Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Bowie

He's a friendly and caring guy whom I really respect for his knowledge of touring. Not to mention my favorite brand of coffee is consistently backstage every night.

Jason Alexander

I went into performing for the community. Being backstage with your company of fellows is the best part of working in live theater. That energy, that combined focus, the synergy - it's addictive.

Gary Sinise

He's blasting away, rocking out. Something happens backstage just outside the theater, and of course we find a dead body out there, so we've got to start investigating.

Kristian Bush

I spent 25 years clearly understanding that I'm not gonna meet Bono or the Edge. But then it happened at the Grammys when we were all backstage and I just about fell out of my shoes.

Misty Haven

In the earlier days when I was a manager, when introducing myself to workers, since some of them knew I was with Mike, I was being ignored. Completely ignored -- pushed aside; I was basically his shadow. What we decided to do is go into the wrestling business and establish ourselves as individuals, as two separate workers. A lot of people will notice that we are hardly ever together in the backstage environment, mainly because he wants to do his own thing and I want to do my own thing. That helps me establish myself as a worker -- he's his own person, I'm my own person.

Carl Reiner

Can someone please explain to me what that was all about? I was backstage and didn't hear one iota of humor during that entire presentation.

Bonnie Raitt

I'm completely thrilled to be a part of this. I have to say, this is the highlight of the summer for me. This is one of a kind and long overdue. It's the best vibe I've ever seen backstage and onstage as well.

John Corbett

I hung out at Uncle Phil's Club Madrid nightspot where my mother was a waitress and my grandmother sold hot dogs and sauerkraut. I got to go backstage at the Jamboree and watch the show and then visit with musicians who stopped by the club later.

Jodi Benson

Connecting with the kids is a great joy for me. I love meeting them backstage or at a signing event. I am overwhelmed when I meet kids who struggle with terminal illnesses.

Ratu Gavidi

It captures a unique sense of wisdom and leadership and draws an inspiration that lifts the spirit.

Richard Danzig

It captures a sense of what extraordinary history this has through the old ships, the tall ships. At the same time it emphasizes the extraordinary present-day relevance of naval power. Seventy percent of the globe is water, and we're able to operate from the sea everywhere. The Navy really is everywhere for America.

Joey Sato

He has that smile that just captures people. He's early to practice, smile on his face, 'How you doing, coach?' He's the last guy to leave, smile on his face, 'See you tomorrow, coach.' He's that way no matter how the day has gone. He is just a great kid. He makes everyone around him happy.

Dave Henderson

We can make anything with sand. People like it because it captures the kid in them.

Clive Davis

Rod gets more and more comfortable in the genre with each album, and that's why he won his Grammy for the third 'Songbook.' On Volume IV, Rod inimitably captures wonderful classic standards, breathes new life into them and makes them his own.

Matt Strauss

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Sampha

I like trying to make sounds that are interesting and are a bit weird. I try to make music that captures people's imaginations.

Mark Ruffalo

I love 'The Sportswriter' by Richard Ford. Ford really captures for me the bittersweetness of the quietly suffering American man. It's stoic, sad, and really beautiful.

Boris Vallejo

Everyone has a photograph of themselves, but not many have a drawing or portrait done by another human who captures their unique characteristics,

Gordon Taylor

You don't hear a film director saying 'Money mustn't go out of the industry' to actors. You don't hear a concert promoter saying 'We must make sure that money doesn't go out of our industry' to Elton John. Some people in football seem to think, 'Never mind the players, let's get on with the game.'

Kate Beckinsale

I would quite like to play a big concert as Freddie Mercury. I can't sing that great and I haven't yet found a use for the over large size of my teeth. I quite fancy a mustache like that and he was such a great showman.

Carol Smith

It is going to be really exciting because the concerts I am conducting will be graduate students. I think they will be outstanding.

Simon Schama

I was conscious of being wordy as a child. I was a terrible talker. I memorised the Latin names of flowers at five; I was shown off as a freak. My father encouraged me to be wordier than I was: he'd been a street orator at the time of Mosley, and his ideal primary concert speech was Henry V's speech before Harfleur.

