Famous Quotes & Sayings

Renny Harlin

I loved cutting together simple commercials about margarine or soft drinks - all kinds of silly products - but I tried to make the commercials different.

Rick Danko

Getting older, I realize I've had a very fortunate life. I've had a budget that's allowed me to do just about any silly little thing the mind could conjure up, and I'm still alive and here.

William Shenstone

I have been formerly so silly as to hope that every servant I had might be made a friend; I am now convinced that the nature of servitude generally bears a contrary tendency. People's characters are to be chiefly collected from their education and place in life; birth itself does but little.

Richard Dawkins

'What is the purpose of the universe?' is a silly question.

Sasha Grey

My goal is to be myself, and to challenge stereotypes, and to follow the rules, and break them, and make new rules. It's not about doing something that's already been done. That would be silly.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

Being an actor gives you a chance to play all kinds of roles, very moving and dramatic on one project, silly and girlish on another. That's the most interesting thing out this business, you get to keep reinventing yourself.

Will Thomas

Obama has been attacked repeatedly for not wearing a flag pin, with Republicans claiming that his patriotism is in question. It's all a bit silly.

Will Smith

I've always been a jokester. The things I got in trouble for, when I was little, was always about making a joke or setting up a prank or being silly when I should be paying attention.

Virginia Woolf

Peter would think her sentimental. So she was. For she had come to feel that it was the only thing worth saying – what one felt. Cleverness was silly. One must say simply what one felt.

Ricky Fante

I wrote the song in tribute ... at the time she was murdered,

Dan Hill

Songs sometimes are so connected to the sociology of the time.

Robert Cray

Normally when we go in and write the songs we write, we think about doing a cover, but never a covers record. That would be, for us, a concept. We don't want to have a concept!

Rob Sheffield

The Word 'Repulse': I hate this word. I believe 'repel' is a perfectly good word, and 'repulsion' is the noun, as well as the title of an excellent Dinosaur Jr. song. A compulsion compels you; an impulse impels you. Nobody ever says 'compulse' or 'impulse' as a verb. So why would you ever say 'repulse'? This word haunts me in my sleep, like a silver dagger dancing before my eyes. Renee looked it up and I was wrong. But I still kind of think I'm right.

Rob Sheffield

A song nobody likes is a sad thing. But a love song nobody likes is hardly a thing at all.

Rob Sheffield

Thanks to the greatest invention of recent years, the MP3-playing alarm clock, I can now choose the song that wakes me up in the morning.

Rob Sheffield

Our lives were just beginning, our favorite moment was right now, our favorite songs were unwritten.

Rob Sheffield

If all music did was bring the past alive, that would be fine. You can hide away in music and let it recapture memories of things that used to be. But music is greedy and it wants more of your heart than that. It demands the future, your future. Music wants the rest of your life. So you can't rest easy. At any moment, a song can come out of nowhere to shake you up, jump-start your emotions, ruin your life.

Rob Zombie

A big mistake a lot of filmmakers do is they like, "We cut our whole ending to a Rolling Stones song." You better find a new ending then, because unless you have $2 million for that song.

Joey Miller

I was looking at these guys on TV last year. Now I'm one of them. It's really awesome.

Tim Hanson

Jake is a very talented freshman. Our varsity lineup has some guys that will be running varsity for the first time, so it will be interesting to see.

Bill Dougherty

John Brennan is a very smart guy - no nonsense, abrasive, sharp, provocative.

Mike Bobo

Joe T. is a smart guy and he's going to prepare and he's going to be ready to play, ... We've just got to get him to relax and not feel like he's got to make things happen for us to win. It's a big game. When you walk up in the stadium, you can tell it's a special environment.

Jeff Tedford

Joe is going to be our guy and we're going to go with it.

Joe Girardi

J.J. seems to be the guy that when he pitches, we win. He's always down in the zone.

Josh Humlie

I actually wrestled the No. 1 seeded guy first. I didn't realize he was the No. 1 seeded guy until I after I wrestled him. The brackets were messed up, so I didn't know.

Jeff Gordon

He was a hard guy to hate even when we were trying to get a contract.

Ed Orgeron

He was 99 percent of our focus, ... He's the key to the game. You're not going to completely stop a guy like that.