Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robin Wright

Now that my kids are out of the house, I'm finally able to get to the classics I never read: Emily Bronte, Dylan Thomas, Joseph Heller's 'Catch-22.' It's endless. They're all in this gigantic pile next to my bed.

Lionel Richie

Growing up with country, R&B, gospel, and classical music from my grandmother and pop, Tuskegee was the perfect melting pot for my influences as a writer.

I don't shop at Gap and Abercrombie & Fitch because while they have classic looks, it's boring.

From the first moment I heard that there would be a Classic I started preparing for this. I've never been a part of such an important game like this.

For us, the Classic starts today and the rest is history.

One of the first things we decided very early on ... was instead of creating a movie of all the classic iconic moonwalk moments that we've all seen, we would go just to the left or to the right of what we know, or what we think we know, ... So I would say the majority of the moments in the movie are not moments that we've seen before.

One of the most exciting matches of the night was freshman Isaac Meyer's. It was a classic come-from-behind tangle, where you could see Isaac hanging in there, wearing out his opponent, then finally capitalizing at the close of the match. It's the payoff for the grueling work that goes on in the practice room.

Susan Hill

I was taught to whistle as a little girl by an undertaker. I used to sit in his workshop, watching him planing wood for the coffins, and he used to whistle all the time - and eventually I started whistling, too. I can whistle anything, particularly trumpet tunes from Classic FM.

Ted Cruz

I grew up listening to classic rock - the Kinks, Genesis, The Who, Pink Floyd.

I grew up listening to a lot of classic rock, everything from the Grateful Dead and Led Zeppelin to Deep Purple and the Beatles.

John Tesh

I grew up with the Woodstock generation. I went to Woodstock, and like everybody in my school, I wanted to be in a rock-and-roll band, and most of us were. But I also grew up with a lot of piano lessons and a lot of classical music training.

If this could be proven, then it would come under the classic definition of involuntary manslaughter.

J. C. Watts

She had a great emotional journey in the first one and it was not just your classic genre picture with a damsel-in-distress kind of role. It was more than that and that's what drew me to the first. And I always knew when I did the first that there was going to be a number two.

She's a classic mascot, and I like emphasizing Sun-Maid's, if you will, roots.

She is able to infuse classic American cooking with a taste of international flavor.

Rachel Platten

I love... different kinds of music. I like classical music and pop music. I like alternative, and I like rap, hip-hop, and I kind of collected all these things that I love, and they infused my sensibilities, and I just wanted to sing because it felt like it needed to come out of me.

Matt Schulze

I love classical music. Yes, I was in a conservatory when I was younger and played guitar and all that stuff, so I also love rock.

Jane Chen

I love classical music and have been playing violin since I was seven. Music helps me to express feelings in a way words often cannot.

I give Classical a lot of credit. They're a good team. I think they're going to have a good year.

Miguel

I fell in love with funk music through my father - Funkadelic - as well as soul and classical early on.

Andre Previn

I found that jazz musicians, possibly more than their classical counterparts, wear long-standing friendships easily and gracefully.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

Our industry [classic music] has kind of retarded into this kind of endless cover-producing thing, and it's a pity.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

I actually don't like this term, "classic." It's wrong, but we don't have a better word at the moment.

David Hallberg

Certainly, when you train as a classical dancer, you are very much influenced by 'Giselle.' You see it all the time; you start to learn the steps a little.

Gasoline is the classic commodity. It's very sensitive to world issues.

John Nash

By the time I was a student in high school... I remember succeeding in proving the classic Fermat theorem about an integer multiplied by itself p times where p is a prime.

He's the classic type of individual we like to see.

Hopefully we won't pick up injuries from the Classic match.

Kieren Fallon

I don't think I have ever traveled as well in a Classic in my life.

Herbie Hancock

Most people think that classical music is a higher form than jazz only because it is from Europe, and we were taught in schools only about Western European history.

My first time in this game seven years ago I didn't realize it either. This is a game where records don't matter and it's all about two teams in classic games.

It is a really classic Northwest way to ring in the New Year, that's for sure. If the weather is good, it's going to be great.

Jon Stewart

I think there is nothing remotely gay about classic Hollywood westerns.