Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Wakeman

There are people who think the film 'This Is Spinal Tap' is simply a very funny 'mockumentary.' Well, with Yes, we lived it. Take the hilarious scene in the film in which the bass player is trapped in a giant pod - that actually happened to Alan one night.

One of the keys of playing San Francisco is containing Alan when he gets the ball in the high post. When he gets the ball in the low post, he can use his quickness to beat you. He's going to be heard from in his own career.

Kate Warne

Certainly, people are waiting to hear what Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan is going to say.

My first ideas of human in vitro fertilization (IVF) arose with my Ph.D. in Edinburgh University in the early 1950s. Supervised by Alan Beatty, my research was based on his work on altering chromosomal complements in mouse embryos.

Given (Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan's) concerns regarding consumer attitudes this development has to be seen as worrisome.

I don't think Alan was dissatisfied at the time. I think he was dissatisfied several years later.

I don't think Alan did anything wrong. He relied on his accountant.

James Spader

I enjoy most that Alan seems to be happiest the stranger it can be. I don't think it ever can be strange enough for him.

Glenn and Alan are capable of getting us through to the end of this season. The board won't be hurried. We have to get the appointment right and we will take our time.

Graeme Souness

God forbid if anything was to happen to Alan Shearer. If it did we'd be in terrible trouble. I don't think anybody needs me to tell them how disastrous that would be.

Glenn Roeder and Alan Shearer are quite capable of getting us through to the end of the season. There is no hurry. We don't want to be rushed into giving it to the wrong man, we'll be very careful.

Ruud Gullit

If we were going to succeed as a team I knew we had to change Alan Shearer but he didn't want to change.

Robert Osborne

I was shaped by the heroes in the films I saw, which you always want to emulate and be like. I wanted to be like Alan Ladd, Gary Cooper, Jimmy Stewart.

If they didn't want to continue, we would stop the contest. But I talked to Alan and he said he would like to continue doing the contest. Brent said he also wants to continue.

Some crew chief has to be the best. In Top Fuel it's obviously Alan Johnson. I compare it to chess. We all basically have the same pieces and play on the same board, but some guys are just better than others. I can't give you an answer why and I bet Alan can't either. It's just the way it is. He's very expensive, but worth every penny.

Jill Soloway

'Six Feet Under,' for me, was college. Alan Ball and Alan Poul ran that show and really taught me what it meant to really run a show in a classic way.

I had written a tune called 'Shake, Rattle and Roll,' but the white stations refused to play it - they thought it was low-class black music. We thought what we needed was a new name. But a white disc jockey named Alan Freed laid on it, and he thought up the name 'rock n' roll.'

Graham Moore

I felt like Alan Turing's story was such an important story to tell, and it was so wonderful to write the script and other people find it and say, 'I never heard this story.' It's such an amazing story that people don't believe it.

Michael Gambon

I fell in love with Alan Ayckbourn the day I met him and, starting with 'The Norman Conquests,' went on to do eight plays with him. He tells you just what you want to know and has a brilliant way of solving problems.

I can tell you as someone who worked there, you really wanted to make sure that you knew what you were talking about before you presented something to Alan Greenspan.

P. J. O'Rourke

Charles McCarry is the best modern writer on the subject of intrigue - by the breadth of Alan Furst, by the fathom of Eric Ambler, by any measure.

Steve Scott

By the time he's done with his career, Alan will be the greatest American distance runner ever.

But he (Fed chairman Alan Greenspan) also said they're still worried and they're not through tightening.

Peter Grant

Of course, it's been a long, hard road and there has been a lot of criticism handed out, especially to Alan, and what I tried to do was do my job as best I could and support Alan at the same time.

I think (Fed Chairman) Alan Greenspan has made it all but official, we'll get another rate cut in June, but my guess is a quarter point rate cut, principally because of what we're seeing on the inflation report. The CPI and PPI have been trending up over the last two years.

Djibril Cisse

I saw the break and it looked bad. But I am proof that he can recover well and get even stronger afterwards. When I saw him lying there on the pitch in agony, it brought back to me what happened. A year ago, I was recovering from a terrible break, and now I am playing again. But Alan strikes me as that kind of person, someone who is tough and can deal with this. I told him that he will get through it.

That final round when (crew chief) Alan (Johnson) says, 'Big round,' you know it's important because he never says that.

Alan Blinder

While Alan Greenspan may have enjoyed more than his share of good luck during his storied tenure as Fed chairman, he was also confronted with a wide variety of challenges that required subtlety, a deft touch and good judgment.

It doesn't surprise me that Alan Lacy was squeezed down due to the questionable performance of Sears over the years.

I think the stimulation that (Federal Reserve Chairman) Alan Greenspan has given to the economy is starting to take hold. It's going to take us a little while, by the third quarter, maybe even into the fourth quarter, we may see things do better.

We'll be seeking to exonerate Alan Brogan. We feel what happened did not merit a red card.

Michael Morpurgo

If I'm serious, yes, I'd like to have done what Shakespeare did... to act and write. You learn so much from acting. One of our great writers, Alan Bennett, does both supremely well. When I write a story, I tend to speak it aloud as I'm writing it.

Graeme Souness

I can understand people who liken it to the signing of Alan Shearer as Michael is the current England No. 9. I'd say it's the biggest transfer I've been involved in as a manager of any football club.