Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

One's appearance bespeaks dignity corresponding to the depth of his character. One's concentrated effort, serene attitude, taciturn air, courteous disposition, thoroughly polite bearing, gritted teeth with a piercing look - each of these reveals dignity. Such outward appearance, in short, comes from constant attentiveness and seriousness.

William John Wills

The country up here is beautiful; everything green and pleasant; and if you saw it now, you would not believe that in two months' time it could have such a parched and barren appearance as it will then assume.

Victoria Hanley

The main characters for 'The Seer and the Sword' made an appearance one night and then haunted me for over five years before I began to write them down. Does that count as inspiration? For me, characters tend to show up, stay on to help with the work of writing their stories, and then occasionally deign to visit after a book is finished.

Les Carter

The appearance pf the streets that have been gated is already starting to improve as residents start to fill them with planters, confident that they won't be spoiled by vandals.

Bible Bible

The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses; and as horsemen, so shall they run.

David Frost

Well, people would be put off by his appearance.

Learned Hand

With the courage which only comes of justified self-confidence, he dared to rest his case upon its strongest point, and so avoided that appearance of weakness and uncertainty which comes of a clutter of arguments. Few lawyers are willing to do this; it is the mark of the most distinguished talent.

David Holtz

Most of the benthic macroalgae were gone, giving reefs in the lower Keys a clean appearance not seen in years. Also missing were many elkhorn corals, sponges and urchins -- broken or swept away by the raw power of a storm surge that bent 18-inch steel I-beams.

Michael Woods

I think Judy Shepard's appearance is fantastic for this campus and community. I hope that Ms. Shepard's appearance on campus will encourage people to look closer at the issues that Ms. Shepard and The Laramie Project are raising.

B. B. King

I always liked the steel guitar. I also love the guys that play the bottleneck. But I could never do it; I never made it do what I want. So every time I would pick up the guitar, I'd shake my hand and trill it a bit. For some strange reason my ears would say to me that sounds similar to what those guys were doing. I can't pick up the guitar now without doing it. So that's how I got into making my sound. It was nothing pretty. Just trying to please myself. I heard that sound.

B. B. King

Playing guitar is like telling the truth.

B. B. King

I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.

William Shakespeare

Take but degree away, untune that string, and hark, what discord follows!

Bonnie Raitt

Two women guitar players on stage at the same time, ... and it took Maria Muldaur to do it.

Billy Unger

I love Aerosmith. I love Guns N' Roses, AC/DC, anything from that era, Led Zeppelin. So my guitar style is very much like Slash or Jimmy Page. I love playing that kind of music. It's where my heart's at.

Kim Campbell

Glen loves to get his guitar and sit in with them. He just loves to play, that's what makes him happy.

Steve Stevens

Guitar World ... orchestrates the growls and snarls that come off his guitar much the same way that Bernstein conducts the Philharmonic.

James Mangold

John always said whoever played him, 'make sure they hold the guitar like they own it, that they don't hold it like it's a baby,'

William K. Sessions

Looking back on my life, I wish I'd stepped forward and made a fool of myself more often when I was younger - because when you do, you find out you can do it.

Marshall Wittman

The overall problem the Republican Party has is it is increasingly looking like Tammany Hall, ... An odor of sleaziness is enveloping the Republicans and seeping into the administration.

Maurice Greene

The world record will come to me when I run the world record race. I'm just trying to perfect my race. I'm looking for perfection.

Pedro Almodovar

My first memory is of the eyes of my brother; he was looking at me all the time.

Steve Violetta

You are always looking for something that has the wow factor.

Diane Davey

We've had everything from 80-degree weather to snow on the ground. We're looking for two nice sunny days.

Sgt. Phillips

We're really wide open in terms of looking at some things.

Molly Smith

We're really looking at our target as urban nomads.

Julie Bell

We're really looking at decision-making and problem-solving at the same time.

Evangeline Lilly

I'm a bit of a pick-pocket on-set. If something is small enough to go in my pocket, and it will be neat memorabilia, it's gone.

Scott Mitchen

Where we are going is very neat. Stay tuned, there is going to be a lot of neat stuff happening.

Tim Short

Man, it would've been neat to have him in Milton.

Tony Wilson

We get a lot of really neat toys,

Nick Reid

To go out on top with a big win like this, it just hasn't sunk in yet. We've come a long way. It's pretty neat to be part of the foundation.

Mack Brown

For most of us who are historians, ... what a neat game.

