Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thom Yorke

I went to a boys' school, and I didn't realize that most guys join bands because they wanted to get girls. I was not really focused on that the way everybody else was.

Imelda May

I love festivals in that people seem to let their hair down more. I love that people run from stage to stage. I love going as a performer because you get to see band that you wouldn't necessarily go see.

Gerry Beckley

I do know many a band out there, because believe me, we've played with most of them, who are together because they have to be. They might not talk to each other offstage, but they realize they can earn a living by going out and keeping that music alive.

Gin Wigmore

I was in a band in Auckland, and I remember they all hated me. They had a big intervention. They said, basically, 'Gin, we think you suck.' I was miserable. I cried and cried. But looking back, that taught me about social skills and how to communicate with musicians.

Chino Moreno

A band like Depeche Mode would go out and record them hitting a trash can with a steel rod or something and recording it. And that would be one of their sounds of the drums. I love the creativeness of that kind of really raw sampling.

Chino Moreno

A big problem for me was opening for Limp Bizkit and Linkin Park, two bands that wouldn't exist if it weren't for me, straight up!

Keith Henson

The picture that emerges for humans in the previous several million years is that of a social primate living in small bands and villages.

Brittany Howard

Every time I'm home, it's like a vacation, but I've been playing in bands since I was 11. I guess our goals were always small goals. It started off my goal was just to be in a band. Then it was to have a drummer that would show up.

Brian Bell

Bands should definitely pay some dues and go through it, go to small clubs, build a fan base, all that kind of stuff, because it's not real, otherwise.

Isobelle Carmody

Isn't that what writing is about? The constant attempt to understand the world?

Imani Hakim

I just would like to be challenged. I want to push myself to the limit, and constantly challenge myself and grow as an artist. That's where I want to go. Explore different things, different characters, in film, and just everything!

Zadie Smith

There's constantly this melancholy about British hip-hop. People are always waiting for it to explode like American hip-hop, but it might just be that British hip-hop will always be as it is: an underground thing which will stay that way.

Vonda Shepard

My nature is... well... I'm a searcher by nature. I'm constantly searching for something; that's why I have a song called 'Looking for Something.' How do I do it? I read a lot of spiritual books; I meditate.

Henry David Thoreau

I have the habit of attention to such excess, that my senses get no rest - but suffer from a constant strain.

Abraham Lincoln

The legal right of the Southern people to reclaim their fugitives I have constantly admitted. The legal right of Congress to interfere with their institution in the states, I have constantly denied.

Constance Wu

I'm constantly paranoid that I'll be unemployed for the rest of my life... and have to go back folding shirts at the Gap, which you know... you gotta do what you gotta do.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

Convention serves a purpose: It gives life meaning, and without it, one is in a constant existential crisis. If you don't have the imposition of family to remind you of what is at stake, something else will.

Bobby Wallace

As more speed afoot was constantly demanded for big league ball, I noticed the many infield bounders which the runner beat to first only by the thinnest fractions of a second.

Ian Mckellen

The one thing you can ask, I think, is that actors get paid a living wage. I would like it if all the repertory theatres that currently exist could do that. It would make a huge difference.

William R. Keating

I hope that the residents of my current district - from Quincy to Provincetown and the Islands - know that their well-being is my primary concern and nothing changes that.

Ellen Key

The current of emotion, which was formerly directed to gaining eternal bliss, is turned in socialism - in the same degree as the latter is permeated by evolutionism - towards the perfecting of earthly life.

Bob Stimson

The overwhelming empirical evidence of current residence of retirement villages is that they don't go in at early ages. The majority go in middle-to-late 70s.

Louis Font

The Pentagon has instituted this policy to say to the current troops that if you go AWOL you will be hunted down to the grave.

Dennis Ross

If there were an election today, Netanyahu would win. Yet, his standing in the polls is also a reflection of the weakness of Ehud Olmert, the current prime minister - who stands at 2 percent in a recent poll - and the enduring weaknesses of the Labor Party.

