Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yanni

I don't like to define my music. To me, music is pure emotion. It's language that can communicate certain emotions and the rhythms cuts across genders, cultures and nationalities. All you need to do is close your eyes and feel those emotions.

Imelda May

In 2008, I was in a London park when I came across a fledgling crow that had fallen from the top of an oak tree. A woman happened to be passing, and she said that she rescued animals, so she invited me back to her house. It turned out she was the wife of Jeff Beck. Jeff was there, and we ended up jamming together.

Ian Anderson

I've always felt that some of my best lyrics are less than three minutes long, and it's great when you can do that - be succinct and get the message across in a simple, clear idea.

Irving Stone

The biographical novel is a true and documented story of one human being's journey across the face of the years, transmuted from the raw material of life into the delight and purity of an authentic art form.

Isabella Bird

The situation of Leh is a grand one, the great Kailas range, with its glaciers and snowfields, rising just behind it to the north, its passes alone reaching an altitude of nearly 18,000 feet; while to the south, across a gravelly descent and the Indus Valley, rise great red ranges dominated by snow-peaks exceeding 21,000 feet in altitude.

Ismail Kadare

I first came across the script for 'Macbeth' between the ages of 11 and 12; it was the first book that shook my life. Because I did not yet understand that I could simply purchase it in a bookstore, I copied much of it by hand and took it home. My childhood imagination pushed me to feel like a co-author of the play.

Gale Harold

If anyone can crack the publicity nut and figure out how to not come across hammy and contrived, I'd love to talk to them.

George Allen

When I was elected Governor, we had an audacious agenda that naysayers said couldn't be enacted with a Democrat majority in the state legislature. However, we worked across party lines and enacted historic reforms. Working together, we cut taxes by more than $600 million.

Zoe Kazan

I love to walk around New York. Honestly, that's like the best thing, to walk over to Park Slope and go visit my friend Betty and take her dog out in the park or go walk across the Brooklyn Bridge. I really dig being outside and getting to see everybody in the street.

Yani Tseng

When you play good, everything is good, but when you don't play so good, everything is bad. Even when you think there are good things, they still say bad things.

Tina Fey

Sometimes people expect that I'm going to be tough. It's not a bad situation. People treat you better. People are on time.

Thomas Friedman

Lord knows there's a lot of bad news in the world today to get you down, but there is one big thing happening that leaves me incredibly hopeful about the future, and that is the budding revolution in global online higher education.

Isabella Bird

The Malays have many queer notions about tigers and usually only speak of them in whispers, because they think that certain souls of human beings who have departed this life have taken up their abode in these beasts, and in some places, for this reason, they will not kill a tiger unless he commits some specially bad aggression.

Ian Watson

It's bad enough being conned into singing an anti-war message by John Lennon when you think you're just wishing everyone a merry Christmas.

Gabriel Mann

The only description for Nolan in the script was that he's a very bad dresser. I put on a red windbreaker and every other ugly, ill-fitting thing I could dig out. He was potentially written as a clean-cut nerd, but I wanted a darker spin.

Glenn Tipton

You can have a bad day, but as soon as you set foot on that stage it's joyous.

Gin Wigmore

Writing music is such a freeing exercise, and it's really nice to play in that world of being confident, vengeful - getting back at all the bad boyfriends.

Will Rothhaar

I would love to do a good gritty drama, a romantic role. I tend to play bad guys for some reason.

Gloria Trevi

Nowadays, performers worry too much about how they look. They're not concerned about what they're really saying to their audience.

Gladys Knight

I'm comfortable singing jazz. The only thing I was concerned about is that everybody, even in jazz, has their own style. To me, the queen of doodling was Ella Fitzgerald, and scatting is something I never thought I could do.

William Henry Bragg

The chemist, whose science is immediately concerned with the combinations of atoms, has rarely found it necessary to discuss their shapes, and gives them no particular forms in his diagrams. That does not mean that the shapes are unimportant, but rather that the older methods could not define them.

Vikram Seth

The point really is that a writer tends to write a book that he or she tends to write. It's as simple as that. Of course, it's important to make a living and all that, but the main impulse as far as I'm concerned - and I'm sure as other writers are concerned - is to tell a story that I feel impelled by.

Billy Graham

What really matters is how God sees me. He isn't concerned with labels; he is concerned about the state of man's soul.

Billy Graham

Seemingly, man has learned to live without God, preoccupied and indifferent toward Him and concerned only about material security and pleasure.

