Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jose Gonzalez

We always had a guitar at home, but it wasn't until I was 14 when I picked it up myself when my father handed me these sheets of music of the Beatles and some other classics. That's where I learned all the chords and learned how to play and sing at the same time.

Chris Cornell

When I was maybe nine years old, I listened to the entire Beatles catalogue, non-stop, for about a year,

Brian Setzer

When I was a kid, I found out about Eddie Cochran and Gene Vincent through the Beatles and the Stones doing covers of rockabilly songs,

Don Deal

They play all Beatles music and nothing else. We had them in the fall and they did a nice job. It was very entertaining.

Ted Owen

It reveals the inspiration behind the 1967 Beatles classic I am the Walrus.

Serj Tankian

They're great songwriters in the tradition of the Beatles and Pink Floyd. Their songs are beautiful and filled with all sorts of wonderful textures. It's all very emotional and moving. It's the first outside project I've ever produced.

Roger Andrew Taylor

It's a complete collaboration. We just set up our instruments in a room and plug in, much as The Beatles would have done 30 years ago.

Germaine Greer

. Probably the biggest omission though is the Beatles tour 1964! Undoubtedly there are many more....

Don Scardino

People hated him for leaving the Beatles or for falling in love with Yoko ... they wanted him to be a Beatle and he fought that all his life.

Anthony Zinni

There are certainly generals out there who don't like me speaking out.

John Abizaid

There are certainly considerations that we must make with regard to the level of the forces,

Kevin Morooney

There are certainly a lot of things that we can shore up for Altoona. Williamsport gave us the competition we were looking for.

David Nussbaum

There are certainly a lot of creative entrepreneurial companies in New York,

Dean Owens

We stressed to the kids the right way to do things. We talked about the negative effects and why you don?t want to do steroids. It?s cheating -- and certainly not a way to improve yourself.

Drew Rosenhaus

We're in a legal proceeding with the players' association and the Eagles and the management council. We hope it doesn't come to that. I certainly hope, as a result of this, we'll hear from the Eagles and they'll welcome him back.

Ed Bond

Where lands would be compatible and appropriate, we'd certainly look at those. The program makes sense from Sierra Pacific's standpoint.

Luca Parmitano

It is an incredible treat and certainly one of the highlights of any astronaut's career to do a spacewalk.

Lesli Linka Glatter

Film schools are now nearly 50-50 male-female, and women are also well represented at festivals and in indie film. But what happens to them after they direct their first film or short? Where do they go? They certainly aren't being given the same opportunities as their male counterparts.

Charles Caleb Colton

There is one passage in the Scriptures to which all the potentates of Europe seem to have given their unanimous assent and approbation...."There went out a decree in the days of Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed."

Chris Christie

This administration, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton through their foreign policy, have betrayed the American people, because the weakness they've displayed has led to Putin's incursions in the Middle East and in eastern Europe, and has led - has led to significant problems in the Middle East as well, and the death and murder of lots of folks.

Chinua Achebe

Africa is to Europe as the picture is to Dorian Gray-a carrier onto whom the master unloads his physical & moral deformities

Edward James Olmos

And, granted, for a long time, the European has been dominant in certain parts of this Western Hemisphere, but by the end of the 21st century, it's over.

Eddie Izzard

So in Europe, we had empires. Everyone had them - France and Spain and Britain and Turkey! The Ottoman Empire, full of furniture for some reason. And the Austro-Hungarian Empire, famous for f-k all! Yes, all they did was slowly collapse like a flan in a cupboard.

Eddie Izzard

We have two hundred languages in Europe. Two hundred languages! Count them! I know you won't!

David Duke

More than 95 percent of both legal and illegal immigration into the United States is non-white. Because of the way immigration law is structured, the highest-skilled nations on earth - those of Europe - are allowed only a tiny percentage of immigrants, while the third world nations such as Mexico are dumping their chaff onto American shores at the highest rate in history.

Derek Bok

Greater inequality in Europe has made people less happy.

Denis MacShane

Anti-European politicians tell more myths and fantasies about Europe than you can find in Harry Potter or The Da Vinci Code.

Alan Arkin

Either you're growing or you're decaying; there's no middle ground. If you're standing still, you're decaying.

