Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Ellefson

Waking Up Dead does a great job of portraying the irony of stardom's illusive promise of money, fame and power only to have it boomerang back and cut so many artists to shreds.

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,

Doug Johnson

We've got everything from oil painting, photography and blow glass to jewelry and ceramics. We could have 130 artists here, but only the best of the best make it in.

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.

Cindy Cook

There is no question that music continues to play a pivotal role in video games and video games continue to play a pivotal role in promoting new artists to a wide audience. Through this contest, we are giving musicians an unprecedented opportunity to be seen and heard by potentially millions of fans worldwide as well as the opportunity to be associated with this year's most anticipated video game and one of Hollywood's most iconic characters.

Trey Songz

I urge younger artists to know that you don't have to be anything you don't want. You can do whatever's comfortable for you. From the music I make, to the things I do in my life, I'm true to my R&B core. I have the capability to make pop records and crossover, but that's not my aim.

David Perry

There is a whole virus underground out there. They critique each others' work.

Steve Owens

There are table top exercises that we have for our own events like the Herndon Festival. We practice what might go wrong there and then we have a critique of it to see what we need to work on.

Donald Norman

Am I an Apple bigot? No. I can critique their products and their customer service philosophy. But overall, they do better than any other player.

Steve Shortt

If something goes wrong, we stop it and say, 'Let's go back to the position where the wrong decision was made.' Since you are recording the training, you also can go back and immediately critique it with person being trained.

Carl Jung

Just as we might take Darwin as an example of the normal extraverted thinking type, the normal introverted thinking type could be represented by Kant. The one speaks with facts, the other relies on the subjective factor. Darwin ranges over the wide field of objective reality, Kant restricts himself to a critique of knowledge.

Ryan Smyth

You never critique a win, but there is no question we can get better. It was a scrambling game.

Samuel P. Huntington

Finally, in my critique of the immigration image of America, it is also important to know that we're not only a nation of immigrants, but we are in some part a nation of emigrants, which often gets neglected.

Jerry Fisher

People critique the media if they're uncomfortable with the facts that are presented.

James Rollins

I started writing short stories. I tried writing horror, mystery, science fiction. I joined a little critique group here in town and ran my stories past them. After about three years, I tackled my first novel, Subterranean. It took me 11 months to write.

Lithuanian Proverb

The person who gives is a person who has

Pedrito Estrill

We are pretty happy about winning a championship. It's always good when you win a championship. It means that you have represented your school well and gives the school something that you can positively identify with.

Dave Littlefield

We're in a position where we can look years down the road and plug in other things. I think that gives us hope for a stronger future. Now, they've got to win and perform well and all that stuff, but you've got to get yourself to that point where we are now.

Ashley Burnett

We're in a good position, but we still have to go out there and compete. At least this gives us an opportunity to practice and go over some things and get rested up for Friday.

Source Unknown

Wealth is what gives you the right to preach about the virtues of poverty.

Mike Donahue

We have a smaller showroom than a lot of other dealerships. That gives us room for more inventory (on the lot).

David Booth

When you see a player go down like that and is really hurting and can't come back, I think that sends a message to our team. It gives you fire.

John Hanley

We're going to remove that portion first because it gives us more room to remove the main portion.

Jay Wright

We're going to need him. He gives us more size out on the perimeter.

Charles Stanley

Helping someone come to a saving knowledge of Christ is the greatest achievement possible.

Alan Clark

The more you know about a species, the more you understand about how better to help protect them.

Mike Harris

We want them to understand we're here to help and do everything we can,

Javier Solana

We want to see how we can help organize the transfer.

Chogyam Trungpa

Helping others is a question of being genuine and projecting that genuineness to others. This way of being doesn't have to have a title or a name particularly. It is just being ultimately decent.

Bill Hamilton

We know you want to do the smart money thing, ... We hope you want to be heroes, and we'll help you do that.

Michael Young

We know we're responsible for a lot our team's offense, and that's something that we take seriously. We take a lot of pride in being productive and helping the team win.

Jason Richardson

We know if we are beat, somebody's going to be back there. In the past, it wasn't like that. If you pressured up on somebody and you got beat, you were getting dunked on. This year, we're helping each other out.

Amanda Radovich

We know how to come back and that will help us in the end.

Charles de Gaulle

All my life I have had a certain idea of France.

Charles de Lint

Let me give you some advice: Try to approach things without preconceived ideas, without supposing you already know everything there is to know about them. Get that trick down and you'll be surprised at what's really all around you.

Charles Dickens

She was the most wonderful woman for prowling about the house. How she got from one story to another was a mystery beyond solution. A lady so decorous in herself, and so highly connected, was not to be suspected of dropping over the banisters or sliding down them, yet her extraordinary facility of locomotion suggested the wild idea.

Charles Soule

Ive always loved the idea of mythologies linked to or underlying everyday life, like the kami gods of Shintoism, where every rock, tree and stream has its own little god associated with it.

Charles Stross

The idea of Curious Yellow, of surrender to a higher cause, seems to appeal to a certain small subset of humanity. These people manipulate the worm, customizing its payload to establish quisling dictatorships in its shadow, and the horrors these gauleiters invent in its service are far worse than the crude but direct tactics the original worm used.

Charles Stanley

People don't like the idea of consequences. They want to be able to live their life freely and do what they want to do without any consequences. And we know that's just not the way life is.

Charles Spurgeon

Abhor all idea of being saved by good works, but O, be as full of good works as if you were to be saved by them!

Alan Watts

The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.

Alan Watts

The idea of the Universe being ruled by that marvelous old gentleman, is no longer plausible. It isn't that anybody has disproved it, but it just somehow doesn't go with the vast infinitude of the Universe.

Michael Garcia

We're all striving to get back to normalcy,

S. Hughes

One of the things we're striving for as a team is to find the knockout punch. Today we were able to do that.

Juan Torres

Without a (an executive) director, we don't have much. That's what we've been striving for for the whole year.

Brian Dawkins

It's simple, ... I'm always striving to do more. Whatever I accomplish, it's not enough. I don't get satisfied. That's not my nature.

David Gunasegaram

This is about striving to be more environmentally friendly.

Patrick Ford

Each year, we're striving to make smarter, safer, better products.

Charles Dickens

When I have heard him talking to Papa during the sittings for the picture, I have sat wondering whether it could be that he has no belief in anybody else, because he has no belief in himself.

Charles Caleb Colton

It has been well observed that the tongue discovers the state of the mind no less than that of the body; but in either case, before the philosopher or the physician can judge, the patient must open his mouth.

Charles Caleb Colton

There are prating coxcombs in the world who would rather talk than listen, although Shakespeare himself were the orator, and human nature the theme!

Alan Watts

People often say to me, 'I understand what you are talking about intellectually, but I don't really feel it, I don't realize it,' and I am apt to reply, 'I wonder whether you do understand it intellectually, because if you did you would also feel it.'

Alan Watts

We have somehow conned ourselves into the notion that this moment is ordinary. This now moment, in which I'm talking and you're listening, is eternity.

Alan Rickman

If you spend any time in Los Angeles, there's only one topic of conversation.

Alan Rickman

What is it about actors? God knows I get bored with actors talking about themselves.

Alan Moore

I genuinely like the people I meet at signings or the bits of public talking that I do.

Alan Greenspan

I don't know where the stock market is going, but I will say this, that if it continues higher, this will do more to stimulate the economy than anything we've been talking about today or anything anybody else was talking about.