Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles W. Chesnutt

We make our customs lightly; once made, like our sins, they grip us in bands of steel; we become the creatures of our creation.

Scott Terry

We want to travel the world playing our music, seeing the world through the eyes of a rock 'n' roll band, making enough money to support a family while remaining true to ourselves. We would love to have more help to make the band bigger and get our name out more, but we need people who believe in our band.

Jarome Iginla

We knew they'd be fired up. We've all gone through something like this during our careers when there's a shakeup or a tough change and you band together and get fired up. They battled and competed and found a way to get that third goal that we didn't get.

Mike Dirnt

When I was a kid, my influences were just my early friends' punk rock bands and listening to the radio,

Dhani Harrison

It was a relief to be able to do my own band, because I was very responsible for all this amazing music I didn't want to mess up before.

Dhani Harrison

Thenewno2 is sort of my little prototype band, really.

Caroline Corr

I listened to a lot of bands that were happening at the time, but no one in particular.

Steve Harwell

We are probably one of the most licensed bands out there for movies and TV shows.

Stone Gossard

We've actually rehearsed more for this tour than we've ever rehearsed in our lives. Matt is singing a lot of the vocal harmonies, and he's just killing it. The benefit of playing in a KISS cover band when you're 12 is that you learn to sing!

Wells Gulledge

We knew they were going to be an inside-out team. When you start 7-1, 6-10 and 6-9 players and have a 6-7 guy on the wing, we knew their offense would be predicated on going to the inside. We tried to push them outside and when we got them out there, we were like a bunch of little gnats on a carcass.

Harvey Starbuck

We knew they had a good team coming in with a bunch of of good individuals. It was an ugly win, but we'll take it and try to fix the things that hurt us.

Scarlett Johansson

Uh, Disneyland Drive right on the entrance to the 5 Freeway . . . actually we pulled off to the side but, unfortunately, we have a bunch of paparazzi cars also following us.

Darin Green

We still missed bunch of little lay-ups inside and that's about the third game in a row we've done that. If we can start putting those together, I think our game will be complete.

Fred Goss

Where I come from and where Nick comes from, there are a lot of divorces. People are giving it a second go-around on a bunch of different levels.

Ted Schroeder

We've got a whole bunch of select that are more tender than a whole bunch of choice.

Rick Ball

We've got a lot to learn, but we'll certainly take this group. They're a great bunch of girls.

Rick Kobe

We've won a ton of championships, sent a handful of kids to Olympic trials and a bunch of kids to the U.S. Open meet every year. This year should not be an exception.

Carlos Castaneda

Sorcerers are convinced that all of us are a bunch of nincompoops. We can never relinquish our crummy control voluntarily, thus we have to be tricked

Scott Cleland

The external trends are in Dorman's favor, ... while internal trends favor Stephenson.

Jim Padilla

She's the heart and soul of the organization and the external leader. We have a short window of opportunity. If we don't do this (fundraising campaign) there's a risk there won't be a Focus: HOPE going forward.

Kurt Eichenwald

Bitcoins can be traded or used for purchases, but only with those sellers who will accept them. Because it is a system independent of external meddling, there can be no sudden devaluation of Bitcoins through the actions of governments.

Eddie Gibbs

I think what we are seeing is the detribalizing of Protestantism, in that if you have a large external constituency, which would identify culturally or historically with a particular denomination, then obviously it's a plus factor to have that identification,

Peter Falk

Paul never told me anything about why he wrote it -- he never mentioned his father and he never mentioned my father, ... He never put me in a position in which I would feel a lot of external pressure other than wanting my reaction to the script. That's the way I would do it. That's the way I know a real professional would do it. That's the proper to do it.

Javier Solana

Most forms of external support require interaction with the Palestinian administration.

Karen Armstrong

Religion is a search for transcendence. But transcendence isn't necessarily sited in an external god, which can be a very unspiritual, unreligious concept.

