Troy Brown

I actually feel like a rock star. I feel like I'm important here.

Ed Stern

He was pivotal. He was sort of the rock of the Playhouse: organized, disciplined, always in control.

Richard Paul Evans

The first casualty of hitting rock bottom is vanity.

Rick Derringer

I was almost kind of trapped by my own success into only doing rock.

Johnny Rivers

He was signing everyone else up, ... He just didn't think I could sell any records.

Shaun Cassidy

If you're going out to sell a new show,

Shane Smith

If not doing VICE, I probably would be selling Cokes on the beach in Vietnam. I like the sea.

Mig Ayesa

I know they're not selling out. This is something they take very, very seriously,

Valentino Castellani

The interesting thing is that since Giorgio Rocca started winning his competitions, there is a correlation with the victories of Giorgio and the selling of tickets.

Mickey Gilley

All my money was made doing the dates and selling products when I was out there on the road.

Kay Granger

I started selling insurance in 1979 and continued doing that until 1985 when I opened my own insurance firm.

James Hansen

Because cap and trade is enforced through the selling and trading of permits, it actually perpetuates the pollution it is supposed to eliminate.

George Foreman

Learn to sell and you'll never starve

Sally Ride

Ever been to Disneyland? That was definitely an E ticket!

Will Rogers

There isn't any finer folks living than a Republican that votes the Democratic ticket.

Marcel Proust

A work in which there are theories is like an object which still has the ticket that shows its price.

Jerry Only

It's not how many tickets can we sell, it's where do we want to play, not where should we play to make the most money. We don't really care about that.

Edwin Louis Cole

Faith is the ticket to the feast, not the feast.

Maya Angelou

Life offers us tickets to places which we have not knowingly asked for.

John Perry Barlow

Royalties are not how most writers or musicians make their living. Musicians by and large make a living with a relationship with an audience that is economically harnessed through performance and ticket sales.

George McGovern

I am 1,000 percent for Tom Eagleton and I have no intention of dropping him from the ticket.

Joseph Pierce

Can I make the play, ... Am I willing to make the play?

Nathalie Sarraute

We're swallowed up only when we are willing for it to happen.

Nikki Sixx

Friends tell each other what nobody else is willing to tell you.

Rita Mae Brown

Don't hope more than you're willing to work.

Mike Tomlin

It's not about what you're capable of, It's about what you're willing to do.

John Piper

You ought to marry someone who’s willing to go anywhere for God. If they’re not, they're out.

Bill Crawford

Sometimes our ability to accept what we can't change is tied to our willingness to change what we can.

Steve Kroft

I think you've got be willing as an interviewer to ask the dumb question every now and then.

Loretta Lynch

It's the choices that you make and the things that you're willing to accept and not accept that define who you are.