Famous Quotes & Sayings

Solomon Asch

Most social acts have to be understood in their setting and lose meaning if isolated... No error in thinking about social facts is more serious than the failure to see their place and function.

Chris Hope

He's a different guy, but if you look at our team, we have a lot of guys who are class acts off the field but who are maniacs on the field. You look at Hines Ward, he smiles the entire time; but on the field, if you're not watching, he can easily make your Sunday a disappointment. Jerome Bettis is a yes-sir, no-sir guy, but on the field he can hammer you, too. That's just the makeup of our team.

Mel Sachs

He should not be held responsible for the acts of his co-defendant at all.

George Berkeley

Westward the course of empire takes its way; / The four first acts already past, / A fifth shall close the drama with the day: / Time's noblest offspring is the last.

Din Syamsudin

We told him to withdraw his troops from Iraq, because the occupation is only promoting more radicalism and new acts of terrorism.

Mike Love

I think between The Beach Boys, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and innumerable acts after that... rock music became a huge economic force.

Dana Hayter

I think any company that can make a case that it has been damaged by the exclusionary acts affirmed in the Court of Appeals opinion would be able to use the facts from this case once the case becomes final.

Mosab Hassan Yousef

It is not difficult for us to understand the love of God. When the love of our Lord is in a man's heart, this man acts totally different.

Jerry Smith

It is my understanding that there is a history of a violent acts prior to this. It had something to do with throwing rocks off an overpass at passing cars.

Joe Henderson

I was joking but he took responded seriously: 'I would know, and I couldn't live with myself knowing that I'd only run 97 miles or whatever.'

John Fogerty

I wrote that song for my wife, and it's what some guy who's sitting under a tree would be singing to the woman of his life, telling her how wonderful she is. To me, that's more lasting than something that sounds like it belongs on a movie soundtrack.

Grandmaster Flash

We can come from our own particular point of view and lay it down. We should not be throwing verbal rocks at each other. We're all responsible to continue the growth of Hip Hop.

Solomon Burke

I walked out of the Chinese restaurant with a fat check, a record deal, and a box of shrimp egg foo yung!

Danny Elfman

Having ten melodies was also a huge challenge, because I usually have three - sometimes just one or two, but often three that I'm using.

Gavin DeGraw

I think it's important not to worry about that too much, because even if I was the next big thing, there would be another next big thing soon.

Otis Blackwell

I think the one that really happened was Fever with Little Willie John. But, it only went so far because Peggy Lee jumped on it.

Jerry Harrison

I think that the increased bandwith will make music and movie clips a lot more satisfying; but it won't sort out boring ideas or songs.

Adrian Belew

We expect to keep our writing sessions going until late spring, then to play some new material in a few secret club dates. The record will likely take a long time and may not surface until 1999!

Robbie Robertson

Chuck Berry told me if it wasn't for Louis Jordan, he wouldn't have probably ever even got into music. That Louis Jordan changed everything and made him want to become a musician.

Virginia Postrel

The elements that create glamour are not specific styles - bias-cut gowns or lacquered furniture - but more general qualities: grace, mystery, transcendence. To the right audience, Halle Berry is more glamorous commanding the elements as Storm in the X-Men movies than she is walking the red carpet in a designer gown.

Mike Quinn

Coming to Winnipeg had a lot to do with coach Berry being familiar with me. He said I'd have a great opportunity and he got me excited to play again.

William Butler

Doubtless God could have made a better berry (than the strawberry), but doubtless God never did

Janet Davis

There is no substitute for human blood, and with such a large demand, Berry employees are proud to come together to support such an important cause and help save lives in the community.

Alex Winston

Growing up, I never listened to English music. I was more into Motown, as well as early rock n' roll like Chuck Berry and Little Richard.

Jeff Jones

I expect Berry to spread the floor with their Princeton offense. They're going to be tough to defend. Berry is well coached and they're going to be ready to play.

Denny Green

If we stop the run, I think we can do a pretty good job of rushing the passer. If they're having success running, then that nullifies the pass rushing capabilities of Bertrand Berry and Chike Okeafor.

Dave Karger

She's going to be the Halle Berry of the season. She's got the charisma, the look. People will be watching what she wears, how she handles the pressure.

