Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Carlyle

What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.

Rosecrans Baldwin

Bookstores don't exactly dot the American highway in the grand manner of Sbarros.

Gunter Thielen

Our major acquisitions and joint ventures ... will be shown on the books for the second half of the year,

Joseph Bruchac

I often find myself unsatisfied with books 'about' Indians because they are written from the viewpoint of non-Indians.

Mark Smith

If you want to sell T-shirts and mountain books and volcano burgers in the existing spots, that's great.

Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

I had a happy childhood, with many stimulations and support from my parents who, in postwar times, when it was difficult to buy things, made children's books and toys for us. We had much freedom and were encouraged by our parents to do interesting things.

Matthew Scully

In the summer or fall of 1974, I read some books about factory farming, and decided that I wanted no part of it.

Jim Lee

In the '50s, a lot of stories were built around radiation and the proliferation of new technology. In the '70s, there were a lot of stories that dealt with the Vietnam War. So comic books have always been a reflection of the times we live in.

Jennifer Weiner

Instead of hoping that some day the boys' club will open its doors, we can form our own clubs, define 'worthy' our own way, and celebrate the books and voices that we decide deserve celebration.

As the light changed from red to green to yellow and back to red again, I sat there thinking about life. Was it nothing more than a bunch of honking and yelling? Sometimes it seemed that way. - Deep Thoughts (Saturday Night Live)

I have to laugh when I think of the first cigar, because it was probably just a bunch of rolled up tobacco leaves

Michael Cuddyer

You want to finish strong for a whole bunch of different reasons, as a team and individually. You never know what people are thinking or what their plans are for next year.

Randy Jordan

These guys are a great bunch of kids who were fun to coach. I have been so lucky since I have been here to coach great kids. And our seniors have had a great run. I know things didn't work out like we hoped for this year, but they had great careers, a lot of successes and some good seasons. They can hold their heads high because they gave it everything they had.

Malcolm D. Lee

'The Big Chill' had a bunch of really talented actors, a great soundtrack, and the college connections that the characters shared. It's one of those movies I glean something different from every time I watch it.

Todd Marchant

There was a period of time this year when he carried us. He won a bunch of games for us. There wasn't any reaction in here except confidence.

Patrick Murphy

This is a very good team. I hope they win a bunch of games and I think they'll contend for the title in the Missouri Valley Conference.

Jerry Taylor

This is just a bunch of freaks out there that don't have anything better to do.

Rick Brady

Not only is it a different lifestyle, but we're meeting a whole bunch of new friends.

Marcelo Enriquez

South is a very good team and I knew they were going to be much more competitive the second round.

Joe Linta

Special teams will be his meal ticket. He's got good speed and good hands. He's a real good 51, 52 or 53-type guy on the roster who can do a lot of things for you.

Kyle McLaren

Special teams was good tonight, especially the penalty kill.

Kelly Wood

One good shot from the opposition (centre guard) and that's all they needed to win. We had to hit at least three-quarters and it hung straight. That's curling.

Thomas Fuller

One good head is better than a hundred strong hands

John Sharp

One can say all they want about politicians, but politicians to other politicians, their word is almost always good.

Rob Hermann

Once you get to this point, you just want to see the local guys do well. Dustin is a good kid, and we love to help as much as possible.

Chris Chambers

Once you wrap that screen around, and you get really good sound you get immersed, ... You mentally make the leap that you're in this game. It's really amazing.

Stephen Malkmus

One day I'm going to write a straight-ahead story. I really want to, but I can't at the moment. I'm not very good at it right now.

Robby Benson

I started playing guitar when I was 6 or 7 years old, and I think that, within a week of getting my first guitar, I started writing music. I just love it.

Dr. John

In 1972, I recorded Gumbo, an album that was both a tribute to and my interpretation of the music I had grown up with in New Orleans in the 1940s and 1950s. I tried to keep a lot of the little changes that were characteristic of New Orleans, while working my own funknology on piano and guitar.

