Famous Quotes & Sayings

Todd Rundgren

Music is the way I understand how to communicate now, the way that I've learned how to communicate... but it will eventually have to go beyond that. You see, I've realised that music is not what keeps people involved - it's the attitude behind the music.

Ian Mckellen

I certainly don't disparage someone whose attitude towards their work is utterly different from mine - that's up to them.

Albert Einstein

We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.

Zubin Mehta

An American orchestra doesn't want to play more than it has to. I respectfully disagree with that attitude.

Chuck Zito

I broke two knuckles in my right hand when I gave Jean-Claude Van Damme an attitude adjustment. I got nothing except a medical bill.

Eartha Kitt

A lot can be said with just a look, or the way the body moves. Each song is a different character. So each song takes on a different movement of the body. And the body has to go with the subject and the attitude that you have toward that subject.

Esther Rolle

'Hollywood maids' are so idiotic. They grin at everything. I told Norman Lear I didn't want to play a maid because of that 'hee-hee/grin-grin' attitude, and he said, 'Who said I wanted that?' He told me he wanted two strong women that are the black and white of the same coin. I said, 'Oh, well - in that case, I'll be right there!'

David Byrne

Do creative, social, and civic attitudes change depending on where we live? Yes, I think so.

Amisha Patel

Being sexy is all about attitude, not body type. It's a state of mind.

Twyla Tharp

My father always said, 'I don't care if you're a ditch digger, as long as you're the best ditch digger in the world.'

Twyla Tharp

Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is the result of good work habits.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Custard is controversial: what makes it a custard, how best to cook it and, crucially, is it to be eaten or put in a pie and thrown?

Yani Tseng

It's very easy when you have someone in front of you that you can chase. You want to be No. 1 but now I feel like I have to play well because everybody looks at you as a best golfer. So that's why I put more pressure on myself.

Thucydides

We should remember that one man is much the same as another, and that he is best who is trained in the severest school.

Timothy Noah

There's a growing consensus that the best way to defeat communism in Cuba is to get its citizens hooked on American goods.

Thomas Friedman

I can see a day soon where you'll create your own college degree by taking the best online courses from the best professors from around the world - some computing from Stanford, some entrepreneurship from Wharton, some ethics from Brandeis, some literature from Edinburgh - paying only the nominal fee for the certificates of completion.

Idina Menzel

I used to take 40 minutes to warm up before going on stage. If you want to spend time with your child as well as having a career, you have to get up there even if your head's a mess. It's made me more relaxed, and I'm having some of my best shows.

Idina Menzel

I'd been a wedding singer through college, but after a few years of doing my best renditions of jazz standards to clinking glasses and the sound of forks on salad, I thought, 'Oh God, if this is all I do, I'll never be able to live with myself.'

Antonin Artaud

Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your bones.

Gore Vidal

What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?

C. S. Lewis

The only way to drive out bad culture is to create good culture. We need to recognize that artistic talent is a gift from the Lord - and that developing those talents is the only way to create good culture.

Bethenny Frankel

Faith, culture, structure and guidance are good things.

Laura Bush

The American people realize we have a new culture and that is one of being vigilant,

Elizabeth Hoffman

We need to know whether there is a culture that promotes inappropriate relationships with women,

Reza Aslan

Literature offers not just a window into the culture of diverse regions, but also the society, the politics; it's the only place where we can keep track of ideas.

Diana Lee

We wanted to live with our art. But the pleasure is not from owning the objects. The pleasure and the satisfaction come from using the objects to glean an understanding of a culture and a society so many years ago.

Orhan Pamuk

We should not judge Islam by terrorists. All civilizations and cultures produce terrorists. Every time there is a flag-burning, killing, or provocative films, I'm worried, not because something radical will happen, and this time, some people are killed. We're very sorry for that.

Mike Gillespie

I'm a huge fan of his. His makeup is perfect. He's a worker. His demeanor is always the same; never too high, never too low. He's got no issues (with his temper). He's a jewel.

Omar Jacobs

He's a real straightforward guy. You could tell by his demeanor he's a good person.

