Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kurt Vonnegut

This is a tale of a meeting of two lonesome, skinny, fairly old white men on a planet which was dying fast.

Jan Egeland

In the Horn of Africa now, there are tens of thousands dying from the extreme vulnerability they are living in.

Ann Brashares

Maybe it didn’t matter if you were a world-famous heartthrob or a painful geek. Maybe it didn’t matter if you friend was possibly dying. Maybe you just got through it. Maybe that was all you could ask for.

Alfred Jarry

I am dying. Please ... bring me a toothpick.

Don DeLillo

The writer is driven by his conviction that some truths aren't arrived at so easily, that life is still full of mystery, that it might be better for you, Dear Reader, if you went back to the Living section of your newspaper because this is the dying section and you don't really want to be here.

Chuck Palahniuk

She's so thin she's either dying or rich.

David Cronenberg

So not only can you not imagine dying, you can't really imagine existence before you were born.

Thomas Browne

Let the fruition of things bless the possession of them, and take no satisfaction in dying but living rich.

Susan Griffin

Far more frightening than the thought of dying was the experience of erasure already occurring in my life. My fear of becoming someone who did not count.

Robert McCullum

The start of the second half is probably the worst we've opened the second half all year." ()

Jay Frye

The score right before the half was a huge key. We got a turnover late and were able to take it in for a score just before the half. That was a turning point, no doubt.

Mike Herakovic

It was ugly the first half of the game. It was ugly, but it was a win.

Jane Austen

Half the sum of attraction, on either side, might have been enough, for he had nothing to do, and she had hardly any body to love." (of Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth, Persuasion)

Miley Cyrus

I love my music so much, and I love what I'm doing so much that that has become my other half-rather than another person.

Boris Kodjoe

We shoot 12 to 14 hours a day. To do all that physical stuff yourself, you have to be on a nutritional plan. I have six or seven meals a day. I eat every hour and a half, and make sure it's all clean. I have absolutely no sugar at all.

John Grisham

Wrongful convictions happen every week in every state in this country. And they happen for all the same reasons. Sloppy police work. Eyewitness identification is the most - is the worst type almost. Because it's wrong about half the time. Think about that.

Rodney Vigil

We had a strong second half offensively and defensively.

Joel Brown

We've had trouble playing two halves all year long. We put one half together and we can't put the next one together. Tonight we got those two halves right.

Liu Peng

During the Games, the test laboratories will work for 24 hours a day, and all the staff are under training now.

Kate Thompson

I find it very difficult to say no when I'm in Ireland. You do end up going around doing lots of events and things and not getting work done, and it's not just a question of having hours at the desk.

Elizabeth Lewis

This was the only hurricane where we had less than 24 hours notice it was going to hit,

Douglas Adams

Well the hours are good...' ... 'but now you come to mention it, most of the actual minutes are pretty lousy.

Sonia Sotomayor

I am a New Yorker, and 7:00 A.M. is a civilized hour to finish the day, not to start it.

Tana French

I wasn't sure I could make it through another hour of his company without throwing my stapler at his head.

Michael Cunningham

But there are still the hours, aren't there? One and then another, and you get through that one and then, my god, there's another.

May Sarton

Now there is time and time is young.O, in this single hour I liveAll of myself and do not move.I, the pursued, who madly ran,Stand still, stand still, and stop the sun!

Ben Crane

Get it? I'm the one who started the joke! I was walking down the last fairway with Kenny Perry , and it had been a long day, and I go, 'You knew I was slow, but you didn't know I was nine hours slow!' At first he was just flummoxed. But then he said, 'Don't sell yourself short. You weren't slow today.' I went, 'Thank you.'

Michael Cohen

People responded to Sandy. At public hearings, which can be so contentious, people would listen to Sandy's presentation and stand up and cheer.

Chris Sullivan

I've been listening to them my whole life.

Denise Bishop

You're sitting here listening to everything we have to say, but there's nothing we can do about this.

Brett Ratner

Listening is harder than just acting. Listening is the hardest part.

George William Russell

It is true the orator may make a myriad replica of his own passion out of those who listen to him. But that does not prove he is right or they are not fools.

Carla Bley

Listening is more important than anything else because that's what music is. Somebody is playing something and you're receiving it. It is sending and receiving.

Alan Vega

Lately I've been listening to some classical music again, some jazz.

Austin Carlile

To me, music is emotion and if when you're listening to it and it doesn't make you feel that, then it's not music.

Barbara Bush

You get nothing done if you don't listen to each other.

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 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

Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

I can spend the day without writing or reading, but I can't spend a day without listening to music. I listen to music on a Walkman; it's from the 19th century, I know.

Charles Kingsley

Music is a sacred, a divine, a God-like thing, and was given to man by Christ to lift our hearts up to God, and make us feel something of the glory and beauty of God, and of all which God has made.

James Young

So, maybe you don't see blues so much in Styx's music but it is definitely part of Tommy's early music.

James Young

Seeing our VH-1 Behind the Music shows just how dysfunctional some of the moments of the band were but this new line-up has put the fun back in dysfunction.

James Young

But there are rock and roll fans all over this continent and all over the globe, really, and we're just set at marking the planet with Styx music until the day we die.

John Jones

It wouldn't have taken much to just pop over, would it?

Laura Merritt

We shut them down and another one pops up.

Allen Ginsberg

It's time we did something to assert ourselves. After all, we do comprise 10% of the population.

Clayton Christensen

It's like in biological evolution: The population will evolve, even though individuals can't. The same thing happens in the corporate world: The population of business units within corporations evolves, even though individual business units can't. That's because the capabilities of business units reside in their processes and their values, and by their very nature, processes and values are inflexible and meant not to change.

David Dreier

We know it may not be the single most popular thing, but it's the right thing to do.

Stewart Udall

In a region with a growing population, if you're doing nothing, you're losing ground.

Michael Moore

You know he's [George W. Bush] there illegally. You know he was not elected either by the popular vote or by the vote in Florida.

Elizabeth Kaiser

I was praying that it would go out. For a while I thought it was just going to be a big pop up.

Ernst Engel

The poorer is a family, the greater is the proportion of the total outgo which must be used for food... The proportion of the outgo used for food, other things being equal, is the best measure of the material standard of living of a population.

Michelle Martin

You really feel like you are a part of 'The Sound of Music' when you are here.

Desiderius Erasmus

Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known. This was the sound conclusion of the Academic sceptics, who were the least surly of philosophers.

Brian Eno

I enjoy working with complicated equipment. A lot of my things started just with a rhythm box, but I feed it through so many things that what comes out sounds very complex and rich.

Aesop

One story sounds good until another is told

Andy Summers

If I'm playing a violin thing, for instance, I tend to respond to that sound with the way I finger.

Aneurin Bevan

He seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle.

Simon Pegg

Happiness is where you start from rather than where you go. God, I sound like Yoda.

Renata Adler

Do you realize how angry you sound?” must be one of the most infuriating questions in the language.

Tom Odell

The sound is very much always in my head, I have to get the sound out of my head onto the recording.