Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sergei Prokofiev

I thought with fury of the wonderful American orchestras that cared nothing for my music; of the critics who repeated for the hundredth time, 'Beethoven is a great composer,' while balking violently at new works; of the managers who arranged long tours for artists playing the same hackneyed programs fifty times over.

Albert Einstein

When I am judging a theory, I ask myself whether, if I were God, I would have arranged the world in such a way.

Dick Murphy

I think it's quite nicely arranged around our cultural center this year, and I think that's fine. People still will see the stores as they park and walk through downtown, going to and from the festival. There will be plenty of traffic that day. We'll see how it goes this year.

Christopher Plourd

He was Mr. Clean; he was every woman's dream. All his glasses were always perfectly arranged and the cabinets were spotless. His son said that if something was used that night, he would have cleaned it.

Norma McCorvey

Henry McCloskey, Jr, arranged the first initial meeting. And we met and we discussed, for the first time in my life, reproductive rights." ()

Michael Martin

I put the house I share with my partner, Eric Webb, into a trust to keep it out of harm's way, legally. And I arranged to have the Jewel Box Theater cleared of liability. But the Jewel Box owners weren't convinced. They didn't want to be involved in anything that had been found illegal in a court.

Alice Fisher

The four executives arranged a complex scheme to cook the books at AIG. The scheme was designed to mislead analysts and the investing public.

Graham Shear

These proceedings were commenced because these newspapers published false and offensive articles designed to tell readers that Ashley had behaved in what the News of the World described as a 'perverted' way with other professional footballers. The newspapers knew there was no basis to name Ashley but arranged the articles and pictures in such a way that readers would identify him.

Graham Shear

The newspapers knew there was no basis to name Ashley but arranged the articles and pictures in such a way that readers would identify him. There is no truth whatever in these allegations. Ashley Cole will not tolerate this kind of cowardly journalism or let it go unchallenged.

Jason James

Knowing that my wish list was pretty lofty and already busy working on other projects, I wrote Johnny Repeat in distinct chapters so high-caliber artists could contribute without having to make a 100-page commitment. I'm calling it 'cosmic noir.' I can't wait for everyone to see it!

Eric Kandel

I would not necessarily say that scientists and artists need to collaborate with one another, but it would be helpful for them to talk to one another to, perhaps, give rise to specific ideas that may or may not be carried out together.

Raymone Bain

He didn't need as many artists as he originally had planned for.

John McConnell

He knows the music. He knows the songs. He knows the people. He knows the life. But especially, he knows the stories ? and the artists and fans just seem to take him places they wouldn't most other people." ()

Graham Elliot

I'm inspired by artists who use a limited palette, like painter Piet Mondrian, and the White Stripes, two musicians who create an incredible sound. Our food is starting to go back to a 'less is more' style.

Gore Verbinski

My respect for artists is very high. I think to get the most out of them, you have to liberate them. I think part of liberating them is saying, 'Come up with something brilliant, new, and fresh. Stop thinking based on what has been beat into you by executives or publishers in terms of what's going to work and what's not. Don't react, just act.'

Q-Tip

The song, 'Life is Better,' is about hip-hop. It's about my love for hip-hop. And, you know, I go through all the artists from the beginning to the end, you know. And, well, not to the end, but since the beginning to now, you know.

Bob Romeo

Her wit, comic timing, and her relationship with the artists bring a dynamic to the awards that I think is unprecedented in our industry.

Oscar Wilde

Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.

Cheech Marin

I always cared about him and he always cared about me. We actually tried to get together a couple other times, but the timing wasn't right then.

Michael McCann

He certainly cared about social needs for people.

Maurice Smith

He cared about us. I look around the house now at all the things he was planning, and it's just sad, man.

Bobby Meacham

He knows I was the guy who just kept coming back and screwing things up, so he had to send me back. I had no problem with it. I don't think he really cared for me too much, but I loved playing for him.

Chris Cornell

He just complained and complained the whole time we were there...But it didn't make any difference in terms of how our day went, because nobody there cared where we were from.

