Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gennaro Castaldo

The Arctic Monkeys have connected with the mainstream in one leap. This is an outstanding figure as January is a quiet time of the year for sales.

Hillary Clinton

The Arctic is going to be an area of intense interest. Russia has the longest coastline in the world with the Arctic.

Rebecca Solnit

The more we heat up the planet, the more it costs all of us, not just in money, but in colossal famines, displacements, deaths, and species extinctions, as well as in the loss of some of the things that make this planet a blue-green jewel, including its specialized habitats from the melting Arctic to bleaching coral reefs.

Imelda May

I would love to work with Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits, B.B. King. I'd love to do something with Arctic Monkeys, Miles Kane, and The Last Shadow Puppets. If I got a call from Juliette Lewis or PJ Harvey, or Chrissie Hynde, that'd be a thrill.

Robert Corell

We can't find any more concrete example of Arctic warming, which is twice as fast as in any other part of the world,

Rodger Schlickeisen

Jim Nussle has said that a clean budget is one of his top priorities, and he has proven that today by keeping dicey policy language that has no budgetary consequence, namely drilling in the Arctic refuge, out of the budget.

Bill Meadows

Those who are presenting opening the Arctic as a solution to the world's energy problems are misrepresenting the facts. This is really an intense debate going on. In some ways, it's for the soul of the conservation community.

Melanie Duchin

Global warming and rising temperatures in the Arctic jeopardize the polar bear's very existence. Polar bears cannot survive without sea ice. Polar bears could disappear in our lifetime if we don't take action.

Klaus Toepfer

The peoples of the Arctic and the small islands of this world face many of the same threats.

Kevin Phillips

Those guys can drink like fish. Their rider for the show every night, they get two big bottles of Jack Daniels, a big bottle of vodka, a big bottle of tequila and four cases of beer. And then that's not including when they go to the bar and people buy them drinks; that's just what they have backstage for them every night.

Kelly Clarkson

I'm all cried out, you should have seen me backstage before.

David Bowie

He's a friendly and caring guy whom I really respect for his knowledge of touring. Not to mention my favorite brand of coffee is consistently backstage every night.

Kristian Bush

I spent 25 years clearly understanding that I'm not gonna meet Bono or the Edge. But then it happened at the Grammys when we were all backstage and I just about fell out of my shoes.

Becky Anderson

The problem with the Capitol Theater is it was built for movies, there's no backstage area. Now, all of our backstage, all of our dressing rooms, everything like that will be in the other building. The restrooms will be in the other building, plus the concessions will be there.

Christopher Atkins

I sat backstage and had a beer with Richard Chamberlain, Paul Newman, and Princess Grace.

Bo Burnham

I was doing theater in my high school, and I started writing sort of silly songs on the piano backstage in summer theater. I eventually put them online and started getting this little following.

Shari Sebbens

One of my earliest memories is being backstage at 'Bran Nue Dae' in Darwin when I was about eight. It's such a fun, happy show and a real celebration of being Aboriginal... it felt really great and achievable as a career. It all felt normal.

Richie Sambora

Last time I saw you was backstage in Melbourne. You had just been through that thing with the guy and the rice.

Colin Greenwood

Our site should be like Paddington Station with a much better version of WH Smith's in it.

Bill Bruford

We all lived in the same house, or most of us did. And as far as I can make out we were confined to the property, because at twenty-four hours' notice we'd have to do a gig somewhere. So you couldn't leave the building for more than twelve hours in case a gig came through.

Mark Stevens

Shouldn't a great museum foster serious seeing before all else?

Siouxsie Sioux

What I really resent most about people sticking labels on you is that it cuts off all the other elements of what you are because it can only deal with black and white; the cartoon.

Jon Anderson

I think one of the great moments of my life was when I could write musician on my passport.

Colin Greenwood

On the last two records, Thom was definitely looking for other instruments to give him voices rather than have his own voice at the front.

