Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Crosby

I don't collect the way other people do. Some people collect rare guitars, like, 'I have a '54 Strat worth $50,000.' And I don't collect the way Nash does. Nash has Duane Allman's guitar and Johnny Cash's guitar. I bought guitars because they sounded good. I played them, they sounded unbelievably good, and I couldn't resist.

Christien Meindertsma

I bought a year's production of flax from a single field owned by a Dutch producer. That's 10,000 kilograms of flax, enough to enable industrial level production. Now, I'm weaving it into tablecloths, tea towels, and other items at the Textile Museum in Tilburg. I'm producing hundreds of grown-up products!

Vidya Balan

Let's face it; people are doing everything online these days. So if they are going to watch my movies, I'm happy as long as it's being bought legally and being exhibited legally, as long as they are paying even a small fee for it. I'm just anti-piracy. If it's a legitimate way of watching film online, then I'm very happy.

Donald Trump

I would say that I bought the land under which Trump Tower sits while playing golf.

Maximilian Schell

When I was a young actor, in my first apartment, the first thing I bought was a Steinway piano. There was no bed at first. I slept on the floor.

Phil Collins

The difference between the American version of 'Live Aid' and the British one - in England, if you wanted a cup of tea, you made it yourself. If you wanted a sandwich, you bought it. In typical American style, at the American concert, there were laminated tour passes and champagne and caviar.

Phil Collins

I've bought pretty much every book ever written about the Alamo, and I talk to my friends that I've made over the past 15, 20 years. It's just a constant learning and fascinating thing for me.

Matthew Modine

I bought all the stuff, but nothing was as satisfying to me as using the Rolleiflex because it was one shot.

Jim Cronley

We were sold out prior to Ivan. Then four buyers dropped out, and we gave them back their money. And we've got some people who bought lots and don't know when they will build.

Timothy Noah

Health care probably contributes a lot more to the common wealth than finance.

Irving Stone

I slept in van Gogh's bed. I worked in the room where he painted. I saw the place where he was cared for when he cut off his ear. I lived in the jail cell where he stayed. And I looked out the window. You remember that picture of the cornfields through the bars? That was what I saw.

Zack Snyder

To go back, the mistake that Universal Studios made with 'Dawn of the Dead' was that they didn't have enough money or cared enough to make a soundtrack.

Warren Farrell

The women themselves say they're far more likely to care about flexibility. The men say, 'I'm far more likely to care about money.'

William John Wills

It is of great importance to note these meteors, even the small ones, as very little is yet known of them; and every observation, if carefully made, will some day help to show what they are.

Virginia Postrel

When I was in college, I wanted to be editor of 'Reason' when I grew up. It was an impractical ambition, especially since the magazine was located in Santa Barbara, way off any journalist's normal career path.

Billy Graham

Rose Adams is a wonderful Christian woman who cared for my mother, Morrow Coffey Graham, in her last years of life.

Clotilde Hesme

I don't have a career plan. I'm not strategic enough.

Clive Thompson

Insurance firms have always carefully studied real-world data to figure out what, precisely, constitutes a risky activity.

H. Hunt

We're using the new ultra-clean diesel which is 20 cents more a gallon to start, It's worth it for the kids.

Michael Devine

We're up 500 percent in bioheat sales over the last heating season, ... Bioheat is working from a pricing standpoint. It's 6 to 8 cents less per gallon than conventional heating oil.

Steve Cox

Most of the places around town already went up about 20 something cents a gallon so we happened to find this which is still around about $2.50.

Susan Molinari

We have an opportunity in going through our daily lives and sending out letters to our loved ones, or paying bills, to also contribute a few of our cents toward research and finding of a cure for breast cancer.

Gary Harris

I think everybody's looking for gas to drop 20 cents a gallon. It's not going to do that. It's going to slowly go down as things get back to normal.

Harold Urey

In general, exchange reactions for the lighter isotopes have equilibrium constants sufficiently different from unity, so that the ratios of concentrations of the isotopes in two compounds which are in equilibrium differ by a few per cents in nearly all cases.

