Famous Quotes & Sayings

Suzi Quatro

My own musical ambitions were born when I was five, watching the Ed Sullivan Show on TV. When Elvis Presley burst on to the screen, singing 'Don't Be Cruel,' I felt my first sexual thrill, though I didn't know what it was at the time.

J. R. Bourne

My niece was born with cystic fibrosis 15 years ago, and she's incredibly healthy and an incredible competitive dancer, so I'm going to do some events for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

Jamie Cullum

My mother was born in Burma, but my grandfather on her side was Indian-Spanish. So I have this quite exotic mix, which is reflected in my earliest memories, in our Wiltshire country kitchen, of gran, and aunts, cooking spicy stewy, casseroley curries, a version of Indian food with a Burmese twist.

Robin Braig

NASCAR was born right here in Daytona and they can't ever take that away from us, and we'll continue to promote it as a world center of racing.

Cindi Williams

Nationwide, one of 100 children are born with congenital heart disease and the mortality rate is up to 9 percent. Over a five-year period, our mortality rate is 0 percent.

Douglas Brinkley

My wife and kids were born in New Orleans,

Mary Barra

My parents were both born and raised in the Depression. They instilled great values about integrity and the importance of hard work, and I've taken that with me to every job.

Randall Park

My parents were born in Korea. They spent a good part of their life in Korea.

Roz Chast

My parents were born in 1912; they graduated from college into the Depression. They kept notebooks of every nickel they spent, and these habits of frugality from having grown up so poor never left them.

John Lynch

Which would you rather have, a bursting planet or an earthquake here and there?

Lee Humphrey

As a shooter you can tell when your shots are going good. Tonight I felt good, especially in the second half.

John Logan

'Coriolanus' has been around for 400 years, and it's going to be around for another 400 years, and nothing I can do is going to mess it up. So, going into it, I felt sort of very free to look at it as a filmmaker does.

Maria Semple

'Mad About You' fit my sensibility the most of any show that I worked on, and as a result, it was really fun. It felt like a very natural fit.

Ryan Lochte

It felt good to actually have a decent swim.

Mark Hummel

To be honest, (LaPorte) didn't do anything I didn't think we prepared for or hadn't seen. We felt like we knew what they were going to throw at us. It's a matter of us getting better.

Sadaharu Oh

To be honest, I haven't felt this thrilled in a long time.

Vladimir Guerrero

This one felt more like it was stretched out. I overstretched it a little bit.

Russell Taylor

We should be pretty strong this year. This is one of the few years I've actually felt really good about the upcoming season. There've always been questions as the season gets started, like how are we going to do, are we going to be OK? But I think this year we should be pretty good.

Cheryl Darpel

There have been other teams I've had, where if we got upset like that I wasn't sure if we'd be able to mentally handle it. But I never felt that way about this group, even when we lost to Holy Cross. We've got great senior leadership and kids that just go out and play.

Mary Lou Williams

I wonder what an agent would do if he had to travel with the band he's booking.

Ned Rorem

So far as musical pedagogy is concerned - And by extension of musical creation - Nadia Boulanger is the most influential person who ever lived

Nathan Lane

What about Broadway? Yes, I'm involved with a new musical based on 'The Adams Family.'

Paul Morley

I'm not denying that in the world there's been some tremendous musical happenings, like DJ Shadow or whatever, that kind of thing. But when it goes into the weird thing where you get a remix done by a certain person because they need a brand name, that's when it becomes really discouraging.

Molly Ringwald

I like to say, jazz music is kind of like my musical equivalent of comfort food. You know, it's always where I go back to when I just want to feel sort of grounded.

Teddy Thompson

I come from a place where there's a lot of musical families.

Scarlett Johansson

I love musicals, I started acting because I wanted to be in a musical.

Sean Paul

I don't want to do something unproductive with my time, so I decided to do something musical. So it felt good to say, 'Yeah, I'm producing.' It gave me a fresh vibe - inspiring in a different way.

Lesley Garrett

The musical heritage of Yorkshire is deep and wide.

Dinah Shore

I can't remember a time when I wasn't singing.

Crystal Waters

I would love to sing with Ella Fitzgerald.

Rosa Luxemburg

Life is singing also in the sand crunching under the slow and heavy steps of the guards, when we know how to listen to it.

Stephen Malkmus

I never decided to start singing, to be a singer.

Mick Jagger

I don't want to be singing Satisfaction when I'm 40.

Sam Elliott

She's an R&B singer, and she got back to singing and doing nice, pretty songs.

Chris Robinson

I'm not a big fan of Robert Plant's lyrics or his singing.

Jeff Vandermeer

My singing ability is zilch.

Pierce Brosnan

I have had a singing teacher in L.A. for many, many years just to work on my voice as an actor.

Edgar Allan Poe

To observe attentively is to remember distinctly.

David White

Some still have enough time to do so.

Mike Davis

Before, I just used vacation time when we did tours.

Jack Parker

We were dominated. At no time were we in this game.

Annie Dillard

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

Robert Bork

If the children already born each have only two children themselves ... in twenty-seven to thirty-five years the population of the world will double.

Thomas Otway

Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

Thomas Moore

Let me define a garden as the meeting of raw nature and the human imagination in which both seek the fulfillment of their beauty. Every sign indicates that nature wants us and wishes for collaboration with us, just as we long for nature to be fulfilled in us. If our original state was to live in a garden, as Adam and Eve did, then a garden signals our absolute origins as well as our condition of eternity, while life outside the garden is time and temporality.

Robert Kennedy

One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.

Robert Herrick

Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a flying: And this same flower that smiles to day, Tomorrow will be dying.