Famous Quotes & Sayings

Isamu Akasaki

Very many researchers, including the front runners in gallium nitride, abandoned the development of gallium nitride-based devices. I have devoted myself to the study of crystal growth, aiming at the development of the p-n junction of gallium nitride.

William Tecumseh Sherman

My aim then was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us.

Walter Reisch

The ultimate aim of all science to penetrate the unknown. Do you realize we know less about the earth we live on than about the stars and the galaxies of outer space? The greatest mystery is right here, right under our feet.

Bruce Braley

The Populist Caucus aims to bring people together around middle class issues, so we can tolerate a little difference of opinion.

Denis Villeneuve

As a director, you're a bit of a dictator. But I feel that you're a better director if you're open to other people's ideas. It means that it's tougher: you have to be in a choosing process; you have to put the ego aside. As long as everybody's aiming in the same direction... I'm open to my main partners in the film crew.

Niranjan Shah

The aim of this phase is allow tissue healing and for the repair sites to fully bind without too much stress on these areas. It is also important to maintain freedom of movement of those ranges permitted.

Philip Tod

The aim of these national surveillance programs is to provide early detection of cases of avian influenza, particularly in wild birds and poultry in the European Union.

Howard Silverblatt

The aim of the S&P 500 is to emulate the entire market, not necessarily do better than the market. If we beat the overall market, we're not doing our job.

Jack Lang

The aim of the project is to make children better understand their history and heritage.

Brendon Urie

I'm a pretty good drummer. I'm pretty good at guitar, bass and piano. I can play accordion; I'm not virtuoso. I've played cello before. My sister played it, and I know how to play it, but I'm not the best. Violin is kind of the same thing.

Bat for Lashes

I usually speak with all my drummers so that I write my songs with them in mind, and we'll have bass sounds, choir sounds, and then you can multi-task with all these orchestral sounds. Through the magic medium of technology, I can play all kinds of sounds - double bass and stuff.

David Foster

When I produce a record, I roll up my sleeves; I'm not one of those passive guys. I really get in there and make sure every note is measured. I tell the bass player, 'You have to play it like this,' or I tell the drummer, 'It's got to be like this.'

Nate Ruess

I was in a really crummy pop-punk band. I think we did a whole bunch of Blink-182 covers, and we were on the fringe of losers and jocks. So we invited all the cool kids to come watch us play in our bass player's brother's bedroom. And it was terrible, but everyone thought we were so cool.

Nate Ruess

I picked up 'The Hunger Games' thinking it was written at my regressed reading level. I've spent hours reading it, and I'm not even halfway through. Our bass player, whose name is also Nate, ended up reading all three novels and loved them.

John Entwistle

That was the producer who produced a couple of my solo albums. He produced my second, third and fourth solo albums. It was his project and I just joined him on it. I sang on one and played bass on another one.

Kendrick Oliver

Wade in the Water. It has different bass lines, reminiscent of what you might hear in a dance club.

Paul Simonon

Obviously, a bass sounds like a bass and a guitar sounds like a guitar, but the way you play the guitar reflects your personality.

Paul Shaffer

I want to learn to sight-read music. And to play the bass pedals on the organ. Those are my only ambitions.

Elizabeth Meriwether

Every show is unique, some shows have the master plan and have everything figured out and that's just the way they do things. It's like high school. Some people write their papers the second they get their assignments, and some people write it the day after it's due. I am the latter.

Scott Peterson

We just didn't come out tonight and have it. I thought we figured it out this week, but we still have a lot ... to work on.

Paul Westerberg

So I figured in keeping with the record, I'd do something off the wall which is show up for free and wing it... I don't know, I'm just going to play some songs. I think it'll be fun.

Oscar Isaac

If you can find a way that your principles are actually the strategically smartest thing to do, you've kind of figured it out.

Trace Adkins

Who knew? I figured if people could stomach it, it would do good.

Chris Carter

We just couldn't seem to get a hit with two outs (in the final four innings). It just goes to show that when you think you have this game figured out it'll get you.

Dru Mahoney

You just kind of sit back and let him do his thing. Don't mess with him too much. Evidently he's figured it out.

Charlie Manuel

I stopped watching that one on the scoreboard. I figured it was over.

Ladell Betts

I thought it was just a bruise, ... I figured I'd be able to shake it off. But it didn't get any better, so we X-rayed it at halftime. . . . We'll just have to see how long it takes to heal. They didn't tell me.

William Wordsworth

Whither is fled the visionary gleam?Where is it now, the glory and the dream?

Gerard Hopkins

Glory be to God for dappled things for skies of couple-color as a brinded cow; For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim

Lawrence Horan

If it's done successfully, it will be the quote 'crowning glory' of his 21 years, ... there's a lot of risk for him personally, because if it's mishandled it goes down as something maybe he shouldn't have done. Staying on is something that's probably required on all fronts. Jack wants to make sure that his legacy is not marred by an acquisition that when handed off was not handled that well.

Tim Guter

He is the ultimate team player. He sacrificed the glory for the betterment of the team. Wherever we needed him, he played.

Brian Clark

Had it not been for God's glory and this man's goodness, ... I would not be here.

