Famous Quotes & Sayings

H. Hunt

I think it's the one thing that people of all ages can benefit from year-round here in the county.

Scott Sanders

I didn't want to believe the 3.8 percent number published in the League's little research book. That wasn't the way we would sell this show. We deliberately went out and created a marketing plan that would appeal to audiences of all races, genders, ages - everyone.

Robert Pitofsky

I can learn the person's social security number, occupation, the names and ages of the person's spouse and children, names of the person's names, the value of the person's home and property taxes paid on that home,

Hans Blix

In the Middle Ages when people were convinced there were witches they certainly found them. This is a bit risky,

Jack Schwartz

In the Middle Ages and beyond, the target was the Court Jew who had the ear of the ruler; during the Inquisition it was the Spanish Jews who thrived after their conversion to Christianity.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

INSCRIPTION, n. Something written on another thing -- mostly memorial, intended to commemorate the fame of some illustrious person and hand down to distant ages . . . e.g., the name of John Smith, penciled on the Washington monument.

If you lived in the Dark Ages and you were a catapult operator, I bet the most common question people would ask is, ""Can't you make it shoot farther?"" ""No, I'm sorry. That's as far as it shoots.

Joe Wright

I read the novel and I was shocked by what an extraordinary piece of observation it was. How honest and truthful its writing was. I was also shocked by the ages of the characters (Elizabeth is 20 and Darcy is 28). It struck me that these were young people experiencing these emotions for the first time.

Marie Lu

In general, I write for ages 12 and up - although I've received emails from readers between the ages of seven and seventy. My books are science fiction.

Marnie Stern

I was listening to a lot of math rock-y type bands do lots of complex stuff and I couldn't figure out how they were doing it. Then I realized that sometimes they were finger tapping, so I started messing around doing it.

Randy Talley

I think it just shows the strength and depth of our music program. We've also had many bands that have performed, as well as orchestras. I think it's unusual a town the size of Odessa to have had so many groups invited to perform at this convention.

Terry Kratovil

Guys representing two bands came to his house one day. One came to the front door, another came to the back door. He went with the one that came to the front door.

Kelly Jones

I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. It reminds me of when we were just starting out because we would open for other bands in the beginning.

Aaron Stern

I think a lot of bands just, they sort of mark themselves as they can only go so far. They sort of screw themselves by setting the bar so low, that we can only go so far with music. Instead I feel like our band as people, our personalities, we kind of had the feeling we can do anything and go anywhere.

Michael Franti

I came up playing in both punk rock bands and hip-hop bands, and I found a more universal way of reaching people, especially with music that has a message to it.

Brian Ritchie

In the '80s, bands could just hop on the bus and travel for a few weeks; it was profitable. Now, everything's more expensive and you're not selling as many records because of Internet downloads.

Boy George

In the '60s everybody wanted to be the Beatles or the Stones, in the '70s there were bands everybody tried to emulate, like Led Zeppelin. And I think in the '80s you had lots of bands that had quite individual sounds, ... '80s Rewind.

Edsel Dope

I like to do it just because I like to go to places that a lot of bands normally wouldn't go, because I think the kids are super appreciative of it, and I think it's just a nice feeling to go somewhere where they don't get a lot of cool rock shows. That's why we did that run, and I'm sure we'll do stuff like that again.

Alex Cintron

I was in shock. I was happy, though. (Arizona) didn't have the confidence in myself. They were looking to trade me and I came here to Chicago. It is going to be good for me.

Melissa Arms

Kim couldn't have done that routine better. She had a great week at practice and came in very confident.

Natalie Peters

Kling has a good arm. She just came up and did what she does every day in practice.

Jay Lapidus

Joey did a good job of fighting. He did a good job of being aggressive. We have a lot of confidence in him and he came through for us today.

Robert Hammonds

Joel played with a lot of heart, tonight. He didn't score when we came over here last time. He really got after it and we have to have that out of our seniors.

Peter Doherty

Joe kept us in the game in the second period, then he came out in the third and gave up a couple of real beauties.

Ron Nelson

Josh was a little off tonight. He was probably trying a little too hard because he knows a lot of those guys. But Matt did exactly what he's capable of doing. He came in and gave us a good four innings.

Bill Brooks

Josh is still pretty young, but he gained so much experience from his dad. When I found out his dad came in I knew that would be a good team. His father reminds me of Charlie Wingate, who was a good trainer for me. That's a big plus for Josh.

