Famous Quotes & Sayings

Evan Harris

It is a bizarre and shocking revelation that the prime minister claims to have been guided by the supernatural in this matter, especially given the particular religious sensitivities in the Middle East.

Scott Skiles

I think that, if maybe something so bizarre ever happens one time, (the NBA) will take a look at (the seeding system). That's probably what it's going to take. Some crazy thing.

Mike Tyson

I was drinking every day, fighting guys on the street, hanging out with bizarre women. But those days are gone. That guy is dead.

Tess Gerritsen

I was an anthropology major in college, and I've had a lifelong fascination with Egyptology, mummies, and all sorts of bizarre cultural practices.

Mona Williams

To further illustrate the bizarre nature of this technical issue, the site is also mapping movies such as 'Home Alone' and 'Power Puff Girls' to African-American-themed DVDs.

Zara Phillips

It has always been a massive dream to win gold like this. It is so bizarre to think I have one more than my mother.

Danis Tanovic

I don't have a very high opinion of men, without doubt it is because I am one. Men and women live on two planets. I find it even bizarre that we can coexist.

Joshua Foer

Photographic memory is often confused with another bizarre - but real - perceptual phenomenon called eidetic memory, which occurs in between 2 and 15 percent of children and very rarely in adults. An eidetic image is essentially a vivid afterimage that lingers in the mind's eye for up to a few minutes before fading away.

Bobby Bowden

I played in a lot of bizarre games, especially when it comes to missing field goal. I think when they pick the all-time missed-field goals coach I'll probably win that award. That is weird but we're masters at that.

Howard Simon

Kids now are smarter than we were. They want the facts. They want to know what's happening. That's why being open and honest with them is so important.

Richard P. Feynman

It is the fact that the electrons cannot all get on top of each other that makes tables and everything else solid.

Richard Dawkins

...there are no natural borderlines in evolution. The illusion of a borderline is created by the fact that the evolutionary intermediates happen to be extinct.

Richard Widmark

I felt pretty comfortable with Westerns, apart from the fact I couldn't ride.

Richelle Mead

In fact I was fairly certain there was no one in the entire world quite like Adrian Ivashkov.

Umberto Eco

The Roseicrucians were everywhere, aided by the fact that they didn't exist.

William Manchester

The sum of a million facts is not the truth.

Woodrow Wilson

The facts of the case will always have the better of [an] argument.

William J. Clinton

I did have a relationship with Ms Lewinsky that was not appropriate. In fact, it was wrong. It constituted a critical lapse in judgment and a personal failure on my part for which I am solely and completely responsible.

Steven Bochco

Imagery is like music.

Rosemary Mahoney

In 'A Likely Story,' I wanted to recreate the events, the mood, and the imagery of my life as a teenager. I was thirty-seven when I wrote it.

Elizabeth Banks

I only know the lyrics to songs that I listened to between the ages of 11 and 15.

Adam Levine

All I needed to do was sing the lyrics that had already been written. I don't know those guys; they seem kind of kooky and crazy. I like their vibe.

Victoria Beckham

We've still got the melodies, we've still got the nice 'strong girl' lyrics going on.

Joe Johnson

Back then ... if you wanted the lyrics to a song you had to play it on the record and stop it, and then write it down, then play it again, then stop it,

Emmylou Harris

I have to have a guitar sitting around. I sing in the shower. I sing around the house. The music comes secondary. The lyrics come first.

Harold Prince

Lyrics can't do what they do - or should do - when you're creating a musical with rock lyrics. There's plenty of room for rock musicals, just not all rock musicals.

Natalie Cole

I think people just want to be popular. So they're going to write lyrics that are going to get your attention. You know, sometimes, they're a little graphic, and I don't think that's so necessary.

Jerome Kern

I write music to both the situations and the lyrics in plays.

Matt Berninger

Usually, writing lyrics for me is like bleeding drop by drop from the forehead.

Pierce Brosnan

I have had a singing teacher in L.A. for many, many years just to work on my voice as an actor.

Travis Tritt

If you're gonna sing, sing loud.

Robert Wyatt

When I'm singing I try not be a singer with a capital S. I just try to get it out so I feel comfortable with it.

Rod Parsley

God loves to hear your singing - so sing.

Robin Trower

It was an experience being on a Beatles tour. They weren't very good. The singing was great, but the playing was a bit weak.

Kelli O'Hara

When you're pregnant, things-at least for me-get very sincere and very wholesome, and it's about family, and singing becomes about warmth.

Maria Callas

Only when I was singing did I feel loved.

