Famous Quotes & Sayings

Annette Beacher

If Peter Costello wants more taxpayers, he is going to have to find more child-care places so mothers can actually get back to work.

Michael Weatherly

What happens with 'Mad Men,' it's like an Elvis Costello album; I'll watch it, and then I immediately have to watch it again. AMC will play it back-to-back. I have a tendency to yell at it when my wife's not around because if she catches me yelling at 'Mad Men,' then it gets weird.

Leonard Susskind

At 5 years old, I saw 'Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein,' and I was so scared when Costello sat himself down in the lap of the monster, not realizing where he was. My friends teased me. They were older, 8 years old. And my goal was to become a mad scientist and get back at them. And here I am, mad as hell!

Todd Rundgren

I never look for music by genre. I look for an artist who puts a dependable trademark on things. Like Elvis Costello - he's a great songwriter who presents his songs in a number of contexts. I feel the same about my own music.

Laura Cantrell

I was so lucky that the head of my department was an Elvis Costello fan,

Stan Perkins

It really starts with the day Elvis Presley went to Sun Studios to record a song for his mother. Sam Phillips didn't like his singing, but a secretary did and kept his phone number. Sam Phillips said one day he needed a white kid who could sing black, and she had Elvis' number in her drawer.

Brandon Johnson

It only gets called if the officials see it. I saw it. I had to hold Elvis back. But the right people didn't see it, so Vick got to keep on playing.

Bruce Springsteen

See, I was nine years old when I saw Elvis on 'Ed Sullivan', and I had to get a guitar the next day. I stood in front of my mirror with that guitar on. . . and I knew then that's what had been missing.

Kenneth Blackwell

And what I've told people today is that Elvis is dead, and I'm not gonna fret over Jesse Jackson's misinformation and confusion.

Brian Billick

Elvis was very interested and wanted to go out of his way to get a familiarity with me, and me with him,

Jerry Leiber

Elvis was incredibly cooperative. He would try anything. He wasn't a diva, no prima donna. When it came to work, he was a workhorse.

Jack Soden

Elvis sells all over the world, and that's where the real opportunity for growth lies for us, to take more of Elvis and Graceland out to the world,

Mike Pierce

Elvis is an icon in Nevada in his own right. It is a very unique day. How often do you get to see Elvis on skis?

Grayson Robbins

We're planning a tournament to take place during the Elvis Presley Festival. We hope it's going to be one of our larger tournaments, since it happens during the festival.

Jim Rosborough

I wouldn't put anything past him. Whatever he says typically gets done. He's just never, ever let any of his handicaps hold him back at all.

Sitiveni Rabuka

I wouldn't be surprised if he gets it.

Floyd Reese

I wouldn't be surprised if (Edwards), a veteran guy, gets gobbled up at some point,

Bill Cowher

Joey is the kind of guy who gets us going. We have some unique personalities, and Joey is unique in his own sense.

Mark Hastings

Josh is a very physical kid. He runs really well and has a great nose for the ball. When he gets a hold of you, he's going to tackle you.

John McNeley

J.R. has such a quick release, it doesn't have to be a situation where he gets that open.

Joe Nemechek

I think it gets back to being in the right place at the right time and getting the right break.

Michael Schwartz

He's a conciliator. He's someone who gets people together,

Curtis Brown

He's a great player, but he's also still a man. He gets tired on some plays and has to go out. That's how everyone is. We can't be scared.

Larry Petersen

Just look at what already happens on the freeway now and triple it.

Kofi Annan

I suspect, whatever happens in the future, that kind of consultation will take place.

Bobby Bowden

It could be a lot worse. We could have two quarterbacks with no talent. What you hope happens is someone will separate themselves from the other.

Maria Shriver

I thought a lot about what I could say here today. I also thought a lot about what I couldn't or shouldn't say for one reason or the other, ... We all know what happens to first ladies who shoot their mouths off they get sent to first ladies' dungeon, and you wouldn't want that to happen to me.

David Stern

It happens at least probably 5 percent of the time.

Van Nguyen

He is my heart, ... If something happens to my son, my heart will be stopped.

Nia Long

I just got the script for 'Big Mama's House II' and so that's kind of circulating. We'll see what happens with that. It's on the release schedule.

Molly Antopol

I really look up to writers who are able to write compressed, single-scene stories, where everything happens in a kitchen. But I just can't think that way. For me it would be impossible to write a story where I didn't know what someone's parents did and what their grandparents did and who they used to date.

Marshall Curry

I'm looking for a charismatic character - somebody who you just want to look at and listen to and whom the camera likes. I'm also looking for a narrative arc: Something is going to happen, and there will be a question that will make you wonder what happens at the end.

Eric Steinbach

He wants us to come out showing a lot of energy, play hard, no mental mistakes.

Grant Heslov

'Monuments Men' is not a docudrama. It's not a documentary.

Chris Phillips

He's a big part of our team, not to mention that I'll have to play with a different guy.

