Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Johnson

If she has a good, strong, reliable father image, which is hard to find these days, that will be her image of men, probably for the rest of her life. She'll look for a husband who embodies those qualities.

Kitty Carlisle

The next thing that happened to me was that I, we, were living in Paris where I then grew up.

Kitty Carlisle

So in those days, they were scooping up any young person who could sing and look decent, ah, at the same time.

Cynthia Nelms

Life! Can't live with it, can't live without it.

Benny Carter

Leonard Feather... was the one who arranged for me to come to London to work for the BBC, and we remained friends until Leonard passed away in 1994.

Mose Allison

Louis Jordan, I always liked him as well.

Steve Cropper

Lorne finally said, Do the Blues Brothers thing. The response was amazing. People went nuts.

Shannyn Sossamon

Less Than Zero and American Psycho were both really different, so I was just like, Okay, he's just really doesn't have anything pleasant to say, you know? But I get it. I get at least why it's difficult and what he's really doing.

Norman Granz

Many movie people, who would never have dreamt of using jazz arrangers for scores, are doing it frequently now, even though they water them down.

Craig Faire

Mackenzie made Russell work extra hard for every shot.

Jason Bohn

Making that last putt gave me an extra hour of sleep tomorrow.

Peter Harding

Last year we had extra officers on the island, but these things escalate very, very quickly.

Kevin McCormick

Sebring is one of our bread-and-butter sedans in terms of providing good, solid transportation at a good price. The incentives put a little extra value on it." ()

Brendan Barber

Millions are still putting in up to an extra day a week for free.

Gareth Thomas

Of course, there is extra pressure. If we are truthful, I think all the press and everyone else would like us to go there and lose because that is what they want.

Ted Hughes

Maybe making an extra mortgage payment -- that's a great idea.

Joe Young

Fremont is a big turnaround story for us. We are investing in extra volume and increasing capacity.

Peter Beattie

The plan is to extract 7.5 million metric tons of bauxite every year in order to produce 2.1 million tons of alumina each year from the refinery.

Fred Schneider

Australians are geniuses with a good sense of humour.

Bill Belichick

I think, for the most part, you're looking at players who are in roles, or situations, as probably being the swing guys on those numbers. I don't know if the geniuses referred to that or not. Probably not,

Shawn Levy

Why hire these geniuses if they're forced to stick with the script? You want to empower your actors as collaborators.

James Cash Penney

Geniuses themselves don't talk about the gift of genius, they just talk about hard work and long hours.

Oprah Winfrey

See, that's what geniuses know, ... They know they're a genius. When geniuses take the test they say, 'well, I'm a genius, of course, I'm going to score.'

Suzanne Lloyd

There's a movie in that story. Three geniuses having explosions.

Isabella Rossellini

There is often a great disparity between a director's personal style and the movies he makes.

Kristy Swanson

I can't ask for every movie I make to be great and brilliant. I can only try.

Mallory Ortberg

In the hands of a passive-aggressive person who wants to abdicate responsibility for things, texting is a great tool. You can really go nuts.

Malorie Blackman

Being the Children's Laureate has been educational, sometimes hectic, but most of all, great fun.

Jerry Reinsdorf

Like I said, Dennis has been of great value to our team.

Danny Kaye

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.

Danny Kaye

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.

Scott Peck

Life is difficult. This is the great truth, one of the greatest truthsit is a great truth because once we see this truth, we transcend it.

William Congreve

Let us be very strange and well-bred: Let us be as strange as if we had been married a great while; and as well-bred as if we were not married at all.

Jeremy Davenport

New Orleans is where jazz was born, and jazz is my passion.

Debra Wilson

And I used to listen to a lot of jazz.

Dizzy Gillespie

How do I know why Miles walks off the stage? Why don't you ask him? And besides, maybe we'd all like to be like Miles, and just haven't got the guts.

Dizzy Gillespie

Jazz will be the classical music of the future.

Chuck D.

I had just seen the movie 'Young Man With a Horn' about jazz musician Bix Beiderbecke. So I told him I'd take one of those.

John Reynolds

I do a lot (of business) with local jazz players.

Baz Luhrmann

I grew up around jazz. I love jazz.

Paul Horn

You have to go out and learn jazz by playing.

Chris Carter

I love jazz and funk, because it's hard. If it's not hard, it's not worth doing.

Nhat Hanh

To be a monk is to have time to practice for your transformation and healing. And after that to help with the transformation and healing of other people.

Chris Avellone

Women were the reason I became a monk - and, ah, the reason I switched back.

Ben Bradlee

You never monkey with the truth.

Mario Maddy

We've taken the monkey off our back. Now, Sandpoint is beatable.

Alan Garner

When a monkey nibbles on a weenis, it's funny in any language.

Bob Dylan

Little red wagon, little red bike, I ain’t no monkey but I know what I like.

Eli Roth

I'll direct any movie starring a monkey or the Olsen Twins. Preferably both.

Jamee Juarez

(Hitting) is very contagious. It's kind of like monkey see, monkey do.

Susanna Moore

People will be able to survive, of course, without honeycreepers and monk seals. But if the wolf spider is in trouble, we are in trouble, too.