Matt Reeves

I discovered the fun of genre is... you get to explore your fears, and you get to use the metaphor of the genre - whether it's a giant monster or a... 12-year-old vampire. Whatever it is, you can sink something underneath the surface and make a personal film under the guise of great fun romp.

Michael Steger

I discovered that I wanted to be an actor back when I did my first play in junior high. I've been doing theater in junior high and high school, and I just kept feeding the fire, kept wanting to pursue acting full-on.

Trent Reznor

I think the reason I was 23 before I ever wrote a song was that I was afraid of testing myself. What would I do if I discovered I didn't have anything to say?

Tristram Stuart

As human pastoralists discovered 8,000 years ago, raising animals can be an efficient way of harnessing otherwise unusable resources such as grass.

Janis Joplin

As a matter of fact, as we discovered on the train, tomorrow never happens, man. It's all the same f***ing day, man.

Wolfgang Ketterle

After earning my Ph.D., I stayed at the Max-Planck Institute as a postdoc, working on laser excitation of Rydberg states of triatomic hydrogen and helium hydride. I also succeeded in analyzing all the emission spectra of helium hydride, which I had discovered during my Ph.D.

Rig Veda

Sages discovered this link of the existent to the nonexistent, having searched in the heart with wisdom.

Andy Williams

I've discovered that there's another way of living that I have never known. Things have changed.

Robert Smith

I've discovered special makeup by a company called M.A.C. You could wear it on the surface of the sun and it wouldn't move.

Richie Sambora

I think what it all comes down to, first and foremost, is songwriting, ... Nashville has been famous for writing great songs.

Sophie B. Hawkins

I didn't want to be a performer. I didn't want to be famous.

Johnathon Schaech

I never wanted to be famous. I want to be more famous than I am so I can get the roles. I hate losing the roles. I was famous more for being around people who were famous, and I hate that kind of fame.

James Graham

I'll make thee glorious by my pen, And famous by my sword.

Tom Izzo

I'm only embarrassed that in front of our two most famous alums, we didn't play with that same kind of tenacity.

Dan Wheldon

I'm very proud of this team. They worked so hard all night long. There are some famous names that have won this race, and to now be on that list is very, very special.

Ronald Harwood

I mean he's a very famous director... they're not going to put their... and he's very tough, he doesn't like interference at all, so he kept them at bay.

Liz Smith

I mean he did this over and over again. He, he helped make me famous.

Brian Littrell

I'm not famous, I'm just in the spotlight more than you.

Carol Ierulli

I did not play sports, I was the studious one and I was always in the library.

Joe Elliott

It's big production. It's huge. It's using studio technology to your benefit. You don't go in and play live and then just take the tapes and get them mastered. You have to create.

Lady Gaga

Off to the STUDIO in my new whip

Harry Treadaway

I was used to getting changed in pub toilets before going on set. Then suddenly I had studios in L.A. advising me on my hair.

Bill Forsyth

The studio system reminds me of the stock market.

James Gray

I was going to Studio 54 when I was 12 years old. It's true. It's crazy.

Bruce Weber

Sometimes there's a sense of closing yourself off on a shoot, and I try not to do that. Sometimes you have to, like when you're in a studio and you're doing fashion shooting, but I don't even do it then.

David R. Ellis

Well, I think on second units it's all about execution. Because you come in there, you don't have to worry so much about the studio and all the other actors and all that.

Vonda Shepard

I spend a lot of time working in the studio as a producer, not just a singer.

Dudley Etheridge

He kind of turned it around for us.

Dan Hinote

I made the hit, turned around and it was chaos. I still don't know what happened.

Tamra Strano

Once I turned in the packet, I didn't have another thought about it.

Steve Olson

It turned out to be the right project.

William Bass

No, ... That's just how it turned out.

Kris Britton

And they went in there and turned it up.

Monty Python

-She turned me into a newt! -A newt?-I got better...

Huston Street

Ginter and Elly, they turned it so quick. Off the bat, I thought they had no chance. That right there is the game. It's another run.

Heath Sager

I think so. I thought we were much better than an 0-3 team. Now we've kind of turned the corner.