Famous Quotes & Sayings

Caterina Murino

I never download anything; it's crazy! We must keep buying albums and DVDs.

Brad Buckles

The illegal prerelease distribution of albums or individual tracks takes an especially heavy toll on the music community.

Miroslav Vitous

The main thing that those two albums have in common aside from my music, which of course, a sense of it, you can recognize, it is that the bass on Infinite Search was playing much, much less like a bass.

Colin Hay

These are just weird times, but then the last 20 years have been kind of weird for me. It's just a matter of doing what you can. You just have to play the cards you're holding and letting your audience know where you are. I've been on my own pretty much for the last 20 years. I've just been touring and you could call the albums that I've been making my calling cards. I haven't even had a label until the last two or three years. Then Compass Records came along. They're out of Nashville and they liked the stuff, so I guess they could see some kind of potential in me. They decided to get involved and I like them. They're nice people. These days, every battle won is like hand-to-hand combat.

David Sanborn

And I think that in the case of these last few - the musicians I had - the reasons I used the same people I did on the two albums was I really felt that these guys were not only great players in their own right but really understood the concept of functioning as a band.

Nancy Sinatra

The Duets albums are interesting and fun, though not my favorites. People called it the incest song, which I thought was really silly.

Obie Trice

I'm working on my new album right now. Hopefully to get that out at the top of 2005, January 2005.

Debbie Harry

I think it's a Blondie tradition that all of our albums sort of have a wide spread of styles.

Daniel Breaker

Stevie Wonder's 'Songs in the Key of Life' was on constant shuffle throughout my childhood. I remember my dad playing some stellar Max Roach albums as well.

Gary Anderson

Ken is the closest thing I had to a brother.

Kelis

In my life, looking at other women who have been pregnant while writing, I always feel like it's kind of their most musical or the closest to themselves. I think for me it's such a validating moment, you know. I always knew I wanted to have kids, and I've been making music all my life.

Jason Ritter

It's kind of the closest thing I'll ever get to as far as a 9-to-5 job, but I have so much fun and I love the people.

Laura Riding

I feel an intense intimacy with those who have this loathing interest in me. Further than this, I know what they mean, I sympathize with them, I understand them. There should be a name (as poetic as love) for this relationship between loather and loathed; it is of the closest and more full of passion than incest.

Nastassja Kinski

I always have the feeling in these low states that something good is about to happen. That's when I feel the fullest, the rawest, the closest to myself.

Mickey Rourke

A lot of those who let you down are those who seemed the closest to you.

Marlin Fitzwater

It's a special enigma of President Reagan, that people who were closest to him still would have trouble telling you what it is that makes him tick.

Richard Monette

The Renaissance scholar Michel de Montaigne said, 'there is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom,' ... Drama, comedy and tragedy all have their roots in the compelling theatre of life that is closest to us all our relationships with those tied to us by blood.

Mick Monken

It's about the closest we've ever been to getting this constructed.

Vera Wang

The intricate engraving, fine lines, beading and milgrain accents echo an era defined by elaborate embellishments.

Teju Cole

Echo is very important to me. I love the repetition of motifs, or the slight alteration of what's been said before. This is part of how one creates a mood, a psychological caul, in fact, around the reader.

Pythagoras

There is no word or action but has its echo in Eternity.

Kent Nerburn

But no matter how they make you feel, you should always watch elders carefully. They were you and you will be them. You carry the seeds of your old age in you at this very moment, and they hear the echoes of their childhood each time they see you.

Lewis Black

I feel the need to scream, and even if the scream is not answered, I find my sanity in the echo.

Justine Larbalestier

When I was little, I made up my own fairy tales, and the ghostly echo of Once upon a time shapes all the fiction Ive ever written.

Lord Byron

I have not loved the World, nor the World me; I have not flattered its rank breath, nor bowed To its idolatries a patient knee, Nor coined my cheek to smiles,-nor cried aloud In worship of an echo.

Maggie Stiefvater

...the sound of our lack of conversation amplified by the echo of our footsteps on the stone around us.

John Cage

Every something is an echo of nothing

Javier Solana

Just yesterday there were very significant and important demonstrations in Belgrade that are growing and growing in numbers because the very violence of Milosevic's police ... is making more and more people go to the demonstrations,

Mike King

I think it should get big. It's growing pretty rapidly.

Akio Yoshino

There is a growing view that insurers have had their run for the short term, ... Money is shifting to the laggards of the markets now, such as the technology companies.

Ryan Lochte

I can't eat beans - all beans. I think because I'm half Cuban. So growing up, we were always eating black beans and rice, and I think I just said, 'Enough with it,' and I can't even stand to taste it anymore.

Tyler Perry

Growing up, there was always music around, whether across the street, or on the next-door neighbor's stereo. So, as in life, music is always around, and it helps to heighten any emotion. Music is amazing.

William S. Burroughs

An addict never stops growing. Stupider.

Richard M. Nixon

When I grow up, I want to be an honest lawyer so things like that can't happen.

Richard Rohr

Sin happens whenever we refuse to keep growing.

Tracy Morgan

I'm from Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn. So, you grow up around police officers. Some of them are in your family, some of them you have encounters with. I had a young police officer we were friends with in our group.

Henri Nouwen

Let's dare to enter into an intimate relationship with God without fear, trusting that we will receive love and always more love.

Nan McCarthy

It seems like people become intimate more quickly (in cyber-relationships),

Dan Zimmerman

It's not like meeting in a bar. It's somewhat of an intimate location. People on the train have pretty much the same interests. You see people every day, and you kind of get to know them.

Viktor E. Frankl

God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

It's funny how intimate it feels to get a text.

Rainer Maria Rilke

We are not allowed to linger, even with what is most intimate.

