Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Fogerty

I wrote that song for my wife, and it's what some guy who's sitting under a tree would be singing to the woman of his life, telling her how wonderful she is. To me, that's more lasting than something that sounds like it belongs on a movie soundtrack.

Solomon Burke

I walked out of the Chinese restaurant with a fat check, a record deal, and a box of shrimp egg foo yung!

Gavin DeGraw

I think it's important not to worry about that too much, because even if I was the next big thing, there would be another next big thing soon.

Jimmy Chamberlin

What I see for the band by the end of this year is the Complex live at the Montreux Jazz Festival. I want my guys to be comfortable. I'm certainly not in this for the money, but I'd really like to see my guys make some money off of this stuff.

Bobby Hatfield

With me and Bill... I think we started out with $15 apiece and split the other $20 between the band.

Jewel

I think when kids just see well-crafted poetry, it's just obtuse to them. It's hard to relate to.

Gerry Beckley

It is not that there wasn't an incredible amount of history made that was very public knowledge for those seven years which was the bulk of the hits.

Vince Gill

It is harder to fail than it is to succeed because most people are going to watch you do is to react to what you've accomplished.

Scott Joplin

It is never right to play ragtime fast.

Frank Black

Kim reminded (guitarist) Joey (Santiago) she liked my song and maybe she'd do a lyric on top of it, which is fine, because I've written lyrics for it like three times and have never really been satisfied with it. 'Gigantic' part two is in the works! And it's going to be bigger and better than the first one!

Brad Wick

Kenny is one of the toughest guys I have ever met, people just cant see how he can go in with these bigger guys like he does. Its the shock he gives that bigger guy when he hits them that makes them know they are in for a fight.

Paul Walsh

Katrina was a hurricane on steroids. For the rest of the year, the pre-hurricane effect -- now renamed the ?Katrina effect? -- will have a bigger impact on consumers that usual.

Bryan Hopkins

I think in the past we've had bigger names on the team. But we still have talent here.

Mark Chalupa

It always seems to be one of our bigger races. There will be a lot of cars from out of town. This will be our first points race. We're hoping to have 125 cars. A lot of people are ready to race.

Cindy Mannes

There are some who say it's the pest of the 21st century. I don't want to scare anybody, but it could become a much bigger issue.

Zaheer Khan

There are some very good measures in there, both for the equity investors and the bondholders. The share buyback and the (phone lines) income trust are much bigger than what I was expecting. They had to reduce their debt, and they are going to do that.

Emilio Hernandez

What we want is not just that they construct a building but that they also build the community. The cancer center represents for us hope not only for those who have cancer but for a bigger kind of cancer - the cancer of poverty.

Chris Snee

He's a big guy, one of the bigger guys you'll face. But he's also quick. You know he's going to throw some moves at you.

Bob Clarke

I think where we get hurt is when the little forwards can buzz around the front of the net without being touched, If you knock them down, you get a penalty.

Ed Nakfoor

I think that there is buzz in the retailing community that Detroit is on its way.

Jim Shea

I hope he sticks around. He's walking into a buzz saw right now.

Kitt Burroughs

It's getting word out enough to generate buzz and drum up enthusiasm.

Hal Gill

It's frustrating. There was a buzz in the arena, and we were excited to play this one. The fans deserve a lot more than that.

Seth

Life is a buzzer box. Poke it.

Thomas Grandi

There's a big buzz over here. It started last year, and I think now it's just growing.

David Meltzer

There's a huge buzz about the sport right now. Old sports editors are set in their ways, and I don't think they'll ever get it.

Patrick Cooney

There's definitely a buzz around the campus. There's a lot more people who say hello to me, and it's not because they know me. Everyone likes a winner.

Vint Cerf

When I first joined Google in October of 2005, I was warned that I shouldn't be offended if people were doing their e-mails while a meeting was going on.

Abdullah Abdullah

Terrorists from all over the world have joined them.

Irving Berlin

We joined the Navy to see the world, / And what did we see? We saw the sea.

Jerry York

We'd really have liked Vermont to have joined the league next year.

