Famous Quotes & Sayings

Neil Peart

Our songs were not written to be listened to in headphones or on the radio. They were written to be played. All of the little infinite detail that went into the arrangements and giving ourselves lots of breathing room in terms of playing what we wanted to play and using up any ideas that we had - all of those were conceived to be performed.

Nick Goepper

The inclusion of slope style in the Olympics is cool. I think it's going to be a total breath of fresh air. The Olympics needs us more than we need it.

Maggie Q

I, Maggie, personally cannot tell you that you're going to save the planet. But what I do know is that we can draw a line to an issue that can conserve what we already have and what's left in a way that we can actually breathe the air, drink the water, actually grow things in soil - that matters in a real, practical way.

We're going to eat, sleep, breathe (Indian Hills). It's all about Saturday. This is a good momentum builder. We've got to get ready for it.

What they've done, at least, is to give themselves a little breathing room from what was going to be a really ugly confrontation, and one that was a complete lose-lose for Republicans, no matter what.

When we got the kids back at halftime, we told them, 'Take a breath and relax.' They were playing all on emotion. We had a lot more focus in the second half.

Cathy Freeman

I have time to breathe, time to be myself more often, I am a lot more relaxed and less guarded.

We're just happy to be in the semifinals, and we're happy to be meeting Connellsville. The 1995 team had a lot of balance, and I would compare other teams to that one. These guys can be mentioned in the same breath as that team.

Jim Gordon

We're hopeful it will not pass. If it does pass, we will collect our breath and consider our options.

William Shakespeare

So, you are very welcome to our house. It must appear in other ways than words, Therefore, I scant this breathing courtesy.

William Shakespeare

Thou weigh'st thy words before thou givest them breath.

Three things give us hardy strength: sleeping on hairy mattresses, breathing cold air, and eating dry food

Charlie Sheen

I have defeated this earthworm with my words. Imagine what I would have done with my fire breathing fists.

We are going to kick them when they are down. They've been struggling, so we are not going to give them any breathing room.

Our thoughts are certainly part of us; they come from us, but we are not our thoughts. Have you ever woken up in the morning and said to yourself, 'I am not going to think today; I am too tired'? No, of course not. Just as breathing happens and is constant, thoughts happen, and they are also constant.

Everything has a purpose or premise. Every second of our life has its own premise, whether or not we are conscious of it at the time. That premise may be as simple as breathing or as complex as a vital emotional decision, but it is always there.

Liam Payne

I was ill. I was told I was stressed, so I had to get everything checked out. I didn't think I was, but someone told me I was. As a result, I went to get a blood test. I'd never had one before, so I held my breath when I was getting it done. That caused me to go into a fit.

Alonzo Mourning

We did nothing but breathe life into this team, that's all we did.

Garry Shandling

I once saw an elaborate landscape in a gallery, drawn in pencil, that took my breath away. Then I realized the artist probably didn't have enough confidence to use a pen.

We tried several combinations of musicians with varying degrees of success. Mostly we got a sound that was too loud and cumbersome until we found Teri. She is a breath of fresh air.

We didn't want to give them any easy breathing room. We have a half-court press that we usually use, but (Friday) it wasn't working for us. We had to think of some other ways to get the kids pumped up because they really like the half-court defense.

The reality is that a standard is an evolving document. It's a living, breathing reflection of what the market wants.

In Europe, it's different - you eat soccer, you breathe soccer, you drink soccer. Everything is about soccer.

Demetri Martin

You mock those who blindly follow the majority...turn your attention now to those who are so dedicated to deviating from the norm that they would gladly cease breathing if it were suggested to them that inhalation was a form of conformity; for they deserve just as much scrutiny and ridicule.

Dean Koontz

He was sure that he was not the cause of the abrupt silence. His passage through the canyon had not previously disturbed either birds or cicadas. Something was out there. An intruder of which the ordinary forest creatures clearly did not approve. He took a deep breath and held it again, straining to hear the slightest movement in the woods. This time he detected the rustle of brush, a snapping twig, the soft crunch of dry leaves-and the unnervingly peculiar, heavy, ragged breathing of something big.

Bob Dylan

A lot of people can't stand touring but to me it's like breathing. I do it because I'm driven to do it.

Bob Dylan

A lot of people don't like the road, but it's as natural to me as breathing.

Boy George

Madonna is a living, breathing cash register.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Why, what is to live? Not to eat and drink and breathe,—but to feel the life in you down all the fibres of being, passionately and joyfully.

Edwin M. Stanton

The prisoners for better security against conversation shall have a canvas bag put over the head of each and tied around the neck, with a holes for proper breathing and eating, but not seeing.

Ben E. King

I still perform it in all my shows. I'll do it as long as I'm breathing. I'm so proud it has stood the test of time.

Candis Cayne

I'm not trying to be a spokeswoman for the transgender community; I just want to be looked at as a living, breathing, happy human being.

Clarice Lispector

The world's continual breathing is what we hear and call silence.