Evel Knievel

I've always been concerned about kids - not just my own three, but all kids - what kind of an image I'm providing for them, what kind of inspiration. I don't know now. Maybe I'm leading them down the path to self-destruction.

David A. Bednar

We can begin to become more diligent and concerned at home by telling the people we love that we love them. Such expressions do not need to be flowery or lengthy. We simply should sincerely and frequently express love.

David Friedman

I have been writing since I was about 20, and at first I wrote in secret and never showed anybody. I was very concerned about making a living, so I conducted.

David Maxwell

We can't logistically supply 19 counties with water and essential supplies.

Eddie White

We've lost some good teachers, because we've had highly qualified teachers and other counties have sought them out,

Ron Moore

Wind systems are so new we don't have anything in our zoning ordinance that addresses this type of electrical generation. There are counties in Illinois that have wind energy systems. Those are Bureau, Henry, Lee, McLean, and Mercer. McLean County, I believe, is going to be producing the largest wind energy system in the state, if not the Midwest. I think that's somewhere around a $300 million project.

James Lee

Just because of printing schedules and corrections to ballots, every election there are a few counties that aren't ready to go.

Matt Maguire

Those counties that don't have them have a tremendous competitive disadvantage.

Michael Toner

We are interested in reviewing any and all procedures that were undertaken to cross-reference these registration updates with pre-existing voter registration records in your county, and with the counties in which these voters previously resided.

Adam Warpinski

I think I have a new perspective, a new image, an open mind looking for new solutions and using those that have been tried in other counties and cities.

Main Street

we don't see the involvement we'd like from the counties (but) we need all the sectors.

Carl Laundrie

We figure we can get the information from other counties and the Florida Association of Counties.

Bill Vaughan

Vote in a national election.

Vladimir Ryzhkov

Today, there are a lot of opposition members of parliament who are not only ready for elections, they're pushing for them,

Ranil Wickremesinghe

We have to now ensure there are free and fair elections.

Trish McDermott

We have to know what single people are thinking and the upcoming election is part of it.

Larry Sabato

Usually this happens after the mid-term election of the second term -- during the start of the seventh year of an eight-year presidency.

Mahmoud Abbas

Voting is the right of every citizen. It's a national obligation because the results of the election should reflect a truthful expression of all Palestinians.

Jay Lapeyre

(Voters) wish there were an election right now.

Peter Spencer

With the election well out of the way, the chancellor's forecasts have taken a step back towards reality.

Jendayi Frazer

With the election of their first president, now is the time (to get Taylor in court).

Gina Prince-Bythewood

I don't want people to go to a film of mine because they feel guilty, like, 'I have to support it because there's black folks in there.' I want them to go because it's a good movie.

Chuck Palahniuk

The folks who read my books are so passionate about each one of them that the people making my movies are more afraid of my readership than they are of me.

Paul Johnston

We have a mandate to return the hurricane protection system to pre-Katrina levels by June 1. The folks out there are really working like crazy. We've got folks pounding steel 24 hours a day.

Mark Zuckerberg

We pay attention to every demographic in every country, so we're going to focus on building things that teens are going to like, and we're also going to focus on building things that other folks are going to like.

Patty Loveless

When I listen to my own records, I always think, 'Oh, I could have sung that so much better.' But you have to finish something and turn it in. If I didn't have folks who say, 'Come on, we need the record now,' I probably would never finish one.

Robert Bennett

Most of the information we're getting is self-reported. If it turns out these self-reported statements are accurate, the folks won't feel much in the way of Y2K.

Ray Lovell

Most folks will stay with their relatives or friends when these things happen.

Jim Nicholson

Most folks in Skaneateles don't get to stay for free in multimillion-dollar vacation estates; don't get to travel free on planes paid for by the taxpayers,

Abraham Lincoln

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be

Abraham Lincoln

Biographies, as generally written, are not only misleading but false... In most instances, they commemorate a lie and cheat posterity out of the truth.

Evangeline Lilly

In every one of the 'Squickerwonker' books, we will explore a new Squickerwonker character and their vice and how their vice generally leads to their undoing.

Deborah Eisenberg

I'm not used to interviews. People don't generally interview waitresses.

Scott Rudin

I love stories about women, and I think stories about women are generally pretty underrepresented.

Mark Zuckerberg

I always kind of see how I want things to be better, and I'm generally not happy with how things are or the level of service that we're providing for people or the quality of the teams that we built. But if you look at this objectively, we're doing so well on so many of these things. I think it's important to have gratitude for that.

