Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Culos

Now, it's an extremely big name to live up to, but it kind of fits. We had all played in other bands before, and so this was our musical revolution, where we could finally play the music we wanted.

Billie Armstrong

Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a life-style. There are a lot of bands around who claim to be punk and they only play the music, they have no clue what it's all about. It's a life-style I chose for myself.

Marnie Stern

I was listening to a lot of math rock-y type bands do lots of complex stuff and I couldn't figure out how they were doing it. Then I realized that sometimes they were finger tapping, so I started messing around doing it.

Aaron Stern

I think a lot of bands just, they sort of mark themselves as they can only go so far. They sort of screw themselves by setting the bar so low, that we can only go so far with music. Instead I feel like our band as people, our personalities, we kind of had the feeling we can do anything and go anywhere.

Michael Franti

I came up playing in both punk rock bands and hip-hop bands, and I found a more universal way of reaching people, especially with music that has a message to it.

Darren Jackson

The Hopefuls have become one of the more popular bands in Minnesota. It's sort of the critics' favorite band, and this happened sort of out of the blue for us. We didn't expect anything like this, so now we're strategizing differently about how to go about promoting it.

Nikki Sixx

I know I'd feel emotional if one of my favorite bands was going out.

Krist Novoselic

Smells Like Teen Spirit. Well, it was a phenomenon. I think a lot of it was timing as what was going on in the music business. And a lot of the Sunset Strip hair bands were past their prime and people were ready for something new. Nirvana always tried to be sincere.

Emma Anderson

Exactly, they just get some bands and say, This is the future of rock-and- roll, this band, and then they're everywhere.

Shirley Manson

We just wanted to make a record that sounded cool. So we stole from hip-hop, we stole from techno and blues and mashed them all up.

Benicio Toro

I listen to all types of music. I have been in Memphis recently, so I've been listening to some blues like Muddy Waters, and some early Elvis.

O. Henry

prepare Christian men and women who will lead our nation and shape our culture with timeless biblical values and fidelity to the spirit of the American founding.

Jan Karon

I try to put my heart out there to everybody. They don't have to be Christian. For example, I have lots of Jewish readers. I love my Jewish readers.

C. S. Lewis

Love, in the Christian sense, does not mean an emotion. It is a state not of the feelings but of the will; that state of the will which we have naturally about ourselves, and must learn to have about other people.

C. S. Lewis

God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than of any other slackers. If you are thinking of becoming a Christian, I warn you you are embarking on something which is going to take the whole of you, brains and all ...

C. S. Lewis

God, in the end, gives people what they most want, including freedom from himself. What could be more fair?

Charles R. Swindoll

People who inspire others are those who see invisible bridges at the end of dead-end streets

Charles R. Swindoll

My order of priorities reflects the level of my commitment to Christ. Whoever or whatever is in first place, if it isn't the Lord Jesus, is in the wrong place.

Desiderius Erasmus

Only a very few can be learned, but all can be Christian, all can be devout, and – I shall boldly add – all can be theologians.

Conor Cruise O'Brien

Nothing does more to activate Christian divisions than talk about Christian unity.

Gareth Davis

The simple fact is the vast majority of professional sport clubs have some sort of level of debt.

Gypsy Rose Lee

God will protect us, but to make sure, carry a heavy club

Jenny Frost

I may be known as the girl who was sunbathing topless with a Prínce but Jordan is known as that thick girl who always falls out of clubs drunk. I know which one I prefer.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Private, accidental, confidential conversation breeds thought. Clubs produce oftener words.

Laurie Anderson

What happens when you're in a crash is you join a crash club, and you talk endlessly about your crash because you don't want to bore your friends with it. And they've heard about the crash so many times.

Lita Ford

I'm not much of a club goer because every time I do go I get in trouble.

Brian Johnson

Typically private clubs around the country are struggling a bit, and we just wanted to be progressive about it. With all the growth Downtown and the new condos, we just want to make sure they've heard about us.

