Famous Quotes & Sayings

Scott Terry

We try to conjure some type of emotional response from the audience.

Michael Ryan

We'll take three themes from the audience, then make up something on the spot. We'll stray a little bit from the flamenco theme, but it's a lot of fun.

E. O. Wilson

I get love from the audiences, I love that love they give me, you know the standing ovations. Makes you feel good, makes you feel good.

Johnny Gimble

I tell my audiences today that I served 10 years in Nashville! That's a joke, of course; I was grateful for the work. Bob Ferguson, who produced Connie Smith, Porter Wagoner and Dolly Parton, started calling me in.

George Stavropoulos

In this show there is no fourth wall whatsoever. This show is completely wink-wink, nudge-nudge with the audience.

Tom Stoppard

the bewilderment and incomprehension of critics and audience.

Francois Cluzet

I think there's a kind of love relationship between an actor and an audience, and this is something I really feel with the audiences in France.

Imelda May

The Spanish and the American audiences are lunatics. They are very passionate and, like the Irish, they don't have as many inhibitions. If you are playing somewhere like Austria or Sweden, it takes them a little while to come out of themselves.

Bruce Willis

I have zero interest in performing in films to try to convey any kind of message. My job is to be entertaining. There's a very different point of view about messages in films in Europe than there is in the States. Audiences rebel because they feel that they are being preached to.

Tom Daschle

A new year brings a new opportunity to start over,

Jeffrey Baker

The burden is on the ESDC to show that they will bring in the whole community. This is a state project where they are taking away the city's right to review it under the city's zoning laws. It's an enormous undertaking, and they'd better be careful how they do it.

Ed Clark

Back in high school, I really wanted to be a diesel mechanic. I was building pools and it was still working with my hands. I was installing the (reinforcement) bars, shaping the pools and then they'd bring the cement in. It was great. . . . Then I had my accident.

Carli Smith

As of now, it's still in the park and they're just trying to put it in a cage and bring it to another location.

James Hitchcock

Once we got to know who he (Nelson) really was, ... he was able to really bring out some extraordinary ideas.

Scott McNealy

The team really delivered. Not only did we successfully bring on line our new ERP systems, but we also introduced new products and partnerships during the quarter.

Wayne Thomas

The theme will speak to the complete change God can bring in a person. Where you truly experience grace, you can never grow tired of singing about it.

Robert Long

I wanted something for this boutique that would reflect Manhattan, New York, which is my favorite place on the planet, ... Allure's boutique is really something different. It is fashion-forward. It brings things up to date, because the New York fashions are traditionally years ahead.

John Sulston

The myth is that IP rights are as important as our rights in castles, cars, and corn oil. IP is supposedly intended to encourage inventors and the investment needed to bring their products to the clinic and marketplace.

Don Bohanan

These classes demonstrate to college admissions and scholarship staff that students who successfully complete them can do college-level work.

Jill Davidson

Group cookery classes as corporate team events are set to be very popular next year. Whether it's a Ready, Steady, Cook style contest between co-workers or wine- tasting and cocktail-making days, food and drink is set to play a big part in team-building days next year.

Shirley Eaton

My mother sent me to dance and drama classes when I was young, and then I got a stage role in 'Set To Partners' when I was 12, followed by Benjamin Britten's 'Let's Make An Opera.'

Q'orianka Kilcher

I always wanted to be a singer, and so, when I was 5 years old, I started acting classes so I could be a better performer. I wanted to have a powerful voice so I could be heard.

Jason Clarke

I was a designer at the University of Louisville taking classes (in the early 1990s) and working there and the Web happened. I was interested enough (in the Internet) to pursue it and learn about it. It was at a time that there was no education about Web design and Web development.

Tracey Black

I was concerned about it being special education classified. He explained that all we are doing is deferring two required classes until next year.

Laura Harper

I haven't made my schedule yet for next semester, but whatever classes 'Lang' is taking I am taking. She is very, very smart and she motivates me in the classroom and forces me to work harder. I like that.

