Famous Quotes & Sayings

Penn Jillette

There was never a lighting crew, sound crew, makeup crew, anything, ... The list of cameramen is a list of great bebop musicians and writers in L.A., buddies of ours who just happened to be around.

Chuck Mangione

We may play in a contemporary rock vein, use standard bebop themes, and many other things besides.

Ralph Johnson

People used to call us a funk band. But it was a little more complicated than that. We were a fusion group made commercial. We had a lot of progressive chord changes and bebop horn lines and then hooks that a child could sing.

Steve Erickson

The 1988 biopic of bebop immortal Charlie Parker, 'Bird,' was the film that opened my eyes to Clint Eastwood's potential as a filmmaker.

James Jeffords

I was lucky to be able to call Christopher Reeve a friend.His passion for life and for improving the lives of all Americans serves an inspiration to all of us. He may have played the character of Superman in the movies, but he lived the role of a superman through his life.

Pierce Brosnan

I was looking forward to making (Bond) edgier and grittier -- and for all of that to go down in one phone call was highly disappointing,

Tony Oliva

Kirby meant to me a lot. For me, it's like my own son. He used to call me 'Papa', too.

Gregory Craig

I would urge the relatives in Miami, if they truly want to get back together with Juan Miguel and his family, that they give me a call and let's talk about timing. Let's discuss this in a civilized way, rather than having national press conferences where demands are made.

Cindy Mannes

I would not say it's an epidemic by any stretch, but it is a problem. We used to get one or two calls a year ... Now we're getting one or two calls a week.

Manny Fernandez

Jacques said any roll we can get on is a bonus. Well, I would start calling this a roll.

Rick Dunlap

I would say the ice fishing is what we call gravy. The lion's share is made in the summer and fall.

Mark DiCamillo

I would suspect his tone would change significantly if they don't make it onto the November ballot. If that happened, I could see calling the Legislature all sorts of names by the end of the campaign.

Brian Finnerty

I would still call it a trading-range market. It's nice for today and the short term, but I doubt it's sustainable.

Bruce Bochy

Just seeing his name in the lineup changes the flow of the game.

Caroline Bradford

I think it's a good idea. It changes the power structure in our state, and it needs to be changed. It's been the same for 100 years.

Mike Thompson

He is short, single and has a mullet. But why would such a guy need a makeover, you ask? Hmmm ... That is a very tough question to answer. Maybe Mickey doesn't need a makeover, but some minor changes to his trendy and stylish habits.

Gary Bennett

He obviously changes the whole scope of the game when he's in the lineup. It's obvious he's at a whole other level.

Tom Shea

He's been unchallenged, and that changes starting today.

James Franco

He's a warrior, but everything changes when he meets Isolde.

Peter Appert

I think it's a precursor to similar moves. You've got tremendous pressure on operating margins. The changes taking place reflect the new common realities of the industry.

Marc Andreessen

I think it's all really positive for the industry. It will force the industry to make the changes that are required to make the Internet viable in the long run.

Jude Law

It changes your life, I think, when you enter into a marriage and it can change it just as much as when you're part of a breakup,

Jason Statham

I was like, 'Well, we'd think he'd be useless around kids,' ... But I think he finds himself more comfortable around children than he realizes.

Graham Elliot

Kids see cooking as a creative outlet now, like soccer and ballet. It gives me hope that things like fast food, childhood obesity and the horrible state of school lunches can be addressed by kids and their parents.

Ted Williams

Kids get separated from their parents all the time. Had his parents paid attention, this little child would not have wandered off.

Kerry Nelson

Kids at the children's shelter are coming out there and getting a lot of one-on-one because there are so few children out there. The reading program out there is really helping these kids a lot.

Anthony Robbins

Kids are the alltimechampions of questioning. What could you gain by imitatingthe innocence and curiosity of children who are completely determined to get ananswer?

Britt Ekland

I would teach U.K. parents how to stop their children throwing litter. London is a beautiful city but its streets are disgusting.