William Shakespeare

My grief lies all within, And these external manners of lament Are merely shadows to the unseen grief That swells with silence in the tortured soul

Richard Axel

There are many ways for organisms to probe the external world. Some smell it, others listen to it, many see it. Each species, therefore, lives in its own unique sensory world of which other species may be partially or totally unaware.

David Duchovny

Actually, I have an interest in finishing my Ph.D., but I just know I never will.

Daniel H. Pink

Experimentalists never know when their work is finished.

Chelsea Gray

We're so close. It's just a matter of finishing two more (Valley) games.

Todd Hays

Unfortunately it didn't go as I'd hoped. But fortunately I know there's a lot worse things in life than not finishing the Olympic Games with a medal.

Bill Taylor

We're in the transition between just finishing up a major harvest and waiting for some to grow here.

Roberta Crawford

We're finishing the story for my mother and father.

Jason Calacanis

Starting is easy. Finishing is hard.

Fred Couples

I was just finishing on the 18th hole and he birdied No. 9 and 10. The roars, it was the most unbelievable thing I've ever heard.

Lynn Meger

I thought defensively we did what we thought we could do. Offensively, we didn't get any finishes. We weren't finishing some things to put pressure on them.

Katsuya Okada

The reform of Japan starts today. There is no tomorrow for the Koizumi LDP government, which spends all its time in internal power struggles.

Shen Si

So far, we have just been notified by our shareholders about such an internal deal, which is still pending on our board's permission.

Gerhard Schroeder

It is an internal Russian problem to be solved between the Chechen people and the Russian federation.

Allen Freeman

Our internal polling has been showing that we're up by 20 points.

Anthony Zinni

That decentralization was done so they insured they had control, ... I think it was done more for internal reasons and internal military problems they thought they might have than for any military preparations they had for us.

Laila Robins

That's always a fun thing to play, a relationship where there's equals. I often play roles that are repressive, or women who are slightly repressed or having some kind of internal conflict.

Lao Tzu

One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.

J. J. Johnson

Title 26 of the Internal Revenue Code. Taxation, basically. It's what tripped up Al Capone.

Michael McCabe

We're always doing internal reviews, ... This is our business. We take it very seriously. If there is a way to do it better, we do it. Safety and security are our number one priority.

Michael Novak

The universe moves in the direction of Liberty.

Troy Glaus

With the moves that they made, and things that they've been able to do, this team seems poised to make a run. We're young and very, very talented.

John Walls

She is very versatile and moves well. She was tough to stop.

Mitsuhiro Osawa

There are moves to turn around from that path towards something like Matsushita.

Rob Gronkowski

I feel like when I do some dance moves during the week or at the house, I'm quicker on my feet. I can react quicker just from dancing.

Jeremy Spencer

Give me anything that moves my heart, that gives me goosebumps.

Dale Shull

I wrestle him and he's a lot stronger. Then the same moves I try to put on him I put on the other guys, and it's a lot easier.

Terry Greene

I think it just moves us up to the next level.

Jeremy Friesen

I think there's more (potential) for moves with the U.S. dollar.

Randall Howard

We want SAA, but we need to make sure our workers are protected and the strike is legal.

Rafael Benitez

We were trying to protect him and other tired players.

Bernard Kouchner

There is no question of legislating for the moment. One must actually protect the ill.

Marvin Lewis

We're making plays, ... but we have to protect the football.

John Ashcroft

We're going to do what we need to do to protect the American people.

Thomas Haden Church

I made a comfortable living for several years. I invested, and I protected myself, so I enjoy that freedom.

Aslan Maskhadov

to protect the country's sovereignty and territorial integrity.

Arlen Specter

When the 14th Amendment, equal protection clause was enacted, the galleries in the Senate were segregated. Now we have integration.

Golshifteh Farahani

I have scars from every film I have made. There is nothing to protect actors. They treat you worse than a dog. You work like a slave, and you know, I like it. That is the way it should be. Every film should be like your last.

John W. Thompson

We know what they're going through. We sympathize with them. We're still Southerners and we're still pulling together. It's all sweet tea and casseroles.

