Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brittany Howard

One of my favorite things about Tom Waits is not only his songs, but when he does do live shows, it's the theatrics involved. It's like Kabuki theater, really old-fashioned theatrics. Like, standing on top of a piece of plywood lying on some cinderblocks and clapping his hands, banging on a bucket.

Mick Cronin

I was sitting in a gym, and he started banging in threes. I saw him in the Augusta Peach Jam. A lot of people questioned why we recruited him. A lot of people told Tyler that he wouldn't be able to play here. A couple of other coaches when he committed made comments like 'Don't call us when you transfer because you won't play there.' I was confident that he was a good player.

Beau Brown

Basically I was hoping there was going to be some slamming and banging and some guys getting knocked down and I was just waiting for holes to open up.

Katie Smith

She was in there with the trees, banging away. She's fearless and competitive. She looks strong. She's ready to rock and roll.

Nat Wolff

I've been playing my instrument since I was about three or four. That's when I started banging around on the piano, trying to be like The Beatles.

Mario Andretti

In NASCAR, you can do a lot of banging around and get pretty serious and even get yourself upside down. All of those things can happen - and then you give an interview two seconds later.

Ron Gardenhire

We definitely need those guys to hit, that's the middle of the lineup. We need our middle guys to start banging the runs around.

Dan Hawkins

We're going to try a few things to try to clean his mechanics up a little bit. He's capable of really banging it, and he's not doing bad. We're trying to get him to that next level of consistent distance, consistent hang (time) and consistent direction.

Rob Hermann

When he's banging around, he does look like Marlin. A lot of guys do one move and then stop, but Bryant's starting to move into the realm where he flows and it's done well, which takes a while to develop.

Liu Peng

Many people in Taiwan hope that the torch relay of the sacred flame of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games can also cover Taiwan.

Phil English

send a strong signal to Beijing that Congress will not sit idly by while China's mercantilist trade policy injures U.S. employers and costs us jobs.

Irina Slutskaya

I had a small mistake doing a layback spin, that's why I think my score was not as high as in Beijing but I'm still very satisfied with my skate.

Michael Callahan

I couldn't sit in an office in California and tell a Chinese citizen in Beijing not to follow a lawful demand of the Chinese government.

Mo Shaoping

The prosecutor decided to drop the case and the Beijing No. 2 Intermediate Court agreed.

Nicole Mones

They say that the cuisines of different Chinese provinces arose originally to serve different kinds of constituencies. Beijing was the cuisine of officials. In Shanghai, that was the cuisine of wealthy merchants and industrialists. In Szechwan, the food of the common people. Many great Szechwan dishes originated in street stalls.

Liu Wen

My hometown is a very boring city. There isn't a lot of industry - there are a lot of trees. It's not like Beijing where the sky is always dark. In my city the sky is blue and the sun shines.

Richard Caborn

We are investing a quarter of a billion pounds between now and the Beijing Olympics in 2008.

Robin Munro

What they need is some enforcement. More high-level directives from Beijing aren't going to do it.

Liu Zhengrong

Major U.S. companies do this and it is regarded as normal. So why should China not be entitled to do so?

Evan Osnos

Seventy years after China emerged from the Second World War, the greatest threat facing the nation's leadership is not imperialism but skepticism.

Jamie Smith

Secretary Albright was in China with government officials and people in the private sector to help them better understand DP World's interests in China.

Sha Zukang

So it is in that connection I can tell you China will not sit on one hand.

Herbert Lau

Momentum in the two China telecom stocks is slowing because all the good news is in the price now, ... In the near term they will follow the trend in the telecom sector, where there is still some weakness.

Daniel Basse

Much of the run-up this year has to do with a smaller-than-expected crop in China due to excessive rains.

John Snow

Moving to a truly flexible exchange rate requires a lot of preparatory steps. China is seriously engaged in taking these preparatory steps,

Fernando Alonso

McLaren have the pressure to be perfect until China (the season's finale), and if they are not, we will be there to punish them.

