Famous Quotes & Sayings

Shamir

As far as long-term goals, one of my favorite artists ever is Tegan and Sara, because every single one of their albums sounds different. Or Beck. I want to be like that because I come from so many different types of musical backgrounds.

Jay Reatard

A single is really quick, man. You can get it out, and in two months have it on your merch table. And albums can take a really long time. But when you get done with an album, it's a lot more fulfilling.

Gordon Anderson

Dean Martin's albums for Capitol are among the most timeless vocal pop ever recorded. He was a great singer, with a unique, behind-the-beat laconic style that perfectly fit his devil-may-care personality, and made very astute choices as to material and arrangers. And perhaps best of all, he never took himself too seriously, either on record or In life! We're thrilled that he's a big part of our artist roster.

Jon Landau

Aretha Franklin's 'Let Me in Your Life' is one of the few recent R&B albums that places the emphasis entirely and deservedly on a voice. Many R&B producers have been making records on which the singer is outshined by the song, the arrangement and the sound.

Robyn

The music industry used to be able to control a single dance on the very smallest level of when people are supposed to hear it, and when they're supposed to start liking it, and when they're supposed to start buying it. And that's trashed, you know, that big machine that takes control and works albums for a long period.

Mark Salling

'Ten' by Pearl Jam is still by far one of my favorite albums and is a big part of what inspired me to learn guitar.

Rashid Johnson

Race, class, childhood experience, the books I found on my mother's bookshelf, the albums I found in my father's basement - these things are all part of who I am and will always be a part of my work.

Ricky Skaggs

These albums last forever, not just my lifetime but my children's lifetime. So it's important to me to make a good product. And when I put Skaggs Family Records on it, I want it to be the kind of quality that I'm proud of and the kind of quality that people have come to expect from my records.

David Gregory

I set up playdates, and I'm a morning greeter for the car-pool line. I also make albums with the family photos. When the kids get older and go on their way, we'll have all those pictures to revel in.

Carolina Milanesi

As competition continues to drive price pressure at the low end and a design and technology 'arms race' at the high end, the survival of the fittest depends more and more on economies of scales, or very carefully cut out niche markets.

Marc Chouinard

As a hockey player, it's one of the things you dread. It made me realize to be careful out there, especially when you have your back to the play.

James Graham

The show is going on 100% Sunday night. We have a ton of contingency plans in place -- for everything from light rain to lightning to a full-on storm. We're just rolling with it. We're watching it carefully hour by hour.

Carol Olson

The Swiss Tropical Institute will be responsible for selecting patients and carefully monitoring the trials,

Janet Reno

The most important thing in any investigation, particularly at this time of year, is that we just do it right -- methodically, carefully and without commenting on it,

Suzanne Fields

Style has rarely been either a characteristic or a qualification for secretaries of state. Henry Kissinger had his square, dark-rimmed glasses, and Madeleine Albright her funky hats, but these were carefully contrived affectations.

W. Clement Stone

No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more that pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

Max Mosley

It would be very difficult to enlarge the facilities and we would also have to look carefully at the safety issue. The number is unlikely to increase.

Charles Schumer

This controversial nominee, who would make the court less diverse and far more conservative, will get very careful scrutiny from the Senate.

Sam Mitchell

Probably 80 per cent of it (is due to youth and inexperience). They come out with veteran guys who understand the league and know how to play. We come out with second-year guys, it's tough.

Colleen Kelley

An increase of 8 cents a mile, while better than leaving the reimbursement rate untouched, falls far short of what needs to be done to help people who must travel to perform the duties of their jobs.

Megan Smith

The things you're passionate about and interested in, get experience with them by going deep on projects. I would encourage science projects, plays. Pursue science, math, writing, history - the 21st century demands a lot of cross-disciplinary thinking.

Ernest Mandel

After all, the history of the 20th century is the history of social revolutions.

Ron Redmond

After more than a quarter of a century of misrule, much still remains to be done to rebuild the country. Overall, the conditions are in place for refugees to return to their country in safety and dignity.

Bobby Knight

South central Kansas will be left out of the mix.

Ben Hecht

Once you're online and you see its power, you never go back. What we want to make sure of is that the nation has 21st century infrastructure for information for low-income people.

Malcolm Gets

Once you have a central character who announces in the first five minutes of the show that he feels whooped by life and that he's had enough, I'm in. I'm hooked.

Stephen Moore

Ten nations, mostly from the former Soviet Union, including Russia itself with its 13 per cent rate, have embraced a flat tax. And the economies of these countries are reaping their reward: they far outpace crusty old Europe in GDP growth and job creation. China, Germany and Spain could be the next dominoes to fall.

Tina Charles

I would love to do top of pops as a grandma.

Barry Gibb

Maurice would prance into a room, you know, and his presence was immediate.

Barry Gibb

He was the average guy. Maurice, I think, reflected every man.

Damon Albarn

Well, I made fun of the people in the government and then realized that even if we got rid of them, they were replaced by exactly the same guys.

Syd Barrett

Hendrix was a perfect guitarist. That's all I wanted to do as a kid. Play a guitar properly and jump around. But too many people got in the way.

Thomas Dolby

If you think back to the '70's, there were these new tools, with very few people using them in pop music. There's a real parallel with that now.