Gary Walker

I talk to him all the time, ... I just tell him, 'That's what you came here for. You're a first-round pick. You're going to be fine.'

Graham Elliot

I'm a traditionalist, so for me, black coffee is cool.

Suki Waterhouse

Photographing friends means that there's a spontaneity to the images. I have a lot of love for my friends and family, and I love taking cool pictures of them.

Mike McCue

Having run Tellme before, one of the things I learned about running a big network is it's one thing to have some people not be able to get on the way they want to get on, but as long as people who are on the network are having a good experience, you're totally cool.

Rita Ora

Gwen Stefani's style and flow I just love. She is so cool to me!

Billy Pate

He's a great player and an interesting guy. He's not like a lot of guys, out there screaming and yelling. He's passive and quiet, one of the most humble guys you'll meet. He never loses his cool and always gives us a fighting chance.

Dan Dougherty

He's always cool under pressure. He's always been that way. He was trying to stay calm, and I was going crazy.

Grant Preston

He's got great composure. He's always cool and calm. He's been a great leader for this offense. That's a big part of the success he's had so far.

Jeffrey Toobin

He's got to let passions cool, a year at least until this trial goes forward,

Steve Nyman

He's got the coolest head. He's not a choker at all.

Paul Scheuring

I wouldn't be surprised if you saw something like 'Prison Break,' colon, and a few other words. But it's not going to be 'Prison Broke.

Anthony Zinni

I would say we're within a week or so. We're ready now but there are a few more pieces to put in.

Michael Lloyd

I would say up until the recent few weeks, it looked like CSX might be doing a better job, now the shoe may be on the other foot, ... I'd be more worried about CSX going forward than Norfolk Southern.

Greg Shivers

Katie did much better in that game. Her pitching has really picked up the last few games.

Ramesh Chennithala

Karat had first said that he would react after the full report of the CAG comes out. It is now a few weeks and there has been no reaction from him.

John Gibbons

I talked to him today about a few things and I hope he got the message. You see guys on the other side like (Derek) Jeter and (Gary) Sheffield get down the line.

Joseph Beninati

There are such very few large-scale opportunities in Greenwich.

Daniel Woodrell

I joined the Marines the week I turned 17, and that led to a few experiences that might qualify as adventure - eye of the beholder.

Dani Shapiro

The mind is a monkey, hopping around from thought to thought, image to image. Rarely do more than a few seconds go by in which the mind can remain single-pointed, empty.

Sitiveni Rabuka

I wouldn't be surprised if he gets it.

John McNeley

J.R. has such a quick release, it doesn't have to be a situation where he gets that open.

Joe Nemechek

I think it gets back to being in the right place at the right time and getting the right break.

Bob King

God's on the sign He made it happen, so He gets top billing.

Bill Foy

Going through that type of tournament at the regional really gets you prepared for the national tournament,

Dan Stephens

He's a load, I'm telling you. When he gets set, you can't move him.

Tim Casey

He's a key player for us. He gives us that second perimeter threat. ... When he gets an open look, he's very confident. He wants to take the shot.

Bobby Frankel

He's a real nice horse, and he tries hard. When he gets competition, he tries even harder. When horses come to him, he'll go on.

Calvin Brock

He's got big traps and a short neck, ... I've seen him take a good shot in sparring. I've seen him walk through some big punches by Jeremy Williams and Taurus Sykes. His stamina in the mid to late rounds is a big question. You also don't know how he's going to respond if he gets knocked down.

Greg Beratlis

I would've liked to have heard something out of his mouth. Yes, anything. A plea for his life or just his opinion on what went on over the last two years,

Mark Mandel

John is never at a loss for words. But when he heard the news, he was speechless.

Laura Stromberg

I think, in general, people just want a new, refreshing voice, and they're hearing that from Kinky.

Dean Acosta

He wanted to hear from everyone, no matter what they have to say.

Mannie DeCastro

He used a quote from the movie, 'For Love of the Game,' where the pitcher made it so he couldn't hear the crowd.

John Thompson

He didn't say, 'I'm going to kick down this wall. I've heard him talk about it, and he was honest about what he did. He said, 'I'm going to win this championship, and this is what I've got to play with.' He wasn't even thinking about anything else, but they never listened to him. So he's not the one perpetuating the lie. We all are. It's crazy.

Demetra Blevins

He kicked her all the way down the stairs. You could hear her hit every step.

S. Hughes

He just went AWOL (absent without leave) on us. I think he just lost his heart for the battle. But he was a lovely lad. They all seem to be lovely lads from Trinidad.

