Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lester Holt

Journalism is my first love. But music comes in a close second. What's important for me is that whatever you do, whatever your passion is, you should have another passion - something in your life. And when I put on that musician hat and I put the bass in my hands, I'm not Lester Holt the TV guy anymore. I'm just Lester Holt who likes music.

Steve Bailey

Pianists have the Van Cliburn competition and guitarists have a number of contests, as well, but the electric bass is such a young instrument, relatively speaking, that this sort of thing just hasn't happened until now. Victor and I have been talking about this for a couple of years because we go around the world and we bump in to people who just blow us away. They've been practicing for years on this stuff that nobody's ever heard. They might be well-known players or just hiding out in a practice room working on techniques we don't even known about.

Xia Donaldson

I like the tackle side a little more than the groceries. Fishing tackle doesn't go bad. I get a lot of fishermen coming in here. Some of them are going to Millerton, but most are going to Eastman and Hensley to catch some bass or trout.

Bobby Bayliss

Then we played Fresno State and had a close 4-2 with them. Stephen Bass deserves a great deal of credit for that match.

Giorgio Moroder

'Take My Breath Away' had that interesting bass line, which I hear quite often. It had that terrible change of key, which Terri Nunn hated, but I loved.

Dan Stephenson

That means we had 14 bass over 18 inches every hour.

Leo Fender

I wonder if I could make an electric bass.

Karen O

I love bass, I really do. Bass is ace!

John Entwistle

With bass, especially bottom end, the vibration has to happen on stage otherwise the feel is wrong. This is why you can't scale the equipment down too far.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together

Sophie Hannah

Some writers, I'm told, look for their characters' surnames in telephone directories. I don't - it seems too obvious. Or too deliberate: if you go looking for names, you're bound to find them, of course, but I've always had a superstitious hunch that the names you find by accident are always going to be better and more satisfying somehow.

Garry Trudeau

Having stretched the boundaries some, I'm perfectly content now to work within them. 'Doonesbury' doesn't need to become 'South Park.' You won't ever see any singing turds.

Mike Reynolds

I think the out of bounds play gave us the momentum.

Barry Hyman

I think it's strictly short term. The market is just range bound with trading opportunities. It's all sentiment right now because fundamentals are just not there.

Tom Malinowski

It is illogical for companies to say they are expanding the boundaries of freedom in China if they strip their product of the very qualities that make it a force for greater freedom. These companies must protect the integrity of the product they are providing, or that product will no longer be the Internet as we know it, and will no longer have the impact on society we all wish to see.

E. B. White

He is not bound by any timeline, ... He's going to be extremely prudent, deliberate and pragmatic in his decision.

Alex McLeish

He had a great game. His energy is boundless and he snaps into tackles. He is a brilliant inspiration and example to his team mates.

Tracy Morgan

When I do stand-up... I get to do whatever I want to do. There's no boundaries. You'll get to know me. You'll leave with a piece of me.

Lois Frankel

We look forward to having a great convention center,

Justin Trudeau

In 2012, the Liberal Party affirmed overwhelmingly at the policy convention that we are a pro-choice party. It means that we are a party that defends women's rights, and therefore, it would be inconsistent for any Liberal MP to be able to vote to take away women's rights.

Michael Long

If our party's convention was held next week, I think Spencer would be the choice.

Keith Williams

I'm not planning on going back. I was renting. I spent time in the (New Orleans) Convention Center. With all the lies we've had to deal with from that point until now, I'm not going back.

Corin Tucker

The first show I ever played was the International Pop Underground Convention in Olympia, Washington. It was girl night, and I was in Heavens To Betsy. I had just turned 18.

Joan Didion

I lead a very conventional life.

Chris Carter

Scientific whaling is only legal because the provisions in the international convention on the regulation of whaling are out of step with modern conservation approaches. New Zealand is working to remedy this.

Ralph Brown

I've been to a few conventions, you know, when the tax man knocks at the door and the 'Star Wars' convention people say: 'Do you want to come and sign some autographs?'

Susan Russell

What we really need to do is hang together, as we have in this convention through this difficult time, and find a way through this.

Alessandro Cortini

It's not as interesting as the last time out, when we had all the drummer problems.

Phil Collins

As a composer I approached the drums differently than a non-composing drummer. I embraced drum machines.

Phil Collins

I can't consider myself a drummer any more.

Chet Baker

Artt Frank is my all-time favorite drummer. He always seems to know where I'm going.

Tobias Levkovich

To a degree, the Japanese market has been marching to its own drummer for a number of years due to its economic difficulties.

Dave Grohl

It was that famous joke: What's the last thing the drummer said before he got kicked out of the band? 'Hey, I wrote a song.'

Jerry Krause

I wrote, 'He's as smart a young player as I've ever seen,'

Ben Chandler

I think it can be a distraction to the player being recruited and the team, if it's something the team is not used to, ... Around Loomis, little old Loomis, it's a little crazy.

John Madden

He could do it as a player and he could do it as a coach, because they respect him. That's what it's all about.

Charlie Coe

He'll be a player for us. He's a young guy, so we'll have to get him in here and see how he does. But with our situation, he'll have a shot.

Justin Fishman

GW has always had talented players because of where it's located.

Chris Morris

He's a very experienced and uncompromising midfielder, and I like having that type of player in my squad.

Kelvin Sampson

He's a unique player and he kind of does what we need.

Dave Tippett

He's a tremendous player who does everything so well. And he's going to be especially important under the new rules.

Michael Barrett

I think it?s going to be a lot more like home. I think players are going to end up spending a lot more time here.

Susanna Moore

Young writers reasonably say, 'I don't know what to write about,' so writing about yourself is a very literal way to begin.

Mohamed ElBaradei

If you have nothing to hide, there is no reason not to be transparent.

Terri Johnson

He's a big reason why we're having the success we are as a program.

Joel Fox

There is every reason to take it seriously when they are involved.

Ron Ellis

It has been frustrating, but there is no reason why he can't come back at 100 percent.

Juan Pierre

I think that's the only reason we're at where we're at today.

Scottie Pippen

He's a very talented player. He's got the size and the skills. There's no reason he can't do even better than what I did.

Larry Coker

He's been more productive. No other reason than that.

Joe Carroll

I don't know who took me, ... I'm fine. I was treated reasonably well.