Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Randy Talley

I think it just shows the strength and depth of our music program. We've also had many bands that have performed, as well as orchestras. I think it's unusual a town the size of Odessa to have had so many groups invited to perform at this convention.

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.

Boy George

In the '60s everybody wanted to be the Beatles or the Stones, in the '70s there were bands everybody tried to emulate, like Led Zeppelin. And I think in the '80s you had lots of bands that had quite individual sounds, ... '80s Rewind.

Edsel Dope

I like to do it just because I like to go to places that a lot of bands normally wouldn't go, because I think the kids are super appreciative of it, and I think it's just a nice feeling to go somewhere where they don't get a lot of cool rock shows. That's why we did that run, and I'm sure we'll do stuff like that again.

Bob Julius

I'm very proud of helping to bring about the three-class system in South Dakota. It provides options for more players to be seen, more opportunities for players, cheerleaders, bands and cheering sections.

Ric Ocasek

I'm elated about becoming part of Elektra again. In 1970, Elektra was the first record company I ever visited. I was just a kid from Cleveland, but I idolized Elektra bands like the Doors, Love, Joni Mitchell and all the others. ... The Cars signed with Elektra in 1978, so I feel like I'm coming full circle.

Dustin Diamond

I like bands that people have never heard of, like Lamb and Mr. Bungle. Mr. Bungle is actually the group that made me really want to form a band.

Gwyneth Paltrow

Jack Black is incredibly hilarious. I think he's really appealing, so sexy. When I watched the movie, I really thought he was sexy.

Taye Diggs

Just recently white people are starting to notice who I am. In the black community of actors, that's the gauge of how big you are, your real crossover appeal.

Linda Massey

It always come down to black and white. It's the same thing every meeting.

Toni Thorn

Having a black president doesn't mean anything. He is not the black president. He is just a president that happened to be black. He has yet to do anything for minority students on this campus.

Clara Taylor

I think we thought we were mentally prepared for everything that's come into this case. But to see that chain was bone-chilling. It made me think back to the slaves -- of slavery when you saw black men chained and brought over on ships.

E. O. Wilson

It goes both ways. They know if they throw it in, we're not black holes. It will come back out.

Mark Murray

I think this is just a remarkable black eye for Oracle.

Dusty Baker

He wasn't all black. It was black and white, so it doesn't mean nothing.

Franco Harris

I don't even think about that now. I'm still black and gold.

Stephanie Marquis

Keep your distance. If you know someone is infected, go to the doctor and get checked out. A blood test is the only way to confirm whether or not you have the mumps.

Mark Mershon

It boils the blood and chills the spine to see a sitting judge in the midst of a mob-directed money-laundering conspiracy.

Ken Young

Here was a guy who trained and lived right ... no drinking, no smoking. He was a national champion. But he didn't know he had high blood pressure. A lot of people don't know. That's why it's the silent killer.

Tupac Shakur

I would rather have been shot straight-up in cold blood-but to be set up? By people who you trusted? That's bad.

Satchel Paige

Avoid fried foods, which angry up the blood.

Sanjeev Bhaskar

It is better to give blood but receive cash than the other way around.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Democracy is the healthful lifeblood which circulates through the veins and arteries, which supports the system, but which ought never to appear externally, and as the mere blood itself.

Vittorio Alfieri

Sometimes blood, for the sake of sparing it, is spilled.

Vittorio Alfieri

That blood which thou hast spill'd, should join you closely in an eternal bond.

Nick Kirby

It is not breeding quickly enough. It is being caught out in the wild and it is not recovering from the fishing pressures on the east coast.

Terry Maple

These pandas are immature. They won't be physically mature for three or four, maybe five more years, so we got a ways to wait. I hope soon thereafter they will breed and produce offspring and then we'll study that mother with her baby.

James Blake

A lot of the vocal music I've been doing recently has been quite clubby. But that's mainly because I've had more time to go to clubs, and that normally breeds that kind of influence.

Ban Ki-moon

Nuclear tests poison the environment - and they also poison the political climate. They breed mistrust, isolation and fear.

Rig Veda

Deeds done with a sense of righteousness do not give an opportunity for sin to breed and consequently inhibit the emergence of sin and evil.

Eric Khoo

Now I see a better breed of young Singaporeans who are more vocal and will make certain changes to the country.

Preston Wilson

When you're able to come back in the fashion that we did, it breeds confidence.

Lynn White

We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

Josh Billings

Don't mistake pleasures for happiness. They are a different breed of dog.

Ben Romans

I think it helped my creativity to be in a town that didn't have that influence. It helped the productivity to be in a place where there wasn't much structure. You had to make it happen for yourself.

