Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wynton Marsalis

What I've learned how to do as I've gotten older is to take all of the information that I have, and push it aside, and try to distill each song into an emotional theme. The hardest thing that I've ever had to learn how to do in playing music is use the sound of my instrument to create an emotional effect.

Laurie Pirtle

The overtime was an emotional issue. Our kids were shell-shocked that we were in that situation.

Ben Bass

The way I navigate scenes is through what I perceive to be the emotional truth of the character: what he wants from moment to moment.

Carl Rogers

The state of empathy, or being empathic, is to perceive the internal frame of reference of another with accuracy and with the emotional components and meanings which pertain thereto as if one were the person.

Carl Rogers

I realize that if I were stable, prudent and static; I'd live in death. Therefore I accept confusion, uncertainty, fear and emotional ups and downs; because that's the price I'm willing to pay for a fluid, perplexed and exciting life.

Carl Sagan

Curiosity and the urge to solve problems are the emotional hallmarks of our species ...

Carl Sagan

It goes with a courageous intent to greet the universe as it really is, not to foist our emotional predispositions on it but to courageously accept what our explorations tell us.

Anthony Storr

In a culture in which interpersonal relationships are generally considered to provide the answer to every form of distress, it is sometimes difficult to persuade well-meaning helpers that solitude can be as therapeutic as emotional support.

Bill Hicks

Sixteen years I've pounded my head against the mentality of America, which...I'd say it's about an 8th grade emotional level.

Gail Carson Levine

I was excited to make my own 'Neverland.'

Scott Harris

That was their first varsity win. They were really excited about it. It was a good match.

Josh Green

That would be great. We didn't expect our season to be over (today) but we'll be excited about it.

Duane Zauner

That was the whole goal, to get ready for Colfax and get ready for league. This was the first time we've played in two weeks, so we were real excited to get field time in today.

Pam Dean

That was the first home run we've had in our park. So, all of the girls were excited and were proud of Emily.

Mark Evans

That was a great lift from Megan. She got two big rebounds and made two big offensive plays. She got us excited again.

Craig Stansberry

We have a new big-league manager and I want as many looks as I can get. I'll have an opportunity to play in front of the major-league staff. You have to be excited about an opportunity like that. I'll just go out and play and see what happens.

Mike Babcock

We have an eight-game playoff series. We're excited about it. They have a real good team. Let's get there and get going.

Patricia McBride

I used to say I didn't want to teach. I was still excited about dancing. It's hard to do both. It's as exhausting teaching as it is to dance.

Irving Ravetch

Happens to everybody. Horses, dogs, men. Nobody gets out of life alive.

Zakk Wylde

I love the whole process for each new album. The writing, the touring, everything. For me, it never gets old.

Wendy Kopp

It gets to whether we're a teacher-education model or a movement for social justice. I would say we're about the latter.

Bonnie Tyler

The international travelling gets harder as I get older, but when I'm performing on stage, it makes it all worth while.

David Carson

Just because something's legible doesn't means it communicates. More importantly, it doesn't mean it communicates the right thing. So, what is the message sent before somebody actually gets into the material? And I think that's sometimes an overlooked area.

Nile Rodgers

My career has been wacky and not at all normal. I've never had a manager, nobody gets jobs for me. I wind up working with artists that I meet.

Nas

I don't want any title. I just say what I say, and hopefully somebody gets it, man. I'm not perfect, and I'm just here and trying to make a dollar, and being real at the same time, you know?

Tony Russa

That was vintage Carpenter. He had first and second, the middle of the lineup, and he gets out of it. That's what he does.

Bill Hanlon

That way they're thinking about the word and how it's used in an analogy. It gets them thinking the same way the test makers are thinking.

Imelda May

I lost a boyfriend over Elmore James. You know that moment when you send mixtapes at fifteen? He sent me pop hits, and I sent him Elmore James, and I never heard from him again.

Lee Sullivan

The police begged him to come out of the yard and I heard them telling him to 'drop it,' ... They were pleading with him for maybe 10 minutes. They told him, 'We don't wanna hurt you,' and then I heard one shot.

Dave Davis

That was the introduction. I'd never heard of Matt, and I'm sure he'd never heard of us.

Dwyane Wade

That was the first time I've heard that, so it was good.