Thomas Dolby

If you're Take That for example, you don't need to be seen in the studio. But they have their own fans, and their fans would like a way to get closer.

Robin Gibb

It makes us feel better that everyone out there is thinking of Maurice.

David Coverdale

I remember when I was a teenager, the epitome of success for us was Top of the Pops in those days, because we really had no idea.

Andrzej Gaska

The roof was made of corrugated iron, more than 10 meters (30 feet) high; several hundred square meters caved in.

William Shakespeare

A hundred thousand welcomes. I could weep / And I could laugh, I am light and heavy. / Welcome.

Colby Armstrong

A hundred points is huge, huge, especially for an 18-year-old. It's unbelievable.

Turkish Proverbs

A tribulation is better than a hundred warnings.

Confucius

One hundred women are not worth a single testicle.

Mark Twain

When angry, count to a hundred.

Tom DeGroote

But you know what? I lost a hundred pounds, so it's worth it to me.

Frederick W. Smith

If you keep working at it, in the last analysis, you win. They've got to kill us a hundred times. All we have to do is kill them once.

Daren Kagasoff

It's a feeling you get. You could have a hundred actors reading for one part, and they could all be spectacular, but one sticks out for some reason.

Bill Bullard

As a regular commissioner, it takes about 50 percent of my time, ... As chairman, it's about 90 percent of my time. It's significantly more work and more hours.

Frank Barnaby

A vast percentage of centrifuges have to be rejected in testing, up to 60% rejection.

Phil Simms

The team performed even better than I thought they would,

Tony Kennedy

The terrain is wonderful from a mountain-bike perspective.

John Eaton

I wait until something is really in the shape that I want to make it as a permanent record, because I think of recording as a permanent record.

China Anne McClain

On Disney, we stick to the script. But you go to the 'Grown Ups set' and it's completely different. Same thing with Tyler Perry - it's nothing but ad-libbing.

Stacy Stewart

Perhaps by the end of the work week it could be posing a threat to Bermuda, but not the US.

Wolfgang Thierse

I see no truly persuasive reasons to overturn this decision.

Archie Manning

You can't be 100% perfect, but try to evaluate things and do what's right. If you just make every effort to do the right thing, you'll come out ok. It comes down to priorities and making good decisions.

Mitch Hedberg

I sick of "soup of the day" it's time we made a decision, i want to know what "soup from now on" is

Elizabeth Scott

There's no good way to die, you know? No way I've seen, anyway. It all ends with tubes and bedpans and IVs and I just-- smoking gets me out of there. Gets me outside, gets me away from all the--" "Sick people?" I say, and she shakes her head. "Away from my life.

Edward Abbey

Jack Kerouac, like a sick refrigerator, worked too hard at keeping cool and died on his mama's lap from alcohol and infantilism.

Andre Leon Talley

I'm so sick of mermaid dresses, trains, borrowed bling-bling, and a pose.

Anais Nin

I'm sick of my own romanticism!

Ann Aguirre

I'm not sick, Deuce. You don't know your own charm." My charm? I hadn't been aware I had any. It must be the dress, I thought.

Sammy Davis, Jr.

There are lines that I know are going to get a belly laugh, but after a few shows I get sick of hearing myself say them so I drop them.

Rupert Murdoch

I'm not ashamed of any of my papers at all and I'm rather sick of snobs that tell us that they're bad papers, snobs who only read papers that no one else wants. I doubt if they read many papers at all.

Tom Savini

Maybe some people got sick, but what I saw was people applauding the effects. When the helicopter zombie stood up, people applauded. When a guy gets the top of his head lopped off, are they applauding that some horrible thing happened to a person, or are they applauding how it was technically pulled off in a realistic way?

Brett Ratner

I look for stuff that I'm passionate about.

Anthony Weiner

You've gotta stop making stuff up.

Jamie Luner

I love playing the vamp, and I get sent out for a lot of that stuff, maybe because I do it well.

Breaux Greer

I could always throw stuff, starting with tantrums.

Creed Bratton

Ш'm not cybernaut, this stuff's so foreign to me.

Cory Doctorow

The accolade of your peers is very exciting, always. There's lots of good stuff on the ballot.

Clive Owen

I guess I'm not that metrosexual. My bathroom cabinet is hardly overflowing with products. I only really have my stuff for shaving. I can't honestly say I moisturise, though I probably should.

Adam Sandler

I don't like being out in public too much. I don't like going to bars. I don't like doing celebrity stuff.

Adam Brody

I wish I came from a more pure place. I don't have something to say from the bottom of my soul. I just know how to take stuff I like and repackage it in a slightly different way.

Ralph Murphy

We want to make sure they (companies) have a place to come.

John Thomas

By this afternoon, I'm sure there will be some emergencies.

Sam Brower

I wasn't there 30 seconds, and I was pretty sure what it was.

Scooter Smith

We just want to make sure we're all together and to have a little fun.

Reuben Brewer

Look at it. Make sure it's the one you want.

Felipe Alou

Mathematically, we are making a run, ... though I'm not sure which way we are running.

Alan Cox

Live fast, die old, and make very sure everyone knows you were there.

Bernie Williams

I was trying to make sure I was within protocol.

Jeff Nobers

We're after Tiger Woods every year. I'm sure we'll be talking to him.