Merle Haggard

The guitar's not all that expensive either, when you compare it to gettin' a toothpulled or something.

M. Ward

I got into one Metallica record. That was about it. I never got into AC/DC or Black Sabbath or any of that. I was interested in the side of heavy metal that had interesting guitar ideas, but that was a very short-lived thing.

M. Ward

It was endlessly amusing to me to try to imitate John Lennon and Paul McCartney's harmonies using the guitar.

Mac Miller

I've been playing a guitar since I was 10 years old.

Lyle Lovett

I played guitar when I was young and never really considered it as a way to make a living

Lyle Lovett

You have to be really good to get away with smashing a guitar.

Lucinda Williams

When the muse hits me, or the mood, or whatever it is, I get my guitar out and I empty it out. I just start going through things to see what's going to happen.

Amy Poehler

Prince Harry this week toured the Jersey Shore with New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. It was the first meeting between the Prince, of the House of Windsor, and the Governor, of the House of Pancake.

Mary Leakey

I'd rather be in a tent than in a house.

Patti Page

When there's friction in the house, the only answer is good manners.

Mac Miller

I don't really leave my house too much, 'cause I don't like... it's funny, I don't really like to be high and famous at the same time.

Michael Jackson

My house is about equidistant from the Young's brewery and the Fuller's brewery. This is no accident.

Michel de Montaigne

The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.

George Herbert

Fine dressing is a foule house swept before the doores.

George Herbert

Chuse not an house neere an lnne (viz. for noise) or in a corner (for filth).

George Herbert

An old friend is a new house.

Maya Angelou

The music was my friend, my lover, my family.

Herb Alpert

I wake up in the morning, I do a little stretching exercises, pick up the horn and play.

Isaac Hanson

But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.

David Friedman

I publish my own music. I'm creating my own songbook. It works that way for me; I'm very independent.

Jim Foglesong

I'm just kind of a music junkie. Whatever I'm doing at the moment is my favorite.

Jerry Hunt

In 1955 music wasn't that important. Music was a kind of a special thing you went and did.

John Trudell

I'm not a musician making words to go with my music.

Lapo Elkann

I like listening to music and driving. How do you say... It's the only way I can 'chillax.'

Miles Davis

To keep creating you have to be about change.

Bob Dylan

Come you masters of war You that build all the guns You that build the death planes You that build the big bombs You that hide behind walls You that hide behind desks I just want you to know I can see through your masks.

Howard Dean

Second of all, I don't think Wall Street is doing what it's supposed to be doing, even after the shameful performance of the last two years. They're are not allocating capital.

J. K. Rowling

Everything was curved to fit the walls: the stove, the sink and the cupboards, and all of it had been painted with flowers, insects and birds in bright primary colours.

J. K. Rowling

You'd think I walk around with my eyes shut, banging off the walls.

Gary Johnson

I'm asked, what about criminal prosecution of those on wall street? You know what, it's probably because none of them committed any crimes. They just made some incredibly bad decisions.

Jerry Coleman

Winfield goes back to the wall. He hits his head on the wall and it rolls off! It's rolling all the way back to second base! This is a terrible thing for the Padres!

Walid Jumblatt

I was cynical about Iraq. But when I saw the Iraqi people voting . . . it was the start of a new Arab world.. The Berlin Wall has fallen.

Samuel Beckett

Finished, it's finished, nearly finished, it must be nearly finished. Grain upon grain, one by one, and one day, suddenly, there's a heap, a little heap, the impossible heap. I can't be punished any more. I'll go now to my kitchen, ten feet by ten feet by ten feet, and wait for him to whistle me. Nice dimensions, nice proportions, I'll lean on the table, and look at the wall, and wait for him to whistle me.

Salman Rushdie

You can find shame in every house, burning in an ashtray, hanging framed upon a wall, covering a bed. But nobody notices it any more.