Will Poulter

I joined the after-school club, School of Comedy, which progressed wildly, and in quite a Hollywood way. It sounds like 'School of Rock', right up to trying to raise money to pay for a venue in Edinburgh.

Don Johnson

I joined the PBA way before I should have because I heard a rumor they were going to limit the number of people who could get in.

David Allen

the first 15 laps were pretty scary today.

Michael Andretti

I've led so many laps before, but it took me six years to understand that it's the last one that counts.

Jeff Gordon

We know that after Richmond (the 26th race) comes, we've got to be in the top-10 and when we are, we'd better be set on 'kill' to go out there and lead laps and win races.

Kyle Busch

With about 40 laps to go, it's time to race and time to get after it and that's what I was doing. If I did something and aggravated Stewart, well, I'm sorry.

Mike Kemp

I think that might have been a turning point in the game.

Mike Hargrove

He might as well have been wearing a sandwich board, with 'Eat At Joe's' on one side, ... and 'I'm bunting' on the other.

Samuel Beckett

All the things you would do gladly, oh without enthusiasm, but gladly, all the things there seems no reason for your not doing, and that you do not do! Can it be we are not free? It might be worth looking into.

Salman Khan

If the film is a hit then everyone shares the success. If it is going to be a disaster then it might as well be because of me, not because of somebody else.

Wesley Clark

You have to take a plan that might work and make it work

Ty Segall

The next album I make might be the most messed up thing ever. It's all momentary for me.

William Goldman

I seemed busy, busy, busy, but I suppose, if pressed, I might have admitted that, for all my frenzy, I was very much alone.

Wilford Brimley

Well, we all are what we are, I guess you might say by an accident of birth.

Wavy Gravy

we're all bozos on the bus, so might as well sit back and enjoy the ride.

Madeline Albright

These people have to go back, otherwise there are no people in Kosovo,

Reed Hundt

Isn't it only appropriate that, in return for the free use of the public spectrum, broadcasters provide something substantial, something that wouldn't otherwise be provided by marketplace competition?

Hicham Guerrouj

Otherwise there is not much point in me going.

Alan Greenspan

The purpose of a politician is to be a leader. A politician has to lead. Otherwise he's just a follower.

David Strom

You have to be smart about how you use e-mail. Otherwise you let it ruin your life.

Udonis Haslem

J-Will is always running. We just have to run with him. Sometimes we just can't keep up. ... If we can run with him, he's going to find you.

Donna Myers

What you are doing is running the seniors out of Worthington.

Denny Rinehart

Gonzalez will be a factor. Erica Hicks can run anything she wants to.

Lindsay Whalen

It could be worse, ... I'm already kind of running around and jumping. They kind of said to me, 'Just see how you feel.'

Al Wolski

We're on our way back. We're going to try to run the table and see what happens.

Andy Johnson

I think we tried to play at their pace, and we can't run with them. It got away from us in the second quarter.

Frank Beamer

We have to be able to run it and throw it,

Keith Ellison

If you can make a movie, make one. If you can sing a song, sing it. If you can write a play, write it. If you want to run for office, run. But do something to make this world a better place.

Larry Hogan

He was open. But we've done that all year. We just run and shoot.

Asaf Shariv

I don't know about anything since then that is new.

Samuel Smiles

The truest politeness comes of sincerity.

Chelsea Clinton

I have voted in every election that I have been qualified to vote in since I turned 18.

Kelly Slater

I haven't surfed since Japannot even one wave.

Saku Koivu

I haven't been back in Montreal, at all, since the playoffs ended two years ago. It's been a while.

Theresa Carroll

All I can say is that it's been better every year since I've been here. And I don't know how long it is, but it was here before I got here.

Jose Antonio Vargas

All I've ever done since I was 17 is tell stories. You know, I'm a storyteller. And that's what I'm going to keep on doing, especially now, kind of embracing and making sure that we tell immigration.

Steve Collins

It's been a while since we've really been tested.

LaDainian Tomlinson

It's been a while since it's been like that.

Rosie Jones

I'm going to go out slower than I anticipated.

Eric Turner

Summer is the slower part of the year, so we have (fewer) openings.