Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joe Harden

Coach likes that I'm tough and I'm not afraid to stick my nose in there. He feels that I can bring a toughness to the team. I just like to compete.

Craig Smith

The story was that in her recovery, she pulled out her back by favoring her foot. That was the official story. But of course she had had this dreadful breast cancer, and everybody was terribly afraid it had metastasized to her back, but she wouldn't talk to us about it.

Stephen Page

Now it's time to show our stuff. It's the big test, and we've got all the confidence in the world right now. We've got confidence in our inside guys, and they're not afraid to kick it out to us. And we have all the confidence in our rebounding, too.

Sometimes you have to be careful when selecting a new name for yourself. For instance, let's say you have chosen the nickname "Fly Head." Normally you would think that "fly Head" would mean a person who has beautiful swept-back features, as if flying through the air. But think again. Couldn't it also mean "having a head like a fly"? I'm afraid some people might actually think that.

Tom Robinson

Sometimes he was in a no-win position. He had to make some tough decisions over the years, and he wasn't afraid to make them. He was a good person, too. I wouldn't have minded seeing him retire from this position.

Lee Womack

These are songs that aren't afraid to tell the truth. They are exactly like a slice of life; you get the good, bad and the ugly. It is definitely honest music.

Lee Womack

These are songs that aren't afraid to tell the truth. It is honest music, as far as the lyrics go. They're a slice of life -- the good, bad and the ugly. It's the kind of stuff I grew up listening to.

J. Horton

The rivalry was the last thing on my mind. I tried to downplay it as much as possible because we aren't used to having a large number of people at games and I was afraid we'd lose focus.

Eric Beach

This is a simple concept; why are they so afraid to allow their members a voice?

Bruce Vladeck

As bad as the situation is now. it can only get worse when the economy stops growing.

Peter Power

The boycott is bad for all those concerned.

Buck Showalter

The big thing was Curt Schilling, he was obviously on top of his game. It's disappointing. A lot of people took time out of their day to be out here, and we would have liked to have won the game. It was a pretty exciting day. Only one bad thing happened today, and that's that we lost.

Buz Plyler

B&C has got to do what B&C thinks is best for their organization. It is an experiment that may be a bad thing in the long run ... This made Myrtle Beach what it is.

Tsuyoshi Segawa

Bargain-hunting picked up speed, though sentiment has become sensitive to bad news and volatile trading may continue for awhile.

Chris McGinnis

Bad weather is expected all week up and down the East Coast, with concomitant flight delays and hassles, so if you don't have to be out there in the slop, stay home.

Rupert Adams

Bad weather is a great leveler in all sports but doubly so on the water. It should be a lot closer than many of the experts have been predicting.

Ben Malor

Bad weather grounded our helicopters and we will review the situation later in the day.

Lonnie Nielsen

Bad way to finish, but I'll try to remember the first 17 holes.

Kate Ziegler

As far as the world record goes, it still seems so far away from me, ... As far as the world championships . . . I'm just so happy how it's gone.

Ronald Zarrella

As far as theories, there's a lot of them, and we've run a lot of them to ground and come up with nothing.

Edward Hirsch

As far as I'm concerned, freedom is the most important thing to creativity. You should feel free to write in whatever way, whatever language, feels comfortable to you.

Walter Hill

As far as I'm concerned, all my movies could be westerns, so this is good stuff.

Tom Keith

As far as I know, we're wondering, too.

Tom Healy

As far as I know, we haven't been informed of this yet.

Greg Aiello

As far as I know, we didn't even know about the meeting.

Richard Suzman

As far as I know, this is the first study showing this.

Tim Ritchey

As far as I know they'd only sell him for breeding, and even that would not be a 100% sale.

Henry Rollins

As a young person growing up in Washington, D.C., summers were hot, humid and relentless. My friends and I grew more restless and adventurous with every passing year.

Maeve Binchy

The most important thing to realise is that everyone is capable of telling a story. It doesn't matter where we were born or how we grew up.

Maryann Keller

These were people who grew up inside those companies,

Corneille Ewango

I speak French, and I grew up with French, so my English is Franglais.

Scott Weiland

I used to just write about my own apathy, but that youthful, apathetic way of looking at things grew thin as I got older.

Joy Hollingsworth

It would have been nice to play for the Huskies. I grew up watching them. It would have been nice but things didn't work out that way. I'm happy where I am.

Tim Thomas

That's what you want as a player, to play the way you grew up on the playground and YMCA. Look around here. Guys here are loose.

Mike Grell

That's not even a question. You go with what you grew up with.

Mo Ibrahim

Young people are better educated. They grew up in a society which is well connected, well informed. They are able to communicate to one another, to know what is happening.

Gary Sheffield

This is nothing to be talked about, to be honest with you. Turn the lights on and I'll be ready.