Jim Thomas

I think it's his rough demeanor that I like. He's one of those guys that just keeps going. You could knock him down, but he'd just get up and go after it again.

Damian Miller

He was impressive. His demeanor never changes. It doesn't matter if he's getting hit around or if he's cruising; he looks the same out there.

Pat Riley

He has a great demeanor about it. If he got upset, it would be awful.

Kent Conrad

He has the right kind of demeanor to be a judge. He listens to others and is not dogmatic,

Chip Babcock

Frankly, their demeanor is going to mean more than what they say.

Keyshawn Johnson

When you win, it obviously makes things a lot better, ... demeanor never really changes.

Tommy Bowden

I thought we'd have more full-speed collisions so far, ... He has a toughness, meanness, the personality and demeanor we need. Maybe he'll be in one of those collisions this week.

Anthony D'Angelo

Smile, it is the key that fits the lock of everybody's heart.

Anne Wilson Schaef

Looking after my health today gives me a better hope for tomorrow.

Vincent Pastore

'The Sopranos' wardrobe people would sometimes go over there and just grab stuff off the racks, because B&G has that style that never ages. It's like a '50s or '60s style. It fits me well.

Nayvadius Cash

I gotta have my long trench coats, a nice scarf for the winter time when you're walking around, and some nice fitted jeans to go with the trench coats.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Some husbands regard it as their prerogative to compel their wives to fit their standards of what they think to be the ideal.

P. J. O'Rourke

The 1960s was an era of big thoughts. And yet, amazingly, each of these thoughts could fit on a T-shirt.

Paul Morrison

(The) 10K (distance) is longer than I'm used to, ... But if the weather is right, with no wind, I think I have the fitness to do it.

Regis Philbin

Regis can do anything these young punks can do. I fit right in there with my Fox people. They want Regis to dance, Regis will dance. They want Regis to lift weights with them, Regis will lift weights with them. Whatever they want!

Daniel Harris

Today wasn't fitting for him, I don't think, so everyone's pretty disappointed.

Pierce Brosnan

I am the actor that I am. I do what I do. I've been a 'leading man' playing romantic leads for a long time now.

Philip Dow

I think this is a one-day pause. I'd be really surprised if this was all there is to this rally. .. . I don't see anything in the tape today that leads me to think this trend should be over.

Jonathan Chen

Listen to others with an open mind. Normally, that leads to a pleasant conversation.

Mike Haley

We don't have any leads that would take us out of this area,

Damien Hirst

One thing leads to another with my work.

Tim Donovan

For the second match in a row, we have leads and get to 20 points and lose our focus. We have to learn to put teams away when we're ahead.

Vidya Balan

I think the beautiful thing about the past is that it leads you to the present.

Ailyn Perez

Sometimes the leads are equally balanced, like in 'Romeo and Juliet,' but sometimes they're just not.

Susanna Moore

The point always is to be writing something - it leads to more writing.

Jeff Adrien

That was the first thing I said when I got back in the locker room, I can't wait until Monday. It's a big game, national TV.

Tracey Tipton

Like I told them in the locker room, in my mind they are the No. 1 team in the country.

Ruth Gordon

. L-I-V-E. LIVE! Otherwise, you got nothing to talk about in the locker room.

Kevin Rogers

Nobody in (our) locker room condones that. Nobody does.

Russell Robinson

I don't think we're underdogs. I don't think any of the people in the locker room think we're underdogs.

Rick Byrd

I don't go on stage, and he doesn't come into the locker room.

Phillip Fulmer

We're going to miss him in the locker room as a leader. I know Jason. He'll be around and part of what we're trying to do.

Keegan Bradley

I love team environments, like the Celtics, the Bruins. I love going into the locker room and meeting these guys.

Larry Brown

With this win, in that locker room, they needed something positive.

Bill Bryson

I'm quite certain that if the rest of the world vanished overnight and the development of cricket were left in Australian hands, within a generation, the players would be wearing shorts and using the bats to hit each other, and the thing is, it'd be a much better game for it.

Arsene Wenger

Unfortunately apparently I am to blame because I don't produce enough English players.

