Famous Quotes & Sayings

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When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: ''I never stole anything in my life. All I ask is a chance.''

Sharon Shinn

I'm not sure how writers and artists of other graphic novels join forces, but this is how the process worked for me: First, I produced my final script. Then, Mark Siegel, my editor at First Second, assembled information about 10 or 12 different artists and had me look through their portfolios to see what kind of styles appealed to me.

Igor Trunov

We have appealed to replace the conditions of his custody with house arrest.

Kim Jee-woon

The Western is as American as a film can get - there's the discovery of a frontier, the element of a showdown, revenge, and determining the best gunman. There's a certain masculinity to the Western that really appealed to me, and I've always wanted to do a Western in Hollywood.

M. H. Abrams

The Romantics were whipping boys of the New Criticism, but they appealed to me anyway. I was recalcitrant. It was clear to me that they had thought innovatively.

John Lasseter

When Walt Disney was making his films, he trusted his instincts and made films for himself, but they appealed to everybody, not just kids.

Robert Palmer

I loved the music, but the excesses of rock n' roll never really appealed to me at all. I couldn't see the point of getting up in front of a lot of people when you weren't in control of your wits.

Curtis Adams

Magic has not appealed to a younger market for a long time. What I'm trying to do is to appeal to the younger fans, as well as the older ones.

Mike Jefferies

Newcastle appealed to us for many different reasons.

Todd Rundgren

It's nearly redundant to enumerate the reasons The Beatles are important. There are probably different reasons why The Beatles are important to a musician like myself and to the millions of Beatles fans who just enjoy listening to the music.

Chris Cornell

When I was maybe nine years old, I listened to the entire Beatles catalogue, non-stop, for about a year,

Brian Setzer

When I was a kid, I found out about Eddie Cochran and Gene Vincent through the Beatles and the Stones doing covers of rockabilly songs,

Matt Hartman

Love the Kinks, Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd, and then I run out of names. Those are the three heavies. The Beatles are pretty good. You heard those guys? They're not bad.

Jose Gonzalez

We always had a guitar at home, but it wasn't until I was 14 when I picked it up myself when my father handed me these sheets of music of the Beatles and some other classics. That's where I learned all the chords and learned how to play and sing at the same time.

Azita Ghanizada

My dad was in a Beatles cover band. My mom wore Candies and belly buttons. The people in our family were very glamorous. They wore pearls like Jackie O.

Steven Price

My house was full of music. My main memories are of the record player at home: it was all Beatles and Rolling Stones, and we danced around the living room; that started me off on instruments, and I've done nothing else ever since.

James McCartney

Growing up, I put a lot of pressure on myself. I felt with The Beatles legacy that there was pressure on me to do music, and while I always loved music and it was always around me at home, I thought about doing other things.

David Rivkin

I couldn't hear much, but didn't care. Until I saw the Beatles play live, I had no idea that musicians could generate that kind of adoration. I was transformed by the whole experience.

Rob Stillwell

We want to retain both as many employees and customers as we possibly can.

Chad Cassel

We have to have another good week of practice and continue to get better. It's a tough place to play and the winner of that series is going to end up with the No.2-seed in the conference tournament so it's big for both teams.

Paul Spiegel

We have no problem with this project because both Helge Schneider and Dani Levy are capable of approaching this work with the necessary sensitivity.

Henry Hyde

We have no precedent to follow on the involvement of the independent counsel in our proceedings. However, it seems both useful and instructive that we should hear from him since he is the person most familiar with the complicated matters the House has directed us to review.

Brian Lucas

We have no plan to phase out all sales of VCR machines at this time, ... However, many customers are opting to purchase our dual machines (which retail for about $150) that play both DVD and VHS formats.

David Dulkys

We have more time to study and play basketball. You can't do both at the same time.

Anthony Crabtree

We have so many players going both ways we don't have as much depth. Gallatin is a good team.

Paul Pierce

Whenever you get two all-stars on the court at the same time, you always have that sense of pride. We both have the utmost respect for one another and I think our competitive juices come out. What can I say? It was just a great night for both of us.

Marc Guggenheim

Whenever you can manoeuvre your characters into a situation where they both have a good argument to make, you're on the right track.

Arthur Honegger

There is no doubt that the first requirement for a composer is to be dead

David Del Tredici

I've always been a composer dependent on texts.

