Famous Quotes & Sayings

Juan Cole

I speak Urdu quite a lot, too, and I read a lot of Persian.

Temple Grandin

I would not be here now if I did not have anti-depressants.

Robert Brustein

The primary function of a theater is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent.

Betty Dodson

Never touch your clitoris dry, never. I can't emphasize enough lubrication.

James Lipton

I did get Tom Hanks to say, Life is just a box of chocolates.

Seth Lloyd

Merely by existing and evolving in time - by existing - any physical system registers information, and by evolving in time it transforms or processes that information.

Michael Pollan

When the choice comes down to industrial organic or local, I opt for the local, because it supports much more than good agricultural practice.

John Haley

I think one of the best things you can do, no matter what you play, is to take up piano. Music is based on chord changes and harmonies, and you can get 'em more out of an instrument like piano, where you can hear all the notes at once.

Paul Farmer

Well, we've worked with our friends in Haiti to establish nothing short of a modern medical center in one of the poorest parts of that country.

Brian Quinn

The business must be based on the success of our football team,

William Frey

Back 30 or 40 years ago when people thought about where they'd move it was based on jobs. Now housing is as much of a factor.

Jason Mraz

A rescue mission doesn't involve going in and just taking a child and leaving. You can't just choose any child at random. Every kid has a case that is based on that child's original family. So, we made it over to a village, found the child; we were interacting with the child.

Carolyn Johnson

The students are selected based on recommendations that come from their instructors and who have demonstrated a record of high achievement.

Larry Brown

Teams have won with young players playing key roles. A lot of teams draft based on potential, but we have guys here who have played in college for a while. They will respect the minutes they get, not expect them, and they will be given every opportunity to play.

Dan Barnett

TEC is in just about every industry. Being the largest in the world at what we do, we have a very broad based membership. We're kind of a representative sampling of small to mid-sized business in this country as well as other countries.

Ashley Kelley

Teachers were excited to have their kids back in class and to welcome some new ones. The students seemed to be rested and ready to go back to work. Everybody's looking forward to a great second semester, and based on the first day, we're off to a good start.

Kyle Cooper

Temperatures need to fall to alleviate what will be very large inventories by the end of January based on current forecasts.

David Halliday

Telstra is certainly accentuating the falls based on its magnitude in the index.

Kris Alexander

As far as track meets, it's by far the best meet in the state.

Charles Bofferding

As engineers, we have a different perspective. If a company really wants to get its product to be the best in all areas, then it must listen to all sides. A union is the best vehicle to carry the engineers' perspective.

Jeff Bingaman

As best as I can determine, the process is going to be fair, ... explained in some detail the various steps that they were taking to ensure that the bids were appropriately considered and the factors that needed to be given the greatest importance were in fact going to be given the greatest importance.

Gerald Grinstein

As Delta continues its transformation to become a more customer-focused airline, we are incorporating the best of Song into the best of Delta, ... Our new Song service will set the standard in transcontinental travel, making Delta the first choice for customers on these routes.

Steve Fleming

As a father, I did a poor job at dealing with my son. The Special Olympics taught me how to deal with my son, and now he is my best friend. We do everything together.

Ira Schlosser

At worst Fields Corner deserves a better quality store than midland has proven itself willing to deliver. At best we deserve the opportunity to really work towards changing the way that property is used so it's more reflective of the neighborhood's needs.

Mark Shapiro

At Six Flags, our mission is to surround the best rides in the world with entertainment from the fields of music, theater, sports, film and television. We want to be about more than rides -- Six Flags must be about a wider, more fulfilling experience. We also look forward to recharging our broad relationship with Warner Bros. through such great brands as Looney Tunes and DC Comics.

David Thomson

A wireless phone is only as good as the network it's on. You can have the best price plan and the coolest-looking phone, and if it doesn't work for you, what good is that?

Sharon Versyp

A win tomorrow would separate us from the pack because there are about three or four teams that are dead center right now. We're just preparing to be the best that we can for the postseason tournament. We're just trying to set a precedent for a winning attitude.

Elizabeth Edwards

Maybe we all change over time.

Katherine Andrus

At this point we are comfortable with our relationship with the CDC and confident that they will inform us if the situation changes that mandates a different approach.

Derek Fisher

What is needed changes from night to night. It depends on who is healthy or how different guys are playing. If you put guys in a position where they know they will get their opportunities, then guys get the job done.

Carolyn Bivens

We got a lot of folks that are pretty excited about that. Every time there have been changes to any of the major playoff formats in sports ... it's not met with a resounding click of heels by everyone. But I would say at this point, we have most people on board.

Terry McGuirk

We don't rule out making changes that need to be made. But our discipline is to be where we are.

Plamen Markov

You have very little time as a coach to make big changes after a defeat once the tournament starts. We will work hard on our tactics and our fitness and try and lift ourselves. After all we are not out of it yet.

Andrew Niccol

You have two choices when someone changes your work, ... You can either wash your hands of it or embrace it. I embraced it. Peter and I are good friends.

Tammy Baker

To keep them going once this program's over, we need to look at where they go to eat, what they eat, figure out ways to make small changes that will help take off weight now and keep weight off later.