Al Michaels

As a kid growing up, I was so in sync as a fan that that served me well through the years. I can feel the game. And I try to match where the game is with my inflection, with my - the tonal quality, with getting excited.

Akhil Sharma

It's easy when you grow up in fear to act out of fear. I don't want to embrace that fear; I prefer to be kind.

Chris Carter

I wasn't a big science-fiction fan growing up. But I loved Jules Verne and Sherlock Holmes. Both came into play on 'The X-Files.'

Chris Colfer

Being a best-selling author just means the world for me. Some of my happiest memories, growing up, are being at book stores and reading books I couldn't afford, as a kid, and the midnight parties, waiting for the next Harry Potter book. The fact that I have that straw in my cap means more to me than anything I've ever accomplished before.

Chris Colfer

I grew up in a conservative small town, and the gay characters I saw on TV and in movies when I was growing up were all flamboyant and obnoxious and sometimes kind of annoying.

Chris Abani

That women are mysterious and unknowable is something every young man grows up believing. Men, on the other hand, never think of themselves as mysterious or confusing, and we are often at a loss as to why women want to figure us out.

Chloe Sevigny

I feel terrible about corporate greed. Growing up in a household that was a little more humble and didn't put so much emphasis on money and material goods, I think I have a pretty good head on my shoulders.

Chinua Achebe

I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.

Donna Shalala

The other thing is, I'm one of the handful of people they have that actually knows how to run something, that's an experienced administrator.

Obie Schramm

The point is to keep these kids safe. Unfortunately, there's always a handful of students drinking, and that makes it hard for everyone. We don't want something terrible to happen.

Michael Rabasca

We're honored that we played well enough to get to this point. The thing that we'll look at is that there's only a handful of teams that have been able to win back-to-back championships. I think that will weigh heavily on our mind.

Victoria Snelgrove

There were 80,000 people there that night, and just a handful of them wreaked havoc, ... How do we stop that? How do we get the message across?

Kevin Wilson

There's a handful right now that we're pursuing within the region. Some of those have already been offered, and we need to get them. Maybe that will help some of the attrition.

E. O. Wilson

There's a handful right now that we're pursuing within the region, ... Some of those have already been offered, and we need to get them. Maybe that will help some of the attrition.

Pete Scouras

They're going to be a handful all year, not just (tonight). He's got em playing like they're supposed to be playing and that's a tribute to him. He's done a whale of a job.

Larry Rice

Any rally we're going to see is not going to be a very powerful rally. It's going to be a handful of what investors perceive as safe trading stocks or big name capitalization.

Alvin Teng

As in the previous session, there were a handful of star stocks that were not strong enough to ignite an across-the-board advance.

Scott Borg

We started seeing huge vulnerabilities. And portions of those systems were extraordinarily secure. But they were Maginot Lines.

Luis Rivera

We still need to win three games. I feel like if we win those three games, there's going to be a huge celebration.

Bart Bryant

There is no question he played a huge role in getting me going as a pro,

Bill Ritter

We're seeing huge problems in veteran affairs, which we're not talking about.

Harvey Jewett

With the limited monies we've got, we know it's going to show the need for a huge appropriation by the state.

Claude LeRoy

To play 75 minutes with 10 men is a huge performance.

S. Walker

as we had anticipated, this is going to be huge from an insurance perspective.

Mike Hargrove

It's just a little different look. It's not a huge deal.

Terry Labonte

It's just a huge undertaking, to start a new team like this. They've got some experienced people there, but none of them have ever worked together before.

Rick Carrillo

They didn't listen. If they would've listened to me in the corner, they would've won.

Kurt Opsahl

They have listened to us but there's a lot of resistance.

Julie Kenner

I've never listened to any of my audiobooks, but I'm very, very happy that they've received such excellent feedback from readers!

Marge Piercy

It you want to be listened to, you should put in time listening

Billie Piper

the worst thing I have ever listened to.

Tessa Thompson

I am multiracial, and I went through different phases - at one point, I listened to Wu-Tang and hip-hop, and then the next year I listened to Joni Mitchell.

