Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yanni

I don't like to define my music. To me, music is pure emotion. It's language that can communicate certain emotions and the rhythms cuts across genders, cultures and nationalities. All you need to do is close your eyes and feel those emotions.

Imelda May

In 2008, I was in a London park when I came across a fledgling crow that had fallen from the top of an oak tree. A woman happened to be passing, and she said that she rescued animals, so she invited me back to her house. It turned out she was the wife of Jeff Beck. Jeff was there, and we ended up jamming together.

Ian Anderson

I've always felt that some of my best lyrics are less than three minutes long, and it's great when you can do that - be succinct and get the message across in a simple, clear idea.

Irving Stone

The biographical novel is a true and documented story of one human being's journey across the face of the years, transmuted from the raw material of life into the delight and purity of an authentic art form.

Isabella Bird

The situation of Leh is a grand one, the great Kailas range, with its glaciers and snowfields, rising just behind it to the north, its passes alone reaching an altitude of nearly 18,000 feet; while to the south, across a gravelly descent and the Indus Valley, rise great red ranges dominated by snow-peaks exceeding 21,000 feet in altitude.

Ismail Kadare

I first came across the script for 'Macbeth' between the ages of 11 and 12; it was the first book that shook my life. Because I did not yet understand that I could simply purchase it in a bookstore, I copied much of it by hand and took it home. My childhood imagination pushed me to feel like a co-author of the play.

Gale Harold

If anyone can crack the publicity nut and figure out how to not come across hammy and contrived, I'd love to talk to them.

George Allen

When I was elected Governor, we had an audacious agenda that naysayers said couldn't be enacted with a Democrat majority in the state legislature. However, we worked across party lines and enacted historic reforms. Working together, we cut taxes by more than $600 million.

Zoe Kazan

I love to walk around New York. Honestly, that's like the best thing, to walk over to Park Slope and go visit my friend Betty and take her dog out in the park or go walk across the Brooklyn Bridge. I really dig being outside and getting to see everybody in the street.

Chet Faker

I have had a pretty hardcore crash course on living out of a suitcase. Some people take consistency in their lives for granted. When you have little to none, you discover it's kind of a nice thing.

Andy Nieto

We've maintained that consistency on offense and have been able to score runs all year.

Chan Gailey

We're working with so many combinations because of all the guys missing, so there was no level of consistency on either side of the ball. We had some great individual plays, but not much consistency. But I think you expect that in spring practice. Neither side should dominate.

Robby Wine

We have a lot more depth, a lot more experience. We'll be a lot more ready for the Big Ten this year. The consistency and experience we have this year is a lot better than last year.

Brian Dunseth

We just want to make it so we have some sort of consistency,

Stan Heath

We haven't really had much consistency away from home this year. We wanted to establish that we can win on the road, and we did that today.

Andy Brunner

We couldn't get any offensive rhythm going. It's a consistency thing for us. We have a good team, but the consistency just isn't there yet.

Jeff Tedford

I think last year consistency was an issue with him.

Miranda Sissons

Judicial positions are not musical chairs. There has to be some measure of consistency to be sure the trial has integrity.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

I don't want people to go to a film of mine because they feel guilty, like, 'I have to support it because there's black folks in there.' I want them to go because it's a good movie.

Chuck Palahniuk

The folks who read my books are so passionate about each one of them that the people making my movies are more afraid of my readership than they are of me.

Paul Johnston

We have a mandate to return the hurricane protection system to pre-Katrina levels by June 1. The folks out there are really working like crazy. We've got folks pounding steel 24 hours a day.

Mark Zuckerberg

We pay attention to every demographic in every country, so we're going to focus on building things that teens are going to like, and we're also going to focus on building things that other folks are going to like.

Patty Loveless

When I listen to my own records, I always think, 'Oh, I could have sung that so much better.' But you have to finish something and turn it in. If I didn't have folks who say, 'Come on, we need the record now,' I probably would never finish one.

Robert Bennett

Most of the information we're getting is self-reported. If it turns out these self-reported statements are accurate, the folks won't feel much in the way of Y2K.

Ray Lovell

Most folks will stay with their relatives or friends when these things happen.

Jim Nicholson

Most folks in Skaneateles don't get to stay for free in multimillion-dollar vacation estates; don't get to travel free on planes paid for by the taxpayers,

Abraham Lincoln

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be

C. S. Lewis

Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.

C. S. Lewis

We read to know we are not alone.

C. S. Lewis

But in reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself. Like the night sky in the Greek poem, I see with a myriad eyes, but it is still I who see. Here, as in worship, in love, in moral action, and in knowing, I transcend myself; and am never more myself than when I do.

Cathy Moriarty

Robert De Niro taught me how to listen, and how to be part of the conversation. It's not just about reading your lines and saying what's in the script; you have to understand your character, along with the other characters so that you can always respond.

Carrie Underwood

There's a lot of things that are said on the American Idol message board. I quit reading them because most of the people are very mean.

Bill Blass

Reading has given me more satisfaction than really anything else.

Bill Bruford

A rock band used to be four guys and a drummer. Now it's five guys sitting around reading manuals!

Penn Jillette

I don't want everyone to read anything; I like us all reading different books.

Tony Ward

What would worry me more is the snippets I've been reading from Gavin about the residential rule,

Cal Jillson

For most voters, schools are the No. 1 issue,

Ron Messick

Lauren's so big as a player. A lot of schools are starting to take notice.

Anne Anderson

Situations in low-rated schools like Jasper are very frustrating,

Randy Copeland

Sir, two of those schools aren't even under our jurisdiction.

Rick Page

Right now I don't think my 5A schools would go to the Valley. But they could put us with Laredo.

John Koskinen

A third of the schools are still working to get those systems done.

Kevin McKenzie

All my experiences with Lonoke schools have been great.

Mark Zupan

Students from his schools come out with real-world seasoning.

Justin McNaull

It's all over the map. Here in the D.C. area, schools don't get out until Thursday, making for a very short travel period.