Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ron Gettelfinger

Delphi 's misuse of the bankruptcy procedure to circumvent the collective bargaining process and slash jobs and wages and drastically reduce healthcare, retirement, and other hard-won benefits or eliminate them altogether is a travesty and a concern for every American.

Jennifer Nettles

I've actually performed at Gay Pride in Atlanta three times in my career. I've always had a large gay following, particularly in the lesbian community. I am grateful for that. To me, it means my music transcends categories. It also means that I'm a cute girl singing a rock song in an alto voice!

Edmund Phelps

After a major loss of dynamism in the 1960s, productivity growth rates began dropping in most countries, falling by half in the U.S. in the 1970s and more or less ceasing altogether in France, Germany and Britain in the late 1990s.

Peter Stuyvesant

It would be altogether too tedious to insert here all the annual petitions for powder which were sometimes repeated two or three times a year.

Thomas Christie

I see this as the most viable of four possible options. We could do away with the matrix altogether and go back to an 8 year top-out. Or we could do nothing at all. Or we could use Dickerson?s suggestion, or mine.

Lew Wallace

Beauty is altogether in the eye of the beholder.

Francois Loos

We want to have a discussion, because a presidential American decision from Palo Alto saying ' there is a 10% cut because I'm here, and so that there is in an effect on the stock market', that's no company policy.

Leo Brincat

Eradicating gambling is as futile as trying to wipe out prostitution. But regulating well is another matter altogether and that is where government failed dismally in past months.

J. Maarten Troost

Escapism, we are led to believe, is evidence of a deficiency in character, a certain failure of temperament, and like so many -isms, it is to be strenuously avoided. 'How do you expect to get ahead?,' people ask. But the question altogether misses the point. The escapist doesn't want to get ahead. He simply wants to get away.

Kurt Kuehn

Companies of all sizes as well as consumers in Atlanta now can conduct business faster than ever before with the same UPS convenience and reliability they have come to expect. And the enhancements work in both directions because our customers will benefit from this network upgrade when they receive packages coming into Atlanta as well.

Felix Sabates

Think about this. Would you want to go to Atlanta at 8 o'clock at night and walk around by yourself?

John Schuerholz

The viewpoints attributed to John Rocker in no way reflect the views of the Atlanta Braves organization.

Bruce Levenson

This is the biggest free-agent signing in the history of the Atlanta Thrashers.

Hariadi Wibisono

... we have received confirmation from CDC Atlanta that the two, N and M, are positive.

Michael Bolton

When Coretta Scott King invited me to come to Atlanta and give a speech and sing at a tribute to her last year, I decided to write a song for her and sing it directly to her. I was studying her words and history, and I wrote 'The Courage in Your Eyes.' I look at those pictures of her standing with Dr. King -- she was a rock.

Matthew Pinsent

We all learned from Steve in Atlanta that you don't open your gob too soon.

Michael Vick

We are very critical of ourselves and of how we play and what we do as Atlanta Falcons, ... We know that we have some work to do on both sides of the ball, and that's what we are looking for from our team: improvement. It would be a great situation to be in, 5-2 and 1-0 in the division. It's a great step for us, and obviously as we come back we have to win games and step our own game up a little bit as we get into playing more divisional opponents. We have to really focus in and beat New York this week and worry about what is down the road a little bit later.

Mike Roberts

We're going to aggressively go after the greater Atlanta community.

Ben Folds

I look to an out gay man or woman as pretty much what I would aspire to. The strength that it takes to do that and the floodgates that open and what they pay for it.

Alan Dershowitz

The very concept of an Iranian university is an oxymoron. There are no free and open places of learning in that repressive theocracy. Dissenters are not given tenure; they are murdered, after first being tortured. Blasphemy, which is broadly defined, is punished. Gays are not only excluded from Iranian universities, but are imprisoned and killed.

Jasmine Guy

I don't much care who is gay or straight or married or not. I mostly notice if they are brave enough to confront bigotry.

Brian Eno

I love San Francisco and Brighton has something of San Francisco about it. It's by the sea, there's a big gay community, a feeling of people being there because they enjoy their life there.

Bret Easton Ellis

The Smiths are singing and someone says "Turn that gay angst music off.

Boy George

I'm not gay, and I'm not a transvestite.

Boy George

A lot of people come up to me all the time and say thank you for helping me be who I am. So my thing wasn't just about sexuality. It was about anyone who felt different; anyone who felt out of place. Being gay was one part of it.

Bruce Vilanch

To be gay and out of shape is almost as much of a stigma as just being gay used to be.

Andrew Solomon

The absence of marriages will result in all kinds of financial burdens that gay people wouldn't face if they could get married.

Lisa Battaglino

As a result, a lot of girls go that path.

Mark Boggs

As a team, we have a lot of work to do. This was several of the girls' first varsity race. We were also missing two runners to illness.

John Given

The big thing is they have seniors and a good point guard. Those girls have been playing together for three years. They're an older team in our league.

