Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bruce Springsteen

See, I was nine years old when I saw Elvis on 'Ed Sullivan', and I had to get a guitar the next day. I stood in front of my mirror with that guitar on. . . and I knew then that's what had been missing.

Kenneth Blackwell

And what I've told people today is that Elvis is dead, and I'm not gonna fret over Jesse Jackson's misinformation and confusion.

Brian Billick

Elvis was very interested and wanted to go out of his way to get a familiarity with me, and me with him,

Jerry Leiber

Elvis was incredibly cooperative. He would try anything. He wasn't a diva, no prima donna. When it came to work, he was a workhorse.

Jack Soden

Elvis sells all over the world, and that's where the real opportunity for growth lies for us, to take more of Elvis and Graceland out to the world,

Mike Pierce

Elvis is an icon in Nevada in his own right. It is a very unique day. How often do you get to see Elvis on skis?

Grayson Robbins

We're planning a tournament to take place during the Elvis Presley Festival. We hope it's going to be one of our larger tournaments, since it happens during the festival.

John Varvatos

Music and fashion have had a kind of incestuous relationship since the Fifties. It started with people like Elvis Presley and pop icons like James Dean. Then it exploded in the MTV days. Now, with the Internet, it's instantaneous.

Mike Albert

My goal is to be friends with Elvis fans; not to make them my fans, but to make them my friends and know that I respect Elvis for what he was. I'm just pretending to be Elvis a little bit.

Larry Shyatt

Jo really exploded in the last nine or 10 games.

Brad Schmitt

Offensively we had runners on all game. But, we couldn't get that key hit until we exploded for 5 runs in the sixth inning.

John Porto

We had played some tough games lately and this one, where our offense just exploded when we really needed, was way overdue.

Nikki Tartaglia

We just took it to them and got them in foul trouble. We got some big three's from Jacqueline and some big shots from Sara. We just exploded on offense and were patient.

Audrey Guskey

Online shopping just exploded this year. People are now finally comfortable with online shopping -- it finally happened.

Hoagy Carmichael

This exploded in me almost more music than I could consume.

Paul Ballew

Truck sales were just phenomenal. They just exploded like nothing I've ever seen before.

Kate Bosworth

The fashion world feels more normal to me when I'm with them.

Marshall Cohen

Like Nike, Adidas also needed a better fashion fit and Reebok provides that.

Ryan Lochte

I want to design my own clothing line. I'm very into fashion. It's something I really want to focus on when swimming is over.

Ryan Lochte

I'm big into fashion, so after swimming, when I hang up the Speedo, I definitely want to get into fashion and start designing my own clothing line.

Rose Byrne

I see some of the clothes from the '90s is back in fashion. That really freaks me out because that's when I grew up.

Tyga

I never knew that I would be actually designing clothes or as into fashion as I am now.

Samuel Pepys

And it is a wonder what will be the fashion after the plagueisdoneastoperiwigs, fornobody will daretobuy any haire for fear of the infectionthat it had been cut off the heads of people dead of the plague.

Vera Wang

Fashion offers no greater challenge than finding what works for night without looking like you are wearing a costume.

Vera Wang

A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.

Robert Stack

These are icons to be treasured.

Juliette Binoche

It's never been my purpose to become an American icon, or more famous or richer.

Jonathan Lethem

For those whose ganglia were formed pre-TV, the mimetic deployment of pop-culture icons seems at best an annoying tic and at worst a dangerous vapidity that compromises fiction's seriousness by dating it out of the Platonic Always, where it ought to reside.

Corazon Aquino

I am not an icon of democracy. You are all, collectively, the icon of democracy.

Corey Feldman

I'm more than an actor. I'm an icon, an industry.

Amanda Hocking

Self-publishing is great, but I don't want to be an icon for it, or anything else.

Steve Carell

It's not a master plan to do every remake and every recreation of icons. It's just what I've been hired to do.

Tom Hollander

I'm not Welsh and I didn't know that much about Dylan Thomas , and I saw that he's a huge icon of Welsh-ness.

Sonam Kapoor

I am considered an icon at the age of 20 when people like after 40s or after they die are considered icons. It's just amazing!

Branford Marsalis

I think that one of the problems that jazz has is that it's so incestuous that it's starting to kill itself.

Rob Johnson

James has been in that situation before, so I knew he was going to step up for us.

Bob Bryan

He's kind of laid back but James pulls off his share of tricks.

Pryce Underwood

I thought we couldn't win without James in there. He is our big guy, and we were a little out of sync without him.

John Heard

Lauren Bacall, James Garner, and Jack Lemmon - they're all gone now, but I was so impressed by them.

Sally Kirkland

I didn't go to college, not that I don't think people should, but I didn't because I was Off-Broadway when I was 17, with James Earl Jones.

Ursula Andress

I mostly gave away what I had from the James Bond movie.

Andy Serkis

If James Franco's wearing a costume, and I'm wearing a motion capture suit, we don't act any differently with each other because of what we're wearing. We're embodying our roles.

Ricky Carmichael

I'm not settling in, the points are too close. James (Stewart) is obviously riding really well.

