Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Saffo

The lesson about all these things, it's the lesson from time capsules, is you have to be careful lest you set yourself up for enormous embarrassment in two decades. Do you really want to be reminded that you thought ABBA was cool?

Sharleen Spiteri

The song is Texas having a fresh look at that Giorgio Moroder vibe of uplifting electronic pop but with sexy slow vocals. I wanted to combine modern sounds with a real Billie Holliday kind of feel. When I was growing up my dad would be away at sea and my Mum, my sister and I would be at home blasting disco and Abba alongside her old Billie Holliday albums. I knew the spirit I wanted. I knew I could emulate that Billie Holliday sensibility - not the framed icon with the beautiful flower in her hair, but the slightly dark woman on the edge, this tortured brave singer who struggled around this merciless music circuit. It's a bit of a homage from my heart.

Ian Forrester

I've never been a rocker, and I kind of hate punk rock, ... I grew up on ABBA and the Carpenters. When I first practiced with these guys, I was scared. I figured they'd think I was a dork.

Michael Taylor

Come and relive this glittering era of pop history as the UK's number one Abba production - Abba Magic - perform all of Abba's hits live.

Bjorn Ulvaeus

Critics used to say that ABBA were formulaic or that our songs were rubbish. We never had time for those comments, though. We were sincere and devoted to what we did.

Bjorn Ulvaeus

Of course, we wore silly outfits, the pictures were corny, and some people still focus on that. But ABBA wasn't a big intellectual thing. We were a pop group.

Bono

I think ABBA have a pure joy to their music and that's what makes them extraordinary.

Bjorn Ulvaeus

I promise you, ABBA will never reform - I couldn't bear the stress of disappointing everyone.

Doris Meissner

What you have here, with illegal immigration, it's an issue in the economy. It's an issue where immigration law is out of date, an expression of a different era than the one we're living in.

Pat Russo

He's just lights out. His ERA is under one and when he gets it going things work out real well for us. He seems to come through for us every time.

Jim Bankoff

I think it's even more important to have quality in this era of Web media than it has ever been. The fusion of platform technology plus talent is what the next wave is all about, and that's where Vox Media is positioned.

Jorge Castaneda

to establish a new era in U.S.-Mexico relations.

Joe Miller

He did a good job running the offense. Howard had a few transition baskets in the run (to erase the 16-point deficit).

Roger Ailes

I grew up in the era when Dan Rather hated Richard Nixon. He was a newsman, but you knew what his opinion was.

David Potts

Remember that what we do is not 'to' or 'for' the poor, ... but 'with' the poor. And even if we fail to eradicate poverty in this area, it will be a glorious failure!

Elton Brand

In the past, we might have folded, but we erased that 12-point lead and we're up three at halftime. It's a great, great feeling. It's much different than before.

Mark Kantrowitz

The era of historically low interest rates on student loans has ended.

Christine Anderson

The world is glittering with gold, and yellow streamers of sunlight wind through the tree boughs like God was throwing a party!

William Benet

Like a knight in glittering armor,LaughterStood up at his side.

William Benet

Like a knight in glittering armor, Laughter Stood up at his side.

Vinny Testaverde

Knowing his past history ... I was very concerned.

Jaclyn Smith

Kmart's as much a part of my history as 'Charlie's Angels.' Twenty-five years! It's not just a celebrity brand.

Tony Judt

You don't have to be Jewish to understand the history of Europe in the 20th century, but it helps.

Harry S Truman

The only thing new in this world is the history that you don't know

Dani Shapiro

I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.

Lindsey Graham

What would you like history to say about you when it is all said and done,

Alec Reid

history will prove that this is the end of the IRA.

Alison Weir

History was a hobby for about, oh, 20 years before I got into print.

Don Rittner

History is an intricate web of of timing, people, circumstances, and serendipity.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Grief is so human, and it hits everyone at one point or another, at least, in their lives. If you love, you will grieve, and that's just given.

Sue Adams

Kim hits a 3, and all of a sudden everyone just started playing.

Sean McCurdy

He runs the team well and hits the open jump shot." ()

John Gibbons

He (Rios) wasn't benched (yesterday), he wasn't going to play (yesterday), ... Reed (Johnson) got three hits the night before and that's why he's in right.

Rob Kurz

He's got so much toughness at the end of the game. He's always willing the take the big shot, and most of the time he hits them.

George Jones

Hits I Missed - - and One I Didn't

Dusty Baker

He's going to hit. You don't usually stop hitting, and if you do, then somebody's in trouble, because a lot of hits are coming.

Curt Fredrickson

I was disappointed in our hitting. When you only have three hits in nine innings you are not going to win too many games.

