Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark McCray

I did not realize Artie took over that much. He's certainly capable. I'm glad the kids kept playing hard. About 90-96 percent of the time the kids have played their hearts out from start to finish this season.

Terry Piazza

We're being cautious with Barnett. He's having a little pain in his arm. But Artie (Morales) was a starter early in the season, and we're confident with him in there.

Phil Harding

It was a different time back then, ... They'd book Benny Goodman and Artie Shaw at the Blue Moon. In Opelousas, you'd have the Cedar Lane. They'd have Bob Crosby. You could have fallen asleep in the streets and not have worried about somebody doing anything to you. We just went out and enjoyed ourselves. People knew how to just have a good time.

Morley Safer

Artie was there from the beginning, a whirlwind of energy, as passionate about the look of 60 Minutes as we all were about the substance. Through the decades he never became jaded, never faltered, never lost his exuberance for giving everything he touched a special touch of class.

Don Hewitt

Artie had an eye for what worked visually and what didn't. He was invaluable to me.

Dan Rather

Artie Bloom was the most accomplished director of television news programs in history. The record shows he was the best.

Paul Simon

When we came into the studio I became more and more me, making the tracks and choosing the musicians, partly because a great deal of the time during Bridge, Artie wasn't there.

Bikram Choudhury

For months, I slept at work, even though I had an apartment. I'd fall asleep on the floor at 4:30 A.M. By 7 A.M., I was up and ready to start teaching every class.

Paracelsus

That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking state he may know nothing about it.... We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself. - The Dream Game

Chris Winfield

We're really starting to see Microsoft gear up. Of course, the company was asleep at the wheel for a long time.

Roger McNamee

Microsoft didn't get to $8 billion in revenues and $7 billion in cash because they fell asleep at the switch.

Larry Haverty

Management is not asleep at the switch. Anything you can do to move the needle in that direction is terrific for shareholders.

Dave Sarachan

We gave up an awful goal from my standpoint. We fell asleep three minutes in, and now you've got 87 minutes left to try to get back into it. We did everything we could to do that, but it just didn't fall for us.

Richard Alley

We haven't been sleeping on the rights, or asleep at the wheel, in this case.

Randy Scyoc

I was happy with way we played defense in the first half. In the second half, we sort of fell asleep a little bit and didn't box out sometimes, and they crawled back in the game.

Henry Reed

What we hear while we are asleep continues to resonate with us upon awakening.

Sean Burke

I still talk to Benny a little bit,

Sam Flood

We're all really excited for and proud of Benny, ... Benny is one of the true legends of the sport and when he went to the booth, his personality changed the way NASCAR is broadcast on television forever.

Bobby Sherman

Basically, I'm 51, going on 45. Or as Jack Benny might have said, I'm still 39!

Ned Yost

He (Sheets) was lights out. Both pitchers threw phenomenally well tonight. They both had great stuff and were hitting their spots. Benny was about as good as Benny could be.

Ned Yost

We're not going to pack up and die. Key injuries happen to every team. I hate it for Benny and the team, but you have to pick up the slack and go.

Pat Ambrose

When we were patient on offense and got a good shot, we did well. When we played too fast and didn't get a good shot, we let Zion back into the game. Benny did a real nice job for us. He wanted to win.

Ned Yost

We're not going to do anything stupid. We want Benny for the long haul.

Benny Green

No, that's not it. The first time we met was at Fat Tuesday's. Benny was playing, this was, I think in 1989?

Benny Blanco

I just want to sound different than everyone else. I don't care if it sounds bad. I just want people to be like, 'Yo, that dude Benny was different.' Even if it sounds awful, at least they can't say, 'Oh well, I've heard that before.'

Yael Naim

My big influences are Joni Mitchell, and a lot of classical and Indian music, as well as Nina Simone and the personal blues and jazz of Billie Holiday. Other influences for me include Bjork, Nick Drake, and Sufjan Stevens.