Omar Wilkes

He never really talks about the glory days.

William Shakespeare

Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?

Beth Moore

When we live to the glory of God, we show His goodness living through us instead of just ourselves.

Bruce Miller

What makes him so good is he's such a good kid on top of that, ... I've seen a lot of kids move in and say, 'When's my glory coming?' That's not Kendrick.

Yolanda Adams

God is love. He loves everybody. He loves you.

Imani Hakim

I was a big fan of Raven Symone, when 'That's So Raven' was out. I used to say, 'Oh my God, that should be my show!'

Gloria Gaither

The more I come to recognize my story's place in God's grander Story, my once-bewildered questions are turning to psalms of thanksgiving at the wonder that I have been included in what He is doing.

Gladys Knight

I'm a people lover. I love interacting with different people as I meet them, and I think people are one of God's greatest creations, I really do. They're interesting and intriguing.

William Hamilton

The will of the world is never the will of God.

William Hamilton

The infinite God can not by us, in the present limitation of our faculties, be comprehended or conceived.

Vincent Bugliosi

I, for one, can't be sure at all there is a God.

Yehuda Berg

God is not separate from anything, or anyone. So it's impossible to prevent God from being visible in our government.

Ezra Taft Benson

The great test of life is obedience to God.

Red Cloud

They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they never kept but one; they promised to take our land, and they took it.

Nina Easton

I've made decisions along the way so I would be there for my kids, and it's kept me from going places I would have gone.

John Schwartz

The $24 million jumped off the page. At first, I thought it was a typo, ... Then I kept reading and said, 'No, they're not joking.'

Connie Lemos

We were his legacy, and we just want to thank all of the people who have kept his memory alive.

David Phillips

We were going to play it here if we kept these theaters.

Sarah Soesbee

We've kept our reputation by playing hard. We may have less superstars, but we're probably more team-oriented.

Kevin Coleman

We've kept all the artifacts, all the character.

Ilian Evtimov

We just couldn't stop them on defense. They just kept scoring at will.

Ian Snell

I thought I was getting squeezed a little bit. I wanted to lose control, but I just kept my composure. I'd just turn around and slap my thigh.

Todd Rundgren

You do have a modicum of peace of mind here, but it's as unsettled as any other place.

Ian Mckellen

I can't make up my mind whether I want to dance like Josef Brown or dance with Josef Brown.

Gail Carson Levine

I loved fairy tales as a kid, so that's where my mind gravitates.

Zoe Sugg

I know that I do have influence over the people who watch me, and it's quite a pressure. I have to stay positive, and while I would never use the words 'role model', I am mindful of the responsibilities that come with a substantial viewership.

Zadie Smith

I don't take notes. I don't have any notebooks. I keep on trying to do that because it seems like a very writerly thing to do, but my mind doesn't work that way. I tend to get the idea for a novel in a big splash.

Webb Simpson

To be honest, I never really wrapped my mind around winning.

Wynton Marsalis

Generally, when I wake up in the morning I set out a series of problems for myself and I write them down, and when I'm sleeping, my mind solves the problems. When I wake up in the morning, I have more clarity on the issue.

Emma Roberts

I read a book a week. I try to keep my mind working.

David Byrne

The city is a body and a mind - a physical structure as well as a repository of ideas and information.

Yanni

It has never been necessary for me to learn how to read music.

Yanni

I do listen to a lot of music, but I don't listen when I'm writing.

Todd Rundgren

I've always done very 'composed' music and worked-out solos. But sometimes it's fun not knowing where you're going.

Ian MacKaye

I feel completely fortunate to have this outlet for something I don't really feel like I have a choice in, to make music. I've got to make it.

Irwin Thomas

When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.

Compay Segundo

I play music the way it was played in yesteryear.

Chino Moreno

I don't watch TV. In my spare time, if I have any, I want to make music.

Chet Faker

My high school career counsellor said I shouldn't pursue music as a career.

Ellie Goulding

People always try to find my agenda, but I don't really have one. It's safe to say that I make pop, but I think that I'm doing important music, too. I've just always done what I wanted to do.

Janet Fitch

My mother had been a solitary chef. It was her recreation and her escape.

David Toms

It seems like everyone around me has recreation going on. I'm the only one working, I guess.

Bob Berg

It's up to people, whatever recreation they're doing, to do it responsibly.

C. S. Lewis

Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.

C. S. Lewis

True friends... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals.

Bertrand Russell

True happiness for human beings is possible only to those who develop their godlike potentialities to the utmost.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

True love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have.

Anthony Fauci

We have to see if it is true and if we can do anything about it,

Diane von Furstenberg

The little black dress is the true friend...she travels with you...is patient and constant...you go to her when you don't know where else to go and she is ALWAYS reliable and timeless.

David Mitchell

True knowledge without xperience is food without sustenance

Byron Katie

The WORK 1.Is it true? 2.Can you absolutely know that it's true? 3.How do you react when you think that thought? 4.Who would you be without the thought?

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

You know who your true friends are when things go wrong for you, but the opposite is also true. When things go well, the people who really love you are happy.