Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Updike

Students present themselves...like a succession of CDs whose shimmering surface gives no clue to their contents without the equipment to play them.

Tara Strong

I didn't record any additional dialogue for this CD, they are excerpts pulled from existing episodes.

Talib Kweli

I listened to a mind joint, and I wanted to do my own version of it, and what you hear on my mixtape is my take on what the whole CD sounds like.

Mike Birbiglia

The Comedy Central CDs combined with the TV specials are what led to my stuff being traded and passed around, and a lot more people knowing my jokes than I thought.

Peter Lynch

If you hope to have more money tomorrow than you have today, you've got to put a chunk of your assets into stocks. Sooner or later, a portfolio of stocks or stock mutual funds will turn out to be a lot more valuable than a portfolio of bonds or CDs or money-market funds.

Julian Ovenden

I still buy CDs and DVDs, but generally for more obscure material.

Joe Rogan

So many times I've done a CD, and then the week after I record it, I've got this new tagline that's killer. And it makes the whole bit better. It happens all the time. But that's just the process of comedy.

John Mellencamp

The CD, it should be noted, was born out of greed. It was devised to prop up record sales on the expectation of people replenishing their record collections with CDs of albums they had already purchased.

Lauren Lee Smith

I'm actually not a very good driver, to be honest with you. I'm a scatterbrain driver. I'm not very focused. I'm always trying to find the right music station or put on a new CD or trying to eat something.

Leona Lewis

Music TV in the U.K. is disappearing. 'Top Of The Pops,' 'CD:UK' and shows like that have gone, and it's bringing down the music industry. We should do as much as we can to keep our music TV and producers need to be more willing to accommodate live music.

Joanna Newsom

I give away CDs at shows if someone wants a CD but doesn't have any money. I wouldn't want to do that forever.

Jimmy Page

But to put out a greatest hits on one CD was totally impossible, I just couldn't do it. The best compromise was to put out two CDs - Early Days - which is what it is - and Latter Days.

Robert Winston

Nearly all inventions are not recognised for their positive side either when they're made. So, for example, scientists didn't go out to design a CD machine: they designed a laser. But we got all sorts of things from a laser which we never remotely imagined, and we're still finding things for a laser to do.

Steve Jurvetson

When burned on a CD, the human genome is smaller than Microsoft Office.

Steve Jobs

If you tell people they can't burn CDs of their music, as almost every current legal music service has done, or they can only burn one CD with a track or pay per track per burn extra, nobody is going to go for it.

Taryn Manning

Lauren Hill, I always have her solo CD nearby. I have Coldplay, Radiohead, just a mix

Ralph Stanley

I'm a member of the Primitive Baptist Church, and they will buy every CD that I have released, but they don't me just to bring the instruments much into the church.

Willem Dafoe

Let's hope I never end up on a deserted island, because I could never make a decision on which three CDs to take with me.

Will Oldham

Whenever I see something that looks like it could be good - whether it's on vinyl, CD or cassette - if it's not too expensive, I'll take a chance.

Zach Braff

Actually when I gave out the script, I gave it with a CD of all the music I wanted to put in the movie, and again, we never thought we'd get all that music.

Sandra Bernhard

I am always hoping to do another CD. This atmosphere has been difficult.

Rickey Henderson

Rickey doesn't have albums, Rickey has CDs.

Robert Crumb

I don't do album covers or CD covers for groups or musicians I don't like or have no interest in.

Steve Jobs

People equated burning CDs with theft. That's not what burning CDs is. Theft is about acquiring the music from the Internet.