Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Martin

The thing about the banjo is, when you first hear it, it strikes many people as 'What's that?' There's something very compelling about it to certain people; that's the way I was; that's the way a lot of banjo players and people who love the banjo are.

Craig Miner

Could I get more banjo in the monitors please?

Mena Grabowski Trott

I wrote a post about wanting to buy a banjo - a $300 banjo, which is a lot of money, and I don't play instruments; I don't know anything about music. I like music, and I like banjos, and I think I probably heard Steve Martin playing, and I said, 'I could do that.' And I said to my husband, I said, 'Ben, can I buy a banjo?' And he's like, 'No.'

Abigail Washburn

When I first started playing the banjo and miraculously fell into a record deal in Nashville, TN, there was a period when I didn't go to China. It hurt. Like a pain in my gut... that pain you feel when you know it's time to connect with your parents or your God or your child or your past or your future... and you don't do it.

Douglas Love

Know the company you're buying from, ... I would opt for purchasing directly from a Hertz or Enterprise. But I'd be careful of vehicles that come from corporations. They can generate lots of mileage.

Kevin Ford

Kids like that are just a testament to putting their time in the right environment. I always tell them, if you buy into the system it'll pay off.

Tiffany Miller

Kids go by all the time to buy one. I don't think there is a kid that doesn't get one.

Gary Harris

I would think they would have to come down over time. How fast and how far depends on how much fear stays in the consumer marketplace. Panic buying spurs some of this.

Jon Brorson

I wouldn't be surprised if the market wakes up tomorrow and buys them (stocks) back again.

Dennis McAlpine

I wouldn't be at all surprised to see radio and outdoor come up for sale, and Mel using some of his money to buy them again, if for no other reason than to show he can make it work.

Patrick Kelly

I would say that I am doing less comfort purchases, like buying a CD. I am not doing that because I have to pay to get around.

George Iny

I would say overall it was a relatively stress free market. People were more on the level and the condition of the vehicles was better than buying in Toronto or Vancouver for sure.

Ferdinand Marcos

I would venture to say that if you want to buy dollars, they would be cheapest here because of the volume of remittances,

Jeff Foxworthy

I was like, 'Have you all heard me talk?' ... You know, nobody's making Seinfeld live in Indiana.

Dorothy Smith

I was in on the meeting with the developers. I heard their presentation, and I liked what they said.

Greg Beratlis

I would've liked to have heard something out of his mouth. Yes, anything. A plea for his life or just his opinion on what went on over the last two years,

Randy Harris

I would say it would be higher because we haven't heard from (several) other counties. As for how much higher, I wouldn't venture a guess.

Mark Mandel

John is never at a loss for words. But when he heard the news, he was speechless.

Billy Donovan

I think in this tournament, they've been able to inspire a lot of different people, people that maybe are really, really in need. I heard Jim talk about some stories of some people and the letters he's gotten. To me, that's what his team has been all about.

George Thorogood

I take it that some of you people have heard this song before.

Felicity Huffman

I actually haven't heard the phrase 'overnight success,' but I know that most of the world doesn't know who I am.

Oprah Winfrey

I also heard I was helping you find a house because I wanted you near me.

Jason Schwartzman

He just nailed it, ... I don't know how he nailed it; that's why he's Steve Martin ... he's a scientist of the heart, or something.

William Faulkner

When I have one martini, I feel bigger, wiser, taller. When I have a second, I feel superlative. When I have more, there's no holding me.

Jim Roche

The Lockheed Martin team is the winner on a best-value basis,

David Carter

There's an old saying about martinis ? one's not enough and three is too many. Races out here, one is not enough and you wonder if two is too many.

Henry Zebrowski

It's so fun to hear the reaction from Martin Scorsese as he sees you nude for the first time.

Mary Carillo

The rivalry of Chrissie and Martina (Navratilova). I have told them I'll work for free.

Jonas Bjorkman

We used to have strong representatives like Todd Martin on the player council, ... But now a lot of the players are stepping back, they say (the ATP Council/Board system) is not working anymore.

Martin Short

What I learned, a little too late, was that the 'traditional' Martin Short target viewer weighs under 300 pounds. Unfortunately, I was on during daytime.

Deborah Jordan

We want to get the message out that we're serious about stopping red-light running here in Martin County.