Crystal Merillat

He knew that was me talking if he heard that.

Ken Hill

Composers, like authors, have a lot in common. Our main goal is to connect with the listener emotionally.

Brian Humke

I think we want to listen to what people say; that's our job.

Nick Hornby

I think a lot of unpublished writers feel the same way. They're not getting anywhere, and nobody's listening to them. You do get frustrated.

Joe Gibbs

I will say this, we don't listen to him all the time or we'd be out here in our underwear.

Greg Simon

He's been visiting with people, first thanking them for all the work they did while he was in public service, and he's listening to people to see what they thought went right and wrong.

Jeanine Pirro

I don't even have to listen to the people because I'm a New Yorker.

Henry Garza

I can listen to an oldies station all day long,

James Steinberg

I am here mostly to listen and understand the perspective of all the parties involved,

Jeff Brown

He loved it. And there was nothing more wonderful than to watch him and listen to him play.

Shamir

I was inspired to make music since I was 7 because my aunt is a songwriter.

Steve Earle

Music was very influential on me as a kid.

James Blake

I think the music that you make, often it's even better if you identify with other people.

Brooks Yang

We talk about music and how we got involved.

Martina McBride

I was always into music. And none of my friends were really into music the same way I was. So it was just different. It was really not very well understood by most of my friends. They didn't tease me about it - they just didn't really relate.

Joe Thomas

I was a little nervous at first. I never played reggae music in my life.

Kelli O'Hara

The 'Carousel' overture has always been one of my all-time favorite pieces of music.

King Tuff

Rock and roll music - people want records. For me, it's the whole thing - the package. I don't get satisfaction from buying an MP3.

King Krule

I guess from 12 onwards I was always into my music.

Tom Nutten

It actually works, and he obviously has no inhibition to show it. I think it has some kind of a gravitational pull, because everything does go towards him. That's why he is the center, and he is in the middle.

Kate Middleton

It's obviously nerve-wracking, because I don't know the ropes really, William is obviously used to it, but I'm willing to learn quickly and work hard.

John Gordon Sinclair

I think the problem I have is that first impressions are the ones that stick with people. And people's first impressions of me are obviously from the film, from 'Gregory's Girl.'

Kerry Haigh

We're obviously disappointed for the spectators who were unable to see the finish. We all wanted to see a finish, obviously.

Peter Beattie

He'll obviously want to return to the U.S. as soon as possible,

Taylor Twellman

A lot has changed, ... With it being one game, them obviously playing well of late, I don't think we're the favorite.

Steve Trachsel

It's not as strong as it obviously was with Kris and Jae. Jae was on the verge of really taking off. But it's still pretty solid.

Rhoderick Chalmers

The blockade was obviously a negotiating tactic. It's an encouraging sign.

Jay Sparks

That's obviously a significant reason why she's player of the year. She does those kind of things for her team. Give her a whole lot of credit.

Wayne Dyer

I was asked on a radio interview what my mission is, and I immediately blurted out, "God realization."

Randy Jackson

You were right where you were supposed to be, singing the right song that could be on the radio right now.

P. J. O'Rourke

I'm here as a radio journalist but am not even sure which part of a tape recorder takes the pictures.

Juan Williams

Cable would not translate into the public radio universe.

Sean Hannity

When I started in radio, I worked for free. I lived at the radio station. Then I worked for very little money.

Shelby Lynne

It was hard to work and work and work and not get your music played on the radio.

Marc Maron

I have a very primitive sense that if I just turn on a radio or the television, that somebody's playing that stuff for me.

Thomas A. Edison

The radio craze will die out in time.

Linda Ellerbee

The new national campfire - radio.

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.

Woody Allen

The key point about a demonstration is that it must be seen. Hence the term "demonstration." If a person demonstrates privately in his own home, this is not technically a demonstration but merely "acting silly" or "behaving like an ass.

Woody Allen

The whole concept of awards is silly. I cannot abide by the judgment of other people, because if you accept it when they say you deserve an award, then you have to accept it when they say you don't.

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.

Valentino Rossi

The most important thing is to have a good relationship with the bike... you have to understand what she wants. I think of a motorcycle as a woman, and I know that sounds silly, but it's true.

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 MacLean

She had wanted more than she could have. She had wanted him, and more... she had wanted him to want her. In the name of something bigger than tradition, bolder than reputation, more important than a silly title.

Randy Cunneyworth

He's been sitting long enough. We need a contribution from him.