Joey Gathright

He hits like a woman. Such a woman move, man.

Sharon Stone

I've never thought of myself as a great beauty -- just a great magician.

Robbie Tobeck

I think we have a lot of pride, and I think we work well together. There's no magic here. It's never really talked about, and if it is talked about, it's only in passing.

Anton LaVey

Magic is never totally scientifically explainable, but science has always been, at one time or another, considered magic.

Bill Jackson

He was the magic that got people there in record-setting time. It is very much his accomplishment.

Richelle Mead

Besides, I could hardly complain to the administration that I was being forced to learn magic.

Richelle Mead

Is it possible to specialize in more than one element?" She laughed and shook her head. "No. Too much power. No one could handle all that magic, not without losing her mind." Oh. Great.

Ric Ocasek

Oh oh it's magic, when I'm with you, oh oh it's magic, you know it's true, got a hold on you.

Robert James Waller

Analysis destroys wholes. Some things, magic things, are meant to stay whole. If you look at their pieces, they go away.

Wendelin Van Draanen

Turn down a chance to feel magic for fear of a little dirt?

Wes Walz

He was about 90 percent sure, and I said those are numbers I want to hear.

James Wicklund

There are so many variables to watch. With the API numbers on the way, everyone is in a wait and see attitude.

Charles Steinberg

What we have not seen in any significant numbers is people who refuse.

Benjamin Raich

Having to brake or be slow to get a better start number does not make sense. Braking is not something a skier should have to do. It isn't part of racing.

John Lindsey

Here, we're running into the problem of specific numbers again,

Mike Favero

His numbers speak for themselves and he's well-deserved to be a PARADE All-American.

Mike Vrabel

I think you could take that and turn it around to a number of positions,

Anthony Fauci

There has been treatment for hepatitis C, but the treatment has not been overwhelmingly effective, number 1. And number 2, it has had considerable toxicity.

Bob White

I don't feel that their numbers and 'facts' are very accurate.

Jerry Brookings

I actually had a little R&B group, and Tito performed with me once.

Dale Decker

There are SMA pavements that have been down for 10 years, and there's no rutting. It's performing well when done properly.

Charlie Smith

Her performance really surprised me, considering she's on a taper for states.

Dave Littlefield

His performance isn't up to what we've seen in the past.

Rob Willman

I think we could've done a little better. I'm not down at all. But we could've performed better.

Richard Pryor

I became a performer because it was what I enjoyed doing.

Van Morrison

When I started out in this business, I was a performer before I was a songwriter, I was a performer before I was recording. Performing is the roots. That's where it all came from. You didn't start out doing it because you wanted to make an album.

Van Morrison

I'd been performing in bands since I was 12 which represented, at that point, about 16 years of playing music.

William Peine

Robots don't perform the surgeries, but they are tools that give the surgeon more dexterity.

Roger Ortmeier

He was battling. He was throwing strikes and he had a lot of pop on his fastball. He was locating it really well.

Grant Hill

It wasn't popular for college athletics to embrace Title IX.

Bobby McGee

There are subdivisions popping up all over the place.

Will Wright

I think the primary thing that's made the Sims popular is that they're accessible,

Alex Walker

I thought that one was a pop up.

Frances Kissling

He will go down as a fifth-century pope in terms of who women are.

Van Orden

He never put on airs. He never tried to outdo anybody. Because of that, his popularity simply grew,

Vance Havner

Popularity has slain more prophets of God than persecution ever did.

Robert Fitzgerald

One should indeed read Pope with his notes available, in the Twickenham edition possibly, to see what a vast amount he did understand about Homer.

Dana Brunetti

The production value of YouTube videos is not there.

Jessy Schram

You know that you're part of a Spielberg production when you've got some aliens involved, but you really know when you're sitting there at a table read, and they say, 'Steven really wanted it this way.'

John le Carre

There was an ITV television production of the second novel I wrote, called 'Murder of Quality.' It was a little murder story set in a public school - I'd once taught at Eton, and I used that stuff.

Alex Schott

It's an important project. Everyone will be watching and waiting to see how production goes.

Frank Robinson

We are not getting the production offensively for what we need to be successful.

Rebecca Watson

All safety systems worked to successfully shut down production on the OCS (Outer Continental Shelf) platforms,

Rich Lechner

It's not only being used for development purposes, but also being used in production environments very heavily.

Scott Hudson

You put those all together, you can get some pretty significant production out of there.

Grayson White

The production and recording is a big step up.

Tom Yates

I didn't want to have to relive the situation.

Ed Burke

It seems like we never can relive them.