Joseph Wright

I would be more than willing to pay the extra 10 cents per container with my food to make up for that extra cost.

Jack Scoville

I don't think we're going back to 50 cents a pound.

Stephen Moore

For those who are counting, that's a steep four-and-a-half-fold increase in 16 years. When state and local gas levies are included, motorists in many states now pay 40 to 50 cents a gallon. It's hard to say where all the money has gone. Clearly, the nation's roads aren't four and a half times better today than they were 15 years ago. In fact, it seems that there are more watermelon-sized potholes nowadays than ever.

Paul Douglas

We are in a new and potentially deadly era for storms, one that demands new technology, new tools. It's not enough to watch TV or listen to the radio anymore. It's a good start, but if you want to maximize your odds of surviving a storm, any storm, you need multiple safety nets. You should never be totally dependent on just one source.

Rick Anderson

We're deadly serious about our wine until it's in the bottle, and after that, it's all about having fun. We were one of the first to take this tack. We're really trying to demystify wine.

Rob Huebert

We're not talking about separating two combatants, we're talking about engaging a combatant, to use deadly force, to ensure the security of the societies we're protecting.

Tom Bennett

Ninety-five is a lot of rounds, but also having eight officers is an unusual number. It's an individual decision to use deadly force. It's their decision to determine how many shots they need to eliminate the threat.

Joe Rios

Had deadly force been used, it would have been justified.

David Schwartz

He introduced a deadly weapon into a fistfight.

Susan Allan

Universal vaccination for hepatitis B is one opportunity to ensure newborns have a healthy life. It's also an important step toward eradicating this deadly disease.

Dan Coughlin

We are deadly serious about what we are doing.

Joe Johnston

I think we've always been fascinated with the idea of the romantic outlaw. John Gotti could be in one instance a charismatic, kind and loving family man, and in another, deadly to his enemies. The opportunity to tell the true story of Gotti with John Travolta is a director's dream.

Chris Swecker

We've diagnosed the problem, it's time to come forth with the medicine.

Bonnie Houdek

We encourage all survivors to come out, whether you're a survivor of 50-plus years, and I got to hope that there are, or if you're newly diagnosed today.

Natalie Cole

I was pretty bad. When I first was diagnosed with kidney failure, my function - the function of my kidney was less than 8 percent.

Jeanne Black

(Jade) was diagnosed with severe mold induced asthma.

Kelly Corrigan

Shortly before I turned 37 and my older daughter turned 3, I was diagnosed with breast cancer: stage III of IV.

Isiah Thomas

He never really was diagnosed with what everyone said he had, what Hank Gathers had. No doctors said he had that. Everyone said, 'If he has that, then this could happen.' All of a sudden they quit saying 'if' and said he had it.

Jenna Morasca

When my mother was diagnosed with cancer, my middle school friends and myself really had no idea the impact of that diagnosis, but my family did.

Ben Carson

You know, I'm a physician. I like to diagnose things. And, you know, I've diagnosed some pretty, pretty significant issues that I think a lot of people resonate with.

Tisha Campbell-Martin

I was diagnosed with a lung disorder that some people walk around with and don't even know they have. Through early diagnosis, I'm happy to share that I stay healthy with diet and exercise.

Yo-Yo Ma

My job as a performer is to make sure that whatever happens in a performance lives in somebody else, that it's memorable... If you forget tomorrow what you heard yesterday, there's really not much point in you having been there - or me, for that matter.

Mardy Fish

That was a lucky shot for sure. I don't practice that, but I don't shy away from that if it happens in practice.

Stella McCartney

If you try to create something people enjoy, and it happens to be made in a responsible way, then that's when you can really strike an incredible balance.

Antonio Daniels

Tim and the Spurs are going to the Virgin Islands. Tim said he had nothing to do with it. Yeah right, he just happens to be from the islands. But hey, Richmond will be just fine. We're there to work anyway.

Jerry Howard

Most new home builders, if something happens in the first year, are more than willing to come back and make determinations and see that it's repaired.

Mary Bowen

Who knows what happens to those kinds of traditions. Now, I don't even have the pictures of my memories.