John Romano

Keeping an elderly couple in their home for another 10 to 15 years makes good financial sense. If they stay in their home, their cost to the town is minimal compared to the family with four children that would replace them.

Thomas Kinkade

Keep yourself surrounded by a family that loves you. My children have never told me they dislike one of my paintings.

Reese Witherspoon

I talked to several of her children and they were so encouraging and supportive. I just hope I've done her memory justice.

Simon Templeman

I think The Hulk really hit a chord with me, I love the Hulk. But, I never dreamt I'd be playing Doctor Doom.

Tom Scholz

I will say that I know Nirvana did a show and played a few chords from 'More Than a Feeling' before they did 'Teen Spirit,' and it wasn't very good. But in all seriousness, 'Teen Spirit' was a great song. If subconsciously or somehow I had any influence on that, I'll take that as a compliment.

Richard Rodney Bennett

I just scribbled away and eventually a C-major chord was there. I didn't ever decide I was going to be a composer. It was like being tall. It's what I was. It's what I did.

Jools Holland

If you play the guitar, you've got to hold the chords down with one hand while you play with the other, so you're limited to one hand. But the piano is the king of instruments because you have your 10 fingers, which become the 10 members of the orchestra.

Janelle Monae

I listen to Prince on my iPad. And I use a Chords & Scales app to warm up before performing.

Billy Job

I'm merely running for a more cohesive unit. It's not a Democratic or Republican thing to have more efficient government. It's something everybody wants. Everybody wants some fiscal responsibility. That will strike a chord with all the voters.

Robert Vega

The last song we wrote together, he went to a chord I was about to go to. I'm going to that chord and he was there already. It shows in the music. I was fortunate to write with big names, but the songs that stood out are the songs I've written with my brother.

Jonny Moroni

Doing barbershop has made us all better singers. When we hit just the right chord together, there's no better feeling.

Bob Harris

It's hugely gratifying. We've only been around two and a half years, but we've obviously struck a chord with Toronto readers.

John Gibbons

He's good. He's got a good arm, and he's got that funky fastball.

Kurt Thomas

It has been a long road trip. We had a nice start in the first half but we got in a funk in the third quarter.

Paula Abdul

I loved the arrangement, and I loved that you made it your own. You are one funky white boy.

Tiger Woods

It started off with some nice birdies at first, and after that Funky just took over,

Tom Salter

We've been in a funk lately. We haven't been playing the way we need to play and we plan on playing that way starting Friday.

Benjamin Booker

New Orleans style is funky - it's just as experimental as the city. There aren't any rules. If you want to wear a polka-dot shirt and some crazy pants, you can get away with it there.

Doug Galloway

We were down at half, down in the third quarter. We were just trying to pull out of our funk a little bit.

Armando Johnson

We know Sean High has a target on his back. They were running some kind of funky zone, kind of like a box-and-one, where they would shadow (High) everywhere.

Ricky Barnes

Now that was a funky course. You could get some wild bounces at that place.

Greg Bear

Sometimes I feel like a beetle crawling through a fusion power plant. I can feel a certain amount, see a certain amount, but I sure as hell don't understand everything.

John Wookey

There's a path to Fusion applications. But you need to take that step.

Gary Stibel

Procter did overpay for what was there, but not for what they bought. Give them a month and see what Fusion can do.

William Stephens

That's just a sound bite. The fusion ticket is working very well.

Vince Paul

There are a lot of different types of people who each have their own rites and rituals. The show is actually quite a fusion of all of those different styles.

George Shaheen

Most importantly, they are happy that Siebel CRM will be the cornerstone of Oracle's Project Fusion CRM strategy.

Jean Monnet

The fusion (of economic functions) would compel nations to fuse their sovereignty into that of a single European State.

Josh Greenbaum

For Phillips to say they are halfway to Fusion is over the top.

Taylor Wilson

I think there's something really poetic about using nuclear power to propel us to the stars, because the stars are giant fusion reactors. They're giant nuclear cauldrons in the sky.

Gary Waddock

He knows that he's let the group down. I'll be looking at the incident and if he needs to be fined, he will be.