J. C. Watts

The $54 price objective represents 17 times 2002 estimated revenue. The stock currently trades at 28 times 2001 revenue, implying a multiple contraction.

John Harmer

We have a major problem with the current engine.

Phil Smith

We could get pulled over for speeding and pay more than that. The problem with the current laws is enforcement.

H. Hart

We just didn't have enough to have a dedicated group of offensive players and a dedicated group of defensive players,

Pat Wilders

We have a lot of dedicated girls who come back year to year.

Grover Norquist

Americans for Tax Reform is a national taxpayer organization dedicated to opposing any and all tax increases. We work at the national, state and local level for lower taxes, less government spending and limited government.

Mitt Romney

I will preserve and protect a woman's right to choose, and am devoted and dedicated to honoring my word in that regard.

Greg Brooks

We don't expect everything will be perfect, ... but we have a great plan and a lot of dedicated people to make this happen.

Carol Stone

We're dedicated to supporting mainstream jazz, and we don't veer too far off from that. But we do spend a lot of time thinking about how to make the festival grow and how to have a lot of variety. We have the avant-garde, the old jazz legends, the older musicians and younger musicians and we're known for our high-energy jam session.

Romeo Travis

We're dedicated to one goal. We're all looking for a championship.

Jason Portz

We have some kids that are going to be playing at the next level. They all have a great work ethic and really dedicated themselves to the weight room over the summer. They'll be rewarded this spring.

Henry Williamson

True idealists are rare; they are the dedicated workers, who would, if need be, die at the stake.

John Marhefka

The overall mood of the team is frustration because we have put in a lot of work and effort into practices and games. Our youth and inexperience has shown up in some games, but we are playing a lot of tough teams in a very competitive conference.

Lonnie Roberts

The overall effort was great all season long, and now we've got a little taste of the playoffs, too.

Carl Rogers

Although the client-centered approach had its origin purely within the limits of the psychological clinic, it is proving to have implications, often of a startling nature, for very diverse fields of effort.

Antoine Lavoisier

A wealthy landowner cannot cultivate and improve his farm without spreading comfort and well-being around him. Rich and abundant crops, a numerous population and a prosperous countryside are the rewards for his efforts.

Bill Vaughan

Progress is a continuing effort to make the things we eat, drink, and wear as good as they used to be.

Bill Vaughan

You have to climb to reach a deep thought.

Bill Vaughan

Coal is our most abundant fossil fuel. (GE's) development efforts are to just end up making the plants more competitive on an economic basis by using these other coals.

Gloria Trevi

The album, thank God, is a great effort that makes me proud, that has me thrilled.

Ken Slater

That was a tough one to lose. I really liked our effort for three quarters, and I saw a lot of good things, but we just got physically outmatched in the fourth quarter and we couldn't sustain things.

Daniel Radcliffe

I was fortunate enough to meet Sophie Dahl. And I'm slightly in love with Scarlett Johansson: she's just stunning. And she's bright, which is incredibly sexy.

Reese Witherspoon

I think, like every working parent, I sometimes feel that there are not enough hours in the day. But overall, I'm very fortunate that my job has a lot of flexibility. I spend a lot of time with the kids, just around the house.

Dan Boyd

That was indicative of the trust he had in his principals. I was really fortunate to have had the opportunity to work with him.

Mike Rutter

That was a very physical game. Amarillo is a very good team, and we're fortunate to get way with a victory.

Skip Harlicka

That was a special time in our lives in a number of ways. I was very fortunate to be in that group and to have played for Frank McGuire.

Dave Bristow

That was a good bust. We were very fortunate that someone saw this.

Danielle Renfrew

We were so fortunate to shoot in Columbia. We were just overwhelmed by the support offered by the community.

George Crooks

We have a good group of hard-working kids. Hopefully when the time comes, their weight will be scattered out like it was this year. With only 17 kids, we were very fortunate to be able to spread them out to make a team.