Alex Wong

Net interest margins in Hong Kong remain under pressure and Standard Chartered Bank's performance here in 2005 would likely not be as strong as in China and elsewhere in the Asia-Pacific where it has expanded aggressively.

Malcolm McDowell

If you dunk your head in cold water, you can't stay under for more than five seconds. I mean, that's it.

Alamgir Hashmi

Love necessitates eagerness / To shake / January's cold hand / Not avert the eye / And look what comes / To love / Before its making.

Jessica Lowndes

L.A. style is more laid back than London, mainly because it's always sunny. In London, the cold means you get to rock layers. And you can't go wrong with a trench coat!

Bob McDavitt

So here comes another wet cold southerly for Wellington, similar to the one late last week.

Unknown

May you have warm words on a cold evening, A full moon on a dark night, And the road downhill all the way to your door.

Irish Blessings

May you have warm words on a cold evening, a full moon on a dark night and a smooth road all the way to your door.

Ian Shepherdson

One steep drop in housing starts does not make a downward trend, especially in a month which was very wet in the West and very cold in the Northeast. Still, the data are consistent with other signs of a softening housing market, most notably the drop in homebuilders' confidence. What really matters, though, is whether sales will fall fast enough to turn a softening into a collapse.

Scott Meyers

Obviously, we're rising because of the situation in Nigeria , but it also looks like the coldest period of the year is coming up. We're looking at a 10-day spell of cold weather starting Saturday.

Edward Heath

Ocean racing is like standing under a cold shower tearing up ?5 notes.

Tim Bajarin

makes Palm a worthy competitor in enterprise accounts.

Don Peterson

Luke was the only golfer in the two days to shoot under par. His nearest competitor was the young man he was playing with on Saturday. They started out tied and that's why they were paired together.

Perry Wildeboer

(Miller) is the heart and soul of this team. He's a true competitor and we're obviously not the same team without him. Now we need some other players to fill his shoes, shoes that are nearly impossible to fill.

Stephanie McMahon

'Monday Night Football' is a competitor to 'Monday Night Raw.'

Anju George

From 2002 to now, I have competed in many world events and gained more experience during this period. I am totally a different competitor now. I will be putting my experience to better my Manchester performance.

Steve MacDonald

New York has become a serious competitor for feature films and even television production. We need to be concerned.

Arron Afflalo

I was running around celebrating with the rest of my team. But I saw him laying there in tears a little bit. I just felt for him. He's a great player. There's really no reason for him - outside the fact that he's a competitor and wanted to win - that he has to cry. He's a great player and he's going to have a great (NBA) career. He should definitely keep his head up.

Bob Sapp

I would rather have one I have to gear down than one I have to gear up, ... Ryan is a competitor without a doubt. I think he understands it's his senior year and what we have at stake. He understands the situation. That doesn't mean you can't be competitive and can't get after it, but there's a time to stop and a time to go.

Ron Frascht

She wanted to come out and run (in the race). That just shows what a competitor she is.

Ezra Pound

Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.

Tony Stewart

Like I said after we won the Brickyard 400, ... if I die tomorrow, when I wake up, I've had a great life to this point.

Aleksandr Sebryakov

Life is a long dream and when you die you wake-up from the nightmare.

Mark Twain

Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Make sure that our state doesn't get into the same mess that San Diego got into,

Jeff Taylor

Let's live to be 100 or die trying.

Bill Rodgers

Let your running lead you to your diet.

Evan Osnos

Lei Feng is reported to have died in a freak accident in 1962 - struck by a falling telephone pole.

Richard Flanagan

Love stories seek to demonstrate the great truth of love: that we discover eternity in a moment that dies immediately after.

Jeremih

I got my first set of drums when I was around 3. I went from band to marching band to Latin jazz band - it's like riding a bike.

Johann Gottfried

Touch not the flute when drums are sounding around; when fools have the word, the wise will be silent.

Curtis Jackson

Puffy's contribution to hip-hop culture was the remix. He offered us the music that his mom played in front of him, with newer drums and younger artists. That worked, and will consistently be there. The remix comes right after the original record, that's something Puffy did to influence the culture.

Pat Mastelotto

Not really, drums found me, I just liked music, all kinds of music.

