Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Adamo

From the late Classical period and more so in Romantic and Modern opera, the weight settled into the orchestra, with the voices as a free obbligato above it, ... That just drives me crazy. I want the vocal line to be as much the core as the bass line. I want to create the illusion that the voice generates harmony, color, line, everything.

Martin Jacques

One of the extraordinary features of the Blair government has been its slavish support for the central tenets of Bush's foreign policy - above all, the war in Iraq. During the Cold War, the Wilson government resisted the suggestion that it should send troops to Vietnam.

Paul Ballew

I would describe it as a pretty solid year for the industry and one that is above our expectations that we had at the beginning part of the year.

Jeremy Bonderman

If we don't play some games that matter late in the season and finish above .500, it'll be a really disappointing year.

David Scott

If we get interest rates above 7 percent, we'll see a significant pullback on housing valuations.

Jason Fuchs

I got stuck on the Peter Pan ride when I was nine years old with my dad at Disney World. We got stuck on that part of the ride when you're suspended in the pirate ship above the miniature London, and I was fascinated by the why of it all. 'Why is Peter Peter Pan, why is he in Neverland, how did he learn how to fly, etc.?'

Harry Redknapp

If we can pick up six points from two games then we can close up on the teams above us and make a real fight of it.

Mike Hofland

She's shooting above 35 percent from the three-point line. Our other girls are starting to look for her more often. She does a nice job of coming off screens.

Kathy Thomas

She's gone above and beyond. She works hard.

Lynn Johnston

Yes, and when I had Aaron, he left me, and I didn't know how to raise a child. And I wasn't close to my parents, and because I was too proud to go to my parents for help, I mistreated that little baby. I didn't want a baby.

Tom Florczak

We have nothing inked yet, but we're close to settlement.

Jon Haas

We haven't had a close game since the Porter County Conference finals. We wanted to get the kids time but we don't want to risk another injury.

Charles Schumer

The president has not sent us a nominee who has already hewed to the extreme wing of his party, ... that the views of the extreme right wing of his party aren't the views of the American people, or even close to it.

Alan Greenspan

The problem that exists here is that unless we can close the gap between supply and demand by accelerating productivity, which we are doing in part, then the prosperity that everyone is experiencing would be put in great jeopardy,

Duane Peterson

Those five guys are really close together. We're working on swing fundamentals and trying to get them to make more consistent contact with the ball.

Todd Fischer

Those first five holes were pretty nice. Hit it in the fairway, hit it close to the hole and rolled in putts. Pretty simple.

Bo Ryan

Those are three really good testers for a team to show weaknesses and show how close we are with this group.

Gina McCarthy

Water was inches from the top at many dams and there were a lot of close calls, but I hope people in Connecticut knew we were on top of it.

Bobby Scott

Giving a 10-year mandatory minimum for a second offense fist fight is not going to reduce the chance that someone will be stabbed 16 times when you are not funding any of the programs that are desperately needed to actually reduce juvenile crime.

Derek Smith

We're at a fork in the road. You have a choice. You can go out and fight or you can lay down.

Clara Barton

While soldiers can stand and fight.I can fight and feed them

Kelly Hu

With the fight scenes, they would take a video camera and shoot alongside the camera so we would piece it together on the computer and had an extremely rough cut of what we were doing.

Michael Beasley

It was an honor to be a part of history, but honestly I don't remember all the games we've played. I do remember the trips, though, and that's what we will miss the most ? all those good times.

Roger Zelazny

It is no shame to lose to me, mortal. Even among mythical creatures there are very few who can give a unicorn a good game.

Susan Orlean

I heard a computer scientist the other day refer to playing with the Kinect as 'storytelling.' At first I thought that sounded a little high-minded, but after trying a few games I could see what she meant.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

He settled his hat back into position. She was a rookie in her first big game, and he’d never let her see how close she’d come to unseating a champion

Sung Hi Lee

I'm just a big homebody and love word games like Scrabble and Boggle.

Sonny Vaccaro

People will always go to games. And not just Duke versus North Carolina. Even Appalachian State against Chatworth.

Steve Case

And what we did with this new company in 1985 is we did start focusing on PCs instead of video game machines, because we learned the hard lesson about bringing a product to market in a consumer world where it's very expensive to build a brand and get distribution and so forth.

Stephen Rea

People often refer to my career before The Crying Game as something which led up to that point. But I was very fulfilled in what I was doing.

Stephen Fry

...as absurd and dishonest as claiming that the trouble with computer games is that they stop people watching television.