Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephen Jones

Dead men don't tell tales. We don't want a Lee Harvey Oswald here. We don't want an Oliver Stone movie. We don't want a Warren Commission report.

Jacques Chirac

Is it normal for the commission to be disinterested in a problem? ... This is one of the reasons that explains the current rejection of Europe. It is a problem that must be looked at.

Nicole Corcoran

This was an issue update on education. This was an e-mail that was sent out. It was a new, electronic way to get a message out. Actually, we look forward to some guidelines from the ethics commission on something that's totally new. No one has addressed what's OK with an e-mail, what's OK with a link to a Web site.

Dan Randolph

We're very much hoping the commission doesn't reopen the noise rule, and would be surprised in many ways if they do.

Abdullah A. Badawi

We will not have any role in its work as we want the commission to be really independent and free of any form of government intervention.

Ken Toole

We need consumer-oriented people on the PSC, ... I have demonstrated that commitment over the years and look forward to talking with the people of Public Service Commission District No. 5 about my experience and ideas I have for the future.

Rick Garcia

I found her to be just a really good commission member and embody what the commission is all about.

David Vitter

We need a Katrina reconstruction commission headed by a no-nonsense, nonpolitical, businessman manager so that we all have something lasting to show for this spending,

Cynthia McKinney

The 9/11 Omission: Did the Commission Get it Wrong?

James Flecker

A ship, an isle, a sickle moon - / With few but with how splendid stars / The mirrors of the sea are strewn / Between their silver bars.

Tom Herrion

As a team we take a lot more free throws than we used to. And we've improved greatly at it. But it's like every other team sport, the team that makes the fewer mistakes wins.

Marco Polo

At school, a few people know that I'm over here. I don't know about everybody, professors, curling people and a few kids in class.

Rick Woodard

The thing I'd like for us to work on is getting better quality shots. I'd rather us get fewer shots that go in than to take more shots that don't. I'd rather have quality than quantity.

Jan Popa

A few personal photos are OK, but it's pretty hard for people to walk by a wedding picture without looking at it.

Karen Evans

A few of the service providers did not do what they said they were going to do.

Meghan Coward

Sometimes Molly will fly out to L.A. for a few days, raid the gallery scene there, and come back with a list of names and try to lure them down here.

Craig Barlow

Saturday is moving day. You don't win a golf tournament on Saturday, and by all means I'd like to have a few holes over, but I'm in great position.

Richard Wagner

Quite a few said they would sit out in the back yard or go to a pool in order to maintain their tan,

Daniel Woodrell

Texas humor and Southern humor are pretty similar.

Art Buchwald

People ask what I am really trying to do with humor. The answer is, "I'm getting even

Elaine Stritch

The people in New York - their humor is on a level that goes, uh, very deep, you know?

Arthur Conan Doyle

We had got as far as this, when who should walk in but the gentleman himself, who had been drinking his beer in the taproom and had heard the whole conversation. Who was I? What did I want? What did I mean by asking questions? He had a fine flow of language, and his adjectives were very vigorous.

Dennis Ritchie

The notion of a record is an obsolete remnant of the days of the 80-column card.

Edsger Dijkstra

PL/1, the fatal disease, belongs more to the problem set than to the solution set.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

And ah for a man to arise in me, That the man I am may cease to be!

Chuck Norris

Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.

Anjelica Huston

I'm not really big on slapstick humor. I like gentle humor.

Jan Hammer

The problem that I have is with the music business. For some reason it seems almost impossible to get anything, any music, released which includes improvisation or soloing.

Brennan Manning

The trouble with our ideals is that if we live up to all of them, we become impossible to live with.

Aristotle

That which is impossible and probable is better than that which is possible and improbable.

Mason Cooley

My nostalgia is for the impossible.

Kevin Keen

She's a talented young lady and will be impossible to replace.

George Saunders

It was that impossible thing: happiness that does not wilt to reveal the thin shoots of some new desire rising from within it.

Ingvar Kamprad

The word impossible has been and must remain deleted from our dictionary,

Nabil Sha'ath

I think there are still problems, particularly on Jerusalem and refugees. But I don't see this now as something that is impossible to solve,

Ludwig Wittgenstein

It's impossible for me to say one word about all that music has meant to me in my life. How, then, can I hope to be understood?

Ben Nicholas

Most of life is routine - dull and grubby, but routine is the momentum that keeps a man going. If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.

Babe Ruth

You just can't beat the person who never gives up.

Ashley Smith

Live life messy and love every moment of it.

Baruch Spinoza

If a man had begun to hate an object of his love, so that love is thoroughly destroyed, he will, causes being equal, regard it with more hatred than if he had never loved it, and his hatred will be in proportion to the strength of his former love.

Barbara Sher

Isolation is a dream killer.

