Famous Quotes & Sayings

Xavier Rudd

I do pinch myself, like when shows in non-English speaking countries are sold out, and people are singing my lyrics. I don't think I'll ever lose that; I'm always appreciative every day of the support I have as an artist, because I'm not a commercial artist.

I am interested in classic building development, such as hotels and residential homes, rather than commercial properties.

Farrah Fawcett

You know what I would love? I would love to be one of those actresses who can come out with a film or come out with a new commercial without the world knowing about it.

America Ferrera

I remember being a kid, and if you had to pee, well, you had to hold it until the commercial break. Then you rushed, and hopefully, if you're going to the kitchen for a snack, you'll be back before so you don't miss a line. If your sister sneezed or was talking over a line, there was no way of knowing what that line was or what the joke was.

Antonio Perez

Xerox did OK in moving to digital in the commercial space. They didn't do well in the consumer market, but they're not a consumer brand. They don't even know how to spell consumer.

Arundhati Roy

Years of imprisoning and beheading writers never succeeded in shutting them out. However, placing them in the heart of a market and rewarding them with a lot of commercial success, has.

Think of a pitch in terms of advertising: You're trying to hook a reader the way a commercial tries to hook a detergent user.

I'm always pretty overworked with commercial illustration or design or animation.

Because these show are live, script pages are being switched during the program and new commercial teases might be yelled in your ear with just enough time to scribble them on scrap paper before reading them.

Rick Rubin

I never really think so much about commercial success; I usually just think about records that move me, and 'Baby Got Back' was one that moved me.

'Satellite archaeology' refers to the use of NASA and commercial high resolution satellite datasets to map and discover past structures, cities, and geological features.

Ranbir Kapoor

Movies are a commercial medium. We don't make movies to impress our friends and critics. It's an expensive medium. We have to gain money from it.

Suranga Chandratillake

Today, the way the system works, when you sign up to provide your content for the system, you sign off that your content will be downloaded and replicated. We do have a DRM, but we are keeping it for more commercial content.

We know this is a very limited contamination. We are trying to convince our trade partners to return to normal commercial relations.

David Mason

Unlike a commercial transaction where if something goes wrong you can fix it, you can't undo elections, ... The cost of making a mistake here is a lot greater.

Paul Di Filippo

Consensus wisdom has it that all modern commercial fantasy novels fall into two camps: those derived from J.R.R. Tolkien and those derived from Mervyn Peake. The 'Lord of the Rings' template or the 'Gormenghast' mold.

Philipp Meyer

When you hold things back, when you don't commit completely to your ideas and trust completely in your own instincts, you are guaranteeing your own failure - even if you end up having commercial success.

Nick Harkaway

We need to differentiate between commercial piracy - where criminal organisations produce illicit DVDs on a huge scale - and domestic, unauthorised filesharing, which may or may not be detrimental to overall sales.

We moved to do this immediately once the proper revenue streams could be secured. We have strong revenue streams for our embedded and mobile browsers. We will also create revenues from search, like other commercial browsers.

First and foremost, this is a competitive trip and not a commercial trip.

William Perry

There are a lot of military and commercial interests in this technology.

Dianne Feinstein

We have no regulation of drones in the United States in their commercial use. You can see drones some day hovering over the homes of Hollywood luminaries, violating privacy. This question has to be addressed. And we need rules of operation on the border, by police, by commercial use, and also by military and intelligence use.

Elisha Gray

As to Bell's talking telegraph, it only creates interest in scientific circles... its commercial values will be limited.

Stephen Marley

When reggae was introduced to the world, it was a voice of the oppressed, a music with integrity that you can enjoy holistically. Throughout the years, what has become commercial kind of strayed from the integrity.

The government is taking SOA seriously. We have been for two years. There seems to be a serious convergence of ideas and commercial momentum.

The government has got to stop stacking senior positions with people who are repeatedly cashing in on the public trust in order to further private commercial interests.

There are seals and packaging which indicate that there was commercial trafficking going on.

Chris Pratt

I know this may come as a shock to most of you, but I've decided to quit acting. I will not be auditioning for anything anymore, and if I get offered something like a role in a movie or a commercial or something, I will graciously turn it down. It's been great, but its just not for me anymore.

When journalism is treated as just another widget in a commercial enterprise, the focus isn't on truth, verification or public good, but productivity and output.

Ian Ziering

My most famous commercial was for Fruit Of the Loom underwear. I took a lot of razzing from my classmates.

Emmanuelle Chriqui

When you're starting out, every line in a show or a commercial is like a huge success.

Garry Trudeau

Life is like a movie-since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of it.

Rather than going through a commercial banking training program, at the first bank I ever worked in, I was the chairman. And it was my own money, so we loaned it out like it was my own money.