Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rebecca West

I always have beauty around me, for I have but to go to my piano, and trace one of the million designs that have been made by my masters.

Regina Spektor

The piano is not firewood -- yet.

Tori Amos

I guess you go too far when pianos try to be guitars.

Vanessa Carlton

I tour with a piano, actually. Luckily I am able to hire people that deal with it completely and magically a piano appears on stage and then magically disappears when I leave

Vanessa Carlton

Plus, there were so many pianos in my house, so I couldn't really avoid it

Walter Russell

Your body is merely a machine made to express the thoughts that flow through you and nothing more. It is but an instrument for you to express your imagings just as a piano is an instrument for a musician to express his imagings. Just as the piano is not the musician, so, likewise, your body is not you.

Jools Holland

Without the piano, my life would be a disaster - nobody would hold me in any regard. It's the thing that saved me.

Henry Hazlitt

To try to cure unemployment by inflation rather than by adjustment of specific wage-rates is like trying to adjust the piano to the stool rather than the stool to the piano.

George Gershwin

Look at the piano. You'll notice that there are white notes and black notes. Figure out the difference between them and you'll be able to make whatever kind of music you want.

Richard Owen

That the variability of an organism to a certain extent is a constant and certain condition of life we admit, otherwise there would be no distinguishable individuals of a species.

Richard Jenkins

A Western would be good. I'd love to do a Western.

Richelle Mead

I'd never expected my first time to be in a cabin in the woods, but I realized the place didn't matter. The person did. With someone you loved, you could be anywhere, and it would be incredible. Being in the most luxurious bed in the world wouldn't matter if you were with someone you didn't love.

Will Cuppy

[Footnote:] Pliny the Elder perished in 79 A.D. when he refused to flee from the great eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, insisting that everything would be all right. It wasn't.

Salman Rushdie

If there were Israeli attacks on Iranian nuclear facilities, it makes it certain there would be a reprisal attack against the United States at some point.

Salman Rushdie

The only thing worse than a bad review from the Ayatollah Khomeini would be a good review from the Ayatollah Khomeini.

Wangari Maathai

It would be good for us Africans to accept ourselves as we are and recapture some of the positive aspects of our culture.

Tony Stewart

If I died right now, my life would be complete.

Rodney Carrington

I thought comedy would be the hardest thing I could do, and if I could do that, I could do anything.

David Walker

responding to floods and other natural disasters by FEMA.

Valerie Plame

the greatest strategic disaster in United States history.

John Livingston

The food that we are sending out for the disaster response is food that we would normally distribute here to the food shelves and people of Minnesota, ... We're hoping that people in the state will step up and help us replenish those supplies.

Emile M. Cioran

The capital phenomenon, the most catastrophic disaster, is uninterrupted sleeplessness, that nothingness without release.

Drew Peck

It's not a disaster. But it's just not good enough to rally the stock.

Nizam Idris

It's not a disaster because you know this sector (pharmaceuticals) is very volatile. It's not a trend.

Lixion Avila

This is a very large hurricane, a very powerful hurricane. Wherever you have the eye of this system, you are going to have a potentially catastrophic disaster there. This is the worst-case scenario for a hurricane.

Gene Poston

Nothing was the same -- just like any disaster.

Rob Stevenson

The need for this just doesn't go away because of a natural disaster.