Imelda May

Ireland and America, music-wise, are very closely related. The Irish came over with their fiddles in hand, and you can hear it in the bluegrass and rockabilly. I love it when music from different countries combine.

Jim Taylor

The police car, which had its blue lights flashing, was responding to a serious large-scale disturbance nearby when it struck the man as he crossed the road to where a taxi was waiting for him.

Cecil Beaton

I have the worst ear for criticism, even when I have created a stage set I like, I always hear the woman in the back of the dress circle, who says she doesn't like blue.

Jeff Marlow

The allure of the kind of blues that this town is known for is still here. If the crowd at one of these venues claps for me, that will be more satisfying than a venue in a large city.

Lord Byron

The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, / And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; / And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, / When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee.

Jason Chaffetz

The American people deserve a blueprint for policymaking that is built upon the Constitution of the United States and the principles of fiscal discipline, limited government, accountability, and a strong national defense.

Jeffrey Lichtman

That was the blueprint that each and every one of these cooperators followed, ... They know the government can be manipulated.

Rob Cohen

That whole thing with the dragonfly in the Blue Mountains, that really wasn't anything to do with Stealth , ... It could have been a movie about two people at a picnic making love in the woods. We were sort of caught in the middle of someone else's fight.

Wesley Morris

No, I don't know why Bobby and Peter Farrelly bothered with a 'Three Stooges' movie, either. But if they're anything like some men I know, their love for Moe, Larry, and Curly (and an assortment of fourth bananas) is deep, abiding, and unembarrassable. In other words: How could the Farrellys not?

Valerie June

My voice is who I am, who I was when I was 3, and who I am going to be when I am 90 years old. When I hit the stage and people do not know who I am, they automatically assume, before I open my mouth, I am going to sing a Bob Marley song!

Chris Carter

'The X-Files' from the beginning was a very visual show, and with Bob Mandel directing the pilot and Dan Sackheim being involved in the production of the pilot and directing the first episode, they brought a visual style to it that was elaborated on by so many good directors.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

I'm a huge Springsteen fan, and yet if either he or Bob Dylan had to be erased from the world's hard drive, I would save Bob Dylan's work for sure - he's the greater talent, and by leaps and bounds and skyscrapers and rocket blasts. But Bob Dylan is an alien to his public.

Don Rickles

Bob Hope was totally regimented. I go in and say a line like, 'Hi Bob' and I'd have to do it five times, and then Bob would take me to the writers to say the line different ways. He wouldn't let me ad-lib.

Cathy Freeman

I was going to shave it. It went in two parts. I got a bob first but it kept falling all over my face. Then it was off, short. The main reason it was long was because my mother cut it short when I was little and I was trying to make up for that.

David Perno

That was a good effort all the way around. Gentry got a good break on it and I thought he was going to make a great play, but Bobby was running right out of the box. If he's not hustling right out of the box, he doesn't make that happen.

Jim Tressel

We can sneak Bobby in there. He's a good tight end. He's quick, he's physical. He knows how to block. He's smart. I heard someone say yesterday in a staff meeting that if he wanted to, he would know the play book in a half-hour. That's just the kind of football player he is.

Roger McGuinn

I open all my concerts with 'My Backpages,' written by Bob Dylan, and close them all with 'May the Road Rise to Meet You,' written by Roger McGuinn and Camilla McGuinn.

Ian Frazier

I'd read books in Russian, and they would take me forever. I wanted to write a book that would last and would not be superficial. Siberian-travel writing is its own genre.

Gail Carriger

Laughter is healing and helpful and fun, and I see my role as an entertainer, and I want readers to leave my books smiling.

Zadie Smith

One thing you can't intend is how you will be read. I hear it said a lot that my books are about the 'search for identity', and this is said admiringly, as if I meant to encourage such a search.

Zadie Smith

When I think of the books I love, there's always a little laughter in the dark.

William Osler

To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all.

Wendi McLendon-Covey

I've got a bunch of books... I rely on funny books and movies to cheer me up. Oh, but I must say, I do have the world's most perfect husband, so a cuddle from him always cheers me up. He's a good guy.

