Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Milne

One of the attractive things about being in Scotland is that we have a very good pipeline of new people coming into the company from the excellent universities around us.

Lisa Cholodenko

I tend not to be so attracted to films that force me into an intellectual place over an emotional one.

Michael Specter

We inherit every one of our genes, but we leave the womb without a single microbe. As we pass through our mother's birth canal, we begin to attract entire colonies of bacteria. By the time a child can crawl, he has been blanketed by an enormous, unseen cloud of microorganisms - a hundred trillion or more.

Dan Garrett

The other thing that was attractive to me is that he himself is a product of Catholic schools and has sent two children through Catholic schools.

Felix Lanters

The possibility of rising interest rates worries investors. For many companies there is a direct effect on their earnings and stocks can also become less attractive to bonds.

Fran Fraschilla

The perception that Kentucky is down, therefore the league is down, is very true because they are the flagship program in the SEC. It's a combination of (UK) and the fact that (success) in power conferences is cyclical. Often a league that can attract top-caliber recruits is more easily susceptible to losing great players to the NBA. How much better would some of these teams be if they had those players now?

Eric Sorensen

We are seeing a lot of success in the ski/wakeboard segment in attracting new boaters, while pontoons have declined substantially in this area.

Jim Leech

We are pleased to continue our partnership with York Street Capital. This expanded capital commitment helps to fill the growing need for junior capital driven by strong buyout markets and record levels of private equity fundraising. Through York Street, we are providing broader financing alternatives to companies and equity sponsors at a time when flexible junior capital solutions are an important component in financing both buyouts and corporate expansion. We believe that York Street will continue to generate superior returns and provide attractive co-investment opportunities for Teachers' Private Capital.

John Snow

We started three seasons ago with Monday Night Football. We thought it might be a catchy attraction to get guys who don't regularly go to church.

Charles Caleb Colton

No men deserve the title of infidels so little as those to whom it has been usually applied; let any of those who renounce Christianity, write fairly down in a book all the absurdities that they believe instead of it, and they will find that it requires more faith to reject Christianity than to embrace it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.

Charles Caleb Colton

In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it.

Charles Dickens

There's more of gravey than grave about you, whatever you are!" - Scrooge, referring to Marley's ghost which he believes is a hallucination from food poisoning

Charles Dickens

I verily believe that her not remembering and not minding in the least, made me cry again, inwardly - and that is the sharpest crying of all.

Charles Dickens

Nothing that we do, is done in vain. I believe, with all my soul, that we shall see triumph.

Charles Dickens

It is a silent, shady place, with a paved courtyard so full of echoes, that sometimes I am tempted to believe that faint responses to the noises of old times linger there yet, and that these ghosts of sound haunt my footsteps as I pace it up and down.

Charles Dickens

And I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States.

Charles Dickens

It being a remarkable fact in theatrical history, but one long since established beyond dispute, that it is a hopeless endeavor to attract people to a theatre unless they can be first brought to believe that they will never get in.

John Wright

The people who enjoy classical music, opera, even classical ballet, would come to classical theatre if it were well-acted and imaginatively presented.

W. Hull

We still see the dominance of rap, R&B, alternative punk, and pop. But we are definitely seeing growth in jazz and classical music.

Richard Hyung-ki Joo

We want people to know that classical music is for everyone. A parent or kid might be terrified of this music, but after they come to us, they'll never be scared of classical music again.

M. H. Abrams

Secular thinkers have no more been able to work free of the centuries-old Judeo-Christian culture than Christian theologians were able to work free of their inheritance of classical and pagan thought. The process... has not been the deletion and replacement of religious ideas but rather the assimilation and reinterpretation of religious ideas.

Lionel Richie

It was very interesting in my world, because I grew up as a fan and I did not know that there was a thing called R&B, pop, country, classical - I just knew that I loved music.

M. Wolfe

WFSU is incredibly lucky to offer top quality programming on FM, with a news and classical station, and on television,

Alexandra Fuller

I listen mostly to classical music.

