Famous Quotes & Sayings

Imelda May

The Spanish and the American audiences are lunatics. They are very passionate and, like the Irish, they don't have as many inhibitions. If you are playing somewhere like Austria or Sweden, it takes them a little while to come out of themselves.

Imelda May

American audiences are great. They get what I am doing, but as my band will tell you, nowhere tops the Irish audience. They are just brilliant. They are very open, but the Americans and Spanish come a close second.

Idina Menzel

When I lived in London when I did 'Wicked' there, everyone told me the audiences might be much more reserved, but I found it was completely the opposite. They jumped to their feet sooner, even more enthusiastically than the New York audiences did, and they were just as warm and as enthusiastic and supportive as New York.

Isobelle Carmody

The first audience that you have when writing a book is you.

Gallagher

I don't say that I'm going to be like every other comic that's blue, or gratuitous use of language. I do try to have my own standards: I don't do everything the audience wants, and I do try to surprise them.

William Sleator

I think about my audience when I write, to some extent. Thinking of writing for young adults, I try to keep the stories moving, never a dull moment, to hold their interest.

Will Champlin

Being yourself is the most important element for me, because, if you're trying to be something you're not, the audience will pick up on that.

Virginia Postrel

The theater itself is a lie. Its deaths are mere special effects. Its tales never happened. Even the histories are distorted for dramatic effect. The theater is unnatural, a place of imagination. But the theater tells the audience something true: that the world requires judgments.

Clotilde Hesme

Even if the play is great, every day in theatre you have to question everything because the audience is new every day. I love that.

Shawn Rychcik

We could have put Austin away with one or two more runs. They were down and dead.

Chris Klinck

We know that South by Southwest doesn't care about us. That festival is not about hometown heroes. It's about bands from everywhere else but Austin, for the most part. The last couple of years we're not even close to Austin when South by Southwest starts.

Rick Carlisle

We have to hope Pollard is feeling better and we're going to have to depend on guys like David (Harrison) and Austin and Jeff (Foster) to pull through and we're going to have to find scoring as a team. Every team goes through their fair share of problems. We're just going to have to play through this.

Mike Umaga

We're waiting for Austin to come back, but he's still very keen on the idea.

Matt Brown

Mike Austin is one of the best in the state at guard and linebacker,

John Bowers

We hope and pray that each of you and your families are safe, ... If you can help us in Austin we will help you make arrangements to get here.

Carter Casteel

We'll make that decision in the morning. I told my followers tonight just what I told my husband Tom this morning. We win either way. I win because I get to go back to Austin and get to work on solutions, or I win because I get my family back. I got to spend a lot of today with my grandson, who is 16 months old, and I had forgotten how wonderful that is.

Paul Raspolich

We are playing much better defensively. Austin Turk did a nice job keeping the Morris hitters off balance and we made some plays for him.

Sam Allen

One of the points we want to make is we're regular rural folks. We're not California Democrats, Washington Democrats, or even Austin Democrats. We don't want to be defined by what people think we are.

Don Rickles

The average person pushes an elevator button 6 or 7 minutes before realizing it's not working. I did a study on this, you know.

Alexis Waggoner

We have buttons now that have his picture and the phone number that you call in case you know anything.

Deborah White

U.S. gasoline may be rattling people's cages. We're going to see another steep draw. That, Nigeria and Iran are the market's three hot buttons right now.

Gary Green

You just have to keep grinding every day. There's no magic solution to this thing. If there was, we would have pushed that button about 10 days ago.

F. Schumacher

I think Jensen Button is a major rival this year

Cameron Diaz

Which turned out to be no problem, ... Because we really did feel like sisters, and sisters can get pretty mean because they know each other so well. They know the buttons to push.

Duncan King

Unfortunately, there is no 'sort' button on the Internet. Investors need to take the information they get off the Internet with a grain of salt.

James Williams

I wish we could push a button and find a way to engage the private sector and make this free.

Glen Davis

I wish I could hit the rewind button and go back. I can't do that, of course. But this will make me a better person and a better player. It makes me want to get back next year and win it all.

Gail Carriger

At least half my writing time is spent researching. So for every hour I'm actually clicking on the keyboard, I'm spending another hour trying to figure out some tiny detail I need answered.

Chris Kapilovic

We just didn't get off to a good start. We were missing on everything. Guys were open and we missed them. We were dropping passes. We just weren't clicking like we normally would be.

Reed Hastings

In 20 years from now we will all be able to click and watch TV.

