Famous Quotes & Sayings

Imelda May

In a way, I'm lucky that I was never classically trained and never went to a music college. I'm just from a normal working class family and happened to get obsessed with music as a teenager.

Ivar Giaever

While classical mechanics correctly predicts the behavior of large objects such as tennis balls, to predict the behavior of small objects such as electrons, we must use quantum mechanics.

Irving Harper

With a computer, there are too many choices, and I always liked working within limits. You know, if you look at Mozart, who had this strict classical framework - an allegro, an andante, a scherzo and a finale - you see that within that formula, he got results he might never have gotten if he had all the options in the world.

Ismail Kadare

For me as a writer, Albanian is simply an extraordinary means of expression - rich, malleable, adaptable. As I have said in my latest novel, 'Spiritus,' it has modalities that exist only in classical Greek, which puts one in touch with the mentality of antiquity.

Wynton Marsalis

Musicians like to converse. There's always interesting conversation with musicians - with classical musicians, with jazz musicians, musicians in general.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.

Richard Bellzon

The pen was his voice and the page his tears, when he was done; they called it a classic

Brittany Howard

It'll help you be imaginative if you listen to classical music. It helps you understand dynamics and how important they are to create an environment.

Barry O'Farrell

I don't favour ethics classes being an alternative to special religious education classes.

Marsha Norman

Think of a musical as a string of pearls. If you don't have a string, you can't put the pearls around your neck.

Rachel Cusk

The true self seeks release, not constraint. It doesn't want to be corseted in a sonnet or made to learn a system of musical notations. It wants liberation, which is why very often it fastens on the novel, for the novel seems spacious, undefined, free.

Barry Mann

I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction.

Beck

Being able to take musical ideas through every iteration is attractive to me. Granted, not everyone's going to want to listen to that, but it should exist.

Joel Murray

I'm a little musically inclined; I play the clarinet and the saxophone.

Dan Brown

For me, writing is a discipline, much like playing a musical instrument.

Jason Moore

For your first musical in New York, to go to Broadway and be nominated for a Tony is a dream come true.

Dianne Wiest

Woody is so musical in his filmmaking. I've never worked with anyone I've trusted so completely. He won't let you hit a false note.

David Naughton

Musical theatre is something I'm familiar with, I've been doing that.

Anthony White

The police officer said, 'Drop the gun!' He said it four times. The guy just turned around and pointed the gun right at the cops.

Bruce Coville

I loved teaching. I used to teach fourth grade.

Big Sean

Kids that I went to school with didn't know how to interact with black people like that. There were only, like, three or four black kids in the class.

Bill Hader

I would say it wasn't until my fourth season on 'SNL' where people or my agent was saying, 'You're an actor.' I never thought of it that way.

Christine Keeler

I don't know if he was the fourth man or the fifth, but he was certainly in the top 10.

Denise Morrison

I am one of four girls and was inspired by my father to dream big. Some girls want to be doctors, but I wanted to run a company.

Natalia Vodianova

I raised my sister. I was six when she was born. My mother had to make a living for herself and it was very hard, so I was looking after my sister, cooking and cleaning, and she had four jobs.

Carl Sagan

I'm only a four-dimensional creature. Haven't got a clue how to visualise infinity. Even Einstein hadn't. I know because I asked him

Bill Bryson

Four times I was honked at for having the temerity to proceed through town without the benefit of metal.