Ryan Tritch

At some campuses, I know girls who can't go out a lot, or go out late, and feel safe. It think it's completely unfair and we hold women to a different set of standards.

Jim Fleshman

A witness said the girl wanted to play with the elephant.

Marilyn Monroe

A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesnt believe, and leaves before she is left.

Juliette G. Low

Badges are not medals to wear on your sleeve to show what a smart girl you are.

Willie Thomas

That was a big change! It was a wonderful win. It was great to see the girls get out and be able to run some.

Mackenzie Steger

Personally I am very proud of each and every one of the girls. I knew we could do it if we each did our own part, big or small, and we were able to pull it off sooner than we expected.

Brad Garrett

I feel very, very grateful. I'm a lucky guy, you need a lot of luck, and then when the cameras roll, you have to have this group of writers, directors, and actors that just gel, and it seems to literally be happening more and more.

Celia Rivenbark

And I reminded myself that it's easy to be grateful for the obvious blessings in life, much harder to be grateful for the tough moments and the lessons they teach.

Demetri Martin

I know about Woodstock probably as much as your average person who is over 30, where I'd know Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Grateful Dead.

Conor McGregor

Be passionate, be optimistic, be grateful.

Conor McGregor

Appreciate your surroundings and be grateful for it and that's when good things happen.

Bram Stoker

Euthanasia" is an excellent and comforting word! I am grateful to whoever invented it.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

What is happiness and unhappiness? It depends so little on the circumstances; it depends really only on what happens inside a person. I am grateful for every day and that makes me happy.

Eckhart Tolle

When you accept what is, you are grateful for whatever situation arises,

William Wordsworth

There is a luxury in self-dispraise;And inward self-disparagement affordsTo meditative spleen a grateful feast.

Chris Cichocki

Reading is unusually large for a team in this league, but it has been a problem.

Frank Whitlatch

Often times for very large gifts, there (are) naming rights attached.

Greg Ryan

The technology had not been obvious to larger companies, so that's how we were able to get the patent,

Jennifer Ehle

The Old Vic is a beautiful theater to work in. It's quite a large house, but it has a feeling of intimacy.

George Beranek

This is really pulling out the big guns. If you think about it, this is working at the margin with a very large volume, so it's going to have a very pronounced price effect.

Doug Parker

The weakness has been largely concentrated in the technology sector.

Gayle Green

That's where socio-economic status comes in. It's one piece of a very large picture.

Claude Mandil

A large proportion of the remainder will be (refined) products ... we have suggested they prioritize products,

Bob Anderson

You're just not going to see these large corporations and large jobs.

Art Alexakis

As a songwriter, I do kind of look at 'Santa Monica' as a thing outside of itself, because it isn't just my song. This is a song a lot of people tell me is a part of their high school or college years. That means a lot to me.

Joshua Leonard

The big studio movies are spending more and more money, which means they have to open in more theatres in order to re-coup their investment.

Rodney Lovell

A 'work around' simply means your system doesn't work.

Elizabeth Warren

Raising the minimum wage means we have workers paying more in to support the Social Security system.

Christian Lacroix

Ready-to-wear -- that means 'ready to wear'. Some people are doing couture during ready-to-wear (fashion week), others are putting up performances, we just come here with our little flowers.

Nick Harkaway

Prize lists are out, and you're not on them? Nature of the world - means nothing. Prizes are a lottery.

James St. James

People come. They go. Dying is the same as rehab or moving back to Missouri. It just means I won't be seeing them again.

Louis Armstrong

Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans?

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

A prejudice is a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.

Struan Robertson

The BPI didn't want to sue its customers, but it will do to stop them stealing music.

Henry Giles

A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Jason Mraz

Professionally, I want to keep playing music; I can't escape that.

Josh Homme

People think that when they're playing it safe, they're trying to preserve what they have, but there is no preservation of what you have in music. There's no safety in music.

Kaskade

People don't listen to terrestrial radio. They don't find their music that way. They don't get their news that way. They go to blogs. They go through Sirius/XM. They go through all these different places.

AJ Case

After Wild Child, I had pretty much had it with the music business.

James Michael Tyler

Acting-wise, I did a web series. I play a music agent in a series called 'Keeping Up with the Downs.'

Katie Melua

The style of music I make now, that only started when I was about 15,

E. O. Wilson

The show is particularly significant because it was the same show, performed in 1989, that was the first musical in our new theater at its present location,

Phil Simms

The team performed even better than I thought they would,

Dieter Zetsche

It has performed well in the world's toughest market.

Tony Thomas

He performed it easily, because he was playing himself.

Tom Roberts

They got out and performed really well today. I'm really pleased with them.

Andy Williams

They took him upstairs to the nurse, who performed C.P.R..

Rick Miller

It's not much worth just reading the play in a classroom, but it's a whole other thing seeing it performed live in a way that makes it relevant to their lives.

Ravi Shankar

One single raga can be performed for two hours, three hours.