Marianne Williamson

The problem with most intimate relationships is that they are not romantic. They do not involve a deeper knowing, and thus there is diminished possibility of sacred, transformative sharing.

Havelock Ellis

No act can be quite so intimate as the sexual embrace.

A. B. Yehoshua

Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.

Kay Redfield Jamison

It is an odd thing, owing life to pills, one's own quirks and tenacities, and this unique, strange, and ultimately profound relationship called psychotherapy.

Mack Strong

Just things that I've never experienced in my life.

Tom Arnold

I swear on my life that is true.

Quentin Blake

You see, I don't draw from life at all, but I do look out of my window a lot.

William Ellery Channing

Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.

Chris Stapleton

I was born in Fayette County, over in Lexington, Kentucky, but I was raised most of my life in Paintsville.

Cate Blanchett

It is so interesting when you meet an actor in real life and they look completely different.

John Hawkes

I think that no matter how dark a person is, the more you learn about them, the more you understand about their life, the more you can sympathize with them or even root for them.

Carine Roitfeld

I think when I became a grandmother my life changed a lot, and I think I changed personally.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Jeff Palmer

Just watching the news, seeing what those people are going through, touches me,

Stephen Graham

I adore my job. I think I'm one of the luckiest people out there. I've worked hard, but I get to mess about every day - that's how I see it.

Graham Elliot

I do take pity on some of the people that have to work with me.

Gale Norton

I think that our cooperative conservation approaches get people to sit down and grapple with problem solving.

Gary Sheffield

I'm not one of those people who have to try and remember what they told people, because I always tell the truth. That should count for something, right?

Sam Rockwell

I always do drama. It's just that some people laugh at it and some people cry.

Sam Worthington

I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.

Robert Wyatt

This constant pressure from record companies to come up with a hit single or something like that, I find completely tiresome.

Waylon Jennings

Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.

Tony Visconti

The object is to make a great record and you have to do whatever it takes.

Tony Visconti

My profession is called record production.

Tony Visconti

Today a record producer is even more involved and is often the production's sole musician, one person playing all the instruments one-by-one.

Vince Gill

It really does take a lot of time to make records, to be in the studio and do all that stuff.

Sade Adu

I only make records when I feel I have something to say. I'm not interested in releasing music just for the sake of selling something. Sade is not a brand.

Roy Ayers

The majors, they have to control the distribution, the record outlets, the radio and, in some cases, even the venues. And downloading and pirating have also put pressure on the majors.

Young Jeezy

I'ma continue to make records, continue to make hits, continue to be what I am, legendary.

Steve Harvey

I'm not a relationship expert. I'm an expert on manhood.

Richard Owen

The relationship between a Russian and a bottle of vodka is almost mystical.

Richelle Mead

See? Things are already looking promising.

Rose Macaulay

Women have one great advantage over men. It is commonly thought that if they marry they have done enough, and need career no further. If a man marries, on the other hand, public opinion is all against him if he takes this view.

Whitney Cummings

I feel like, in a lot of shows where the woman is in charge, the woman is this ball buster and the guy is sort of weak and spineless. And that's never been my experience in a relationship. I think it's much more interesting that the guy is the boss. And there are stakes.

William Congreve

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

William Cowper

Domestic happiness, thou only bliss Of paradise that has surviv'd the fall!

Wayne Dyer

When you have a choice whether to be be right or to be kind, choose to be kind.

Van Morrison

I've got love in my life, as well as trouble and strife.

Julia Sweeney

Well, you can't be depressed and sad 24 hours a day.

Richelle Mead

Rose you can't go." This time the sadness in Lissa's voice was mirrored though the bond, flooding into me. "It's not that Dimitri didn't ask to see you. He asked specifically not to see you.

Virginia Woolf

I’m not clear enough in the head to feel anything but varieties of dull anger and arrows of sadness.

William Wordsworth

The weight of sadness was in wonder lost.

Robert Ryan

I sometimes use a lot of light greens and greys when I feel there is sadness in the painting.

Robert Plant

Come into my life, here where nothing matters. Come into my life, roll away the gloom.

Sarah Dessen

He was looking at me, jsut as I'd thought he would be, but like Bert's, his light was not what I expected. No pity, no sadness: nothing had changed. I realized all the times I'd felt people stare at me, their faces had been pictures, abstracts. None of them were mirrors, able to reflect back the expression I thought one I wore, the feelings only I felt.

Roland Barthes

Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering.

William Styron

In depression . . . faith in deliverance, in ultimate restoration, is absent. The pain is unrelenting, and what makes the condition intolerable is the foreknowledge that no remedy will come - - not in a day, an hour, a month, or a minute . . . It is hopelessness even more than pain that crushes the soul.

Chris Sienko

I think we see her as a 3. We're pretty sound at the 1-2 positions.

Elvis Costello

I didn't want it to sound like a pastiche of Andersen,

Richard Ayoade

With a live performance, you feel nervous because there's a sense it could do well or badly based on how well you are performing, whereas the only variable with a film premiere is technical, which invariably you have very little control over, whether the sound is good, whether the acoustics of the room are good.

Ron Chernow

That strategy of buy and hold, which is the sound and sensible one for the individual, can have very dangerous and perverse effects for the market as a whole.

Reynolds Price

The sound of story is the dominant sound of our lives.

Raymond Chandler

She was the music heard faintly on the edge of sound.

William J. Clinton

Without question, bicycling is an efficient, economical and environmentally sound form of transportation and recreation. Bicycling is a great activity for families, recreational riders and commuters. Hillary, Chelsea and I have bicycles....

William Howard Taft

The policy of dollar diplomacy is one that appeals alike to idealistic humanitarian sentiments, to dictates of sound policy, and strategy, and to legitimate commercial aims.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

No sound is dissonant which tells of life.