Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Capaldi

I wouldn't be here if it were not for the grant system that paid for me to go to art school - because my parents couldn't have afforded it.

Stephen Kenny

It appears to me that Saddam Hussein will be afforded a trial that represents a fairer system of justice than what David Hicks will receive.

James Wolfensohn

His work in the developing world has afforded him a deep understanding of the many challenges of development. He knows what a remarkable institution this is, he appreciates its outstanding team of development professionals, and I know he will bring continuity to its programs and its mission of fighting poverty.

Bob Greczyn

Our company's financial stability has afforded us the opportunity to invest in initiatives for our members and our state that will bear long-term results in moderating health-care costs.

Clifford Traisman

The environmental community is being more diligent in bringing win-win issues to the Legislature that not only help protect our air, land and water but also help our business friendly-manner. That combination has afforded us the opportunity to be taken more seriously.

Frank DeSalvo

The hearing today was a sham. These officers were supposed to be afforded their rights to due process, but these disciplinary letters were written before they even started the hearing.

Mike Mitchell

Each student who violates the campus code of conduct is afforded due process. The outcome of the disciplinary process is not predetermined. It depends on the violation.

Norman Granz

The new, younger artists today are too insecure to be willing to face that kind of musical competition afforded by the jam session.

Don Aaron

They were afforded the opportunity to get out of the roadway and they didn't.

Joe Henderson

I was joking but he took responded seriously: 'I would know, and I couldn't live with myself knowing that I'd only run 97 miles or whatever.'

Adrian Belew

King Crimson will soon be touring parts of Europe.

Alberta Hunter

I would sing softly, and if the people at the next table would want to hear what I was doing, they'd have to call me over and give me a tip.

John Fogerty

I wrote that song for my wife, and it's what some guy who's sitting under a tree would be singing to the woman of his life, telling her how wonderful she is. To me, that's more lasting than something that sounds like it belongs on a movie soundtrack.

Grandmaster Flash

We can come from our own particular point of view and lay it down. We should not be throwing verbal rocks at each other. We're all responsible to continue the growth of Hip Hop.

Solomon Burke

I walked out of the Chinese restaurant with a fat check, a record deal, and a box of shrimp egg foo yung!

Danny Elfman

Having ten melodies was also a huge challenge, because I usually have three - sometimes just one or two, but often three that I'm using.

Gerry Beckley

Having said that we would really be remiss if we left out any of the hits so we try to do them all. It's a lot of songs so that's the good news.

Gavin DeGraw

I think it's important not to worry about that too much, because even if I was the next big thing, there would be another next big thing soon.

Jason James

Knowing that my wish list was pretty lofty and already busy working on other projects, I wrote Johnny Repeat in distinct chapters so high-caliber artists could contribute without having to make a 100-page commitment. I'm calling it 'cosmic noir.' I can't wait for everyone to see it!

Eric Kandel

I would not necessarily say that scientists and artists need to collaborate with one another, but it would be helpful for them to talk to one another to, perhaps, give rise to specific ideas that may or may not be carried out together.

John McConnell

He knows the music. He knows the songs. He knows the people. He knows the life. But especially, he knows the stories ? and the artists and fans just seem to take him places they wouldn't most other people." ()

Graham Elliot

I'm inspired by artists who use a limited palette, like painter Piet Mondrian, and the White Stripes, two musicians who create an incredible sound. Our food is starting to go back to a 'less is more' style.

Gore Verbinski

My respect for artists is very high. I think to get the most out of them, you have to liberate them. I think part of liberating them is saying, 'Come up with something brilliant, new, and fresh. Stop thinking based on what has been beat into you by executives or publishers in terms of what's going to work and what's not. Don't react, just act.'

Q-Tip

The song, 'Life is Better,' is about hip-hop. It's about my love for hip-hop. And, you know, I go through all the artists from the beginning to the end, you know. And, well, not to the end, but since the beginning to now, you know.

James Cromwell

I think the obligation of an artist is to make a difference in the world. That is what matters most to me. I think that artists are the leaders of the world because they do not have a connection to the industrial complex, the day-to-day short-term survival that most people are involved with.