David McGinnis

Usually this time of the year, the weather is real hit or miss. We've been real fortunate most of the time, getting all the games in, and it looks good this week.

Marsha Norman

Think of a musical as a string of pearls. If you don't have a string, you can't put the pearls around your neck.

Rachel Cusk

The true self seeks release, not constraint. It doesn't want to be corseted in a sonnet or made to learn a system of musical notations. It wants liberation, which is why very often it fastens on the novel, for the novel seems spacious, undefined, free.

Barry Mann

I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction.

Beck

Being able to take musical ideas through every iteration is attractive to me. Granted, not everyone's going to want to listen to that, but it should exist.

Joel Murray

I'm a little musically inclined; I play the clarinet and the saxophone.

Dan Brown

For me, writing is a discipline, much like playing a musical instrument.

Jason Moore

For your first musical in New York, to go to Broadway and be nominated for a Tony is a dream come true.

Dianne Wiest

Woody is so musical in his filmmaking. I've never worked with anyone I've trusted so completely. He won't let you hit a false note.

David Naughton

Musical theatre is something I'm familiar with, I've been doing that.

Kathleen Blanco

We have a lot of talent in Louisiana, ... For years, our musicians have had to go to Nashville or New York to record.,

Derek Bailey

I'd like trios and quartets actually, but I like duos because a lot of musicians who I like playing with like playing duos.

Robert Brown

The rest may reason and welcome; 'tis we musicians know.

Donald Harrison

The musicians will come back. It's going to take a long time, but New Orleans can actually be a better place because of this.

Robert Moog

I'm an engineer, ... I see myself as a toolmaker, and the musicians are my customers. They use the tools.

Bill Dixon

If musicians don't do any music, then there isn't any music. Musicians are very tricky and can be quite elusive.

Z. Sheppard

The sad thing is so many of the musicians have died.

Scott Baldwin

This is only the second time Tommy has been here in Texas for something like this. Normally, musicians of his reputation work with college-level students; we're very fortunate.

Jason Taylor

The play worked, ... Randy was wide open.

Randy Weber

I'm so Republican, my first name starts with 'R.' I'm so right-wing - well, Randy Weber. You do the math.

Joe Torre

Randy was great, we just didn't give him anything to work with.

Norv Turner

Randy made some big plays. He competed awfully well.

Tom Foreman

We've had dialogue. It's just like the old days, in terms of the relationship.

Chris Pelchen

We're waiting on the Kangaroos to come back in terms of that deal.

Hamdi Ulukaya

On the tech side, little start-ups can do something magnificent. They don't need too much in terms of plants and infrastructure.

Yossi Beilin

We have no terms for dialogue, but we do have terms for negotiations.

Hallie Ephron

Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.

Jay Farrar

I don't view it in the terms of a comeback,

Stephen Davis

I don't think of this in terms of winning,

Steve Squyres

We're not going to take any risks. It's a big crater in terms of diameter, but really shallow. It's nothing like Endurance.

Willis Reed

We would still have been here if we could have come to terms with the union.

Randall Kennedy

The idea of the mulatto has been a gathering point for a wide variety of racial prejudices, fears, myths, and speculations.

Jennifer Smith

There is just such a variety of things to see and do here.

Tom Johnson

Our (guests) aren't just speakers; they're a variety of things.

Matt Cookson

We're not discriminating. Whatever variety we get in.

Jorge Camejo

Obviously, for a variety of reasons, we would like to see it finished.

Nick Larson

We wear a lot of different hats. That's the interesting part of being with the sheriff's department. We get a variety of things to do.

Neil Tennant

We shouldn't feel restricted by our sexuality, and our sexuality doesn't have to be a cultural choice. That's an amazing variety of music within those five main performers.

Francis Bacon

Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.

Joe Perring

We are going to have a real wide variety of residential opportunities for folks.