Edmund White

I was always ambitious - not to make money: to be published.

Pat McDonald

I think it probably should just be torn down. It's probably going to take a lot of money to rebuild.

Frank Melton

He wanted to put public money into it,

Chris Beatty

He'll be making a lot more money than that senator.

Grant Heslov

When I write, I make decent money doing it, but I don't wake up dreaming about writing.

Shaquille O'Neal

I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money.

Simon Reuben

If you can't make 40% on your money in Russia, you're a fool.

Silvio Santos

I'm a TV man, not a money man.

Stanley Tucci

I'm not interested in wasting money on a project.

Ken Hill

Music is about textures as well as melody.

Ken Hill

Location is a very important aspect to songwriting.

Ken Hill

People don't have fun making music all the time.

Ken Hill

The more I do in my life, the more I can write music about new experiences.

Shamir

I was inspired to make music since I was 7 because my aunt is a songwriter.

Jake Brebes

I would say now we?re shooting toward putting the music out in a professional way.

Swae Lee

I write a lot of rhymes, but I don't really end up using them a lot of times, and I end up just freestyling. I like to write music, though, more than I like to freestyle, to be honest.

Andrew Lack

has got two revenue streams: one from our music and one from the sale of his iPods.

Graham Elliot

I played the guitar and thought that was what I was going to do as a career. I still record music that is played in my restaurants.

Sarah Rafferty

I honestly think I've gotten taller since I started doing Pilates. And my posture is totally different - no more slouching!

Kurt Cobain

I have very bad posture.

Bernie Sanders

It is time for Congress to save the Postal Service, not dismantle it.

Richard Boucher

Each post will look at its security posture and reopen at an appropriate time.

Howard Rubenstein

The New York Post will have no comment.

Chuck D.

They fronted me in the post (in the second half) and they really weren't going to let me get the ball.

Flynt Leverett

It's an undeclared posture of 'regime change' on the cheap.

Brooke Svendsen

We planted a post back to stop those quick attacks.

Bernard Ebbers

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Dale Murray

I told Steve he won't be out the door. He could still be on the staff.

Bus Cook

We have to get some things resolved. I'm sure the Titans want to keep Steve, and I'm sure they will. Steve wants to stay, and we want to keep him in Tennessee.

Cate Blanchett

Once you get an offer from Steven Soderbergh, you just do anything you can to make it fit.

Jim Heath

We think Steven (Duncan) will make it (to state) in the 100 back.

Digger Phelps

If this happens, this is time for Steve to make that move.

Eugene Christiansen

Horseracing is still waiting for its Steve Lipscomb,

Tom Muller

One job, one wife, one house. That's Steve Flores.

Allen Iverson

Steve set the tone for them and everyone else just followed.

Matt Birk

Steve Hutchinson, in my opinion, is worth that money.

Delta Goodrem

I was just burning, wanting to be on stage.

David Tom

I think it's more willpower than anything else, wanting to win more than anything else.

Gary Moore

We've been wanting to get that for a long time.

Rose Byrne

I'm the youngest of four, and I'm always the clown - making the jokes, wanting attention.

Joyce Meyer

Nobody has a perfect life and it's entirely possible that if you want someone else's life they are busy wanting someone else's too–maybe even yours.

Candice Wiggins

It's all about going out and being as competitive as you can and wanting to win.

Pat Riley

I've been wanting him for a long time. Now that I've got him, I can't take him off the court.

Al Gooden

You never get used to it. It is a traditional thing wanting to get down here.

Brad Meltzer

The point is, as death gets closer - what's so wrong with wanting someone you love to live forever?

Jennifer McMahon

I wrote my first short story in third grade.

Randy Alcorn

I wrote my first novel, 'Deadline,' in 1994 as an experiment.

Carlos Fuentes

I wrote it to show that not all mother-in-laws are bad.

John Prine

I wrote it just to get my father's attention,

Joseph Biden

He said he was 35 when he wrote that.

Andre Holland

I read a lot of W.E.B. Du Bois, who wrote 'The Souls of Black Folk.'

Alan Ball

I had no idea where I was going to go when I wrote the pilot,

Eddie Floyd

All I wanted to do was write songs, but all the things I wrote in Detroit, they put them out by different artists.

Natalie Babbitt

My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too.