Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shakespeare

Wisely, I say, I am a bachelor.

Nigel Kennedy

Yes, I mean like you know, having studied with Yehudi Menuhin that is like some direct route into Bach, because he was one of the foremost interpreters of Bach for the violin.

Helen Rowland

A bachelor has to have inspiration for making love to a woman, a married man needs only an excuse

Rudy Vallee

It's too bad that there aren't as many light comedies around in the movies as there were when I was making pictures like 'The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer.' The boys are just not writing them. Many writers are more serious now than they used to be, and that's showing up in all phases of entertainment.

Curt Schilling

It really did. It was like having a second bachelor party.

Joshua Bell

Bach's music is really some of the greatest. I think, in some ways, Bach is the most profound composer of all.

Pierre Schaeffer

Bach lived in a moment of synthesis, in terms of the instruments, the theory - tempered scale, etc. - and was putting everything together.

Caroline Shaw

I've spent a lot of time playing Bach partitas. One of my first jobs was to play for ballet and modern classes, so the music in 'Partita' is kind of like choreography for me.

King Bach

A lot of Viners do more relatable stuff, but I try to stay away from that. I try to maybe take a relatable situation and Bach it up.

Alan Rickman

The directors you trust the most are the ones, when you ask them a question, they've got the guts to say, 'I don't know.'

Alan Alda

Really top-notch directors, I've often worked with them just to see how they work.

David Wain

I hope I don't just do the exact same thing my whole life. I also feel like it's really hard to make comedy. It's almost impossible for comedy filmmakers and directors to stay relevant as they get older.

Arthur Scargill

Yet what you need is not marches, demonstrations, rallies or wide associations, all of them are important. What you need is direct action. The sooner people understand that, the sooner we'll begin to change things.

Denzel Washington

I'm not interested in being a celebrity; I'm interested in being a better actor and a better director.

Ludivine Sagnier

To me, the director is the most important, rather than the story.

Ludivine Sagnier

What I'm looking for is the variety of choices and the opportunity to work with great directors - that's what I'm looking for.

M. Night Shyamalan

The first two movies I directed failed, when I was 21 and 23, and that was the greatest thing that could have happened.

Mark Stewart

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Kevin Spacey

The Old Vic has always been first and foremost an actors' theatre, a home for great talent and memorable performances.

Bob Taft

I've traveled this great state for many years, and seen firsthand our tremendous strengths. And our foremost strength is our people.

John Bolton

the world's foremost peddler of ballistic missile-related equipment, components, materials, and technical expertise.

Kevin Harvick

There is a seven-year relationship here that first and foremost is the main priority. I have a lot of friends here ... it's something that we'll - it will be the first thing we try to work out.

Kevin Landis

serves first and foremost as an incredibly visceral reminder of how much uncertainty you have in your world.

Jodie Foster

He is the foremost reason I wanted to make the movie. I'd never been right for one of his movies.

Keenan McCardell

We've got to realize that first and foremost we've got to protect the quarterback.

Nate Schreiber

Our first and foremost goal is to win the conference. We have the power to do it.

Meir Soloveichik

Marriage is about love, but it is not first and foremost about love. First and foremost, marriage is about continuity and transmission.

Charles Caleb Colton

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation.

Charles Caleb Colton

Alas! What is man? Whether he be deprived of that light which is from on high, of whether he discard it, a frail and trembling creature; standing on time, that bleak and narrow isthmus between two eternities, he sees nothing but impenetrable darkness on the one hand, and doubt, distrust, and conjecture, still more perplexing, on the other. Most gladly would he take an observation, as to whence he has come, or whither he is going; alas, he has not the means: his telescope is too dim, his compass too wavering, his plummet too short.

Charles Caleb Colton

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.

Charles Caleb Colton

We ask advice but we mean approbation.

Charles Caleb Colton

Worldly wisdom dictates to her disciples the propriety of dressing somewhat beyond their means, but of living somewhat within them.

Charles Caleb Colton

He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat; and worldly wisdom dictates to her disciples the propriety of dressing somewhat beyond their means, but of living somewhat within them,--for every one, sees how we dress, but none see how we live, except we choose to let them. But the truly great are, by universal suffrage, exempted from these trammels, an may live or dress as they please.

Charles Dickens

Constancy in love is a good thing; but it means nothing, and is nothing, without constancy in every kind of effort.

Charles Sturt

The main consideration with those who, possessing some capital, propose to emigrate as the means of improving their condition, is, the society likely to be found in the land fixed on for their future residence.

Chris Ryan

They don't want us on the same route (as the cyclists).

Steve Howard

The big thing for the stable being on our route is the authenticity.

John Clarke

Even something, such as Route 9 south, can be turned, over time, into a greenway.

Evangeline Lilly

Money is the longest route to happiness.

Toby Hall

It's a new route we need to take,

Ariel Pink

I always thought, 'I could go the route of saying some controversial things and have it explode, just do it like that. But I don't do that.' But of course, it wasn't really up to me.

Edward Brooke

I never studied much at Howard, but at Boston University, I didn't do much else but study.

Steven Blair

We've studied this from many perspectives in women and in men, and we get the same answer: It's not the obesity, it's the fitness.

Robert Battle

I studied martial arts before I studied dance.

Idina Menzel

Growing up I studied classically and did lots of shows in school.

Poe Ballantine

I studied a truckload of true crime, praying for illumination, but most true crime relies on luridness and voyeurism for effect.

Marcelo Balboa

I never really studied the game. I just watched tape of who I had to cover. That was my studying.

Flea

I studied chord theory and started playing the piano.