Bucky Covington

When that happens I say just pick one that speaks to you. Pick one that runs through your bones, one that makes you move. That's how I try to pick them.

Felipe Alou

When teams are losing, things happen. It happens to the manager, to the coaches, to the players, to anybody. That kind of stuff doesn't happen when teams are winning.

Mike Tamsin

When something like that happens you know something is going to go your way.

David Dye

We can all take a moment to congratulate ourselves here today, but only a moment. One mining fatality, one mining injury, one occupational illness is one too many, and you know we still have work to do.

Ed Looney

I think it's a devastating illness, it's an illness that if it's not treated, it will end up that the person's whole lifestyle will be affected.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness ...

Anton Chekhov

If many remedies are prescribed for an illness you can be sure it has no cure

Thomas Mann

One always has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.

Paul Larsen

People like to think mental illness means insane, when thats just not true. There has to be a social conscious-wakening around it.

Pete Earley

People with mental illnesses are dying on our streets. More than 350,000 are in jails and prisons. Most are people whose only real crime is they got sick.

David D. Burns

Depression is an illness and not a necessary part of healthy living.

Marianne Williamson

People with AIDS, cancer and other illnesses need free nonmedical support services.

Naji Sabri

the outstanding problems which were left on the Iran-Iraq ware of the 1980s and later on.

F. Sionil Jose

Professional societies are sooner or later fractured by the ego of their leaders. Everyone wants to be president, chairman, CEO; no one wants to be a mere follower.

John Travolta

I would love to do that, ... We're planning on doing that in the near future, perhaps later this year.

John Landis

Who knew? Peter Bogdanovich said that the only true test of anything is time. Well, it's 25 years later and here we are.

Tim Purpura

We haven't even thought about it or talked about it, ... After the 18-inning game, he might have said, 'See you later guys.'

Dave Wood

We?ll find out about Pat later this week and Mike?s hamstring has not responded to rehab the way we would have hoped.

Jerry Bell

We'll maybe find out something there later this week.

Shanna Carpenter

We are planning to reschedule the movie night later this week, while Welcome Week is still going on.

The Jerusalem

Only later in the morning the soldiers saw that these men were not armed.

Jim Higgins

That was Harold. Even to the end, he loved to talk about fishing.

Seal

I always used to say to my wife, the thing that I loved most about us is that we are a team, we are impenetrable in that respect.

Rosamund Pike

I remember times of anxiety, ups and downs, and times of unexpected windfalls. But my parents loved what they did. And because their work was also their hobby, it taught me that work could be fulfilling.

Paulo Costanzo

No one ever comes up to me and says, 'Hey man, I loved your work in 'Road Trip.' They say, 'Are you that guy?' Like, they have no idea. 'Were you in 'American Pie 2?'

Greg Bear

Mostly she just loved sitting down and writing.

Graham Sharpe

Whoever takes over will be inheriting a much loved position and an opportunity to become a broadcasting institution.

Marci Hamilton

I think she'll feel like this is a bonus. She's always loved the job. The saddest thing for her was going to be not being at opening day.

Tom Carter

We'd take day-cruises up to Tahoe. They loved doing that.

Garth Brooks

Poppa loved Mama, Mama loved men, Mama's in the graveyard, Papa's in the pen.

Donovan Hayles

We have to just keep our cool. That's the important thing. This is the first time that we have relinquished the lead, so we can't panic at all.

John Callahan

Going into the Rutland game, they know what's at stake. I'm not going to push the panic button.

Bill Watkins

I think it's more of a panic on their part, ... It's not natural, what they're saying.

David Morrissey

I'm no good at down-time. I panic slightly and then plan a project or set up a meeting about starting a project.

Bobby Jones

We're still 12-2. It's not like we're pushing the panic button.

Bill Pullman

I like those crisis moments - if you're on top of it and don't get pulled under by panic and fear, it's a very bonding thing.

Kate Winslet

I have moments when I'll stare at a script and say, 'I don't know what I'm doing!' But then I push myself into that feeling because I think panic is important.