Damien Chazelle

I didn't feel the kind of joy every day playing drums that I thought you were supposed to feel.

Taylor Lautner

I've always kind of had an interest in the drums but nothing else. The drums are the only thing I feel I would be good at, because I'm a very physical person. I've always played sports and stuff. Drums would give me something to do.

Sheila E.

Having that music around us all the time, it was so inspiring. But at the same time, I was a kid. I didn't pay attention to any of it. I'd get on the drums and hit them a few times, and then go outside and play.

Ashley Tisdale

I wrote a song with Kara DioGuardi called 'What If,' and it's a really beautiful song. It's kind of like a rock ballad. There's a lot of guitars and drums in it.

Jack Hall

T.K. is ready to get back out and play, but his drums are pretty much a mess, so we have to get him some new ones.

Michael Levy

Never be frightened to take a profit. Better in your pocket then theirs.

Tom Stoppard

If I see an actor in a role that is really terrifying, no matter how many times I meet him socially, I'm still frightened of him. I think he's going to hit me.

Kevin McCloud

I hate negativity. I hate people who say the phrase 'I hate'. I really don't like the word 'hate.' Dislike, frightened of, terrified of, or yukky - but not 'hate.'

Mandy Patinkin

I'm not frightened about terrorism. I'm frightened about the roots of what we call terrorism.

Bat for Lashes

I'm not really frightened by experimenting - that's the main thing. I really like mixing very old beautiful pieces that are from thrift shops or that have some historical value with quite new futuristic things.

Jamie Foxx

As a kid, I was scared of losing my mind. In Terrell, Texas, where I grew up, there was a guy that would walk down the street talking to himself. And I used to watch him and feel uneasy. And there was a sanitarium where people would say, 'That's where all the crazy people go.' It really sort of frightened me.

Jane Green

I consider myself pretty fearless, but the one thing I have always been frightened of is cancer.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

... deep down nobody is bad, only frightened.

Karen Smith

We're talking about a frightened little seven-year-old girl here.

Gregg Bahen

Lucky for us, games are played on the field. It was a physical game and our kids are going to be sore tomorrow, but, without a doubt, they'll be happy tomorrow.

Jena Torres

Let's just say we've had a lot of five-inning games this year.

Matt Hasselbeck

Last year, the first two games we didn't play well offensively. For whatever reason we just hadn't clicked. It will come around. I still feel good about what we have done and where we are at.

Chris Latham

Last year we were losing games out of stupidity, out of our own stupid mistakes; this time we just ran out of legs.

Alex Gardiner

Many of them will be back in 2010. They'll have seen their first Games and they'll be able to perform at a different level.

Mark Mulder

Seven games into the season. Sure, it's not what you expect, but it's seven games into the season. I'm sure nobody's worried. I love our bullpen. I love the way those guys throw and I love the way they go about it. I think they're going to be just fine.

Vince McMahon

send a message to its competitors and get the paranoid mind games advantage.

Jeff Nelson

mind games ... when you retire, you're glad to get rid of that, I'm sure. It can weigh on you.

Kyle Orton

Muhsin played well and made some plays, ... I thought the other receivers played well and (running back Thomas) Jones played really well. Muhsin is a veteran guy who has been there and played in big games before.

Jerry Costello

Maintaining clean, safe water remains one of our greatest national and global challenges and responsibilities.

Donald Fagen

September 11, on a global scale, and my mother dying, on a personal level, were the two major things that got me thinking about all of this.

John McGreevy

One of the attractions for us is Mark's interest in global Christianity.

Thomas Friedman

Al Qaeda is nothing more than a mutant supply chain. They're playing off the same platform as Wal-Mart and Dell. They're just not restrained by it. What is al Qaeda? It's an open source religious political movement that works off the global supply chain. That's what we're up against in Iraq. We're up against a suicide supply chain.

Yoshihiro Maruyama

For Xbox, Japan really is a key, important market in the global strategy that we have,

Ron Redmond

From a global perspective, refugee is a neutral term.

Michael Ignatieff

When we say, even in a global village, that all politics is local, we mean that national sovereignties are the only reliable source of political authority.

