Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Bowie

He's a friendly and caring guy whom I really respect for his knowledge of touring. Not to mention my favorite brand of coffee is consistently backstage every night.

Jason Alexander

I went into performing for the community. Being backstage with your company of fellows is the best part of working in live theater. That energy, that combined focus, the synergy - it's addictive.

Gary Sinise

He's blasting away, rocking out. Something happens backstage just outside the theater, and of course we find a dead body out there, so we've got to start investigating.

Kristian Bush

I spent 25 years clearly understanding that I'm not gonna meet Bono or the Edge. But then it happened at the Grammys when we were all backstage and I just about fell out of my shoes.

Misty Haven

In the earlier days when I was a manager, when introducing myself to workers, since some of them knew I was with Mike, I was being ignored. Completely ignored -- pushed aside; I was basically his shadow. What we decided to do is go into the wrestling business and establish ourselves as individuals, as two separate workers. A lot of people will notice that we are hardly ever together in the backstage environment, mainly because he wants to do his own thing and I want to do my own thing. That helps me establish myself as a worker -- he's his own person, I'm my own person.

Carl Reiner

Can someone please explain to me what that was all about? I was backstage and didn't hear one iota of humor during that entire presentation.

Bonnie Raitt

I'm completely thrilled to be a part of this. I have to say, this is the highlight of the summer for me. This is one of a kind and long overdue. It's the best vibe I've ever seen backstage and onstage as well.

John Corbett

I hung out at Uncle Phil's Club Madrid nightspot where my mother was a waitress and my grandmother sold hot dogs and sauerkraut. I got to go backstage at the Jamboree and watch the show and then visit with musicians who stopped by the club later.

Jodi Benson

Connecting with the kids is a great joy for me. I love meeting them backstage or at a signing event. I am overwhelmed when I meet kids who struggle with terminal illnesses.

Ben Dogra

Jon enjoyed the visit with the Jets. They did an incredibly good job with the visit. They got his attention. But his comfort level is in Philadelphia. Going into this I thought it would be between money and comfort level, in that order. Comfort level clearly proved to be more of a factor. He just decided signing with the Eagles was what he wanted to do.

Bob Dorfman

He did everything right in Turin. He was even crying on medals stand. He lived up to the hype. He's clearly comfortable on camera. You'll see a lot of him.

Gene Russianoff

He clearly still harbors a very personal grudge from the December negotiations. And that doesn't augur well for the near future.

John Remington

He clearly does not want to get in the middle of the parties and leave them worse off than they were. He will do everything he can to coerce a final settlement.

Andrew Steer

There are still 60,000 people in tents today and that's clearly unacceptable a year after the tsunami.

Mario Monti

What will growth policy have to look like in a fiscally compacted Europe? Clearly any illusion of budget stimulated growth policy will have to go away.

Jim Calhoun

He's a four-year stay. He's been involved with championships and a national championship. He's made as many big three-pointers as any kid I've ever had. ... Rashad clearly has been a special player for us. He's a special kid.

Jeffery Veen

Good designers can create normalcy out of chaos; they can clearly communicate ideas through the organizing and manipulating of words and pictures.

Orrin Hatch

He should do it independently because that's the only way we're going to have ... a way around these conflicts of interest that clearly exist,

Hale Irwin

Jacques' story has touched me pretty deeply, the journey this young man has had, ... The responsibility to help him this week fell largely on my shoulders, and hopefully I did that.

Susan Tedeschi

I wrote 'You Need To Be With Me' when I was madly in love with this guy who just didn't love me. I fell in love with the idea of him and wanted to be together, ... I always thought we'd be together, but I guess it wasn't meant to be. He just got married this summer.

Carlos Fuentes

Kara's been kind of hovering between varsity and JV all four years. She was disappointed that she fell on beam, but I told her we didn't need her on beam. We needed her on bars.

Meir Soloveichik

Judaism, I would argue, does demand love for our fellow human beings, but only to an extent. 'Hate' is not always synonymous with the terribly sinful.

Edie Falco

I actually washed my window once, and it fell through-it was being held together by the dirt.

Bobby Hernandez

He didn't see anything, he got shot from behind. He fell to the ground.

Sophie Hannah

I was working as a secretary in Manchester and thought I would always do that. Then I got this letter offering me a two-year fellowship where I could write; they would pay me a salary and give me a flat to live in. It was heaven.

