Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bela Fleck

It was a very ambitious trip. I have to say, to my surprise, all of our ambitions were fulfilled. All of the musicians we were going down there to record with, we recorded with?I've edited about nine or 10 songs down from the trip, and the stuff is really, really unusual and special. It far exceeds what I hoped for in sort of the refined qualities of it. I thought it might just sort of be rough stuff out in the woods. But ? some of this stuff is just amazingly fine, fine stuff.

Robert Frost

The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.

Chuck Hogan

Anything you can do to stay organized and free up the creative side of your brain is a good thing.

Heather Janik

I've been racking my brain on this (issue).

Brian Billick

So I hear they call you 'The Freak' Wow, that's quite a coincidence. They call me 'The Brain.'

Bruce Barton

If you want to know if your brain is flabby, feel your legs.

Edsger Dijkstra

Programming in Basic causes brain damage.

Deepak Chopra

Our brains are too slow to register that every concrete object is winking in and out of existence at the quantum level thousands of times per second.

Dr. Prettyman

You brain has to work and it helps a recent study showed this type of exercise helps combat something like Alzheimer's. The veteran's 40-plus group is the fastest growing category in the country.

Lord Byron

Every sense hath been o'erstrung, and each frail fibre of the brain sent forth her thoughts all wild and wide

Frank Tursi

The sites are chosen to capture a variety of land uses.

Ken Bacon

These men should be freed. They should not have been captured in the first place. And to the extent they're still there, that's regrettable.

John Stumpf

Star performers are my favorite to manage and lead. Star performers are critical to any organization, and the key is how can you capture their heart-share and their mind-share when they're on this fast track.

Joan Ark

I do remember that TV Guide did a quote that the three of us can be compared to Earth, Wind and Fire. Michele was the Earth, I was the Wind and Donna was the Fire. I think that really captured it.

Jerome Bettis

I really think it is great that my mother and my father are able to capture a moment for themselves. Thirteen years following me around this great country of ours, they deserve it.

Ted Clark

You want to capture messages in the way you think.

Chris Sanders

Stitch was a villain who would get to be a hero. But after our first screening we knew there had to be a reason why this creature makes that change. There had to be something about Lilo that captures Stitch's imagination.

Clay Owen

It shows the simplicity of the product, the energy of the product and it captures the youthful feeling of the product. It's completing the circle between the TV broadcasts and the online experience.

Jesse McCartney

All the emotions that you go through in the middle of a tour and they're going to try and capture it all on tape.

Will Rogers

There is not a man in the country that can't make a living for himself and his family. But he can't make a living for them AND the government, too, the way his government is living. What the government has got to do is live as cheap as the people.

Patrick O'Brien

Farm work is hard work, and a lot of folks just don't want to do it at any wage. This is not about cheap labor.

Toby Hall

If this organization is so cheap they gave him $5.8 million contract, didn't they? All I know is, you look at a lot of these veteran guys in the league, I don't think they ever said that about the Rays.

Frank Gong

Cheap labor, that's the only one. They don't have anything else.

Raul Ibanez

I didn't even know that was a steal. It's a cheap steal.

Peter Smith

I didn't realize how fast and cheap it was going to get,

Michael Bastian

Men's wear is a game of millimeters. You can find really cheap stuff out there, but you'll never wear it.

Ben Ross

My initial reaction was that they were putting us in the cheap seats, so they could give the good seats to the people who make big donations.

Art Alexakis

I saw Cheap Trick play 'In Color,' and it was awesome.

Bobby Fischer

I give 98 percent of my mental energy to Chess Others give only 2 percent

Alexander Alekhine

Chess is not only knowledge and logic

Justin Gatlin

I knew Tyson gets out very fast, and Wallace comes on strong at the end. I had to make sure I was patient throughout the whole race. I was pawning, playing chess with the guys.

Ray Emery

As an athlete, you have confidence in yourself all the time. I didn't really realize I was going to play this long.

Laura Harper

Our confidence in overtime is out of this world.

Bob Kummer

Developmentally, we still are growing. We still need to learn how to play together and gain confidence together. But we are more hungry and knowledgeable, I think, this year.

Kelly Scott

It was the only shot to make and we made it perfectly. We saw that spot a couple of times earlier in the game so we had pretty good confidence on how it would react. We had luck on our side with the way it reacted.

E. O. Wilson

This gives us a lot more confidence in knowing we can do things.

Michael Turner

This gives people confidence that there are a lot of terrestrial planets which have not yet been discovered.

Mark Bode

This gives people confidence in the results. There's no hand waving in the background. It is what it is.

Marcus Vick

This gives our guys a lot of confidence, by getting two wins in other people's stadiums. It's going to be big when we go back home (this) week.

Jimmy Page

This gives me a lot of confidence in myself. I'm excited, and I can't wait for the years to come.