Donald Ray Pollock

I was 35 when I started taking classes at Ohio University. After I got my degree, I kept working at the mill. When I was 45, I decided I was going to try to learn how to write short stories.

Jerry Paul

It's highly unusual when a company combines two share classes into one.

Ji-Hae Park

I would not want the limitations held by the name of a classical musician. I want many people to enjoy my music much beyond just classical music fans. I think the term, 'violinist,' keeps me distant from the audience. I want to communicate with them more.

Herbie Hancock

I was a jazz purist at the time, I had tunnel vision about jazz and classical music,

Frances McDormand

It's a scary thing going into the workforce with a $50,000 debt and you've been trained as a classical theatre actor. There's always a depression in the theatre.

David Foster

The summer concerts in Stone Park have been one of my passions.

Bill Golden

We thought we could get the same type of experience without extending ourselves to promote concerts and those type of things.

H. Hart

We'll have no place to keep the concerts going. They seem very respective.

Shalom Harlow

I was scouted at a Cure concert. A model scout approached me there and asked me if I modeled, and I thought that was ludicrous.

Robert Rodriguez

Leonard Bernstein was a true American hero, ... He could do anything. He was a composer, a conductor and a concert pianist.

Dan Donegan

Since they go stayed together by two more years, for when a return to Portugal for another Disturbed mega concert ?

Kevin Meidl

I would never want to be part of a concert where it was just another concert. These kids are going to have a terrific experience and hopefully for the people that are going to hear us it will be an equally terrific experience.

Gordon Taylor

You don't hear a film director saying 'Money mustn't go out of the industry' to actors. You don't hear a concert promoter saying 'We must make sure that money doesn't go out of our industry' to Elton John. Some people in football seem to think, 'Never mind the players, let's get on with the game.'

Carol Smith

It is going to be really exciting because the concerts I am conducting will be graduate students. I think they will be outstanding.

Zoe Saldana

I just want to be a part of great stories, whether I'm part of an amazing ensemble cast or I'm leading it or the antagonist or whatever.

Erin Horn

We're just trying to get people to come out and watch and Florida State will be an exciting game.

Sophie Kinsella

There is something exciting about saving up for a special treat. Bring back the piggy bank!

Kris Draper

Those two kids are special. And the new rules are going to be exciting for them.

Steve Silver

We won four exciting games, not just four games.

Adam Alirez

We've been wrestling tough all year, and this was one of our goals on our list. It was just exciting to see them get to the semifinals and step it up. We really represented. The whole town of Greeley just did awesome. There were a lot of tough teams here.

Liam Hemsworth

Honestly, I really, really love making movies. It's so much fun, and I love losing myself in the moment and just being there with other actors. When you're truly in the moment and you're feeding each other, it's such an exciting thing to be a part of.

Claudine Goller

It is exciting to think of how much good he has done.

Dana Johnson

It is exciting just to be able to say you actually saw an Olympic medal up close, even touch it.

Matt Hasselbeck

That was fun -- a little sloppy at times, but some of the most exciting plays I've seen all year.

Joe Crede

During the fifth inning, that was not a playable surface.

Marty Brennaman

This is the fifth ownership group I've been involved with. I can say without question that he's the most knowledgeable owner we've had here.

Clint Chamberlin

Bismarck was really tough, it's the first we've seen of them this season. We showed our inexperience, especially in the fourth and fifth runners. Overall, I was satisfied with how the team performed, but when we learn to do what we can do, we'll run faster.

Franz Pumaren

Most of the season, we were running fourth or fifth but we peaked at the right time.

Tom Glavine

I was tired (in the fifth). Striking a lot of guys out is hard work. I realized in the fifth I didn't have a lot of ground outs.

Joe Neff

I thought we'd be a fourth or fifth seed, but the way things are set up, anything in the top 10 is pretty good. We've seen a lot of these teams. I like where we're at.