John Eaton

I think the composer and production staff of an opera have a real responsibility to use visual elements of all kinds to make clear to the American audience, at any rate, exactly what is going on.

John Eaton

I think a lot of composers get into trouble just making up a plot and expecting an audience to follow that.

Daniel Handler

Wherever there’s a conductor, you’re sure to find a dead composer!

Robert Walzel

Mozart was one of those composers who was successful in all genres, and we wanted to show the diversity of his music.

Pablo Casals

Let us not forget that the greatest composers where also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.

Robert Morris

So many of the sounds that contemporary composers were trying to create were to be found in the traditional musics of the world. That was encouraging but also little daunting to think that you had to work so hard to be new and yet it was old.

Penn Jillette

Working in television, you really need a composer who can work in many styles especially when you're working in comedy. Stockdale can do anything.

Ian Axel

I started writing songs when I was real young, when I was 3 years old. The piano spoke to me - I don't remember when I wasn't playing piano. My second grade talent show was the first time I performed my own thing. I dressed up as Dracula and played a song called 'Monster Rock' that I wrote. And I won.

Shanen Boettcher

There is a lot more to providing a biometrics platform than what the consortium is focused on.

Stanley B. Prusiner

From the point of view of many scientists, gods represent an explanation for the unknown. Scientists are focused on trying to understand the unknown, so there is a fundamental conflict. That said, some scientists find religion useful and perhaps even fulfilling.

Karl Hobbs

We're just trying to follow our dreams. That's it and that's all we're focused on. We can't tell you about anything in the past.

Lance Jeter

We know how long it's been since somebody won back-to-back, but we're not focused on that. We're trying to get another state championship for us. That would be lovely to know that's your place in history. If we win it, it will be more special to us.

Marisa Miller

I was just so focused on being healthy for my baby during pregnancy, and afterward I was not in a rush to lose the weight. I really wanted to be as healthy as I could. It wasn't about getting my six-pack back. There are more important things in life than a six-pack, I realized.

Nick Woodman

I get pretty focused when I start working on something. And I drink a lot of water, way more than most people.

Diane Tuller

We have as good a shot as anybody. We just have to get focused on the court, not the arena.

Judd Anderson

We've got a tough schedule from now on. We have to keep focused and working hard for our ultimate prize.

R. Ingram

When we were 1-6, all we focused on was that we were better than that. We knew it; we just had to prove it. We've come a long way and it's great to be back to .500 and to know we'll get a home game in the tournament.

Emmanuelle Vaugier

Horror movies have never been my thing. I love psychological thrillers like 'The Exorcist', 'The Shining', even though they scare the living daylights out of me.

Charles Baudelaire

The Devil pulls the strings which make us dance; We find delight in the most loathsome things; Some furtherance of Hell each new day brings, And yet we feel no horror in that rank advance.

Michael Todd

We've always been into horror movies. The Nightmare on Elm Street films, I've seen a million times. We watch a wide variety of horror movies. Travis just has a huge folder of them on the bus.

Jane Goldman

I know what I miss as a cinemagoer is that balance of films that actually scare me, they're so few and far between. I loved ghost stories, I love horror stories, I love all of that stuff, but I really yearn for something to actually frighten me.

Carolyn Maloney

If you ask around, it's pretty easy to find someone who has a bank account overdraft horror story to tell.

Dean Koontz

Although I've said a million times that I'm not a horror writer, I do like horror.

William Shakespeare

Abandon all remorse; On horror's head horrors accumulate.

Bela Lugosi

It is women who love horror. Gloat over it. Feed on it. Are nourished by it. Shudder and cling and cry out-and come back for more.

Bong Joon-ho

I am a fan of the monster and horror genre but that's not my style as a director.

Timm Sharp

Integrity is incredibly important to me. As long as you're authentic, you can do no wrong.

Khloe Kardashian

I had parents who were incredibly loving and nurturing and always made me feel beautiful, so I never really questioned that.

Mike Bair

There is no other way I would love to travel than by air. It is just incredibly safe.

Susan Wojcicki

Mobile is an incredibly fast-growing market and will continue to be.

Marco Muller

So far, the results have been incredibly positive.

Kim Adams

So I am incredibly worried tonight about him and his safety.

Keith Flood

She's an outside shooter who can penetrate. She's incredibly athletic.

John Gatins

She's incredibly professional when she's working, and when she's not, she's a 10-year-old girl.