Mauvolyene Adams

Defense, defense, defense. We take pride in it and it's a testimony to our team.

Shane Voss

I've always take a lot of pride in the scholar-athlete (concept).

Steve Hutchinson

I've been blessed. I pride myself on my motivation.

Kevin McBride

This win was for the pride of Ireland, ... I proved everyone wrong tonight.

Alain de Botton

William James once made an acute point about the relationship between happiness and expectation. He argued that satisfaction with ourselves does not require us to succeed in every endeavour. We are not always humiliated by failing; we are humiliated only if we first invest our pride and sense of worth in a given achievement and then do not reach it.

Craig Ferguson

I found out it is just as hard to make a movie that you are not proud of as it is to make one you love.

Brian Weiss

You need your ego to survive in the three-dimensional world, but you need only that part of the ego which processes information. The rest - pride, arrogance, defensiveness, fear - is worse than useless. The rest of the ego separates you from wisdom, joy, and God.

Blaise Pascal

Pride counterbalances all our miseries, for it either hides them, or, if it discloses them, boasts of that disclosure. Pride has such a thorough possession of us, even in the midst of our miseries and faults, that we are prepared to sacrifice life with joy, if it may but be talked of.

Democritus

The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.

Meghan Trainor

Any body type is beautiful. It's all about loving what you got and rocking it.

Farley Flex

You're stiff as a rock but you roll with soul baby.

Brandon Thomas

Even though were not the most punk rock band, the way weve done things is pretty punk rock. Just kinda say it with a big middle finger to the record labels and do it ourselves.

Brenda Lee

I always felt that I was one of the women who helped lay the foundation for rock and roll. But I'd always been overlooked by the Hall of Fame.

Ben Gibbard

The second 'Postal Service' album is threatening to become the 'Chinese Democracy' of indie rock. It will come out eventually, or maybe it won't.

Carrot Top

When I was younger I always thought, 'If I were ever a comedian I'd make it like a rock concert.' I wanted to generate that type of enthusiasm and excitement.

Bart Chilton

I would pale in comparison to rock and rollers with my haircut. I would be a lightweight.

Craig Finn

When you get into rock 'n' roll myths, like that Rod Stewart blew his whole band and had to get his stomach pumped, it's ridiculous, but everyone's heard it.

Bobby Vinton

I played Big Band jazz music. I wasn't into rock and roll. I was just there because it was a living. I surprised everyone. I'm still surprising people.

Jane Hirshfield

The first poem in The Beauty holds a woman in Portugal in a wheelchair singing, with great power, a fado. I have never seen this or heard of it, the image simply arrived. But surely such a thing has happened. And it matters to me that it has, or could.

Jamie Lynn Spears

I'll probably do a lot of acting first, then go to singing, but I am going to definitely sing someday. So when I do start singing, buy my album!

Janis Joplin

I can't talk about my singing; I'm inside it. How can you describe something you're inside of?

Bruce Willis

Justin Timberlake is terrific in this film. I told him it's time to stop singing.

Linda Eder

Though it's a tribute to her, ... I'm not sitting there thinking 'How can I do it just like her' when I'm singing these songs.

Claude Debussy

The trouble with the opera is there's always to much singing.

Andrea Corr

I really love singing.

Andrea Bocelli

Singing provides a true sense of lightheartedness. If I sing when I am alone, I feel wonderful. It's freedom.

Amy Winehouse

If I heard someone else singing like me, I would buy it in a heartbeat.

Johnny Cash

and then come back with a song I can sell.

Scott Storch

The stuff is surprising. Every song we do now is, like, totally amazing.

Jennifer Armstrong

Storytelling, writing, and song writing are so connected.

Eric Clapton

Thanks for waiting all these years, ... We're going to play every song we know.

Peggy Lee

Sometimes I want to revive a song or medley I did that went over with the crowd.

Bruce Springsteen

This is a song tax, ... for not being (in Madison) for so long.

Paula Abdul

You're way better than that song choice. It didn't show your range, it didn't show your personality.

Brandon Heath

You're the hope in the morning, you're the light when the night is falling, you're the song when my heart is singing, it's your love!

Aretha Franklin

If a song's about something I've experienced or that could've happened to me it's good. But if it's alien to me, I couldn't lend anything to it. Because that's what soul is all about.

Diane Screnci

At some point, all three of them will be under consideration at the same time.

Ron Ziegler

As long as we can keep two or three people, we'll be here.

Charles Howard

Once we started doing those three things, we got going.

Keith Richard

I've watched him for three years and it's been unbelievable.

Heath Sager

I've never used three pitchers, especially in a one-run game. But we're going to use all three until the weather warms up.

Andrew Walpole

There would not be any replacements for Vaughan as we have already got three newcomers.

Chris Price

This is heart-wrenching is what it is; to actually see it for yourself in three dimensions.

John Lopez

This could (ordinarily) take three years. But everything's on track.

Donna Moir

That three was a back-breaker. That was the ballgame.