Famous Quotes & Sayings

Turkish Proverb

A twig is bent while it is green.

Steve Beuerlein

I've never had an injury like this. My hand was pinned under me. I felt terrible. I felt like my whole finger was bent back, which we found it was.

Michio Kaku

In Einstein's equation, time is a river. It speeds up, meanders, and slows down. The new wrinkle is that it can have whirlpools and fork into two rivers. So, if the river of time can be bent into a pretzel, create whirlpools and fork into two rivers, then time travel cannot be ruled out.

Joss Whedon

I have abused language. I love it, and I abuse it... I don't write just to be clever. But sometimes I do. And if you don't have an understanding of the language, then the way in which it's bent doesn't actually register.

Joe Carnahan

I don't know if I'm the most religious guy, but I think I'm a spiritual man, and these are the things I think about a lot. In terms of the film, I think 'The Grey' is very much a non-denominational kind of film. I don't think it's something that relies on a particular religious bent to tell the story.

Phil Garner

He bent a little bit, ... but he certainly didn't break and he didn't give in.

Rebecca Romijn

He opened up the tent where I was actually literally bent over a chair getting my crack touched up and I turned around and said, 'don't come in here Bryan, you don't need to be seeing this!' and he said, 'ooh, you need some white wine.' He handed me a glass of wine.

Justin Vernon

For the most part, I've been influenced by black singers and singers I couldn't sound like. Whenever I tried to do a dark note or a bent note, I would just sound like Hootie And The Blowfish.

George H. W. Bush

I am not a Theodore Roosevelt man. In the end, he was very weak on private property, had a strong collectivist bent and saw government as an engine for good in a way that was fashionable.

Drake Bell

My first two records were influenced by the Beatles and the Beach Boys.

Tish Olszewski

I'm not sure what influenced him to go to VNI. Maybe it had something to do with his acting. In an undercover capacity, you really have to act.

David Steinberg

In comedy, looking back is more important than looking around at your contemporaries because they are too much influenced by the same time period as you are.

Alan Evans

We're all - especially myself - influenced by old-school music, but we all listen to some new-school stuff as well. Those influences of ours, we just soak them up, and they just come out in our writing and our performances.

Matt Elliott

It was very touching to get the note from the group.

Augusten Burroughs

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

Channing Tatum

I've cried a hundred times at The Notebook. My wife cries and that makes me cry, and she makes me promise we're going to die in bed together. I'm like: "That's weird, I don't want to talk about that."

Jami Attenberg

What I try very hard to do is have an hour or so in the morning when I leave the house and don't have my phone with me. I'll go sit in a cafe and read and handwrite in my notebook and not be facing a screen. My head will be clear. I will be able to hear myself think. Because honestly for the rest of the day it's just screens, screens, screens.

Daniel Handler

Young writers should read books past bedtime and write things down in notebooks when they are supposed to be doing something else.

Grant Tolbert

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

Bruce Chatwin

To lose a passport was the least of one’s worries. To lose a notebook was a catastrophe

Edgar Allan Poe

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

Abdullah Ocalan

Everyone should take note of the way I live, what I do and what I don't do,

Jasmine Guy

I have often felt bad that I am not great at any one thing. Like just a super super singer. Or the Gregory Hines of something

Bob Dylan

I'm not a folk-singer. I just sing a certain place.

Donald Fagen

I've never been comfortable as a lead performer, and I never wanted to be a singer, particularly.

Lucinda Williams

RB Morris is the greatest unknown singer-songwrit er in the US.

Melissa Benoist

I love female singer-songwriters!

George Strait

Sinatra, in my opinion, is possibly the greatest male singer of all time.

Jessie Ware

There are so many great singers out there.

Ruben Studdard

Dairy products are not good for a singer.

Tracie Bennett

I'm not a singer. I'm a musician, which is different.

Doc Sadler

We tried some things. A triangle-and-two, some zone. And they made some shots.

Phil Budervic

We tried not to do that, because that's kind of unfair. But when we need a basket...that's who we're going to.

Dirk Nowitzki

We tried a lot of things that game, but he's just that good.

James Simpson

We all tried to get the word out any way possible. Did it help? Who knows. For all we know, the chopper was already on the way. But it did get attention, and now they're safe.

Denny McCrotty

We tried to manufacture some runs, it was too much. That's kind of been our story for some kind now." ()

Kylan Robinson

She tried to make it, but it was too late.

Grant Hill

I would probably say yes. I don't see getting another surgery. We tried it. It didn't work. I don't see doing another.

Bob Enos

We've tried surgery, medications, and nothing has changed.

Tom Daschle

We've tried all the voluntary options, ... They have all failed. We know what we've got to do.

Eileen collins

I wish I could come back up here whenever I wanted.

Michael Redd

He pretty much just heckles me whenever we play.

Jay Watson

It's very nice. Whenever its available, we can play.

LaDainian Tomlinson

It is what it is, ... I just try to do what I'm able to do whenever I'm called. I can't go over there and try to holler at everybody, tell them, 'Give me the ball.' You know that's not me.

Alice Waters

Whenever I want to know how to cook something, I can't ask one chef - I have to ask six.