Famous Quotes & Sayings

Herbie Hancock

Recently I've been listening to Mahler; it's beautiful stuff. I just saw a performance of Mahler's Eighth Symphony on television, and it was awesome. The music was so gorgeous I wasn't just crying tears, I was sobbing.

Patricia Sun

Patriotism is a beautiful thing - to love your country, your land, and your people and have a deep emotional affinity. But it can be so easily corrupted to polarized thinking, to harming others and ourselves if we don't realize what it is that is beautiful. It is beautiful because it is love.

Peter Malkin

Particularly, I enjoy strolling in the streets, watching passersby, gazing at the beautiful variety of the dresses and perceiving their joy; their sadness. At home, during the small hours of the night, I'll paint from memory what I have seen in the streets until I am under the impression of being with them again.

Alice Hogan

Such an ugly thing to happen in such a beautiful place.

Mark Twain

Surgeons and anatomists see no beautiful women in all their lives, but only a ghastly stack of bones with Latin names to them, and a network of nerves and muscles and tissues inflamed by disease.

Tom DeLay

Sure, when you get this number of people, there are stories of sexual exploitation. But in interviewing these employees one-on-one, there was no evidence of any of that going on. No evidence of sweatshops as portrayed by the national media. It's a beautiful island with beautiful people who are happy about what's happening.

Jim Murren

Our core competence is making beautiful and creative space that makes people feel special. So they took that care and put it in a medical setting. Everybody was motivated by a personal experience. We tried our best to put ourselves in the shoes of the patients and families and how they might feel.

Jim Willis

Robbie is probably the fastest kid on the team, and has a beautiful touch. He has played everywhere off the bench for us, and has fit in wherever he has played.

Ronnie Cates

Right there on the lake with the sun going down, (the amphitheater) is a beautiful structure. It's just a great way to enjoy an evening.

David Decker

Sure, we bought some too early, ... But take out calendar-year performances and look longer term. Over the time we've held them, those names have turned out to be pretty good investments for our shareholders.

David Gornall

Some of the reasons why people bought gold don't hold true anymore. Rising energy costs, inflation, the double deficit in the U.S. and geopolitical tension. None of them seem to be much of a problem.

Louise Bennett

Some of the people who bought tickets told us to keep the money.

Terry Davis

Some journalists may be silenced through intimidation, others may be bought into compliance, but the end result remains the same because democracy cannot properly function without media which is genuinely free of governmental interference and control.

Shigeru Endo

Some investors bought back debt that they sold on speculation consumer prices would post a gain.

Doc Sadler

That crowd was terrific. I don't know if we could have won the game without them. And I know there were people who couldn't come, sitting home by their radios, and they helped us, too. SMU is one of the top four teams in the conference and I'm glad we've got them out of the way. Our defense was key. Our defense is something we work hard on and something the kids have bought into. We also held them (the Mustangs) to only seven offensive rebounds. Doing that to a team like that is big.

Mark Driscoll

Our fans really stepped up for us; I thought they were great. I think we had about 3,500 fans there, and those who couldn't come still bought tickets and sent in money to help us. I feel really good about the whole experience.

Dan Zweifel

Play solid half-court defense, don't do anything fancy, really kind of dumb our offense down. The kids really bought into it.

H. Hart

Manuel has brought stability, he has bought long term predictability, he has brought pragmatism to the whole field of the budget and the economy.

Mark Burnett

Rock stars are colorful personalities and charismatic performers who make great reality TV characters,

Alan Stevens

I think more people should plant more flowers in more places, to make the world a more colorful place.

and City

frank sexual discussions and tell colorful jokes and stories (and even make expressive gestures) as part of the creative process.

Peter Judge

I think the colorful terms have made a difference in defining the sport as part of a revitalization of the Olympics.

Isaac Mizrahi

I don't want it taken too seriously, I want to encourage people to surround themselves with fun, colorful things. It's all about color.

Audrey Moore

He was a colorful guy and very sincere guy. I'm saddened because he's gone.

Christopher Darden

My creative juices really don't stall. I like to write in a very straightforward, conversational way, but of course it has to be colorful as well.

Lucy Liu

She was colorful and wonderful. When you do television, it goes into everyone's living room and they feel like they can watch you every week.

French Montana

I feel like, you know, some people like to wear colorful stuff. Some people like to be blacked down, and some people just want to be colorful. Some people just have weird problems. I'm never going to wear a pink sweater. Some people just do it because they feel like they can do it.

Saul Steinberg

People who see a drawing in the "New Yorker" will think automatically that it's funny because it is a cartoon. If they see it in a museum, they think it is artistic; and if they find it in a fortune cookie they think it is a prediction.

David Larsen

Maybe now I'll be able to have a couple of extra cookies or ice cream after dinner without feeling so guilty. Or, without my wife yelling at me.

Bill Cosby

Have you ever had a cookie? Then you won't get any here either.

David Nieves

That would be like us sitting in the kitchen for two hours with our mouths open waiting for a cookie to jump into our mouths.

Wally Amos

I always wanted to have another cookie store, ... So 30 years later, we have another cookie store.