George Packer

I've been interested in American politics since I was eight. That was in 1968. It was an interesting year. I was a huge Eugene McCarthy supporter, so I guess he was the first senator I really knew about and cared about.

Carolyn Brown

We talked about the things she cared about in terms of Barton College and the good memories of times with her husband. She and her husband enjoyed traveling, so we are talking about creating an endowment so a student could travel during the school's J-term.

Tom Foley

He was just a great member who cared passionately about so many things.

Anthony Swofford

He was quoting me, to me, and he could name a scene and a page number. He convinced me that he knew the story and that he cared for the story and that he cared for me and the other men who had served with me,

Stephen Hunter

But you can still find good films if you read your local film critics and are willing to drive a bit. You have to be a proactive film viewer to have the most provocative cinema life.

Beverley Mitchell

I think the hardest part about being a teenager is dealing with other teenagers - the criticism and the ridicule, the gossip and rumors.

Quinton Foreman

I think the critics are a lot right. And I think they are a little wrong.

Cyril Cusack

It is plain to me now that the Irish Producers, quite as strongly as the Critics, have neither sympathy nor understanding of my mode of playwriting.

Arthur Miller

There is an open terror of the critics (in New York) and of losing fortunes of money

Winston Churchill

He is a modest little man who has a good deal to be modest about.

Robin Williams

You have an internal critic, an internal drive that says, 'OK, you can do more.' Maybe that's what keeps you going.

Robert Moses

Critics build nothing.

Walter Kaufmann

No other German writer of comparable stature has been a more extreme critic of German nationalism than Nietzsche.

Stephen Colbert

I started as a straight actor. I'd go onstage, and I'd think, 'Wow, this is the only thing I want to work really hard at. I will rehearse fifty times on a single scene; I don't care - I'll do it again.'

Eroll Skyers

He's a shadow of himself. His speech is slurred. He lost fifty pounds. He was found hanging in his cell. He was found seriously hurt and hanging.

Xaviera Hollander

My method is basically the same as Masters and Johnson, only they charge thousands of dollars and it's called therapy. I charge fifty dollars and it's called prostitution.

Bill Clinton

Recovery is going to take years. Fifty thousand people are still living in tents. I hope you will think of them.

Tom Selleck

I'm very proud of Quigley and I love playing Jesse Stone. That's not hype. We've got to do about fifty of these, but there are only five books.

Bible Bible

And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were fifty and three thousand and four hundred.

Jules Verne

A cow peacefully grazing fifty yards away received one of the bullets in her back. She had nothing to do with the quarrel all the same.

Mary Oliver

In my own work, I usually revise through forty or fifty drafts of a poem before I begin to feel content with it.

Bible Bible

The men of the other Nebo, fifty and two.

Cyril Connolly

There is no fury like a woman searching for a new lover

Mark Almond

For all the sound and the fury perhaps this is what Milosevic wants.

Betty Williams

I don't think I'm yet peaceful because I have to struggle every day within myself when I see the suffering of the people of the world, the women and the children. And fury sets in. But I have to transform that and take it out and do something positive with it - but I have to do that sometimes minute to minute.

Jim Easton

I think he's positioning himself for the future. Some of the fury will have subsided, and everyone will be a little more receptive to change. Unless there's a problem they're not addressing, I think all the sports that are in now should stay. For this vote I think the message is, Shape up or ship out.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

Time, a maniac scattering dust,/ And Life, a Fury slinging flame.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

In the Reagan administration, a great speech was just the first step in a long process. In the Obama administration, it's the only step.

Kathleen Hanna

That's the great thing about music. You can find some '60s pop record and feel completely invigorated by it, even though it's so old.

Katherine Paterson

I'm a great believer in research. I have to know about a place before I write a story that is set in that place.

Howard Stern

I was just at my psychiatrist and I said, 'I just got great news: We hit the 4 million mark. And I'm angry. It should be 20 million.

John Huarte

I was just as surprised by that as I was when I won the Heisman. It's a great honor and it's nice to know that even so many years later people still remember what I did in football.

Chris Eyre

I was lucky, I had a Verizon phone and it had great service all through the storm,

Darius Miles

Kevin had a great game. We have some smaller guards out there so he was able to do a lot more things. He had it going and was on fire.