Colin Greenwood

One of the books we read a few years ago that had a big effect on us was Repeated Takes by Michael Chanan.

Jeff Beck

I was really small when jazz broke through in England and I can still remember sneaking off to the living room to listen to it on the radio - much to my parent's disapproval.

John Deacon

I have a few personal ambitions for the band.

Timothy Noah

Health care probably contributes a lot more to the common wealth than finance.

Irving Stone

I slept in van Gogh's bed. I worked in the room where he painted. I saw the place where he was cared for when he cut off his ear. I lived in the jail cell where he stayed. And I looked out the window. You remember that picture of the cornfields through the bars? That was what I saw.

Zack Snyder

To go back, the mistake that Universal Studios made with 'Dawn of the Dead' was that they didn't have enough money or cared enough to make a soundtrack.

Warren Farrell

The women themselves say they're far more likely to care about flexibility. The men say, 'I'm far more likely to care about money.'

William John Wills

It is of great importance to note these meteors, even the small ones, as very little is yet known of them; and every observation, if carefully made, will some day help to show what they are.

Virginia Postrel

When I was in college, I wanted to be editor of 'Reason' when I grew up. It was an impractical ambition, especially since the magazine was located in Santa Barbara, way off any journalist's normal career path.

Billy Graham

Rose Adams is a wonderful Christian woman who cared for my mother, Morrow Coffey Graham, in her last years of life.

Clotilde Hesme

I don't have a career plan. I'm not strategic enough.

Clive Thompson

Insurance firms have always carefully studied real-world data to figure out what, precisely, constitutes a risky activity.

John Donaldson

We have a tradition of wetting the bairn's head, which means when you're drinking probably a glass of champagne you dip your finger in the champagne and touch the baby's head,

Antoine Deneriaz

I was so sure I could do it that I had already ordered the champagne yesterday. I was really convinced I could do it today.

Ken Ramsey

I have a ticket for Sunday but I'm not going home, I'm going to party. It's going to be a champagne and roses party!

Bud Black

He was in the training room drinking Gatorade while everyone else was drinking champagne in the clubhouse.

Jim Laughlin

For something to be officially and legally categorized as Champagne, it must come from the Champagne region in France. It's a legally designated region just a little northeast of Paris. Anything we make in America, or anything made in Italy or any other country, is sparkling wine.

Kurt Vonnegut

The champagne was dead. So it goes.

Annie Jacobsen

The oil under Libya is the champagne of oil, drop for drop the world's most valuable.

Don Shula

We didn't have any champagne to toast each other. But we did have some Diet Cokes up there. We lifted the Diet Cokes.

Robin Leach

There is this image of a guy in a hot tub, drinking champagne with two buxom blondes. But that is not the real me. I am a father, and I am a grandfather, too.

Bruce Allen

We do need some new players on this team. We're getting to the situation where if we can have two more good drafts as good as the last two, we'll be OK.

Pete Carroll

Whatever team drafts him will get a productive player who should be in the league for a long time.

Nancy Kress

There are writers whose first drafts are so lean, so skimpy, that they must go back and add words, sentences, paragraphs to make their fiction intelligible or interesting. I don't know any of these writers.

Adam Rapp

I'm pretty obsessive-compulsive, and I'm very fast. I tend to not write for a long period of time until I can't not write, and then I write first drafts in gallops. I won't eat right. I forget to do my laundry.

Marie Lu

I am a hopeless pantser, so I don't do much outlining. A thought will occur to me, and I'll just throw it into the story. I tell myself I'll worry about untangling it later. I'm glad no one sees my first drafts except for my poor editor and agent.

Mary Karr

Every poem probably has sixty drafts behind it.

Pat Roberts

We have several working drafts that we will give to members as of this week,

Tom Florczak

The language of the early drafts didn't protect it.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Punishment of a miser - to pay the drafts of his heir in his tomb