Famous Quotes & Sayings

Todd Stephenson

I think this has to be the first time in the history of spring training a cello has been hit.

Alexandre Bouzlov

Oh, the cello comes in different sizes. I started with a smaller cello. But once I started playing, my teacher noticed that I had the hands for it. I also loved it. I couldn't stop playing.

Beverly Cleary

I particularly enjoy cello music because our daughter plays the cello. I have listened to her practice for so many hours that I am familiar with the music written for that instrument. I am also fond of the popular music of the 1930s because my future husband and I danced to it so many Saturday nights when we were in college.

Luka Sulic

We wanted to make a powerful cello sound in order to show to the world the possibilities of the cello and to use it in a different way than the classical way they are used to. We wanted to play something exciting, something crazy, something to draw younger generations to this great instrument.

Luka Sulic

People don't think of cello as a rock instrument, really, and we want people to know all the possibilities that the cello can offer.

Luka Sulic

The cello is such a versatile instrument. It can rock like the hardest rock guitar, and it can sing like the human voice. We couldn't do what we do without the classical training. It's a hard instrument to play. There are no frets, and it takes finesse and technique to play.

Leonard Rose

Walter Grossman was a very handsome and interesting man, and in those years a vital and strong influence in my life. He gave me much love and affection, and shortly after my first months of cello lessons, he was very encouraging. I remember him telling my father that some day my name would be up in lights.

Charles Terry

I've played 654 concerts. That's never been done.

Joel Rankin

Every team we've played the second time, we've played them better. You look at the shooting percentage; it's not even close.

Champ Atlee

We have not played fundamentally sound baseball...we really made our own bed.

Larry Eustachy

We were just one or two plays away from pulling it out. We played well enough to win.

Carlos Rogers

If we played in real life, that's what would happen.

Dave Gahan

I always played around with writing songs, but when you're spending a lot of time in bars, you have a lot of big ideas, but you don't do much with them.

Scott Skiles

I was really proud of the guys. We played really hard. We were active. And we played really solid defense, and we got out with a win.

Bill Self

If we'd played man, he would have had 25 points.

Matt Riley

If we play like we played today for the rest of the season, we're going to go far.

Demetri Martin

Checkers taught me that a King is a man with another man on top of him. But life taught me that that's actually called a Queen.

Amy Winehouse

You've got a degree in philosophy; so you think you're cleverer than me. But I'm not just some drama queen. Cause it's where you're at, not where you've been.

Thomas Malory

And much more am I sorrier for my good knights' loss than for the loss of my fair queen; for queens I might have enough, but such a fellowship of good knights shall never be together in no company.

Victoria Hanley

Those two are carved from the same tree." the queen said. By the same blade." The high king answered and offered her his arm in splendid dignity

Maya Rudolph

I feel like I'm a drag queen.

Cassandra Clare

You and Jace – you’re not quite normal, are you? I mean, not normal Shadowhunters. There’s something special about you both. Like the Seelie Queen said. You were experiments.” He smiled at her startled look. “I’m not stupid. I can put these things together. You with your rune powers, and Jace, well…no one could be that annoying without some kind of supernatural assistance.

Cassandra Clare

Alec flushed. "I think it's more important for you to go than me. You're Valentine's son, I'm sure you're the one the Queen really wants to see. Besides, you're charming." Jace glared at him. "Maybe not at the moment," Alec amended. "But you're usually charming. And faeries are very susceptible to charm." "Plus, if you stay here, I've got the whole first season of Gilligan's Island on DVD," Magnus said. "No one could turn that down," said Jace. He still wouldn't look at Clary.

Christopher Buckley

I looked at Mum and realized -- twang! -- that she was telling an untruth. A big untruth. And I remember thinking in that instant how thrilling and grown-up it must be to say something so completely untrue, as opposed to the little amateur fibs I was already practiced at -- horrid little apprentice sinner that I was --like the ones about you'd already said your prayers or washed under the fingernails. Yes, I was impressed. I too must learn to say these gorgeous untruths. Imaginary kings and queens would be my houseguests when I was older.

Freddie Mercury

When the whole point of Queen was to be original.

Suzanne Collins

Just remember, stealing's punishable by death

Sigmund Freud

That which we can't remember, we will repeat.

Neil Gaiman

I wanted to be an author as far back as I can remember, mixed with occasional bouts of wanting to be a werewolf when I grew up. But mostly, when I daydreamed, it was about being an author.

Lisa McMann

Maybe you don't have to remember something for it to be true. For it to exist.

Beck

I remember you would record a guitar part, and we would have to sit there for 15 or 20 minutes waiting for the computer to process it. You'd see the little wheel spinning on the computer, and you'd be praying that the hard drive didn't crash and you didn't lose the performance.

Gary Snyder

That's the part most of us can remember being part of homeroom,

Christian Moody

Julian just went up, and I can't remember who he dunked on, but who he dunked on will remember it.

Mike Browning

We do want him to remember us. We're all part of this partnership, and we want to be included.

Jay Leno

Remember when Obama was campaigning? Didn't he say he was going to close Guantanamo Bay? Didn't he say that? Apparently, he just meant for renovations.

Ray Stevenson

I feel like I don't exist. It's like I'm some sort of an alias.

Jay Frank

We have one person in custody. They are still trying to sort things out.

Gordon Fischer

I think he does sort of have this patina of independence. But I don't think he is all that independent from the White House.

MacGyver MacGyver

Desperation tends to make one sort of flexible.

Andrew Harrington

This is the time of year when stockpiles should be rising. We're in that sort of in-between period. Winter is sort of over and summer hasn't really started.

Alan Greenspan

I was sort of shocked when it all of a sudden turned out that I got all A's through college, with the exception of two B's in the first term. I never envisaged myself as summa cum laude.

Kerry Washington

I think generalizations of any sort are dangerous. I'll say, if that is the case - right now it's an American issue.

Penn Badgley

You know, as an only child, you're kind of in a bubble, and there are all sorts of things about my childhood that I still can't really place.

Danielle Panabaker

To do a television show, one can be sort of spoiled. You get to have your own trailer, your own space - that sort of thing.

Frances Chaney

It would be just too embarrassing if we won again.

Aristotle

For through wondering human beings now and in the beginning have been led to philosophizing.

Albert Einstein

My sense of god is my sense of wonder about the universe.

T. S. Eliot

And indeed there will be time to wonder, 'Do I dare?', and 'Do I dare?

Tom Waits

We have a deficit of wonder right now.

Socrates

Wisdom belongs in wonder.

Socrates

Wonder is the beginning of all wisdom.

Michael Faraday

Nothing is to wonderful to be true

John Piper

O, God of wonder, enlarge my capacity to be amazed at what is amazing, and end my attraction to the insignificant.