Kevin O'Connell

He'd be responsible for thinking up the next type of cookie and handle all the taste-testing. Smiley would report directly to Jerome.

Francis Wollenzien

I have my grandma's cookie jar. The one I put my hand into as a child.

Paul Henderson

God wants your soul for all eternity. All Santa requires is cookies and milk... One night out of the year. Santa Claus... What a guy!

Andy Williams

No cookie . . . not now . . . not ever . . . never !

Johnny Damon

Regardless of the reaction, I felt the fans wanted to see that.

Dan Fellman

Releasing select sequences of Superman Returns in IMAX 3D marks a groundbreaking moment in movies. This film is going to give fans an opportunity to be immersed in a major live-action motion picture like never before.

John DeMarco

Parker was so overpowering, and so good on his feet, he could take you down and pin you all in one move. It was different than what everyone else was doing, and the fans wanted to see him.

Neal Schon

Our original fans really had a hard time. But then we gained a whole slew of brand-new fans that outweighed the initial fans.

Scott Owens

Our league is getting great players. It's the place to go and it's great to be a WCHA fan right now. Our league is getting younger. Don't be surprised to see the freshmen produce the way veterans do.

Gerard Way

Surrounding myself with fans makes me feel like I'm not going throgh it alone.

Stu Melby

Stephanie did a fantastic job. She has grown by leaps and bounds. She is a great person to have around the team.

Bill Furlong

Steelers' fans are rabid about posters. They're selling for $24. Seahawks posters are more in the $14 range.

Jennifer Wright

Some of the stuff they do is so fancy it is probably collegiate level.

David Perkins

Parramatta are only looking at under-15s, unless there is someone exceptional,

Atul Lele

Patrick shares are going to be up near A$8 because that is what the market was looking for before it was blocked. When it got shot down by the regulator everyone was disappointed, but upwards of A$8 is what is needed.

Patti Lovemark

Part of the problem with that is if you're looking at very young students, you're not going to see that big gap.

Darin Erstad

Sure, we know we can get it done, but we feel that way anyway. We have to keep looking forward.

Jack Warner

Our training as a team is on pace. We are looking better than we did a year ago.

Robert Cox

Red-light violations in the first year are typically decreased by 50 percent. That is the primary reason for us looking into something like this.

David Bennett

I was just looking to see if they were going for two.

Roy Williams

I was just, ... looking into his eyes.

E. Hicks

I was just looking for a pitch to hit.

Jim Frederick

Our restaurant is operated by our family, for families.

Kathleen Bergen

Many airports operate very safely without an ASDE system.

Steven Taylor

I will have it operated on as soon as possible now, and get back as quickly as I can.

Shamil Basayev

live participant of that operation who is ready to testify.

George Allen

I think if you're going to operate a motorcycle, two wheel vehicle or three wheel vehicle you out to be insured just like I'm insured.

David Moffett

I feel that the operations could and should have been performed a lot sooner,

Jay Kim

From an operating point of view, the result was slightly better than what we expected.

Steve Donner

From that point of view, the taxpayers are well protected, and there is a risk and a reward for us operating the stadium.

Mark Cooper

Basically, you've got one and two in programming and one and two in system operations now all interconnected in a little knot.

Tyler Smith

Our parents paid for the sheet music. They are doing fundraisers.

Robert Parker

Just doing what I'm supposed to do! That's why I get paid the big bucks!

Nancy Pelosi

The American people paid the price of corruption.

Mike Jenkins

That's the hook. Sometimes we think we are taller than we are but that time it paid off.

Joey Goodspeed

That's what I get paid to do so I take a lot of pride in it,

Bob Gainey

I think it was the right reaction to the moment. We paid a price, but it wasn't too costly this time.

Claudia Smith

I worked all my life, paid for my house, just remodeled it and then boom. It's hard. There's nothing to do. I don't know what's next.

Chris Hall

I was very pleased with Michael's performance in only his second paid outing.

Mark Chmura

I didn't do it to grandstand. I'm being paid to render an opinion. That's essentially what I did.

Jason Aldean

The only person that anybody's ever said I resemble is a young Elvis. It used to happen a lot more when I was younger, and more when I don't wear a hat.

Bill Uttley

This won't resemble anything that is in Hilliard now.

Tiffany Moulton

Everything you'd find in a floral arrangement, we have something to resemble it in fruit.

Brian Young

Some of the (people) actually saw a three-foot shark swimming down I-10,

Bede Griffiths

I suddenly saw that all the time it was not I who had been seeking God, but God who had been seeking me. I had made myself the centre of my own existence and had my back turned to God.

Anand Gopal

I was living near the Twin Towers on 9/11, so I saw the attacks, and I had friends who were killed in the attacks.

Shawn Chacon

Just getting ahead. I watched Smally do it all day yesterday, and I saw how that turned out for him.

Bill Burr

Patrice O'Neal is the best comic I ever saw.

E. B. White

That was a train wreck that we saw in New Orleans,

John Nicks

That was the first time I ever saw her distraught.

John Whiting

That's the sort of simplistic thing we'd like to avoid, ... That was a train wreck that we saw in New Orleans.

Christyne Nicholas

I think people, for the first time, saw New Yorkers unfiltered.