Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dave Blood

The boys on Pennsylvania Avenue have convinced a whole lot of the public that What's His Whiskers had something to do with 9/11. Stay tuned.

David Borenstein

One cannot subdue a man by holding back his hands. Lasting peace comes not from force.

Lee Konitz

I've played with not such great players, and found that I was inspired to play very well. I welcome every one of those opportunities.

Lindsey Buckingham

I use dropped D quite often and open G and open E sometimes. And sometimes I make up things, like dropping the G string down a step.

Ike Turner

I used to write songs so fast like this, like snapping my fingers. Some of them didn't even have a title, for I just did the song.

Joan Baez

I've never had a humble opinion in my life. If you're going to have one, why bother to be humble about it?

Matthew Sweet

Things are going to change in this business. Look at how well Bright Eyes has done on Saddle Creek. No one's done anything like that before.

Jewel

The writers I respect the most had an undying commitment to a vision.

Mike Gordon

The way that we imitate each others' riffs is something that other bands don't do as much. If we're jamming with a jazz band, or I am jamming with a jazz band, I have to catch myself, the tendency is always to do that.

Michael Baird

The bottom line is, even if the player was unaware they've been given the drug, the test doesn't require intent. The standard is so strict, if the NFL wants to enforce it strictly, you're basically sunk.

Frederick Moran

The cable division came in with 13 percent cash-flow growth, which is basically the strongest we're going to see out of the whole cable industry this quarter, ... They're showing some real power.

Bill Richardson

And the president is basically saying, on Social Security, 'This is my issue. This is my proposal. Take it or leave it.'

James Hardway

The tick up in the unemployment rate largely had to do with the fact that we had construction workers who basically had to file because of the rain and the stormy weather. When we have inclement weather like that, construction workers are not likely to work on the site. The majority that filed came from that industry.

John Sarbanes

The super PACs have brought an element of fear into the equation. The fact that they can bring this money into the campaign, basically ambush you out of nowhere, and you'll have no way to fight back.

Michael Ward

The special prosecutor basically supported what we had told the Board of Elections all along,

Rhett Miller

The songs are depressing, but they sound happy. That's the whole trick, ... This record is more a function of being on the road for basically two years, never having any downtime or privacy. Any semblance of a normal life. So you end up writing these disjointed, disconnected songs.

Pete Carroll

The thing I like is that I'm in charge of everything, so I can structure things the way I like. I get to wear all the hats. There are a few guys in the NFL who have that opportunity, but not many. You basically have to win a Super Bowl.

Dom Capers

The thing I was the most disappointed in (Sunday) was basically the fundamentals of our team. Our tackling, our blocking, there were far too many penalties right now, it's a gut check and a character check for our team.

David Chang

As a child, I didn't see my dad that much because he was always working at the restaurant. He became pretty jaded after working at the restaurant for so long.

Cokie Roberts

People came through. They all came together, they didn't worry about ratings, the stuff we spend way to much time worrying about. They became a community.

Michael Kazin

Once the majority of Americans became middle class, once their jobs ceased to be manual jobs, then they began to look around and choose to live in a place, in part, because of the weather.

David Wilson

An Olympic gymnast may have started instruction as a preschooler, but there are other sports, such as shooting, where a 17-year-old young woman recently became a champion after just two years of competition. It turned out she was a natural.

John Scurti

Apparently, with this drug, if you don't take it at night, when you wake up in the morning, you are really the old person. And ... . it became very important that Janet, his wife, see him the next morning, and it's the old Tommy all over again. What I also tied in there was that these pills that he is taking are keeping the ghosts at bay, and when he doesn't take them, the door is open again.

Bayan Jabr

Approximately 18 innocent men who were inside the mosque performing sunset prayers were killed and became martyrs. They were killed unjustly and wrongfully.

Tom Brokaw

An ideology designed to empower the masses became one of the most ruthless instruments of oppression, ... It is not enough to wire the world if you short-circuit the soul. Technology without heart is not enough.

