Famous Quotes & Sayings

Simon Templeman

I think The Hulk really hit a chord with me, I love the Hulk. But, I never dreamt I'd be playing Doctor Doom.

Tom Scholz

I will say that I know Nirvana did a show and played a few chords from 'More Than a Feeling' before they did 'Teen Spirit,' and it wasn't very good. But in all seriousness, 'Teen Spirit' was a great song. If subconsciously or somehow I had any influence on that, I'll take that as a compliment.

Leo Ornstein

There is a paradox because I think you've struck a chord there that we ought to simply pursue - it is true that music is a form of communication.

Richard Rodney Bennett

I just scribbled away and eventually a C-major chord was there. I didn't ever decide I was going to be a composer. It was like being tall. It's what I was. It's what I did.

Jools Holland

If you play the guitar, you've got to hold the chords down with one hand while you play with the other, so you're limited to one hand. But the piano is the king of instruments because you have your 10 fingers, which become the 10 members of the orchestra.

Janelle Monae

I listen to Prince on my iPad. And I use a Chords & Scales app to warm up before performing.

Billy Job

I'm merely running for a more cohesive unit. It's not a Democratic or Republican thing to have more efficient government. It's something everybody wants. Everybody wants some fiscal responsibility. That will strike a chord with all the voters.

Jimmy Spencer

I'm protective of ballads, ... I stay as close to the original as I can. I like to phrase it and tell a story. I want to hear the pretty chord changes.

Johnny Rivers

I learned some chords and I started watching anybody I could, once I really got into it.

Ed Gillespie

I was in Vermont yesterday, and the Vermonters I talked to said I should not have been surprised that something their former governor said was at odds with the facts,

Allison Janney

I also went on a tour of the White House, visited the tourist's spots, including all the monuments, then went to New York to have lunch with former press secretary, Dede Myers.

Bobby Frankel

He was a good horse over there. Hopefully, he can reproduce that form over here. It's important that I win a Grade 1.

Eric Gutierrez

He (Walters) threw well. He's getting there but he's just not quite back to last year's form yet.

Matt McKay

He can shoot the ball. His form is better than Bryce's. He and Jake have a better pure shot.

Jason Rostorfer

He is one of the most dedicated, hard-working kids I have ever coached. Josh is a solid four-year wrestler who former standout wrestler Greg Murphy took under his wing when Josh was a freshman. Josh worked hard in the weight room with Murphy and he is living proof that hard work pays off.

Max Mosley

What we will do is publish the 2008 regulations and there will be a Formula One World Championship in 2008,

Steve Nelson

Here's your proof they don't. (Tornadoes) can form quickly and go down to the ground, no matter where you are.

Robert Wiley

He's just fought his way, as he normally does through that, and his form in the WAFL has been exceptional, so it is a reward for his performances in the WAFL and (it's great for him) to just be able to get out there and play footy.

Ken Hill

Music is about textures as well as melody.

Ken Hill

Location is a very important aspect to songwriting.

Ken Hill

People don't have fun making music all the time.

Ken Hill

The more I do in my life, the more I can write music about new experiences.

Shamir

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

Jake Brebes

I would say now we?re shooting toward putting the music out in a professional way.

Swae Lee

I write a lot of rhymes, but I don't really end up using them a lot of times, and I end up just freestyling. I like to write music, though, more than I like to freestyle, to be honest.

Andrew Lack

has got two revenue streams: one from our music and one from the sale of his iPods.

Graham Elliot

I played the guitar and thought that was what I was going to do as a career. I still record music that is played in my restaurants.

Lady Bird Johnson

A politician ought to be born a foundling and remain a bachelor.

Robert Morrison

To do what ought to be done but what would not have been done unless I did it, I thought to be my duty.

Pat Roberts

I think we ought to raze that prison,

Yvonne Johnson

I think we ought to find a way to do it.

Patrick Perry

Life's been good, my wife's been wonderful, and 20 years I thought we ought to celebrate.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If you treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

Edward Gramlich

If you want to keep politicians out of the Fed's business, which we do, then we ought to stay out of their business. That's one viewpoint.

Dave Gomo

If you've never done it, they ought to try it.

