Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yanni

I don't like to define my music. To me, music is pure emotion. It's language that can communicate certain emotions and the rhythms cuts across genders, cultures and nationalities. All you need to do is close your eyes and feel those emotions.

Imelda May

In 2008, I was in a London park when I came across a fledgling crow that had fallen from the top of an oak tree. A woman happened to be passing, and she said that she rescued animals, so she invited me back to her house. It turned out she was the wife of Jeff Beck. Jeff was there, and we ended up jamming together.

Ian Anderson

I've always felt that some of my best lyrics are less than three minutes long, and it's great when you can do that - be succinct and get the message across in a simple, clear idea.

Irving Stone

The biographical novel is a true and documented story of one human being's journey across the face of the years, transmuted from the raw material of life into the delight and purity of an authentic art form.

Isabella Bird

The situation of Leh is a grand one, the great Kailas range, with its glaciers and snowfields, rising just behind it to the north, its passes alone reaching an altitude of nearly 18,000 feet; while to the south, across a gravelly descent and the Indus Valley, rise great red ranges dominated by snow-peaks exceeding 21,000 feet in altitude.

Ismail Kadare

I first came across the script for 'Macbeth' between the ages of 11 and 12; it was the first book that shook my life. Because I did not yet understand that I could simply purchase it in a bookstore, I copied much of it by hand and took it home. My childhood imagination pushed me to feel like a co-author of the play.

Gale Harold

If anyone can crack the publicity nut and figure out how to not come across hammy and contrived, I'd love to talk to them.

George Allen

When I was elected Governor, we had an audacious agenda that naysayers said couldn't be enacted with a Democrat majority in the state legislature. However, we worked across party lines and enacted historic reforms. Working together, we cut taxes by more than $600 million.

Zoe Kazan

I love to walk around New York. Honestly, that's like the best thing, to walk over to Park Slope and go visit my friend Betty and take her dog out in the park or go walk across the Brooklyn Bridge. I really dig being outside and getting to see everybody in the street.

William John Wills

It is of great importance to note these meteors, even the small ones, as very little is yet known of them; and every observation, if carefully made, will some day help to show what they are.

Clive Thompson

Insurance firms have always carefully studied real-world data to figure out what, precisely, constitutes a risky activity.

Chris Carter

I have to be careful with surfing. It's still an addiction to me. It's all I want to do, and that's the big dilemma I have with it.

Ezra Taft Benson

The literal resurrection of every soul who has lived and died on earth is a certainty, and surely one should make careful preparation for this event. A glorious resurrection should be the goal of every man and woman, for resurrection will be a reality.

Sebastian Bellomo

The people are very, very friendly, very helpful. The only ones you have to be careful of are the taxi drivers.

Victoria Osteen

We have to be careful not to look for confidence in the acceptance of others because true confidence only comes from knowing God.

Viggo Mortensen

We live as though there aren't enough hours in the day, but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress.

Jeff Sessions

We have all the hallmarks here of a rush to spend money. We have got to be careful that this does not become a feeding frenzy. ... This is our grandchildren's money.

Richard Fisher

We have to watch things very carefully here because there are inflationary pressures and ... (the Fed's) duty is to be especially vigilant on that front,

Nancy Grace

You see, some lawyers have the talent, have the charisma, but no discipline. They come into court unprepared, without having done their research.

Robert Gerard

The allegations printed in the report are just that. They are not facts and they were never admitted, nor tested in any court, nor found by any court to be true.

Elliott Abrams

The Arab monarchies, especially Jordan and Morocco, are more legitimate than the false republics, with their stolen elections, regime-dominated courts and rubber-stamp parliaments.

Joe Solmonese

The American people deserve justice, not prejudice. With judges like Pryor on the courts of appeal, the Supreme Court is more important than ever.

Charles Haynes

That was when the court decided to weaken the Tinker standard. The school really does have to show it would be a serious disruption.

Mathew Staver

We could have kept Michael completely out of the children's lives, but it would have kept it in court for another year and a half and would have dragged the kids through another trial.

Mike Bryan

We could have been off that court in 11/2 hours, ... Well, next time.

Dave Lipe

We just did that because we have more courts here than they do at Granite.

