Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward Said

To say that we're going to end countries or eradicate terrorism, and that it's a long war over many years, with many different instruments, suggests a much more complex and drawn-out conflict for which, I think, most Americans aren't prepared.

Gary Garner

Every year there are one or two games that stick in your craw. Every team in the country has that. That was one for us.

Neil Boyd

Except for the very unlikely event of being hit by a stray bullet, the country is very much as safe to walk around in as it was a decade ago.

Philip Morris

There's probably not a country in the world that can withstand a verdict this size.

Laura Bush

The response of this country has been amazing,

Cameron Bagrie

There's not a lot of investment opportunities out there, so yield is still the default play for the market. But when the New Zealand dollar turns, it will turn aggressively, and if we don't get yield demand it will fall by a country mile.

Riley Wallace

There's nobody in the country who can match what we do for our seniors. We've created something special with the fans for that, and this is a special group that deserves another good send off.

Jim Calhoun

There's no one in the country that has guard play like them and they're a very difficult team to stop.

Ann Cooper

There's no due process and it's setting a terrible example in a country where the United States' goal supposedly is to establish democracy.

John Caudwell

At the end of the day, if you've got the great idea, and someone judges you've got the managerial capability, you'll probably get the backing for it.

Jim O'Heir

'Community' is a great show. I love 'Raising Hope' with Martha Plimpton. And I love 'The Middle' - another Chicagoan in there is Neil Flynn, who used to play the janitor in 'Scrubs.'

Didier Drogba

Didier, it's done!' he shouted. That made me smile and since then Michael has seemed happy with everything like a kid. He is great to have around the place, he's thirsty for knowledge and he's a great player as well.

John Feehery

did a great job ... in stopping the perpetrator.

Rich Brooks

Disappointment is a mild term. This is devastating for him because he played such a great game. He has been playing better than he ever has, and this is a big disappointment, for him and for our defense.

Mel Karmazin

Dick has been a great leader and he's done a terrific job, and I'm sorry to see him leave, ... Do I think the NYSE would be better run without Dick? No. Do I think the NYSE would be better if I wasn't on the board? No. But if people didn't want me on the board, I'd be very happy not to be on the board.

Travis Whitaker

Dirk does such a great job at preparing his team. We knew they were going to come out with a lot of fire.

Lou Duva

Corpus Christi has had so many great fighters, but they have never really been honored accordingly.

Kathy Duva

Corpus Christi has had so many great fighters, but they have never really been honored accordingly,

Colleen McCullough

I hate being on my best behavior. It brings out the absolute worst in me.

Chubby Checker

Everybody in the '80s, well, we hate rap. Now, the biggest rapper in the world... Eminem. Rap's a black thing.

Confucius

When the multitude detests a man, inquiry is necessary; when the multitude likes a man, inquiry is equally necessary.

Andrew Denton

I have deep respect for people's individual faith, but when faith gets connected to the machinery of state, or the machinery of hate, I find it very confronting.

Andrew Davies

Most actors hate readthroughs - they're exposing themselves before they're ready to, and before they've bonded. But I love them because they give us all the first inkling of what the whole show is going to be like, how each part affects every other part, and we won't see that again until it's all edited together.

Andrew Dice Clay

I lived in Beverly Hills for years. I always had a line, 'I hate the rich.' From what I witnessed after living there for 15 years, these people just don't raise their kids. I used to see the lineup of cars in front of the schools and it was all the nannies.

Anne Lamott

I woke up full of hate and fear the day before the most recent peace march in San Francisco. This was disappointing: I'd hoped to wake up feeling somewhere between Virginia Woolf and Wavy Gravy.

Annie Lennox

I will go out of my way to avoid the shopping crowds and the extreme consumerism - I hate all that.

Chuck Todd

America has a love-hate relationship with celebrity. We love to follow celebrities, but we also love to mock them. And secretly, we believe were better than they are.

Maya Angelou

The music was my friend, my lover, my family.

Herb Alpert

I wake up in the morning, I do a little stretching exercises, pick up the horn and play.

Isaac Hanson

But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.

David Friedman

I publish my own music. I'm creating my own songbook. It works that way for me; I'm very independent.

Jim Foglesong

I'm just kind of a music junkie. Whatever I'm doing at the moment is my favorite.

Jerry Hunt

In 1955 music wasn't that important. Music was a kind of a special thing you went and did.

John Trudell

I'm not a musician making words to go with my music.

Lapo Elkann

I like listening to music and driving. How do you say... It's the only way I can 'chillax.'

Rabindranath Tagore

Melody and harmony are like lines and colors in pictures. A simple linear picture may be completely beautiful; the introduction of color may make it vague and insignificant. Yet color may, by combination with lines, create great pictures, so long as it does not smother and destroy their value.

Dick Gregory

Why are black folks singing Amazing Grace which is a song about a white slaver's conversion?

Chuck Comeau

We just wanted to make albums where every song stands out and is different. It must not be the same track from one to 12.

Andrew Bird

The music that I write is often not necessarily full of doom and gloom. You'll notice in most of the darkest songs, the music is actually pretty peaceful and lulling.

Amy Grant

But to make a holiday record that involves favorite American songs and then also get to sing about Jesus birth, it just seemed like a real easy, subtle way to combine a couple of things that I love.

Amy Grant

The great thing about a song is that no one has to know your story. But if you tell it in a way that has clarity and means something to somebody else, then it can apply to their story.

Amy Grant

To me, it's all about the song. Songs are what make me excited. You hear a great song and you want to record it or get a great idea and you want to write it.

Amy Grant

How we absorb music is unique. I know what I do. When I'm listening to music, I tend to find myself in a song. That's what really makes you connect is if you feel what that song is saying.

Allison Janney

I love wasting time and learning to lip-sync to songs; it's a silly hobby of mine.

Allison Williams

When I graduated from college in early 2010, I decided that I needed to create a calling card, some kind of business card that people can link to my name and face. So I did this 'Mad Men Theme Song...With a Twist' music video. I released it just as I moved to L.A.