Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marnie Stern

I was listening to a lot of math rock-y type bands do lots of complex stuff and I couldn't figure out how they were doing it. Then I realized that sometimes they were finger tapping, so I started messing around doing it.

Randy Talley

I think it just shows the strength and depth of our music program. We've also had many bands that have performed, as well as orchestras. I think it's unusual a town the size of Odessa to have had so many groups invited to perform at this convention.

Terry Kratovil

Guys representing two bands came to his house one day. One came to the front door, another came to the back door. He went with the one that came to the front door.

Kelly Jones

I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. It reminds me of when we were just starting out because we would open for other bands in the beginning.

Aaron Stern

I think a lot of bands just, they sort of mark themselves as they can only go so far. They sort of screw themselves by setting the bar so low, that we can only go so far with music. Instead I feel like our band as people, our personalities, we kind of had the feeling we can do anything and go anywhere.

Michael Franti

I came up playing in both punk rock bands and hip-hop bands, and I found a more universal way of reaching people, especially with music that has a message to it.

Brian Ritchie

In the '80s, bands could just hop on the bus and travel for a few weeks; it was profitable. Now, everything's more expensive and you're not selling as many records because of Internet downloads.

Boy George

In the '60s everybody wanted to be the Beatles or the Stones, in the '70s there were bands everybody tried to emulate, like Led Zeppelin. And I think in the '80s you had lots of bands that had quite individual sounds, ... '80s Rewind.

Edsel Dope

I like to do it just because I like to go to places that a lot of bands normally wouldn't go, because I think the kids are super appreciative of it, and I think it's just a nice feeling to go somewhere where they don't get a lot of cool rock shows. That's why we did that run, and I'm sure we'll do stuff like that again.

Edward Hirsch

There are still many tribal cultures where poetry and song, there is just one word for them. There are other cultures with literacy where poetry and song are distinguished. But poetry always remembers that it has its origins in music.

Hugh Winebrenner

They are two very different cultures that hold very different political contests. It's little wonder they would often come to different conclusions,

William Price

It's another thing to put on your gear and drive off into a village and make it happen.... We're proving that a group of people with many different cultures can be a great superpower. We're trying to help people (here) see that too,

J. Taylor

This event allows students to learn about their own and others' backgrounds. We should all embrace other cultures and learn to live lives of celebration and joy.

Desiree Manuel

For example, one student put together a drumming group to show how different cultures drum.

Romeo Crennel

They didn't say. We may know more tomorrow. It might depend on when they run tests and cultures and what they might find.

Stephen Little

They're from before the time of any western incursion. They're from a time when these cultures were intact, and that's very rare.

Rob Willmann

It was a wonderful, wonderful time to live in Rome. The educational opportunity was multiplied tenfold due to the variety of cultures and languages.

Joe Crawford

We felt it was important to make that move from a position of strength, when we could pick our partners, ... We feel the companies' cultures mesh well.

Ernie Conwell

Here was a guy who had nothing and wanted to do the right thing, ... He wanted to go on with his life. He said he had some engagement rings in Louisiana but had lost them all.

Neil Young

What you'll see in these new titles are things that evoke feelings, ... They won't engage you only interactively, but they'll strive to move you emotionally.

Elinor Howard

It goes with my engagement ring very nicely and I love it.

James Schamus

We looked for the places that sophisticated moviegoers seek out to find things that interest them. These are the people who are engaged with the world, who are informed about the big conspiracies going on out there.

Rick Peterson

He was getting to the point where he was going to engage the rubber like he does during the season. That was the step we wanted to take today. He took that step and he felt great.

Russell Johnson

I was at a speaking engagement for MIT... and I said, 'The Professor has all sorts of degrees, including one from this very institution [MIT]! And that's why I can make a radio out of a coconut, and not fix a hole in a boat!'

Martin Freeman

Organised religion, organised anything, requires commitment and requires an engagement with something. A lot of the time, we don't want to commit.

Ty Votaw

In Sweden, the guy wears an engagement ring, too.

Thomas Shannon

If our engagement on Haiti is episodic it won't be successful, especially at this point.

Jeremy Jacobs

Jacques had done street theater in Paris. He'd always been interested in large architectural structures and how humans interact with them.

Paul Martin

Humans are really expensive, and they're really slow.

Wayne Rooney

I'm only a human being.

Zosia Mamet

I am a private human.

Walter Gilbert

Here is a human being; it's me!

Os Guinness

We human beings are never happier than when we are expressing the deepest gifts that are truly us.

Kate Bernheimer

I think pink is one of the saddest colors in the world, and many American humans are taught not to take anything pink seriously, which is weird.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

We humans lack imagination, to the point of not even knowing what tomorrow's important things will look like.

Nick Hornby

I'm human. That's how humans spend their time, doing shitty things.

Lord Robertson

Globalisation will make our societies more creative and prosperous, but also more vulnerable.

Isabel Allende

The poorest and most backward societies are always those that put women down.

Teller

Magic's about understanding - and then manipulating - how viewers digest the sensory information.

Susanna Moore

The task of understanding the past is neverending.

Richard P. Feynman

The female mind is capable of understanding analytic geometry... The difficulty may just be that we have never yet discovered a way to communicate with the female mind. If it is done in the right way, you may be able to get something out of it.

Richard Whately

The word of knowledge, strictly employed, implies three things: truth, proof, and conviction.

Richard Baxter

It is as hard a thing to maintain a sound understanding, a tender conscience, a lively, gracious, heavenly spirit, and an upright life in the midst of contention, as to keep your candle lighted in the greatest storms.

Rick Riordan

My understanding of magic is fairly straightforward. Hit enemies with a sword until they’re dead. If they rise again, hit them again. Repeat as necessary. It worked against Set.

William Matthews

What lasting progress was ever made in social reformation, except when every step was insured by appeals to the understanding and the will?

Woodrow Wilson

Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.

Woody Allen

How the hell do I know why there were Nazis? I don't know how the can-opener works.