Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Culos

Now, it's an extremely big name to live up to, but it kind of fits. We had all played in other bands before, and so this was our musical revolution, where we could finally play the music we wanted.

Billie Armstrong

Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a life-style. There are a lot of bands around who claim to be punk and they only play the music, they have no clue what it's all about. It's a life-style I chose for myself.

Marnie Stern

I was listening to a lot of math rock-y type bands do lots of complex stuff and I couldn't figure out how they were doing it. Then I realized that sometimes they were finger tapping, so I started messing around doing it.

Aaron Stern

I think a lot of bands just, they sort of mark themselves as they can only go so far. They sort of screw themselves by setting the bar so low, that we can only go so far with music. Instead I feel like our band as people, our personalities, we kind of had the feeling we can do anything and go anywhere.

Michael Franti

I came up playing in both punk rock bands and hip-hop bands, and I found a more universal way of reaching people, especially with music that has a message to it.

Darren Jackson

The Hopefuls have become one of the more popular bands in Minnesota. It's sort of the critics' favorite band, and this happened sort of out of the blue for us. We didn't expect anything like this, so now we're strategizing differently about how to go about promoting it.

Nikki Sixx

I know I'd feel emotional if one of my favorite bands was going out.

Krist Novoselic

Smells Like Teen Spirit. Well, it was a phenomenon. I think a lot of it was timing as what was going on in the music business. And a lot of the Sunset Strip hair bands were past their prime and people were ready for something new. Nirvana always tried to be sincere.

Emma Anderson

Exactly, they just get some bands and say, This is the future of rock-and- roll, this band, and then they're everywhere.

Duane Akina

I've watched Ginn a lot, and I'm not sure I've seen a faster player in pads. We're going to be looking for him a lot, because if he finds a crease, he's gone.

Jeremy Mayfield

We're going way too fast here, it's not right.

Monique Currie

We usually get a lot things going with our fast break. We weren't able to do that tonight.

Gareth Davis

We are trying to grow the international side as fast as possible and this side is looking very promising,

W. S. Gilbert

I have sparred with John before and I knew he was a fast kid who would stick and move well. I just kept telling myself to keep going forward and throwing my punches. I just kept my head moving and kept trying to hit him as hard as I could.

Chris Witty

I didn't have to have a fast, fast race, but I wanted to have a good race.

Andre Agassi

It felt good, it was pain free. I've just got to run faster now, that's all.

Joel Dunn

We were 1 for 9 (shooting) in the first quarter and a lot of our shots were too fast and we jacked it up. I think the second quarter we mellowed out and relaxed and ran the offense.

Tommy Maddox

I think he's more comfortable with what he's doing, ... He's playing better and better and faster and faster.

Chairon Isenia

As a player, you feel good when someone remembers something like that.

Jared Bernstein

Our expectations have been pretty diminished. A good month used to be 300,000 more jobs and now it is 200,000.

Tim Parmeter

Offensively, if we don't turn it over, we're going to score, and we did a good job of that in the first half. We can shoot, so when we get a shot at the basket, good things are usually going to happen for us.

Fran Dunphy

Defensively, we were just about as good as we could be. Offensively, when the separation occurred, it was because we did some things out of character.

Max Cleland

Deployments have increased some 300 percent, and the military has been decreased by a third: Hello, good morning -- you can't keep that up forever, ... Sooner or later you're going to get people stressed out, spread too thin around the world, and they just won't put up with it anymore.

John Feehery

Denny is good at picking up the pieces. He is a very soothing influence. At the end of the day, I think people will be looking to Denny for leadership.

Randy Martin

DeMorius had a good night and Markie had some good, tough runs on second effort.

Jim Tressel

Antonio showed a lot of burst. I thought this was a good step for him.

Bob Combs

A number of sites have been mentioned inside the PGA Tour, and Harding would be on that list. Harding has proven itself to be a good venue for unique, significant events.

Brett Lee

Growing up, you look at guys like Jeff Thomson as heroes, so going past him is pretty special.

Bruce Kennedy

We're growing up, and we've got growing pains,

Brad Pitt

Indian cinema seems to be growing very well at its own pace.

Janet Jackson

A lot of people who start work at a very young age never grow up because they never got that opportunity to be a child, so they hold on to that and still do a lot of childish, silly things.

Demi Lovato

Growing up in America, I never really appreciated my culture. I knew what being Hispanic was, but I thought that since I didn't look Hispanic, I was white.

Bruce Feiler

When I was growing up, I, like many Jews, cheered what appeared to be the receding of faith from everyday life. The further religion got from our lives the better our lives would get, I thought, because persecution had been such a burden to Jewish families for generations.

Brian Regan

I would have been a lot better off if I’d studied more when I was growing up, y’know. But you know where it all went wrong was the day they started the spelling bee. Because up until that day I was an idiot, but nobody else knew.

Charles Spurgeon

If we never have headaches through rebuking our children, we shall have plenty of heartaches when they grow up.

Alexander Herzen

We think the purpose of a child is to grow up because it does grow up. But its purpose is to play, to enjoy itself, to be a child. If we merely look to the end of the process, the purpose of life is death

Sherdrick Bonner

San Jose was the only team willing to give him a shot.

Chuck Robb

Normally a grand jury will indict a ham sandwich if a prosecutor asks it to.

Tina St. John

Santa Claus has already been here and everything. Want to see what he brought for you?" "Is it a big present?" "Very big." "With a big red bow on it?

Tom Araya

Our album 'Show No Mercy' came out in late '83, and we did three or four shows in San Francisco after the release. That was our first experience with stage-divers, crowd-surfing, people walking on people across an entire crowd.

Norman Foster

Google has already tested robot cars in San Francisco. If they can navigate San Francisco, they can probably manage just about anywhere.

Frank Sinatra

Now there's a grown-up swinging town.

Herb Caen

I hope I go to Heaven, and when I do, I'm going to do what every San Franciscan does when he gets there. He looks around and says, 'It ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco.'

Ellen Bass

I live in Santa Cruz. I moved here in 1974 and couldn't leave.

Sergei Lavrov

We have no desire to continue a sanctions war, trading blows.