Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Lomax

The British ballads became a new kind of form in their hand. And out of them came the blues, a new kind of song of commentary and satire, a song form which, after all, has become the main musical form of the whole human species.

Elvis Costello

I've always thought of myself as a ballad singer who could sing rock 'n' roll, not the other way around,

Alan Lomax

We went over Lead Belly's repertory with him. And we helped him round it off into concert form so that when he got up in front of his audience, he sang ballads and work songs and lullabies and children's games and square-dance tunes, the whole thing.

Elton John

She can sing anything. She can sing the best ballad in the world. She can sing classical stuff and she can sing soul and rock and roll.

Chrissie Hynde

A ballad once in a while doesn't go amiss

Tracy Brigden

He's working really hard. What's really cute is, half the time, he can't hold still. He's literally dancing in his chair with his hands over his head waving around. The other day we were rehearsing this ballad he wrote called 'Everlasting Fall,' and he was crying. There was a tear. He's just really into it, really gleeful.

Susan Egan

And I thought, I've just sent 1,200 children into therapy. I left the stage and fell into hysterics in the wings and looked back on stage and saw the Beast holding my hair. I laughed because he then had to sing a ballad holding this pony tail with this big, huge blue bow on it. I thought that was the funniest thing I'd ever seen.

Natalie Cole

It's the subtleties of a ballad that truly make it beautiful - and it's all in the way you present it to the listener.

Victor LaValle

'The Ballad of Black Tom' was written, in part, during the latest round of arguments about H. P. Lovecraft's legacy as both a great writer and a prejudiced man. I grew up worshipping the guy, so this issue felt quite personal to me.

Jack Ablin

Right now, the transparency we had with (former Chairman Alan) Greenspan is gone. We're trying to get some semblance of which way the Fed is going to go.

Alain Perrin

I speak to the chairman all the time because he's close to the team,

Allen Sinai

It would have been useful to have had a nomination of a successor prior to Jackson Hole because, in a way, Jackson Hole is a farewell to Chairman Greenspan.

Evan Osnos

Political prodigies are rare in a nation that grooms top leaders through decades of Communist Party road-testing and pageantry. And because Chairman Mao's cult of personality led the country into extremism, the Party spent the next three decades engineering its politicians to be as indistinguishable as possible.

John Twomey

None of these numbers here are outside the realm of the policy forecasts that the Fed chairman was talking about yesterday, and the market's kind of saying that.

Wayne Angell

No one should interpret the remarks as being a prelude for the Federal Reserve raising the Fed funds rate at the December or February meeting. That's not going to happen. If that was going to happen, the chairman wouldn't have made a speech to puncture the exuberance.

Sen Freedman

Given the circumstances and given the experience CL&P has had in dealing with storms, I don't think they did as well as everyone expected. He's the chairman of the committee. I can't force a hearing, but I hope others request a hearing. Even if the utility company performed the way it should have, the public should be informed about how.

Muqtada al Sadr

I don't want the chair of the government because it will be controlled by the U.S. and I don't want to be controlled by the U.S.

Cliff Manlove

I don't want it to sound as if this is all my idea. I'm just the chairman of this board. Do you want us to delay this and study it further?

Brandon Sanderson

Authors also create lovable, friendly characters, then proceed to do terrible things to them, like throw them in unsightly librarian-controlled dungeons. This makes readers feel hurt and worried for the characters. The simple truth is that authors like making people squirm. If this weren't the case, all novels would be filled completely with cute bunnies having birthday parties.

Ayn Rand

That's a cute sentence: the years to come. Why are you so sure they're coming?

Atticus Shaffer

My mom thought I might be good for voiceover. She thought I had a cute voice, so maybe I could do a cartoon or something. And while we were looking into that, we also thought I should get into theater acting, so I tried it and the first audition I went on, I booked it. And it kind of just snowballed from there.

Jamie Bell

I actually don't mind rats at all. I kind of think they're quite cute, but that's just me.

Blake Lively

I think it's very attractive when people cook. So I don't wear sweatpants. When you dress sexy to cook, too, it's like, damn, I got a girl who can cook and look like that? And I always have really cute aprons.

Jamie Lee Curtis

I have very short hair. It's the only cute haircut I think I've ever had.

Jasika Nicole

My iPhone stays on. All my friends and family know that I hate the phone, so no one calls me on it. I just use it to play Words With Friends and take pictures of cute shoes.

Ariana Grande

I like either skinny jeans or the ripped, casual, super-sloppy boyfriend jeans. A lot of ripped jeans. They are so early 2000, but they are so cute, I love them. I love surfer jeans, too!

Elizabeth Scott

That's you, right?' he asks me. 'Yeah.' 'Cute. Not that I, uh, think little kids are cute. Just that you were cute. I mean, you can see how you turned out to be so...oh.

Carson Kressley

I love music. I love going out dancing.

Ajay Naidu

I knew I was happy when I was dancing.

Jane Austen

Every savage can dance.

Bella Thorne

I've been dancing all my life, but I never did it seriously.

Barry Gibb

I never really did any disco dancing.

Alfred Noyes

Happy, happy, happy for all that God hath done, Glad of all the little leaves dancing in the sun.

Robert Henri

Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture.

