Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thom Yorke

I went to a boys' school, and I didn't realize that most guys join bands because they wanted to get girls. I was not really focused on that the way everybody else was.

Imelda May

I love festivals in that people seem to let their hair down more. I love that people run from stage to stage. I love going as a performer because you get to see band that you wouldn't necessarily go see.

Gerry Beckley

I do know many a band out there, because believe me, we've played with most of them, who are together because they have to be. They might not talk to each other offstage, but they realize they can earn a living by going out and keeping that music alive.

Gin Wigmore

I was in a band in Auckland, and I remember they all hated me. They had a big intervention. They said, basically, 'Gin, we think you suck.' I was miserable. I cried and cried. But looking back, that taught me about social skills and how to communicate with musicians.

Chino Moreno

A band like Depeche Mode would go out and record them hitting a trash can with a steel rod or something and recording it. And that would be one of their sounds of the drums. I love the creativeness of that kind of really raw sampling.

Chino Moreno

A big problem for me was opening for Limp Bizkit and Linkin Park, two bands that wouldn't exist if it weren't for me, straight up!

Keith Henson

The picture that emerges for humans in the previous several million years is that of a social primate living in small bands and villages.

Brittany Howard

Every time I'm home, it's like a vacation, but I've been playing in bands since I was 11. I guess our goals were always small goals. It started off my goal was just to be in a band. Then it was to have a drummer that would show up.

Brian Bell

Bands should definitely pay some dues and go through it, go to small clubs, build a fan base, all that kind of stuff, because it's not real, otherwise.

Yahoo Serious

We live in a time where government is not a leadership thing, it's more a business that's out there and running riot, so I guess the people have to go out there and say stuff.

Thorstein Veblen

It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost and at any risk to the rest of the community.

Todd Rundgren

Sometimes being a musician has little to do with viability and everything to do with survivability. Many musicians start out great, and they wind up out of the business in 10 years.

Thomas J. Watson

To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business and your business in your heart.

Imelda May

One thing that did get me into a lot of different types of music was when I was very young, the local record store went out of business and they were selling off all the vinyl. I remember going in - I was probably 16 or 17 and I'd just gotten a record player as a present. It was like hitting the jackpot: all these records for $3 apiece.

Ian Watson

People with a lot of money aren't in the business of throwing it away, and those paying footballers' wages, organising parking spaces for dead sharks, and even, dare I say it, buying iPads, are doing it because, for them, it's worth the money.

Gladys Knight

I know how hard it is to send two kids to college when you ain't got nothing. I know people may not think of me in that way, but this business gives you ups and downs.

Donald Trump

I had tremendous success in show business - star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. 'The Apprentice' was one of the most successful shows.

Zac Goldsmith

You know I don't really have faith in politicians - this is quite a sleazy business. But there is no law which says that all politicians will turn out to be scumbags.

X. J. Kennedy

To me, a poem that's in rhyme and meter is the difference between watching a film in full color and watching a film in black and white. Not that a few black and white films aren't wonderful. So are certain successful pieces of free verse.

Yann Martel

I like using animals because they help suspend my reader's disbelief. We have certain ideas about dentists. We don't have many ideas about rhinoceros dentists.

Imelda May

I'm not comparing myself at all to him, but I like the idea that Ernest Hemingway always wrote about certain things he knew, he knew the ins and outs, back to fronts of what he was talking about. I love that as an inspiration for myself, to keep it true to what you know.

Idris Elba

Now there are certain things you have to prepare - like dialect and special skills. But in the moment, interaction between two characters on the page doesn't need - for me, I don't need to prepare that.

Gad Elmaleh

When you succeed, at a certain point, you want to challenge yourself. Otherwise, you become boring. You become a has-been. It's not very interesting. I don't want to be this guy who has only succeeded in France. I could say, 'O.K., that's it; merci.' But I'm not interested in that.

Gail Carriger

I like certain subgenres within science fiction and fantasy, and one of those is urban fantasy, and another is steampunk.

Gilbert Hernandez

I grew up being really insecure and dumped on, over-feeling certain things in a negative way. So I thought I had something to prove.

Donald Trump

Owning great landmarks such as the Empire State Building or Trump Tower or the General Motors Building or the Plaza Hotel - there are certain just spectacular landmarks - it's an honor; it's really an honor.

Zadie Smith

Books are not brands. Some people are very willing to see themselves as a brand, but you can't be a certain type of writer to a certain type of person all the time. It will kill you.

James Adams

We've tested all of the products ourselves. Hemp is the Ferrari of clothing. It's not itchy like wool and it's warmer in winter and cooler in summer.

Stephanie Nichols

We have to turn it around very fast, because, of course, it's perishable, and we have to have the cooler space to keep it, and we have to distribute it really fast.

Casey Stengel

It ain't the water cooler that's getting you out.

David Stern

I think it's fun to have the discussions about Kobe. I think it's a terrific water cooler subject. Can he go for 100? Can he outscore a team by himself?

Bruce Pask

It connoted something like 'I'm a little cooler than you.

Kate Wood

Girls don't think about putting it together as a whole, but it works for them. If you do end up with a modern hairstyle and a more romantic or lacy dress, it's okay. It's the way girls mix and match fashion. They'll probably think it's cooler anyway.

Eric Haslett

We are also getting to the time of the year when the weather's getting cooler and you will see people from all schools getting better.

Anna Torv

Why can't a woman be a little cooler in her emotions and a little quieter and more repressed without it being a huge thing? I've actually always quite enjoyed that, to tell you the truth.