B. B. King

Kevin did a great job tonight. He gutted it out there at the end for us. It was a great team win.

Maurice Garner

Kenyatta just had a great season for us. It might have surprised a lot of people, but not me because she has such a great work ethic.

Brittany Bowe

I don't even know if you can blink in a hundredth of a second, and that's what it comes down to in speed skating.

Scott Cooley

He is one of the smartest managers around.

Donald McDonald

We've been trying to get applications out, but everything has been rejected because of his record. I would go with him to talk with some of these managers to just be a support for him.

Walter Alston

I always liked Casey Stengel as a manager because he seemed to have a grasp of so many things.

Jon Lester

Pitchers really don't deal with the managers a whole lot. When we come in the clubhouse, we see him, we say, 'Hey.' That's really it.

Ted Lindsay

The owners and managers were too stupid to realize we had brains.

Tim Oliver

It was the saving of the project that we managed to get buy-in from all the managers that mattered right at the beginning. They were on the project team and they were part of it -- it wasn't being done to them.

David Hensley

The (Purchasing Managers Index) points to robust, broad-based growth.

Michael Bell

We've talked to a lot of students and property managers about this, and we're trying to sort out the pros and cons, ... A staunch position, yea or nay, can't be reached at this point.

Larry Wachtel

I don't think the money managers are going to go rushing into stocks just simply because we got to Dow 10,000.

Dwyane Wade

I was like, 'Hey, Carmelo Anthony should be playing too.' . . . I think I could have helped.

Jeff Attinella

Kevin's taught me everything I know about playing keeper. He's prepared me for every situation.

John Buck

Just say today's the day and keep playing hard. Hopefully, it's going to end tomorrow.

John Tortorella

It all starts with our desperation level. We're playing with desperation.

John Muckler

He wanted a little attention, he wasn't getting any with Dom around, not playing any games.

Jim Boeheim

He couldn't get playing tonight. It's as simple as that.

Jose Reyes

He is playing like the game. He is trying all the time.

Scot Bunnell

Harrison is playing really well and to go over there and win will be a challenge.

Thomas Muster

I was so tired of playing tennis, so tired of traveling, of hotels, everything related to this sport.

Caroline Brown

In the programs we've run before, I would say that more than 75% of the participants have NOT truly been in this at-risk category.

Mark Roberts

In England, there are so many TV commercials with nudity in them, and there are so many TV programs that show nudity on a regular basis. It's becoming more of a norm.

Ray Tanner

I like it the other way; I like the stability. But there are a lot of teams that make changes. There are many very successful programs that don't always stick with their rotation.

Thomas Burke

That's $200,000 in drug programs that won't get funded,

Tom Brookes

It will be similar to the licensing programs in the U.S..

Derek Walker

They've gutted all the programs to save the bay.

Susan Hayward

It's for the public, it's year round, and it's also for the schools because we're going to re-establish our school programs and all our outreach programs.

Greg Allen

They're two programs that don't seem to have hiccups.

Evan Depew

They're starting to make programs that can show everyone your cards, if one guy's winning a whole lot get out of it.

Ron Redmond

We've been there over a week, and we've made repeated requests.

Andrew Mitchell

The UK public have repeatedly shown enormous generosity to those in need.

Tom Ferguson

I think (the Fringe) is wonderful because . . . this is not 'Annie Get Your Gun,'

Mary Campbell

We feel it is a wonderful program, and they do wonderful things.

Jim Rash

I think what's wonderful is that 'Community' has always had its voice, has always had it's vision, and that started from the very beginning.

Anne Murphy

We can have all these wonderful things in place,

Russell Banks

There is a wonderful intelligence to the unconscious. It’s always smarter than we are.

Vincente Minnelli

I see wonderful films by Bertolucci, Visconti, and Fellini.

Robert Duvall

Although it wasn't that easy to do, it was wonderful working with John Wayne.

Robert Caro

As you get older, you sometimes feel that it's harder and harder to get something new and wonderful to come into your life.

Roald Dahl

Come right up close to me and I will show you something wonderful.