Jonathan Ive

Designing and developing anything of consequence is incredibly challenging.

Andre Previn

When you're working with music that is invariably better than you are, it's difficult to become swell-headed.

Agnes Obel

Even though music is something I travel around doing, it is also a very private thing. A sort of escapism.

Agnes Repplier

What strange impulse is it which induces otherwise truthful people to say they like music when they do not, and thus expose themselves to hours of boredom?

Charlie Byrd

And a musician has to learn to be frugal and to carefully manage financial affairs

Charlie Byrd

I had been to São Paulo the year before and became pretty well acquainted with the music of composer Antonio Carlos Jobim, I had already started playing that music, and the audience response had been pretty good because those songs are so melodic. I knew it would be something that would be appealing; I wasn't thinking that it would make the top of the pop charts or anything like that.

Charlie Byrd

Music's not like becoming a doctor, who can walk into a community and find people who need him.

Charlie Byrd

The guitar is a means of expressing music, When you get into the emotional side of it, then it's not the guitar that matters so much as the music itself. But the guitar is the vehicle I use. It's how I express myself. As for the emotional side, music takes up where language leaves off. To try and verbalize what music says, emotionally and spiritually, is futile. Let me put it this way, Louis Armstrong once said if you've got to ask, you'll never know.

Charlie Byrd

Usually, no one quite knew where Django Reinhardt was going to be, but I met his brother and about an hour later in walks Django with an entourage of friends. He always traveled with a large group-carried his own admirers with him, the most sinister-looking bunch of hoodlums you've ever seen. I walked up and offered to buy him a drink. That seemed to be the right thing to do... he was the first really brilliant solo guitarist I ever became aware of, I had records of his when I was 10 years old. It just blew my mind that anyone could play a guitar like that. Still does.

Charlie Byrd

A person should design the way he makes a living around how he wishes to make a life.

Harrison Ford

I'm not a poster boy for Conservation International. I'm a working member of the board.

Jenny Holzer

The epiphany for me was that I wasnt a writer, and I had to do something with these texts. I put them in the streets as posters.

Illeana Douglas

I'm a huge poster collector.

Mark Geragos

It's like seeing a poster of some sort of monster,

Julia Butterfly Hill

I'm a poster child for Luddites. It was a challenge for me to open myself up the tech world.

Nick Whaley

We were better in the second game, so it's disappointing that we didn't play more relaxed.

Clint Hurdle

We've seen him play short and how he can play there. We want to keep getting a feel for him at second base.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

There are no second chances in life, except to feel remorse.

Reba McEntire

We did, Monday, a read-through, the first act; Tuesday, the second act. And then we did two shows.

Jandy Nelson

It's time for second chances. It's time to remake the world.

Jan de Bont

When I heard about the first Tomb Raider, I was very interested and I would have liked to have directed that. When I was approached for the second film, I was delighted.

Alan Bennett

Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.

Al Sharpton

We're not willing to give black leaders second chances because, in most cases, we're not willing to give them first chances.

Al Jourgensen

It certainly is gravy every day above ground right now, after kicking that heroin habit. I've been given a second chance in life, and I don't want to let a minute go by without enjoying it.

C. S. Lewis

The way for a person to develop a style is (a) to know exactly what he wants to say, and (b) to be sure he is saying exactly that.

Diane von Furstenberg

Style is something each of us already has, all we need to do is find it.

Diane von Furstenberg

Personal style is accepting who you are.

David LaChapelle

You just do what you love, and then a style happens later on.

David Guetta

I mix up all styles on my albums because that is what music is about now.

David Crystal

At any one time language is a kaleidoscope of styles, genres and dialects.

David Cross

It's just an easy catchall to describe a style because there are a lot of alternative comics who are completely different from each other.

C. Z. Guest

Style is about surviving, about having been through a lot and making it look easy.

Carolina Herrera

It's very important to have a definitive style as a designer.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length.

Charles W. Chesnutt

There's time enough, but none to spare.

Charles de Lint

In the dark attics of our minds, all times mingle.

Charles Dickens

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Malcolm de Chazal

The idealist walks on tiptoe, the materialist on his heels.

Shannon Hoon

Life isn't a tiptoe through the tulips

Beeban Kidron

During my 'difficult teens,' I read about worlds that were mysterious.

Hideo Kojima

When I was small, I was always thinking about different worlds in my head.