Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rebecca Rimel

Dr. Barnes really believed that this should be accessible to, as he said, the plain people.

Danny Arendt

Sales to the Arab market take place two or three times a year, and they sometimes, but not always, place considerable orders. For the time being we offer a good product at accessible prices, but the appreciation of the dollar (against the Brazilian Real) may pose a problem.

Joanna Scott

There are plenty of writers, past and present, from Shakespeare to Henry James to Lydia Davis, who test the limits of coherence and put pressure on current notions of accessible (and acceptable) narrative methods. To thrive and change and grow, any art needs this kind of pressure.

Matt Silverman

There are some that don't have a positive reaction to the word devil. There are some who don't have a positive reaction to a devil ray. What is a devil ray? If we make a change, it will be something that will be more accessible and appeal to everyone . . . or at least not drive people away.

Mona Williams

We are trying to make our plans more relevant, accessible and affordable.

Michael McDonald

We need to make sure that the live experience is as accessible to as many people as possible.

Troy Aikman

One of the big things I believe about why the sport is so (big) is how accessible the drivers are. Right up until the race, they're signing autographs. You would never get that close to an athlete in any other sport.

James Pendleton

Burns is committed to providing affordable and accessible health care to Montanans, and the reductions cited were to reduce Medicare overpayments, which were not benefiting Montana seniors.

Don Fuller

I feel that the design with the central island is appealing. It's easily accessible for customers, has a nice large counter area, and is completely surrounded by impulse items like candy and magazines.

Kris Alexander

As far as track meets, it's by far the best meet in the state.

Charles Bofferding

As engineers, we have a different perspective. If a company really wants to get its product to be the best in all areas, then it must listen to all sides. A union is the best vehicle to carry the engineers' perspective.

Cyle Hankerd

As a team we have to work together and play well. One day we don't throw strikes and another day give them the best opportunities. We just have to work together.

Charlie Bell

As CEO, I intend to maintain the discipline and focus that Jim put into place, ... The best way to pay tribute to Jim is in sticking with our plan to win.

Jeff Bingaman

As best as I can determine, the process is going to be fair, ... explained in some detail the various steps that they were taking to ensure that the bids were appropriately considered and the factors that needed to be given the greatest importance were in fact going to be given the greatest importance.

Gerald Grinstein

As Delta continues its transformation to become a more customer-focused airline, we are incorporating the best of Song into the best of Delta, ... Our new Song service will set the standard in transcontinental travel, making Delta the first choice for customers on these routes.

Brendan Shanahan

As crazy as this sounds, having the hockey people off for a year gave us time to step back and re-examine the game. ... And this may have been the best thing to happen for our game and our fans.

Reggie White

As a senior, she's given us more experience. She's a really good defender. She's able to (guard) the other team's best perimeter player. That's really helped us.

Jon Gruden

As a runner he has incredible vision, tremendous stamina. He has great competitiveness, and he can run with power. In my years of coaching, he is certainly the best ball-carry back I have been around.

Jane Jackson

The big thing is it's brought us closer to friends from 40, 50, 60 years ago. They're calling and sending notes.

Danny Thompson

People saw we had kids and they brought us a canopy and a tent,

Jill Soloway

Normally, I think the people you would use on your first film, it would be a real struggle to bring them with you onto your television show. I just brought every single person with and expanded my little indie film world.

Jay Rockefeller

Any line of questioning that has brought us too close to the White House has been thwarted, ... We have been undermined, avoided, put off and vilified by the other side.

Norv Turner

Some we brought on ourselves. Three times we had enough yards for a first down, and we had penalties that knocked us back, so that we were facing either first-and-20 or second-and-20. The environment we were in - a real good football team, and a team that can pressure the quarterback - we were playing into their hands.

Jeremy Rifkin

So my attorneys brought litigation in the U.S. federal courts. The judge ruled in our favor.

Clare Short

The US was pressing Chile, Mexico - enormous pressures were brought to bear. What's remarkable is that these countries didn't break.

Mike Timlin

That's how we have to play. We brought it down to the end of the season like we usually do. We've been fighting for first place all year long.

Kenneth Koch

Some of the French surrealists at the beginning of the war had come over to New York and they brought out this magazine. It was a big, glossy magazine full of surrealist things.

Ji-Hae Park

I would not want the limitations held by the name of a classical musician. I want many people to enjoy my music much beyond just classical music fans. I think the term, 'violinist,' keeps me distant from the audience. I want to communicate with them more.