Arsene Wenger

Sometimes I see it [a foul by an Arsenal player], but I say that I didn’t see it to protect the players and because I could not find any rational explanation for what they did.

Arsene Wenger

You build a player like you build a house. You start with the foundations. The fundamentals.

Arsene Wenger

Who is the Best Player in the World? Leo Messi. Who is the Best Player Ever? Leo Messi!

Arsene Wenger

I think generally the Japanese players have more intensity in practice but generally I do the same things.

Arsene Wenger

As a coach you can influence the diet of your players. You can point out what is wrong.

Arsene Wenger

English players are as easy to coach. The problem is that the Premier League has the best players in the world, and statistically not all of them can be born in England. But we don't have enough English players: we are working very hard on it.

Bill Bruford

One of the great things about having good players in your band is that you just ask them questions. You can pick up some good information that way.

Vince Clarke

When we start to write for a new record, we never really know what we're doing. We don't come into the room with a set of ideas, but miraculously, a song comes out of it.

Carrie Fisher

I really love the internet. They say chat-rooms are the trailer park of the internet but I find it amazing.

Bill Bruford

And I like messing around in the engine room of music. Seeing what happens in the rhythm section area.

Madonna Ciccone

I think it's fun to get in a room and sweat with people. I'm happy to share my workouts with everyone.

Pat Nixon

I'll have to have a room of my own. Nobody could sleep with Dick. He wakes up during the night, switches on the lights, speaks into his tape recorder.

Tony Russa

I think the thing not to misunderstand is that he has not been sitting in the training room or on a bench. He's been taking 100 swings a day.

Richard Riley

little room for testing or for any slippage in their schedules.

Terrence Holt

I still have my same room over there. I can still crash.

Richard Kovalcheck

We don't have room to not be focused,

Mark Polansky

When the application sets are similar, there?s movement.

David Hallberg

When stress sets in, and pressure, I focus.

Gregg Marshall

It all sets up for a lot of drama.

Dinah Maria Mulock

It is astonishing what a lot of odd minutes one can catch during the day, if one really sets about it.

Alastair Reynolds

I think the danger with using the term 'trilogy' is that it sets up particular expectations in the reader's mind.

Amy Cooper

When Kyra sets it makes her a lot more vocal and involved. She has a tendency when she's not setting to become an island. Kyra's a really smart player.

Kobe Bryant

They just have more sets now and more options. They are looser.

Shana Martin

I want to be the person who sets the curve.

Brent Pohlonski

We always say our team is like a family. With so many sets of siblings, it just makes it more like a family.

Ricki-Lee Coulter

'Raining Diamonds' talks about knowing there's something better out there. You don't have to just settle.

Roman Harper

He talks more out there than he does all week.

Steve Alford

We've already kind of had all the talks that we were going to have.

M.I.A.

In New York, everyone's really neurotic and talks about themselves all the time.

Sugar Ray Leonard

When the trainer talks to the fighter, there's a connection. You don't always have to say much.

Michael Huff

Jimmy's different. He kind of talks all the time. But it's all in fun.

Billy Bush

She talks about two people. From your experience, is that right?

Rich Cohen

When a movie star sits and talks to you, it's almost always, and only, because she's promoting something.

Lindsey Williams

Talks have been constructive, but there is still work to do.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I cannot speak in happy tones.

Adolf Hitler

Consequently, the tone, particularly that of the Viennese anti-Semitic press, seemed to me unworthy of the cultural tradition of a great nation.

Tyler, The Creator

I really want to sing, but my tone of voice is really too deep to do what I want.

Mike Dunham

I think we took the play to them in the first period. We didn't give them anything, which set the tone for the game.

Charles Grant

But the tone will change, and in diplomacy, the tone is often the reality.

Jim Crosbie

They just kind of went for the jugular right off the bat. ... They're going to come out and try to set the tone early.

Steve Cook

That really set the tone for our offense. It's been that way for us all year.

Aaron Boone

They completely set the tone for us tonight.

Cornel West

For me, musicians are poets. Beethoven describes himself as a poet of tones, just like Coltrane's a poet of tempo.