Adam Ant

Mile high club, it's got its ups and downs.

Gene Upshaw

We have a group of high-revenue clubs and they're making a lot of money off this system. It's also held down their payroll. If you're not sharing your fair share with the players, I have a problem with it.

Mark Calcavecchia

After missing so many, I had a feeling I was going to make it, ... That's one of my better pars of the year.

Tatiana Totmianina

Sometimes it looks good but you are not feeling comfortable inside. But if it looks good, it means it is good.

Adam Haluska

I've been feeling good about my shot for the last two weeks.

Kenny Phillips

I've never had a feeling like this before,

Archibald MacLeish

Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of the world.

Jamie Wyeth

When I paint a portrait I want to know more than just the looks of the person. I want to know how they live and what their feelings are... It then becomes more than just physiognomy, but the feel of the person.

Aung San Suu Kyi

I'm feeling a little delicate.

Daniel Handler

Either you have the feeling or you don't. Hawk Davies

Bram Stoker

Whether it is the old lady's fear, or the many ghostly traditions of this place, or the crucifix itself, I do not know, but I am not feeling nearly as easy in my mind as usual.

Deirdre O'Kane

I don't particularly want to work with my husband all the time, as in the living and the working thing.

David Franks

I will not work with them. I'll work with other breeders. We'll do our own thing, but right now it's a living we're making, a living here. And if there doing that we'll find out someday. The truth will come out.

John Vance

There are 69 sex offenders now living in Surprise,

Henry Lewis

The music, the dress, the color, the stage settings ? there's nothing in the world like it. The whole of Massachusetts should rush here, honestly.

Jeff Tweedy

I've been buying instruments and musical gear for a long time.

Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

I can spend the day without writing or reading, but I can't spend a day without listening to music. I listen to music on a Walkman; it's from the 19th century, I know.

Billie Holiday

I've been told that nobody sings the word 'hunger' like I do.

Adam Lambert

I try not to get trapped in any one musical or visual style at all.

Damon Albarn

It's important that Oasis are rude about everybody and that they get drunk...Fair enough. It's nice, isn't it? But it's nothing to do with me. They came to see us in Manchester and they were very pleasant boys. Very nice. I'd like to see that as a quote. Oasis are very nice boys.

Ani Difranco

I don't like my language watered down, I don't like my edges rounded off.

Andrew Marvell

Music, the mosaic of the air.

Amy Winehouse

I would love to study guitar or trumpet.

Lucky Wurtz

You give him a one-game season and there's nobody better.

Jack Pitney

There's plenty of time to criticize. I think two years from now, nobody is going to remember what these people said.

Don Flanagan

Nobody that I talked to wanted to be part of this program.

John Salmon

When he's in a groove, he's in a groove. Can't nobody stop him, can't nobody stop him.

Jonathan Cheechoo

I just turned and seen there was nobody between me and the net, so I just shot it. I didn't even look at the clock.

Eckhart Tolle

Life has no opposite. The opposite of death is birth. Life is eternal.

Ronald Reagan

Form and Substance are opposite ends of the same coin.

Ray Bradbury

I’m the thing you most desire, you represent the thing I least desire, death. It’s just the opposite of love.

Seth Godin

The opposite of coherent is interesting.

Mitch Albom

Tension of opposites.

Ted Cruz

I had a back-and-forth where I asked Donald Trump, is it true or false that he said the government should pay for everyone's health care? He said it's false. Listen, within minutes, we put out a video just contrasting what he said there with video of him just a few months earlier saying exactly the opposite.

Michael Jackson

People always say the abused abuse and it is not true. I am totally the opposite.

Fran Lebowitz

When I was young, I liked romance. But to me, romance is the opposite of domestic life. I just don't want anyone in the apartment, not for longer than a few hours.

Francoise Sagan

Illness is the opposite of freedom. It makes everything impossible.