Vincent Bugliosi

I am more excited about 'Divinity of Doubt: The God Question' than any other book in my entire career, and I've had seven New York Times bestsellers, three of them reaching number one.

Chuck Palahniuk

I think Chris Brown gets kind of dismissed as a gay writer, and I think Chris's books are really, really smart. I wish his books sold a little more widely.

Chuck Palahniuk

My favorite books to give or get are short story collections. And always paperbacks because they are easy to carry as you travel.

Werner Klemperer

But when they offered this little situation for me to do this voice in this special segment, I found it so incredibly humorous that I said yes, and I enjoyed it. It was fun.

Steven Hill

That would probably be the one I like the most because (the fans) think it's something bad. But I kind of enjoyed it.

Larry Zimmer

That was the (coach) Leon Fuller era, ... I missed CU, but I enjoyed my time at CSU, also. There were some good people there, and I enjoyed working with them.

Marilynne Robinson

I really enjoyed my kids. They were good boys, you know, and interesting. And they didn't wear me out.

Pierre Pettigrew

We have to maintain the pressure. I can tell you one thing -- Iran has not enjoyed the last two resolutions we tabled,

Paul Thomas Anderson

I actually enjoyed the struggles that we had trying to shape 'Blood', to get the pacing right, the rhythm of it.

Mimi Kennedy

For many years, I didn't even like the idea of doing a one-person play. Public speaking got me past that. I've always been good at public speaking, but I never really enjoyed it. Then I started to really enjoy it, and that's made all the difference.

Paul Perkins

We have only been in the Rolla market about three years, but we have enjoyed considerable success and the feedback we have gotten tells us it would be good to offer our wide range of services on the south side of town as well,

Robert Koch

Wine has enjoyed the most positive image it has had in years from consumers, the media and government.

Mario Andretti

I love technology - yes, I have fallen in love with older cars, but I'm all for new technology.

Henry Taylor

Where there are large powers with little ambition, nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.

Brett Rumford

I worked very hard back home and it looks as though everything has fallen into place.

Jacob Gruse

I guess it's a loss, so I shouldn't be so positive about the game. They could have fallen down and quit on me in the third quarter. But they didn't.

Dawn Black

If its lowered for for senators, why not for fallen soldiers?

Troy Peter

We've found a way to persevere all year even when we've fallen behind. We've come back after trailing by a lot quite a few times. That seems to be our style.

Fred Byrd

He was a good, all-around American boy. And he's a fallen hero.

Kurt Badenhausen

He had a good one-year or two-year run and has fallen off from that level.

Dan Buckner

Until they search each and every remaining house and remove all the fallen materials ... they will not know how many people are there.

Grace Paley

Paul Goodman was not ahead of his time but IN his time.

Chrissy Teigen

I feel like part of me will die when John Goodman dies.

Donald Trump

Ronald Reagan became, you know, not only a Republican but a pretty conservative Repub - not the most. But a pretty conservative Republican. And he's somebody that I actually knew and liked. And he liked me. And I worked with him and helped him.

Will Chase

In acting, you have to know that you are worth something. I knew I had some talent somewhere.

Clint Eastwood

I knew Billy Wilder socially and would have loved to work with him.

Neil Simon

Nathan Lane always wanted to play Oscar. When he came in the first day, he already knew his lines. He said he'd known them since he was 18.

Dan Hinds

That was the turning point right there. We knew right there we'd be able to punch it in.

Jeff Hawkins

That was the turning point right there. That's when we knew we had them.

George W. Bush

That woman who knew I had dyslexia: I never interviewed her.

Pam Schild

We have always been supportive of his decision. We knew he would never do anything half-heartedly.

Matt Baker

We could have won the game. We knew we were in position. We took a shot and lost on it.

Yahya Jammeh

Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.

Yossi Vardi

In the end, I think that people that are not willing to take the risk to fail are not true entrepreneurs.