Luc Ferrari

I was doing the university circuit-I do conferences on my work and if all goes well they give me a concert or two in the university.

Kelli O'Hara

I was able to do concerts all the way up until two weeks before I had the baby; I thought I was stopping a month ahead, but he was three weeks early.

Kellin Quinn

I think fans going to concerts expect more today in terms of meeting and things. It's cool - I get it because of how the Internet has made things much more personal for fans to follow with Facebook, Twitter and everything - but I also think it's kind of hindering because it takes from the music in a way.

Christina Merblum

In the next year, we hope to increase our exposure, increase our concert schedule and obtain management. We plan to start touring more. And we want to make recruitment (of students) a reality, not purely a philosophy.

Placido Domingo

I really don't know how to do it -- a tour or a concert or if I just say, that's it, that's the last night.

Anthony Reinoso

Joe is normally a 135-pounder, and he's filling in at 160. We told him to eat like crazy because we needed a guy for that spot and he did a decent job. He just couldn't quite pull it out.

Bill Ferguson

It can be crazy but a lot of fun. If the restaurant has not planned well or has some staffing woes, it can be treacherous. When it's executed well, it's one of the most fun nights we can have.

Ryan Hendrick

He didn't do anything crazy up until he hit all of our cruisers.

Kim Cattrall

He's a guy. They don't talk, they fight. It's all that crazy testosterone.

Gary Peters

He's going up to see the specialist today and if he says he needs an operation, it would be crazy to play him on Saturday unless his mind is right,

Marcos Baghdatis

I think it's getting crazy - all of the people are watching my match.

Dan Callahan

I thought Shane Garner did an excellent job today, not only doing just what you're supposed to do, to go in, throw strikes and compete, but just slowing it down, creating some semblance of order. It didn't seem like we had that with Matt Brewer in the game. Things were just crazy and some of that was not his fault, but some of it was.

Billie Armstrong

I think we've just grown up. People have watched us grow through the years and watched us evolve. . . . It's just been a crazy musical trip, especially for people who go back a long time ago and remain faithful to the band.

Tim Shaw

It gave us a crazy boost, and that's what we need. Every time they score, it's a lot easier for us to play.

Nayef Rajoub

Have you forgotten that Israel is the occupying power here? Do I need to remind you of an occupying power's obligations under international law?

Walter Benjamin

What has been forgotten.... is never something purely individual.

John Dawson

I just wanted to come back and spend one more night, ... I know I've forgotten a lot in my time, but good memories like staying here stay with me.

Gerhard Schroeder

can only be preserved if the past is not forgotten and not distorted.

Lee Etzler

I hope you haven't forgotten that game, because I haven't.

Andres Obrador

I'm going to respect everyone. But the poor and forgotten of Mexico will get preferential treatment.

Tim Laspada

The guys can have this win this weekend. We're going back to work Monday. This'll be forgotten on Monday. We can't overlook anybody.

Jeff Beers

These guys have not forgotten last year. I'm sure every single one of them remembers the taste of that loss.

J. C. Watts

I want to make sure that's not a forgotten goal.

Larry Petersen

Just look at what already happens on the freeway now and triple it.

Kofi Annan

I suspect, whatever happens in the future, that kind of consultation will take place.

Bobby Bowden

It could be a lot worse. We could have two quarterbacks with no talent. What you hope happens is someone will separate themselves from the other.

Maria Shriver

I thought a lot about what I could say here today. I also thought a lot about what I couldn't or shouldn't say for one reason or the other, ... We all know what happens to first ladies who shoot their mouths off they get sent to first ladies' dungeon, and you wouldn't want that to happen to me.

Marcus Aurelius

Whatever happens at all happens as it should; you will find this true, if you watch narrowly.

David Wyss

We've got to see what happens in October. There was an initial shock after the attack. Nobody was doing anything.

Marty Schottenheimer

I think what happens is a sense of panic sets in. It's a natural reaction.

Felipe Alou

It happens -- but it's a rare occasion for a pitcher of that stature.

David Stern

It happens at least probably 5 percent of the time.