R. Robinson

We wish we were playing for something, but we're playing for pride and that's a big thing in itself. Also, just to let 'em know that, hey, if things worked out a little differently, this is what y'all would've got.

Rodney Atkins

With videos, I find I'm better off if I'm playing a role inside of it. The more you do it, the more you understand it.

Jim Thome

I got to see more pitches. I got over 30 at-bats in three days. When I got back to playing in the regular games, it just seemed to click.

David Perno

Hopefully, he'll keep playing that type of baseball.

Rosario Dawson

That was something that we really worked on, not repeating ourselves. But I was like, 'This is not going to be a problem because I'm playing a woman.'

Jeff Carter

That was one of the big things when they talked about playing me there at the start of the season.

Bob Bowlsby

That's the way it's got to be these days. When we have an upswing in revenue from playing in postseason games, we share.

Ilya Bryzgalov

I wasn't nervous. It is hockey. Why am I supposed to be nervous? I'm relaxed just playing the game.

Charles Rhodes

(Mason) is playing like a different team now.

Cameron Diaz

If you really want to torture me, sit me in a room strapped to a chair and put Mariah Carey's records on.

Beck

There's something different that happens when you're writing a song for your own record that you know you're going to sing.

Rita Ora

When I record music I like to be in one place and kind of have a base to keep going back to.

Gary Bauer

I have a 25-year record on the sanctity of life. I'm not a Johnny-come-lately like Mr. Forbes.

Gwen Stefani

Every record that I've ever made, I listen to it so much before it comes out. As soon as it comes out, I never listen to it again. It's, like, over.

Thomas Morgan

He set the school record for the most receptions in a season.

Matt Paxton

He set it Tuesday and he re-set it tonight. The record had been standing since 1983.

Kyle Gilchrist

I didn't (expect to be 44-0). I just wanted to go to state. The record was never a concern.

Bert McCracken

We are the outcasts, we are the ones that are different, we are the ones that never got along with anyone else, we are the ones that went back to our rooms and put on our headphones and listened to those records that made us happy

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.

Bridget Hall

I am always looking for a cool tee shirt; maybe one with a rock band or an old advertisement.

Christopher Paolini

Let's drop rocks on them!

Angelina Jolie

If every choice you make comes from an honest place, you’re solid and nothing anybody can say about you can rock you or change your opinion. It doesn’t shake me because I know why I do the things I do and I know I come from a good place and so people can judge me however they wish. But I know I’ll continue to do the best I can and be the best I can.

Conor Oberst

I have a car in Nebraska. When I bought it, they gave me a satellite radio, and there's an 'indie-rock' station. It's just nothing I'm interested in.

David Cook

Some of the best rock shows I ever saw were those appealing to all your senses.

Stevie Nicks

What has Rock and Roll ever done for us? Everything.

Serj Tankian

I've got my own studio, and I've got four- to five-hundred unreleased tracks. I've got stuff that's electronic, orchestral, jazz, I've got rock, I've got metal, you know, I don't have polka.

Steven Adler

I'm not gonna be a slave. I'm a rock n' roller.

Anne Rice

It draws it's strength, this big secret, from the same root from which I draw my strength, both the good and the bad, because in the end, they cannot be separated.

Stephen Sondheim

Let Pirelli's / Miracle Elixir / Activate your roots, sir... Keep it off your boots, sir- / Eats right through. Yes, get Pirelli's! / Use a bottle of it! / Ladies seem to love it... Flies do, too!

Rajneesh

Meditation is just a courage to be silent and alone. Slowly slowly, you start feeling a new quality to yourself, a new aliveness, a new beauty, a new intelligence—which is not borrowed from anybody, which is growing within you. It has roots in your existence.

Smokey Robinson

Motown will always be a heavy-duty part of my life because those are my roots

Smokey Robinson

I really haven't strayed too far, musically, from my roots

Ernest Dimnet

Ideas are the root of creation.

