Famous Quotes & Sayings

Konrad Hilbers

We are pleased to have secured such an important element in creating our new service, one that will benefit songwriters, artists and consumers alike.

Billy Joel

There are certain artists who have taken it upon themselves to save the world, and I find that gets tiresome. I think the artist's first obligation is to the art, not to the issues . . . I think if I have something to say the best way to do that is just to tell a damn good story.

Hedda Sterne

Artists were always referred to as great artists. I thought that's what the profession was. One word: great-artist. There wasn't one moment in my life when I thought I wanted to be anything else.

Leslie Allen

We want to give a visual example of the project's intention, inspire other artists to submit proposals and get local merchants to sponsor those artists,

Jose Gonzalez

When your hair is rising, that's when you know it's a good song - that's happened to me with some artists and some songs, John Lennon songs or when Nina Simone sings. It's great to make those moments yourself.

Nathan Sawaya

What do young, budding artists do, but go to law school? I had creative periods now and again, but it wasn't until I was practicing law that I really needed a creative outlet. I'd come home from long days at the office and draw, paint, and sculpt from clay, wire - even candy.

Nicholas Haslam

I tend to look out for things with a resonance to my youth - artists or objects that seemed romantic all those years ago. I never buy anything purely for its value. I like possessions that smile back at me.

Kathy Savitt

We believe that Bill Maher's interviews with some of the world's most renowned and up-and-coming artists and entertainers will offer customers unique insight into the motivations and inspirations behind the books, films, and music they love.

Richard Duffy

We felt it was important for people to have that part of their life available in the Helena community. Now there are many artists here in the Helena community. There are artists who have moved here for that very reason.

Lenny Roybal

We've won some close games this year, and that's made us better. We made a lot of mistakes late to let them back into the game, but we responded.

Gordon Hartwell

We want to try and shut down the inside game. We have to try and close the paint, which is what we tried to do all season, anyway.

Shafiq Rasul

We want to show the world what is happening there. We want the place to be closed down.

Mark Regev

We want to see maximum movement at the crossings, but that decision has to be weighed next to the very real security threats that there are, ... If we opened every crossing and there were a wave of suicide bombings, then we'd just have to close everything down again.

Muddy Waters

Our little house was way back in the country. We had one house close to us, and hell the next one would've been a mile. If you got sick, you could holler and wouldn't nobody hear you.

Rob Morosi

The other two ramps which will be closed are from the southbound Lodge to north and southbound Telegraph.

Scott Warren

The other students help us out, and it's a way to help them out in return. It helps me get closer to other students doing this.

Jamie Sandison

The performance of European equities corresponds closely to the strength of the dollar.

Bob Grove

We value the partnership we've had with them over the years. They do a great job. We're interested in negotiating something a little closer to market value.

Stephen Colvin

The point of doing the lounges is another way of connecting with our readers and for readers to connect with the Maxim brand,

Dan Favreau

We started connecting with some of our passes. It's tough on this field because it's smaller, but we made the passes we needed to and made the most of our chances.

Craig Hatkoff

Whether we're talking about books, music or film, it's all about storytelling. You get a powerful new way of connecting with people once you hear their stories.

Fred Delk

We're not connecting the dots. That's unfortunate, and I don't think there is any money left to do it.

Ken Goldberg

What was really interesting to me about 'The Telegarden' was this idea of connecting the physical world, the natural world, and the social world through the Internet.

Jim Glassman

When I hear (about a housing bubble) I get the sense that people aren't connecting the dots.

Rose Rosetree

She makes a gesture toward connecting with other people, but she doesn't go very far.

Amar'e Stoudemire

The fact that I am not Jewish by religion does not prevent me from connecting to the Jewish nation's spirituality.

Joseph Cirincione

The real danger is cherry-picking the data to support a preconceived idea and then connecting the dots to form a faulty picture. This is what happened in Iraq.

Matt Bowman

We're in a funk, definitely. I don't even know what to say. We can hit the ball. We proved that earlier in the season. But we're still confident. We've got our heads up and we're looking toward tomorrow.

Jermaine Dye

When he first hit it, I thought it was probably gone. It had just gotten cold. Maybe earlier when it was warm it would have gone out.

Doc Sadler

We felt like we could pick up 94 feet - something we were doing earlier in the year when we had more bodies.

Steve Sherman

We're going to have to force the issue a little earlier than we wanted to.

Robert Rainy

The earlier practice of the Church had been more or less to employ in worship under the presidency of the pastor or pastors, the gifts of the congregation.

Bret Tuetken

Like everyone else, they wanted to take Hope and Maria out of the game. I told the girls earlier today that someone is going to get open shots.

Erich Bergen

A lot of my friends were a lot into theatre a lot earlier than I was. A lot of my friends were kids who were in The Broadway Kids and the kids auditioning for Gavroche in 'Les Miz.' I was never that kid. I was weaned on Michael Jackson. Not literally, because that would have been odd.

Ken Goldstein

We might be out of recession already. The recovery could be more vigorous than earlier anticipated.

Mike Harper

She had a good year last year. If we could have supported her at all with some runs, especially earlier in the year, she would have had a much better record.

Chris Brown

You are the fans, sit back and watch. That's all you're doing anyway.

David Ginola

I went see the horror thriller, Hannibal. I am a massive fan of Anthony Hopkins. He is superb in the film.

David Prowse

Actually I'm not that involved in the fan site.