Patrick Kavanagh

In its truest manifestation, where it gives judgments, poetry is super-luxury. It would be interesting to see what would happen to a High Court judge if he were forced to follow the true poetic formula, doing the job for love, being forced into pubs for relief.

Chuck Palahniuk

My first four books, from 'Fight Club' to 'Choke,' dealt with personal identity issues. The crises the narrators found themselves in were generated by themselves.

Ron Oden

Who knows what crises situations there might be when people are placed in that position and they're not developed? ... I'm not saying that I won't run again, but I'd have to feel something really, really special in order to stay.

Ben Bernanke

The Mexican debt crisis, Latin American debt crisis, the crises of the 1990s, the Wall Street stock market crash, and other events should have reminded us, and did remind us, that financial instability remains a concern, remains a problem.

Terri Blackstock

One of the themes in my novels is that our crises can turn into blessings. We can feel like our world has crumbled, but ten years down the road when we look back on that time, we can see God's hand at work. I love writing that theme into my books.

Jim Yong Kim

In my own view, the life expectancy of Native Americans in the United States is one of the really great moral crises that we face.

John Prendergast

There is a long and successful tradition of popular movements in the U.S. and elsewhere having an impact on crises in forgotten places.

Alan Greenspan

While the adjustments may be difficult for a time, these crises will pass. Stronger individual economies and a more robust and efficient international economic and financial system will surely emerge in their wake,

Sidney Blumenthal

Like oil crises in the past, it strikes at American feelings of independence, mobility, freedom and exceptionalism.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

As long as the United States - and the world - gets its oil from the Middle East, we will be drawn into the endless crises that seem endemic to the region. American energy independence would not only liberate us, it would also drive down the worldwide price of oil.

Beeban Kidron

There is nothing wrong with Facebook in itself, except that it is not a very good tool to express the quality of your relationships.

Nicolas Roeg

Don't you think it's something strange that you rarely look at yourself in the mirror, except to do things like stand and ponder? I mean, in Shakespeare's day, it was thought that the mirror would reveal something, that it is trying to tell you something - not just to tidy your hair, but something more.

Chris Gaynor

We played our hearts out. It was just like last year's game with Gonzaga, except this one hurts even worse because we were this much closer.

Raymond Carver

When you're writing fiction or poetry... it really comes down to this: indifference to everything except what you're doing... A young writer could do worse than follow the advice given in those lines.

Rebecca Solnit

To say that everything without exception is going straight to hell is not an alternative vision but only an inversion of the mainstream's 'everything's fine.'

Mark Zuckerberg

Our role is to be a platform for making all of these apps more social, and it's kind of an extension of what we see happening on the web, with the exception of mobile, which I think will be even more important than the web in a few years - maybe even sooner.

Patrick Modiano

A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph.

Patrick Chappatte

Let's not let cartoonists get involved in a war of any kind, except for a war against stupidity.

Paul Auster

The human body is strange and flawed and unpredictable. The human body has many secrets, and it does not divulge them to anyone, except those who have learned to wait.

Mark Ronson

I knew I wanted to be in music, but I didn't know my role, so I did everything from interning at Rolling Stone to writing heavy metal fanzines to playing in a high-school band, and I think all those things probably helped in a way.

Carlos Garcia

Typically we'll see the results of a heavy snowfall the next season.

Joe Arbona

You are looking at a pretty heavy train that would take at least a mile to stop.

Rob Portman

We've got some heavy lifting over the next three months,

Jason Alexander

I was heavy as a kid. I mean, I kind of got it together for a while there in my 20s and early 30s.

Richard Hastings

We're already seeing heavy markdowns particularly in apparel,

Adrian Smith

We are one of the last heavy metal bands. Iron Maiden has always been unique.

Halle Berry

Every story about me is so heavy and dramatic. That's not how I do life. But that's the impression people have, and that's what keeps getting reiterated. As if I'm still stuck in all the muck of the past. And I am so not.

Cary Sherman

Nobody likes playing the heavy and having to resort to litigation. But when your product is being regularly stolen, there comes a time when you have to take appropriate action.

Rick Carlisle

Johnson played great. We did a lot of different things on him defensively, but he was able to get shots or get teammates shots.

Chris Pardue

Johnson is really a good, tough back. If you don't wrap him up, he just keeps going.