Dan Quayle

We've been in your home, we've been on your farm, we've been in your workplace. We have listened to you. We have talked with you,

John Orton

We set up a wiretapping operation in a flophouse where we listened to their conversations, which were in German, and then translated and recorded the conversations of the Nazi spies,

Swae Lee

Man, I listened Nas and B.I.G growing up. I listened to both of them when I was younger for sure.

David Taylor

We're getting a lot of good, technological resources we can use.

Chester Jourdan

They don't have the resources to do that nor, unless we get that supplemental (federal) money, will (they ever) have the resources to do it.

David Straus

It would put a strain on the resources big-time.

Jim Roberts

The wind resource is there, it's the transmission constraint.

Brian Tracy

Time is your most precious resource; make every minute count.

Alain Ducasse

The planets resources are rare; we must consume more ethically and equitably.

Edsger Dijkstra

Brainpower is by far our scarcest resource.

Darryl Franklin

We all know there is not the resources and wherewithal to do all the things in the plan.

R. Inge

The resources took a breather for a variety of reasons.

Bruce Russell

They need to find new sources of revenue.

Kim Edwards

The way we behave, our views and outlooks really have their sources some place. They come from somewhere. Sometimes we don't even know what they are, and yet they're very powerful in our lives.

Alan Moore

I genuinely like the people I meet at signings or the bits of public talking that I do.

Al Jarreau

To sing the ballad with a knowingness about what you are talking about. If it's somebody else's lyric, and the message is a little unusual for you, it requires that you learn that new message.

Chris Colfer

I may have no idea what I'm talking about," I said, a little ticked off now. "But we're all a part of a minority waiting for a majority to pull their heads out of their asses.

Chief Seattle

When the green hills are covered with talking wires and the wolves no longer sing, what good will the money you paid for our land be then

David Wain

One, I never get sick of talking about myself.

David Hoffman

Despite his deeply-held ideology, Reagan was willing to talk to Gorbachev. He willing to do business with him. We should realize that engaging with adversaries is often one of our great strengths. As long as we use the engagement to stand up for the things we care about, there is no harm in talking.

David Hockney

On the 31st of October 2011 year, I had a mini-stroke. I couldn't finish my sentences. So I went to the doctor. It was a tiny one. The speech came back in a month or so. I did notice I could draw even better, I felt. I was concentrating more. And I wasn't talking much, but I was drawing. I said, "Well, I don't have to talk much."

David Hume

The identity that we ascribe to things is only a fictitious one, established by the mind, not a peculiar nature belonging to what we’re talking about.

David Brock

You get to a point where the factual adjudication doesn't matter because there are all these other outlets that are far less responsible, all talking about the ad, some of which have a political reason for promoting it.

Lindsey Vonn

Vail's a very important place for me. Everyone kind of took me in and accepted me in that town, and they still have to this day. I wouldn't be a downhill skier if I hadn't been there.

Nate Gallick

When we got to our feet, I wanted to make something happen, so I took a chance. It worked out for me.

Eric Norris

Unfortunately, it took us this long to do this.

Scott Justus

They took us out of some of the things we wanted to do.

Mark Tennis

They took the head-to-head thing to a new extreme.

Brad Stiles

They took it to us in the first half.

Ricky Proehl

They took away a lot of things. They took us completely out of our game, and that's a tribute to them.

Larry Jacobs

It's not like he took this for granted.

Drew Barrymore

I took a poo in the woods hunched over like an animal,

Charles Dickens

Every traveler has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering.

Alan Rickman

Nothing gives me as much pleasure as travelling. I love getting on trains and boats and planes.

Al Stewart

Do you remember the church across the sands? You stood outside and planned to travel the lands, where the pilgrims go. So you packed your world up inside a canvas sack, set off down the highway with your rings and Kerouac. Someone said they saw you in Nepal a long time back. Tell me why you look away, don't you have a word to say?

Chief Seattle

Take only memories, leave only footprints.

Edward Hoagland

To live is to see, and traveling sometimes speeds up the process.

David Rockefeller

I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education.

David Brinkley

Maybe the French will get a manned craft into space if they can get a rocket strong enough to lift a bottle of wine.

Bear Grylls

Adventure should be 80 percent 'I think this is manageable,' but it's good to have that last 20 percent where you're right outside your comfort zone. Still safe, but outside your comfort zone.

Arthur Rimbaud

What am I doing here?