Bob Hill

Here's what I really remember about Mike. On Thanksgiving he had us all over in Milan. We all had Thanksgiving at his apartment. It was just a neat day.

Tim Sughroue

He's a really neat kid, and he doesn't get too wrapped up in the stats. He really epitomizes a team player.

Dave Allison

He didn't see a lot of shots, but he played neat and tidy and was strong in the third period.

Cecelia Ahern

Her silence was worth more to her than a thousand words.In that silence,she had peace and clarity.Except during the night,when her own jumbled thoughts would keep her awake.

Carrie Underwood

This is the best night of my life. And it's going to get better.

Carl Sagan

Our ancestors lived out of doors. They were as familiar with the night sky as most of us are with our favorite television programs.

Bethenny Frankel

My business doesn't keep me warm at night.

Bette Davis

Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy night! - As Margo Channing in All About Eve

Berenice Marlohe

And Shanghai is amazing. I'm a fan of science fiction so when you're there in the night with all the lights and all this modernity, it's like a set in a movie.

Ashley Tisdale

I have always been really scared of scary movies just because I live by myself - and then seeing something, then having a big imagination and then like thinking you see it in the middle of the night. So I've never been really into them.

Arsenio Hall

The way I approach stardom and the show, I'm like a politician. I'm an elected late-night official to do your work.

Arsene Wenger

I'm not scared to spend money. If you go out with me one night, you will understand that.

Bill Hader

When you're performing, you're playing to the back row. With acting, you have to be more nuanced.

Rosario Dawson

That was something that we really worked on, not repeating ourselves. But I was like, 'This is not going to be a problem because I'm playing a woman.'

Chris Masoner

That was really important for us. We really wanted it ... It's so important for us to go into the playoffs playing like this.

Tiger Woods

We need to keep playing more in Ohio. It's that simple. We don't have enough tournaments here.

Kobe Bryant

We have to understand that we're not playing for right now; we're playing for the long haul. It's important to be patient. It will come.

Paul Eenhoorn

I walk into a scene, and I do the scene. That's my job. I don't have an objective. I have the words, and I have whoever I'm playing with.

Landon Donovan

We were getting slaughtered, ... We weren't playing well at all yet we're up, two-zero. But that's soccer.

Kevin Williams

We were still playing for a title, because we were playing for second.

Colby Armstrong

Typical Devils-type game. They wait for you to make a mistake. They've been playing that way for a long time.

Roy Moore

They don't want to be reminded that there is an authority higher than the authority of the state.

Scott Weiss

I don't like sweating the details, and I'm pretty disorganized. To be a better leader, I need to stay on top of these shortcomings, and being reminded really helps.

Larry Ellison

Maui reminded me of San Diego: beautiful, but crowded.

Rich Galen

What it reminded me of the other day is 'Baghdad Bob' saying there are no Americans at the airport.

Rabih Alameddine

No one needs to be reminded of racism in soccer: the xenophobia, the nativism and, yes, nationalism.

CeeLo Green

My first rap name was Ralo. Because my first name is Carlos. I likened myself to what Busta Rhymes was doing when he first came out. And what Onyx did when they first came out - they reminded me of me.

S. Walker

I keep being reminded about how tough the remainder of our schedule is. But we just need to worry about us, not about who we're going to play.

Rhys Ifans

The older I get, I'm really reminded how important the arts are to our wellbeing as a society.

Greg Walker

It wasn't so much what we told him. We just reminded him of some things that he had done in the past.

Bill Burr

Being a stand-up comic, this isn't a stepping-stone for me; it's what I do, and this is what I'm always going to do. And even if I do a TV show, the only reasons to do a TV show is to get more people to know me to come out to my stand-up shows.

Olivia Munn

I'm a much more chill person now that I know who I am and know my own voice, so I don't really get nervous with live TV at all.

Jack Johnson

I would turn on the TV, but its so embarassing.

Silas Weir Mitchell

'Grimm,' I think, is a unique show in a lot of ways. There is certainly nothing on TV that looks like 'Grimm'.

Bill Mitchell

He will when he watches it on TV later.

Rachel Tucker

I did a reality TV show in London called 'I'd Do Anything,' and when I got put in the program, they said, 'What is your ultimate dream?' and I said, 'Broadway.'

Don Cheadle

I prefer film to TV because of the amount of time film affords you that TV doesn't (though theater is probably my favorite and the scariest place of all).

David Anders

TV has been very good to me, and I hope I've been good to it, but I also love film.

Dave Franco

I can't say I was like a die-hard zombie fan, but I've definitely seen a few different zombie movies and TV shows.