Miles D. White

People come to a company like Abbott sometimes and think, 'It's so big, I can't make a difference.' I think just the opposite. I think everybody can make a difference.

Kevin Cox

Southwest has made it well known to everybody they're going to push this matter,

Matthew Ashford

The fact is, it was a big show. We were a part of that show. Everybody watches for different reasons. There were some people who were tuning in that day to see what was going on with other characters.

Joe Torre

Don't even think that. Everybody should have your heart.

Bill Ryan

During the mall plan, everybody was looking at the money. In this plan, because of what happened in the mall exercise, people were looking at the impacts . . . and whether they could be mitigated.

Alain Vigneault

Flats is the guy and everybody knows that.

Rob Rang

Five years from now, Vince Young might be the player everybody talks about in this draft, even more so than Reggie Bush.

Steve DeAngelis

We have done a lot of running and Tuesday we were out on the lake. After last week though, everybody is going to be left with nothing to ski on, so we are going to have to see what happens.

Mark Turgeon

We have done a lot of nice things here in our first six years. We have gotten better every year. We have won a lot of league games. We learned how to win on the road. We've won a league championship. Now we need to figure out how to play well in St. Louis. Creighton has figured that out. That's why everybody knows who Creighton is.

Bruce Slatten

We got out by 10-12 points, but couldn't expand on that.

Chris Byrne

If it's a way of expanding toys into a year-long business, then electronics and furnishings make sense,

Dave McAlindin

Because we were able to do what we did, Universal Foods was able to expand here rather than in Grand Rapids.

Sam Carroll

He gave me support to expand the idea.

Zac Wright

In its first six months, it has already grown from five schools to 11. The program was started six months ago with the intention of expanding it, and that's already been happening.

Evan Steinberg

This is a lot more than a T-shirt company. We want to expand from our Web store to small boutiques and some national retail chains, but that's not the end goal. We're really trying to push the educational side of what we're doing.

Richard Rippe

It means manufacturing is expanding sluggishly and that's probably about what we want.

Warren Christopher

You know, it's been President Clinton's dream that we'll have finally a fully integrated Europe; and the steps that NATO will take to expand to the East, that's a commitment.

James Blankenship

We had to start expanding our offense. We had been too simple for too long, and we had to open ourselves up. We felt like this was a very important game for us.

Michael Butler

The stakes are much higher than they used to be.

Fadel Gheit

Oil prices, ... are probably going to go over $26, which will mark the highest level outside the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990.

Matt Rosoff

Some versions of the product are priced higher than they need to be.

Shawnee Smith

So much of life is just talk. At the end of the day, you're just serving the higher thing.

Fadel Gheit

These stocks are not reflecting $50 or $60 oil. They are probably reflecting $40 oil. But this is not realistic. The fundamentals support a higher price.

Curtis Armstrong

I've been going to this high school for 7 and 1/2 years, I'm no dummy.

Don Bowers

The worse the hurricane does to us, the higher the prices are going to go.

Lysle Brinker

This is a tax story. What we don't know is how long the higher tax rate will be sustained going forward.

Dave Duncan

The way we've played the last three months hasn't been up to our capabilities, ... We have higher expectations with the players we have. We should be performing better.

Jane Campion

I feel that directors at times are like the janitors on the set. I am the secretary, I am the organizer, I am the maid, and I ask if they have eaten or rested. The best things are always out of your control. It's those moments that surpass the imagination that are thrilling.

Alfred Nobel

Justice is to be found only in the imagination.

Albert Einstein

Imagination is stronger than knowledge.

Donald Sutherland

To them though, not to us, we were just a catalyst for their imagination.

Colleen McCullough

In The Touch, the love scenes are the same as they were in The Thorn Birds or anything else Ive ever written. I find a way of saying that either it was heaven or hell but in a way that still leaves room for the reader to use their own imagination.

Derek Walcott

The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.

Christopher Moore

Faith isn't an act of intelligence, it's an act of imagination.

Anne Bancroft

It's really important that, as women, we tell our stories. That is what helps seed our imaginations.

Andrew Bird

I don't like super-descriptive modern fiction. I like, "Here's what was happening in 1582 all over the planet." Then that gets my imagination going.

Thomas Steg

The motive for this kidnapping is totally open.

Tom Stern

It was tough for every wrestler to get through (to state). There are a lot of kids that aren't going who could be.

Brian Idalski

This is special because it's my alma mater and being to be a part and have that success here. We didn't get here because I'm a genius. This is a players' accomplishment and a testament to the kids we've had play here.

Bow Wow

My fans saw 'Roll Bounce,' but also that older crowd who might not have been familiar with me on the music tip saw 'Roll Bounce' and loved it. 'Roll Bounce' opened up that door for me to have older people love Bow Wow and opened up that door so all of the kids would love Bow Wow. My fan base is really diverse; it's all ages and all colors.