Ken Pace

To have the frame of mind to realize he missed, that changes the complexion of (the end of the game). Not only was that (rebound) huge, but it took two seconds off the clock. Give (Baptiste) eight seconds, and he might get a better look.

Tommy Bolin

I just started off on my own by learning the regular chords then the barre chords. Then I'd lean the notes that would go with them.

Tom Scholz

I will say that I know Nirvana did a show and played a few chords from 'More Than a Feeling' before they did 'Teen Spirit,' and it wasn't very good. But in all seriousness, 'Teen Spirit' was a great song. If subconsciously or somehow I had any influence on that, I'll take that as a compliment.

Tony Goldwyn

I've done a lot of movies other than Ghost. It's amazing. I get sick of it. I mean, I'm grateful for it. But I think it's one of those movies that struck a chord in the consciousness of people and they watch it over and over again. It's weird - I haven't seen the movie in 10 years!

Sid Vicious

You just pick up a chord, go twang, and you're got music.

Tommy Chong

The way jazz works is that we take a theme, and then we write using the same structure, same chord changes, and then we can do different tunes.

Will Chase

Over the years, I've had to learn to play. For example, when 'Lennon' was on Broadway, I learned my way around the guitar chords because originally we were all going to play the instruments without a band.

Patti Smith

The reason we did 'Land of a Thousand Dances' and 'Gloria' on 'Horses' was because I liked repetitious, three-chord rock songs, but I didn't understand that I could write my own. I didn't realize that you could use those chords a million times.

Pete Townshend

I used to try and make up visually for what I couldn't play as a musician. I used to get into very incredible visual things where, in order just to make one chord more lethal, I'd make it a really lethal looking thing, whereas really it's just going to be picked normally.

Chester Bennington

All of our songs take these really big creative turns and twists throughout the process, so sometimes songs will start out as a melody or some musical chord progressions.

Lauren Fine

Rather than meeting the chef, we heard more from the CFO and even had a review of the financials.

Lea Stokes

The state doesn't know the answer. I know people don't want to hear that, but we just don't know.

Author unknown

Some people hear voices.. Some see invisible people.. Others have no imagination whatsoever.

Craig Sher

Sometimes the vocal minority is heard over the silent majority.

John Fossum

I've never heard of a situation like this before,

George Cox

It was this issue of prior restraint that was at the heart of our objections.

Sylvia Rhue

I sent out an olive branch. I didn't hear from them.

Kalle Palander

I skied like a pussy cat. I didn't take any risks because I heard that Rocca had skied out.

Dr. Mohammad

(You) push on the trigger and then you will hear two pulses, two seconds apart, and then that's it.

C. S. Lewis

Friendship is the instrument by which God reveals to each of us the beauties of others.

Pete Harpolis

Through this program, we get an opportunity to see for ourselves if this particular instrument makes sense and what it can do for us. It opens us up to other technologies that may prove beneficial.

Robert Bresson

Master Precision. Be a precision instrument myself.

Mike Murdock

Money's an instrument. The Bible says money answereth all things.

Cassandra Clare

I wouldn't call that an instrument of music," Ragnor observed sourly. "An instrument of torture, perhaps.

Mark Rechtin

He could pretty much pick up a musical instrument and play.

Tom Sawyer

As congressman, my voting record on these matters is clear. I know how to get things done.

Frank Dixon

As a matter of fact, it would be a shock if we weren't. As long as I've been here, we've been No. 1 every year for 15 years. Very seldom have we been out of the No. 1 slot.

Shyam Saran

These matters should be resolved through discussions and not through confrontation.

Brandon Cruz

I feel that it's the music, not anything else, that matters.

Augusten Burroughs

When you have your health, you have everything. When you do not have your health, nothing else matters at all.

Jane Hirshfield

Poems' deep work is a matter of language, but also a matter of life. One part of that work is to draw into our awareness and into language itself the unobvious and the unexpected.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Wherever I go throughout the world - no matter the language, no matter the culture - I thrill to hear the testimonies of the Saints.

Cam Gigandet

The future doesn't matter if I don't enjoy what's going on right now.

Channing Tatum

In all the movies I'm in love with someone in my head. There's always love in a film somewhere. It doesn't matter even if it's an action movie.

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.

Carla Bley

I like chords that are very lush with all the lush parts taken out.

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.

Ludacris

I'm going to continue to keep music number one.

James Young

So, maybe you don't see blues so much in Styx's music but it is definitely part of Tommy's early music.

Augusten Burroughs

There's never a false note in a Berg novel.

Grant Tolbert

When he left, he said he was going to take the notes straight to his engineer.

Edgar Allan Poe

If you are ever drowned or hung, be sure and make a note of your sensations.

Renee Fleming

An interpretation exists because of what we find between the notes.

Thelonious Monk

I played the wrong wrong notes.

Thelonious Monk

There are no wrong notes; some are just more right than others.

Mark Dindal

I said to everyone, you can send any notes you want, but notes that speak to this, what the movie's really about, those are the ones which are going to be helpful.

B. B. King

Notes are expensive... spend them wisely

Bernadette Peters

It was like being high when you reach those high notes.