Famous Quotes & Sayings

Composing music today is a fascinating business. As the technology gets more complex, I feel more like a computer programmer than a musician. But I take the sounds in my head and in the world around me and bend the technology into the world I want to create.

He's got a couple fingers that are pretty sore. Nothing's swollen, but he's having trouble bending them. If he's still having trouble tomorrow, he'll probably go see the doctor. Hopefully nothing's broken and we can get him back in the lineup.

James Randi

If Uri Geller bends spoons with divine powers, then he's doing it the hard way.

Noam Chomsky

If you get to a point where the existing institutions will not bend to the popular will, you have to eliminate the institutions.

If you're going to build an airplane, first you have to know how to bend sheet metal, and before that you have to know how to render iron from the ground.

I hadn't used the club and I didn't bend it during the course of play. In that case, I thought I could just declare it out of play, but he (the rules official) said it was disqualification. ... I have no idea how it got bent. I didn't hit it all day, so maybe it happened (Saturday) and I never noticed until I pulled it out of the bag.

Abraham Foxman

It's got to be tedious for the president. He stands there with Laura, we're each introduced, he knows some, he doesn't know others, some people bend his ear. It's not an in-depth anything.

It's probably on a much smaller scale, ... I do everything off my right leg now, as far as bending it. It's still uncomfortable at times, but it's not what the left knee was.

Lindsay Davenport

It's OK after a lot of treatment, but sometimes hurts when I bend over to pick up something.

Joe Girardi

It's always one or two innings that seem to get us. You have to learn to bend a little but not break, and we haven't figured out how to do that yet.

Anne Michaels

Certain things can't be approximated, so I'm always interested in getting in another way, one which makes the reader bend in closer to the scene even if that scene, especially if that scene, is painful... Brutal language isn't necessarily the most truthful way of describing a brutal moment.

Justin Williams

I remember getting pushed in and bending over and looking in, and the puck was in the net. It was a tough break. It was a turning point in the game.

I'll show you how to bend that to make it into something.

I know for me sometimes I may get a hand on him, but by him being shorter I may lose him because I've got to bend down. Plus, he's so explosive in and out of his breaks - he gets on top of you so fast, he gets that step on you. Then he has great jumping ability, and he's fearless.

Because there is a lot of footwork involved, you tighten your stomach muscles. You're bending at the knee. Back erect, and that enables you to move your heels.

We wanted it to be an updated version of Sinatra and Darin's type of music, ... We wanted to give a little more of a youthful bend to it, because I think there are a lot of young people that would be interested in this music.

David Mitchell

The state of childhood resonates with life inside a fantasy novel. If you have no control over how you spend large chunks of your day, or are at the mercy of flawed giant beings, then the desire to bend the laws of the world by magic is strong and deep.

This bull has shown us for more than seven years that when it pulls back it bends a little but doesn't break. You get a small price discount and buyers come right back in. And that's the sign of a bull market that has plenty of life left in it.

Henry David Thoreau

This American government -- what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but each instant losing some of its integrity? It has not the vitality and force of a single living man; for a single man can bend it to his will.

Marie Windsor

Raft told me how to walk with him in a scene: We'd start off in a long shot normal, and about the time we got together in a close-up, I'd be bending my knees so I'd be shorter.

It was bend but don't break tonight. We made the plays when we had to and that's why we won.

It's a real mind game. There are so many crevices, bends and directions in the play, ... There are two themes: The knife-edge relationship between revenge and redemption and the duality of natures that you can have within one person.

Uri Geller

If I am looking for something, for example a lost sunken submarine, I just hold my hands over the map and focus on the submarine until I feel a magnetic pull towards the location. To double check, I fly over the area. There is no deep concentration or meditation involved. I can talk, cycle or do other things at the same time. When I bend a spoon I just stroke the spoon gently and talk to it-bend, bend-and it bends.

All I know is I could bend for two hours.

Jeff Buckley

All flowers in time bend towards the sun, I know you say theres no one for you, But here is one

The light wave is then reflected off the back of the raindrop's surface and bends as it goes outward at different angles.

Emily Bronte

It was not the thorn bending to the honeysuckles, but the honeysuckles embracing the thorn.

The kids bend but don't break. They find ways to either force turnovers or stop them.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

There is another bend in the road after this. No one knows what will happen.

Sandra Bullock

I will do comedy until the day I die: inappropriate comedy, funny comedy, gender-bending, twisting comedy, whatever comedy is out there.