Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

I do listen to other music though, and try to pick up what is good.

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

These three elements are called Qawwali, and they've got to be there.

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

He didn't want me to become a musician, he wanted me to be a doctor, because he said singing was too hard.

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

Yes, you've got to sing from the depths of the heart.

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

When people start dancing, they dance like they don't know they are doing it.

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

I am not a Sufi, but I follow the Sufi.

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

Yes, I tried to change the classical style in a way that people who don't understand it can enjoy.

Groucho Marx

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.

Lucille Ball

The more things you do, the more you can do.

Lucille Ball

I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.

And even very recently, when Taliban was in office, we took the humanitarian task of building hospital, for instance, schools and other arrangements.

Joan Rivers

I don't excercise. If God had wanted me to bend over, he would have put diamonds on the floor.

Chevy Chase

I took a professional gamble leaving Hollywood, knowing I would be out of the loop. I'm not part of the movie world in-crowd right now.

Paul Reiser

It was funny to write for Peter Falk.

Robert Benchley

Tell us your phobias and we will tell you what you are afraid of.

Colin Quinn

He is very dry but also very funny... I think people tend to feel odd when I do my act. Unless you are an ironic person, it's not a good place for you to be.

Paula Poundstone

Adults are always asking kids what they want to be when they grow up because they are looking for ideas.

Tim Meadows

Out of 30 years of Second City I was probably the third African-American with the main stage cast. I was surprised when I first heard that. I think part of the reason that improvisation has never been popular with African-Americans is that it isn't popular in the inner cities.

Groucho Marx

Please accept my resignation. I don't care to belong to any club that will have me as a member.

Groucho Marx

I won't belong to any organization that would have me as a member.

After all, we paid great prices because of the virtual partitioning of Iraq.

There was expectations that the fights there, the operation there might be extended for several months, even for several years. But within a few weeks it ended, because obviously the Taliban wasn't a real force.

Well, that our main concern is that Iraq should not become a divided country.

So we are fulfilling our task in preventing serious armament stocks in Iraq within our possibilities.

No, I believe in the good will of the United States' administration.

Pakistan has made no mention of ending our tests. We have a missile program, and it is in the national interest whatever we want to do.

Ben Stiller

Owen is one of the funniest people around. He's a friend of mine, and we've worked together a number of times. There's no other person like Owen.

Amy Poehler

Sometimes in my class I have people come in and do monologues inspired by people they know and I always find that to be useful to do specifics about somebody and then you're actually doing a character and not doing some random old lady or something.

Debra Wilson

We always performed for our church, but we also just performed whenever the family got together.

Debra Wilson

I was a shy little girl, nothing like what I am now.

Debra Wilson

I have to approach my life in this way so I can do what I need to do, and do it very well.

Debra Wilson

People who don't use the tools given to them only injure themselves.

Dennis Ross

We can't have a failure in Iraq, but we also can't be there for the next 10 years because if we are, it's going to become, I think, a failure in and of itself.