Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yanni

I don't like to define my music. To me, music is pure emotion. It's language that can communicate certain emotions and the rhythms cuts across genders, cultures and nationalities. All you need to do is close your eyes and feel those emotions.

Imelda May

In 2008, I was in a London park when I came across a fledgling crow that had fallen from the top of an oak tree. A woman happened to be passing, and she said that she rescued animals, so she invited me back to her house. It turned out she was the wife of Jeff Beck. Jeff was there, and we ended up jamming together.

Ian Anderson

I've always felt that some of my best lyrics are less than three minutes long, and it's great when you can do that - be succinct and get the message across in a simple, clear idea.

Irving Stone

The biographical novel is a true and documented story of one human being's journey across the face of the years, transmuted from the raw material of life into the delight and purity of an authentic art form.

Isabella Bird

The situation of Leh is a grand one, the great Kailas range, with its glaciers and snowfields, rising just behind it to the north, its passes alone reaching an altitude of nearly 18,000 feet; while to the south, across a gravelly descent and the Indus Valley, rise great red ranges dominated by snow-peaks exceeding 21,000 feet in altitude.

Ismail Kadare

I first came across the script for 'Macbeth' between the ages of 11 and 12; it was the first book that shook my life. Because I did not yet understand that I could simply purchase it in a bookstore, I copied much of it by hand and took it home. My childhood imagination pushed me to feel like a co-author of the play.

Gale Harold

If anyone can crack the publicity nut and figure out how to not come across hammy and contrived, I'd love to talk to them.

George Allen

When I was elected Governor, we had an audacious agenda that naysayers said couldn't be enacted with a Democrat majority in the state legislature. However, we worked across party lines and enacted historic reforms. Working together, we cut taxes by more than $600 million.

Zoe Kazan

I love to walk around New York. Honestly, that's like the best thing, to walk over to Park Slope and go visit my friend Betty and take her dog out in the park or go walk across the Brooklyn Bridge. I really dig being outside and getting to see everybody in the street.

Gennaro Castaldo

The Arctic Monkeys have connected with the mainstream in one leap. This is an outstanding figure as January is a quiet time of the year for sales.

Hillary Clinton

The Arctic is going to be an area of intense interest. Russia has the longest coastline in the world with the Arctic.

Rebecca Solnit

The more we heat up the planet, the more it costs all of us, not just in money, but in colossal famines, displacements, deaths, and species extinctions, as well as in the loss of some of the things that make this planet a blue-green jewel, including its specialized habitats from the melting Arctic to bleaching coral reefs.

Imelda May

I would love to work with Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits, B.B. King. I'd love to do something with Arctic Monkeys, Miles Kane, and The Last Shadow Puppets. If I got a call from Juliette Lewis or PJ Harvey, or Chrissie Hynde, that'd be a thrill.

Robert Corell

We can't find any more concrete example of Arctic warming, which is twice as fast as in any other part of the world,

Rodger Schlickeisen

Jim Nussle has said that a clean budget is one of his top priorities, and he has proven that today by keeping dicey policy language that has no budgetary consequence, namely drilling in the Arctic refuge, out of the budget.

Bill Meadows

Those who are presenting opening the Arctic as a solution to the world's energy problems are misrepresenting the facts. This is really an intense debate going on. In some ways, it's for the soul of the conservation community.

Melanie Duchin

Global warming and rising temperatures in the Arctic jeopardize the polar bear's very existence. Polar bears cannot survive without sea ice. Polar bears could disappear in our lifetime if we don't take action.

Klaus Toepfer

The peoples of the Arctic and the small islands of this world face many of the same threats.

Tim Griffin

We can't look at just the side-to-side movement, ... but in terms of the combined side-to-side and forward movement, penguins conserved up to 80 percent of the mechanical energy required for walking. This was quite high, because other measurements for humans and other birds have found that they recovered only up to 70 percent of the mechanical energy.

Vijay Kumar

We have undertaken an extensive clean up of the poultry farms now that the birds are gone. We hope to complete this exercise over the next three days.