Krist Novoselic

But this is pretty new for me, both songwriting and singing.

Muddy Waters

I was always singing the way I felt, and maybe I didn't exactly know it, but I just didn't like the way things were down there-in Mississippi.

Ricky Fante

I wrote the song in tribute ... at the time she was murdered,

Dan Hill

Songs sometimes are so connected to the sociology of the time.

Estelle

Labrinth is a super talented singer, producer, songwriter from London.

Robert Cray

Normally when we go in and write the songs we write, we think about doing a cover, but never a covers record. That would be, for us, a concept. We don't want to have a concept!

Rob Thomas

I've had the pleasure of working closely with Marc Von Em as a singer, but when I heard his original stuff, I asked him to open up a 10,000 seat gig. Just him, his guitar, and his songs. He killed it!

Rob Sheffield

Every moment of my life has a soundtrack, so I never know when some song is going to jump me by surprise and bring the memory alive.

Rob Sheffield

Singing what's in your heart? Naming the things you love and loathe? You can get hurt that way. Hell, you will get hurt that way. But you'll get hurt trying to hide away in all that silence and leave your life unsung. There's no future without tears. Are you really setting your hopes on not getting hurt at all? You think that's an option? You clearly aren't listening to enough Morrissey songs.

Rob Sheffield

The Word 'Repulse': I hate this word. I believe 'repel' is a perfectly good word, and 'repulsion' is the noun, as well as the title of an excellent Dinosaur Jr. song. A compulsion compels you; an impulse impels you. Nobody ever says 'compulse' or 'impulse' as a verb. So why would you ever say 'repulse'? This word haunts me in my sleep, like a silver dagger dancing before my eyes. Renee looked it up and I was wrong. But I still kind of think I'm right.

Rob Sheffield

A song nobody likes is a sad thing. But a love song nobody likes is hardly a thing at all.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

He used to sit on my lap. I was sort of ambivalent about that. He was surviving any way he could.

Jennifer Hinson

It is a little frustrating. It's sort of put us into a year-by-year situation.

Jason Robinson

If you have got a problem, then go to the person and sort it out.

Sam Heughan

I never once dreamed of sort of being able to be in an American TV series, you know? It was all about theater and touring and sort of being an actor around Scottish theater.

Stockard Channing

I never really thought of that. I just thought she was funny. Really, I just thought this was funny, sort of sweet, touching and human.

Grimes

I'm not, like, a natural performer. It's sort of a thing that I've had to learn to do.

Tim McEachern

The idea started as sort of a joke,

Yotam Ottolenghi

A lemon, boiled whole and blitzed, makes a useful base for all sorts of dressings.

Kris Kristofferson

Every one of us is sort of a figment of our own imaginations.

Jonas Jennings

Have you ever tried to write with one hand?

Jim Gallagher

I didn't get a sense of what the temperature is on that. I tried to allay the fears, and there are significant fears.

Nate Robinson

I am going to go at him (Iverson). I am going to make him play defense. That is what I tried to do tonight.

Marc Grossman

had some questions, we tried to give some answers... it was not negotiations.

Michael Campbell

I just tried to give us some confidence.

Travis Garrison

I just tried to do what I could.

Kwame Brown

I just tried to play the right way.

Bill Laimbeer

I tried hard, it was close, but it didn't happen.

Tom Johnston

I tried to deport him once because he's Canadian.

Woodrow Wilson

I could see now that a literary education did not fit one for the popular novelist's trade.Once you had started using words like flavicomous or acroamatic, because you liked the sound of them, you were lost.

Ricardo Semler

The era of using people as production tools is coming to an end. Participation is infinitely more complex to practice than conventional corporate unilateralism, just as democracy is much more cumbersome than dictatorship. But there will be few companies that can afford to ignore either of them.

Steve Dixon

If youre using the same filter, youre going to get a lot of the same byproducts at the end,

Sam Phillips

I'll never retire. I'm just using up somebody else's oxygen if I retire.

Scott Podsednik

I'm pretty crazy, so to speak, a little superstitious. I'm using something different up there just about every week.

Rodrigo Santoro

In film, you're always using your tools, your body, your voice, your emotions, but onstage, you use them in a different way.

Lucy Liu

When you work with chains or any kind of weapons, or just when you're using hand-to-hand combat, you are going to get hurt.

Stephen Chbosky

So what's the point of using words nobody else knows or can say comfortably? I just don't understand that.

Shaun White

There are plenty of skills I've learned from playing video games. It's more interactive than watching TV, because there are problems to solve as you're using your brain.