Phil Garner

Roger Clemens is pitching the fifth game right now,

Carlos Garcia

I need that first big win. I'm always fifth or sixth but never first and I hope here I can do that,

Buddy Bell

I really wanted keep Gobble out there for the fifth but this was his first start and we wanted to keep him at about 60 pitches.

Scott Krugman

From what we've been hearing Saturday was a huge day for sales and a huge day for traffic,

Chrissy Teigen

A lot of people are always striving for bigger and better. People are always wondering if the grass is greener and then they'll​ start hearing things or meeting other people.

Brandon Gray

I'm hearing that 'Shark Tale' is unoriginal and uninspired,

Vonetta Flowers

He's much more vocal. Everything is so new to him. He was operated on just two months ago, so he's hearing and responding like a 2-month-old baby.

Jim Kaat

He (Rodriguez) has been hearing it from the crowd.

Anne Mills

I can feel your sympathy. But seeing is what will impact you, even more than hearing the stories.

Charles Schumer

If there ever was a time when the hearings are going to make a huge difference, it's now,

Brad Richards

It shouldn't be like this. We know what to do and what to do to make it happen. We are all sick of hearing about it and talking about it. We have to do it. We have to win the battles. We are talented enough to win the puck and hold the puck.

Andrew Patel

It's a matter of how paranoid you are. What it could mean is that the president conceivably could sign a piece of paper when he has hearsay information that somebody has done something he doesn't like and send them to jail - without a hearing (or) a trial.

Ronnie Arnold

These allegations are disturbing. It was improper and unprofessional, but you see these things out there where kids are harmed emotionally and physically every day.

Tom Stern

It was tough for every wrestler to get through (to state). There are a lot of kids that aren't going who could be.

Shaheed Saleem

I've been here before but none of these kids have. This team is already winners because of what they have accomplished this season.

Brian Idalski

This is special because it's my alma mater and being to be a part and have that success here. We didn't get here because I'm a genius. This is a players' accomplishment and a testament to the kids we've had play here.

Harv Bainter

You saw how many different looks we had. We played up to 20 some kids tonight.

Bow Wow

My fans saw 'Roll Bounce,' but also that older crowd who might not have been familiar with me on the music tip saw 'Roll Bounce' and loved it. 'Roll Bounce' opened up that door for me to have older people love Bow Wow and opened up that door so all of the kids would love Bow Wow. My fan base is really diverse; it's all ages and all colors.

Jason Dominick

This win is a real tribute to our kids. We lost a lot from last season's team and these kids really put in the time during the summer in order to get back to this point.

Ayelet Waldman

The stereotypical gay man is someone whose company I enjoy, someone who makes me laugh, someone I'd want my kid to be. The stereotypical gay woman makes me insecure, conscious of my failings as a feminist.

Brad Goreski

I was a little chubby, rosy-cheeked kid.

John Sherman Cooper

Rather, like the anarchists of the last century, he didn't care if he was killed or not. They just wanted to be known. We found no trace of any conspiracy.

Michael Redd

I've thought of guys, whether they were here last year or not, and doing something special for them.

Shane Olivea

This is probably the worst performance we've all played, together, in the last two years.

Brooks Bollinger

This is so tough, ... People on the outside don't realize how tough it is to get to the playoffs. Last year, we were one victory away from a championship game.

Brian Tracy

Do your own market research; ask your last ten customers exactly why they bought from you.

Jane Jacobs

A region is an area safely larger than the last one to whose problems we found no solution.

Channing Tatum

Actually I have a tradition that I always steal my last costume on the last day of filming.

Steve Spurrier

What we know about them is they had a tough, struggling year last year, but that year is history.

Bobby Lutz

We're a better team right now, the way we've played the last 10 games.

Darren Criss

I never let my politics supersede my manners.

Ronan Farrow

Manners. Manners will get you through anything.

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.

Aretha Franklin

Being a singer is a natural gift. It means I'm using to the highest degree possible the gift that god gave me to use. I'm happy with that.

