Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Ellis

I was almost positive it would be a one-year deal, so I was a little surprised yesterday. I'm happy.

Keisha Brown

Jacob has always been very big for us on defense but offensively he sometimes needs to shoot the ball more. There are times when he'll pass up wide-open shots and give them to Caleb (Simons) or Pat (Theisen). He's almost too unselfish.

Ian Rankin

Jack Harvey wrote thrillers, which are very different beasts to crime novels: lavish, almost pornographic descriptions of weaponry; sex scenes; world travel. These things were closed to me in the kind of crime novels I was writing.

Danielle Pletka

Katrina has changed many things but I don't think it will change Iraq policy. There is almost no elasticity in that policy.

Katie Gearlds

Just toughness. To have four games in four days with some players playing almost 40 minutes ... their will to get it done impressed me. We've got to come ready to play, that's for sure.

Gary Williams

Just to get that thing to six at halftime took a lot of effort. I've seen that before. You're almost in a trap in a situation, where their best scorer (Grier) doesn't play, they lose a game probably everybody in Minnesota thought they should have won. ... Good teams come back after a situation like that, and we happened to be the next game.

Jeff Bagwell

Just to get out here, get back on the field, I felt like it was a little bit of a trial camp today. I felt like I almost had to try and prove something, but yet I've got to sit back and say, 'No, I don't, I just have to get ready for April 1.

Jesse Stone

Kansas City, I would say, did more for jazz music, black music, than any other influence at all. Almost all their joints that they had there, they used black bands. Most musicians who amounted to anything, they would flock to Kansas City because that's the place where jobs were plentiful.

Patrick McGurn

Just within the last six months, these policies have spread pretty quickly. It's almost a proxy now for boardroom accountability.

Gwyneth Paltrow

Jack Black is incredibly hilarious. I think he's really appealing, so sexy. When I watched the movie, I really thought he was sexy.

Taye Diggs

Just recently white people are starting to notice who I am. In the black community of actors, that's the gauge of how big you are, your real crossover appeal.

Michael Greenberg

I think it's a black eye for the Bush administration. This opens a Pandora's box.

Linda Massey

It always come down to black and white. It's the same thing every meeting.

Jimi Hendrix

He'd been listening to black music all his life,

B. R. Hayden

He criticized baseball's racial policies after he stopped playing, especially how blacks were forced to travel. He even criticized some black players for not standing up for their rights.

Jawn Murray

He changed the way Hollywood looked at black cinematography. He really showed Hollywood that the black story can be told differently and, if they don't invest in us, we'll invest in ourselves. So many other blacks are going to be following that lead.

Toni Thorn

Having a black president doesn't mean anything. He is not the black president. He is just a president that happened to be black. He has yet to do anything for minority students on this campus.

Larry Miller

He is using this as a joke. This is an insult coming from him. Why he chose to focus on the Black Caucus, I have no idea other than he is crazy and a racist.

David Stern

I would say that the city is making it pretty clear of what they want us to do, and we'll accommodate them.

Leslie Brunell

I would say we're talking several to many years before the city can be rebuilt.

Jason Wiemer

I talked to (assistant coach) Rich Preston and expressed some interest. I knew I wanted to come back here and wanted to make sure they knew that. It worked out well. I enjoyed playing here, I love the city and liked the guys here. I looked at the team, watched them play in the playoffs. It was something I wanted to be a part of.

Christine Quinn

I think it's a big deal symbolically because it's New York kind of going as far as we can in relationship law, ... It's also a big deal because it's New York City trying to make relations as equal as we possibly can.

Mike Shanahan

I think it's a better system. There are more opportunities, and because teams have to come to your city to do the interviews, it can be done without conflicting with what you're trying to get done.

Mike Szalat

It always nice to get a win and the competition here was as tough as some of the others too. It's definitely a step in the right direction and it was a lot better than last time out (Webster City Invite); we just need to stay healthy.

Bill Hopkins

It always concerns me when a homegrown company like Roanoke Electric Steel gets tied up with management control outside the city and state.

Jay Clark

I actually got into Mason City on Dec. 17. I really won't know about Mason City until I get back from Christmas.

Dennis Murphy

He wants to find out what the environment is like for his recruits. He wants to observe the city and the school a kid grows up in, meet his coach and teachers and really get a clear picture of what a kid is all about.

Babe Parilli

After the Red Sox won in 1967, people would flock in there to see anything. There was a mystique to the place that still exists.

Greg Matthews

We are all part of God's flock regardless of race, sex, denomination, or religion.

Travis Barbary

He's the kind of personality that guys want to flock to him and be around him. He's the kind of guy that likes to have fun, but when it's time to work, he's ready to work.

Russian Proverb

Without a shepherd, sheep are not a flock

Howard Rheingold

There is never going to be a substitute for face-to-face communication, but we have seen since the alphabet, to the telephone and now the Internet, that whenever people find a new way to communicate, they will flock to it.

Bob Kinniebrew

I would say that every person who is successful in the mortgage and title business, Mel had an influence on.

Curt Schilling

He obviously sat next to me in Washington and lied. I don't know that there's any way to prove that anything he did was not under the influence of performance-enhancing drugs.

