Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Jackson

The creation of this new role reflects a new emphasis on major one-off entertainment evenings. ITV is the home of big, talked-about events that unite mass audiences and we are keen to find more new and exciting opportunities in this area.

Steve Robinson

The Cows have continued to stay popular with our audiences. They are endearing personalities that are staunch supporters of chicken, and our customers not only find them humorous, but they enjoy watching to see what they might say or do. You never know where the Cows might show up next.

August Wilson

I think it was the ability of the theater to communicate ideas and extol virtues that drew me to it. And also, I was, and remain, fascinated by the idea of an audience as a community of people who gather willingly to bear witness.

Suzy Menkes

I was taken to my first fashion show - Nina Ricci haute couture - in Paris by the White Russian princess, down on her luck, whom I was boarding with in Paris in 1963. I was captivated by the glamour of the gilded salon, the elegant clothes, and the audience of grand ladies.

Samuel L. Jackson

I look at myself as an audience member. I still love movies, and I still go and sit in the back of the big dark room with everybody else, and I want the same thrill.

Stefan Sagmeister

I had given a presentation on design and happiness for quite a long while at design conferences. I had found thinking about the topic helpful for my own practice, as it forced me to consider the fundamentals, and the feedback from the audience was always enthusiastic.

Til Schweiger

The Russian male audience, they loved 'Knockin' on Heaven's Door,' and they like my comedies, but the Russian male audience is action, action, action.

Tom Goodman-Hill

You have to make decisions - you know what you think. That doesn't mean the audience are aware of your decisions or what you think - the lines you're saying may have ambiguity.

Tom Bissell

All video games are games, obviously. They're designed. They're digital. They have rules; they give an audience some type of vicarious experience.

Simon Horrocks

We were always a fun-oriented jam band. We were never one of those bands that played the framework of the song and jammed on it for six hours. Maybe a few hours, but not six.

George Ade

We've sold more than 60,000 tickets, so after we get all the bands and other non-ticketed folks in, we'll be close to capacity. We will definitely sell out.

Kathryn Xian

The fact that most of the bands are made up of guys shows a positive representation of young men. This is the kind of energy we need in the forefront.

Leon Bridges

There are a lot of bands who would get really big in Fort Worth and play shows on a Friday night that everybody would come out to. But I've never been really big in my hometown. My shows would have 10 or 15 people at them.

Tom Scholz

Trying to get my music performed live by bar bands was a self defeating experience. It really just distracted me from what I should've been doing all along, writing and recording.

Mike Dirnt

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

LaMarr Woodley

Having bands in the NFL would take up seats. If you take up seats in the NFL, you're losing money.

Steve Harwell

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

Laurent Brancowitz

The bands you like and know that are French are always outsiders in the French music industry - Daft Punk, Air.

Carol Moseley Braun

I'm used to people not paying me a whole lot of attention and underestimating me and, frankly, for me a big challenge is to have people believe that I can be the president of the United States.

Carol Moseley Braun

I believe that our message of rebuilding America is one that will resonate with the American people.

Carlos Mencia

I don't have the time to steal other people's material even if I wanted to. The reason why these rumors got started is that I don't really contest them because I don't believe they deserve contesting. I really don't.

Carlos Mencia

God has a sense of humor. If you don't believe me, tomorrow go to wal-mart and just look at people.

Carlos Ghosn

I don't believe in hostile moves. I don't believe they carry any value.

Carlos Ghosn

Don't believe what I say. Believe what I do.

Carlos Castaneda

... when confronted with unusual life situations... A warrior acts as if nothing had ever happened, because he doesn't believe in anything, yet he accepts everything at its face value.

Carlos Castaneda

What is wrong with us human beings, and has been wrong since time immemorial, is that without ever stating it in so many words, we believe that we have entered the realm of immortality. We behave as if we are never going to die - an infantile arrogance. But even more injurious than this sense of immortality is what comes with it : the sense that we can engulf this inconcievable universe with our minds.

Carl Bernstein

Even at the end of a presidential election campaign, we have no way to know what Mitt Romney really believes.

Keith Emerson

We set the stage worldwide to go into the new millenium. I have all the music. Carl Palmer loves the music, he wants to play it.

Eric Clapton

The first one was quite cheap, but that was expensive for us. For my folks to buy on the Never Never. It was quite, you know, a rare object to have and I gained quite a lot of status by having this.

Eric Clapton

Yeah, I wanted to know where they got it from, what it was all about, you know, and it seemed to strike something in me that was you know rearing it's head and I still don't know what that is.

Mark Knopfler

After a while, though, the group just wasn't a good vehicle for the songs I'd written.

Norman Cook

I think English people were a lot better at breakdancing than they were at making records.

Norman Cook

I'm very superstitious... I never shout at magpies, walk under ladders or put my shoes on the table.

Liam Gallagher

I refuse to dance. And I can't dance anyway. I'm not in a band for that.

Keith Emerson

There's a clip where he had someone miming me running around from keyboard to keyboard. Oh dear, I am sure a lot of people didn't know what he was going on about.

Keith Emerson

We'll be presenting a broad spectrum of the music and looking at how the younger guys can carry it on.

Carlos Castaneda

Any path is only a path, and there is no affront to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you.