David Nathan

I think the fact that they didn't attain the level of success of solo artists probably has something to do with it as well. They may have had some impact, but none are around today. They weren't able to sustain it.

Kate Jordan

There is a strong core of artists who have been working to preserve Frankford for a long time. It's been very inspiring and motivating for me to start to build relationships with them.

Tim Maluga

Kate wanted a higher level of competition, which I was totally understandable. Also, American University is in D.C. and has a much higher ratio of international students.

Don Mattingly

I think it helps to be away for a while. You're ready to come back. You make the choice, you want to do it. You're not doing it because you have to. As soon as you start getting into the competition of the season, it comes right back to you.

Calvin Ayre

I actually think regulation is bad. An unregulated market creates competition at its highest levels, which means innovation, which is a good thing for the players,

Nick Saban

Gus is going to make us a better team at the quarterback position. His knowledge and experience that comes with being a veteran will help the development of some of our younger players. In addition, he is familiar with our system and he'll create competition at the position.

Chad Latch

He's handled himself well. He's had some big matches this year, and I think the competition he's had throughout the year has set him up and prepared him for the state tournament.

Greg Carlson

It could be difficult for them to gain much headway given all the competition out there, especially on the price side.

Cecil Burch

It is a good feeling to have that many guys up there. It is a good conference and the competition is really outstanding. The whole league is tight. I am impressed with the runners, they did a good job.

Jim Padilla

I think the nature of competition in the marketplace is very, very challenging for all of us.

Kyle Shewfelt

We supported each other the whole way and, as the competition went on, we knew we were going to win.

Martin Jacques

Just six years into the 21st century, one can say this is not shaping up to be anything like an American century. Rather, the U.S. seems much more likely to be faced with a very different kind of future: how to manage its own imperial decline.

Arthur Jr.

Journalists should not have to face the prospect of imprisonment for doing nothing more than aggressively seeking to report on the government's actions.

Rusty Hand

It actually was an important match. My senior year, probably the last time I'll face him unless I get him at districts, so yeah, it was an important match to me. I tried hard, but I didn't have the mental game today.

Dan Coughlin

He was a great boss. He liked to put a smile on the face of the sports page.

Kent Johnson

He leads a lot by example. (But) at times, he doesn't mind getting in somebody's face or saying what needs to be said.

Grant Achatz

Whenever people are faced with any sort of adversity... they tend to gravitate toward things that make them comfortable, and things that they feel are important.

Olivia Mellan

have it in your face all the time.

Antonio Tarver

I think it's a slap in the face to all the people that have pumped him up and glorified him over the years,

John Foley

It could be really difficult, ... My job was to make it trendy. It was to make it hip, to take the face of Nixon and turn it into a salable commodity.

Anton LaVey

The person who takes every opportunity to "pick on" others is often mistakenly called "sadistic". In reality, this person is a misdirected masochist who is working towards his own destruction. The reason a person viciously strikes out against you is because they are afraid of you or what you represent, or are resentful of your happiness. They are weak, insecure, and on extremely shaky ground when you throw your curse, and they make ideal human sacrifices.

Russell Crowe

I don't make demands. I don't tell you how it should be. I'll give you options, and it's up to you to select or throw 'em away. That should be the headline: If you're insecure, don't call.

Richard Gere

I'm younger than I once was. Internally. Less self-conscious. Less insecure.

Winona Ryder

I really lucked out in terms of how my parents encouraged me to develop my own personality so I didn't just feel incredibly insecure and like I didn't fit in.

Yoko Ono

Every time I create something, just before that there's a kind of - you're feeling very low, you're feeling very down and insecure. Then you create and then it's fine. This is the way I observe me doing it.

Mila Kunis

I think that when a person is insecure about who they are or who they want to be, then it translates on screen, and the choices they make are all about perception.

Elle Macpherson

You check to see the facts are correct where business is concerned but if I read everything that was written about me, I'd end up feeling totally insecure about myself.

