Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian Meehan

They allowed it to be physical, and that's just the way it is.

Tim Craft

We really got after them on defense. That allowed us to get off to such a quick start.

Even though I was their captive, the Indians allowed me quite a bit of freedom. I could walk freely, make my own meals, and even hurl large rocks at their heads. It was only later that I discovered that they were not Indians at all but only dirty-clothes hampers.

John Battelle

At the Web 2.0 Conference a year ago, we gathered to discuss the implications of the Web becoming a platform. This year, we're taking it further, focusing not just on declaring the platform, but showing where the innovation is happening and what we might expect in the coming year, ... Web 2.0 attendees will be immediately plugged into the ecosystem of the new Internet and allowed to make connections vital to their business strategy.

A. N. Wilson

We should have played better early on, but we just weren't aggressive. We let them change our strategy, and we shouldn't have allowed that. We had a hard time being patient. We could have played a lot better.

Drew Clarkin

We did a good job in the neutral zone. We allowed them to dump 50-50 pucks into the zone as opposed to using their speed to turn our defense.

Lars Trier

We had shot very long scenes, and no scene was like the other. The actors were allowed to move within the scene as they pleased, and they never needed to follow any determined action.

Mallory Ortberg

We went to church twice a week. My parents were employed in ministry; we prayed before dinner. We rollerbladed in the summer. We were allowed to watch the 'Simpsons.' I fought with my younger brother over Legos.

Jeffrey Stankunas

We walked out of there not knowing the identity of the accusers, and we're disappointed that the commissioners allowed that to happen.

Steve Fleming

As a father, I did a poor job at dealing with my son. The Special Olympics taught me how to deal with my son, and now he is my best friend. We do everything together.

John Longo

That's where we lost it, but we really, really grinded to get the score we did. I knew we would need our best day of the year to advance.

John Longo

That's where we lost it, but we really, really grinded to get the score we did, ... I knew we would need our best day of the year to advance.

Atticus Ross

Personally, I do the best work with people I'm closest with. I know what their tastes are, and they are similar to mine. That close personal relationship is what delivers the best work.

Aaron Lewis

Our thoughts and prayers are with Brad, and we send our best wishes to him for a speedy and complete recovery.

Ron Gardenhire

Our thoughts and our prayers are turned towards Puck in Arizona. We all heard about this before lunch and that pretty much takes away from anything you do at a ballpark. We did the best we could do today and the game was whatever ... it was a game.

George Kennedy

Our third day was the best one for us, and should give us momentum for next year.

Tom Crawford

Our sincerest hope is that we give this the best shot that we can. We hope it works.

Bob Hill

Our defense was clearly the best it's been all season long. We got a lot of points off our defense and that was pretty much it. We took care of business.

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.

Baltasar Gracian

Do not show your wounded finger for everything will knock up against it.

Gillian Anderson

I would never point a finger at anyone and say, 'They lived their life badly.' I take it as it comes and deal with each situation as it arrives.

Glen Campbell

It hurts and I'm going to have to have it operated on. Sometimes, I have to use just three fingers on my left hand when I play.

Dusty Baker

He hadn't had anything to this point. We'll keep our fingers crossed.

Carmen Bambach

A showdown of the two greatest rivals of the Renaissance.

Mark Mohl

Osage had a very tough week with three quality opponents. We are disappointed we didn't win all three, but the kids had great effort.

John Tavares

Any player in the NHL would be a great comparison, but when you name a guy like Sidney Crosby . . . but I don't know if I'll be able to do things he's done in the league because we're different types of players,

David Phillips

Are we no longer the Great White North? It's incredible.

Porter Bibb

Sony has got a solid distribution network, ... It's got a great library and it's got a lot in the hopper ... Realistically, there are some significant buyers.

Dax Maier

Sometimes you can find great people in New York.

Dave Baron

Team unity. We've got a great relationship between all the guys here.

Ernie Accorsi

Teams that dominated, that won multiple Super Bowls, all had great quarterbacks.

Spike Lee

Terrance Howard did a great job. I wanna see him win. I voted for him.

Dave Navarro

And I've also come to the conclusion that, as far as guitar solos and things like that are concerned, it's more important to complement the music rather than take away from it.

Robby Benson

I started playing guitar when I was 6 or 7 years old, and I think that, within a week of getting my first guitar, I started writing music. I just love it.

Donald Fagen

As jazz fans, it was amusing for us to play jazz harmonies on these big, ugly electric guitars.

Ace Frehley

I went to my friend's house one day, and he had an electric guitar he had just bought with a tiny little amp. I turned the volume up to 10 and I hit one chord, and I said, I'm in love.

Dr. John

In 1972, I recorded Gumbo, an album that was both a tribute to and my interpretation of the music I had grown up with in New Orleans in the 1940s and 1950s. I tried to keep a lot of the little changes that were characteristic of New Orleans, while working my own funknology on piano and guitar.