Gary Locke

We want to promote people-to-people exchanges so that China and the United States can really join together, not just to solve the problems of China or the United States, but some of the big problems facing the entire world. From climate change to famine to even terrorism.

George Graham

We have schools teaching yoga, rock-climbing, martial arts, fly-fishing, ... If a kid is in a program that hasn't changed from when the parents were in school, it's just not OK.

Oliver Kahn

We have a small lead over Werder Bremen but things can change quickly. We were lucky in this game.

Oliver Kahn

We have a slight lead over Bremen now, but at this level everything can change in an instant.

Lynn Fox

We have no plans to change the guidance policy.

Stephane Dion

We have no choice but to act. Climate change is the worst threat the world is facing from an environmental perspective. It's putting at risk our relationship with the planet.

Dan Bartlett

What the public wants is back-to-basics governance and decision-making. This is not a situation in which it changes overnight or that there's a 'Hail Mary' pass that changes the dynamic. . . . There's not a magic bullet.

Matt Barnes

Whenever we need some kind of big play to change the course of the game, we look for Crosby to do it. He's always a threat to score no matter where he has the ball.

Cael Sanderson

Unless you continually work, evolve, and innovate, you'll learn a quick and painful lesson from someone who has.

Al Jourgensen

Everything shapes you to be the person you are today. Sometimes hard lessons pay off dividends.

Chris Colfer

No matter what you do, you can never please everyone. And that was the hardest lesson to learn. In fact, I'm still learning it.

Eckhart Tolle

Whenever anything negative happens to you, there is a deep lesson concealed within it, although you may not see it at the time

Arthur Conan Doyle

Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.

Brian Tracy

Your current situations or problems have been sent to you to teach you valuable lessons for success and happiness. What are they?

Brian Tracy

Failure is an indispensable prerequisite of success. It is how you learn the lessons you need.

Jane Campion

I'm a much better filmmaker than painter. But studying it did make me visually acute and taught me lessons like being economic: Say something once and you don't have to say it again.

Charlie Munger

A Lesson on Elementary, Worldly Wisdom As It Relates To Investment Management & Business

E. B. White

We have security alarms; it's like trying to rob a bank, we know when someone tries to get in here. You'd have to be pretty naive to think a place like this didn't have alarms.

Mike Phillips

We get a lot of inquiries from naive people.

Rob Bibler

Here you have a true innocent, rather than a naive adult.

Julie Gerberding

I think it would be naive to say we'd have it in under a year.

Ann Landers

I was naive, but I certainly was not duplicitous.

Sophia Amoruso

I often say my naivete early on in my career worked in my favor.

Sarah Hawthorne

It's naive to think that you're not going to have unexpected barriers. In real life, they occur all the time.

Donna Karan

It's naive and sweet, yet at the same time it has a sensuality because it shows your breasts.

Frank Richards

All big things in this world are done by people who are naive and have an idea that is obviously impossible.

Stevie Jackson

When I'm making records, I like it to be quite fast. Don't let the band learn it too well.

Richard Cook

We're in a state where we're not quite sure what's happened,

Bob Hartley

We have a pond, and I've never seen it come up so fast. I haven't seen this much (rain) for quite awhile.

Kate Smith

Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously.

Buddy Bell

Woody wasn't throwing at him. But, quite frankly, Doug did what he had to do to keep things from escalating.

Ruth Asawa

Sculpture is like farming. If you just keep at it, you can get quite a lot done.

E. B. White

She stayed until her shift was over at 6. She's fine, but she was quite shook up.

Rudyard Kipling

She was as immutable as the hills. But not quite so green.

Elizabeth Hardwick

She was extraordinary. She had her own voice and her own tone and her own subject matter. There was no one quite like her in American literature.

Carlos Mencia

I'm glad Hurricane Katrina happened. It taught us an important lesson: black people can't swim.

Charles Spurgeon

Do not begin to teach others until the Lord has taught you.

Dave Barry

I was a middle-of-the-road Democrat more than anything else. I know I voted for Carter. Watergate taught me how bad the Republicans were.

Bryan Stevenson

My parents, who grew up in terror and dealt with segregation and humiliation, nonetheless taught us to be hopeful and open and loving and not hateful toward anyone.

John McEnroe

This taught me a lesson, but I'm not quite sure what it is.

Alan Watts

The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens.

Alan Paton

Life has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors. She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.

Juvenal

We are all easily taught to imitate what is base and depraved. [Lat., Dociles imitandis Turpibus ac pravis omnes sumus.]

Cass McCombs

When I was young, I used to go to Baha'i camp, and they taught me a lot about the equality of religions.

Michael Barrett

Whenever we lose, he thinks he's going to have cardiac arrest.

Erica Cerra

I've always been a person who thinks it's really important to better themselves.

Pope Francis

A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges is not Christian. This is not in the Gospel.

Dennis Ross

When one thinks about religion, one should think about peace.

Walter Lippmann

Where all think alike, no one thinks very much

Von Joshua

He's a lot better than he thinks he is.

John Breaux

He'll tell it like it is. If he thinks something is not right, he'll holler about it. I'd be hollering at everybody, too.

Jim MacDonald

Whatever (Town Administrator William Keegan) thinks is right,

Shane Warne

I think everyone out there thinks that there's been hundreds and hundreds and thousands of women. That is not actually the case.