Tim Hudson

You feel like a stud out there when people swing and miss. As I've gotten older, I've preached to our young guys that strikeouts are sexy, but outs are outs, man, no matter how you get them. It's a lot cooler for me pitching in the seventh or eighth inning than it is going 5 1/3. Your manager likes it a lot more, too.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Small okra pods have a much more attractive texture than large ones, which, when cooked, can be gloopy, stringy and totally spoil a dish.

Idina Menzel

That's what I love about songwriting - that you can write something about your own experiences and think it's completely specific to you, and then people can take away a completely different meaning for themselves. I really love that. I think you've been successful at writing a song when it has a larger life than yourself.

Billy Graham

I spoke to a million in one service, in Korea, in Seoul. And that was the largest audience I ever have had.

Bonnie Tyler

My voice was left with its husky sound after surgery on large vocal nodules.

David Steinberg

The odd thing about comedy is that the more personal you are, the larger the audience.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Small aberrations in doctrinal teaching can lead to large and evil falsehoods.

Bette Davis

I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable... I suppose I'm larger than life.

Scott Nelson

We have also seen large operations that think hosted model makes more sense.

Robert Owen

We have very large classrooms, ... And we're already under-resourced ... the school is overwhelmingly poor.

Yoshihiko Noda

China's development is an opportunity for the international community, for Japan and for the Asia-Pacific.

William Shatner

If I'm given an opportunity to do something, I do it. Or else I fool around with it.

Frank Marshall

I'm a big fan of documentaries. I've always loved them, and I've just never had the opportunity or the time to make a feature.

Carrie Underwood

[When] opportunities present themselves, I take them. It's just how I roll!

Carl Sagan

Maybe it's a little early. Maybe the time is not quite yet. But those other worlds - promising untold opportunities - beckon. Silently, they orbit the Sun, waiting.

Ashton Kutcher

I guess I really haven't thought much about winning an Oscar, but if I had the opportunity, I'm sure I would like it.

Ashton Kutcher

Opportunities look a lot like work.

Arnold Rothstein

Some days I make 20 bets. Some days, I make none…so I wait, plan, marshal my resources. And when I finally see an opportunity and there is a bet to make, I bet it all,

Antoine Fuqua

I like the opportunity to make films.

F. Stone

The annuals, the yearbooks, brochures and programs of old plays and musicals...that all tells the story about what they did.

Ed Swanson

That was huge. The kid's got guts. She can be 0-for-6 from 3, and she's going to shoot that seventh shot the way she shot that first shot. She plays with confidence.

Greg Graham

That was a tough one. We made all the plays down the stretch. We got big stops, we just ran out of time.

Maryann Mitts

We just didn't connect. We didn't make the plays and they did.

Kelly Sears

We just didn't come up with the plays at the right times.

Brian Hill

We had our chances. That's what it comes down to in tight games. Who is going to make the shots, make the plays at the end of the game.

Rhett Bomar

We have the plays that will work and we know what to do.

Derrick Coleman

We were sluggish, and they just made more of the toughness plays than we did.

Wayne Gretzky

We've talked about this for it seems like months. When the team plays disciplined, plays smart and plays the way that they need to play to be successful, we have some success.

Todd Rundgren

I can't stand Beyonce. The way she sells it so hard, constantly. Everything is shoved right in your face. Like, you don't have the sense to make a judgment of your own.

Alan Lightman

No one ever expects poetry to sell.

Benjamin Graham

Never buy a stock immediately after a substantial rise or sell one immediately after a substantial drop.

Dennis Miller

Everybody has to sell out at some point to make a living.

Ben Feldman

If I don't buy it, I can't sell it.

Hal Holbrook

Success is no longer content. It's how it sells.

Chris Latham

Big Dell sells - Sharpie ... there's not much to say about Sharpie.

Daniel Drew

He who sells what isn't his'n, must buy it back or go to pris'n.

George Foreman

Learn to sell and you'll never starve

Jack Nicklaus

From a tournament standpoint that will be it for me,

Greg Gard

From our standpoint we have no say who we get.

James Baker

From our standpoint at least, it was a win.

Boomer Esiason

Nobody, from that standpoint, is any luckier than I am or will ever be any luckier than I am. It's great.

Jack Campbell

It's tough from the standpoint that it's even more time-consuming now than it was then.

George Moore

It's detrimental from the standpoint of wood supply inventory,

Gord Ash

There are some things from a strategic standpoint that we don't want to share, at least not at this point.

Dennis Wharton

The implications from a public-policy standpoint are enormous.

Wendell Berry

We're all complicit in the things we may be trying to oppose. I'm complicit in the things that I'm trying to oppose.

Ben Elliot

When you think about the word 'quintessentially', it's about trying to get to the very essence of something.

Becky G

It's really easy with makeup to look like you're trying too hard, like a clown. That's not what you want!

David Selby

Oh I am trying to remember, we would read the script after we did the show.

David Friedman

I'm trying to have everything that I put into the world be something that makes a difference in the way I want to make a difference.

Nayvadius Cash

I know I haven't always done things the right way. I'm just trying to reflect on how to make myself better, how to become a better man, a better father, a better person, a better artist.

Nick Carter

I'm trying to make myself better. But I don't regret anything that I've gone through, because it makes me who I am.

Cecelia Ahern

I guess when you’re trying to find all the parts of yourself, it’s difficult to be with someone who’s already fully intact.

Carrie Underwood

I try to stay away from carb-y things at dinner.