Philip Hoffman

I went (to rehab), I got sober when I was 22 years old. You get panicked ... and I got panicked for my life.

Amy Hempel

I get rational when I panic.

Yahya Jammeh

Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.

Yossi Vardi

In the end, I think that people that are not willing to take the risk to fail are not true entrepreneurs.

Yancy Butler

Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are telling you it has powers. I would be a little skeptical myself.

Ian Mckellen

I don't think many people will re-read 'The Da Vinci Code.'

Ian Mckellen

People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'

Irwin Thomas

I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.

Irwin Rose

I don't have any hobbies. You know, I'm very embarrassed when people ask me what are my hobbies; I don't have any hobbies. I mean, it's just enough to keep up with the things I'm trying to solve.

Isiah Whitlock, Jr.

Usually, when you're working or you're on set, everything is very guarded. At parties, people have a tendency to relax.

Imani Hakim

When people say, 'If you could do anything else, what would you do?' I would be an actress. That's something that I would do - I can't see myself doing anything else.

Bridgett Williams

The policy they got is just a policy. The students are running the show.

John Whiting

The policy says any new schools being built,

Gideon Ezra

The policy of restraint is over. This is a law-abiding country, and that is how everyone has to behave.

Tessa Jowell

The policy is not wrong and... time will prove it right,

Gary Orfield

The policy is essentially a product of negotiation, of power and discretion, not law.

Chris Zimmerman

We're working on what the specific policy would be.

William Shakespeare

Policy sits above conscience.

Condoleezza Rice

We recognize any policy will sometimes result in errors, and when it happens, we will do everything we can to rectify it.

Lee Fuller

Having a clear, stable royalty policy was of value to independent producers.

Esther Rolle

I don't take roles I can't respect. If I can't find a reason to be respectful of the character, I won't do it because I couldn't do it justice.

C. S. Lewis

Reasoning is never, like poetry, judged from the outside at all.

Dustan Mohr

That was, in my mind, the reason we won.

Karla Comfort

That was the only reason. You wake up every day and find a reason to go on. My reason is I have kids.

Paul DePodesta

We just couldn't get on the same page. That's really the only reason why.

Frank Floyd

I think it will work out. If for some reason it doesn't, we'll have to go back in and re-evaluate it. But it's better than what we have right now.

Becca Fitzpatrick

You picked the seats you did for a reason, right? Familiarity. Too bad the best sleuths avoid familiarity. It dulls the investigative instinct.

Jon Jovi

We can be the world's AFL team, for sure. There's no reason we couldn't be.

Todd Clark

The problem, ... is there is no reason to stay long in to the weekend.

Todd Rundgren

I can't stand Beyonce. The way she sells it so hard, constantly. Everything is shoved right in your face. Like, you don't have the sense to make a judgment of your own.

Chrissie Hynde

Look, as long as we can make records and sell enough so we can do some shows, that's all I want. You know what? I just want to play guitar and be in a band. Same as I always did.

David Peel

We couldn't give it away or sell it. We didn't have permits.

Richard Rogers

We don't see the need to sell it in the first place.

Thomas Mesereau

You did it because you wanted to sell a story.

Pat Santoro

We're not selling on our past, we're selling on our future.

Tod Kowalczyk

I was surprised it didn't sell out in September.

Don DePalma

For me this is just one of the fundamentals of doing business: If I can't understand what you're selling me, I'm not buying.

Merle Olberding

For the state tournaments, some of them were in here Tuesday wanting their tickets and we didn't start selling until Wednesday.

Bill Budge

The power of the computer is starting to spread.

Charles Davis

That was his first start and he was sharp.

Kim Parker

That will be a big start all over for us, but you've got to start somewhere,

Neil Thompson

That way we have something to start with if you do go missing.

Linda Flohr

We have a must-win on Saturday, so that is what we are going to start working on.

Scott Jones

We were handicapped from the start from our own error.

Olivier Martinez

We were going to start working on it after the tour was over,

Paula Abdul

You are 16, and from start to finish, you are a star.

Mario Andretti

When you start thinking you may get hurt, it's time to get out of racing.