Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Mangold

John always said whoever played him, 'make sure they hold the guitar like they own it, that they don't hold it like it's a baby,'

Ryan Key

I think it's time for a face-melting guitar solo.

Will Ferrell

I want to make hip-hop that can use guitars and soul and jazz and just fuse it all together. And I want to make this whole new sound that's going to shock the world. Unfortunately, the masses didn't receive it.

Robert Smith

The very first concert I ever went to on my own was actually Rory Gallagher. In a one-month period in 1973 or '74, I saw him, Thin Lizzy and the Rolling Stones. I wasn't really a big Rory Gallagher fan, but I thought his guitar playing was fabulous. But Thin Lizzy, they were fabulous.

Ronnie Montrose

I shared guitars before I actually got one of my own and played a guy's Silver tone and played another guys Danelectro 12 string and it was at about age 17 that I actually started playing.

Ryan Cabrera

I started playing guitar kind of by accident.

Jonny Lang

I've probably gone a month or two without playing guitar, just because I've gotten so burnt on it touring all year or whatever.

Kurt Cobain

What people don't realize is that the so-called Seattle grunge scene grew out of several close-knit gourmet supper clubs - we would only pick up guitars to pass the time while our dishes were simmering, baking, boiling, etc.

Kurt Cobain

Out of all the guitars in the whole world, the Fender Mustang is my favorite. They're cheap and totally inefficient, and they sound like crap and are very small.

Man Ray

You don’t ask a writer what typewriter he uses.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

We are often miserable at our desk or typewriters, but not happy away from them.

Billy Collins

While the novelist is banging on his typewriter, the poet is watching a fly in the windowpane.

Allen Ginsberg

The typewriter is holy the poem is holy the voice is holy the hearers are holy the ecstacy is holy!

Thomas Pynchon

Some typewriters in Whitehall, in the Pentagon, killed more civilians than our little A4 could have ever hoped to.

Francine Pascal

I don't do rewrites. I put all the pages in a pile next to the typewriter.

Graham Greene

My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.

Rick Riordan

The metal blade hit her shoulder and passed cleanthrough her body as if she were made of water. HISSS!

William McDonough

We are proposing buildings that, like trees, are net energy exporters, produce more energy than they consume, accrue and store solar energy, and purify their own waste, water and release it slowly in a purer form.

Rebecca Stead

If you took every tear cried by everyone on earth on one single day and put them in a container, how big would that container need to be? Could you fill a water tower? Three water towers? It's one of those unknowable things. There has to be an answer, but we'll never know what it is.

Wangari Maathai

In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water, who fetch firewood, who provide food for their families.

Saint Basil

If, therefore, there is any grace in the water, it is not from the nature of water but from the Spirit's presence there.

Will Rogers

The public perceives there are problems with the water system, and with the efficiency of the system. We need some leadership and to provide expertise in the area of efficiency.

W. C. Fields

Say anything that you like about me except that I drink water.

Zaha Hadid

The beauty of the landscape - where sand, water, reeds, birds, buildings, and people all somehow flowed together - has never left me.

Zhuangzi

You will always find an answer in the sound of water.