Rahul Gandhi

I will speak to you tomorrow and till then I will sit there (among the delegates).

M. Wolfe

He was just sitting here three weeks ago.

Al Horford

I'd like to win another one. We'll have to sit down and talk about everything. I think we want to win another one.

Will Allen

I didn't come here just to sit back,

Jonathan Vilma

I don't know what to say. I've never been in a situation like this before. It's tough, real tough.

Nick Adams

I don't know. We qualified. We'll have to sit down and talk.

Jody Conradt

I don't know when Tiffany's going to be ready, so we can't sit around and wait.

Chris Bartlett

I'd be called to one site, 'Oh, Chris, we need you,' and then the other site would need me too.

Dexter Holland

I haven't been able to write a song about flying. It just sounds cheesy. But for me, there's nothing like being up there.

Mark Hammond

It sounds like he wants to do what I've already done.

Dan Rolfes

It sounds great. I could get used to that on a yearly basis, that's for sure.

Suzi Quatro

It sounds corny, but I consider myself an old-fashioned entertainer. I could have been in variety.

Cecily Strong

It sounds so cliched, but I've always been kind of different. I always liked being around weird kids.

Kweisi Mfume

It sounds like we could have a train wreck.

Mark Noble

That sounds like a lot of line, but for specter-fiber, 35-pound test is about like monofilament, 10-pound test.

Nick Vitucci

That sounds great. I'm very happy. It's been a long time coming. It's well deserved.

Kathryn Prescott

When you hear someone say something homophobic, it really ages them. It sounds old-fashioned.

Paul Davis

Keep writing that stuff ? I'll keep getting 27 points.

Jack Soden

We've been thinking about this stuff for so long, but now we can actually do it.

Allard Baird

We think he has the stuff to be a starter.

Mike Fitzpatrick

I think it's the weight of the swelling inventories. And the geopolitical stuff has cooled off a little bit, but it's just in the background.

Roderick Wilmont

I don't know what's going on. I'm here to play, that's all. I see the stuff on TV. I know as much as you all know.

H. Hart

He does stuff like that all the time.

Sandra Bullock

Stop being scared of the unknown, because anything I worried about didn't happen. Other stuff happened. The unknown, we can't do anything about,

Robin Trower

If all you've got is somebody else's stuff that you've lifted, nothing really deep, then it is going to thin out.

Robin Trower

During my early period I had custom-made overdrive stuff because I didn't like what they were making at the time.

Roberto Unger

The supreme good of life is vitality. And vitality is always seeping away.

Paul Tillich

The vitality that can stand the abyss of meaninglessness is aware of a hidden meaning within the destruction of meaning.

John French Sloan

Every good picture leaves the painter eager to start again, unsatisfied, inspired by the rich mine in which he is working, hoping for more energy, more vitality, more time - condemned to painting for life.

Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

Making money is marvelous, and I love doing it, and I do it reasonably well, but it doesnt have the gripping vitality that you have when you deal with the happiness of human life and with human deprivation.

Charles Bukowski

But she projected vitality - you knew that she was there.

Nicolas Sarkozy

We are all hoping that he will recover his legendary vitality as quickly as possible, ... Chi-rac! Chi-rac!

Nicole Krauss

I knew that to find and to feel Yoav again would be terribly painful, because of what had become of him, and because of what I knew he could ignite in me, a vitality that was excruciating because like a flare it lit up the emptiness inside me and exposed what I always secretly knew about myself: how much time I'd spent being only partly alive, and how easily I'd accepted a lesser life.

George Bernard Shaw

Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.

Nancy Astor

My vigor, vitality and cheek repel me. I am the kind of woman I would run from.

Catherine Jones

I was wondering that myself. I don't know.

Vincente Minnelli

I see wonderful films by Bertolucci, Visconti, and Fellini.

Robert Caro

As you get older, you sometimes feel that it's harder and harder to get something new and wonderful to come into your life.

Vasily Grossman

Ivan tells Anna: "I used to imagine that being embraced by a woman . . . as something so wonderful that it would make me forget everthing . . . [But] happiness, it turns out, will be to share with you the burden I can't share with anyone else.

Robert Stack

It's all malarky; even the wonderful part is malarky.

Walt Disney

The wonders of nature are endless...

Sarah Hall

You’ve been wondering lately when the moment is that somebody is truly lost to you.

Sarah Dessen

When someone starts to change, and it’s obvious, it's sort of natural to wonder why. Right?

Roger Moore

It's wonderful to travel with somebody that you love and we never travel anywhere without one another.