William Hamilton

Johnson is dead. - Let us go to the next best: - There is nobody; no man can be said to put you in mind of Johnson.

Joanne Wuensch

I suspect that Johnson & Johnson will be in the market sooner rather than later.

Erich Leinsdorf

I was sent down to Cuba. Everything had been prepared with the help of Congressman Johnson and his staff.

Keyshawn Johnson

I'm trying to build a brand, so I can sell Keyshawn Johnson products in stores. You know, paint, rugs, carpet, drapery, fabrics, blankets, towels, hardware, plates.

Graeme Smith

We are always going to put the pressure on the likes of (Shane) Watson and Johnson and Lewis.

Clint Hill

President Kennedy knew every agent by name. President Johnson knew many of us, but not as many as President Kennedy, probably.

Matt Czuchry

Pabst Blue Ribbon. I'm from Johnson City, Tennessee. I gotta go Pabst.

Roger Morris

Nixon officials foreshadowed both the historic distinction and seamy underside of the presidency.

Roger Morris

I would have to say that Richard Nixon is probably the most gifted and skilled political practitioner, in his pre-presidential years, of all of the American presidents in the 20th century.

Louie Gohmert

We've got the NSA getting logs of every call you make. The IRS is weaponized like Richard Nixon could only have dreamed of.

Edward Brooke

President Nixon has lost his effectiveness as the leader of this country, primarily because he has lost the confidence of the people.

Philip Zimbardo

Most of the evil of the world comes about not out of evil motives, but somebody saying 'get with the program, be a team player;' this is what we saw at Enron, this is what we saw in the Nixon administration with their scandal.

Andrew McPherson

I said, 'Oh great, this is the Nixon tapes'.

Bob Crowder

When Nixon visited China, I thought there is an opportunity there.

John Chancellor

Other administrations have had a love-hate relationship with the press. The Nixon administration has a hate-hate relationship.

John F. Kennedy

Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person between Nixon and the White House.

Tom Smith

The anticipation would have been that problems would have been down.

Mark Harmsen

We have had so many problems in our district.

Tom Leach

We have had problems ? some serious, some not so serious. They were the logistical and technical problems we expected.

Hilary Clinton

Why would you put all your C-130s in a place with weather problems?

David Filo

You'll run into problems where governments don't share those values. Long term, these values will win out.

Eddie Pope

The problems were all over the field. The team has to get through 11 people.

John McMillan

The problems are more severe than they thought.

Eddie Pope

The problems were all over the field, ... The team has to get through 11 people.

Jim Clarke

Unfortunately, that's when you'll start seeing problems with a lot of the grasses.

Brandon Flowers

It's seen as dirty to be ambitious. What if U2 weren't ambitious? We wouldn't have that gift we have from them.

David Hewson

I don't think I'd seen anything like 'The Killing.'

Chris Crutcher

If you've seen 'Friday Night Lights' - that was just like my town.

John Torchetti

That was a team win, if I have ever seen one. Everyone from the goalie out tonight just competed. That was the word for tonight, compete.

Paul Thompson

That was ridiculous. In 16 years of coaching, I've never seen anything like that.

Piero Fassino

We have already seen after two days, that this is how it will finish.

Luis Rodriguez

We can't have standardized testing because there is no such thing as standardized child. I have never seen a standardized kid. Have you?

Bob Thompson

We'll probably find more deaths. I don't think we've seen the end of it.

John Scott

We have been travelling to the old battlefields for years and never seen anything like it before.

Chris Hillman

You don't ever want to touch that money,

Stacey Hallahan

You'll be touching it or combing it, and it'll come out in pieces.

David Zuniga

I wondered what could I do to make a hands-on film that could actually touch people.

Peter Capaldi

I think it's always exciting when 'Doctor Who' touches its past.

Louis Walsh

I couldn't make it because I've got a touch of the flu.

Charles Ruff

I did not do those things. I did not touch those parts.

Alan Paton

Something deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.

Alan Ball

Once Everton has touched you nothing will be the same.

Edith Wharton

Then stay with me a little longer,' Madame Olenska said in a low tone, just touching his knee with her plumed fan. It was the lightest touch, but it thrilled him like a caress.