Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ornette Coleman

I've had those people very interested in my writing. Since I think of myself as a composer, I feel really good. I've had lots of guys call me up. I've gotten two or three commissions to write things. I've written lots of movie scores.

Ornette Coleman

It just makes that person feel that what his work is is going to be more valid. But who wants to see a guy standing in front, looking like a bum, doing something that a bums don't do? This don't make sense.

Ornette Coleman

Actually, when I was in elementary school, I saw a saxophone. A band came to my school, and I saw this guy get up and play this solo. And I said, 'Oh man, what is that! That must be fantastic!'

Oscar Hammerstein II

The number of people who will not go to a show they do not want to see is unlimited.

Oscar Hammerstein II

What is a sophisticate? He is a man who thinks he can swim better than he can and sometimes he drowns.

Eleanor Clift

Looking at female candidates today, other women are the hardest on them, especially older women who were brought up in a different culture.

Edward Dmytryk

The only reason for using another cut is to improve the scene.

Edward Dmytryk

The film's dramatic requirements should always take precedence over the mere aesthetics of editing.

Edward Dmytryk

Technical skill counts for nothing if it is used only to manufacture films which have little to do with humanity.

Evan Goldberg

Growing up in Vancouver, it's not like growing up, you know, in Middle America or the middle of Canada or something. It's a very movie town.

Evan Goldberg

In America it's all, 'I'm gonna make something of myself, leave my tiny town and go to L.A!' Canadians are like, 'I'm gonna make something of myself, go to L.A., and then come right back again to hang out with my buddies!'

Elliot Cowan

I've not been distracted by a long-running TV show or visits to America for pilot season.

Edward Gorey

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

Emily Mortimer

I think we probably will end up in America because he would be giving up much more to come and live here. If you want to work in film, that's really where you have to be. But I'm not sure that being an ex-pat is very good for one's sense of self.

Ellsworth Huntington

America is the last great goal of these migrations.

Fred Durst

I think they'd rather us follow our hearts and I hope that's what some people will understand.

Flula Borg

I wrote a techno song after I was deported. I was in America for a little bit, but then I was deported back to Germany. I was very sad.

Fawn Hall

And sometimes you have to go above the written law, I believe.

Fawn Hall

I felt uneasy, but sometimes, like I said before, I believed in Col. North and there was a very solid and very valid reason that he must have been doing this.

Faith Ringgold

I think that has been a benefit to me because I think most people understand quilts and not a lot of people understand paintings. But yet they're looking at one.

Faith Ringgold

I'm not so presumptuous to feel that they're gonna get it right away, get exactly what I have in mind. I hope that they'll enjoy looking at it at any rate, whatever it is. And that's why I started writing stories on my work.

Federica Montseny

There is, therefore, no solution possible other than an economy directed by the workers through their organisations of control-through the workers' syndicates.

Federica Montseny

We have confirmed something we only knew in theory, namely that revolution, in which uncontrolled and uncontrollable forces operate imperiously, is blind and destructive, grandiose and cruel.

Federica Montseny

There are Anarchists in other parts of the world who are unable to, comprehend the position of the Spanish Anarchists. I do not pretend to censor these Anarchists.

Federica Montseny

If all our comrades of Europe, America and other countries, who do not understand what we are doing to Spanish Anarchism, would come to Spain, we could then see how they would react.

Conrad Hall

I want to tell a story and shape it all the way through to the end.

Conrad Hall

I knew exactly how I wanted it to play, but you are never sure until you watch the projected images reflect off the screen. That's when you know it worked.

Common

What America was built on was being able to say, 'Hey, we're going to come in and use our resources to build for ourselves and our communities and build around that. We're not going to depend on others.'

Ace Frehley

The guys in my band are good friends on and off the stage. The band members that I have now is probably the best band that I have ever had.

Ace Frehley

I don't see this planet being... they're talking about how they're turning around the environmental problems here, but I think it's already too late.

Allen Ginsberg

America I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel.

Curtis LeMay

That's the reason some schools of thinking don't rule out a destruction of the Chinese military potential before the situation grows worse than it is today. It's bad enough now.

Curtis LeMay

That was the era when we might have destroyed Russia completely and not even skinned our elbows doing it.