Jeffrey Hunter

It was more rugged than I had anticipated. It's beautiful. Sort of a frontier. The most you hear, other than the birds, are occasional planes passing overhead.

Billy Collins

Until recently, I thought 'occasional poetry' meant that you wrote only occasionally.

Steve Forbes

You can't do it with an occasional speech, you've got to do it every day.

Max Lucado

God would prefer we have an occasional limp than a perpetual strut.

Roger Enrico

Our second-quarter performance also confirms that we can sustain 12-to-13 percent EPS growth, with occasional upsides,

John Tortorella

We're tired of the 25-per-cent rule. We need an occasional goddamn save.

Ariel Sharon

He who rises up to kill us, we will pre-empt it and kill him first.

William Blake

We are not meant to resolve all contradictions but to live with them and rise above them.

Samuel Johnson

Whoever rises above those who once pleased themselves with equality, will have many malevolent gazers at his eminence.

Max Mosley

The idea could give rise to a commercially successful series, which may stand out from the other one-make series in the world of motorsports.

Joseph Heller

Rise above principal and do what's right.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Faith never goes contrary to reason -- faith simply ignores reason and rises above it.

William Congreve

Defer not till to-morrow to be wise, To-morrow's sun to thee may never rise

Hugh Johnson

We'll have some bewildering rises and some bewildering, if not shocking, declines.

Adolf Hitler

Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.

Paul Davis

Keep writing that stuff ? I'll keep getting 27 points.

Jim Hogan

There is going to be a ton of stuff happening.

Jack Soden

We've been thinking about this stuff for so long, but now we can actually do it.

Allard Baird

We think he has the stuff to be a starter.

Mike Fitzpatrick

I think it's the weight of the swelling inventories. And the geopolitical stuff has cooled off a little bit, but it's just in the background.

Roderick Wilmont

I don't know what's going on. I'm here to play, that's all. I see the stuff on TV. I know as much as you all know.

H. Hart

He does stuff like that all the time.

Richard O'Brien

I never wanted to be aligned to a mature group because they go off and become politicians and stuff.

Russell Brand

Executive producers don't have to do anything. Nor do any kind of producers. They just sit around on deck chairs watching stuff, and if it gets cold, they leave. Actually I suppose as a producer you've got to be involved in helping out with solving problems.

Judd Gregg

Whatever my wife tells me to do with it,

Kenny Lofton

He tells guys, 'Go out there and play hard, but have fun,'

Chris Shelton

I just think that if we play the way he tells us to play, we'll win.

Josh Groban

The honest-to-goodness answer is that Twitter tells me everything, and I have calluses on my fingers from all the mouse-clicking.

Jimmy Rushing

The blues tells a story in itself. It can make you happy or give you a feeling to swing.

Jerome Bettis

It's been done before, so that tells you something -- it can happen. Hopefully, there'll be another one this year.

Ron Gardenhire

It's very tough. They didn't put a timetable on it, so that tells me it's going to be a while.

Ned Colletti

It tells you who he is, what he is. This is a professional.

Gary Latham

This is an active, not a passive, RFID system. It tells workers what to do with the vehicles and when.

Jeff Hammond

He's a different person than he was a year ago.

Emily Cederholm

I think the expectations are higher, but they don't feel so much pressure. This whole year is different.

Brandon Roy

I think this is the year it can happen.

Two Chainz

In my 8th grade yearbook picture I had on 2 chains.

Richard D. James

My filing system's really crap because I can never decide whether to sort things by studio, or year, or where I lived.

Richard D. James

I've always got to change something. All the tracks I've done in the last five years were made in like six different studios. It gets a bit complicated.

Robbie Coltraine

Once you've been doing anything for twenty-five years people start to notice you.

Rob Sheffield

Not being able to protect her from things was the most frightening thing I'd ever felt, and it kicked in as soon as we got together. With every year we spent together, I became more conscious that I now had an infinitely expanding number of reasons to be afraid. I had something to lose.

Rob Chapman

I'm an avowed modernist. I'm for the new thing. I came to the conclusion many years ago that rock music is essentially a conservative form.