Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Lomax

The British ballads became a new kind of form in their hand. And out of them came the blues, a new kind of song of commentary and satire, a song form which, after all, has become the main musical form of the whole human species.

Elvis Costello

I've always thought of myself as a ballad singer who could sing rock 'n' roll, not the other way around,

Alan Lomax

We went over Lead Belly's repertory with him. And we helped him round it off into concert form so that when he got up in front of his audience, he sang ballads and work songs and lullabies and children's games and square-dance tunes, the whole thing.

Elton John

She can sing anything. She can sing the best ballad in the world. She can sing classical stuff and she can sing soul and rock and roll.

Chrissie Hynde

A ballad once in a while doesn't go amiss

Susan Egan

And I thought, I've just sent 1,200 children into therapy. I left the stage and fell into hysterics in the wings and looked back on stage and saw the Beast holding my hair. I laughed because he then had to sing a ballad holding this pony tail with this big, huge blue bow on it. I thought that was the funniest thing I'd ever seen.

Natalie Cole

It's the subtleties of a ballad that truly make it beautiful - and it's all in the way you present it to the listener.

Victor LaValle

'The Ballad of Black Tom' was written, in part, during the latest round of arguments about H. P. Lovecraft's legacy as both a great writer and a prejudiced man. I grew up worshipping the guy, so this issue felt quite personal to me.

Deborah Cox

When I first heard that song, it was a ballad but it had a lot more. It felt like a gospel song when I first heard it and it just moved me.

Ben Jonson

Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.

Chris Martin

Country is a very sleeping beast within us,

Mark Brunell

You get down there in that red zone, and the thing is that nobody wants be around him because he's so big. Nobody wants to have to tackle him or cover him. The guy's a beast down there. He's getting open, and he's making some plays.

George Romero

I like the idea that the monster is in us... somewhere in there. That's why I think I prefer all this sort of transformation monsters, that grow out of humans rather than beasts that are spawned in a septic tank. But, I suppose in a way that'd be human waste, too.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh.

Sathya Baba

No bird casts the seed on land to grow food for itself, nor do beasts plough and enclose fields claiming - this is mine, this is for my children and children's children -.

Bible Bible

After this I beheld, and lo another, like a leopard, which had upon the back of it four wings of a fowl; the beast had also four heads; and dominion was given to it.

Plotinus

Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.

Lewis Carroll

One of the deepest motives (as you are aware) in the human beast (so deep that many have failed to detect it) is Alliteration.

Jimmy Smith

Put those guys in those dark jerseys, those heat-seeking, heat-soaking dark blue jerseys.

Alan King

The way Blue Gene works its magic is the multiplicity of networks built into the back end. With 65,000 processors, an intelligent network was needed to work around system failures, so there was a lot of effort directed toward making this a reliable system as well as a fast and efficient one.

Brian Henson

We try to keep it a classy show, but it certainly is blue at times. And it all depends on the audience, sometimes we've have audiences that don't really want us to go too far in that direction.

Al Yankovic

You can try on our suede underwear if you choose. Do what you want, but don't step on my blue suede shoes.

Bryan Murray

We did not have enough depth on the blue line that we could let him go for the waiver price,

James Wright

In a pine tree,/ A few yards from my window sill,/ A brilliant blue jay is springing up and down, up and/ down./ On a branch./ I laugh, as I see him abandon himself/ To entire delight, for he knows as well as I do/ That the branch will not break.

John Capel

Even at the trials we've never quite seen anything like that, ... All the red, white and blue coming around the corner like that -- all in a straight line, all in stride, all in unison.

John Cohen

Big Blue Nation was out in full force. It was great to see that many blue shirts in the stands.

Blue Jays

B.J. Ryan is both an outstanding pitcher and person and we're excited to have him join our Blue Jays family,

Edward Fitzgerald

Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight: And Lo! the Hunter of the East has caught The Sultan's Turret in a Noose of Light

Bill Lee

Our defense just has guys and coaches that have a lot of pride and heart. They take it serious when it comes to keeping teams out of the end zone. They bow up when they have to.

James Anderson

Once you get into a rhythm it doesn't matter what heat you're bowling in - you just keep going.

