Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barry Gibb

Maurice would prance into a room, you know, and his presence was immediate.

Barry Gibb

He was the average guy. Maurice, I think, reflected every man.

David Coverdale

I remember when I was a teenager, the epitome of success for us was Top of the Pops in those days, because we really had no idea.

Bruce Dickinson

There are a lot of stuff on the record that I am thinking is generic but actually it is just as good as everybody else who is putting stuff out at the time.

Martin H. Fischer

When a man lacks mental balance in pneumonia he is said to be delirious. When he lacks mental balance without the pneumonia, he is pronounced insane by all smart doctors.

Martin H. Fischer

Research has been called good business, a necessity, a gamble, a game. It is none of these - it's a state of mind.

Martin H. Fischer

You must learn to talk clearly. The jargon of scientific terminology which rolls off your tongues is mental garbage.

Phil Collen

We'd played for years to half-empty clubs in England.

Frank Dane

Rome had Senators too, that's why it declined.

Cullen Hightower

Older generations are living proof that younger generations can survive their lunacy.

David Perlmutter

Gluten is this Generation's Tobacco

Annie Dillard

In literary history, generation follows generation in a rage.

Annie Dillard

There were no formerly heroic times, and there was no formerly pure generation. There is no one here but us chickens, and so it has always been.

E. F. Schumacher

A way of life that ever more rapidly depletes the power of the Earth to sustain it and piles up ever more insoluble problems for each succeeding generation can only be called violent.

Thomas S. Monson

Can we somehow muster the courage and steadfastness of purpose that characterized the pioneers of a former generation? Can you and I, in actual fact, be pioneers [today]?

Susan Sontag

Each generation has to reinvent spirituality.

Simon Le Bon

Music is not supposed to be nationalist. It is supposed to surpass language barriers. It is about generations communicating with each other.

Tinie Tempah

Every generation that comes from this family has to do better than the last.

Brian Molko

Placebo is music for outsiders, by outsiders and our gigs are like conventions of outcasts, which is cool.

Michael Ironside

I ended up an actor, did my first professional union gig in 1974, and I've been doing it ever since.

Beck

Every band I knew or played with had flyers and properly-recorded demos and contacts; I couldn't even get a gig.

Pauly Shore

I giggle when I put myself down. It's just funny to me.

Gina Bellman

Some people think it's an easy gig working as an extra, but you often have to stay very concentrated for long stretches in challenging conditions.

Andrew Motion

Thanks partly to the kind of poets that we now have and partly to funding, there's been a gigantic shift in the way poetry is perceived... Poems on the Underground, poets in schools, football clubs, zoos.

Brian Molko

Placebo is music for outsiders, by outsiders and our gigs are like conventions of outcasts, which is cool.

Michael Ironside

I ended up an actor, did my first professional union gig in 1974, and I've been doing it ever since.

Beck

Every band I knew or played with had flyers and properly-recorded demos and contacts; I couldn't even get a gig.

Chris Duggan

Some smaller providers get nervous when you start talking about a rating system.

Deepak Chopra

What we experience, as a perceptual experience, is not what is. It's very specific to the nervous system.

Andrew Denton

I didn't like the nervous tension of being a public person.

Sue Barker

It was another nervous Tim Henman match - I'm not sure how he manages to get through them, let alone us!

Mark Ruffalo

I'm very nervous in the beginning and then I get in there and start doing my work and I feel more comfortable.

Jim King

Several of us are nervous about turning (a fund) over to another group.

Todd Bergeron

He was a little nervous to start with. Once he got rolling, he got rid of those semifinal jitters a little bit.

Mike Conners

I was real nervous when he fouled out.

Chris Matthews

I was real nervous at the start, but I feel like I stepped up.

James Wolpert

I want to learn - there's so much I have to learn about what it takes to be a recording artist, about what it takes to go on tour.