Jennifer Pahlka

We have this idea of bureaucracy in local government, and it's generally things that we're frustrated at. It doesn't work the way we like it to work.

Tom Jaffee

You can generally talk about many things, as long as it's not, you know, a turnoff or offensive.

Kris Reyes

We generally find that if it?s warm over the hill, they?re going to be heading here.

Victor Webster

Television is generally on the conservative side, so if you're seeing it represented on TV, that probably means it's really out there in the real world.

Ben Barnes

There are plenty of people in the world who have tried to be rock stars and have not gotten there.

William Gibson

If you've read a lot of vintage science fiction, as I have at one time or another in my life, you can't help but realise how wrong we get it. I have gotten it wrong more times than I've gotten it right. But I knew that when I started; I knew that before I wrote a word of science fiction.

Dave Miley

We could have gotten out of here with a split if we were able to execute.

Avery Johnson

We could have gotten a little lethargic. We won't rule it out.

Randy Houser

I've made music since I was a kid so I've always gotten joy out of that.

Paula Creamer

I've never gotten cash out of a machine. I use my credit cards, so I don't need to do that.

Pierce Brosnan

As I've gotten older and I've watched people in productions, I go to the theater when I go back to London and see friends in Broadway, I think maybe there might come a time here to get back up there and prove oneself. It's just an itch; it's a nagging itch to go back there.

Stacy Baker

We had our chances. We just never could get that big hit. We should have gotten Kate more runs.

Anita McLane

We were so young last year and this year playing with the same group has helped. They are playing real well and have gotten better over the season.

Yotam Ottolenghi

You don't need a machine to make pasta: a rolling pin and a fast hand can create a smooth, if thick, sheet.

Benoit Mandelbrot

Some mathematicians didn't even perceive of the possibility of a picture being helpful. To the contrary, I went into an orgy of looking at pictures by the hundreds; the machines became a little bit better.

Mike Wallace

Whether it's $200 or $300 is not going to matter. Nintendo and Microsoft are going to sell every machine they can put on the shelves.

Rick Cooper

Ninety-eight percent of the work is done by machine. Machines make up for 1,000 people.

Steve Ruggiero

For the slot machine manufacturers, Pennsylvania is a no-brainer.

Shawn Levy

If it was going to be unique, if you're going to make a robot movie in 2011... it had to be different, and it had to be about more than its machines and more than its action.

Larry Harris

His teams win. He's really the machine that makes us go.

David Sedaris

I won't put in a load of laundry, because the machine is too loud and would drown out other, more significant noises - namely, the shuffling footsteps of the living dead.

Camille Paglia

The female body is a chthonian machine, indifferent to the spirit who inhabits it.

Jan Egeland

In the pipeline we have 10,000 tents and 100,000 blankets but it takes time to go to these areas.

Guy Ritchie

I'd like to work with the missus, but there's nothing in the pipeline at the moment.

John Hoeven

Pipelines are by far the safest way to transport petroleum. They are safer than tankers, safer than trucks, safer than rail.

Terence McKenna

We have wandered into a state of prolonged neurosis because of the absence of a direct pipeline to the unconscious and we have then fallen victim to priestcraft of every conceivable sort.

William Shawcross

Writing or talking about famine and the world's response to it is not very easy.

Jeff Friedman

Well, our response is for the negotiating team, during negotiations.

Phil Harding

We have had a tremendous response from our dealers and customers.

Mark Cuban

Johnson's response then: ??I don't know, I don't know.

Greg Stone

I'm shocked. I don't understand why the response wasn't instantaneous.

Shaukat Aziz

We are satisfied with the response but we want more,

Greg Stone

I don't understand why the response wasn't instantaneous.

Scott Baker

It can be more than that. It's not unusual for all of the staff to work on responses

Paul Goldblatt

This was not a response to any one incident.

Barack Obama

Nobody wants to put the creditworthiness of the United States in jeopardy. Nobody wants to see the United States default. So we've got to seize this moment, and we have to seize it soon.

Ron Greene

That way we can teach her what's right, not what's mandated by the state of California.

Mark Bowman

We have wrestled better, but everyone is very tough in the state tournament.

Rodney Stark

Wherever you've got a state church, you have empty churches.

Drew DiPippo

We're still trying to get better and we want to make the state tournament.

Tommy Bowden

You like to see the state be a success.

Andrew Fastow

I think many of the statements in there are false.

Daniel Breaker

Juilliard's mission statement is learn about the classics so you can use that as a springboard to anything that comes your way.

Tom Murphy

I think this is a wonderful statement of values, really,