Danny Aiello

I fell in love with the most beautiful girl in the Bronx.

Q'orianka Kilcher

I just want to learn even more about my culture and about the Algonquin culture because I fell in love with Pocahontas and the Algonquin tribe.

Tony Martin

I think it's accurate. I think they've locked themselves into a situation where they're gonna be stuck for quite a while.

Randy Ready

Guys missed some pitches to hit. In the last two weeks, we really haven't. That's gonna happen.

Jeffrey Benton

I think it's gonna be a catalyst-driven week,

Cliff Politte

I think you kick a guy in the butt in a tough situation, it's only gonna make it worse. You shouldn't go out there and say, 'You (stink), it's still a strike.' It's messing with a kid's head.

Brendan Bayliss

We try to make the music very dense. There are six people pulling in a lot of directions, so you're gonna get a lot of energy.

Mark Pavlik

I think we'll just keep spending time on the passing. As we go through April, that's what's really gonna settle out. I'm not sure anything is solid, settled, set in stone. I think we're trying to make sure we have all options available.

Joe Paterno

I think we're gonna be ready to play.

Daniel Jones

I want you to know that once I get over this problem, I know it will never be the same. She can know that this is not something that's -- not something that's gonna happen again.

Phillip Hilliard

I was just looking for anything to get the run in. I was relaxed because it was tied. Even if I don't get a hit, it's not like I was gonna lose the game.

Wesley Schultz

But the Grammys is just not something I can take too seriously. It would be a mistake to hinge my happiness on something so completely out of my control.

Tim Mead

He could remember things that happened 40 years ago better than you or I can remember what happened last year.

Diana Yates

What would have happened to Citigroup under a weaker operating environment?

David Cameron

Whatever happened to no reverse gear? Whatever happened to the historic turning point? If you keep turning it's not going to be very historic.

Frank Beamer

Whatever happened is unfortunate. I'm not happy about some of the things that happened in the first half. We'll leave it at that.

Carlo Colaiacovo

Whatever happened in the past, stays in the past. We're not going to look back on those games.

Donovan McNabb

Whatever happened in the past, hopefully it's over.

Chad Pennington

Whatever happened in Albany stays there. It happened so long ago that it's not in my mind anymore.

Henry Reiner

The people they were mad at weren't these people. They had nothing to do with anything. They happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time.

Sandy Smith

We've been told there'll be lots of surprises, ... to help and take pictures so they can see what happened when they were gone.

Dick Durbin

He said he spent more time worrying over and working on that decision,

King Krule

A lot of the time, I was unhappy as a kid, so I spent it, I guess, in a gray place.

Ernest Cline

I spent most of my childhood welded to my Atari 2600, until I got my first computer, a TRS-80.

Spike Jonze

After 'Where The Wild Things Are,' which was this big, long five-year project, I spent a year making small things.

Marc Warren

Apparently, if you live until 75, you'll have spent 25 years in bed, so it makes sense to have a decent mattress.

Ted Cruz

I've spent the past month in Washington, D.C., and it is terrific to be back in America.

Brian Dake

I spent a lot of time up there; I'd say all of it.

Jenna Morasca

I spent 39 days in the Amazon, and I could not even find a fish to catch.

Miriam Toews

I spent 18 years in a small Mennonite town in the middle of the Canadian prairies.

Teller

Magic's about understanding - and then manipulating - how viewers digest the sensory information.

Susanna Moore

The task of understanding the past is neverending.

Richard P. Feynman

The female mind is capable of understanding analytic geometry... The difficulty may just be that we have never yet discovered a way to communicate with the female mind. If it is done in the right way, you may be able to get something out of it.

Richard Whately

The word of knowledge, strictly employed, implies three things: truth, proof, and conviction.

Richard Baxter

It is as hard a thing to maintain a sound understanding, a tender conscience, a lively, gracious, heavenly spirit, and an upright life in the midst of contention, as to keep your candle lighted in the greatest storms.

Rick Riordan

My understanding of magic is fairly straightforward. Hit enemies with a sword until they’re dead. If they rise again, hit them again. Repeat as necessary. It worked against Set.

William Matthews

What lasting progress was ever made in social reformation, except when every step was insured by appeals to the understanding and the will?

Woodrow Wilson

Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.

Woody Allen

How the hell do I know why there were Nazis? I don't know how the can-opener works.