Muhammad Yunus

In my experience, poor people are the world's greatest entrepreneurs. Every day, they must innovate in order to survive. They remain poor because they do not have the opportunities to turn their creativity into sustainable income.

Richard Holbrooke

The controlled chaos is one way to get creativity. The intensity of it, the physical rush, the intimacy created the kind of dialogue that leads to synergy.

Roger Enrico

Beware of the tyranny of making small changes to small things. Rather, make big changes to big things.

Truman Capote

Most people don't find their creativity. There are more unsung geniuses that don't even know they have great talent.

William S. Burroughs

Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it 'creative observation.' Creative viewing.

William McDonough

We see a world of abundance, not limits. In the midst of a great deal of talk about reducing the human ecological footprint, we offer a different vision. What if humans designed products and systems that celebrate an abundance of human creativity, culture, and productivity? That are so intelligent and safe, our species leaves an ecological footprint to delight in, not lament?

William J. Clinton

The seven principles of Kwanzaa - unity, self-determinat ion, collective work and responsibility, cooperative economics, purpose, creativity and faith -- teach us that when we come together to strengthen our families and communities and honor the lesson of the past, we can face the future with joy and optimism.

William Shatner

Energy is the key to creativity. Energy is the key to life.

Detective McFadden

I suspect they may have been sold on eBay, and we're following up on that.

David Morris

He used to take my brother, Robert, and me on weekend trips. Maybe to Snowden to hunt, or to a trout stream he knew up near the Peaks of Otter. But when he got back, he always made sure he did something special with our sister Brenda the following weekend.

Fred Smoot

I'm following him, ... No matter where he goes. Inside, outside, in the backfield, I got him.

Kathleen Hall

The metaphor that should be looked for was in Cheney not following the rules, getting by without shooting the way you're supposed to. You are supposed to shoot the bird, not your friend.

Khiem Do

The issue is whether there's another increase following the one in May.

Li Na

The first match is always difficult. I think we will play better in the following matches.

Yajur Veda

The commoners can become knowledgeable only by emulating the senior scholars who are more knowledgeable and by following their sayings and teachings.

Atharva Veda

The forest-dwellers have grown weary of wandering in the forests; following the Guru's Teachings, see your Husband Lord within your heart.

Peter Hitchens

This is a good deal, BP had a hole in its lubricants portfolio and need a quality lubricant following the Mobil venture's breakup,

Steve Chavis

We're pretty geared up for the conference. We try to produce the state-of-the-art men's ministry weekend.

Jennifer Long

I thought they did a nice job on defense. We struggled to get our offense going. The girls were really geared up for this game. I have a lot of respect for Sofia and her capabilities. She involves her teammates, and that's very commendable.

John Wiater

When they get moving on the construction, there will be 75-80 construction workers, and when the plant is all geared up, the workforce will (more than) double. All hiring is done under the West Virginia Jobs Act, which means 75 percent of them have to be local workers.

Perry Hill

I know what Andino needs to work on and what he needs to do. I've just got to slow him down. He gets a little geared up at times.

Susana Lopez

You don't have to be a Latina to join. You just have to be geared toward Latina issues.

Jeff Hamilton

We're marketing that as a personal prayer book, primarily geared toward women.

Mark Richt

We're going to make sure he's the primary target a lot. We have more pass plays than I've ever had in our offense that are geared toward the tight end.

Tom Massey

NonStop is big iron and more geared to larger operators. Linux and Unix platforms scale down much better, and operators often prefer them because they are not knowledgeable about NonStop.

Joe Tiller

I think everyone is kind of geared to go out there and see option football,

Joey Miller

I was looking at these guys on TV last year. Now I'm one of them. It's really awesome.

Tim Hanson

Jake is a very talented freshman. Our varsity lineup has some guys that will be running varsity for the first time, so it will be interesting to see.

Bill Dougherty

John Brennan is a very smart guy - no nonsense, abrasive, sharp, provocative.

Mike Bobo

Joe T. is a smart guy and he's going to prepare and he's going to be ready to play, ... We've just got to get him to relax and not feel like he's got to make things happen for us to win. It's a big game. When you walk up in the stadium, you can tell it's a special environment.

Jeff Tedford

Joe is going to be our guy and we're going to go with it.

Joe Girardi

J.J. seems to be the guy that when he pitches, we win. He's always down in the zone.

Josh Humlie

I actually wrestled the No. 1 seeded guy first. I didn't realize he was the No. 1 seeded guy until I after I wrestled him. The brackets were messed up, so I didn't know.

