Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Adamo

From the late Classical period and more so in Romantic and Modern opera, the weight settled into the orchestra, with the voices as a free obbligato above it, ... That just drives me crazy. I want the vocal line to be as much the core as the bass line. I want to create the illusion that the voice generates harmony, color, line, everything.

Al Alvarez

I had attacked the British poets' nervous preference for gentility above all else.

Charles Dickens

I have been looking on, this evening, at a merry company of children assembled round that pretty German toy, a Christmas Tree. The tree was planted in the middle of a great round table, and towered high above their heads. It was brilliantly lighted by a multitude of little tapers; and everywhere sparkled and glittered with bright objects.

Peter Capaldi

I hated improvisation because in my early days as an actor, improvisation meant somebody had just come down from Oxford and they were doing a play above a pub in Kentish Town, and the biggest ego would win.

Alan Page

I felt like I played in a very tough football game with no hitting above the waist.

Jimmy Walker

I feel sad to see our former president picture in handcuffs but happy to know that no one is above the law.

Paul Emanovsky

I did go through his pockets and I did not find any identification. There is a badge above his shirt pocket but it was corroded.

Champ Bailey

I can't go too far above my head because of it. It keeps me from going in the wrong direction. I can still catch balls and pick the ball off.

Al Naomi

I can't go above it by law. That's what I am authorized to do. Anything above that means I have to spend money that Congress specifically authorizes for that purpose. Only then we can go build it. It's not simple.

Bobby Schilling

I come from the restaurant business; you're talking to a guy used to working 12, 14 hours a day.

Stephen Mulloney

Conflict of interest is in the eyes of the beholder. It's part of the way we do business in the United States.

Phil Condit

We are strategically realigning our operations in response to global business realities, ... We are reducing costs.

Mark Loughridge

We had really good momentum in short-term signings, and we think that will continue in the second quarter. Long-term signings as we exited 2005 were up 19 percent, and now long-term signings are up 20 percent. All of that bodes well for that business as we go forward.

Susan Tolchin

We went into the prescription business because we wanted to help people lower the cost of their prescription drugs. There is no cost to the taxpayer or the county. People can save a lot of money.

Mark Sanders

We have faced plenty of tough times over the years and the office supply business has undergone some major changes, but the relationships we have established with our clients have carried us through and continue to do so today.

Sue Bjorland

We garner new business because of our location at Hometown. There, the traffic comes to us because of the location. That won't happen downtown.

J. J. Johnson

We found that there's been a New York way of doing business.

Paul Young

We can now move forward and implement new business strategies which will ensure the club's future.

Jodi Picoult

As it turned out, hell wasn't watching the people you love get hurt; it was coming in during the second act, when it was already too late to stop it from happening.

Bryan Price

We hope to see some real signs of the rotation coming to life in the last month. Or, inevitably, you're going to have to make a decision.

Robby Wine

Even today with the rain we had last night, the field's playing 10 times better. We're just jelling. Our team is coming together. The defense will be OK if we keep water on the field and the hops true.

Andrew Olvera

At 8:25 a.m. when they got there, they saw heavy smoke and fire coming from the second floor.

Bobby Brasel

We knew coming into the game Julia Montebello was 2-23 from the 3-point range, so we didn't concentrate on her as much. We have to tip our hat to her though because she made a big shot when it counted the most for them.

Robyne Johnson

We have a couple of other opportunities to run fast and make strides with the New England Championships and the ECAC Championships coming up.

Shawn Rojeski

We had to kind of gamble a little, to try to steal a point or points from them. We kind of put the game on the line going into that end. We were either going to steal a point and be tied coming home, or give them the game there in the ninth.

David Bedford

We had to deal with the disappointment of Paula Radcliffe coming out of our race. Perhaps the evidence of how strong our race is that our event can withstand that. We still have a great women's race.

Randy Thoreson

We had three guys coming in unmarked. That's a nightmare for a goalie.

Ken Goldstein

The performance of the leading index is suggestive of continued momentum or growth in the spring.

Richard Butler

But, as I understand it, the core (of the inspection team) would still be the technicians and professionals from UNSCOM whose job it is to identify anything relevant to weapons of mass destruction. If that's the way this thing comes out by way of a solution, fine, because the core is still our technical work and our task of disarmament.

Abby Cohen

We expect profit growth to decelerate in the second half of 2004.

Robert Long

I would expect a strong payrolls number Friday, and for the market to have some sort of positive response to it, even if it's just very short-term.

Todd Barker

We were missing several girls (for various reasons), and all of them would've placed. I really did expect the guys to win.

Thomas Burke

It is a fact of life that the higher you go in public service and the higher your pay is the lower the expectation of privacy.

Phyllis Reed

I think the markets expect just about any outcome, though I don't think an ECB or a Swedish rate hike would be seen as a surprise. However, a U.K. hike would be a surprise, given what sterling has done since the last rise.

David Ditzel

We expect to sell a lot of chips.

Doug Duncan

We expect to see a modest rise in delinquencies in the quarters ahead.

Dick Hamilton

We expect to save money in the long term.

Ed Ortego

We expect to improve fairly rapidly as the season goes on.

Alan Moore

Romantic poetry had its heyday when people like Lord Byron were kicking it large. But you try and make a living as a poet today, and you'll find it's very different!