Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tim Henman

I think I said I would put on a skirt if I dropped serve again.

Pat Mastelotto

Here's the exact date: The day I got word we were dropped by the label was on Monday 25th September 1990, a year later than I remembered!

John Bridgeland

We've gone in and talked face to face with kids who have dropped out of school. What they're telling us debunks popular assumptions. The problem is solvable.

Lynne Agee

We've dropped four and it's going to be hard to keep our heads up and think that we can win another one.

Nate McMillan

I thought those were the shots that we dropped our heads. That's the first thing I said in the locker room, that those were two big threes.

Cameron Edens

I didn't want to go if we couldn't go as a team. Plus I had been missing a lot of school and if I had missed any more, they could have dropped me from some classes, and I didn't want that to happen.

Skylar Grey

I moved out to L.A. when I was 17, dropped out of high school, and pursued a career in music.

Paul Ranger

If I would have just dropped to the ice it probably wouldn't have been so bad. But I twisted on the way day and that scared me a little bit.

Manfred Mann

In 1962 I wrote for 'Jazz News,' using the pseudonym Manfred Manne, which I picked because of a jazz drummer with that name. I later dropped the 'e.'

Taylor Hawkins

The drummer is stereotypically the dumb guy. Maybe that's why I always respect drummers who do more than drum.

Alessandro Cortini

It's not as interesting as the last time out, when we had all the drummer problems.

Sam Cohen

That has really shaped us more than anything else over the past year. One of the goals for this new record was to lay down more grooves than we had on Katonah and make something truly danceable. Having two drummers on stage will reinforce that element for us.

Phil Collins

As a composer I approached the drums differently than a non-composing drummer. I embraced drum machines.

Phil Collins

I can't consider myself a drummer any more.

Eric Carmen

It's not just one of these reunions where it's the original drummer and three guys you never heard of.

Chet Baker

Artt Frank is my all-time favorite drummer. He always seems to know where I'm going.

Chet Baker

It takes a pretty good drummer to be better than no drummer at all.

Philip Selway

You are never, ever gonna get a drummer to dis another one. It's part of the drumming rules, as important as being able to keep pace or smashing up hotel rooms. Drummers do not dis!

David Pierce

Kelsey plays the piano, and he's also a tremendous singer. I'm classically trained, and he's more of a jazz improvisatory pianist. So, we don't usually sit down and play together.

Claude Nobs

I was working in the local tourist office and I said to the manager, 'We should do something to make Montreux known in America. Let's do a jazz festival!

John Reynolds

I do a lot (of business) with local jazz players.

Robert Quine

After I exhausted the blues thing, I got into jazz.

Van Morrison

I just can't stand it [ jazz/rock]. It just doesn't sound right to me. It doesn't hit me...it doesn't get me...it just doesn't grab me.

Wynton Marsalis

Jazz music creates so many phenomenal figures.

Wynton Marsalis

Louis Armstrong is jazz. He represents what the music is all about.

Ken Burns

A jazz beat is a dynamic changing rhythm.

Jon Secada

I have a bachelor's and a master's in jazz.

Brian Griese

I wouldn't be surprised if we saw them later in the year.

Susumu Tonegawa

Even under normal conditions, how we can distinguish various events, various experiences, and be able to reproduce it later is, of course, a very interesting question and, I think, one that we face in day to day life.

Allan Ray

He was just real angry, telling me I've got to take more shots when I'm open because I might not get them later in the game.

William Shatner

Although I'm a business major out of McGill University, I know nothing... but then I found out much later in life, nobody knows anything.

Twyla Tharp

Later in life, one of the compensations is gliding effortlessly into focus in a thing. Since it is who we are, anything that is not the focus or supportive thereof is just not us. Even outside issues, when they arise, are interesting in that they only help define the focus more clearly.

Waylon Jennings

I ain't got no reverse. I've learned, a little later in life, it works out pretty good to have one every once in a while.

Pam Carpenter

If you have a little flexibility you can stay open a little later at one site or another.

Oliver Luck

Any announcement regarding the matter has been pushed back until later this week.

Jerry Narron

It sounds like, hopefully, later in the week, he'll be ready to go, ... He's day to day. We'll just have to see how he is every day.

Michael Chertoff

We totally understand what it's like to be sitting on top of a roof or to be sitting in a shelter where it's hot, where you're worried about when you're going to be picked up, where you're thirsty, where you're hungry,

Billy Tubbs

There are several teams that could step up and win it all. Northwestern was picked to win it, and they (the Demons) have been pretty impressive, but some other teams have been impressive, too.

Preston Wilson

He's picked us up all year. It's time for us to pick him up a little bit.

Bobby Cox

He got off slow, but he really picked it up. He's been dynamite. ... Right now, he's one of the better leadoff hitters.

Bobby Cox

He got off slow, but he really picked it up, ... He's been dynamite. ... Right now, he's one of the better leadoff hitters.

Mark Valley

'Pasadena' erred on the side being too dark. That was probably the one thing about it, in retrospect, why it didn't get picked up.

Nicole Vaidisova

In the second set, I picked it up very fast, just dictating play, so she didn't get any rhythm,

Dwight Gooden

if police had picked you up, we wouldn't be talking right now.

Ruslan Fedotenko

I'm not going to say I picked the corner, was going for top shelf and all that. I'm trying to be honest.

Chris Marker

I chose a pseudonym, Chris Marker, pronounceable in most languages, because I was very intent on traveling.

Gwendoline Christie

My pseudonym is 'George R. R. Martin.' That guy's just an actor.

Woodrow Wilson

I could see now that a literary education did not fit one for the popular novelist's trade.Once you had started using words like flavicomous or acroamatic, because you liked the sound of them, you were lost.

Ricardo Semler

The era of using people as production tools is coming to an end. Participation is infinitely more complex to practice than conventional corporate unilateralism, just as democracy is much more cumbersome than dictatorship. But there will be few companies that can afford to ignore either of them.

Steve Dixon

If youre using the same filter, youre going to get a lot of the same byproducts at the end,

Sam Phillips

I'll never retire. I'm just using up somebody else's oxygen if I retire.

Scott Podsednik

I'm pretty crazy, so to speak, a little superstitious. I'm using something different up there just about every week.

Rodrigo Santoro

In film, you're always using your tools, your body, your voice, your emotions, but onstage, you use them in a different way.

Lucy Liu

When you work with chains or any kind of weapons, or just when you're using hand-to-hand combat, you are going to get hurt.

Ban Ki-moon

We are using resources as if we had two planets, not one. There can be no 'plan B' because there is no 'planet B.'

Alan Chambers

One of the many evils this world has to offer is the sin of homosexuality. Satan, the enemy is using people to further his agenda to destroy the Kingdom of God and as many souls as he can.

Joseph Biden

He said he was 35 when he wrote that.

Christopher McQuarrie

'The Way of the Gun' I wrote in five days.

Mike DeWine

This is really what we anticipated when we wrote the law,

Kathryn Harrison

I wrote 'The Kiss' 12 hours a day for six months.

Kent Haruf

Writing is the hardest thing I know, but it was the only thing I wanted to do. I wrote for 20 years and published nothing before my first book.

Kelsey Primiano

Everyone wrote state. So everyone got what they wanted.

John Cleese

At the start, Connie wrote the Polly and Sybil roles, and she and I wrote Basil together,

Jami Attenberg

I wrote a novel. It's called 'The Middlesteins.' It's fiction. It's not a memoir. I'm not a spokesperson.

Harold King

That's what I thought when I wrote it,