Jeff Gordon

He was a hard guy to hate even when we were trying to get a contract.

Ed Orgeron

He was 99 percent of our focus, ... He's the key to the game. You're not going to completely stop a guy like that.

Ben Cohen

I can get my dog's hair cut, my wife can get her nails done, I can get a po' boy, but there's no place to get justice.

Troy Polamalu

My hair has become part of my identity; it's almost an appendage to me.

Rick Riordan

The driver got out smiling. He looked about seventeen or eighteen, and for a second, I had the uneasy feeling it was Luke, my old enemy. This guy had the same sandy hair and outdoorsy good looks. But it wasn't Luke. His smile was brighter and more playful. (Luke didn't do much more than scowl and sneer these days.) The Maserati driver wore jeans and loafers and a sleeveless T-shirt. "Wow" Thalia muttered. Apollo Is hot." "He's the sun god," I said. "That's not what I meant.

Willie Geist

Guy Fieri's hair is the front lawn to hell.

Vladimir Mayakovsky

There’s no grandfatherly fondness in me, There are no gray hairs in my soul! Shaking the world with my voice and grinning, I pass you by, - handsome, Twentytwoyearold.

Walter Bagehot

The Ethiop gods have Ethiop lips, Bronze cheeks, and woolly hair; The Grecian gods are like the Greeks, As keen-eyed, cold and fair.

Rod Stewart

I've still got a brilliant head of hair, which refuses to lay down.

William Golding

The water rose further and dressed Simon's coarse hair with brightness. The line of his cheek silvered and the turn of his shoulder became sculptured marble...

Wilferd Peterson

You hold in your hand the camel's-hair brush of a painter of Life. You stand before the vast white canvas of Time. The paints are your thoughts, emotions and acts.

Scott Storch

I think it's just sad in this industry that sometimes the pressures of being successful make you say things that are untrue.

Halle Berry

I think it was a shift in the industry for the people of color.

Glenn Johnson

I didn't lose that fight, ... I walked away because of promotional disputes. That was hard, after being in the industry so long. But the older you get, the more you learn the business.

Alan Autry

Your Mayor must seek new ways to bring jobs and industry to our community.

Bobby Frankel

I want to be the Martha Stewart of the health-food industry — without the jail.

Toshifumi Suzuki

The Japanese retail industry is totally unique. To be successful, you have to have a thorough knowledge about the market.

David Sowerby

It's more and more the sobering acknowledgement that the industry is significantly challenged.

Ridley Scott

There's a big film industry in Egypt, and quite a big one in Syria, and there's a big Muslim community in Paris.

Rob Sanderson

They're referred to in the industry as patent trolls.

Bill Freeman

Just patriotism, ... No matter what went down, we were supporting our own nation and land.

Doug Miller

He comes up with a lot of big plays no matter where you put him.

Sally Field

The only thing that matters to me is getting to the work - getting to do the work. And I don't really care where it is: whether it's on stage or on television or in film.

Sloane Crosley

Going to a museum is one of those inexplicably tiring things. You're not actually doing anything, more shifting your weight from room to room than walking. And yet it is one of the more tiring things one can do, no matter how thrilled you are by the exhibits.

Brian Beckwith

His success is all to him. It's all a matter of how he thinks each night and how he prepares for each game.

Arlen Specter

I think it's more a matter for them than us because we've got ... a lot of matters which take precedence over this for our own time,

Rocky Juarez

I think it's just a matter of time before I get a shot at a world title or an opportunity to be back on television.

Steve Parrott

I think it's a matter of, that's the market.

Charles Grassley

I think it's a matter of accommodating people who see unfair competition,

Shamir

I was inspired to make music since I was 7 because my aunt is a songwriter.

Steve Earle

Music was very influential on me as a kid.

James Blake

I think the music that you make, often it's even better if you identify with other people.

Brooks Yang

We talk about music and how we got involved.

Martina McBride

I was always into music. And none of my friends were really into music the same way I was. So it was just different. It was really not very well understood by most of my friends. They didn't tease me about it - they just didn't really relate.

Joe Thomas

I was a little nervous at first. I never played reggae music in my life.

Kelli O'Hara

The 'Carousel' overture has always been one of my all-time favorite pieces of music.

King Krule

I guess from 12 onwards I was always into my music.

Yoko Ono

I don't have time to listen to anybody's music. I'm making it, you know.

Monica Crowley

Just when you think you've heard it all from Team Obama, the next day brings another jaw-dropper.

Meredith Ostrom

John Casablancas was saying, 'You will be the next Claudia Schiffer!' But I said, 'Actually, I have to go to college.'

