Famous Quotes & Sayings

I think when I began, I played distortion more than the guitar. The results of my strumming. Now I play the twang of the string, which is a lot closer to the source of the sound making.

I don't like giving names to generations. It's like trying to read the song title on a record that's spinning.

Now and then, I had moments of greatness, but I never knew how to duplicate it consistently.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

We have to believe in free-will. We've got no choice.

Ian Mckellen

The battle going on over gay marriage in America reveals an awful lot. The Bible belt - people hate gay people. Because the Bible tells them? No, the Bible tells them an awful lot of things that they ignore.

Ian McLagan

The Small Faces are thought to be a one-hit wonder in America because we only had 'Itchycoo Park.' Then the Faces just had 'Stay with Me.' So both bands could be considered one-hit wonders in America, even though we had several huge hits in England.

Calvin Klein

You don't only worry about the people who hate or resent you; in a way, you're more worried about the people who love you.

Caleb Carr

I feel horribly vindicated. Three thousand people died who didn't have to die.

Caleb Carr

I'm still a firm believer that we were definitely put here to use our minds, and that is what makes us different. And that that's the key. If there is anything that is going to stop mankind from being such a beastly, destructive creature, it is reason.

Charles Kettering

My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.

Charles Krauthammer

Newt Gingrich had to work hard - getting Republican candidates to sign the Contract with America - to nationalize the election that swept Republicans to victory in 1994. A Democratic anti-Tea Party campaign would do that for the Republicans - nationalize the election, gratis - in 2010.

Charles Dudley Warner

There was never a nation great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help.

Charles Horton Cooley

The general fact is that the most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization and social control is, at the same time, organized co-operation.

Ian MacKaye

What I find interesting as a 40-year-old is the idea of trying to be a part of a pronounced, continuing independent culture. The basic tenet of America is that you rebel and then you get real.

Gene Sarazen

I don't care what you say about me. Just spell the name right.

Gaylord Perry

I'd always have grease in at least two places, in case the umpires would ask me to wipe one off. I never wanted to be caught out there with anything though, it wouldn't be professional.

Eric Braeden

America has the best athletic programs. Even when the Soviet Union existed, that was Mickey Mouse compared to the U.S.

Earl Monroe

Maybe someone will step up, but they don't have anyone right now.

Earl Monroe

One of my other nicknames was Thomas Edison, because I invented so many moves.

Eddie Huang

I don't think people in America understand race, and how deep the hooks of whiteness there are in our consciousness.

Eddie Huang

Sundays are for Dim Sum. While the rest of America goes to church, Sunday School, or NFL games, you can find Chinese people eating Cantonese food.

Edgar Winter

I hadn't realized the number of people that are still interested in listening to what I am doing, people I would never know about if not for being online.

Luke Scott

There's no one here in America swimming the Pacific Ocean - or the Atlantic, or the Caribbean - to leave this place. The reason why is because of the freedom. Freedom for a man to mark out his own destiny. It's not, 'Hey, you have so much.'

Edward Gorey

I just kind of conjured them up out of my subconscious and put them in order of ascending peculiarity.

Edward Hopper

Maybe I am not very human - what I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.

J. Paul Getty

My love of fine art increased - the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see.

Jack London

I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

James Thurber

It is better to have loafed and lost, than never to have loafed at all.

James Lane Allen

You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.

Andrew Wyeth

One's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes.

Andrew Carnegie

No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.

Garth Brooks

Don't change a thing. That's one of the best gimmicks a band could ever come up with.

Gamaliel Bailey

The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself.