Famous Quotes & Sayings

Baltasar Gracian

When everyone covets something, they are easily annoyed by it.

Asa Gray

Agassiz, when I saw him last, had read but a part of Origin of Species. He says it is POOR-VERY POOR!!. The fact is, he is very much annoyed by it.

Alain de Botton

Status anxiety definitely exists at a political level. Many Iraqis were annoyed with the US essentially for reasons of status: for not showing them respect, for humiliating them.

Alain de Botton

You have to be quite heavily invested in someone to do them the honour of telling them you're annoyed with them.

Blaise Pascal

Anyone who found the secret of rejoicing when things go well without being annoyed when they go badly would have found the point.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

Existential depression has always annoyed me; it is one of the world's most pointless forms of suffering.

Laura Anderson

I thought he'd split if he saw me, but he just looked at me and took another mouthful of bird feed from the ground. I banged on the glass thinking he'd just run right off, but he looked up at me as though I'd annoyed him.

Paul Lambert

I was annoyed to lose the goal with 30 seconds till half-time because I thought we were in it at 1-0.

Emily Stoecker

I was annoyed that he got to read them. This guy, they've really coddled him.

Caio Fonseca

I've been playing piano my whole life, but I'd never tried to understand how compositions are made, really. Try to imagine if you'd loved paintings your whole life but had never painted one. My aspiration now is just to understand.

Buffy Sainte-Marie

I didn't know what I was gonna get the first time I sat down at a piano, but I loved it and it became my playmate for life.

Billy Joel

I have long admired Steinway pianos for their qualities of tone, clarity, pitch consistency, touch responsiveness, and superior craftsmanship.

Diana Krall

It is a privilege and an honor to perform on Steinway pianos.

Artur Schnabel

I always make sure that the lid over the keyboard is open before I start to play.

Delta Goodrem

What resonates with me now is the acoustic guitar and piano.

Carl Andre

I didn't study the piano - the piano studied me.

Agnes Obel

Sometimes I feel like a melody doesn't have anything to do with me, but it's just something that comes, is accumulated from me playing on the piano, and then this little creature just appears.

Benny Carter

Get up from the piano ... Oscar is in the house. Who wants to be at the piano when Oscar is there? Find something else to do.

Nelson Peltz

The name 'Mondelez' I hate. It sounds like a disease.

Martin Freeman

I think acting is all about the other people. Sounds like a worthy thing to say, but it's true.

Ben Howland

He didn't want to go. Sounds just like coach.

Jill Scott

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Tom Sizemore

I think I may be in - potentially - three classics. That sounds like I'm bragging.

Elizabeth Jennings

I hate a word like 'pets': it sounds so much Like something with no living of its own.

Kathryn Prescott

When you hear someone say something homophobic, it really ages them. It sounds old-fashioned.

Marney Cox

On the one hand, it sounds like we may be a little weaker going into 2006.

Robert Blake

I'd like to say that I said that because it sounds lovely. But I have no recollection that I said that.

Lara Jean Chorostecki

I have a passion for animals and spend a lot of my spare time working with various organizations here in Toronto.

William Hepworth Thompson

What time he can spare from the adornment of his person he devotes to the neglect of his duties.

Michael Johnson

We can spare one on (the day shift), ... But when we're called, we'll go.

Dario Marenco

I tried to spare them this thing. But if they want to fight, I'm ready.

Alan Shearer

Whenever I have any spare time I have a game of golf.

Purnomo Yusgiantoro

At the moment, there's nothing we can do. OPEC has spare capacity. However, whatever we do, there is no sensitivity in the market,

Jacob Lusk

In my spare time I like to sleep.

Michelle Wie

I just don't have a week to spare just to try to get into the 36-hole qualifying.

Bryan Cranston

I don't have spare time.

Jacqueline Bisset

I have emotional strings that tie me to Europe.

Eddie Van Halen

I boil the strings so they stretch.

David Platt

My life is a blank check before God... No strings attached.

Tim Berners-Lee

I myself feel that it is very important that my ISP supplies internet to my house like the water company supplies water to my house. It supplies connectivity with no strings attached.

Cat Stevens

I've returned to being an amateur without any ties or strings attached, which gives me a freedom I never had before.

Janelle Monae

I've cried over string arrangements.

Jules Shear

The bottom string is tuned to an open G.

Jules Shear

Shouldn't the low strings be at the bottom?

Ivan Reitman

Comedy is a very delicate business, especially comedies that sort of attempt to do things in an honest way and in a very naturalistic way the way that 'No Strings Attached' is.

Al Pacino

That's where humour lives for me. In the body. The Steve Martin kind of stuff or Jim Carrey, that's what I like. I've always felt that's what I would like to do.

Al Jarreau

Every day is Thanksgiving.On this stage you're going to hear God and none of them other words, and I ain't going to touch my stuff.

Chloe Grace Moretz

I don't let [my friends] visit me filming and I don't bring them to premieres. It's a different head zone - when I'm on set, I'm working. When I'm just with my friends, I can just hang out, do normal stuff and generally be a complete idiot. It's the same with everyone.

Chloe Sevigny

The realism frightens me more than the bubble gum-y, heightened stuff.

David Mitchell

Whoever opined "Money can't buy you happiness" obviously had far too much of the stuff.

David Giuntoli

There's a lot of great stuff on TV.

David Sanborn

When I make records, I never listen to stuff after it's done. Ever.

Catherine Hardwicke

Some of the best stuff in all my movies has been improv.

Carole King

It's very difficult for me to evaluate my own stuff.