Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

Meditation on inevitable death should be performed daily. Every day one should meditate on being carried away by surging waves, falling from thousand-foot cliffs, dying of disease.

Yann Tiersen

I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.

Will Shields

I'm most proud of the fact I carried myself on and off the field consistently for what the NFL stands for.

Elizabeth Warren

I loved teaching, but every day that I went to work, I carried the worry that I was hurting my kids because I wasn't at home with them.

Barack Obama

So while I will never minimize the costs involved in military action, I am convinced that a failure to act in Libya would have carried a far greater price for America.

John Grant

We could have really put them in a hole, and we could have carried some momentum.

Morris Dees

She was in a difficult position being the widow of a great American hero, a role that carried high expectations but she did a credible job of continuing Dr King's dream especially in the face of a changing and often hostile American public.

Chris Corrigan

Toll has negotiated for itself a 20-year contract which gives it exclusive rights to all of the freight carried by Pacific National in Queensland,

Liz Sutman

We have a lot of kids who are older but didn't play much last year. They carried themselves today.

Will Chase

Look at Greg Jbara! I've watched him work for years, always switching. He's literally a different human being when he's onstage in 'Billy Elliot.' That's the fun of what we do.

Billy Graham

The human heart is the same the world over.

Ellie Goulding

I'm not afraid, as a writer, of being emotional. I'm obsessed with human emotion, body parts, physicality.

Bonnie Bassler

Bacteria are single-celled organisms. Bacteria are the model organisms for everything that we know in higher organisms. There are 10 times more bacterial cells in you or on you than human cells.

David Hanson

The perception of identity is so intimately bound up with the perception of the human form.

Donald Johanson

When I realized, in 1978, that Lucy did represent a new species of human ancestor, and that I had an opportunity to name this new species, I realized this was a revolutionary step in understanding human origins.

Newt Gingrich

We're all human and we all goof. Do things that may be wrong, but do something.

Ricky Martin

The rights of homosexual people are human rights, and human rights are for everyone.

Nina Easton

Reality shows serve up juicy drama out of human shortcomings.

Kathleen Blanco

We have a lot of talent in Louisiana, ... For years, our musicians have had to go to Nashville or New York to record.,

Derek Bailey

I'd like trios and quartets actually, but I like duos because a lot of musicians who I like playing with like playing duos.

Corin Tucker

I feel really privileged that I've been able to be an activist and a musician for over 20 years now, and I've always been able to say whatever I want. I think that's something we Americans really take for granted, but it's a big deal, and it's not something most people in the world are able to do.

Dhani Harrison

I did everything I could to not be a musician

Buddy Rich

A great musician is just a thief who doesn't get caught

Buddy Guy

Blues musicians don't retire. They drop.

Carlos Santana

I can show you that I have played with just about every jazz musician, every African musician, every blues musician. It's not like I'm cashing in on a false concept. This is what I do.

Charlie Byrd

And a musician has to learn to be frugal and to carefully manage financial affairs

Chad Smith

I'm a musician. It's what I do! I wouldn't be too good at anything else.

Carrie Chapman Catt

the system which admits the unworthy to the vote provided they are men, and shuts out the worthy provided they are women, is so unjust and illogical that its perpetuation is a sad reflection upon American thinking.

Bergen Evans

Many studies have established the fact that there is a high correlation between vocabulary and intelligence and that the ability to increase one's vocabulary throughout life is a sure reflection of intellectual progress.

Bill Budge

On the robot kit, I can choose very boring parts or I can choose exciting and interesting parts. That is a reflection of my personality and the kinds of things I am interested in.

Josh Beekman

You are a reflection of the school. You're not just representing BC, but also yourself.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

He who is different from me does not impoverish me - he enriches me. Our unity is constituted in something higher than ourselves - in Man... For no man seeks to hear his own echo, or to find his reflection in the glass.

Louis Cataldie

I don't think it's any reflection on that hospital. They did all the right things. They ultimately got their own helicopters to come in.

Corey Dillon

I take (low rushing numbers) personally. That's a reflection on me.

Byron Katie

When you do The Work, you see who you are by seeing who you think other people are. Eventually you come to see that everything outside you is a reflection of your own thinking. You are the storyteller, the projector of all stories, and the world is the projected image of your thoughts.

Cesare Pavese

Childhood is not only the childhood we really had but also the impressions we formed of it in our adolescence and maturity. That is why childhood seems so long. Probably every period of life is multiplied by our reflections upon the next.

Robin Oakley

are not remotely on the same scale as the U.S..

Jeffrey Skilling

I never did that. I don't think I did anything remotely like that.

Nate Lowman

I think that fashion is industrial, whereas style is ideological. So they're not necessarily connected.

Marie Trintignant

The theatre fulfills, whereas the cinema is empty.