Orlando Bloom

I want to play James Bond - are you kidding me? I'm putting my name in the ring!

Rob Sheffield

The 2000s were the time when bromance became a kind of love that dared to speak its name. As a high-water mark of bro culture, nothing can ever top the MTV series 'Bromance,' with Brody Jenner and his search for a new BFF.

Ozzy Osbourne

MTV made a huge impact. Heavy rotation took you from selling 1m albums to 20m albums, and that meant a lot of dough.

Nick Rhodes

MTV didn't exist in 1980, but by 1982, it had gotten to be a force to be reckoned with.

Nafisa Joseph

I didn't want to get into acting. I was very happy doing MTV, it took up my time, I was content.

Leonard Slatkin

I'll know I'm reaching the total American market when I'm asked to do a video for MTV.

Prince

The Internet's completely overThe Internet's like MTV. At one time MTV was hip and suddenly it became outdated. Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers and that can't be good for you.

Mike Judge

They say it figures MTV would do such a vulgar, awful, horrible show and they completely miss that it's satirizing the people who watch MTV.

John Frusciante

I don't want to be on the radio. I don't want to be on Mtv.

Ty Segall

Any reality-TV show on MTV is gonna be fake and stupid.

Ken Hill

Music is about textures as well as melody.

Ken Hill

People don't have fun making music all the time.

Shamir

I was inspired to make music since I was 7 because my aunt is a songwriter.

Swae Lee

I write a lot of rhymes, but I don't really end up using them a lot of times, and I end up just freestyling. I like to write music, though, more than I like to freestyle, to be honest.

Andrew Lack

has got two revenue streams: one from our music and one from the sale of his iPods.

Steve Earle

Music was very influential on me as a kid.

James Blake

I think the music that you make, often it's even better if you identify with other people.

Brooks Yang

We talk about music and how we got involved.

Winnie Holzman

I think we put on a real old-fashioned musical in some ways,

Kay Redfield Jamison

Moods are complicated and very much a part of who we are. People would be very boring without them.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

H. Hart

I would try to put more people on the road without doing any more hiring.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Jeff Palmer

Just watching the news, seeing what those people are going through, touches me,

MC Hammer

I think it is a shock to people to find out that MC Hammer is a super geek.

Stephen Graham

I adore my job. I think I'm one of the luckiest people out there. I've worked hard, but I get to mess about every day - that's how I see it.

H. Hunt

He used to laugh. He'd get people to do it and not tell them what was going to happen.

Graham Elliot

I do take pity on some of the people that have to work with me.

Roger Ortmeier

He was battling. He was throwing strikes and he had a lot of pop on his fastball. He was locating it really well.

Grant Hill

It wasn't popular for college athletics to embrace Title IX.

Will Wright

I think the primary thing that's made the Sims popular is that they're accessible,

Alex Walker

I thought that one was a pop up.

Vance Havner

Popularity has slain more prophets of God than persecution ever did.

Robert Fitzgerald

One should indeed read Pope with his notes available, in the Twickenham edition possibly, to see what a vast amount he did understand about Homer.

Saul Williams

Half of the popcorn sh-t that's out there, we know it's popcorn. But we're like, "It's my guilty pleasure." I feel like we have more guilty pleasure than actual f - kin' pleasure.

Samantha Bond

If I pop off and do something drastic, everyone's going to realise because they know I'm 50. Anyway, middle-aged women are sensational.

Lynne Black

Our position right now is that this is not an appropriate program and population to put in a heavily populated two-square-mile village.

Jack Roush

It all starts with my relationship with my sponsors,

Steve Harvey

I'm not a relationship expert. I'm an expert on manhood.

Katrina Kaif

I think what you learn from relationships is that they are unpredictable.

Richard Owen

The relationship between a Russian and a bottle of vodka is almost mystical.

Richelle Mead

See? Things are already looking promising.

Rose Macaulay

Women have one great advantage over men. It is commonly thought that if they marry they have done enough, and need career no further. If a man marries, on the other hand, public opinion is all against him if he takes this view.

Roger Enrico

The soft stuff is always harder than the hard stuff.

Whitney Cummings

I feel like, in a lot of shows where the woman is in charge, the woman is this ball buster and the guy is sort of weak and spineless. And that's never been my experience in a relationship. I think it's much more interesting that the guy is the boss. And there are stakes.

William Congreve

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Ken Starr

I also know that there's a time and a season, and I think that time, had there been one, has long since passed.

Michael Hayes

He's crazy. He's always been like that, since we were 13, he's been the same way.

Mike Donato

He's a thoroughbred. We have worked out together since our first year here.

Roy Harper

I was determined if I was going to become a superstar it would be on my terms. I've had that ethic since the beginning.

Shane Valdez

I think that's the first time since I've been here that we had everyone qualify.

Asaf Shariv

I don't know about anything since then that is new.

Matt Kiefer

He had a long rehab. Ever since he could play (again), he has been a leader. A vocal leader.

Samuel Smiles

The truest politeness comes of sincerity.

Zane Grey

These critics who crucify me do not guess the littlest part of my sincerity. They must be burned in a blaze. I cannot learn from them.