Brandon Gray

It was the number one Super Bowl weekend opening of all time.

Kevin Gibson

These days, more is required than just bowing deeply and saying you're sorry. You can go to jail.

Vernon Davis

I sit back and watch guys like Heath Miller coming in as a rookie and doing things like he has done, going to the Super Bowl and making plays. That is something to be proud about, a guy who played in the same conference as you. I know I can do it because I have a good work ethic.

Andre Agassi

It would be great to win, but I have no interest in putting a nice little bow around my career and handing it over to anybody,

Walt Harris

This is going to be their bowl game. We are going to be ready to go. That's my pledge, to our players, and the people who support our program. We are going to be working hard to get prepared.

Eric Reeves

This is not a regime that is showing any signs of bowing to international pressure.

R. Laing

Normality highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal. Normal men have killed perhaps 100, 000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years.

Libby Doggett

Pre-K is gradually being integrated into the K-12 education system nationwide. In a state that has so many great universities like Purdue, Indiana and Notre Dame, it's a shame (Indiana) won't do more to ensure its own children are better prepared to enter those schools with high quality pre-K.

Jenny Nimmo

I've read up on magic, and I think it sets you free, and it gives you hope. You can explore worlds you didn't know existed. It stretches your imagination, and I like my own imagination to be stretched and also the children I'm telling the story to. It gives you a sense of wonder.

Marcia Freeman

It was very much a family thing. There were a lot of children on the trip, a lot with grandparents, a lot with parents, some with great-grandparents.

Shannon Smith

It was very important to me that they gave the gifts not only to the patients, but also to their siblings. When Zane was sick, our other children spent a lot of time there and it isn't always fun. I wanted to make sure that everyone could get a little gift and smile - if even for just a moment.

Tom Izzo

It was a life-changing experience, and other than my children being born, I don't think I've had another one of those, ... It might sound hokey, but I know I'll be a better person and American for going over there.

Gerhard Schroeder

These children were full of hope and full of joy on their way to a holiday,

Benedict XVI

These children have suffered a most violent trauma. We must help them to be able to forget the tragedy so that they will be witnesses of peace for the future of humanity.

Sim Osborn

These children didn't choke, these children had their intestines pulled together by these super strong magnets.

Tony Martin

I think I sound like a fella who's always making a plea through his music. Sort of a plea of sincerity.

Marvin Imel

Dr. Stratton also had a practice in an office just south of the post office and served the Odd Fellows for about 50 years.

Jonathan Levine

'Warm Bodies' was a more long-term thing; I had to write the script, who knew if it was every really going to happen, if I'd find the right actors, and so on, so I grabbed '50/50' because I just fell in love with it.

Nancy Mitford

Twenty-three and a quarter minutes past," Uncle Matthew was saying furiously, "in precisely six and three-quarter minutes the damned fella will be late

Scott Niedermayer

We fell on the wrong end of the stick on a lot of the calls.

Robert Browning

Lied is a rough phrase; say he fell from truth

Bob Yagge

She's very tough, she's a very competitive pitcher. We were just prepared better in that inning for her. We prepared the whole game for her, but that inning everything kind of fell into place.

Gary Hall

But instead we fell back on our heels and got too disappointed.

Ben Gordon

It did not feel like a big hit, but the jaw is a sensitive area. He fell on the floor holding his face, hopefully he will be all right.

Akiva Schaffer

You learn, even at 'S.N.L.,' that the funniest scripts a lot of the time were written with the actor, because they know what makes people laugh. It's always going to be better if they own it.

Jake Johnson

My brother was an improviser. He's now a lobbyist, but he used to perform improv in the city when he was in high school, and one of the funniest guys I know to this day.

Mike Bauer

We're holding our own pretty well. I thought we'd be depleted, but the meltdown is more at road level.

Russ Tanner

Big Dan's kind of holding it over our heads.

Rick Soracco

Those two are going to score. It's just a matter of holding the other ones down a bit.

Estella Olguin

We think his name is David, but we don't know. He doesn't talk. He is very clingy. He will not let go of whoever is holding him.