Christopher Hill

I'm not sure there is really much more I can talk to them about...I think they ought to come back to the six-party talks without any condition.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

To fear and not be afraid- that is the paradox of faith.

Charlie Munger

Even in pure mathematics they can't remove all paradox, and the rest of us should also recognize we are going to have to endure a lot of paradox, like it or not.

Oscar Wilde

The way of paradoxes is the way of truth.

Sri Aurobindo

What I cannot do now is the sign of what I shall do hereafter. The sense of impossibility is the beginning of all possibilities. Because this temporal universe was a paradox and an impossibility, therefore the Eternal created it out of His being.

Tom Robbins

If complexity doesn't beat you, paradox will.

Mason Cooley

Paradox implies that stating a contradiction disposes of it.

Mason Cooley

When a paradox is widely believed, it is no longer recognized as a paradox.

George Carlin

We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values.

George Bernard Shaw

Paradoxes are the only truths.

W. Somerset Maugham

You must not pursue a success, but fly from it.

Michael Chang

In the 1980s and 1990s, no one wanted to touch a narrow-focused antibiotic, something that treated one or two things. Everyone wanted to pursue broad, across-the-board antibiotics. That's all changed.

Bill Simon

I really just want to pursue other avenues, ... I got a lot accomplished in my tenure here and I wanted to try new things.

Emile M. Cioran

Pursued by our origins…we all are.

Lin-Manuel Miranda

I like the quiet it takes to pursue an idea the way I pursued 'Hamilton,' but I couldn't write a book, because there's no applause at the end of writing a book.

Thomas Middleditch

I'm undeniably very nerdy, but I'm trying to recognize and pursue more masculine pursuits.

America Ferrera

There's not really a choice about, am I going to pursue a typical career? Because I'm not the typical standard, so that's not even an option.

Jerry Yang

The time has come for me to pursue other interests outside of Yahoo.

Viggo Mortensen

I pursue the things I do because I'm interested in them.

Patrick Vieira

He is simply exceptional. He is always there at exceptional moments.

Ephrem Fernandez

I think that part of the solution will come simply with time, because time does heal.

Angelina Jolie

it is simply not going to be enough.

Jose Barroso

It is not satisfactory, it is simply not enough.

Becky Lourey

I don't just want to talk about goals. I know we can get there. We simply can't wait.

Lynsey Addario

In so many countries, Western journalists are viewed simply as dollar signs. We're ransom objects.

Gary Shaw

Calzaghe is not our focus. We simply don't need the fight,

Hideo Kojima

I have to have a creative role; otherwise, I simply wouldn't come into work.

Michael Dean

I have not talked with Terri in weeks. We were simply brainstorming.

Ken Jury

It immediately struck me as being ambergris -- it couldn't be anything else.

Patti Smith

I knew William Burroughs really well, and I was always star struck being around him. I adored him.

Terry Jorde

This has struck a nerve. Thousands of them.

Susan Collins

They struck me as not the typical request.

Christine Arron

They struck her working tools, her legs, her arms, her hands.

Antonia Bird

I've always been struck by the complexity of a world where drugs kill and cure. Where no one is immune.

Rease Watson

One thing that has struck me the most is the hundreds of (electricians) out here. They're working their tails off. They're from all over the place.

Judy Garland

He struck me many times. He did a lot of drinking.

David Hernandez

I think she struck me as being a little overwhelmed,

Eric Wise

I was always true to her. I am not a predator.

Richard Holloway

The wrong question to ask of a myth is whether it is true or false. The right question is whether it is living or dead, whether it still speaks to our condition.

Ryan Miller

From the coaches on down, especially Jim Corsi whose been a great supporter, a true friend who really cares about his players and allowed me the chance to develop.

Whitney Cummings

A true friend will go with the instagram filter that flatters you.

Sarah Addison Allen

Those who decided to stick with her would be her true friends. The others would just be scenery.

Richard M. Nixon

You find out who your true friends are not when you are on top of the world, but when the world is on top of you.

Richard Pryor

I can't just say the words, do a lot of one-liners. I love each person I play; I have to be that person. I have to do him true.

Tupac Shakur

The hard times make a true friend afraid to ask.

Tori Amos

To me happiness, true happiness is when you can really dance with sad.