Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joe Henderson

I was joking but he took responded seriously: 'I would know, and I couldn't live with myself knowing that I'd only run 97 miles or whatever.'

Adrian Belew

King Crimson will soon be touring parts of Europe.

Alberta Hunter

I would sing softly, and if the people at the next table would want to hear what I was doing, they'd have to call me over and give me a tip.

John Fogerty

I wrote that song for my wife, and it's what some guy who's sitting under a tree would be singing to the woman of his life, telling her how wonderful she is. To me, that's more lasting than something that sounds like it belongs on a movie soundtrack.

Grandmaster Flash

We can come from our own particular point of view and lay it down. We should not be throwing verbal rocks at each other. We're all responsible to continue the growth of Hip Hop.

Solomon Burke

I walked out of the Chinese restaurant with a fat check, a record deal, and a box of shrimp egg foo yung!

Danny Elfman

Having ten melodies was also a huge challenge, because I usually have three - sometimes just one or two, but often three that I'm using.

Gavin DeGraw

I think it's important not to worry about that too much, because even if I was the next big thing, there would be another next big thing soon.

Otis Blackwell

I think the one that really happened was Fever with Little Willie John. But, it only went so far because Peggy Lee jumped on it.

Patti Smith

It is a great avenue because the subject matter is so broad. A lot of students have always been interested in religion.

Steve Zmak

I think the public will is going to be heard. I don't think every avenue has been explored. Marina residents haven't weighed in on this.

Doug Hall

I think the changes on Washington are positive for the Beat Festival. The streets are safer, the district offers more options for dining before the event, and more residents means more attendance. The Beat Festival has always been an opportunity for people to check out everything Washington Avenue has to offer. Now there's just a lot more to check out.

James Rosenquist

I painted the Astor-Victoria sign seven times, and it's 395 feet wide and 58 feet high. I dropped a gallon of purple paint on Seventh Avenue and 47th Street from 15 stories up and didn't kill anybody. I dropped a brush at Columbus Circle. It fell on a guy's camel-hair coat.

Terry Malone

I really think that my long-term future is to be a head coach in college football. This (move) is an avenue to get there.

Brian Boye

I haven't seen so many men wearing pink since I was a kid in the '70s and 'The Preppy Handbook' was in its first printing. You can't walk one block on Park Avenue in Manhattan without seeing refined, well-heeled businessmen hustling to their offices in pink dress shirts or ties.

Dave Hayward

I really had to plan my mornings out in order to make the commute. It was a lot more complicated than taking a 10-minute walk from Ackerman Avenue to the Quad (at SU).

Mark Cooper

The Internet is already an important avenue for participation in society.

Steve Davies

The Hilton Avenue section is the most pressing part of the project because it's a deep line with a lot of other utility and storm lines around it. We are proceeding at our best pace.

Gary Williams

In the last few years, we've had such intense interest in sunscreen and hats and protective clothing that we have a lot of patients who lack vitamin D.

Dannielle Romano

Initially, a sample sale was for 'insiders' only. It started as a designer thanking his friends and the editors who'd helped and supported him by selling designer clothing to them at extremely low prices. Now everyone is getting in on the act.

Josie Bissett

I'm doing a lot of parenting work and acting as a spokesperson. I have a clothing line and a line of toys.

Ian Shepherdson

The gains were uneven, however, with small declines in clothing and electronics, a decent 0.7 percent rise for general merchandise and a huge leap for non-store retailers. Provided January holds up -- surveys suggest so far, so good -- the overall holiday season will have been pretty good.

Chris Anderson

The focus is the music, but we're trying to make it as much of a show was we can, with the lights and the clothing and the music. It's a party.

Michael Lombardi

They created a lifestyle for people with the clothing, (and) the clothing got fashionable. Everybody wanted to be in that lifestyle.

Jarron Collins

They come find us. On a road trip here (in Charlotte), a clothing company called my room and said 'Do you need anything?' They come to your room with fabric.

