Famous Quotes & Sayings

Toru Takemitsu

My music has no significant rhythmic construction, but when I write music, I am always very concerned about the concept of time.

Rose McIver

My motivation is to get a deeper understanding and exploration of something that I want to know about the human condition. So, that's what I look for in the material I read: if it's asking a genuine question about a concept of the world that interests me. And also, it helps if it's a context that I find interesting.

Japanese consumers are in the process of embracing the concept of value.

I think everyone recognizes that there is very little money to be made but they very intelligently approached it from the pool concept to offset costs.

I thought we played very well. This is only the second time we had three girls score in double figures. They understand the concept we're looking for as a team.

I think we're doing a lot of good things. We have a lot of offense in and every drill we want to win, but we aren't playing a game today. I'm really happy with the way we're starting to run the football. Our (I-backs) are running hard, we're starting to understand concepts and we're getting better.

Andrea Seigel

I think a conceptual idea comes to me first - something I've been mulling over a lot right before I feel like writing a book - and then the characters start to develop around it.

Gavin Rossdale

I think that in order to survive, there's this concept of having bulletproof skin,

People have developed very inappropriate concepts of what happens. I think, in part, it is because of Hollywood. Hollywood's depiction is someone swinging a pendulum of some sort and gaining control of you. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Sloane Crosley

I am starting to like L.A., but the concept of a place you have to get used to so much seems a little weird to me. I have been to many foreign cities where I didn't have to acclimatize as much as I did to L.A.

Douglas Wilson

But this is not a how-to show, it's a conceptual show. It's about ideas. It's about fun.

Amanda Schull

Hollywood is something else. It's such an exaggerated idea. The concept of what 'beautiful' really is is ludicrous.

Keith Andrews

We lost our swagger. We were doing some things pretty well up to that point and we got away from the team concept and forced some things. Then they got that nine-point lead and kept it that way for most of the second half.

It is a concept that addresses California's concerns.

Rita Ora

I think the good thing about Macklemore is that he is very precise about what he gets involved in. As you can tell, he's very passionate about what he puts his name on, because he talks about things people don't usually talk about, and his concepts are very, very passionate.

Gerhard Richter

I have no time for specialized concerns, working themes or variations that lead to mastery... I like the indefinite, the boundless; I like continual uncertainty. Other qualities may be more conducive to achievement, publicity, success; but they are all outworn - as outworn as ideologies, opinions, concepts and names for things.

We are going to need a new concept in order to pay for all the roads we will need.

Daniel Kahneman

The concept of happiness has to be reorganised.

Eating local is a relatively new concept in American dining; for the Italians, it's a way of life.

What we saw 20 years ago was really technical enthusiasts, and people creating proof of concept viruses. For the first seven or eight years that was really who made these things.

He was dedicated to the concept of having a place for people to come and express themselves freely. There is history there.

Phil Jackson

We couldn't overcome a tough shooting game for Kobe. They threw an extra man at him, and we didn't make good adjustments. Offensively, I don't think we grasped the concepts of what we are trying to do here.

Making the tax cuts permanent is one thing I think he can push through. That feeds into job growth and his concept of an ownership society.

Liana is really starting to understand the concept of taking what she can get and not forcing it.

Sophie Aldred

My concept of a 'Doctor Who' girl was that you screamed a lot and ran around quarries in unsuitable footwear. Of course you fell over and twisted your ankle, because you had high heels on.

Paolo Bacigalupi

My conception of my ideal reader has expanded quite a lot as I've matured: Ultimately when I think of my ideal reader, it's someone who's not sitting down with the intention of automatically arguing with the book: somebody who's going to give me enough slack to tell my story.

She just wasn't a girl who did OK. She won championships. She accomplished something. . . . I think a lot of people know who she is, but I don't think they really have a concept of what she really did. It was amazing.

Robert Shaw

Most people's salaries didn't increase by that much, ... Lee County had a concept called a (tax) rollback.

Most people, most of the time, get their music free. And that's not a marketplace. In fact, it directly threatens the concept of the music marketplace.

Now we are talking about the concept of the right to peaceful use of nuclear energy. We are not at the stage to discuss in details about how this concept will develop at a later stage,

Henry King

Nuremberg introduced the concept that individuals and states were subject to international law, including limits on sovereignty.

Dominic Cooper

Nobody should expect an actor to have these wonderful ideas and concepts about the world: they pretend to be other people for a living.

Retirement is not a concept I have much time for. I will be very interested in making sure I continue to do business.