Tom Lehrer

You can raise welts like nobody else, as we dance to the Masochism Tango.

Neil Gaiman

For some, it was easier to take the leap from the leafless tree and dance on nothing until dancing was done.

Irish Proverb

A questioning man is halfway to being wise.

Robert McCullum

The start of the second half is probably the worst we've opened the second half all year." ()

Jay Frye

The score right before the half was a huge key. We got a turnover late and were able to take it in for a score just before the half. That was a turning point, no doubt.

Mike Herakovic

It was ugly the first half of the game. It was ugly, but it was a win.

Jane Austen

Half the sum of attraction, on either side, might have been enough, for he had nothing to do, and she had hardly any body to love." (of Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth, Persuasion)

Miley Cyrus

I love my music so much, and I love what I'm doing so much that that has become my other half-rather than another person.

Boris Kodjoe

We shoot 12 to 14 hours a day. To do all that physical stuff yourself, you have to be on a nutritional plan. I have six or seven meals a day. I eat every hour and a half, and make sure it's all clean. I have absolutely no sugar at all.

John Grisham

Wrongful convictions happen every week in every state in this country. And they happen for all the same reasons. Sloppy police work. Eyewitness identification is the most - is the worst type almost. Because it's wrong about half the time. Think about that.

Rodney Vigil

We had a strong second half offensively and defensively.

Rob Andrew

This is an unfortunate setback, and is in the hands of the medics, who will continually monitor the situation.

Arthur Conan Doyle

The Times is a paper which is seldom found in any hands but those of the highly educated.

Barbara Kingsolver

The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brain and in your hands, wherever you go.

Jan Morris

Venice is a cheek-by-jowl, back-of-the-hand, under-the-counter, higgledy-piggledy, anecdotal city, and she is rich in piquant wrinkled things, like an assortment of bric-a-brac in the house of a wayward connoisseur, or parasites on an oyster-shell.

Burt Ward

We found that just by the way we stood, affected women dramatically, and if you look at our show, you'll see that we always stood with our legs open our fists on hips and our bat bulges forward, which had a profound effect on women!

Carnie Wilson

Life presents itself in constantly changing ways, but you're able to accept the challenges, rather than recoil, throw up your hands, and go on a binge.

Al Gore

The choice to 'do nothing' in response to the mounting evidence is actually a choice to continue and even accelerate the reckless environmental destruction that is creating the catastrophe at hand.

Barry Zito

I can count my friends on one hand.

Arundhati Roy

We need a new kind of politics. Not the politics of governance, but the politics of resistance. The politics of opposition. The politics of joining hands across the world and preventing certain destruction.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of one's own

Nick Zito

It was tough yesterday. I just had to leave really early. It all just got to me with High Fly. I've got a headache right now just talking about it. But that's the way it goes.

Ayn Rand

A good quotation must be a complete entity. It must be like a headline - sharp, clear, whole.

Dan Lankheit

As I said, the head on this thing was unreal.

Eric Snyder

This weekend is really important. It's one of the weekends we've been working from the very first practice for, and this is where all the training and work we've done all season will pay off. We're one of the top teams heading down there, so we'll just hope we do enough to move on.

Robbie Bennett

We think it is his knee. But we're still not sure. That's where we're headed now.

Stephen Chick

We think Home Depot is headed for a stall.

Mark Waggoner

There's going to be these lingering problems. There's still too much uncertainty in the New Orleans area. I think we are headed back to $70.

Elizabeth Campbell

We just had to keep our heads up and not quit.

Ed Perlmutter

This is a personal issue because it holds out hope for a lot of people.

Mary McCarty

The way this thing is playing out, Commissioner Addie Greene holds this thing in her hands.

Mike Bauer

We're holding our own pretty well. I thought we'd be depleted, but the meltdown is more at road level.

Russ Tanner

Big Dan's kind of holding it over our heads.

Oprah Winfrey

Every show you'll see here holds such profound meaning for me,

Rick Soracco

Those two are going to score. It's just a matter of holding the other ones down a bit.

Estella Olguin

We think his name is David, but we don't know. He doesn't talk. He is very clingy. He will not let go of whoever is holding him.

Jaren Jackson

The timing is just awful. But he's waited long enough. I won't hold him back.

John Norris

What Tom Vilsack has to do is reach out to the party leaders and say: 'Will you hold this together for me and be there with me and give me the opportunity to spend time in New Hampshire?'

Jack Curry

We literally had just got into the dorms, and, as soon as we did, we were told 'You need to evacuate,'

Drew Houston

With something like Dropbox, it was immediately like, 'Wow, this is literally something that anyone with an Internet connection could use.' Everyone needs something like this; they just don't realize it yet.

Wayne Shelor

Right there, right on the curb, literally right there.

James Cianciola

That's something that's sometimes missing from academia, that kind of an idea of an intellectual - someone who is literally in love with ideas.

Ryan Rourke

We saw literally no response from faculty, which was disheartening.

Mike DeWine

This is really what we anticipated when we wrote the law,

Kent Haruf

Writing is the hardest thing I know, but it was the only thing I wanted to do. I wrote for 20 years and published nothing before my first book.

Kelsey Primiano

Everyone wrote state. So everyone got what they wanted.

Joseph Biden

He said he was 35 when he wrote that.