Famous Quotes & Sayings

Muddy Waters

Oh, I started out young. They handed me a cotton sack when I was about 8 years old. Give me a little small one, tell me to fill it up. I never did like the farm but I was out there with my grandmother, didn't want to get away from around her too far.

Muddy Waters

There's no way in the world I can feel the same blues the way I used to. When I play in Chicago, I'm playing up-to-date, not the blues I was born with. People should hear the pure blues - the blues we used to have when we had no money.

Max Roach

The people who really got me off were dealing with the musical potential of the Instrument.

Adrian Belew

The only drawback is once the work is done you rarely see each other.

Jeff Ament

We've always been a band that stood up for what we thought was right.

Scott Ian

We've always been a band that just did out own thing. We've never really set any goals, we just did what we wanted and set out to do.

Solomon Burke

We started the publicity, we started moving in the same direction with them, and then the devil came in and just turned that right around.

Les Baxter

I've been down there 6 times and there's nothing like Brazilian percussion.

Merle Haggard

And then I have two children by Theresa, one boy 10 and one girl 13.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Any doctrine that makes the world your friend is not your friend.

Niall Ferguson

If being rightwing is thinking that Karl Marx's doctrine was a catastrophe for humanity, then I'm rightwing.

Samuel Butler

What makes all doctrines plain and clear?/ About two hundred pounds a year.

Robert Rainy

Meanwhile the Church more and more provided for the doctrine of the Holy Spirit, by practically chaining His influence to the hierarchy and the sacraments.

Bodhidharma

The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They're not the Way.

Blaise Pascal

According to the doctrine of chance, you ought to put yourself to the trouble of searching for the truth; for if you die without worshiping the True Cause, you are lost. "But," say you, "if He had wished me to worship Him, He would have left me signs of His will." He has done so; but you neglect them. Seek them, therefore; it is well worth it.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Persecution always acts as a jell for members of cults; it proves to them, in the absence of history, liturgy, tradition, and doctrine, that they are God's chosen.

Ben Jonson

There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.

Bible Bible

So hast thou also them that hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitanes, which thing I hate.

Charles Caleb Colton

The martyrs to vice far exceed the martyrs to virtue, both in endurance and in number.

Charles Simmons

The smallest number, with God and truth on their side, are weightier than thousands.

Alan Moore

In the human mind, the number of possible connections that can be made between neurons greatly exceeds the number of atoms in the universe.

Alan Greenspan

The economy is turning, and credit comes in with a lag, .. To the extent that a number of small firms are finding it difficult to get the credit they need at a price they can afford, that's likely to change for the better.

Alan Greenspan

Although the outlook is clouded by a number of uncertainties, the central tendencies of the projections .. imply continued good economic performance in the United States.

Alan Greenspan

The number one problem in today's generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy.

Alain Prost

I have had some problems because the French don't like people to have success, they don't like the number one.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

In every generation the number of the righteous is small. Be sure you are among them.

Chris Christie

You just have to stand and grit your teeth and know your poll numbers are going to go down - and mine have - but you gotta grit through it because the alternative is unacceptable.

Camille Paglia

I am a very reclusive, private person.

Caitlin Moran

If you're not a confident person, pretend to be one.

Beyonce Knowles

If you are with the right person, it brings out the best version of you.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I've been broody since I was 12, but I can't just get anyone pregnant. It has got to be the right person.

Cass McCombs

You can't just explain a joke. Either it isn't funny, or the person just totally missed the punchline.

Alan Sugar

I like to be a very fair person.

Cheri Huber

A person who is without fear cannot be controlled.

Bob Phillips

The person who knows everything has the most to learn.

Demi Moore

When one person is enslaved, we're all enslaved.

Charles Dickens

I'm awful dull, but I hope I've beat out something nigh the rights of this at last. And so GOD bless you, dear old Pip, old chap, GOD bless you!

David Shapiro

When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to assume that their president, hostile to the principles that formed the nation and determined to act with malice toward its inhabitants by suppressing their rights and enabling its enemies to prosper in their attempts to destroy it, must be confronted, a rational response for the nation is to encumber itself no more with such a president and reject his authority and the acolytes who carry out his wishes.

David McCullough

You have to have wisdom and knowledge as well as virtue to preserve your rights and liberties.

David Korten

In a world of increasing inequality, the legitimacy of institutions that give precedence to the property rights of 'the Haves' over the human rights of 'the Have Nots' is inevitably called into serious question.

Catherine Ashton

In the EU you have half a billion people who share a common belief in democracy, in rights, in the kind of economic life we want.

Madeleine Albright

Our strategic dialogue with China can both protect American interests and uphold our principles, provided we are honest about our differences on human rights and other issues and provided we use a mix of targeted incentives and sanctions to narrow these differences.

Ai Weiwei

For all the tough talk about China during the presidential debates, Romney and Obama evaded any mention of China's suspect human rights record, corruption, and rule of law. By not tackling these controversial topics, the candidates are protecting a strategic partnership with China at the expense of essential human values and beliefs.

Ai Weiwei

Liberty is about our rights to question everything.

Bob Menendez

We should seek international support for our mutual objectives abroad, in promoting freedom, democracy, respect for human rights, and also the elimination of weapons of mass destruction.

Nigel Kneale

You set up a story and it turns inside out and that is, for me, the most exciting sort of story to write. The viewer thinks it's going to be about something and it does the opposite.

Paul Souza

We're sort of bucking the trend a little bit.

Candace Parker

What's so special about this team is that we all have the same mentality, this sort of, 'We've been knocked down, let's get back up' mentality.

Julia Mancuso

We're just used to it. Every race, there's always some stuff that happens, whether it's a teammate or not. You sort of have to refocus at the start and go.

Sarah Snook

I always wanted to do some sort of action film - even a superhero movie - and when 'Lucy' came out, I was like, 'That's what I want to do.'

Lyle Bauer

What we didn't want was it to be sort of a one-hit wonder.

Kiesza

I tend to sort of dive into things without worrying about risk or anything. Like, when I get an idea, I tend to just go for it and see what happens.

Becky Sarro

She's always been a very intrepid sort of girl.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

When I'm on the set, I'll come up with ideas if I'm sort of just between responsibilities, because there's a lot of sitting around on set. Invariably, though, the stuff I come up with on the set tends to be bad.

Deepak Chopra

Beyond the mind, at the deepest level of consciousnesss, resides the spirit. This is the part of us that is eternal, unchanging, and imbued with pure unlimited potential. Tapping into this potential is what enables us to manifest miracles.

Donald Trump

The budget was unlimited, but I exceeded it.

Jon Oringer

I think, as an entrepreneur, you have to see the unlimited amount of potential but concentrate on your day and just keep building.

Myles Munroe

You came into this world pregnant with unlimited potential.

Jonathan Edwards

Nothing is more certain than that there must be an unmade and unlimited being.

Louise Hay

I am unlimited in my own ability to create the good in my life.

Peter Kreeft

Only God may be adored, because only God is unlimited goodness, truth, and beauty, and thus only God deserves unlimited love.

Pema Chodron

By becoming intimate with how we close down and how we open up, we awaken our unlimited potential.

Leon Kass

The so-called right to reproduce is not an unlimited right.

Alicia Keys

Still when I'm a mess I still put on a vest With an 'S' on my chest Oh yes, I'm a Superwoman

Joyce Grenfell

I don't like those chiffon nighties ... they show your vest.