Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Kernot

Somebody who can bridge the sort of BEE-related divide, that would clearly be very good.

Martin Luther

If I had to baptise a Jew, I would take him to the bridge of the Elbe, hang a stone around his neck and push him over with the words 'I baptise thee in the name of Abraham'.

Eugene Delacroix

I have told myself a hundred times that painting - that is, the material thing called a painting - is no more than a pretext, the bridge between the mind of the painter and the mind of the spectator.

Gene Roddenberry

There was much to put out of his mind. Why was it difficult to forget Chekov's astonished delight which greeted him at the command airlock when he boarded. And on the bridge - Kirk! The mere name made Spock groan inwardly as he remembered what it had cost him to turn away from that welcome. T'hy'la!

Ilie Nastase

I was always rather nasty. I was willing to be friends with the Devil, just to cross the bridge.

Shia LaBeouf

Like, what do you say? Do you say 'Hey man!' Or would you say 'Hey peng?' Like, to be with Jeff Bridges, first of all, is a trip. Sitting with Jeff Bridges talking about how to be a penguin, it's like insane.

Kenny Chesney

I was getting . . . hey, do we see a pattern here? ... I was getting out of another relationship at the time and I thought, 'What is going on? Should I marry this person or not?' In the bridge of the song, it says, 'Maybe I'll settle down, get married/ Or stay single and stay free/ Which road I'll travel is still a mystery to me.' But I realized I didn't have to make that decision in that moment. I realized I could sit there, dangle my feet in the water and have another beer.

Chuck Bauerle

I think she cracked her bridge up there. We hope to have her back for next week. She was at practice yesterday, and we let her shoot a little bit. She got hit a couple of games ago in the mouth. She's a big part of our team. She's our leading scorer right now, and we've got to have her back.

Chris Duffy

We're always dealing with the administration, and the typical student really isn't, so we're trying to bridge the gap and explain to them in more, I guess, casual terms the reasons for some of the rules that are in place.

Aristotle

Talent is culture with insolence.

Arlen Specter

embedded deep in the culture of the country.

Alex D. Linz

Every culture loves scatological humour. That's always a favourite.

Chuck Palahniuk

We're the culture that cried wolf.

Tim Burton

I'm going to put that on my gravestone. "He created such a category of unwanted pop culture - - Famous for directing unwanted cultural references"

Fran Lebowitz

If you removed all of the homosexuals and homosexual influence from what is generally regarded as American culture, you would pretty much be left with Let's Make a Deal.

Ferdinand Lassalle

Labor is the source of all wealth and all culture.

George Eliot

The floods of nonsense printed in the form of critical opinions seem to me a chief curse of the times, a chief obstacle to true culture.

Christine Baranski

I'm sad to say that stardom is a commodity in our culture.

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.

Billie Holiday

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

Adam Lambert

I try not to get trapped in any one musical or visual style at all.

Claude Debussy

He was the incomparable painter of mystery, silence, and the infinite, of the passing cloud, and the sunlit shimmer of the waves-subleties which none before him had been capable of suggesting.

Claude Debussy

If I am not making music, I have no reason for existing.

Claude Debussy

There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law. I love music passionately. And because l love it, I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it. It is a free art gushing forth, an open-air art boundless as the elements, the wind, the sky, the sea. It must never be shut in and become an academic art.

Claude Levi-Strauss

Music is a language by whose means messages are elaborated, that such messages can be understood by the many but sent out only by few, and that it alone among all the languages unites the contradictory character of being at once intelligible and untranslatable - these facts make the creator of music a being like the gods.

Alfred Hitchcock

I enjoy playing the audience like a piano.

Henry Miller

The piano bar is the gateway to the halls of masturbation.

Bill Bruford

The piano is kind of my second instrument.

Vanessa Carlton

Plus, there were so many pianos in my house, so I couldn't really avoid it

Paul McCartney

I have always adored Mahler, and Mahler was a major influence on the music of the Beatles. John and me used to sit and do the Kindertotenlieder and Wunderhorn for hours, we'd take turns singing and playing the piano. We thought Mahler was gear.

Gordon Lightfoot

My parents got my sister and I to go to church and have piano lessons. We were keen and they could see that.

Billy Taylor

Steinway is the finest piano ever made. Its tone is magnificent and its well-balanced action superb.

Lia Ices

I can play piano, and I write everything on piano, but I don't really feel like a piano player, necessarily.

Conrad Sewell

You have those songs that are very special to you that you don't want to get ruined by production. Something like 'Start Again' shouldn't be touched. It's a classic-sounding song on a piano and violins and harmonies, and I think those songs are perfect as they are.

Ray Romano

I would get my student loans, get money, register and never really go. It was a system I thought would somehow pan out.

Willie Smith

If the students see it as something they can put to use, then they are interested.

Roy Barnhart

Our students will not be the only ones using this building.