Nicholas Burns

If we're to maintain our position as a global power, we need a power like India.

Ryan Donovan

She will have a heavy global travel schedule as well.

Jennifer Wright

Many schools throughout the nation provide a post prom for students and find it to be a very successful event.

Mikko Hypponen

Online crime is practically always international, because they almost always cross traditional national borders.

Mystikal

I did my thing with Jive. I was a national recording artist, but I had run into a wall.

Emma Udwin

From now on, there will be no more payments through the National Palestinian Authority.

Abdul Kalam

When a nation is surrounded by weaponized nations, she has to equip herself.

Foster Friess

On the national security front, Rick Santorum is superior to any candidate I know.

Paul Wolfowitz

If we're not true to our principles, we're not serving our national interest.

Charde Houston

She has two national championships under her belt. She has to be like that.

Mohammad Khatami

If this nation says we don't want you, we will go.

Mike Gonzalez

I feel like I'm right where I need to be. I feel like I'm really sharp right now and ready to pitch in a regular-season game. I wish opening day was tomorrow.

Barry Bonds

If Opening Day was tomorrow and I had to go out there, I'd go out there. It's what I get paid to do.

Dan Hedges

If they come away from your opening statement confused, you're in big trouble for the rest of the trial.

Anthony Geary

I have friends in France who are artists. I go to gallery openings and things like that.

L.A. Reid

I live for opening doors for the young generation of creators. If we do nothing else with our success, let's open up some doors.

Bill Richardson

I'm not a big believer in doing things unilaterally. I'm a big believer in opening up a dialogue and figuring out how we can make something work for all people.

Alan Horowitz

We're going to party opening night. And we want everyone to come out and party with us.

Robert Niro

(United) 93,' if it was not opening the festival, it would seem strange.

Bill Vickroy

We're just selling tickets for the opening sessions for all these games.

Christopher Morley

If you have to keep reminding yourself of a thing, perhaps it isn't so.

Ted Koppel

Why? Because those are desperately important issues, and you need to keep reminding the public,

Yao Ming

It was like if I didn't keep reminding myself, I'd make mistakes.

Markus Zusak

I see Death as the part of us that knows all the time that we're going to die, reminding us to live properly.

Karl Marx

There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism.

Don Miguel Ruiz

For thousands of years, there have been lies about being gay or not being gay. If you know they're lies, you're free.

Eddie Compass

thousands of people, who want to voluntarily evacuate at this time.

Ron Redmond

There are tens of thousands in there who are probably going hungry,

Mark Schultz

Wrestling will be around forever. It's been around thousands of years. It's going to be around till the end of time.

Jake Shulaw

He's doing a lot more wrestling now. But sometimes it comes back because he's drilled in thousands and thousands of times.

Kay Nehm

There will be thousands of dead. You will all think of me.

Alexandra Paul

If the whole world went vegan, there would be less war. How you eat determines your mood and your outlook on life.

Alexandra Fuller

You can't rewind war. It spools on, and on, and on, looping and jumping, distorted and cracked with age, and the stories contract until only the nuggets of hatred remain and no one can even remember, or imagine, why the war was organized in the first place.

Alexandra Fuller

The land itself, of course, was careless of its name. It still is. You can call it what you like, fight all the wars you want in its name. Change its name altogether if you like. The land is still unblinking under the African sky. It will absorb white man's blood and the blood of African men, it will absorb blood from slaughtered cattle and the blood from a woman's birthing with equal thirst. It doesn't care.

Ludwig von Mises

Whoever wishes peace among peoples must fight statism.

Ludwig von Mises

It is merely a metaphor to call competition competitive war, or simply, war. The function of battle is destruction; of competition, construction.

Ludwig von Mises

Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.

Ludwig von Mises

Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things.

Ludwig von Mises

Wars of aggression are popular nowadays with those nations convinced that only victory and conquest could improve their material well-being.

Ludwig von Mises

War is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror. Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things. Only economic action has created the wealth around us; labor, not the profession of arms, brings happiness. Peace builds, war destroys.