Ayelet Waldman

I'd written personal essays before, but never on this scale -- never so often and with such, er, honesty. (If by honesty I mean slashing my wrists and hemorrhaging all over the computer screen).

Ayn Rand

There must be only three supreme values which govern a person's life: Reason, Purpose, and Self-esteem. Reason, as his only tool of knowledge--Purpose, as his choice of the happiness which that tool must proceed to achieve--Self-esteem, as his inviolate certainty that his mind is competent to think and his person is worthy of happiness, which means: is worthy of living. These three values imply and require all of man's virtues, and all his virtues pertain to the relation of existence and consciousness: rationality, independence, integrity, honesty, justice, productiveness, pride.

Benjamin Bratt

I've always felt that acting is acting at the end of the day, so whether you're doing comedy or heavy drama or anything else in between, you always have to bring a semblance of honesty to it. It's all make believe.

Brenda Ueland

You can write anything you want to,--a six-act blank verse, symbolic tragedy or a vulgar short, short story. Just so that you write it with honesty and gusto, and do not try to make somebody believe that you are smarter than you are. What's the use? You can never be smarter than you are.

C. S. Lewis

It takes courage to live through suffering; and it takes honesty to observe it.

Cesar Chavez

When we are really honest with ourselves we must admit our lives are all that really belong to us. So it is how we use our lives that determines the kind of men we are.

Al Yankovic

Didn't have Nintendo, we just poured salt on snails.

Charles Kennedy

Three simple words - freedom, justice and honesty. These sum up what the Liberal Democrats stand for.

Johann G. Seume

People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Keith Henderson

spend every minute of the rest of his natural life in prison without seeing the light of day.

Ian Mckellen

Thanks to every gay person in public and non-public life who has come out.

Mike Singletary

Sometimes you get to a place in life where you feel you've made some choices, and maybe they weren't the right choices, and that it's all coming to an end.

Rainn Wilson

So much about religion has to do with rigid, sacrosanct preciousness. I don't live my life that way, and I don't feel that's what Baha'u'llah teaches.

Alex Graves

'Terra Nova,' more than anything I've ever done in my life, is for everybody.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

Tea is a huge part of my life.

Craig Brown

Some people see life as a game of chess, while others prefer to see it as a game of cricket; but the longer I live, the more I think of it as a game of Consequences.

Keith Johnson

Sometimes life doesn't go your way. I am just so proud of this team for getting this far. A lot of people wouldn't have thought we would get here.

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.

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.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Within each individual young person you meet, you have the same fields to plough. The trick is just to wake them up, to sharpen their ears for what's already there in the music.

Barbara Bush

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

Brian May

I never took sheet music seriously. I could do better myself just by listening to other people and using my own intuition.

Emmylou Harris

I have to have a guitar sitting around. I sing in the shower. I sing around the house. The music comes secondary. The lyrics come first.

Struan Robertson

The BPI didn't want to sue its customers, but it will do to stop them stealing music.

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

Boz Scaggs

I really just followed my musical instincts every step of my life.

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.

Benjamin Disraeli

O Music! Miraculous art! A blast of thy trumpet and millions rush forward to die; a peal of thy organ and uncounted nations sink down to pray.

Carla Bley

I like chords that are very lush with all the lush parts taken out.

Bruce Bagley

They are just out for their own slice of the pie.

Jonny Buckland

We can't wait to play our new songs live

Dan Hill

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

Bob Blyer

I try to play a lot of songs that have 'love' in the title.

Liz Callaway

Time After Time/Dodsworth: New Songs from New Musicals.

Miranda Cosgrove

When I was 5, I started taking singing lessons, and then, after 'School of Rock,' I started taking guitar lessons. I would always write songs and play them for my friends, and I would play my guitar on the set a lot.

Billy Sherwood

I wrote songs with the guys from Air Supply for their record... So I was just writing songs.

Brett Ratner

I look for stuff that I'm passionate about.

Anthony Weiner

You've gotta stop making stuff up.

Art Spiegelman

There's a therapeutic aspect to all making, but the nature of working is to compress, condense, and shape stuff, not to just expunge it. It's not just an exorcism.

Benjamin Booker

Blind Willie Johnson is a pretty big vocal influence. He can be very harsh, like gargly, gruff vocals, but also just slip into some very delicate, vulnerable soft stuff. I like that combination.

Burton Rascoe

I am so constituted that I had rather read bad stuff than nothing.

Jamie Luner

I love playing the vamp, and I get sent out for a lot of that stuff, maybe because I do it well.

Conor McGregor

I don't know why anyone would want to do that politics stuff.

Breaux Greer

I could always throw stuff, starting with tantrums.

Bonnie Wright

In my family we've always been into ethical stuff and recycling.