Bible Bible

And the man waxed great, and went forward, and grew until he became very great: / For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great store of servants: and the Philistines envied him.

Kathleen Blanco

The situation deteriorated on Monday and on Wednesday, it became untenable,

Randy Petersen

As a result of people buying tickets so often, there's not much room for people cashing in their miles.

Michael Terpstra

Oh I am gonna buy an island I am gonna buy an airplane. In reality, gee, not a fan of flying, and I do not really like water.

Jim Glickenhaus

The Nasdaq just went up too far, too fast. When anything goes up 100 percent in a year, it is too much; it has to pull back. This is a normal correction, and it's a spectacular time to buy these stocks.

Andre Dreicon

The mood is negative. It could fall further, but whoever comes in now is buying cheap.

Marvin Sapp

D.C. is one my largest audiences. They buy tons of records of mine in Washington, D.C.

Amy Currier

Competing organizations have incentives to buy shirts during Homecoming.

Rick Sherlund

Companies are reluctant to buy stuff that's disruptive to their infrastructure

Tokio Furuta

Despite the weak yen, technology issues suffered because of the lack of their main buyers -- foreign investors -- due to the Christmas holiday season.

Firas Askari

Any weakening of the Canadian dollar represents a chance to buy more of the currency.

Richard McLaren

As a spy, under the laws of war, and his house being designated a military target, we are perfectly under international law in our right to do this,

Richard Gordon

Of the 300 houses in the area, only three are left that are not covered.

Bible Bible

And therefore I have sworn unto the house of Eli, that the iniquity of Eli's house shall not be purged with sacrifice nor offering for ever.

Grover Norquist

I've been in the White House more in the last two weeks than I was in the last two years.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed there.

C. S. Lewis

Imagine yourself as a living house.

Bella Abzug

This woman's place is in the House - the House of Representatives.

Arundhati Roy

Perhaps it's true that things can change in a day. That a few dozen hours can affect the outcome of whole lifetimes. And that when they do, those few dozen hours, like the salvaged remains of a burned house---the charred clock, the singed photograph, the scorched furniture---must be resurrected from the ruins and examined. Preserved. Accounted for. Little events, ordinary things, smashed and reconstitutred. Imbued with new meaning. Suddenly they become the bleached bones of a story.

Coco Chanel

It's not houses I love, it's the life I live in them.

Richard Estrada

So we said, let's organize this huge march of the pueblo, of the people.

John Fogg

Psychologically, that is a huge step forward, ... When that happens, you can think about getting back to a sense of normalcy.

Steve Lowery

It would be very satisfying after the start I had. That would be a huge accomplishment.

Paul Begala

It was a huge fireball, a huge, orange fireball.

Octavio Dotel

This is huge in my country. Just huge.

Richard Sullivan

This is the first time we have been able to predict such a huge improvement in long-term survival,

Tony Page

This isn't going to be a huge money maker for the company. It's more of nostalgia.

James Bamford

The whole idea of the NSA is intercepting huge streams of communications, taking in 2 million pieces of communications an hour.

Jeff Gundy

The way we're playing ... we're offensively inept. Last year, the 3-point shot was a huge weapon for us. This year, it's a huge detriment.

Kristin Baker

I've matured. I think I work better with the team.

James Marsh

I've always worked very efficiently on small budgets, both in documentaries and in features.

Amanda Hale

I've come to realise I work so much better when I'm going by instinct.

Luis Castillo

This is terrible. Very disappointing. I've got to get back out there. There's so many things I have to work on.

Bryson Sumlin

That's not in the playbook, ... That's just excitement. Everything worked as clockwork.

Boris Yeltsin

I understand that it's hard for everyone, but one cannot give in to emotions... we'll have to draw lessons from the current crisis and now we'll have to work on overcoming it.

Auguste Rodin

Where shall we begin? There is no beginning. Start where you arrive. Stop before what entices you. And work! You will enter little by little into the entirety. Method will be born in proportion to your interest.

Jane Fonda

The harder you work out, the more you should stretch.

Kent McCord

Some of the greatest writers in our industry can't get work.