Barbara Sher

I believe you can have whatever you really want in this life, in one form or another, sooner or later. All you have to do is take care of your health and be lucky enough to live for a while. But you can't have it all at once and you can't have it forever. No life has the room for everything in it, not on the same day.

Arthur Miller

I am bewildered by the death of love. And my responsibility for it.

Arthur Miller

I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been.

Arthur Adamov

Everything happens as though I were only one of the particular existences of some great incomprehensible and central being.... Sometimes this great totality of life appears to me so dramatically beautiful that it plunges me into ecstasy. But more often it seems like a monstrous beast that penetrates and surpasses me and which is everywhere, within me and outside me.... And terror grips and envelops me more powerfully from moment to moment.... My only way out is to write, to make others aware of it, so as not to have to feel all of it alone, to get rid of however small a portion of it.

Brad Shaw

Sometimes it's better to take 30 minutes out of your day and talk about something other than hockey.

Paul Whitworth

And we're 35 minutes away from Silicon Valley,

Amy Poehler

The minute anyone makes you feel weird and non-included or not supported, you know, either beat it or tell them to beat it.

Anne Robinson

I do have a rule that very few meetings are worth more than ten minutes.

Stephenie Meyer

I thought about that for a minute - about what I wanted.

Stephen Chbosky

After a few minutes, it was time for me to leave. I don't know who decides these things. It just happens.

Ron White

Diamonds - that'll shut her up... for a minute!

Mike Sherman

He said he was fine. I said, 'I can tell something is wrong here. What's wrong?' He wouldn't tell me, ... It took me about 10 minutes to get it out of him. Finally, he told me.

Lance Armstrong

I actually spoke to him for about 30 minutes and he didn't say any of that stuff to me personally,

Henry Lewis

The music, the dress, the color, the stage settings ? there's nothing in the world like it. The whole of Massachusetts should rush here, honestly.

Jeff Tweedy

I've been buying instruments and musical gear for a long time.

Aretha Franklin

Being a singer is a natural gift. It means I'm using to the highest degree possible the gift that god gave me to use. I'm happy with that.

Brian Setzer

Rock & Roll is the physical thing that just comes out of you .. the other stuff you have to sit down and learn .. once you learn scales and chord progressions, you can make up your own versions

Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

I can spend the day without writing or reading, but I can't spend a day without listening to music. I listen to music on a Walkman; it's from the 19th century, I know.

Charles Kingsley

Music is a sacred, a divine, a God-like thing, and was given to man by Christ to lift our hearts up to God, and make us feel something of the glory and beauty of God, and of all which God has made.

James Young

So, maybe you don't see blues so much in Styx's music but it is definitely part of Tommy's early music.

James Young

Seeing our VH-1 Behind the Music shows just how dysfunctional some of the moments of the band were but this new line-up has put the fun back in dysfunction.

James Young

But there are rock and roll fans all over this continent and all over the globe, really, and we're just set at marking the planet with Styx music until the day we die.

Joe Jones

We saw them getting little pieces of mussels that got broken.

Frank Garcia

We've questioned everyone we could, ran down every lead, and we still have no answers. What can we do? There are pieces of these puzzles missing, and we just don't have them yet.

Alejandro Amenabar

Sometimes a piece of music in the score isn't effective. When a score is too well finished with too many elements, sometimes it's too much.

Douglas Rushkoff

What makes a great standalone piece of hardware is not the same thing as what makes a great networking device. One can work as an essentially closed system. The other is absolutely dependent on its openness.

Dodie Smith

The one Bach piece I learnt made me feel I was being repeatedly hit on the head with a teaspoon.

David Christian

I, and all the complex things around me, exist only because many things were assembled in a very precise way. The 'emergent' properties are not magical. They are really there and eventually they may start re-arranging the environments that generated them. But they don't exist 'in' the bits and pieces that made them; they emerge from the arrangement of those bits and pieces in very precise ways. And that is also true of the emergent entities known as "you" and "me".

David Antin

The Sophists' paradoxical talk pieces and their public debates were entertainment in 5th century Greece. And in that world, Socrates was an entertainer.

Ambrose Bierce

A chop is a piece of leather skillfully attached to a bone and administered to the patients at restaurants.

Alfred Brendel

If I belong to a tradition it is a tradition that makes the masterpiece tell the performer what he should do and not the performer telling the piece what it should be like, or the composer what he ought to have composed.

Rudi Giuliani

I would have to say to myself, 'You've got to remain calm, you've got to stay focused.'

Unknown

Here's to the new husband, And here's to the new wife, May they remain lovers, For all of life.

George Davis

They're kind of saying that it's going to be OK, but that remains to be seen,

Gerry Mulligan

You start way down on a low B flat on the tuba and you have a chromatic scale; you can match the colours all the way up, till you get to the top of the trumpet.