David Naughton

I'm not a big slasher film fan.

Rene Portland

The point guard has always had a tough thing to please. Obviously, they have to please all of our fans and they have to live up to the expectations and the history of the great point guards here at Penn State.

Mike Bohn

where our fans come regardless of who we're playing.

Charley Pride

Any entertainer who tells you that the adoration of fans is not a heady experience probably never had the experience.

Eartha Kitt

The biggest family in the world is my fans.

David Twohy

I guess you don't make any franchise movies unless the fans are there.

James J. Gibson

The perception of what a thing is and the perception of what it means are not separate, either.

Joseph Capriotti

We are police officers. We don't sit back and watch. We have to get out and do something. Being able to do something means a lot.

Tom Reilly

We're not going to propose a trail ... through the rifle range next year as a means to the end.

Dee Boersma

Whenever you do science it's important to know individuals. And that means you have to distinguish one from another, just like we give names to people we have to be able to give names to penguins. And we often do that with bands.

Shaw Wu

When everyone else is slowing and you're not, it means share gains.

Natalie Massenet

For Net-A-Porter and its customers, luxury means exceptional service, 24-7 - wherever they are, whenever they have time.

Chris Harper

We're so young that when they start to press, we think that means we need to speed up.

Sathya Baba

Unity is the secret of social progress, and service to society is the means to promote it. 

Jimmy Smith

We're more settled. A new regime means changes, and things have settled down.

Al Pacino

I was never very happy with performing; it didn't turn me on much.

David Tudor

I persist in performing.

Charles Saatchi

I find the theatre faintly embarrassing for the actors performing on stage. It seems rather showy-off in an undignified way.

Laura Marano

When you are performing in theater, you feel so connected to your audience. It's exhilarating!

Drummond Money-Coutts

I would like to do things like I did in Tanzania, going somewhere and exploring a theme and investigating as well as performing for those people.

Laurie Geigel

We don't know if we're going to be performing on a stage or a classroom.

Tamara Tunie

I missed singing. I missed performing in a nightclub.

Seinabo Sey

Performing didn't feel comfortable until I was about 17. I loved to sing, but I always said I would never perform because I was too scared.

Kara Walker

I am performing this role of the artist and this role of the 'negress' coming into a white-box institution. It's kind of a self-appointed role: the self-designated negress.

Pam Walker

The possibility for the process to be tainted is just too much.

Pascal Hundt

We are seeing a process of spreading poverty.

Bill Joy

Interleaf is based on the formatting process.

Bernice Johnson Reagon

Mothering/nurturing is a vital force and process establishing relationships throughout the universe.

Audre Lorde

The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.

Bill Nighy

I don't dislike the process of animation... I find it daunting, but only as much as I find everything daunting.

Bruce Miller

We have no idea how long this process will take.

Chandler Parsons

Honestly, I was offended by the whole process,

Barbra Streisand

Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.

Etta James

Most of the songs I sing, they have that blue feeling to it. They have that sorry feeling. And I don't know what I'm sorry about.

Todd Rundgren

I don't know what the inspiration for most of songs really mean until I finish them. For the most part, I'm going for a visceral impression, and I write the words last.

Neil Innes

But mostly, I wrote songs and Viv wrote songs.

Anna Chlumsky

There are songs where no matter how much you know you shouldn't - like the Ying Yang Twins' 'Shake' - I'll be in a dress, and I'll krump to it. It's horrible!

Gene Ween

I wrote most of these songs right before the end. A lot of these songs are about that. Even if it's not direct, you can feel the beginning of the end of the breakup in these songs.

Valerie June

I just let the songs tell me what to do - they are my guides, and they are the boss. So I am subservient to the songs, and I let them tell me what to do. I don't judge them; I just write whatever comes to me.

Kate Micucci

My first songs were about animals and shoes. I wrote one song about PF Flyers, and one to my fish.

Lucinda Williams

My approach to recording and all that is pretty organic. It just has to do with all the songs I wrote; go in and record them.

Bob Weir

Songs go through cycles for me. And sometimes I lose my passion for some of them.

Al Leiter

I like starting. It's pretty cool.

Bryan Ferry

It must be really hard to be starting out in music now.

German Proverb

When you sweep the stairs, you start at the top

David Seiders

When you start to see cancellations, you really get worried.

George White

When you start to know what you're doing and why you're doing it, it makes it better.

Grady Fuson

When you start talking about prospects, it's a very subjective term. The way I look at it is as long as you've got a uniform on, you've got a chance.

Kurt Vonnegut

We'd all do well to start over again, preferably with kindergarten.

Billy Dee Williams

Originally I planned on starting a teapot collection. I really like them.

August Wilson

I ain't never found no place for me to fit. Seem like all I do is start over. It ain't nothing to find no starting place in the world. You just start from where you find yourself.

Kristin Cast

No one wants to be the kid who allies with the weird kid.

Dave Shaw

She just wants to get on with her life.

Stephen Rodrick

Jeff Bridges wants you to take it easy, man.

Alexis Jennings

She wants to make something of herself, but she always wants a lot for her teammates.

Mike Baker

She wants the nest, she wants the husband, and she wants the young.

J. Taylor

She wants them back ... that's her life.

Jack Hughes

She wants the ball. She wants no one else there but her.

Mike Toussaint

She wants it bad, she wants to succeed.

Doug Phillips

She's a stickler. She's a perfectionist. She wants to do it right.