Hon Ip

We have chosen sites and species of birds that we think are the most likely ones that contact birds over in the Russian Siberian side that have the potential to migrate and make contact with birds in North America.

Dr. Gerberding

We're watching a very specific virus move very quickly through a very large population of birds and continuously evolve. That's worrisome.

Henry Vandyke

Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.

Henry Dyke

Use the talents you possess, for the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except the best.

Pat Buckley

I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.

Bob Dietz

Migratory birds are the main distributors on the international scale and there is no way to stop them. Locally, migratory fowl and the trade in live and recently dead poultry keep it in circulation, too.

Peter Marra

Migratory birds are innocent bystanders. I don't doubt (they're) moving the virus. I just don't think they're the primary movers.

Corey Haim

Um, you know, they have every right to feel the way they do and things are great with me, as you see, I'm very, good shape now and on the ball. Things are happening.

Corey Haim

But a year before that, I was starting to drink beer on the set of the film Lucas (1986).

Corey Haim

I make myself pizza if it comes down to that drastic measurement.

Brandon Jay McLaren

I've seen an increasing willingness to hire Canadians for lead roles that shoot up here. When I started, they would always just fly in L.A. people to do the lead roles.

Barry Pepper

It was sort of his 'Brando' moment - his very 'method' moment. He just absorbed it and continued on.

Barry Pepper

If you're expecting an intellectual film, then you will be disappointed.

David Steinberg

Great Canadian comics are often outsiders and insiders at the same time. That's a great perspective for a comedian.

David Pratt

Compared to the United States and certainly a lot of other countries around the world... per year, Australians do see more films.

Devon Sawa

I would definitely stay in the business, be behind the camera maybe.

Yael Grobglas

Israel has a fantastic film industry, and many times we are known for our political films or films that have to do with the army. I love the fact that we can show that there are films coming out of Israel that are just for fun.

Yanni

I love the road, and I love coming in contact with the fans. They talk to me and that's irreplaceable. But when I get tired, I head to the studio and I am in there for a long time.

Tim Burton

There's something about seeing this little inanimate object coming to life that's just very exciting. That's why with 'Nightmare' I held out for so long to do it.

Imelda May

Ooooh, I love Nashville! It seems like everywhere you walk, there's great music coming out of every wall.

Idina Menzel

For me, 'Rent' was all about coming out of myself, finding out who I was, learning the power I could have as a performer. And 'Wicked' was about harnessing all that strength.

Ian Mckellen

Will I miss Gandalf? Well, I don't miss him, because people are constantly coming up to me mentioning him and talking about him, so I don't feel that I've lost contact.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

'Beyond the Lights' was my fourth film. I gained a lot of knowledge, and I'm excited to share that with young filmmakers because I know how lost I was coming out of film school with that question of 'What's next?'

will.i.am

Coming out with records when you're in a big, successful group that plays stadiums, that's scary to come out by yourself.

Chris Bohjalian

If you are stymied as a writer, if it's just not coming together, then take the pressure off and don't feel that you need to write 1,000 words today; just write one really good sentence.

Goldie Hawn

I've been practicing modalities of Eastern philosophy since about 1972. What I've learned through my meditation is a sense of equanimity, a sense of all things being equal.

F. Sionil Jose

Literature - Eastern and Western - abounds with stories, myths, legends about the search for youth, for eternal life.

Mark Richt

We have an opportunity this week, if we can find some way to win it, to clinch the Eastern Division. I don't know if that's going to happen or not. We just have to take inventory of who can play right now.

Brad Taylor

From what we can see, it's a trend that is moving into Eastern Washington from Western Washington.

Michael Schlacter

For third consecutive winter, harsh winter weather will be the main theme for eastern United States.

Phil Davis

His team will now provide support for the folks in eastern Texas as well as the Louisiana area,

DeAnn Sampley

Just to see the poverty in Eastern Europe is shocking.

Liang Liang

He knows how to handle the subtle inner feelings in a Eastern way while retaining the American way of telling the story.

