Famous Quotes & Sayings

Johann G. Seume

People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Jenny Lewis

I've always just had sort of a dark take on life, I suppose, and hopefully, the music transcends that in a way.

James Taylor

I've always worked all my life and now I need a hand, not a handout. That's why I'm here.

Suki Waterhouse

I've acted my whole life pretty much, but then just got more into modelling.

Rashid Johnson

I've always been interested in this idea of a privileged life, probably because it's something I hadn't seen much of.

Philippe Petit

I wanted all my life to give my world into other arts - books, plays, movies - but I didn't want to sell out.

Warren Spector

I want content that is relevant to my life, that is relevant to me, that is set in the real world.

Robin Marantz Henig

The music that was popular in your youth seems to be the music you recall most vividly - and most nostalgically - for the rest of your life. But so is the music that was popular in your parents' youth.

Adlai E. Stevenson

A diplomat's life is made up of three ingredients: protocol, Geritol and alcohol.

Struan Robertson

The BPI didn't want to sue its customers, but it will do to stop them stealing music.

Henry Lewis

The music, the dress, the color, the stage settings ? there's nothing in the world like it. The whole of Massachusetts should rush here, honestly.

Jeff Tweedy

I've been buying instruments and musical gear for a long time.

Aretha Franklin

Being a singer is a natural gift. It means I'm using to the highest degree possible the gift that god gave me to use. I'm happy with that.

Brian Setzer

Rock & Roll is the physical thing that just comes out of you .. the other stuff you have to sit down and learn .. once you learn scales and chord progressions, you can make up your own versions

Boz Scaggs

I really just followed my musical instincts every step of my life.

Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

I can spend the day without writing or reading, but I can't spend a day without listening to music. I listen to music on a Walkman; it's from the 19th century, I know.

Benjamin Disraeli

O Music! Miraculous art! A blast of thy trumpet and millions rush forward to die; a peal of thy organ and uncounted nations sink down to pray.

Carla Bley

I like chords that are very lush with all the lush parts taken out.

David Dreier

We know it may not be the single most popular thing, but it's the right thing to do.

Michael Moore

You know he's [George W. Bush] there illegally. You know he was not elected either by the popular vote or by the vote in Florida.

Janie Allen

Murals were very popular then and the idea was pretty well received.

Sam Martin

He was a very popular young man. The students are taking it hard.

Bob Beatty

She's ahead, she's popular -- she's not completely unbeatable.

Mike Smith

Some of the more popular schools could be filled.

Amanda Lenhart

Text messaging is popular for two reasons: It's mobile, and it's quiet,

Vance Havner

Popularity has slain more prophets of God than persecution ever did.

Kathleen Hanna

Popularity is totally overrated.

Don McLean

Do you recall what was revealed the day the music died?

Mike Wagers

I don't recall any hush-hush, whisper-whisper going on.

Barbara Kingsolver

restraint equals indulgence

Erin McKean

We've been using 'rejuvenate,' meaning to restore youth, to make young again, as a verb for at least 200 years.

Britt Robertson

When you're not the lead, you don't have as many restrictions.

Chico Lynch

We were fortunate. And the rest is history.

Michael Donovan

Everyone who could be restored has been restored.

Rich Miller

is suspended the rest of this season and the start of next.

Susan McWhorter

We tried to use more subs and rest our sick players.

E. O. Wilson

The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined.

E. O. Wilson

The great challenge of the twenty-first century is to raise people everywhere to a decent standard of living while preserving as much of the rest of life as possible.

Allan Bristow

As of right now, that's our only option, ... We'll look for others. But right now that seems to be the best.

Jeff Sluman

Other days, making one or two birdies seems like it's going to be impossible.

Diane Siri

I've accomplished most of the things I set out to do. It just seems like the right time to make a transition.

Rick Dickson

Somebody said it was a week ago Sunday this all began, ... It seems like many years ago.

Kenny Chesney

now he seems to think he can tell Renee what to do, what to wear, where to go and who to see.

Peter Hitchens

The whole of the U.S. system seems to be creaking at the moment,

Todd Rundgren

It seems like there are two worlds out there - one that has revolved around 'Breaking Bad,' and then the one that I've been in, which just kind of observes it from afar.

Jay Bilas

Even though it seems like a short timeframe, there's a lot that can happen.

Jill Wagner

When work seems like a job, I don't do it anymore. I always want it to be something I'm interested in and something that challenges me.

Douglas Coupland

Youth is the time of life lived for some imaginary audience.

Anita Brookner

Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.

David Cronenberg

All stereotypes turn out to be true. This is a horrifying thing about life. All those things you fought against as a youth: you begin to realize they're stereotypes because they're true.

Confucius

A youth is to be regarded with respect.

Ambrose Bierce

Youth is Gilead, in which is balm for every wound.

Albert Camus

Youth is above all a collection of possibilities.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.

Thornton Wilder

He regarded love as a sort of cruel malady through which the elect are required to pass in their late youth and from which they emerge, pale and wrung, but ready for the business of living.

Thomas Paine

Youth is the seed time of good habits, as well in nations as in individuals.