Jim Haslett

What am I going to do about a holding call?

Gary Edwards

We were just holding on. When we tried to get that push, we just didn't have it.

Robert Kenny

He was a strong person. He looked after his kids. We're holding on OK.

Susan Fredericks

I feel great. I'm the one holding the trophy.

Chris Duffy

I feel fine, like I should be out there playing. The only thing holding me back is the test. You have to remember a series of words and I just haven't been able to pass it. I'm fine, though. There's no need to worry.

Richard Estrada

So we said, let's organize this huge march of the pueblo, of the people.

John Fogg

Psychologically, that is a huge step forward, ... When that happens, you can think about getting back to a sense of normalcy.

Steve Lowery

It would be very satisfying after the start I had. That would be a huge accomplishment.

Paul Begala

It was a huge fireball, a huge, orange fireball.

Octavio Dotel

This is huge in my country. Just huge.

Richard Sullivan

This is the first time we have been able to predict such a huge improvement in long-term survival,

Jonathon Shockey

This (win) is a huge confidence-builder for us.

Ellen Stofan

There's a huge question of whether you really need water for life.

Matthew Broderick

Everything takes on huge significance. Doing this in a fishbowl is quite horrible.

F. Sagan

They laughed at Galileo. They laughed at Newton. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

Steven Tyler

The things that come to those who wait, may be the things left by those who were there first.

Brad Johnson

The only player left was Matt Birk, ... He was a rookie in '98. Now he's hurt.

Carol Ann Duffy

What will you do now with the gift of your left life?

Grover Norquist

The only whiners left by next week will be the registered bigots.

Steven Aftergood

FOIA is one of the most vital tools we have left and it's urgent that it be protected. It's under stress in this climate, but it's not broken.

Sarah Kendall

Did he have weapons with him when he left the house?

Gary Smith

Corporations left and right are dumping their obligations and promises.

Dan Kusnetzky

This type of movement is likely to see a lot of momentum. No one wants to be left out of a major trend like this.

Floyd Landis

There's one day left and it doesn't look too eventful.

Chad Oberholtzer

We tried a new lineup tonight, and it looked like that might have been too soon. We switched out and we still couldn't seem to get it together.

Andie MacDowell

I was from a little rinky-dink town - to be a model... it looked like a lot of fun. I'd look at the girls, and they always looked happy.

Mike Babcock

We weren't thinking, we were just kind of going, and that was nice to see. We looked like we could move.

Joe Manganiello

I got to L.A. in 2000, when we were coming off the '90s: women looked like men and the men all looked like women.

John Simmons

She looked like a skeleton when she died.

Karen Bell

She looked like a monk. You couldn't see her face.

Harry Perretta

I looked up at the scoreboard and we had 81 points and we were never in the game.

Lendyn Davis

I looked up and we were down 15, so I was thinking, I've got to go now or never. That's the only way we're going to be able to get the win.

Ned Yost

I looked up and we had a run in every inning for awhile,

Chris Lasoya

Actually, having a ponytail made me who I am.

Bill Clarke

That's where we are now. You take what they give you in this offense. That what we saw and worked with it.

Carl Sandburg

The buffaloes are gone. And those who saw the buffaloes are gone.

Alan Vega

It was when I saw Iggy Pop, that's what did it for me. That changed my life pretty much.

Bob Dylan

I never saw myself as a folk singer.

Dennis Rodman

If I die young, everybody's going to say they saw it coming.

Arthur Schopenhauer

I constantly saw the false and the bad, and finally the absurd and the senseless, standing in universal admiration and honour.

Amy Winehouse

I saw a picture of myself when I came out of the hospital. I didn't recognize myself.

Alexander Ovechkin

I saw the rebound and when the puck came to me, I said, oh my God, puck, I must shoot.

Andrew Bryniarski

The Saw Is Family is a great site. You can quote me on that.

Mal Peet

A sentence that clots in your mouth is unlikely to flow in your mind.

Robert Johnson

I sent somebody to take it down, which I think is the wrong thing to do. But I have to do it,

Catherine Holland

I sent out 502 e-mails and got one response.

Jane Jacobs

Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches.