O. Singh

The Lord s Name is my clothing, wearing it, I shall never be naked again, and my desire to wear other clothing is gone.

Brent Mull

There were some tears in her clothing that indicated he used some type of cutting instrument to cut away her clothing,

Matthew Morrison

I actually grew up break-dancing. When you break-dance you listen to hip-hop and rap, so I've been listening to that music since I was a kid.

Bill Sharpe

Guys like Greg and Rusty grew up as watermen, because their dad's one, too. And being a hot surfer was secondary to being a true waterman.

Bob DiBiasio

Hal was a real journalist. He grew up in a time when newspapers were kings and always kept the sense that the printed word was magic.

Quinton Aaron

I like to be someone else. I like to be someone other than myself. I grew up watching movies and being a fan of what I'd seen portrayed in the movies, and I always wanted to do that one day.

Laura Vandervoort

I grew up doing martial arts, and I'm a second-degree black belt.

Stefan Edberg

I think that over the years people grew to understand what I stood for. They knew what type of player I was. I think they respected me for that.

Bob Wietharn

It is my heart, where I grew up, and where I'll always be.

Bill Sullivan

Last year, our revenue grew by 30% in India and we hope it continues.

Whoopi Goldberg

I grew up in a time when it would never have occurred to anyone to tell me there was anything I couldn't do.

David Eckstein

Knock on wood, I've been hanging in there.

Jackson Brundage

Here in California, it's living the life, going to school, playing sports and hanging out with my friends. But, when I'm in North Carolina, its all work, work, work.

James Brolin

I don't care who you are, the pressure is on to go to the next task immediately. What happened to the days of hanging out in the hammock all afternoon?

Ramon Rodriguez

On the streets, hanging out with the fellows, there are things you learn that no book can teach you.

Bob Greenly

If you lose by hanging back, you will always regret it.

Doug Wilson

They are hanging in there, ... They are a very strong and wonderful family.

David Sibley

It was just phenomenal, ... People were hanging out their cars, they were all over the lobby, it was really late at night, it was just crazy. It was as if the end of the world had come.

Scott Gaffney

I've got 14- and 15-year-olds hanging tough with kids much older than they are.

Pat Rafter

It's a long way from holding up that trophy yet but I'm hanging in there.

Tony Graffanino

He's got the makings of being a nasty closer.

Anthony Lake

It is nasty and brutish without being short,

Robert M. Gates

Things have gotten so nasty in Washington.

Joe Horn

If LSU don't want us there, I don't want to play on their nasty field.

David Shulman

The ingredients are in place for a nasty correction,

Ayelet Waldman

Let's all commit ourselves to the basic civility of minding our own business. Failing that, let's go back to a time when we were nasty and judgmental, but only behind one another's backs.

Mike Healy

Every time there is an accident, there is a fatal. It's just a nasty, nasty road.

Stanley Schmidt

What SF can do better than anything else is show us the range of our possible futures, and what we can do to realize the good ones and avoid the nasty ones.

George R. R. Martin

If you're going to write about war, which my books are about, wars are nasty things. I think it's sort of a cheap, easy way out to write a war story in which no one ultimately dies.

Bob Hill

I don't think we could have done much more than we did. I thought they just wore us out with their depth.

John Catsimatidis

I think New York is destined to have a Democratic mayor, and I want Freddy Ferrer to be that mayor.

Mariska Hargitay

I'm an L.A. girl who became a tough New York cop.

Phil Esposito

I only see myself doing this in two places, New York and Boston.

Scott Westerfeld

I moved to New York when I was 21 or 22 as a graduate fellow.

Robert Parkes

You could take this place out and put it in New York City.

Fred Wilpon

You can't get much more New York than this.

John Catsimatidis

New York never felt the recession. New York never felt a depression.

Abbey Lee Kershaw

New York is such a versatile city, and there's always something new to discover.

Cary Fukunaga

New York is perfect for Tanizaki because it's filled with so many dark spaces.