John Thompson

We know what they're going through. We sympathize with them, ... We're still Southerners and we're still pulling together. It's all sweet tea and casseroles.

Kenny Graham

We started pulling some of the starters even though it was only 2-0 but you have to look at the big picture.

Vince Carter

When you think something can't be done, that's when he pulls off another stunt.

Greg Williams

When we get real rain I'll have to get a tractor and pull them out of the mud.

Wayne Morgan

We're going to have to pull up our bootstraps.

Nick Rodriguez

We're doing better than I was hoping. I didn't think we'd be able to pull off a win until sometime around March.

Sherri Shepherd

Sometimes my husband has to literally pull me away from the computer.

Kathy Mattea

Whenever someone leaves, the next person that gets pulled in is somebody with similar values.

Byron Katie

Sleep just gives the ego a little time out. It has to stay strong in order to be something that it isn't.

Francois Bozize

We are a hospitable country, which is why Jean-Bertrand Aristide is here. And he will stay here for a while.

Blanka Vlasic

Sometimes your disappointments make you a stronger person for the future.

Dean Cain

I did this film for less money than it costs to stay in this hotel. We shot it in 20 days. We couldn't screw up takes for fun because we didn't have enough film.

Bobby Orr

Staying out of the penalty box will really help.

Avril Lavigne

Keep holding on, cause you know we'll make it through. We'll make it through. Just stay strong, cause you know I'm here for you. I'm here for you. There's nothing you could say. Nothing you could do. There's no other way when it comes to the truth, but keep holding on, cause you know we'll make it through.

Demi Lovato

Every single day is a battle to stay strong.

Demi Lovato

Use the voice that you were given. Shout what you believe in from the top of your lungs. Never let anyone quiet you.

Demi Lovato

Be who you are and don't allow anyone to affect the confidence you have in your individuality.

Rochelle Cancienne

We can't get a straight answer. There's just a lot of unknowns right now.

Cheyenne Jackson

Nobody is ever just a straight up protagonist or antagonist - everybody's morally ambiguous.

Carol Berg

Write. Write. Write. Learn how to revise. No story is perfect straight from the keyboard.

Ang Lee

I find it hard to deliver straightforward things.

Douglas Alexander

I think politicians who suggest they are uninterested in the support of newspapers are not being straight with people.

Kathleen McCarthy

When you see it straight on, it collapses into a straight line. And from the side, it will look voluminous.

Pierce Brosnan

I can still run in a straight line, and I can still throw a punch.

Matt Lauer

Making sure you're on the straight and narrow?

Paul Duca

For April, it's as big as it's going to get. You have to dethrone those guys. They're the team to beat. They've been there 13, 14 straight years now. So this is big. Take them any way you can get them.

Bob Graham

We need to make is to strengthen the position of the director of the CIA.

Jerry A. Webman

The rise in equities helped strengthen the economy.

Hosni Mubarak

What is wrong with strengthening the opposition? You lose nothing, ... But let them abide by the rules.

Vladimir Putin

The strengthening of our statehood is, at times, deliberately interpreted as authoritarianism.

Alan Watts

Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity, and that wherever it is so applied it lends an unmistakable quality to the work.

Alan Clark

Give a civil servant a good case and he'll wreck it with clichés, bad punctuation, double negatives, and convoluted apology.

Alan Bennett

If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.

Alan Ayckbourn

A gentleman ... sleeps at his work. That's what work's for. Why do you think they have the SILENCE notices in the library? So as not to disturb me in my little nook behind the biography shelves.

Al Kaline

You've got to get good habits of working hard so that when that play comes up during the regular season that you're able to complete it and do it the right way.

Akio Morita

Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.

Chloe Sevigny

I do a dance-based cardio workout infused with circuit training, and emphasizing strength and alignment.

Bill Schmidt

Very enthusiastic and very intelligent. I know he'll work at it.

Dmitri Mendeleev

Work, look for peace and calm in work: you will find it nowhere else.