Blaise Pascal

All our reasoning boils down to yielding to sentiment.

William Shakespeare

Down, down to hell; and say I sent thee thither.

John Tkacik

There is no sentiment in the administration for humoring the Chinese,

Sandi Gibbons

This was the sentence that was allowable under the law.

Amy Poehler

Make no a complete sentence.

Reese Witherspoon

awful... I was sure they were going to have LeAnn Rimes sing my part.

Jamie Lynn Spears

I'll probably do a lot of acting first, then go to singing, but I am going to definitely sing someday. So when I do start singing, buy my album!

Jasmine Guy

I have often felt bad that I am not great at any one thing. Like just a super super singer. Or the Gregory Hines of something

Janis Joplin

I can't talk about my singing; I'm inside it. How can you describe something you're inside of?

Bob Dylan

I'm not a folk-singer. I just sing a certain place.

Bruce Willis

Justin Timberlake is terrific in this film. I told him it's time to stop singing.

Richard Tucker

To sing it right, Franco, you have to be Jewish.

Marsha Sharp

Every single trip down the floor, we're going to take a look at LaToya first and see if we can find her.

Sally Adams

Every single day I think of it, and I always will.

Taye Diggs

I'm always up for going back to the stage.

Michael Jackson

I love surprising people with a present or a gift or a stage performance or anything.

C. S. Lewis

We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage.

A. Hodge

What will be very interesting at this stage is that for a lot of guys, this will be the first time that they have raced all year.

Martha Graham

The center of the stage is where I am.

Nathan Lane

I'll always go back to the stage.

Mick Ralphs

Put me on stage and I'm happy.

Lauren Bacall

I finally felt that I came into my own when I went on the stage.

E. Hicks

They're not at that stage yet. ... The time will come.

Albert Einstein

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor. On being reproached that his formula of gravitation was longer and more cumbersome than Newton's.

Ron Perlman

I've never worked with a tail, that I can remember. But there's so much I can't remember.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Rationalism crashes in the tails.

George Orwell

He would say that God had given him a tail to keep the flies off, but that he would sooner have had no tail and no flies.

Gunter Grass

Melancholy and utopia are heads and tails of the same coin.

Waris Ahluwalia

I travel a lot, and I hunt for fabrics, then I have the tailor make me something.

John Ford

Sister, look ye, How, by a new creation of my tailor's I've shook off old mortality.

Charles Caleb Colton

The head of dullness, unlike the tail of the torpedo, loses nothing of the benumbing and lethargizing influence by reiterated discharges.

Buffalo Bill

I found Spotted Tail's lodge. He invited me to enter.

Charles Churchill

When satire flies abroad on falsehood's wing, Short is her life, and impotent her sting; But when to truth allied, the wound she gives Sinks deep, and to remotest ages lives.

Edmund Spenser

Unhappie Verse, the witnesse of my unhappie state, Make thy selfe fluttring wings of thy fast flying Thought

Anatoli Boukreev

Honestly, I do not experience fear in the mountains. On the contraryI feel my shoulders straightening, squaring, like the birds as they straighten their wings. I enjoy the freedom and the altitude. It is only when I return to life below that I feel the world's weight on my shoulders.

Rush Limbaugh

The last thing in the world someone should do is respond to critics. If I did that I'd be neutered by now--I would be in the nearest insane asylum wearing 15 straitjackets. My whole career has been nothing but: "You shouldn't do it that way, you bigot, you sexist, you homophobe, you pig, you right-wing warmonger, you whatever.

Tom Robbins

A spirit cannot soar with only one wing.

Steven Weber

The GOP/corporate right-wing, it seems, never really considers the consequences of their actions.

Michelangelo

Love lent me wings; my path was like a stair; A lamp unto my feet, that sun was given; And death was safety and great joy to find; But dying now, I shall not climb to Heaven.

Pat Paulsen

I am neither left wing nor right wing. I am middle-of-the-bird.

Plautus

Without feathers it isn't easy to fly: my wings have got no feathers. [Lat., Sine pennis volare hau facilest: meae alae pennas non habent.] [Alt., Flying without feathers is not easy; my wings have no feathers.]