Marlee Matlin

What the Bleep Do We Know was not written with a deaf person in mind, but when they met me, it clicked with them to have me in it. But that happens with a lot of actors in Hollywood, not just with me.

Pat Lester

You are encouraged to be creative. I was creating something I enjoy, and it clicked with the script committee. You sometimes have a good idea on paper, but it doesn't work on stage. That's when it's great to have the wonderful and supportive people here. If they had a suggestion, it was welcome, and they helped put the show together.

Chris Belmore

We've gotten a little better each week. That showed today. Everything seemed to click today. The line gave me time to throw and opened up holes for the running backs.

Maggie Dixon

We've got some talented players here. But we need some time to get it all clicking and hopefully in the next couple of weeks we can do that.

Eric Milton

We've got quality pitchers. When you have that and you have our offense, that's a good combination. ... Once we get on a roll and get clicking - we're doing well now, but I think it's only going to get better.

Kendrick Clancy

We have to just keep plugging away. No matter what people have been saying about us, about what we've done on third downs or whatever, we know it's going to start clicking at the right time.

Wesley Clark

One of the things I learned in the military is sometimes you don't know what mistakes you make for a long time. But as you go through a campaign, there's lots of decision points you make, and you don't know whether those are gonna be the right decision points or not.

Chita Rivera

We're going to Puerto Rico, where we're gonna close. And we're so excited, we can't see straight.

Emma Watson

Now, honestly, every movie set that I go on, I walk onto set with the confidence that there is nothing that they can throw at me that's gonna surprise me.

Chris Phillips

The Patrons are quite sad, we're sad. But it's gonna be one hell of a party, to be quite honest with you.

Chris Evans

The past is the past, but if you're overanalyzing or trying to repeat it, you're gonna get stuck. I just had a wonderful youth, and I loved everything about it, so I really try and hang on to it.

Brittany Howard

Even if nobody cared, I'm still gonna make music.

Brendon Urie

I was gonna be a cosmetologist. I didn't really want to. I wanted to be in a band. It kind of worked out.

Nikki Sixx

In '85, I went through rehab and I wasn't ready. If you're not ready, you're not ready. You don't want to hear the truth, and you're gonna keep doing what you keep doing.

Adam Peek

We're really gonna have to work hard next year to make up for many key losses.

Imelda May

I lost a boyfriend over Elmore James. You know that moment when you send mixtapes at fifteen? He sent me pop hits, and I sent him Elmore James, and I never heard from him again.

Valerie June

When you listen to my music, you hear that there are all these voices going on in different parts of the song. That's because I was always around so many voices in church.

Lee Sullivan

The police begged him to come out of the yard and I heard them telling him to 'drop it,' ... They were pleading with him for maybe 10 minutes. They told him, 'We don't wanna hurt you,' and then I heard one shot.

Sathya Baba

The PEACE that pervades the heart can never be shaken for any reason; only PEACE of this kind is worthy of the name.

Brittany Snow

I can hear someone's voice once, and I can pretty much mimic them. Not to make fun, but I can do an impression of them pretty well.

Daniel Radcliffe

That's why I don't understand why actors become arrogant and are completely unapproachable - because as an actor, the most valuable thing you can do is talk to people and hear their stories, because it'll all come in handy.

Judith Butler

The argument that all Jews have a heartfelt investment in the state of Israel is untrue. Some have a heartfelt investment in corned beef sandwiches.

Richard Daley

We all like to hear a man speak out on his convictions and principles. But at the same time, you must understand that when you're running on a ticket, you're running with a team.

Nicole Holofcener

I hear people talk in my head, and I write it down. I choose where they live and how they dress to be real.

Rirkrit Tiravanija

One gets wrapped up in reacting to one's own reputation, which can be a kind of trap.

Zig Ziglar

Do you respond to life or are you merely reacting to it?

Ian Mckellen

Actors don't, in fact, retire, do they? It took me a while to remember that.

Jim Snyder

That was huge, it took away that 2-0 advantage.

Raymond Bonner

I'm not the only foreigner who took up golf while living in Jakarta.

Andrew Griffin

We had everything it took this year to get over the hump. We just didn't execute.

Steve Francis

I was trying to get to the basket, but I took what was there. It was a tough shot. I got enough arc, but it was a little strong.

Kurt Thomas

We clamped down on him. We took him out of his game.

Neil Callaway

Basically, we took him just because he's a big kid.

Donald O'Connor

Going up the walls doing somersaults, that trick took a couple of days.

Kenoy Kennedy

I think I took off before he started to slide. I'll take a look at it on the film.