Will Oldham

Too much emphasis is put on American roots music when people try and place me. You know, I grew up listening to punk.

Adrian Rogers

Paul spoke about the root of faith (Eph 2:8). James spoke about the fruit of faith (Jm 2:17-18).

Craig Charles

I've got wealth and fame but I haven't changed my roots.

Brandy Norwood

It feels so great to be back on the scene.

Bobby Hernandez

He's the one who called it in so we were on the scene right away.

Homer

Just once I'd like someone to call me 'Sir' without adding 'You're making a scene.'

Domhnall Gleeson

In 'Cavalry,' I had one scene where I was playing a pretty awful character.

Abraham Lincoln

It is not 'Is God on my side', but 'Am I on God's side'.

Abraham Lincoln

Don't pray that God's on our side, pray that we're on his side.

Ally Carter

Waffles. Im craving waffles." Bex rolled onto her side. "Tell your waffles hi for me.

Adolf Loos

Be truthful. Nature only sides with truth.

Alexander Pope

He knows to live who keeps the middle state, and neither leans on this side nor on that.

E. M. Forster

By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.

Desmond Tutu

You are either on the side of the oppressed or on the side of the oppressor. You can't be neutral.

Dashiell Hammett

You got to look on the bright side, even if there ain't one.

Curtis Jackson

I have a romantic side.

Angelo Vaughn

He was a street cop. He was someone you want to emulate.

Brandon Routh

Superman is there to unite us all, I think. I'm proud of Bryan for respecting that and not making it just about us.

Bailee Madison

I was trying to get into the business from a young age, but I don't think I really realized how much I loved it until I booked my first movie and found myself in New Zealand for six months filming Bridge to Terabithia.

Ashton Eaton

I think a challenge for myself is to see how many times I can get above 9,000. That would be a good challenge.

Azar Nafisi

A bad author can take the most moral issue and make you want to just never, ever think about that moral issue.

Azar Nafisi

I think Islam is in a sense, in crisis. It needs to question and re-question itself.

Ayn Rand

Now look at me! Take a good look! I was born and I knew I was alive and I knew what I wanted. What do you think is alive in me? Why do you think I'm alive? Because I have a stomach and eat and digest the food? Because I breathe and work and produce more food to digest? Or because I know what I want, and that something which knows how to want—isn't that life itself? And who—in this damned universe—who can tell me why I should live for anything but for that which I want?

Bertrand Russell

Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.

Jane Goodall

Every stage of my life set the scene for the next, and at each point all I had to do was say "yes" and not think too much about the consequences.

James Van Allen

I think we need someone in a responsible political position to have the courage to say, 'Let's terminate human spaceflight.'

Patrick Smith

That play took a lot out of us.

Alice Temperley

If you took some of the behavior that you see in the fashion world and put it anywhere else, it would just be embarrassing.

Tom Daschle

He took charge, and it made a big difference,

Kenoy Kennedy

I think I took off before he started to slide. I'll take a look at it on the film.

Pete Carroll

It took all day long to get this win, ... It took every second.

Hassan Adams

We were well-prepared. It took us a week to get ready.

Chris McAlister

No sacks, no turnovers. That's not our type of football.

Craig Ferguson

In the 1970s vampires were pretty boring. The scariest vampire was Count Chocula. One bite of Count Chocula and you were cursed with Type 2 diabetes.

Abdallah II of Jordan

I'm not the type of person that is forced.

Allen Ginsberg

The typewriter is holy the poem is holy the voice is holy the hearers are holy the ecstacy is holy!

Alex Haley

But then, as far as I know, as far as I've studied or heard or picked up, it seems that this type of thing is a curse against mankind.

David Bailey

I'm never shocked, I'm not the shockable type!

Dave Attell

I'm not like a performer type.

Mark McNulty

Those are the type of tap-ins you like to have.

Paul Zane Pilzer

Obesity is a prison; in the US we spend more to treat type 2 diabetes each year than is spent on education.