Herbie Hancock

I was a jazz purist at the time, I had tunnel vision about jazz and classical music,

Joshua Bell

It's interesting about classical music that the more you hear something, the more you get to know a piece, the better and better it gets, period, which is just an interesting thing on it.

Lola Kirke

We have this idea of artists being on the fringe and being debauched and strange. I don't think that people who commit themselves to classical arts should be exempt from that.

Frances McDormand

It's a scary thing going into the workforce with a $50,000 debt and you've been trained as a classical theatre actor. There's always a depression in the theatre.

Birdy

I love Adele and Lykke Li. I also listen to classical music as well.

David Jones

People don't mind spending money on their homes and basement.

Yvonne Martinez

No one was at home at the time.

Maddie Ziegler

I usually get home from dance at 10 every night, and I'll watch TV for about 30 minutes, and then I'll go to bed.

Pierce Brosnan

I visit London several times a year. It is my home away from home.

Nick Harkaway

I wanted a pseudonym partly because I'm quite shy and private. I know that sounds ludicrous, but if I should be lucky enough to make a hit, I wanted to be able to shrug off the mantel of Nick Harkaway when I got home.

Sara Sheridan

I wanted to find something I could do at home. I sat down with a friend and made a list of all the things I could try, and one of them was writing a novel.

Carrie Burggraf

I wanted to come back for the last home meet (second weekend in February) and I qualified for the state meet.

Maira Kalman

The most inspiring objects are books. I have about 5,000 volumes in my home library. It's an unending source of visuals and ideas.

Jane Clayson

The most important job you'll ever have is in the walls of your own home.

Heidi Klum

Maybe he listened to what we'd been telling him.

Bob Davidson

One of the things we try to do (is) have people that try to listen, ... As our people sat and listened to her story - we realized (her) situation.

Don Harrison

I reviewed the budget, went to the workshops and listened to people, ... I have a problem with the budget.

Carly Simon

But when we listened to the radio, it was Bill Haley and the Comets or the Everly Brothers.

Jose Canseco

Proof Positive, I'm a very positive person and I've moved on.

Douglas Alexander

The style of politics that Damian McBride represents has been discredited, and Labour has moved on.

Jamie Friedman

The stock moved up pretty quickly, so we changed.

Otis Smith

You want me to tell you that moving Steve was big? I told you that when we moved him.

Anna Kendrick

When I was 12, I did this show on Broadway called 'High Society,' so we moved to New York for the run of that.

Darrell Fox

We already have a shooting range. I don't see where there's enough people (who would use another) that one needs to be moved into a community.

Jay Wright

You get past that first one and now we are in the tournament. We've moved on and I think that makes them feel better, that they can just go play basketball.

Juan Felipe Herrera

What I really had was stories, the oral traditions of my parents. We moved so much that that was really our encyclopedia. A dream world told to me from my parents in the living room.

David King

Let's just say we were pretty disappointed when Coastline Brewery moved downtown.

Struan Robertson

The BPI didn't want to sue its customers, but it will do to stop them stealing music.

Henry Lewis

The music, the dress, the color, the stage settings ? there's nothing in the world like it. The whole of Massachusetts should rush here, honestly.

Jeff Feuerzeig

The music he made in the '80s was being passed around the world like a secret handshake.

Maxwell

Soul music is soul music. It can be wrapped up in a neo soul package; it can be called hip-hop soul. But soul is soul, and it's been around; it will never go away.

Julie Kagawa

Some writers like to work in other places like coffee shops, but I can't - I'd end up people-watching. And if I were at a bookstore, I'd be reading. Sometimes I have some music on, but usually I like it quiet.

Jeff Tweedy

I've been buying instruments and musical gear for a long time.

Aretha Franklin

Being a singer is a natural gift. It means I'm using to the highest degree possible the gift that god gave me to use. I'm happy with that.

Brian Setzer

Rock & Roll is the physical thing that just comes out of you .. the other stuff you have to sit down and learn .. once you learn scales and chord progressions, you can make up your own versions

Boz Scaggs

I really just followed my musical instincts every step of my life.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Prior to the United Nations even being formed, Palestine was a country. But the right of the Palestinian people were trampled, and unfortunately, international organizations contributed to those rights being trampled.

Ted Eubanks

People travel for the experience. They want to try on your lives.

Michael White

People train for this all year like the Olympics.