Ted Ligety

I think it's kind of stupid to make him do it if he isn't going to be in the next run.

Ken Warwick

When they go to school the next day, it's become the show to watch, and if they haven't seen it, they've got a problem.

Elliott Sadler

I actually am pretty pumped up for the next nine races.

Charlie Lewis

He was really on us that next morning, ... We didn't start that day.

Bon Battu

He has no personal problems whatsoever and will be back training next week.

Shimon Peres

He indicated he may do it in the first part of next year.

Ricky Bennett

He doesn't throw it a whole lot in games, but at least he's trying something he can work on going into next year.

Jim Baker

He said he wouldn't sell out to the special interests, and it's my opinion that he has,

Umberto Eco

It is obvious that the newspaper produces the opinion of the readers.

Jim Rogers

Acknowledge the complexity of the world and resist the impression that you easily understand it. People are too quick to accept conventional wisdom, because it sounds basically true and it tends to be reinforced by both their peers and opinion leaders, many of whome have never looked at whether the facts support the received wisdom. It's a basic fact of life that many things "everybody knows" turn out to be wrong.

Luther Burbank

All my work has come about through a change in my earlier opinion of religion.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Power is founded upon opinion.

Emmanuil Kaidanov

It's nice, but it is the opinion of those people who take the poll.

Lonnie Donegan

My original opinion still stands. I don't think he should have put it out.

Joey Logano

If you don't really know someone, everyone forms an opinion. That's part of life.

Moby

It's almost like a sign of mental illness to base your self-worth on the opinions of complete strangers, you know?

Sheryl Lee

I was in Seattle and I wanted nothing more than to act, but I was so terrified of it that I couldn't even get myself to an audition. It was miserable.

Chris Sienko

I think we see her as a 3. We're pretty sound at the 1-2 positions.

Elvis Costello

I didn't want it to sound like a pastiche of Andersen,

Richard Ayoade

With a live performance, you feel nervous because there's a sense it could do well or badly based on how well you are performing, whereas the only variable with a film premiere is technical, which invariably you have very little control over, whether the sound is good, whether the acoustics of the room are good.

Ron Chernow

That strategy of buy and hold, which is the sound and sensible one for the individual, can have very dangerous and perverse effects for the market as a whole.

Reynolds Price

The sound of story is the dominant sound of our lives.

Raymond Chandler

She was the music heard faintly on the edge of sound.

William Howard Taft

The policy of dollar diplomacy is one that appeals alike to idealistic humanitarian sentiments, to dictates of sound policy, and strategy, and to legitimate commercial aims.

Tyrese Gibson

Excuses sound best to the person that's making 'em up!

Rod Serling

If it sounds good as you say it, likely as not it'll sound good when an actor's saying it.

Kate Winslet

I don't know why I'm suddenly playing nasty people. It is very fun, though, and it isn't real, at the end of the day.

George Braun

All of a sudden we went from the penthouse to the outhouse.

J. F. Powers

He suddenly found himself on the precipice of utility.

Feist

When I wrote 'Mushaboom', I was living in the second verse, but I suddenly found myself in the first.

Nicole Ari Parker

I have one little pooch-y stomach in a picture, and all of a sudden I'm pregnant.

Bryan Ball

I was just battling. Trying to give us a chance.

Kevin Madden

It can be done without trying to browbeat people.

Drew Brees

We're trying to be that franchise that year-in and year-out is competing for a championship.

Greg Bowers

We've been trying to play at Brooke's level, and we've been disappointed in past, but this is an accomplishment.

Andre Iguodala

I was just trying to put on a show.

Robert Fick

I don't give a ----. I was trying to make a play.

Reginald Delk

I don't know. We're soul-searching right now, just trying to get a win.

Shay Espinoza

I don't know why, but that's what they were trying to do: take my baby.

Russ Ortiz

I could see that they were serious, ... Winning's important. I wanted to be a part of what they're trying to accomplish.

Alexandra Roach

I think you should just wear something you feel comfortable in. It's important to make a statement, but don't kill yourself over it.

Marie-Chantal Claire

I like wearing classic pieces with a modern twist.

Don Cherry

I never, ever said 'don't wear a visor,'

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The key to wealth is that it doesn't matter. Once you've had it, you don't think anything of it; you can wear cheap watches.

Natalia Kills

I really can't break away from wearing black and leather!

Tom Smith

We don't want to wear them down too much.

Stuart Rose

There's no abhorrence about wearing M&S. We just haven't been delighting the girls.

Maria Sharapova

I want to be different. If everyone is wearing black, I want to be wearing red.

Paul Kuschel

I would have been better off wearing nothing on at all.