Famous Quotes & Sayings

O. J. Simpson

With the energy market so close to the surface in the markets here, the number just amplified the current thinking that the recent hurricane and the effects on the energy market may have a broader impact than people were thinking.

Eleanor Catton

My sense of injustice about our family's 'weirdness' in not owning a car was amplified by the fact that we did not own a television, either - my parents were unapologetic about this and told me very cheerfully that I would thank them for it when I was older, which was quite true.

Mary Pemberton

Going to meet with Billy really brings home the fact that Tae Bo and what it all means is taking control of your life. It's not about being size two or getting into a bikini. Seeing Billy amplified the fact that Tae Bo is a lifestyle more than just an exercise class.

William Geist

The crack of a bat sounded amplified in cavernous Yankee Stadium, sprinkled lightly with fans on a cool September evening.

Tyler Oakley

I think social media has amplified a lot of voices that maybe traditional media hasn't perfectly portrayed.

Gregory Maguire

My tastes in music tend to favor anything my kids don't like, out of natural antipathy amplified by a sort of malicious glee.

Laura Conigliaro

Over the last couple of quarters, very few companies have felt the combination of externally induced slowing amplified by some internal miscues the way Sun has.

Jack Clarke

I think the seniors will play hard. This is a single elimination tournament and it's a really amplified view through the lens of someone who has at most four games left and as few as one. They'll bring a lot of urgency to the contest.

Kevin McCloud

I'm quite shy. Television presents an amplified version of yourself. When I'm on camera I'm pumping more adrenaline, I'm being a bit more engaging than I am in everyday conversation, but that's normal, isn't it? Otherwise nobody would want to watch.

Barack Obama

It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.

Louis Freeh

I was concerned about who he would put in there as FBI director because he had expressed antipathy for the FBI, for the director. I was going to stay there and make sure that he couldn't replace me.

David Gilmour

I had a fantastic time. We hadn't played as Pink Floyd in 10 years and hadn't played with Roger in 25. The main thing was obviously the cause, but I was also pleased to get some of that personal, trivial antipathy that's been part of our lives for so long and pack that away. For several days, Roger and I went out together. I'm very pleased that we're now at a point where we can talk.

Oscar Wilde

Children have a natural antipathy to books - handicraft should be the basis of education. Boys and girls should be taught to use their hands to make something, and they would be less apt to destroy and be mischievous.

Imelda May

I was one of those annoying kids that loves singing and entertaining.

Gwen Moore

We cannot allow our kids not to have an educational opportunity.

Gail Carson Levine

Sometimes the kids come up with better endings than the real story.

Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange

One has to divide attention between having kids and a full workload.

William H. Macy

I'm not against watching myself, but I miss a lot of it. I've got two little kids who we don't let watch TV.

William Joyce

I like stirring things up. I'm on the side of the kids more than I am on the adults. And occasionally I find some adults that have that same mischievous streak, so I don't get in too much trouble.

Wendelin Van Draanen

You can't be preachy - kids are allergic to messages.

Vanessa Hudgens

My advice to kids is give it your all! Give it 110 percent and don't give up!

Wyclef Jean

As a producer, I always want to know what makes the kids tick.

Chad Kroeger

I was very upset, and for two months if I saw his (Dimebag's) picture somewhere I would get angry. It wasn't as though he'd been killed in some sort of accident. He was taken in such a horrible, malicious way that just made it more painful.

Gerald Gray

He's not a malicious person. He needs help. He needs help.

Yanni

It has never been necessary for me to learn how to read music.

Yanni

I do listen to a lot of music, but I don't listen when I'm writing.

Todd Rundgren

I've always done very 'composed' music and worked-out solos. But sometimes it's fun not knowing where you're going.

Ian MacKaye

I feel completely fortunate to have this outlet for something I don't really feel like I have a choice in, to make music. I've got to make it.

Irwin Thomas

When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.

Compay Segundo

I play music the way it was played in yesteryear.

Chino Moreno

I don't watch TV. In my spare time, if I have any, I want to make music.

Chet Faker

My high school career counsellor said I shouldn't pursue music as a career.

Ellie Goulding

People always try to find my agenda, but I don't really have one. It's safe to say that I make pop, but I think that I'm doing important music, too. I've just always done what I wanted to do.

Evel Knievel

I can't keep track of my hospital time. It all sort of blurs together.

Rosamund Pike

Looking back, I just think I was a really average sort of girl.

Peter Cardillo

We'll probably see some sort of a pullback.

John Byrd

We're waiting to see what happens. It's still sort of experimental.

Penn Badgley

You know, as an only child, you're kind of in a bubble, and there are all sorts of things about my childhood that I still can't really place.

Pablo Schreiber

I got nominated for a Tony in my Broadway debut, which was fascinating and thrilling and sort of unbelievable all at the same time.

Peter Jackson

'Bad Taste' was - it was, in many respects, my sort of, my, I guess, my single-minded desire to want to break into the film industry when New Zealand didn't really have a film industry to break into.

Jay Frank

We have one person in custody. They are still trying to sort things out.

Glen Mathison

I think it would be irresponsible to speculate at all that this was some sort of attack.

Sarine Crotteau

Not one person tastes the same tea the same way.

Ashley Madekwe

The water in L.A. tastes like bleach. I literally have to make my tea with Evian water.

Shaun Cody

I put it tastes better and it's healthier,

Idina Menzel

I tend to have a pattern of playing misunderstood characters.

Bryan Cogman

I tend to work in coffee shops. I need to get out of the house, and, well, I need the coffee.

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

All actors tend to be the same messed-up people.

Colin Mochrie

The American audiences are more vocal and enthusiastic. British audiences tend to sit back a little more.

Peter R. Grant

Exchange of breeding individuals between two populations tends to homogenize their gene pools.

Debbie Ryan

We just went cold. We have a tendency to do that.

B. F. Skinner

The extent to which human aggression exemplifies innate tendencies is not clear.

Beth Walters

We made it interesting. That's what we have a tendency to do, whether we need to or not.

Ron Eldard

I tend toward characters who are more lost than found.