Yancy Butler

Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are telling you it has powers. I would be a little skeptical myself.

Ian Mckellen

I don't think many people will re-read 'The Da Vinci Code.'

Ian Mckellen

People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'

Irwin Thomas

I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.

Irwin Rose

I don't have any hobbies. You know, I'm very embarrassed when people ask me what are my hobbies; I don't have any hobbies. I mean, it's just enough to keep up with the things I'm trying to solve.

Isiah Whitlock, Jr.

Usually, when you're working or you're on set, everything is very guarded. At parties, people have a tendency to relax.

Imani Hakim

When people say, 'If you could do anything else, what would you do?' I would be an actress. That's something that I would do - I can't see myself doing anything else.

Donald Trump

Somebody said I am the most popular person in Arizona because I am speaking the truth.

Clint Eastwood

When I'm a director, I look at myself the actor as a completely different person. It's somebody else up there, an actor playing a role. I keep myself out of it.

Nancy Grace

Listen, when somebody says, 'I take the fifth,' well, you know, they did something, OK? Why else would they take the fifth?

Noreena Hertz

If somebody tweets 'I like Coca-Cola,' does that mean that they're actually going to buy Coca-Cola? One can? Two cans? Three cans? If they retweet someone else's Tweet, does that mean they're going to buy it?

Pat Robertson

I would never say somebody had to vote for anybody. That would be terrible. I haven't said that.

Andy Jackson

We have a lot of talent on this team. We're not going to use somebody being out as an excuse.

Evan Osnos

Usually when you interview somebody for a number of hours, they'll say something that is self-aggrandizing or is a manipulation of the facts.

Paul Mooney

I have such an ego 'cause I'm a double Leo. I can't let go of me, you know, so it's very difficult for me to be somebody else and not me. I'm so into me.

Cristie Kerr

You just know when somebody is good. You can just tell.

Al Jarreau

I sang do-wop on the street corner before it was called do-wop.

Bob Marley

You can't find the right roads when the streets are paved.

Stephanie Nelson

I think they'll have to do something. I don't think streets can support it.

Doug E. Fresh

I could still walk the street. I don't have to have no massive security.

Anne Rice

Paris was a universe whole and entire unto herself, hollowed and fashioned by history; so she seemed in this age of Napoleon III with her towering buildings, her massive cathedrals, her grand boulevards and ancient winding medieval streets - as vast and indestructible as nature itself.

Elton John

I don't whistle at you down the street. I would if I could, but I can't whistle you see.

Simon McBurney

I feel that if you can play on the streets or in a comedy club, then in a theatre it's a doddle because you've got an audience.

Mark Twain

A street in Constantinople is a picture which one ought to see once-not oftener.

Martha Reeves

I will always dance in the street.

Gaines Adams

I like to have fun, but I also try to make time for my son.

George Allen

It's time for an American comeback... where leaders in Washington listen to 'we the people.'

Zadie Smith

We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are.

Zadie Smith

Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.

Vivienne Westwood

I am in my own head most of the time.

Zubin Mehta

New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.

Zubin Mehta

I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras.

Yakov Smirnoff

When you like something, you find time to do it.

Evangeline Lilly

I'm a bit delusional, but every time I do a job, I think I'm retired.

Donald Berwick

I am worried about the potential effect of casinos on communities.

Bill Burr

Well probably the coolest show of that whole tour was in Germany. I had a chunk of material on [Adolf] Hitler, and I was worried about how they'd react, but they loved it.

Mohamed El-Erian

Because in the New Normal you are more worried about the return of your capital, not return on your capital.

Pat Riley

One thing I'm not worried about is our rebounding.

Ron Gardenhire

But as I told you before, we're a little worried about this.

James Blake

I feel like I am getting better every week. I'm not worried about my ranking, I'm just worried about getting better.

Carl Krauser

I don't think we have anything to be too worried about.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

Today is the tomorrow I worried about yesterday.

Hootie Johnson

We're not worried about Tiger. We're worried about these 17-year-olds.