Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charlie Daniels

I've been to Iraq three times. I've been to Afghanistan, I've been quite a few places, and I want to tell you something, these kids, they're the best we've got. They're the best Americans, they're the most loyal Americans we've got. And we owe them when they come back.

Charles de Lint

All my life I've wanted to be the kid who gets to cross over into the magical kingdom.

Alanis Morissette

Well, as a kid I did not get Shakespeare. I just never understood it.

Alan Hansen

You'll never win anything with kids

Alan Alda

Kids are natural scientists.

Al Purdy

In my own mind, I was sort of a desperate kid.

Al Madrigal

Near my house in Los Angeles is a waterfall. I love to take the wife and kids, but it's also near a sketchy neighborhood. So there's a lot of gang members that hang out at the waterfall. It's like somebody took an Ansel Adams photo and then put a Cypress Hill video inside it.

Al Lewis

I went to all the Love-Ins. I took my kids. I enjoyed myself.

Brad Lancaster

We want the kids to do as well as they can. There are so many opportunities (for various activities), and that's good. But, how do we make sure it's not a distraction.

Charlie Chaplin

Life is a play that does not allow testing. So, sing, cry, dance, laugh and live intensely, before the curtain closes and the piece ends with no applause.

Charles Caleb Colton

As in the game of billiards, the balls are constantly producing effects from mere chance, which the most skillful player could neither execute nor foresee, but which, when they do happen, serve mainly to teach him how much he has still to learn; so it is in the most profound and complicated game of politics and diplomacy. In both cases, we can only regulate our play by what we have seen, rather than by what we have hoped; and by what we have experienced, rather than by what we have expected.

Charles Spurgeon

It needs more skill than I can tell To play the second fiddle well.

Alan Watts

To play so as to be relaxed and refreshed for work is not to play, and no work is well and finely done unless it, too, is a form of play.

Alan Watts

You must not be afraid of playing wrong notes. Just forget it, play it wrong! But play!

Alan Rosenberg

Fair play doesn't pertain in bargaining. What matters there is leverage.

Alan Pardew

It's important that top clubs don't lose sight of the fact that it's the English Premier League and English players should be involved.

Alan Rickman

Who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play.

Alan Rickman

I never expected to have any kind of film career, to be honest. It was all a bit of a surprise. But I was in a big hit play on Broadway. America, as many people will say, says yes more often than we do. And so I was suddenly surrounded by people saying yes. But I was aware that was 'cause of what I was in. It had a big impact.

Caio Fonseca

I've been playing piano my whole life, but I'd never tried to understand how compositions are made, really. Try to imagine if you'd loved paintings your whole life but had never painted one. My aspiration now is just to understand.

Buffy Sainte-Marie

I didn't know what I was gonna get the first time I sat down at a piano, but I loved it and it became my playmate for life.

Billy Joel

I have long admired Steinway pianos for their qualities of tone, clarity, pitch consistency, touch responsiveness, and superior craftsmanship.

Diana Krall

It is a privilege and an honor to perform on Steinway pianos.

Artur Schnabel

I always make sure that the lid over the keyboard is open before I start to play.

Delta Goodrem

What resonates with me now is the acoustic guitar and piano.

Carl Andre

I didn't study the piano - the piano studied me.

Agnes Obel

Sometimes I feel like a melody doesn't have anything to do with me, but it's just something that comes, is accumulated from me playing on the piano, and then this little creature just appears.

Benny Carter

Get up from the piano ... Oscar is in the house. Who wants to be at the piano when Oscar is there? Find something else to do.