Jason Dominick

This win is a real tribute to our kids. We lost a lot from last season's team and these kids really put in the time during the summer in order to get back to this point.

Brad Goreski

I was a little chubby, rosy-cheeked kid.

Tori Kelly

Nineties hip-hop was a big influence for me; it still is. I love '90s everything. And it's when I was born, too. I'm a '90s kid for sure.

Teresita Sy-Coson

I learned by example. ...As a kid you think you are just the same as other adults.

Butch Cassidy

Kid, the next time I say let's go someplace like Bolivia. Let's go someplace like Bolivia.

Jack Ma

When I was 12 years old, I got interested in learning English.

William Shakespeare

And simple truth miscalled simplicity

Rita Mae Brown

Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.

Steve Jobs

Learn continually - there's always "one more thing" to learn!

Pharrell Williams

From a programmer's point of view, the user is a peripheral that types when you issue a read request.

Charles Howell

I don't know how to do it, never have, and don't plan on learning. I just don't understand it.

John Burnside

I remember when I first encountered anthropocentrism. I was in primary school and, in preparation for our confirmation, the class was learning about the afterlife.

Michelle Young

Some of our players will only have been with us a day, so it should be a real learning experience,

Dennis Long

I'm still learning them as much as they're learning me.

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.

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.

Brian Cox

An explorer of the universe is sexier than a musician.

Branford Marsalis

You don't know what you like, you like what you know. In order to know what you like, you have to know everything.

Billie Holiday

I've been told that nobody sings the word 'hunger' like I do.

Bono

If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It's a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires songwriting.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Genius is its own reward; for the best that one is, one must necessarily be for oneself. . . . Further, genius consists in the working of the free intellect., and as a consequence the productions of genius serve no useful purpose. The work of genius may be music, philosophy, painting, or poetry; it is nothing for use or profit. To be useless and unprofitable is one of the characteristics of genius; it is their patent of nobility.

Bruce Beresford

It is essential to do everything possible to attract young people to opera so they can see that it is not some antiquated art form but a repository of the most glorious music and drama that man has created.

Jane Austen

I was quiet but I was not blind.

Tommy Bond

We didn't talk about it. It was real quiet in the dugout.

Ang Lee

If the movie is quiet I generally feel the audience is busy. That's when they're working.

John Owen

Sin is never less quiet than when it seems to be most quiet.

Martin Yan

I enjoy the quiet life.

George Henry Lewes

Speak for yourself and from yourself, or be silent.

Zig Ziglar

Take time to be quiet.

Julia Quinn

Just be quiet and accept the praise.

Marquis de Sade

Now I beg of you to tell me whether I must love a human being simply because he exists or resembles me and whether for those reasons alone I must suddenly prefer him to myself?

I. Stone

You want a reasonable standard so you can receive and send help.

Aristotle

If something's bound to happen, it will happen.. Right time, right person, and for the best reason.

Philippe Lopez

There's no reason we can't be in the top 20.

Irwin Schiff

There's no reason to put me in jail.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.

Debbi Fields

We are here for a reason. We all have a gift or gifts to share.

Clifton Fadiman

The only reason for being young is to outgrow it.

Andre Gide

Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.

Anne Fortier

Janice used to say that instinct was reason in a hurry; I was not so sure about the reason part.

Ashton Eaton

I want to see where I measure up against everyone in the world and everyone who has ever competed in the sport, and there's that innate sense of wanting to challenge myself. I'm competitive in all aspects.

Arthur Ashe

My potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic identity.

Jamie Foxx

I've been a sports fan all my life, and like most other actors, I'm convinced I could have been a pro athlete if Hollywood hadn't come calling.

Carroll Shelby

In 1964, when Lee Iacocca said, 'Shelby, I want you to make a sports car out of the Mustang,' the first thing I said was, 'Lee, you can't make a race horse out of a mule. I don't want to do it.' He said, 'I didn't ask you to make it; you work for me.'

Charles Barkley

There's nobody you'd rather beat than your good friend.

Jason Collins

I'm a 34-year-old NBA center. I'm black. And I'm gay. I didn't set out to be the first openly gay athlete playing in a major American team sport. But since I am, I'm happy to start the conversation. I wish I wasn't the kid in the classroom raising his hand and saying, 'I'm different.' If I had my way, someone else would have already done this. Nobody has, which is why I'm raising my hand.

Craig Johnston

It used to be standard practice that the pre-match meal consisted of egg, steak and chicken. But I talked them into changing to complex carbohydrates. So now they will sup on porridge, pasta or rice.

Conor McGregor

I always think street but train sport.

Ricky Gervais

I no longer needed a reason for my existence, just a reason to live. And imagination, free will, love, humor, fun, music, sports, beer, and pizza are all good enough reasons for living. But living an honest life - for that you need the truth.