Nelson Mandela

There was much in such a society that was primitive and insecure and it certainly could never measure up to the demands of the present epoch. But in such a society are contained the seeds of revolutionary democracy in which none will be held in slavery.

Neil Strauss

A lot of women - not all of them, a lot of them - feel insecure about men being men.

Rob Johnson

James has been in that situation before, so I knew he was going to step up for us.

Vivica A. Fox

Going from drama to just straight-up comedy with Tommy Davidson and Jamie Foxx - what a blast.

Bob Bryan

He's kind of laid back but James pulls off his share of tricks.

Pryce Underwood

I thought we couldn't win without James in there. He is our big guy, and we were a little out of sync without him.

Pam Borton

I thought she was playing scared and tentative. Jamie wasn't getting the job done.

Anthony Bourdain

I think (Travel Channel) knows it's not getting Jamie Oliver or Rachel Ray when they throw their lot in with me.

John Heard

Lauren Bacall, James Garner, and Jack Lemmon - they're all gone now, but I was so impressed by them.

Sally Kirkland

I didn't go to college, not that I don't think people should, but I didn't because I was Off-Broadway when I was 17, with James Earl Jones.

Tony Raines

I don't know what Jamie was thinking or doing,

Winnie Holzman

I think we put on a real old-fashioned musical in some ways,

Richard C. Armitage

I went into musical theatre, which I'm not really cut out for - I'm not as skilled at it as other people.

Tre Cool

I had trouble fitting in, in a musical sense. A lot of drummers get sidetracked by the instrument. It can engulf you.

Rick James

I decided to build up my band in Buffalo because Buffalo was where I had originally built up my own musical strength.

Wayne Rooney

I listen to 50 Cent, Jay-Z, Stereophonics, Arctic Monkeys; also the musical Oliver - I can sing every tune.

Virgil Thomson

Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down.

Zachary Levi

My whole background, my whole life was just lots and lots of theater, a lot of that being musical theater.

Warren Zevon

Here's a story that I really want to tell about Bo Diddley at the OK corral.

Waylon Jennings

Did ole Hank really do it this way?

James Park

Today is a very directionless market, ... It is really quiet. There's not much going on.

Donald Tusk

Today I must tell myself I did not make it.

Jim Haslett

Today he's sore, so he didn't practice. He'll be fine. He'll play.

Tony Franklin

I thought we got a lot done offensively. Omar showed today why he has become the top quarterback.

Rachel Kyono

I think that I wouldn't be where I am today without going through the program.

Graeme Smith

He had a re-scan today and it doesn't look good. It would pretty much look like he's going home.

Wolfgang Puck

One thing I always say is being a great chef today is not enough - you have to be a great businessman.

John Rollins

I just putted better today than I did all week,

Kalin Lucas

I think about him every day. Today I woke up and I didn't even feel like going to school. It was rough.

Joseph Pierce

Can I make the play, ... Am I willing to make the play?

Nathalie Sarraute

We're swallowed up only when we are willing for it to happen.

Nikki Sixx

Friends tell each other what nobody else is willing to tell you.

Rita Mae Brown

Don't hope more than you're willing to work.

Mike Tomlin

It's not about what you're capable of, It's about what you're willing to do.

John Piper

You ought to marry someone who’s willing to go anywhere for God. If they’re not, they're out.

Bill Crawford

Sometimes our ability to accept what we can't change is tied to our willingness to change what we can.

Steve Kroft

I think you've got be willing as an interviewer to ask the dumb question every now and then.

Loretta Lynch

It's the choices that you make and the things that you're willing to accept and not accept that define who you are.

Larry Brown

I wanted to play some of the younger kids. I didn't think there was a way we were going to get back in that ballgame, the way it was going.

Chris Evert

I was very, very shy as a younger girl, just petrified of people.

Martin Parr

I like to keep in touch with younger photographers. It's important that a younger generation comes up and questions the assumptions made by old farts like me.

Bianca Lawson

I am so lazy. I really don't have a regimen. When I was younger I used to be into cardio and taebo and step-orobics and hiking. Lately, I haven't done anything at all. I'd like to get into yoga, but I've been really bad.