Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.'

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!

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.

Otis Blackwell

I think the one that really happened was Fever with Little Willie John. But, it only went so far because Peggy Lee jumped on it.

Jerry Harrison

I think that the increased bandwith will make music and movie clips a lot more satisfying; but it won't sort out boring ideas or songs.

Adrian Belew

We expect to keep our writing sessions going until late spring, then to play some new material in a few secret club dates. The record will likely take a long time and may not surface until 1999!

Jimmy Chamberlin

What I see for the band by the end of this year is the Complex live at the Montreux Jazz Festival. I want my guys to be comfortable. I'm certainly not in this for the money, but I'd really like to see my guys make some money off of this stuff.

Joe Pistone

John and I go way back. We worked a lot of cover cases together,

Neil Miller

I think I solved the case myself in jail just by sitting up there and thinking about it, the many holes that I found.

Richard Perle

I think in this case international law stood in the way of doing the right thing.

Ruben Donis

We are going to monitor all cases of human exposure, but at this point there is no reason to panic.

Sidney Jones

I think it's going to be a stronger case this time around.

Larry Simmons

I think it's an important enough case that we have to spend what it takes. It's not about this particular young man or his mother. It's about a potentially serious financial impact to the school district.

Jonathan Coe

I think it's also the case that I'm not as widely travelled, or as well-educated in history, as most of the other novelists I meet: so I have to write about my own country, at the present time, because it's more or less all I know about!

Bill Richardson

It could be the case that one of these individuals misplaced the drives, ... What we now have is a potential cover-up, or some other factors that have to be determined.

John Wilkinson

It clearly makes no sense to invest heavily in health but at the same time to massively cut investment in making sure the most effective and cost-efficient treatments are used. It is certainly not the case that there is a lack of potentially life-saving devices and systems that need evaluation.

Warren Christopher

It is a grave concern that an employer would stoop so low as to illegally eavesdrop on their staff during negotiations for collective agreements.

Elijah Wood

In some ways that's more gratifying, it requires more of your own energy and your own input, and everyone's kind of collective energy, and that's...in a way that's more gratifying.

James Levine

It has to be able to play at the maximum expression and communication in every style, and the only way you can do that is - like Verdi said - working with a file, every day, little by little, until the orchestra's collective qualities emerge.

George H. W. Bush

supported by the collective will of the world.

Jeff Larson

It was a collective team effort tonight, and our kids did the little things right to win this one.

Sarah Larsen

It was a collective effort. No one was being selfish and everyone contributed in some way.

Lisa Mandeville

They cut it to nine, she banged that shot in the corner, and it was the exhalation. It was a collective sigh and then we picked up.

James McTevia

They are going to have fewer people to represent in their collective bargaining, and that's going to have some effect on their negotiating ability.

Kaui Hart Hemmings

Two days a week, I go to my office at The Grotto, a writer's collective in San Francisco. I get there at 8:15 and write until around 1 or 2 P.M.

John Davis

I think it's really fallen off people's radar. We don't hear much about it at all.

Robert Jordan

The Amyrlin Seat has fallen," a nearby Aes Sedai cried amid the crystallized Sharans. "The Amyrlin Seat has fallen!

Chris Dodd

I?m very proud of my state, my constituents, my governor, ... I?m proud of the people in the legislature and others who are all taking steps to make a contribution to alleviate the hardships that have fallen on our fellow citizens. It?s a great, great day.

Jerry Hollendorfer

The Derby, on the road to this thing, there are many fallen warriors. I'm not the only one.

Chad Prosser

The medium is no longer about posting information. We had fallen behind. ... We are pushing into the online segment in the way we are doing because so much travel planning is done online.

Anne Peterson

It's the community-dwelling seniors, people in their homes who have not fallen yet, who are, maybe, leaning toward a sedentary lifestyle. You tend to do less and less. It's this snowball effect.

John Twiggs

After several years passed, I finally contacted Donna and she told me that everything had fallen through, the way it sometimes does in Hollywood. It was only a five-year deal, and so the rights were open again.

Scott Adams

I've literally gotten out of my chair, lain on the floor and fallen sound asleep,

Mario Hernandez

It was all on fire and the roof had fallen in.

Emily Greene Balch

The role of Italy and of Austria has diminished as has that of France and Britain; Germany and Japan have suffered catastrophically.

Eric Darwell

This says that things in Japan are on pretty solid ground.

Bunroku Yoshino

There was a possibility that the negotiations would come to a deadlock if Japan did not pay.

Jon Jovi

It's been 22 years of making records and I must have been to Japan 25 times or more. There's not too many things in the world I haven't seen.

P. J. O'Rourke

In Japan people drive on the left. In China people drive on the right. In Vietnam it doesn't matter.

Pat Buchanan

We are thus in the position of having to borrow from Europe to defend Europe, of having to borrow from China and Japan to defend Chinese and Japanese access to Gulf oil, and of having to borrow from Arab emirs, sultans and monarchs to make Iraq safe for democracy. We borrow from the nations we defend so that we may continue to defend them. To question this is an unpardonable heresy called 'isolationism.'

Kim Dae Jung

So such an American troops presence in Korea in the South and Japan, total some 100,000 should stay there forever, even after unification of Korean peninsula.

Mark Mothersbaugh

With vinyl you had twenty-two minutes per side. CDs came along, and you had sixty, seventy, eighty minutes and people felt like they had to fill them up. They were like those Fuji apples from Japan. They look like perfect, super-gigantic versions of American apples.

Paul R. Ehrlich

The drilling idea is spherically senseless - it's senseless from whatever point of view you look at it. It'd take 10 years to bring any oil online, and it would probably go to Japan. It sure wouldn't help gasoline prices here. All the economists say gasoline is still too cheap in the United States anyway. So here we're having this huge debate over offshore drilling that is just straightforward nonsense, which won't surprise you.

Thomas Hardy

Once victim, always victim -- that's the law!

Margaret Atwood

This above all, to refuse to be a victim.

Joel Osteen

Be a victor , not a victim.

James Ragan

They're kind of a victim of their own success.

Cameron van der Burgh

It's unfortunate, I've been the victim of some Australian press.

Robert Kiyosaki

I'd rather be a victor than a victim.

Jennifer Garraway

We have to do something for the victims and that's why we do this program.

Clive Owen

I was very keen on playing a victim.

Daniel Sunjata

I certainly dont feel like Ive been the victim of typecasting.