Andy Summers

I've got four or five records in my head at a time that I try to work on and I would like to do a guitar trio record next - since The Police I've mostly made records with keyboards.

Ray LaMontagne

When I pick up the guitar, it's a melody, and that's what drives the lyrics. It's bits and pieces of truth, but it is storytelling.

Syd Barrett

I'm full of dust and guitars.

Syd Barrett

I never felt so close to a guitar as that silver one with mirrors that I used on stage all the time.

Henry Ellis

The sun and the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.

Steve Kerr

This ranks right up there, ... Right up there at the top with anything that happened with the Bulls.

Peter Cohen

I feel that so much has happened that I didn't think would happen. I'm shocked. My judgement has been wrong for two years.

Jack Kerouac

Nothing ever happened - Not even this

Dominique Wilkins

I knew it would happen. Just when was the question. But at this point in time, it doesn't matter if it happened last year or now. It's done. That's the most important thing to me.

Tim Phillips

I knew instantly what it was. And it occurred to me -- I did not know what happened to it.

Jennifer Flavin

I knew that if-God forbid-anything ever happened in my life, I needed to know how to take care of myself.

Richard Grant

I'm elated, but 15 years of hard work unfortunately had to go south. I feel sorry for anything that happened in the past but I'm going to move on.

Amy Heffner

I knew after what happened that I had to make that one. As it turned out, that's the one we needed the most.

Chris Sullivan

I've been listening to them my whole life.

Brett Ratner

Listening is harder than just acting. Listening is the hardest part.

Barbara Bush

You get nothing done if you don't listen to each other.

Brian May

I never took sheet music seriously. I could do better myself just by listening to other people and using my own intuition.

Amy Sedaris

If you see a shy person, ask them some questions like, 'Why are you so shy? Tell everyone, we're all listening.

Rick Owens

I almost cried the other day listening to ‘Vogue’ by Madonna.

Robert Anton Wilson

part of the humor of living on this backward planet is listening to the hominids rationalize their predations.

Erin McKean

if you want someone to stop listening to you go ahead and yell. If you want them to listen to every word, whisper. -Mimi

Burn Gorman

I love going on BBC6 and BBC7 and listening to documentaries.

Saundra Hess

We ran our middle a little more, we ran our outside a little more and we need to do that. We need to show a little diversity.

Harry Gunatillake

It is better to have talks about talks than have nothing at all. I think by the middle of this month we should see some movement.

Sarah Dessen

I was just stock in the middle, vague and undefined.

Tim Cahill

a narrative story -- one with a beginning, a middle and an end. I used to take miles and miles and hundreds and hundreds of pages of notes, and I still do. But now, about three-quarters of the way through the thing, I can see the structure of the story in my mind.

Charles Singley

Ruth was my girlfriend's name at the time.

Arthur Adamov

What is there? I know first of all that I am. But who am I? All I know of myself is that I suffer. And if I suffer it is because at the origin of myself there is mutilation, separation. I am separated. What I am separated from -- I cannot name it. But I am separated.

Aphra Behn

Dear me no Dears, Sir ...

Eliphas Levi

What is more absurd and more impious than to attribute the name of Lucifer to the devil, that is, to personified evil. The intellectual Lucifer is the spirit of intelligence and love; it is the paraclete, it is the Holy Spirit, while the physical Lucifer is the great agent of universal magnetism.

Clive Barker

A soul of water a soul of stone. A soul by name a soul unknown. The hours unmake our flesh our bone. The Soul is all and all alone!

Anne Sexton

My death from the wrists, two name tags, blood worn like a corsage to bloom one on the left and one on the right.

Slash

I once asked Axl why he left the 'E' off his name. He started crying and said he thought he'd spelled it right.

John Milton

Satan; so call him now, his former name Is heard no more in heaven.

Misha Collins

I am not on tumblr. I can barely spell tumblr. However, there does seem to be someone on tumblr (who copied my reddit user name) who is apparently trying to impersonate me. I like the idea that people are pretending to be me. I spend most of my time pretending not to be me.

Cameron Diaz

If you really want to torture me, sit me in a room strapped to a chair and put Mariah Carey's records on.

Beck

There's something different that happens when you're writing a song for your own record that you know you're going to sing.

Rita Ora

When I record music I like to be in one place and kind of have a base to keep going back to.

Gary Bauer

I have a 25-year record on the sanctity of life. I'm not a Johnny-come-lately like Mr. Forbes.

Gwen Stefani

Every record that I've ever made, I listen to it so much before it comes out. As soon as it comes out, I never listen to it again. It's, like, over.

Thomas Morgan

He set the school record for the most receptions in a season.

Matt Paxton

He set it Tuesday and he re-set it tonight. The record had been standing since 1983.

Kyle Gilchrist

I didn't (expect to be 44-0). I just wanted to go to state. The record was never a concern.

Bob Walsh

I think the whole team was on edge. I'm sitting there thinking, ?Are we trying to get a record here or are we trying to win a game?' He's going to get it. Let's win the game.