Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rita Coolidge

That's why Peggy remained so important to me. I could listen to any one of the hundreds of songs I have by her, and they're just fabulous.

Earl Scruggs

I know she would want me to still do what I'm doing, because she kept me going a lot of times when I'd almost lose interest in getting out on the road.

June Carter Cash

Every dog has his day, unless he loses his tail, then he has a weak-end.

Bruce Hornsby

No, I do it all, but I do love to play solo.

Ray Brown

We had to do a lot of rehearsals to get it so that it was playable. What it did was make you practice. That's good for any musician to have that kind of pressure. It brings things out of you that might not come out if you don't have to reach for something all the time.

Adrian Belew

I'm slowly designing my second Experimental Guitar record. And next year I will release DUST, the giant rarities collection mentioned earlier.

Susanna Hoffs

That was the big lesson for all of us. Everything was going great on paper, but we all became miserable because we were so caught up in the machinery of how you make that happen, it took away the sheer joy.

Vince Gill

That's the one thing that is really timeless is the songs. The artistry, the popularity of the artistry, that's going to come and go.

Herb Alpert

I was obligated to do a bunch of concerts and a television show, but something in my stomach was telling me this wasn't what I wanted to do.

O. Henry

Decisions are made on a case-by-case basis in the best interest of the individual. So we need to look at how much rugby any given player has had since the beginning of the year, the amount of contact, their position, plus any injury history.

O. Henry

The team showed a huge amount of character and heart out there. Maybe they wouldn't have handled it at other times.

Patrick Fearon

The survey for the final reading would have taken place over the past 10 days or so, when market volatility was particularly high, ... Because of that, the final reading very well could have come in below the preliminary reading. The fact it came in higher shows a certain amount of resilience in the consumer sector.

Kevin Murphy

So this wasn't just a slight stabbing, this was something with a huge amount of force put into it.

Richard Morris

(Santa Fe) started out very slow because we had a lot of new players but our fly half, Hulbert, is from New Zealand, and his experience made a tremendous amount of difference.

David Barr

This is a way of ensuring that inflation will no longer chip away at the amount of deposit insurance coverage.

Graham Lustig

This is a really fantastic piece for us to acquire. It's fun, tongue in cheek in mood. It's a very important work of hers and it's a good challenge for the dancers. Tharp's style is not easy to capture. It looks simple, but . . . it's actually very exact and done with a tremendous amount of speed.

Steve Capus

This is a real commitment, and we are going to do this for a substantial amount of time. I'm not going to put an end date on it because there is no way of knowing how long this is going to be needed.

Ian Smith

This is a program we've been doing for years, but as a result of the storms, Congress passed legislation to waive some of the requirements so that more people could apply. It also increased the maximum income (limit) and the amount of the home that can be purchased, so it really broadens the program.

David Berson

The bulk of the decline in home sales this year will come from investors leaving the housing market. If home price gains have peaked, as we expect, and financing is more expensive, investors are going to find someplace else to put their money.

Mark Twain

There is no such thing as ''the Queen's English.'' The property has gone into the hands of a joint stock company and we own the bulk of the shares!

Andrew Bogut

That's the sort of thing that I have spoken to him about as a friend - I've told him you've got to bulk up,

Doug Stoffel

I'm looking forward to next season because the bulk of the team will be back. With many returning players, my expectations are high for next season.

Richard Hills

I hope the weather's not like this at the weekend. We're a dry weather team. We like to move it around. We haven't a pack which has the bulk of Gloucester's and we haven't spent as much time on our kicking game. So, it's fingers crossed for reasonable weather.

Stacey Stegman

It was the high country that really took the bulk of the storm so far.

M. Wolfe

Do you own your history, or does someone else own your history? ... There's the play that you're telling, and then there's the play that's underneath that.

Rich Brooks

That (the 9-1 mark) doesn't mean anything this week. The history of the series is something people need to write stories about or talk about (on the radio). It doesn't really have anything to do with the game.

Eugene Levy

I think I'm the only actor in the history of film who got to slap Sam Jackson on the face and butt and lived to tell about it.

Javier Aguirre

This team knows that they are part of history but it also knows that they have done nothing yet.

Amir Salem

This verdict will go into the dustbin of history.

Aldous Huxley

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

Michel de Montaigne

The middle sort of historians (of which the most part are) spoil all; they will chew our meat for us.

Mike Shanahan

Points will come. Yards will come. I think we've proven over history that we can move the football. So, maybe some day we'll get some yards and some points.

Michael Beasley

You always want to be remembered as one of the greats. We know the history and tradition of this program.

Shannon Rouillard

The team really did respond in the second round, and I was proud of that. We had it going for a while, and Cathryn did an incredible job.

Amanda Tobin

There's just been an incredible response from passengers and staff.

David Janollari

Thursday isn't want it used to be back in the day when NBC had that incredible stronghold.

Jeremy Bates

One thing that stands out is that the better shot I hit, the better shot he hit. I was playing serve and volley, and he had incredible passing shots from the most ridiculous positions.

Michelle King

She is truly incredible when she listens to the radio and is able to sing the harmonies. I?m jealous of that ability.

Dominic Moore

He's an incredible player and it would be a big absence.

Beckie Scott

We've been together since we were 15 years old. We've come through so much. It's an incredible feeling.

Anton Chekhov

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Stephen Hawking

[Question: What do you think was the most important physics idea to emerge this year?] We won't know for a few years.

Plato

They assembled together and dedicated these as the first-fruits of their love to Apollo in his Delphic temple, inscribing there those maxims which are on every tongue- 'know thyselP and 'Nothing overmuch.'

Horace

To know all things is not permitted.

Richard P. Feynman

A very great deal more truth can become known than can be proven.

Salvador Dali

All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting.

Robert Penn Warren

The end of man is knowledge, but there is one thing he can't know. He can't know whether knowledge will save him or kill him. He will be killed, all right, but he can't know whether he is killed because of the knowledge which he has got or because of the knowledge which he hasn't got and which if he had it, would save him.

Robert M. Pirsig

Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20 - 20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can't tell you where you ought to go.

Rudyard Kipling

He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.

Dan Stessel

Some (drivers) have opted to switch to public transportation, and we're working to welcome them to the system.

Alicia Munnell

With public employees, the day of reckoning is more in the distance.

Adam Smith

We want the public to be more engaged.

Robert Reich

Public employees should have the right to bargain for better wages and working conditions, just like all employees do.

Michelle Williams

When you're in a relationship with somebody who is also a public personality, then it doubles the attention from the media.

Shaun White

I was sponsored when I was about seven by Burton Snowboards.

Michael Ian Black

The Atkins' diet is where you eat bacon for six or seven months...and the end result is that you lose weight. Because you're dead.

Tom Taulli

Seven years ago Buy.com had sizzle. But this doesn't have a lot of sizzle to it.

O. Singh

Seven shots around here is not much at all,

Mike Hathaway

I'd say right now there are seven teams (that could win it).

Walter Scott

If you keep a thing seven years, you are sure to find a use for it.