Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Culos

Now, it's an extremely big name to live up to, but it kind of fits. We had all played in other bands before, and so this was our musical revolution, where we could finally play the music we wanted.

Billie Armstrong

Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a life-style. There are a lot of bands around who claim to be punk and they only play the music, they have no clue what it's all about. It's a life-style I chose for myself.

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.

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.

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.

Darren Jackson

The Hopefuls have become one of the more popular bands in Minnesota. It's sort of the critics' favorite band, and this happened sort of out of the blue for us. We didn't expect anything like this, so now we're strategizing differently about how to go about promoting it.

Scott Weiland

Not many people are able to say that they had in their professional career the chance to perform in two bands that won Grammys and were multiplatinum bands.

Michael Reed

Not really interested in covering other bands songs to be honest.

Ivory Latta

Off the court, we're cool. We're still cool on the court, but it's all about competing.

Peter Jennings

The worse things got around me the cooler I tend to be, ... I tend to focus very hard under pressure.

Tessa Thompson

As a kid, I loved going to lots of thrift stores with my parents. There was a period where I thought it was embarrassing, and then I started to get older - I realized they were really cool.

Bonnie McKee

If I know I will be working with someone and they are not keen with writing with a girl, I like to be non-threatening and cool so they will trust me. It's a thought process of who work and how I want to present myself.

Anthony Pratt

We were in recycling before recycling was cool.

Maurissa Tancharoen

Every Comic-Con, they have some sort of 'Dr. Horrible' panel. It's very cool!

Gavin Smith

At South Carolina, I hung out mostly with my host and that was it. But all of Virginia's players hung out with us. They all hung out together like a big family. They're cool guys.

Harry Reid

Cool your jets, let the process go forward,

Shelby Lynne

cool to let me do what is my passion.

Jeaniene Frost

Why did he have to be so gorgeous? Why did he have to stand so close, and why did I still love him so much?

Jim Adams

You don't need a $30 hammer to nail in a picture.

Toby Keith

Probably 75 percent of the people in this town think I'll fail, and the other 25 percent hope I fail,

Kirk Pedersen

Right now we are struggling a little big with our relay teams. We are going to work on those and hopefully get them to run a little better.

Mike Slive

Right now, there is peace in the valley. We hope to keep it that way for a little while.

Ian Shepherdson

This is as upbeat a testimony as could reasonably have been hoped for.

Tim Frisby

This is a start. Hopefully I'll get more this season,

Jimmy Rollins

You've got to respect them. You can't just put up lollipop pitches and hope to get them out.

Mary Shelley

You seek for knowledge and wisdom, as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent to sting you,as mine has been.

Rick Clunn

You're going to be making a lot of decisions, and you hope they're the right ones.

Baruch Spinoza

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

John Sherman Cooper

Rather, like the anarchists of the last century, he didn't care if he was killed or not. They just wanted to be known. We found no trace of any conspiracy.

Brian Tracy

Do your own market research; ask your last ten customers exactly why they bought from you.

Bobby Lutz

We're a better team right now, the way we've played the last 10 games.

Kelly Holcomb

We've won the last two. We've got ourselves back to .500.

Elbert Hubbard

It is not deeds or acts that last: it is the written record of those deeds and acts.

AJ Pierzynski

Do we feel lucky? No. Did they feel lucky when they won last night?

Jeffrey Lurie

We wanted this tribute to be a lasting one.

Josh Schwartz

We did a lot of that last year. Where that story line is going is not what people are expecting.

Mark Clifford

We scored some points; our offense competed better (than last week).

Augustus

If you want rainbow, you have to deal with the rain.

Edgar Allan Poe

It was night, and the rain fell; and falling, it was rain, but, having fallen, it was blood.

Amos Lee

We all need a place that we can go, And feel over the rainbow

Amy Carmichael

If I cannot hear "The sound of rain' long before the rain falls, and then go out to some hilltop of the Spirit, as near to my God as I can and have faith to wait there with my face between my knees, though six times or sixty times I am told "There is nothing', till at last there arises a little cloud out of the sea, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

Ricky Nelson

Today's teardrops are tomorrow's rainbows.

Tablo

He laughed. I suddenly wanted to laugh, to laugh with him, to sit here, or maybe outside in the rain, and just laugh with him. But I couldn’t. I couldn’t even smile.

Rumi

I am dying into your mystery, and dying, I am now no other than that mystery. I open to your majesty as an orchard welcomes rain, and twenty times that.

Stephen Dunn

exaggerated sunsets / splashed with rain, odd collisions / of roots, animals, seeds. / I didn't like a thing I saw, / so much effort to be strange.

Spike Milligan

There are holes in the sky Where the rain gets in, But they're ever so small That's why rain is thin.

Dave Bush

On the whole, not very good. I think today kind of typified it,

Deepak Chopra

Today, I behold all the abundance that surrounds me.

Graeme Smith

Today will go a long way for me confidence-wise.

Ann Voskamp

Manna today or I starve.

Richard Branson

To stand still today is to go backwards...and quickly...!

Shirley Jackson

Wear your boots if you wander today

Mark Twain

Today's burdens can strengthen you for tomorrow.

Mark Ruffalo

Today, wind is the cheapest energy in America; solar is not far behind. In time, fossil fuels will only get more and more expensive.

Louis L'Amour

Everyone has it within his power to say, this I am today, that I shall be tomorrow.

Cloris Leachman

Everything is so sad and so wonderful.

Michael Faraday

Nothing is to wonderful to be true

H. L. Mencken

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but...

Vincente Minnelli

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

Scott Macartney

I'm having a wonderful time. It's a wonderful experience.

Carol Kennedy

It was just so wonderful to go down there and be of some help.

Katherine Paterson

It was a wonderful way to be awakened.

Ayn Rand

He, too, stood looking at her for a moment--and it seemed to her that it was not a look of greeting after an absence, but the look of someone who had thought of her every day of that year. She could not be certain, it was only an instant, so brief that just as she caught it, he was turning...

Brad Pitt

I've been in these tabloids for 14 years now, and at some point you just become a Zen master of it all

Jan Schakowsky

In Illinois, community, migrant, homeless and public housing health centers operate 268 primary care sites and serve close to 1 million patients every year.

Al Davis

If it weren't for a new rule that came into being, we'd have played three years in a row in the championship game.

Al Franken

For 35 years, I was a writer. I wrote a lot of jokes. Some of them weren't funny. Some of them weren't appropriate. Some of them were downright offensive. I understand that.

Al Franken

Yeah, we shot ourselves in the foot right out of the gate. The guy who ran it at first misled pretty much everybody about how much capital we had. He said we had enough to go three years without making money, and we had enough to go three weeks.

Frank Gehry

We want that center, we yearn for it, we need it. It shouldn't look like New York or Paris, it should look like us.

Janice Dickinson

I started Botox the first year it came out. I was the first one in line, and I have had Botox every six months since then.

Aung San Suu Kyi

In terms of the history of a far reaching movement, 20 years is not that long.