Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Smith

I was interested in the nuts and bolts of its chemistry, the thermodynamics. I learned to blow glass in an artistic vacuum.

Jason James

Knowing that my wish list was pretty lofty and already busy working on other projects, I wrote Johnny Repeat in distinct chapters so high-caliber artists could contribute without having to make a 100-page commitment. I'm calling it 'cosmic noir.' I can't wait for everyone to see it!

The Bride

I would sooner destroy a stained glass window as an artist like yourself. However, since I can't have you following me either.

Rose Rosetree

Gwen has a very complicated, artistic temperament. It's intense, but she's OK with it. She's learned to let it fuel her artistic life.

Graham Elliot

I'm inspired by artists who use a limited palette, like painter Piet Mondrian, and the White Stripes, two musicians who create an incredible sound. Our food is starting to go back to a 'less is more' style.

Gore Verbinski

My respect for artists is very high. I think to get the most out of them, you have to liberate them. I think part of liberating them is saying, 'Come up with something brilliant, new, and fresh. Stop thinking based on what has been beat into you by executives or publishers in terms of what's going to work and what's not. Don't react, just act.'

Q-Tip

The song, 'Life is Better,' is about hip-hop. It's about my love for hip-hop. And, you know, I go through all the artists from the beginning to the end, you know. And, well, not to the end, but since the beginning to now, you know.

Mary Lambert

Going from someone playing 15-people venues to performing at the Grammys, it was this giant leap and sort of showed me it was possible with what I wanted to do and the kind of music I wanted to write and artist I want to be to impact a lot of people.

E. O. Wilson

He's got strong programs. He's got a lot of the basics and he could come through. The material and artistry are there. He's a player (for an Olympic medal), for sure.

Ron Walters

Katrina has blown that outreach away. This has become a powerful emotional issue - a national issue - that will severely limit Bush's future outreach efforts, because the victims in Louisiana and Mississippi have huge family networks scattered all over the country.

Casey Nicholaw

It blows me away that my parents, they really weren't much into theater, but they recognized that in me. When I think about the things they did to support that, I'm blown away.

Daniel Bruhl

When I went to the 'Rush' audition, I was blown away by the script. I thought it was fantastic.

Rob Stutzman

I think some of this (criticism) is blown out of proportion. There's a lot they're very happy about as well.

Steve Rhodes

People who use it are just blown away. This is not something that just the lunatic fringe does.

Butch Harmon

I had heard of Tiger, but I had never seen him play, ... Like everyone else, I was immediately blown away by the raw talent.

Dianne Cox

I just think (this) has been blown out of proportion.

Bill Tolford

I'm too old to start over. But in 10 years, if we don't sell, this place either will be blown away or too run-down to recognize.

John Jay

I'm obviously very proud of our guys and their fight. The guys hung in there. There were a couple of times in the first half and the second when we could have been blown out of here.

Kiran Ahluwalia

My CD collection has a lot of world music - lots of Indian, African, Portuguese, Greek, Italian music. Because of my husband, a lot of jazz, too.

Robert Winston

Nearly all inventions are not recognised for their positive side either when they're made. So, for example, scientists didn't go out to design a CD machine: they designed a laser. But we got all sorts of things from a laser which we never remotely imagined, and we're still finding things for a laser to do.

Zach Braff

Actually when I gave out the script, I gave it with a CD of all the music I wanted to put in the movie, and again, we never thought we'd get all that music.

Mark Russinovich

I know this is the last copy-protected CD I will buy,

Mick Taylor

It's frustrating actually, the time involved in getting something released these days. My new CD has actually been finished for a year. It's only now that it's being released

Henry Rollins

Technically speaking, there is no music whatsoever on a CD. Lots of information, but no music.

Mick Taylor

It's nice to finally have a CD out which reflects my songwriting, my singing and the band that I have.

Ray Waddell

It's always been a conundrum why hip-hop, the top CD seller, hasn't translated into ticket sales.

Aaron Greenberg

It's kind of the evolution from the days of fan clubs, with famous people meeting fans and signing CDs and gear. Now we are able to offer something more interactive. It's the kind of opportunity that doesn't exist in other forms of media.

Trent Reznor

What is exciting is taking back the excitement of being able to debut something to an audience in exactly the way you want to.

Greg Beratlis

I would've liked to have heard something out of his mouth. Yes, anything. A plea for his life or just his opinion on what went on over the last two years,

Mark Mandel

John is never at a loss for words. But when he heard the news, he was speechless.

Cindy Sheehan

Have you ever heard the sound of a nation-

Carl Dodd

Her mother done told her a lot of stories. My plan is to sit down and talk to her and let her know that a lot of things she heard aren't true, and let her be the judge.

Charles Smith

He said he was worried about his sister. He hadn't heard from her since the Sunday before the storm.

Kelly Williams

He's heard it from gang-bangers right in his ear when he played at Crenshaw.