Malik Rose

He's just one of the most mentally tough players I've ever seen.

Sheldon Brown

He seems to be doing better than I did with it, and I thought I did pretty well, ... His mental toughness is second to none, and that's what'll get him over the hump.

Plato

The good man is the only excellent musician, because he gives forth a perfect harmony not with a lyre or other instrument but with the whole of his life.

Yoandy Garlobo

We're prepared for this, physically and mentally .

Trevor Doughty

We've got to get tougher mentally and physically. If you want to play at this level, you have to get tougher.

Mark Fallon

I thought they were great, but I didn't think much about them until this year when another teacher mentioned remembering them.

Sasha Roiz

I have this tendency to play these horrible, horrible characters.

Jason Bateman

I have a tendency to evolve into William Shatner, with my big fat face.

Mark Hendrickson

That's always been my tendency the first inning of spring.

Laurie Helgoe

I am very troubled by the tendency to define introverts by what they lack. Introversion is a preference, not a fallback plan.

Dan Shechtman

Israel, in general, should learn from other nations. We have a tendency to teach the world. In many cases, we should learn from the world, because they make advances.

Debbie Ryan

We just went cold. We have a tendency to do that.

Chris Adrian

My natural tendency is to write about zombie bunnies, but one of my first writing teachers got incorporated into my writing superego, and I keep hearing his admonition to make things feel more real the weirder they get.

Beth Walters

We made it interesting. That's what we have a tendency to do, whether we need to or not.

Alan Trammel

He's a keeper. We'll be watching him for years.

Chris Remley

When he was selected, I wasn't surprised. I'm going to watch it.

Matt Berninger

I watched R.E.M. connect with the back row of a 50,000-seat venue.

Chord Overstreet

I watched 'Full House.' I loved 'Full House.'

Mikhail Baryshnikov

I was kind of amused, and shocked. At first I was watching it with my children. Then I said 'Children, OUT!

Rob Corddry

Apparently it's cool to watch The Daily Show.

Richard Dawkins

I sympathize with politicians who have to watch every syllable they utter for fear it will be misused by somebody with an agenda.

Will Estes

I don't really get a chance to watch much television. I mostly watch BBC Worldwide and repeats of Seinfeld and Everybody Loves Raymond

Sarah Palin

The news makes me sad, so I don't watch it.

John Thompson

I yelled at them. We peeled a little paint.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

A conservative is someone who stands athwart history, yelling Stop, at a time when no one is inclined to do so, or to have much patience with those who so urge it.

Vincent Van Gogh

How lovely yellow is! It stands for the sun.

Zora Neale Hurston

If it was so honorable and glorious to be black, why was it the yellow-skinned people among us had so much prestige?

Zhuangzi

In a river mist, if another boat knocks against yours, you might yell at the other fellow to stay clear. But if you notice then, that it's an empty boat, adrift with nobody aboard, you stop yelling. When you discover that all the others are drifting boats, there's no one to yell at. And when you find out you are an empty boat, there's no one to yell.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

And a question stirred within me: What if he, this yellow-eyed creature, in his disorderly, filthy mound of leaves, in his uncomputed life, is happier than we are?

Vladimir Nabokov

I could isolate, consciously, little. Everything seemed blurred, yellow-clouded, yielding nothing tangible. Her inept acrostics, maudlin evasions, theopathies - every recollection formed ripples of mysterious meaning. Everything seemed yellowly blurred, illusive, lost.

Zell Miller

Silence isn't golden. It's yellow.

Libba Bray

Evie didn’t mind yelling, but she hated feeling judged. It got under her skin and made her feel small and ugly and unfixable.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

A conservative is someone who stands athwart history, yelling Stop, at a time when no one is inclined to do so, or to have much patience with those who so urge it.

Zhuangzi

In a river mist, if another boat knocks against yours, you might yell at the other fellow to stay clear. But if you notice then, that it's an empty boat, adrift with nobody aboard, you stop yelling. When you discover that all the others are drifting boats, there's no one to yell at. And when you find out you are an empty boat, there's no one to yell.

Libba Bray

Evie didn’t mind yelling, but she hated feeling judged. It got under her skin and made her feel small and ugly and unfixable.

David Cross

It probably does make it more difficult to enjoy a good laugh at someone who's onstage, seemingly yelling at you. But I'm not yelling at the audience, I'm yelling at the world. It genuinely sucks if people are taking it that way. But I'm not talking to individuals.

David Icke

Stop yelling at the movie, you ain’t never gonna change it like that. Go change the movie in the projector. You are the projector.

Scott Favre

That's when all the yelling and screaming' started,

Anthony Weiner

Twitter is a kind of verbalization of people yelling at their television sets or gnashing their teeth at the newspaper.

Art Spiegelman

Instead of yelling at a TV set, I get to talk.

Aziz Ansari

Instead of yelling your opinion, or telling people to shut up, or engaging in this clickbait-internet culture, have a dialogue with someone and ask people questions and listen to what they have to say.