Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

The way I have progressed as a writer over the years is to try and stay true to the principles I absorbed.

Rob Halford

They were and still are a groundbreaking band. Even though they haven't released any new music in ages, you can put on the first Black Sabbath album and it still sounds as fresh today as it did 30-odd years ago. And that's because great music has a timeless ability: To me, Sabbath are in the same league as the Beatles or Mozart. They're on the leading edge of something extraordinary.

Richard P. Feynman

If the professors of English will complain to me that the students who come to the universities, after all those years of study, still cannot spell 'friend,' I say to them that something's the matter with the way you spell friend.

Richard Dawkins

All qualified physicists, biologists, cosmologists and geologists agree, on the basis of massive, mutually corroborating evidence, that the earth's age is at least four billion years.

Russell Baker

Few expected very much of Franklin Roosevelt on Inauguration Day in 1933. Like Barack Obama seventy-six years later, he was succeeding a failed Republican president, and Americans had voted for change. What that change might be Roosevelt never clearly said, probably because he himself didn't know.

F. Stone

I prefer live dealers, ... but the machines treated me all right today.

Jose Saramago

What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a human being?

Luc Ferrari

I have problems with machines which aren't gestural.

Gary Brown

The machines are there, they're staring at you wherever you go.

Julian Assange

Facebook in particular is the most appalling spying machine that has ever been invented,

Nicholas Negroponte

We have to make machines understand what they're doing, or they won't be able to come back and say, 'Why did you do that?

Kip Thorne

If you have a wormhole, then you can turn them into time machines for going backward in time.

Pico Iyer

The central paradox of the machines that have made our lives so much brighter, quicker, longer and healthier is that they cannot teach us how to make the best use of them; the information revolution came without an instruction manual.

Minnie Driver

In some movies you feel like you're a very small part of a huge machine. Whereas in the theater you can have a very small part, but you can still feel the weight and the gravity of it. Given the nature of theater, it's a more concentrated and quiet experience

Roald Dahl

The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman.

W. H. Auden

One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell.

Robert Johnson

Blues fallin' down like hail And the day keeps on worryin' me There's a hell hound on my trail.

Saint Augustine

Hell was made for the inquisitive.

Winston Churchill

If you're going to walk through hell, keep going.

Winston Churchill

If you are going through hell just keep going

Treat Williams

Disappoint anyone… hell, disappoint everyone – but don’t ever disappoint yourself.

Willie Nelson

If you've made your own hell, then only you have the power to escape it.

Zell Miller

I see one-third of a nation and it can go to hell.