Shibley Telhami

He is terrifying to Middle Eastern elites. He is terrifying to Middle Eastern governments,

Bertrand Russell

When Benjamin Franklin invented the lightning-rod, the clergy, both in England and America, with enthusiastic support of George III, condemned it as an impious attempt to defeat the will of God.

Kerry Collins

That was a tough way to open up the season ... all the hype and everything and playing in New England, which is about as tough a place as you can play,

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

I only really woke up in India. It was my first experience of plenty, strangely enough, because everything in England was rationed. I loved sweets, but you couldn't get them; then there was this marvelous mitthai - I went crazy.

Matthew Quick

When I travel round the country, people can't place my accent; if there's someone in the audience, they'll be like, 'You're from Philadelphia', but everyone else will say, 'Where are you from, California?' I get England sometimes - bizarre!

Jacques Santini

We have a lot of respect for England,

Bill Cummings

We've made many great matches. In fact, one of our matches is taking a trip to England this spring. They don't all turn out that way, but you never know.

William Shakespeare

I cannot speak your england.

Joseph Banks

Who knows but that England may revive in New South Wales when it has sunk in Europe.

David Beckham

Whoever comes in as England manager it is up to him to pick the new captain, but at the end of the day I'm not going to give it up easily. There are the European championships to come and then maybe another World Cup.

Rand Paul

The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Many of those people deserve to be in prison; however, some of them do not.

Brad Smith

We have very popular products, and so we're put under this kind of pressure. But security remains our highest priority.

Jacques Chirac

Today the highest priority is the return of security and public order, ... The last word must be from the law.

Peter Jackson

The producers of 'The Hobbit' take the welfare of all animals very seriously and have always pursued the highest standard of care for animals in their charge.

John Beilein

I think Louisville is playing at the highest level they have all year.

Martin Sheen

It is my pleasure to support a candidate who truly reflects our values and highest ideals.

Robert Kiyosaki

The problem with being an employee or self-employed is you pay the highest taxes.

Dr. Julius

We are trying to find patients at the highest risk and treat them for a longer period of time.

Hudson Taylor

While salvation is a free gift, the 'winning Christ' can only be through unreserved consecration and unquestioning obedience. Nor is this a hardship, but the highest privilege.

Emanuel Ungaro

The '60s were free, innocent, without pressure. I did what I wanted to do. Remember when I was mixing prints. I started that in 1969 and '70,

Danny Hale

We've done a lot of mixing and matching. We haven't had that 11 together that we're going to go with.

Steve Alexander

We have some mixing to do at the recording studio tonight. We'll go over there at about 1 A.M., and stay until about 8. Then we'll crash.

Jeff Carter

He was mixing well tonight. He has an idea of what he wants to do out there and he does it.

Blake Michael

I've always had a fascination about mixing music,

Blake Michael

Ive always had a fascination about mixing music. So I downloaded an application and started messing around with it, and it just built up from there.

Ludwig von Mises

The mixing of politics and business not only is detrimental to politics, as is frequently observed, but even much more so to business.

Stanley Schulman

It was just a wonderful mixing of elements.

Dennis Driscoll

Those three have been setting the pace, and others are mixing in and out.

Bertrand Russell

it [is] possible to suppose that, if Russia is allowed to have peace, an amazing industrial development may take place, making Russia a rival of the United States.

David Longmuir

The American day traders have popped up in Russia for the first time.

Mikhail Bakunin

From each according to his faculties; to each according to his needs.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

I'm a product of Russian culture, but I never felt it was my country.

Soundarya

I'd like to be known for my character.

Dmitry Medvedev

Legal reform in Russia is a must. And I keep track of it daily.

Dmitry Medvedev

Demand for grain in the world today is a more stable trend than demand for energy. Russia is a major grain exporter and can consolidate its positions

Dianne Feinstein

We have a chance to wind down and expedite the removal of 96 percent of the world's nuclear weapons. What an achievement it would be, if at the end of the next administration, we could say that the nuclear arsenals of both Russia and the United States had been reduced to the barest minimums.

Agnes Smedley

Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.