Richard P. Feynman

There were several possible solutions of the difficulty of classical electrodynamics, any one of which might serve as a good starting point to the solution of the difficulties of quantum electrodynamics.

Eric Whitacre

I'm a self-confessed geek, and my whole concept of music at first was entirely electronic. In many ways, it turned out to be an advantage. I was so green, so utterly naive about the nature of classical music, that I did things that made me look totally, deliberately unorthodox.

Jason Couch

We want folks to leave our concerts feeling better than when they arrived.

Jeff Petersen

We were approached by one of our concert sponsors who had a good friend that recently died,

Noreena Hertz

Most philanthropists would still rather donate to elite schools, concert halls or religious groups than help the poor or sick.

Oscar Goodman

We're going to have our parades, we're going to have our symphonies, our concerts and everyone's going to have good time,

Jack Liebau

With the last few years of consecutive declines in attendance, the trends for live concerts overall aren't particularly encouraging.

Gary Loveman

We feared he would fail to fulfill the December 1999 concert if we did not enter a contract for December 2000,

Kim Kardashian

As kids, we were at concerts like Michael Jackson every weekend. My first concert was Earth, Wind and Fire.

Dan Donegan

Since they go stayed together by two more years, for when a return to Portugal for another Disturbed mega concert ?

Mandy Patinkin

Singing on the concert stage is the freest form, my favorite thing in the world,

Jason Couch

We want folks to leave our concerts feeling better than when they arrived.

Oscar Goodman

We're going to have our parades, we're going to have our symphonies, our concerts and everyone's going to have good time,

Jack Liebau

With the last few years of consecutive declines in attendance, the trends for live concerts overall aren't particularly encouraging.

Kim Kardashian

As kids, we were at concerts like Michael Jackson every weekend. My first concert was Earth, Wind and Fire.

Bill Golden

We thought we could get the same type of experience without extending ourselves to promote concerts and those type of things.

Julian Bond

She was trained to be an opera singer. She gave concerts to raise money for him, and when he died she continued to try to keep his legacy alive.

Neil Tennant

When we did concerts, we wanted them to be theatrical events - collaborations with designers, choreographers, and directors - because we thought traditional rock concerts were boring.

Lucy Griffiths

I mostly did musicals and concerts when I was younger, and then I realized I don't quite have the voice for it, so I went into acting, which I enjoy more.

Zubin Mehta

Even in music concerts in Mumbai and different parts of the world, seats are reserved for sponsors.

Chris Brown

You are the fans, sit back and watch. That's all you're doing anyway.

David Ginola

I went see the horror thriller, Hannibal. I am a massive fan of Anthony Hopkins. He is superb in the film.

David Prowse

Actually I'm not that involved in the fan site.

David Naughton

I'm not a big slasher film fan.

Rene Portland

The point guard has always had a tough thing to please. Obviously, they have to please all of our fans and they have to live up to the expectations and the history of the great point guards here at Penn State.

Mike Bohn

where our fans come regardless of who we're playing.

Charley Pride

Any entertainer who tells you that the adoration of fans is not a heady experience probably never had the experience.

Eartha Kitt

The biggest family in the world is my fans.

David Twohy

I guess you don't make any franchise movies unless the fans are there.

Charles Dickens

I have made up my mind that I must have money, Pa. I feel that I can't beg it, borrow it, or steal it; and so I have resolved that I must marry it.

Charles Dickens

All knives and forks were working away at a rate that was quite alarming; very few words were spoken; and everybody seemed to eat his utmost, in self defence, as if a famine were expected to set in before breakfast-time to-morrow morning, and it had become high time to assert the first law of nature.

Charles Dickens

He would make a lovely corpse.

Charles Dickens

It is an old prerogative of kings to govern everything but their passions.

Charles Dickens

Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.

Charles Dickens

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!

Charles Dickens

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

Charles Caleb Colton

Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.