Luis Fonsi

That was the first song I heard from another writer when we first started to listen to outside songs,

Ricky Nelson

They all knew my name, but no one heard the music- I didn't look the same.

Mary Harris

We hadn't heard about any for a while and then, all of a sudden, two in one week.

Chip Gramke

We wanted to make sure all of the quotes we've heard from him are accurate. We hoped that they weren't but I think that he proved they probably were.

Hans Davidsson

virtually a living recording of the musical sounds heard hundreds of years ago.

Yani Tseng

So it must be my mental, because sometimes when I start on the tee, I still worry about whether my ball is going to hit right or left.

Barbara Kerr

The ($3 billion) should be paid back, and then we talk about programs. Hit and miss is not the way it should be done.

Gwen Stefani

That was it. Suddenly you hit puberty, and it's like, you know, thrift stores! I just started deconstructing everything from thrift stores.

Louis Whorton

That was the story of the game. They were hitting two shots to our one. We didn't rebound worth a flip, and they doubled us on rebounding.

Joe Girardi

That was the kind of player I had to be. I had to do the little things to win, and they have to do a lot of them. They have to hit and run, they have to steal, they have to squeeze some,

Carolyn Brown

That would hit the majority of our members. Most would be in the 25 (employees-and-under) range.

John Krawczyk

That would be a big hit to the budget.

Julio Franco

That won't be the last one I hit. I want to hit one in my 50s.

Julio Franco

That won't be the last home run I hit, and I hope I hit one when I'm 50.

Devron Bostick

That was real big. I think that's what sparked us to start playing better on offense and better on defense.

Matt Kiefer

That zone really threw us for a loop. We didn't run our offense like we should. Then Horner just went off. He was on fire. There's nothing we could do.

Drew Pearson

We've got seven returning starters on offense and seven returning on defense,

S. Walker

Michael's getting his offense better. He went through a stretch where he wasn't shooting it much. We told him you've got to start shooting more, scoring more.

Chet Stachitas

We just couldn't get our offense going in the first half.

Andy Reid

I thought offensively there was too much pressure on Donovan. We didn't do well on third-and-long situations and we can do better there. We had too many penalties at costly times during drives. I thought defensively we did enough there to win the game. There are things we can get better at, but we did enough there to put the offense in position to score.

Gary Turcott

We have to run our offense better and a lot more efficiently.

Daniel Willis

We executed in the first half, on offense and defense. Ultimately, that's why it went the way it did.

John Gibbons

We have been swinging it well. I like the way our offense is built.

Allan Palmer

The outside (of Hangar 37) has to be restored, and we've got to repaint it and put a new roof on, and make it look like it did in 1941.

Rohit Sharma

You should not remain in your comfort zone; if you want to make it big, you must challenge yourself, get out of your comfort zone, and succeed in doing well outside of your comfort areas.

Baz Luhrmann

I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.

Nancy Thompson

You can do just about anything outside that you would do inside.

Stephen Tanner

We really push the envelope. We think outside the box.

Mark Bruener

I would say he's one of the more underrated outside linebackers in a long time,

Lynn Coady

Here's the thing about lingerie: The only time we see it outside our own bedrooms, it is on women who are gloriously freakish in their physical perfection.

Jovan Vavic

J.W. is very versatile can play many positions. He can set and guard, be an outside shooter and he's very fast.

Sandra Tsing Loh

Journalists are quite surprised outside their dinner parties when they hear where I live. 'Van Nuys? You still live there?' It is like saying you're from Alabama.

Yahya Jammeh

Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.

Yossi Vardi

In the end, I think that people that are not willing to take the risk to fail are not true entrepreneurs.

Yancy Butler

Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are telling you it has powers. I would be a little skeptical myself.

Ian Mckellen

I don't think many people will re-read 'The Da Vinci Code.'

Ian Mckellen

People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'

Irwin Thomas

I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.

Irwin Rose

I don't have any hobbies. You know, I'm very embarrassed when people ask me what are my hobbies; I don't have any hobbies. I mean, it's just enough to keep up with the things I'm trying to solve.

Isiah Whitlock, Jr.

Usually, when you're working or you're on set, everything is very guarded. At parties, people have a tendency to relax.

Imani Hakim

When people say, 'If you could do anything else, what would you do?' I would be an actress. That's something that I would do - I can't see myself doing anything else.