Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ann Rice

And I knew my vision of the garden of savage beauty had been a true vision. There was meaning in the world, yes, and laws, and inevitability, but they had only to do with the aesthetic and in this Savage Garden, these innocent ones belonged in the vampire's arms. A thousand other things can be said about the world, but only aesthetic principles can be verified, and these things alone remain the same.

Dan Collins

This is a deliberation that has to do with aesthetic values and it has to do with property values, ... The board must carefully monitor all proposed building projects, whether they are modular or traditional stick-built.

Gary Warner

It's true we're not going to reduce the volume of traffic, but we can create an aesthetic identity along the road. We hope to beautify it and make it safer for pedestrians.

Vladimir Nabokov

For me, a work of fiction exists only insofar as it affords me what I shall bluntly call aesthetic bliss, that is a sense of being somehow, somewhere, connected with other states of being where art (curiosity, tenderness, kindness, ecstasy) is the norm.

Shannon Michelle

They are doing so much building around here, and we do interior design and custom furniture. There are a lot more architecture and design firms, and a little bit more clean-lined furniture stores, so we thought that our aesthetic would work well here.

John Vanco

There's a large overlap between Larry's aesthetic and our programmingan awareness of the past, both the Waverly's and the neighborhood's. It feels personal and, on some level, homemade.

Jay Farrar

There's an immediacy and a starkness that's there. I think a lot of Leadbelly's arrangements and his use of the 12-string guitar were atypical, especially the 12-string, which showed his individuality. I guess he approached it that way because the 12-string was louder. Leadbelly and the punk rock aesthetic - maybe there are some similarities there.

Paul Rand

Graphic Design, which fulfills aesthetic needs, complies with the laws of form and exigencies of two-dimensional space; which speaks in semiotics, sans-serifs, and geometrics; which abstracts, transforms, translates, rotates, dilates, repeats, mirrors, groups, and regroups, is not good design if it is irrelevant.

Steven Soderbergh

Reality shows are all the rage on TV at the moment ... but that's not reality, it's just another aesthetic form of fiction.

Cliff Politte

We've all been telling a lot of jokes. I guess we'll all get half a (playoff) share and half a ring. We won't be in the team picture.

Denise Roberts

When he got well, I said, 'Well, I guess it's not too late,'

Brandy Norwood

It's her first grandchild, so she's really, really, really excited. I guess my mom is a little more stressed out than me.

Carlos Asilis

Whether retail money is going to rotate back into the market in a huge way is the key. My guess is it's not going to happen.

Dale Stewart

We guess they didn't know that we had that other side, and we wanted to show that.

Larry Brown

We're just young. And I guess this is the process you have to live with.

John Glenn

Yes! A one-word answer. I guess I should just stop there,

Christine Clifford

We're ready to move. In hindsight, I guess I should have checked, but that's what we pay a Realtor for.

Joseph Lapid

We let you guess whatever you wish. What we have promised, and we keep the promise: We will not be the first to introduce nuclear weapons in the Middle East,

Alan Price

I use a lot more chords than most organists and I'm careful to phrase them with the guitar.

Chord Overstreet

I got my first instrument for Christmas when I was three or four years old. My parents got me a mandolin because it was the only instrument that would fit me because I was so small. I went straight from that into the drums when I was six, and then I started playing guitar when I was seven or eight.

Chick Corea

I enjoy playing the band as the band. I be the whole band and Im playing the drums, Im playing the guitar, Im playing the saxophone. To me, the most wonderful thing about playing music is that.

Chad Smith

There's something about the rawness of the live thing, there's no rhythm guitars behind the solo, nothing other than what you hear the people playing at that moment. It's exciting, it's about the performance.

Billy Unger

I play guitar... I like to say that I'm pretty good, but it takes someone else to tell you that you're really good.

Beth Orton

I don't read music; I taught myself guitar.

Beth Orton

I get a feeling, on a guitar, and I sort of mess around until something resonates with me, and then I just find that what happens is that a melody comes, and with that, words.

Buddy Guy

Why did they keep changing guitars and amplifiers when they were perfect? They did the same things with cars, if you ask me. They forgot how to make them right, because they focused on style and bells and whistles.

Carlos Santana

A lot of people said to me, 'Enough with the guest vocalists for a while. We want to hear the Mexican play the guitar!'

Iain Banks

Soon equates to good, later to worse, Uagen Zlepe, scholar. Therefore, immediacy.

Sarah Paulson

I do like the immediacy of audience's reaction. I like when I can hear the stillness and I know that they're with us.

Madeleine Stowe

As we were leaving the Huron camp, it was awkward filming. I think that the Huron watching us was there to create tension - maybe we wouldn't get out. Nothing complicated.

Jane Levy

All over the world, maybe besides literature, there's nothing that touches many people as movies do. People see them everywhere.

Mark Richt

about as pretty as I've seen. Maybe we should do that more often.

Juan Felipe Herrera

The more we engage in society, the more firsts we have, then there will be a moment when we have no more firsts. Or maybe there will always be new firsts.

Sheryl Skolnick

It seems to be of some concern. Maybe you don't need the headache.

David Lipe

They played well. Maybe this will give those two some confidence.

Sean McCarthy

They should be very proud of what they've done. Maybe not satisfied, but proud.

Nancy Mitchell

This happened, so maybe something else can happen.

Ron Rivera

They thought they were better than we were and in some instances, some positions, maybe they were better.

Billie Joe Armstrong

Punk will never be dead to me. It's my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.

Eddie Vedder

After the Ramones, it was more about new wave for me than punk.

Anna Sui

When punk really started to happen, it was a reaction against the disco craze of the time.

Chuck Berry

Music is music; you can't change rock and say well this is punk rock and this is acid rock or rockabilly.

Michelle Shocked

Punk is just as much a form of folk music as anything is!

John Rzeznik

Punk's not dead, it's just at K-Mart.

Melissa McCarthy

I was never sullen. I was a terrible punk - I was still so chatty.

Henry Rollins

When someone asks you, 'What's punk?' my reply is, 'If you have to ask, you're never going to know.'

Marc Jacobs

Grunge is a hippied romantic version of punk.

Audre Lorde

Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought. The farthest horizons of our hopes and fears are cobbled by our poems, carved from the rock experiences of our daily lives.

Ato Essandoh

I grew up listening to blues and rock 'n' roll and other music, but, legitimately, the Stones is one of my favorite bands in the world.

Antonis Samaras

We are a pivotal part of the European Union. Any destabilization of Greece would totally rock the boat.

Denis Leary

When I first got famous, Greg Dulli was also just starting to cook with the Afghan Whigs, and because of the MTV awards I met Dave Grohl and Nirvana and all these rock and roll bands. So I had experience with what it was like when people were taking off at that time.

Denis Leary

Julieanne Smolinksi has a history in rock journalism and she's a huge rock 'n' roll fan, and she was a huge fan of Ava (Elaine Hendrix) and Gigi (Elizabeth Gillies) and of the actresses. I was really lucky to get her, in between seasons on Grace and Frankie.

Dee Snider

You can't stop rock-n-roll!

Dee Dee Ramone

I've always just wanted to sing in a rock band.

Chad Kroeger

The ability for a woman to orally satisfy somebody in a rock band, that's important to a rock 'n' roll musician.

Cassie Steele

A lot of punk rock. I listen to various stuff just cuz my friends now listen to a lot of different bands. I listen to a lot of underground stuff like jungle music.