Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

Meditation on inevitable death should be performed daily. Every day one should meditate on being carried away by surging waves, falling from thousand-foot cliffs, dying of disease.

Yann Tiersen

I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.

Timothy Noah

Health care probably contributes a lot more to the common wealth than finance.

Timothy Noah

Ultimate success for a carbon tax would mean so complete a shift to renewable energy that the tax would stop raising much revenue at all.

Irving Stone

I slept in van Gogh's bed. I worked in the room where he painted. I saw the place where he was cared for when he cut off his ear. I lived in the jail cell where he stayed. And I looked out the window. You remember that picture of the cornfields through the bars? That was what I saw.

Inga Cadranel

You would never see me driving around in a sports car. I feel like you're so low and squish-able by transport trucks.

Inga Cadranel

It's not that I don't want a fast car. I like the speed. I'm just not the type of person who finds a sports car a sexy car.

Garry Wills

I would rather listen to plays in the car than read them.

Gina Bellman

I eat tons, three full meals a day, and I never go to the gym. When I was a child, my geography teacher said, 'You may be slim now but if you carry on eating like that, you'll end up being really fat.' Fortunately, I really don't think I've changed much in the past two decades, so that teacher was an idiot.

Brandon Flowers

I'm not sure how young kids get to the point where they're memorizing and knowing songs, but I knew the words to 'Missing You' from John Waite probably from when I was three years old. For whatever reason, that was the song that I gravitated toward when it was on the radio and I was driving around with my mom.

Wole Soyinka

Those nations that say it's a crime to preach your religion are making a terrible mistake. All they're doing is driving underground other forms of spiritual intuitions and practices.

Steve Burtt

That was the driving force. That was in all of our heads and we wanted to prove a point and end that curse.

Gary Horrell

That was a great learning experience for him. It's kind of been driving him.

John Hargreaves

We can't have a police officer on every single street making sure that people are driving to conditions,

George E. Brown

You and I are paying for these thefts. If the public thinks the market is driving up home prices, they're only partially right. It's also theft from construction sites.

Kevin Osnes

We're still trying to figure out how to stop him from driving to the basket.

Megan Fox

In New York, especially, so much of your life is spent on the streets. You don't always want to be driving around in an SUV with a security guard. You want to be able to walk to a restaurant; you want to go and do things.

Brett Favre

I would love to go in. I thought about getting to Tennessee tonight and driving in with some supplies.

Marty Reid

We just didn't match their intensity tonight, plain and simple.

Jaromir Jagr

We have a lot of rookies in the lineup. More than anybody, I would say. Its going to be something new for them. They have to understand that it's totally different hockey in the playoffs. Starting with the fans, the intensity of the game, every mistake counts.

Nate Meerstein

We have a lot of momentum going after this weekend. If we can just keep that going and keep our intensity high, we should be all right.

Tim Dougherty

We have to make sure our intensity level stays up and we can't take anything for granted,

Cindy Fitzgerald

We have to learn how to be on a varsity team and the intensity it brings. We?re getting there. We made progress from Monday, so that?s the positive.

Paul Pierce

We just couldn't match their intensity in the second half.

Tim Wise

We haven't played with the intensity on that end that we need. That's where we'll put our emphasis.

Erin Sullivan

We realized that we had the opportunity to win. We kept our intensity up.

Kevin Raylman

We didn't come out in the first period with the intensity that we needed.