Philip Hoffman

People thought they had me pegged because of the way I am, because of the way I talk, ... And they're always wrong.

Doug Myers

People think we're taking something away, but they've never been listed.

Worsie Gregory

People think we have nothing to offer. They'll be amazed.

Angela Leisure

People think they know him, but they don't. I see him only as my child.

Waris Ahluwalia

People think they have to give up things to make a difference to the world, but you don't have to.

Kay Bell

People think they have even more time, and they're putting it off even further.

Jane Hirshfield

The first poem in The Beauty holds a woman in Portugal in a wheelchair singing, with great power, a fado. I have never seen this or heard of it, the image simply arrived. But surely such a thing has happened. And it matters to me that it has, or could.

Jamie Lynn Spears

I'll probably do a lot of acting first, then go to singing, but I am going to definitely sing someday. So when I do start singing, buy my album!

Janis Joplin

I can't talk about my singing; I'm inside it. How can you describe something you're inside of?

Bruce Willis

Justin Timberlake is terrific in this film. I told him it's time to stop singing.

Linda Eder

Though it's a tribute to her, ... I'm not sitting there thinking 'How can I do it just like her' when I'm singing these songs.

Claude Debussy

The trouble with the opera is there's always to much singing.

Andrea Corr

I really love singing.

Andrea Bocelli

Singing provides a true sense of lightheartedness. If I sing when I am alone, I feel wonderful. It's freedom.

Amy Winehouse

If I heard someone else singing like me, I would buy it in a heartbeat.

Brett Ratner

I look for stuff that I'm passionate about.

Anthony Weiner

You've gotta stop making stuff up.

Art Spiegelman

There's a therapeutic aspect to all making, but the nature of working is to compress, condense, and shape stuff, not to just expunge it. It's not just an exorcism.

Benjamin Booker

Blind Willie Johnson is a pretty big vocal influence. He can be very harsh, like gargly, gruff vocals, but also just slip into some very delicate, vulnerable soft stuff. I like that combination.

Burton Rascoe

I am so constituted that I had rather read bad stuff than nothing.

Jamie Luner

I love playing the vamp, and I get sent out for a lot of that stuff, maybe because I do it well.

Conor McGregor

I don't know why anyone would want to do that politics stuff.

Breaux Greer

I could always throw stuff, starting with tantrums.

Bonnie Wright

In my family we've always been into ethical stuff and recycling.

Barbara Park

I was a good kid, but I was just very chatty. Teachers were rarely entertained, but occasionally a child was, which was enough for me. Everything was so urgent. I needed to say it immediately.

Azar Nafisi

I believe in empathy. I believe in the kind of empathy that is created through imagination and through intimate, personal relationships. I am a writer and a teacher, so much of my time is spent interpreting stories and connecting to other individuals. It is the urge to know more about ourselves and others that creates empathy. Through imagination and our desire for rapport, we transcend our limitations, freshen our eyes, and are able to look at ourselves and the world through a new and alternative lens.

Ayn Rand

We, Equality 7-2521, were not happy in those year in the Home of the Students. It was not that the learning was too hard for us. It was that the learning was too easy. This is a great sin, to be born with a head which is too quick. It is not good to be different from our brothers, but it is evil to be superior to them. The Teachers told us so, and they frowned when they looked at us.

Audie Murphy

Actual combat experience is the only teacher. You never come out of a skirmish without having picked up a couple of new tricks; without having learned more about your enemy...Total involvement with the war was the only thing that kept me alive and pushing.

Brenda Ueland

The only good teachers for you are those friends who love you, who think you are interesting, or very important, or wonderfully funny; whose attitude is: "Tell me more. Tell me all you can. I want to understand more about everything you feel and know and all the changes inside and out of you. Let more come out." And if you have no such friend,--and you want to write,--well, then you must imagine one.

Jan Karon

Paul said in the second epistle...the time is coming when people will not put up with sound doctrine...they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own desires, and will turn from the truth and wander away to myths.

Ben Goldacre

I'd like to submit to Bad Science my teacher who gave us a handout which says that 'Water is best absorbed by the body when provided in frequent small amounts.' What I want to know is this. If I drink too much in one go, will it leak out off my arsehole instead? Thank you. Anton.

Bryant H. McGill

Suffering is one of life's great teachers.

Charles Kettering

Modern psychology teaches that experience is not merely the best teacher, but the only possible teacher.. There is no war between theory and practice. The most valuable experience demands both, and the theory should supplement the practice and not precede it.