Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gioachino Rossini

Wagner is a composer who has beautiful moments but awful quarter hours.

Thomas Moore

And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.

We knew we had to do something which would really create awareness, because our market position was very weak. And we knew if we tried to do the same as our competitor it wouldn't work. We needed to do something they wouldn't copy.

We learned last week we had no director. The executive committee then met (with the commissioners) but we were not told the reasons for Fred leaving. I wasn't aware of any problems and this sort of came out of the blue. He had been doing a good job, I thought, on our comprehensive plan and other projects.

Alex Tanguay

We're still way behind them (six points) in the standings, so I think we have to be aware of that, ... We knew it was going to be an important weekend for us, and they're a very good hockey team, so we have to make sure we're ready.

Michael Taylor

We're trying to keep the motorists informed and up to speed on what's happening and just aware and safe as they travel the roads.

Alex Lifeson

Everybody has terrible things that they deal with. Everybody. Just because you're some big shot rock star doesn't mean you're immune to having these awful tragedies in your life.

Emraan Hashmi

I find awards frivolous. When I began my career, I was told that I deserved an award for a certain performance, but then I couldn't turn up on the day of the show. Then I was told that the award went to someone else. That's when I realised the truth behind it all.

John O'Donohue

The sacred duty of being an individual is to gradually learn how to live so as to awaken the eternal within you.

I used to give out Mickey Mouse awards to people. I like Mickey Mouse because he represented certain values. He invested in people, was good to his friends and hard on his enemies. Once a year, I would have our management team from each division come to an offsite, and I would talk about Mickey Mouse.

We shouldn't be in awe of people. We've seen some of the best of the United States in some of these events, so we shouldn't stand back and say, 'Whoa, they're good.' Yeah, they're good, but we're going to compete.

Wal-Mart has become aware of how they are perceived and that they don't want to be perceived as down market in part because it makes it difficult to penetrate certain urban and suburban markets. I think they want to get that middle-class customer to spend money with them.

Brian Helgeland

I think 'Cool Hand Luke' was probably the first movie in which I was aware of the writing as its own separate thing. It was that speech when the guy reads Paul Newman the riot act. The speech about going in the box.

Ashley Jensen

Nothing is forever, and I do still talk about when I'll come back to Britain. I'd love to come back and do a nice big juicy period drama. I don't understand it when people suddenly turn their back on Britain or Scotland. I'm so aware of it, and it's so much a part of who I am.

Alfred Hershey

Year after year, the Nobel Awards bring a moment of happiness not only to the recipients, not only to colleagues and friends of the recipients, but even to strangers.

Anthony Hamilton

After a while, you want to sell a lot of records, win awards and touch as many people as you can, but you have to secure the foundation with your family. I'm a family man, but I'm a businessman, too.

AJ Michalka

So many people grew up in the church, and you can have an awesome upbringing, but I made a personal conviction; I made a personal decision when I was very young. I enjoy going to church without my parents. On Sunday mornings, I want to go. Bible studies on Wednesdays... I have a relationship - not just through my parents.

Mike Figgis

You can do really slow movements with it, like zooming in for a minute and a half. The audience isn't aware that the camera has moved, but there's subconscious tension there.

Antonio Munoz Molina

There can be no better prize for a writer than one awarded by an international book fair.

Spike optioned my first book, 'Now the Hell Will Start,' and he trusted me to write the screenplay, too. That was an awesome learning experience - I grew up watching Spike's movies, and here he was giving me handwritten notes about structure and dialogue. His feedback taught me so much about how to craft a cinematic narrative.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

True revolutionaries are like God - they create the world in their own image. Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.

We have to be very aware of defending the three-point line.

This ship will have the same jaw-dropping awe that the newest casino-hotels in Las Vegas have.

This will be one of the first times ever that we're aware of that owners and wine makers can see what people like. Some of them win all the time. The professional judges love their wine and so they know they can win. Today, this weekend, all bets are off.

This was an awesome meet all the way around. Whether or not we came out on top, it was still a good competition for everyone.

Jeff Francis

This was an awesome experience, something you don't experience in the major leagues.

This was an awesome defensive performance by the Chokers. (Big Bend) has a high-profile offense and we marked up their scorers. They didn't score. The kids' effort was great and they bought into the game plan.

This was a great weekend for us and it really says a lot about the crew. They have been awesome this year, getting this car ready. We've had good times and bad times this year, but we'd always been able to pull through, get things together and get this car down the track.

The only thing the Olympics can do pretty consistently is raise awareness of a new project, and you can usually elicit sampling. Once you've done that, it really comes down to whether the shows deliver at that point.

The play has a dark side, it deals with things we don't want to see. It has to do with awareness of a world we tend to ignore and this is why the play is different from previous ones.

The players think it was two lost and I think that it was one gained. I think it was one gained because eleven players didn't turn up - we had five. W e had five in the first half and we might have had five in the second half at times. However they're kids and because they're kids they probably aren't aware that things are not going particularly well but they still kept going forward.

The phone companies are in the awkward position of initiating a service in an already mature market with a disadvantaged cost structure. And on top of that, they have to offer the service at a discounted price just to compete. It's a hard strategy to sustain long-term.

The PGA Tour schedule was set for 2002 through 2006. They were obviously aware of when we were playing when the Champions Tour decided to schedule their tournament in Cary.