Charles Caleb Colton

I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

Loretta Lynch

Jimmy Meng sought to be a power broker in the halls of justice. But the influence he sought to peddle was corrupt, and his power was illusory.

Mark Dobson

I am ecstatic. I want to keep representing the residence halls as true as possible.

Charles R. Swindoll

You won't find God at the Seminary and you won't find wisdom in the halls of intellectualism.

Stetson Kennedy

The real threat are the unrobed Klan in the halls of government, ... Dissident at Large.

Greg Bender

Usually, when he does these things, he'll give a talk, and then he and everyone else leaves and comes back the next day. Here, the students stayed together and were able to keep talking in the halls and the restaurants and lobby.

Harold Brodkey

Death is not soft-mouthed, vague-footed, nearby. It is in the hall.

Charles Caleb Colton

Expect not praise without envy until you are dead.

Charles Dickens

There are many pleasant fictions of the law in constant operation, but there is not one so pleasant or practically humorous as that which supposes every man to be of equal value in its impartial eye, and the benefits of all laws to be equally attainable by all men, without the smallest reference to the furniture of their pockets.

Charles Simmons

Good Humor is the best shield against the darts of satirical raillery

Alan Watts

The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.

Alan Moore

Once you realize what a joke everything is, being the Comedian is the only thing that makes sense.

David Sedaris

Everyone looks retarded once you set your mind to it.

Dave Barry

England manufactures most of the world's airline food, as well as all the food you ever ate in your junior-high-school cafeteria.

Dave Barry

English history consists largely of royal people getting their heads chopped off...Needless to say, this brand of history was a hit with our son.

Dave Barry

The basic Roman ruin design is a pile of rocks with a little plaque saying "Roman Ruins" and a group of tourists frowning at it and wishing they were back at the hotel bar..

Damien Chazelle

Mozart was born Mozart. Charlie Parker was born Charlie Parker.

Robert Morris

Well, I don't know any piece by heart, but Mozart goes something like this... What do you think?

Steve Lacy

Some people really want to play Mozart and be just performers. I was more interested in invention.

Cecilia Bartoli

Performing this music here, where he was born, in a way you feel 'Oh, this is what Mozart saw, this is what Mozart was breathing; the air, the atmosphere'.

Michael Luxner

This is the first time we've ever done Mozart outdoors.

Alanis Morissette

I started making music because I could.

Alanis Morissette

I am what I am Are you what you are or What?

Alanis Morissette

Writing a song doesn't heal things. Even if the song comes up with a solution, it's still only a theory. Going out and living my lyrics is a whole other deal. That takes courage.

Alanis Morissette

Music helps you find the truths you must bring into the rest of your life.

Al Jarreau

You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues.

Al Jarreau

Once you discover that you can, then you must.

Chris Colfer

I grew up doing musical theater.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I'm constantly discovering things. Like Bobby Bland. Right now I suppose I'm into the Eighties, which turned out to be a great musical period.

Chico Hamilton

Musicians have to suffer to a certain degree in order to obtain their outlet.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Charles Dickens

A multitude of people and yet solitude.

Charles Dickens

My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable.

Charles Dickens

Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness.

Charles Dickens

Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything.

Charles Dickens

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

Charles Dickens

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Charles Soule

Superman/Wonder Woman, people expected, I guess, a lot of romance, or maybe something that wasnt emotionally deep. Who knows?

Alan Arkin

My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.

Bryan Ferry

As you get older, you get a bit more serious.

Bryan Clay

Repercussions are serious and they will take you places.

Cathy Freeman

Between 1991 and 1997 I had really serious asthma.

William Shakespeare

In persons grafted in a serious trust, Negligence is a crime.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I understand from those who adore him, he [Julian Assange] has a great sense of humor which rarely gets an airing because he's dealing with such serious issues.

Arthur Rimbaud

No one's serious at seventeen.

Dee Dee Ramone

Visuals are as artistic as sounds, so being serious about both isn't a contradiction to me.

Bill Nye

The most serious problem facing humankind is climate change.