The Beatles

To every word of love I heard you whisper, the raindrops seem to play a sweet refrain.

Jeff Soref

I thought this system could lead to us being re-marginalized by the party. I have seen or heard nothing since that makes me feel that is not happening.

Denise Wilson

I think it's so new that people haven't heard about it yet.

Ken Hill

Composers, like authors, have a lot in common. Our main goal is to connect with the listener emotionally.

Brian Humke

I think we want to listen to what people say; that's our job.

Nick Hornby

I think a lot of unpublished writers feel the same way. They're not getting anywhere, and nobody's listening to them. You do get frustrated.

Joe Gibbs

I will say this, we don't listen to him all the time or we'd be out here in our underwear.

Greg Simon

He's been visiting with people, first thanking them for all the work they did while he was in public service, and he's listening to people to see what they thought went right and wrong.

Jeanine Pirro

I don't even have to listen to the people because I'm a New Yorker.

Henry Garza

I can listen to an oldies station all day long,

James Steinberg

I am here mostly to listen and understand the perspective of all the parties involved,

Jeff Brown

He loved it. And there was nothing more wonderful than to watch him and listen to him play.

Rick Riordan

I wondered if she'd ever written on her notebook: GEB + NUT = TRUE LOVE or MRS GEB.

Sarah Caldwell

That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions.

Walter Benjamin

Let no thought pass incognito, and keep your notebook as strictly as the authorities keep their register of aliens.

Yukio Mishima

Within those confining walls, teachers - a bunch of men all armed with the same information - gave the same lectures every year from the same notebooks and every year at the same point in the textbooks made the same jokes.

Jonathan Raban

When traveling, I usually keep a notebook: when home at my desk, the notebook serves mainly to remind me how little I saw at the time, or rather how I was noticing the wrong things. But the notes do spur memories, and it's the memories I trust. The wine stain on the page may tell me more than the words there, which usually strike me as hopelessly inadequate.

Jacob Bronowski

Knowledge is not a loose-leaf notebook of facts. Above all, it is a responsibility for the integrity of what we are, primarily of what we are as ethical creatures.

Louise Erdrich

I have always kept notebooks and I go back to them over and over. They are my compost pile of ideas.

Mandy Moore

I carry around a little journal with me, a little notebook and a pen and just write all the time. Not necessarily actually sitting down and writing lyrics, just free-form writing, whatever's going on in my mind.

James Russell Lowell

The eye is the notebook of the poet.

Thomas a Kempis

We feel and weigh soon enough what we suffer from others: but how much others suffer from us, of this we take no heed.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If youth is a fault, it is one that one gets rid of soon enough.

Michael English

The streetcar will always have detractors. Is it going to go away? No. Is it going to be expanded? Yes, sooner or later.

Sue Black

The sooner I can alleviate everyone's fears, the better.

George Andrews

We tried to get foam on it as soon as we could. Any spark and that whole tanker could have blown,

Roy Halladay

We tried to do everything we could to get back as soon as possible,

Chuck Palahniuk

No, it's not fair, but what makes Earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it should feel like Heaven. Earth is earth. Dead is dead. You'll find out for yourself soon enough. It won't help the situation for you to get all upset.

Theodore Roosevelt

The only trouble with the movement for the preservation of our forests is that it has not gone nearly far enough, and was not begun soon enough.

Greg Poehler

I feel like the longer I hold out - I feel like as soon I move to L.A., I just become one of a million.

Carl Jung

If you insist on the chase," I say, my voice much surer than I feel."Then you better start training. 'Cause, dude you're in for a marathon.

Richelle Mead

Only what?” I asked. I could barely hear my own voice. He turned his gaze back to me, firm and unflinching. “Only… more human.” And that was it. All the anger and sorrow vanished. There was nothing in me. Nothing at all. I was empty. “Get out,” I said.

Richelle Mead

Roza." His voice had that same wonderful lowness, the same accent . . . it was all just colder. "You forgot my first lesson: Don’t hesitate.

Trey Songz

Never forget the morals instilled in you and what really matters in Life. Never let other voices of other people drown out your inner voice

Will Cuppy

The stork is voiceless because there is really nothing to say.

Sarah Silverman

As soon as a woman is old enough to have an opinion and have a voice and be unafraid, she's very much encouraged by all sorts of people to crawl under a rock and die. And it's so weird. My crime is not dying.

Sarah Bernhardt

You must have this charm to reach the pinnacle. It is made of everything and of nothing, the striving will, the look, the walk, the proportions of the body, the sound of the voice, the ease of the gestures. It is not at all necessary to be handsome or to be pretty; all that is needful is charm.

Reba McEntire

Whenever a natural disaster occurs, it is always the Red Cross that responds quickly and compassionately. I am honored to lend my voice to their cause, and thrilled to serve on the Celebrity Cabinet for 2010.

Verne Lundquist

Pardon me while I lower my voice.