Brian Setzer

Rock & Roll is the physical thing that just comes out of you .. the other stuff you have to sit down and learn .. once you learn scales and chord progressions, you can make up your own versions

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.

Charles Kingsley

Music is a sacred, a divine, a God-like thing, and was given to man by Christ to lift our hearts up to God, and make us feel something of the glory and beauty of God, and of all which God has made.

Brian Cox

An explorer of the universe is sexier than a musician.

Branford Marsalis

You don't know what you like, you like what you know. In order to know what you like, you have to know everything.

Billie Holiday

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

Ken Martin

I can't say we'll see this kind of performance every quarter.

David Beckham

I'm pleased with my personal performance but particularly with the way the team played overall.

Harold S. Geneen

In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Holly Hatton

It was a poor performance by the varsity boat.

Lee Scott

It was a solid performance, but we can do better,

Rick Carlisle

It was a terrible performance. It's as simple as that.

Linda Duessel

The performance of dividend-paying stocks has more to do with the fundamentals in their industries.

Lu Shanzhen

Overall, I am satisfied with the performance of our gymnasts.

Steve Robinson

The vibrancy in our sports programs is still there.

Fred Siget

Some of the programs I wrote there are still running maintenance free.

Greg Allen

They're two programs that don't seem to have hiccups.

S. Truett Cathy

If it takes seven days to make a living, you ought to be doing something else.

Shaun White

I was sponsored when I was about seven by Burton Snowboards.

Michael Ian Black

The Atkins' diet is where you eat bacon for six or seven months...and the end result is that you lose weight. Because you're dead.

Teri Garr

Seventy-five percent of MS sufferers are women

Max Scherzer

Instead, the Nationals will pay Scherzer $15 million per season, but do so for 14 years; essentially, they’ve deferred half of each season’s salary seven years into the future.

Tom Taulli

Seven years ago Buy.com had sizzle. But this doesn't have a lot of sizzle to it.

O. Singh

Seven shots around here is not much at all,

Fabiola Gianotti

String theories, for instance, they require seven additional dimensions. So, as experimentalists we should, with our high-tech instruments like the Large Hadron Collider, just listen to nature and to what nature wants to tell us.

Mike Hathaway

I'd say right now there are seven teams (that could win it).

Steve Mottinger

These are things the state wants you to forget.

Mary Parsons

There are a lot of conflicting statements from the proponent.

Corrine Brown

Marriage has historically been in the domain of the States to regulate.

Albert Einstein

The State is made for Mankind, not mankind for the state

Stirling Moss

You get to the stage when your almost looking down on yourself. When you get into that state, it’s the best state ever.

Sallust

Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.

Micah Rasmussen

We're just going to let the governor's statement stand.

Mike Huckabee

If the state surplus is used in part or in whole for this, it will have been used for as valid a need as we've ever had,

Gary Fischer

If they make the state meet, it could be fun.

Estelle

I like time off because I also have a life outside of theater.

Fiona Shaw

Theater dates very quickly.

Lou Reed

Looking through the viewfinder for me is like being in a movie theater. That's what I like about it.

Elaine Vogel

For a long time, we were the only theater in town. And it may be the only theater in Nyack again.

Cloris Leachman

Everything is so sad and so wonderful.

Christopher Walken

No, improvising is wonderful. But, the thing is that you cannot improvise unless you know exactly what you're doing.

Thom Gunn

Ginsberg's Collected Poems contains a wonderful poem about making it with Neal Cassady.

Michael Faraday

Nothing is to wonderful to be true

Maureen O'Hara

How could you have had such a wonderful life as me if there wasn't a God directing?

Max Beckmann

It was so wonderful outside that even the wild senselessness of this enormous death, whose music I hear again and again, could not disturb me from my great enjoyment!

Nancy Horan

It's wonderful to feel desired. There's a sense of power in it, really.

H. L. Mencken

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but...

Vincente Minnelli

I see wonderful films by Bertolucci, Visconti, and Fellini.