Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

Bobby Hatfield

With me and Bill... I think we started out with $15 apiece and split the other $20 between the band.

Jewel

I think when kids just see well-crafted poetry, it's just obtuse to them. It's hard to relate to.

Gerry Beckley

It is not that there wasn't an incredible amount of history made that was very public knowledge for those seven years which was the bulk of the hits.

Vince Gill

It is harder to fail than it is to succeed because most people are going to watch you do is to react to what you've accomplished.

Scott Joplin

It is never right to play ragtime fast.

Kelly Rowland

As women, we have to realize what we bring to the table. What do you want to do for the world? How do you want to change it? And when you know that, you don't have to compare yourself to anybody else.

Jim Calhoun

Khalid El-Amin put up with a great deal of grief on the road. And it was the best coaching that anybody could have done for me, because Khalid loved every single second of it. He loved to show you.

Henry David Thoreau

I would not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.

John Pine

Just the sheer size of it and complexity of it, it is beyond what anybody has seen -- not just in Louisiana but anywhere.

Lamar Butler

I think it's a Hollywood story already. If anybody wants to make a movie, come see me. I'll play my part. I'm a good actor. I can make a serious face.

Abby Arledge

I think it really just helps out our team because you have one person in there the whole time, so you have that constant defense on the back row. Even if it was anybody else in the position, just having that constant back-row person has helped.

Courtney Taylor

It ain't, 'I've gotta (catch the ball),' it's, 'You'd better catch this ball,' ... You don't want a lot of people hating you for not catching the ball. I'm serious. I'll tell you, I don't want anybody hating me.

Carl Banks

He was a great player and a great team leader. Harry didn't back down from anybody or any challenge. He was very good ... now it's safe to say he was great, because he's finally in the Hall of Fame.

Ron Guidry

He usually says either 'yes' or 'no' and people think that's because of the language barrier. I think that's all he has to say. He's as calm as anybody I've ever met.

Herbie Hancock

I get bored easily, but later I learned that it is OK to do something that others have done.

Lisa Cox

I'm OK being bored on the sidelines. If I'm sitting at practice doing nothing, then it's a good day.

Ellen DeGeneres

I like to try new things because I get bored so easily.

Kierston Wareing

I get bored very easily. I do like excitement.

P. G. Wodehouse

Birds, except when broiled and in the society of a cold bottle, bored him stiff.

Mary Harron

I'm bored by films that revolve around a trick. I kind of know if a film is right for me; all the most important decisions are made intuitively.

Kristin Scott Thomas

I wouldn't want you to see me all the time on the screen, because I get bored of it myself!

Nancy Mitford

I am sometimes bored by people, but never by life.

Kit Reed

I should probably confess that I get bored easily, which explains my reluctance to work with formula, tropes, whatever.

Don Mattingly

I think it helps to be away for a while. You're ready to come back. You make the choice, you want to do it. You're not doing it because you have to. As soon as you start getting into the competition of the season, it comes right back to you.

Chad Latch

He's handled himself well. He's had some big matches this year, and I think the competition he's had throughout the year has set him up and prepared him for the state tournament.

Dennis Piron

What you love about her is her competitiveness, her fire and her spirit. More importantly is her unselfishness. She wants to be part of the team and do her thing.

Brian Urquhart

It is hardly a process at all. It is more like a lottery. It has become a rather squalid competition with no set procedure, shrouded in Big Power secrecy. They don't even interview the candidates.

Kim Yuna

I like to be just an athlete, but if I go to competition and compete, I love to be a star, maybe.

John Connolly

I am focused on the positives - Super 14 provides the opportunity to look at more players than we have in the past with greater competition for places.

Greg Marshall

He will be in competition with Troy Davis and right now, Troy Davis is our starting tailback,

Bob Roberts

He emigrated in the late 1800s. There is some competition about it, but he is generally viewed as the first.

Roger Waters

I don't feel as if I'm in competition with myself; not at all.

Mike Kemp

I think that might have been a turning point in the game.

Mike Hargrove

He might as well have been wearing a sandwich board, with 'Eat At Joe's' on one side, ... and 'I'm bunting' on the other.

Samuel Beckett

All the things you would do gladly, oh without enthusiasm, but gladly, all the things there seems no reason for your not doing, and that you do not do! Can it be we are not free? It might be worth looking into.

Salman Khan

If the film is a hit then everyone shares the success. If it is going to be a disaster then it might as well be because of me, not because of somebody else.

Wesley Clark

You have to take a plan that might work and make it work

Ty Segall

The next album I make might be the most messed up thing ever. It's all momentary for me.

William Goldman

I seemed busy, busy, busy, but I suppose, if pressed, I might have admitted that, for all my frenzy, I was very much alone.

Wilford Brimley

Well, we all are what we are, I guess you might say by an accident of birth.

Wavy Gravy

we're all bozos on the bus, so might as well sit back and enjoy the ride.

Ryan Baker

I think it's from each other and pushing each other and having fun. If somebody does well, then we'll give him some support.

Arthur Johnson

We've got to push our way through. We need a new school.

Sally Ride

Studying whether there's life on Mars or studying how the universe began, there's something magical about pushing back the frontiers of knowledge. That's something that is almost part of being human, and I'm certain that will continue.

Grady Jackson

I'll be ready for Detroit. I just have to get the footwork down, get used to pushing and everything again.

John Niven

If pushed to say what I like about Elizabeth, who, as I'm sure most of you know, overtook Queen Victoria this week to become our longest-serving monarch, it would be her uncomplaining, getting-on-with-it ethic.

Alicia Keys

I push them (offensive lineman) out of the way to tackle someone,

Steve Raab

They want to have a competitive solution, but they don't want to push the transition now.

Mike Mihalus

They push themselves. You'll see one person out there alone, practicing.

Leigh Morris

This is going to push it up a little further.