Kevin Breslin

I think that the groups do get things done around here.

Vernon Briggs

There is no group that has benefited less from immigration.

Jeff Moorad

We're open-minded about the profile. The group that we've identified tends to be a younger group, but also a group that has significant experience.

Matthew Gervais

Laughter could have evolvedat least in partvia a process of group selection, whereby groups with more laughter and social play were able to out-compete groups with less laughter and social play.

Gilberto Simoni

I went into this not for the money, but to help the group of young riders, ... Basso proposed me to come to CSC to help with the Tour de France, but the project was not well defined.

Asante Samuel

He's a very talented player, but they have a big, talented group of guys. It's a team sport. We can't be worried about just one guy.

Tony Vis

Hopefully the situation doesn't overwhelm them though. Because a the same time it's still a game, and I think this group does well when they can relax.

David Sedaris

Underneath my window, there were huge groups of people running in the streets. They tried to overturn a car. So the woman opened her window and tried to throw water on them. So then they threw rocks up and tried to smash her windows. It was very exciting.

Bible Bible

And likewise for the north side in length there shall be hangings of an hundred cubits long, and his twenty pillars and their twenty sockets of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver.

Jake Barton

From a UX standpoint, the toughest battle is how to make a platform that's really open so kids can use it but has sort of hooks and constraints so it's actually driving towards revealing parts of the world through science or through mathematics.

Zakk Wylde

You never toot your own horn.

Gregg Wilson

The horns are really simple parts, just sound and texture. The parts layer, it's not a full-out assault.

Ron Schneider

The horn players have a pretty tight bond. He was the older brother. He was the oldest of the six of us, and he was probably the most serious of the six of us.

Ron Schneider

That is the perfect taps for a horn player.

Lou Adler

When I did 'Tapestry' with Carole King, the record was spare and simple, like a demo. If someone had told me to go back and put horns on it, it would've been all wrong. If you're enthusiastic enough to sign an artist, let them do what got you enthusiastic.

Natsuki Takaya

OH KYO KUN! Isn't it said that eating pink noodles turns you into a horny pervert?!

Levon Helm

I love horns, and the bigger the band, the better it sounds to my ear.

Casey Affleck

Most calves used by the dairy industry have their horns BURNED or GOUGED out of their heads.

Dennis Miller

I like the show [Factor] because it's horny, but it's not skeevy. Where else are you going to get that nowadays?

Mike Boyajian

We've got to keep on scoring. Right now, all three of our lines are starting to score. A team can't concentrate on one of our lines. We're pretty deep.

Mario Lemieux

I thought the other lines were pretty good, as well. We'll see what happens.

Antoni Gaudi

There are no straight lines or sharp corners in nature. Therefore, buildings must have no straight lines or sharp corners.

Richelle Mead

My life didnʹt need to be on the line for me to enjoy dessert.

Vinny Testaverde

When you're on the road, you have to be louder and you have to communicate. That's really the bottom line.

William Whewell

Hence no force, however great, can stretch a cord, however fine, into a horizontal line which is accurately straight: there will always be a bending downwards.

William J. Clinton

Follow the trend lines, not the headlines.

Richard Francis Burton

The Now, that indivisible point which studs the length of infinite line Whose ends are nowhere, is thine all , the puny all thou callest thine.

Tracy Morgan

I'm not really much into politics, because it's rarely discussed in my line of work.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Moods are complicated and very much a part of who we are. People would be very boring without them.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

H. Hart

I would try to put more people on the road without doing any more hiring.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Jeff Palmer

Just watching the news, seeing what those people are going through, touches me,

MC Hammer

I think it is a shock to people to find out that MC Hammer is a super geek.

Stephen Graham

I adore my job. I think I'm one of the luckiest people out there. I've worked hard, but I get to mess about every day - that's how I see it.

H. Hunt

He used to laugh. He'd get people to do it and not tell them what was going to happen.

Mark Serdjenian

He was a very sweet kid, really likable. It's very traumatic for people here.