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.

Martin Jacques

One of the extraordinary features of the Blair government has been its slavish support for the central tenets of Bush's foreign policy - above all, the war in Iraq. During the Cold War, the Wilson government resisted the suggestion that it should send troops to Vietnam.

Paul Ballew

I would describe it as a pretty solid year for the industry and one that is above our expectations that we had at the beginning part of the year.

Jeremy Bonderman

If we don't play some games that matter late in the season and finish above .500, it'll be a really disappointing year.

David Scott

If we get interest rates above 7 percent, we'll see a significant pullback on housing valuations.

Jason Fuchs

I got stuck on the Peter Pan ride when I was nine years old with my dad at Disney World. We got stuck on that part of the ride when you're suspended in the pirate ship above the miniature London, and I was fascinated by the why of it all. 'Why is Peter Peter Pan, why is he in Neverland, how did he learn how to fly, etc.?'

Harry Redknapp

If we can pick up six points from two games then we can close up on the teams above us and make a real fight of it.

Mike Hofland

She's shooting above 35 percent from the three-point line. Our other girls are starting to look for her more often. She does a nice job of coming off screens.

Kathy Thomas

She's gone above and beyond. She works hard.

Bobby Martin

Somebody told me this the other day, but J.C. could probably average 30 points per game on another team. Or vice-versa for Ridge. But by sharing it makes us an even bigger threat.

Bobby Rahal

In 1982 when I showed up, the average age of the drivers in the series was something like 40, 41. The crowds were small. There was not much prize money. The competition wasn't very tight.

Friedrich Nietzsche

To become the founder of a new religion one must be psychologically infallible in one's knowledge of a certain average type of souls who have not yet recognized that they belong together.

Jennifer Hudson

I'm proud to represent the average woman.

George Will

The average American expends more time becoming informed about choosing a car than choosing a candidate. But, then, the consequences of the former choice are immediate and discernible.

George Saunders

When something really bad is going on in a culture, the average guy doesn't see it. He can't. He's average and is surrounded by and immersed in the cant and discourse of the status quo.

Jeff Olson

Your income tends to equal the average income of your five best friends,

Josh Paul

Good luck. That's how many strikeouts (an average of 245) over how many years (27)? Straight. Without getting hurt, without whatever. That's pretty good.

George Bernard Shaw

Laws, religions, creeds, and systems of ethics, instead of making society better than its best unit, make it worse than its average unit, because they are never up to date.

Donald Trump

The plan I am proposing today does not involve smoke and mirrors, phony numbers, financial gimmicks, or the usual economic chicanery you usually find in Disneyland-on-the-Potomac.

Dave Edwards

People like to give to where they live, and after these episodic events they tend to give more. A lot of this has more to do with the economy than with the cause.

Paul Ballew

We're seeing a good, solid performance so far this year.

Michael Toudouze

We're finally putting San Antonio on the map. Nobody gets recruited down here because I guess we're too far south. But there's a lot of talent down here that people are finding out about now.

Peter Gallagher

I feel like I won the Lotto, as far as that show's concerned.

Al Groh

They're kind of back to that old Florida State, NASCAR offense. 'Gentlemen, start your engines.' They run four of them down the field as fast as they can run, he (Weatherford) throws it up, and one of them makes a play.

Bobby Kielty

It was one of those things -- when it got to be 2-0, I wanted to see a fastball and get a hack on it.

Stephane Peterhansel

It was a really fast stage today, especially at the beginning,

Scott Smith

We probably did it twice as fast as we would have done it otherwise.

Tina Maze

Skiing is always so huge, you need so many talents to be fast and be good at this sport.

Chris Richard

Our four big guys can run with guards. And we all know it, so when we go on a fast break, it's like a track meet with us running side by side down court.

Raymond Domenech

We will have to play fast and move a lot,

Coach Amen

We had a fast start, then Milford had a 12-0 run, then we held them.

Jeff Halpern

You have to be fast now. You used to be able to get by with hooking and holding. Not now. You can't wrap guys up the way it was in the past.

Clara Barton

Although its growth may seem to have been slow, it is to be remembered that it is not a shrub, or plant, to shoot up in the summerand wither in the frosts. The Red Cross is a part of us--it has come to stay--and like the sturdy oak, its spreading branches shall yet encompass and shelter the relief of the nation.

John Parker

We want to see more positive growth in North America.

Shelby Seyrafi

Who wants to be No.1 in a market which is saturated and has slow growth prospects near term.

Bobby Howard

We were leading 7-2 in the game. We just didn't get it done.

Bobby Scott

The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years.

Simone Elkeles

God take care of him, because he's my past and my future

Simone de Beauvoir

from one minute to the next the present is merely an honorary past. It must be filled unceasingly anew to dissemble the curse it carries within itself; that is why Americans like speed, alcohol, thriller films and any sensational news: the demand for new things, and ever newer things, is feverish since nowhere will they rest.

Simone de Beauvoir

We must not confuse the present with the past. With regard to the past, no further action is possible.

Simone Weil

If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their past, future historians would certainly pronounce that she had civilized Europe.

Simon Sinek

Vision is the ability to talk about the future with such clarity it is as if we are talking about the past.

Simon Sinek

The challenge of the unknown future is so much more exciting than the stories of the accomplished past.

Simon Schama

In its Greek origins, historia meant inquiry, and from Thucydides onwards, the past has been studied to understand its connections with the present.

Simon Hoggart

I also learned to play Fruit Ninja on an iPad. It is quite hypnotic, and I hope one day to get past 100 points. I remembered that David Cameron admits to being an addict. I wonder if it helps him in his work. 'Great, just destroyed a pineapple! Reminds me, shall we send those grenades to the Syrian rebels?'