Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jason Statham

So I used to put money in my pocket while working on the street corners, selling perfume and jewelry, and other goods that were supposedly expensive.

Peter Davison

My friends never talk to me about my poetry because they're embarrassed that I write it or they're embarrassed by what I write about which are not such extraordinarily terrifying things, but they are the state of human existence.

Alan Bates

Occasionally I do things against my inner voice, but you really should go for the thing that touches you most-even if you don't quite know why it does.

David Warner

On film sets, people get put down in public a lot.

David Prowse

My agent set up a meeting with George Lucas. They were casting in England.

David Warner

I don't think I could be happy as an actor if there was a tyrant on the set.

Jared Harris

There are many cases where the direction of the play comes from within the cast of actors, especially in terms of the choices in performance.

John Leeson

I worked with Hannah Gordon, whom I've seen today, and reminded her of an episode of My Wife Next Door that we did way back in the late 70s.

John Thaw

I feel very proud to have created a character that is so respected. On the other hand, as an actor, I have more freedom now to do other things.

john bejo

Leaves are fingers of God: they're pliant, confident, proud and beautiful. That's how we should be...

William Osler

One finger in the throat and one in the rectum makes a good diagnostician.

Eric Wilson

No one is getting help here. There is one number to phone for Texas, Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi. Everybody's fingers are getting numb trying to get attention, and we are not getting it.

Jeetan Patel

My fingers are crossed, because I don't think I'll be the No 1 spinner.

Tom Courtney

My head was exploding, my stomach ripping, and even the tips of my fingers ached. The only thing I could think was, "If I live, I will never run again!

Joe Vitt

Whenever you let a good football team like the Colts get on a run, it's tough to put your finger in the dike.

Doug Sankey

I can't put my finger on why these guys are not hitting in the clutch. I don't know what it will take to get them going. There's not one thing I can say to them. They have to make it happen.

Danny Clark

I can't put my finger on what we need. We have enough players here to get it done.

Mike Ireland

I can't put my finger on what's the problem.

Joey Ramone

Everybody's just emulated us and now everybody just kinda takes our sound as their foundations.

Greg Boyle

I kinda don't do guilt. I gave it up for Lent years ago.

Vivian Campbell

It's a lot more comfortable, I must say. Ummm, I didn't think I'd be playing with another band, I kinda thought I was through with that, but I make an exception because they're nice people.

Natalie Coughlin

You see a lot of us lingering around. We'll just stand there on the edge of the pool and kinda psych ourselves up into getting in.

Gail Carriger

I'm a Reuben kinda girl, but I'll take a BLT with avocado in a red hot minute if it comes on ciabatta.

Clint Eastwood

My wife used to be an anchorwoman in Arizona, so she knew John McCain, and she liked him, and I kinda liked him.

Nat Wolff

I feel like all the parts are seniors in high school and seventh graders, and I think I kinda skipped that awkward stage by not working those years.

Ellis Register

We're kinda multi-dimensional. We like to run the football, but also like to throw. We're doing that more than in years past.

A.J. Pierzynski

Yeah, that was kinda unbelievable. I don't know who else throws a cutter that hard.

David Greenwood

I can't put labels ? on these materials,

Deepak Chopra

Take away all your labels and you are the Infinite Being.

Phil Schiller

Sure, the labels and publishers get the rights for songs to be remade into a ringtone. So part of what we do is to work with those content owners to make sure that there are rights in place for every piece of content to be made into a ringtone.

Riz Ahmed

I'm always trying to slip out of those labels everyone tries to put round your neck. We all have multiple selves.

Charles Stross

The trouble is, if you go too far towards being polite, the label that applies is "doormat".

Denzel Washington

When you don't understand something, you label it and condemn it" (94) - Danny Glover, "The Fundamental Things

Betty Wright

You gotta' sell a million records before you talk about getting paid at a major [label].

K'naan

I know that often times a lot of people who work in music, whether they be labels and so on or even artists, want personal recognition. We want to be recognized for something, for what we did. I'd rather my song be recognized for what it's doing and that's important. It's not so important how many people know me.

Jamie Redknapp

Sometimes, you just get a label and it sticks.

Eddie Vedder

After the Ramones, it was more about new wave for me than punk.

Billie Joe Armstrong

Punk will never be dead to me. It's my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.

Anna Sui

When punk really started to happen, it was a reaction against the disco craze of the time.

Chuck Berry

Music is music; you can't change rock and say well this is punk rock and this is acid rock or rockabilly.

Melissa McCarthy

I was never sullen. I was a terrible punk - I was still so chatty.

Malcolm Mclaren

I've always thought that gaming and YouTube and the web is a very post-punk extravaganza.

Michelle Shocked

Punk is just as much a form of folk music as anything is!

Henry Rollins

When someone asks you, 'What's punk?' my reply is, 'If you have to ask, you're never going to know.'

John Rzeznik

Punk's not dead, it's just at K-Mart.

Sven Kramer

Me and Carl skate well together and twice before one of us has set a world record when we raced together.

Miikka Kiprusoff

Of course, I want to win games, but I don't think about records too much.

Tom Scholz

No one was more surprised that that first Boston record took off than the record company itself.

Arthur Vint

Now we have more recordings of us playing, which is great.

John Owen

After hearing the evidence, I will record a verdict of natural causes.

John Edward

Frankly, senator, ... you have a record that's not very distinguished.

Alexander Ovechkin

For sure, Pavel Bure was my hero. I was very young, but I remember this moment. I recorded the game.

Wayne Patterson

From all of our records and correspondence with EPD, they have done that.

Jack Straw

If and when Turkey does become a member, it will be after years of structural reforms and with a long track record of sustained and stable growth,

Ken Sawyer

My first thoughts were we need a new arena.

Edgar Allan Poe

It is with literature as with law or empire - an established name is an estate in tenure, or a throne in possession.

Edgar Allan Poe

Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man.

Edgar Allan Poe

A poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul.

Edgar Allan Poe

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

Edgar Allan Poe

Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from its very definitiveness.

Edgar Allan Poe

To observe attentively is to remember distinctly.

David J. C. MacKay

We can't be anti-everything - we need an energy plan that adds up. But there's a lack of numeracy in the public discussion of energy. Where people do use numbers, they select them to sound big and score points in arguments, rather than to aid thoughtful discussion.

Abdu'l Baha

Let them at all times concern themselves with doing a kindly thing for one of their fellows, offering to someone love, consideration, thoughtful help.