Jim Haslam

I don't give so I can have influence over there,

William Wordsworth

Controls them and subdues, transmutes, bereaves Of their bad influence, and their good receives.

Robert Teeter

As the society has gotten larger and more complex, individuals have lost their ability to influence any of the institutions that affect their lives.

Samuel Johnson

The arguments for purity of life fail of their due influence, not because they have been considered and confuted, but because they have been passed over without consideration.

Walt Disney

Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives.

Saul Bellow

... a fellow can't predict what he will pick up in the form of influence.

Vladimir Putin

One thing is clear, everyone, no matter what their professional or material status, no matter what their influence on various state structures, must obey the law.

David Pierce

Kelsey plays the piano, and he's also a tremendous singer. I'm classically trained, and he's more of a jazz improvisatory pianist. So, we don't usually sit down and play together.

Claude Nobs

I was working in the local tourist office and I said to the manager, 'We should do something to make Montreux known in America. Let's do a jazz festival!

John Reynolds

I do a lot (of business) with local jazz players.

Robert Quine

After I exhausted the blues thing, I got into jazz.

Van Morrison

I just can't stand it [ jazz/rock]. It just doesn't sound right to me. It doesn't hit me...it doesn't get me...it just doesn't grab me.

Van Morrison

That's what it is-it's jazz. It's just jazz. That's what the whole thing is about to me. It's about what's happening right now in this context. This conversation is jazz to a certain extent. It's improvisation. What appeals to me about music is the improvization. That's what I don't like about the media-they're not living it.

Robert Glasper

There is a modern take on certain things you can do that, to me, is still jazz.

Wynton Marsalis

Jazz music creates so many phenomenal figures.

Wynton Marsalis

Sustained intensity equals ecstacy.

Garrett Gravesen

Jobs can wait, but the lives of these kids cannot. And because no one else was doing anything else about it.

Tom Morrissey

I think you would see full-time people have their positions reduced, part-time people lose their jobs, and some people just retire.

Toni Simonetti

We are finalizing the number of jobs cuts, ... There will be some, but not on the magnitude of those that we have already done.

Alex Jones

It's a different kind of economic recovery. The kind where bankers steal trillions and you don't have a job.

Two Chainz

Entertainment is such a great job to have.

Two Chainz

I encourage everyone to pay attention to the issues that matter to you, from jobs and the economy, to education and our schools, to criminal justice reform. Whatever it is that you care about, make sure you use your voice.

John Carr

I'd like for our controllers to feel much more secure doing their jobs, ... They should be watching their radar scopes, not watching their backs.

Steve Purchase

He has no specific or stated plan about what he wants to do. We want to know, where's the plan, Dick? Where's the plan to keep jobs in Michigan?

Robert Cray

Blues for me is having things not go your way - life, love, job, money, ... It is not about the oppression of my ancestors, who were trying to get back at the overseers. Blues is different for my generation.

Colton Haynes

Kansas is very religious, very Republican, and very straight-laced. I needed to get away from that.

Herman Edwards

He's got to get his mind mentally ready to play Kansas City. We know one thing: When he is healthy, we win games.

Buddy Bell

He was probably better than we saw him over in Kansas City. He was good.

Drew Brees

I couldn't say that was our motivation, but obviously we all knew about it. But Kansas City's 8-4 now, and we've got to go there. So there are plenty of tough tests ahead.

Walt Disney

When I was poor living in a garage in Kansas I began to draw the mice that scampered over my desk. That is how Mickey Mouse was born.

Norv Turner

Physically, we matched up with Kansas City, ... We competed hard. But there are things we've got to do better. And things we are going to do better.

Chuck Neinas

The blue-chippers wouldn't even talk to Kansas State,

Paul Reubens

I would love to be in Kansas.

L. Frank Baum

I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.

Ken Hill

Music is about textures as well as melody.

Ken Hill

People don't have fun making music all the time.

Shamir

I was inspired to make music since I was 7 because my aunt is a songwriter.

Swae Lee

I write a lot of rhymes, but I don't really end up using them a lot of times, and I end up just freestyling. I like to write music, though, more than I like to freestyle, to be honest.

Andrew Lack

has got two revenue streams: one from our music and one from the sale of his iPods.

Tony Oller

Being from Texas, acting or music isn't really a thing to do.

Steve Earle

Music was very influential on me as a kid.

Orlando Bloom

He's got the music in his head. There's a rhythm to it all.

Carrie Smith

His passion was music. He was a rapper. That was his talent.

Derek Bailey

I'd like trios and quartets actually, but I like duos because a lot of musicians who I like playing with like playing duos.

Robert Moog

I'm an engineer, ... I see myself as a toolmaker, and the musicians are my customers. They use the tools.

Robert Brown

The rest may reason and welcome; 'tis we musicians know.

Donald Harrison

The musicians will come back. It's going to take a long time, but New Orleans can actually be a better place because of this.

Z. Sheppard

The sad thing is so many of the musicians have died.

Kathleen Blanco

We have a lot of talent in Louisiana, ... For years, our musicians have had to go to Nashville or New York to record.,