Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Geist

The crack of a bat sounded amplified in cavernous Yankee Stadium, sprinkled lightly with fans on a cool September evening.

James Bay

When I'm writing, I need to amplify my thoughts and feelings on just a conversation that I might have had with somebody - somebody close to me. It's often the case that the people closest to me are the people on my mind the most.

Stefan Sagmeister

By far, the most determining factor of any brand is the product or the service the company produces. Branding companies have very rarely any significant influence on that, but it is, of course, in their interest to amplify their importance.

Michael Schenker

In the past, I have not been able to hear myself. I play with feeling so I need to hear what is coming out of the amplifier to inspire me; I don't just play mechanically.

Seth Shostak

When I graduated high school, nearly a half-million people subscribed to 'Popular Electronics' magazine. Soldering up some radio or hi-fi amplifier on the basement workbench was not just a personal passion - a lot of young people were doing the same. The magazine expired in 1999 for lack of interest.

Charlie Worsham

When I'm at home or in the studio, I have a 1963 Martin. It's a D-28, and I love that guitar. I write on that guitar, and it's the first guitar that I put a pickup in and ran through an amplifier, splitting the signal to the amplifier and a DI or in the studio mic'ing it traditionally and putting an amp in the other room.

Lester Holt

I have a couple of basses in my office. And I try to be courteous of my co-workers, but sometimes I get carried away and I crank up my amp and I rock out. It's kind of my stress reliever.

Kevin McCloud

I'm quite shy. Television presents an amplified version of yourself. When I'm on camera I'm pumping more adrenaline, I'm being a bit more engaging than I am in everyday conversation, but that's normal, isn't it? Otherwise nobody would want to watch.

Eleanor Catton

My sense of injustice about our family's 'weirdness' in not owning a car was amplified by the fact that we did not own a television, either - my parents were unapologetic about this and told me very cheerfully that I would thank them for it when I was older, which was quite true.

Jeff Montgomery

We have to go out to see what others are doing in order to bring new things back here. We try to give back to our communities.

Thomas Donohue

We have to get over the paranoia and start bringing people to the US.

Ian Collins

We have a special player in Andy. He always brings his best.

Brian Nelson

We have no intention of duplicating those efforts. We get incredible content from our partners, but in this case, we are covering largely under-reported stories and bringing them to our audience.

Tommy Amaker

We have no choice and it's going to be a tough game. It's going to be a competitive game and I'll be very disappointed if we don't bring the fight and spirit that we had here tonight.

Scott Hodkinson

Whenever we play Lee you know they are going to bring some intensity with them. I was pleased with our effort.

Bree Larson

Whenever something good happens in the game before, we'll bring it into the next game and carry it through.

Barry Ritholtz

When you see a 250-point spurt like that in less than two months, that's not sustainable. What this pullback is doing, and I think will continue to do, is bring us back to a more sustainable level.

Toba Beta

When you saw a wounded who cry out for help, you may be the one sent by God to bring a favor.

Jared Diamond

Put another way, the chimpanzees' closest relative is not the gorilla but humans.

Seth Godin

No offense intended...Most people online are gorillas. When a gorilla walks into an experiment, what they say is 'What do I do now? Where's the banana?'

Robert Harrison

To be 5m from a silverback gorilla makes you feel extraordinarily alive.

Kevin Garnett

It is a Big Gorilla off our back. Obviously, we didn't do well on the road.

Clay Shirky

Our social life is literally primal, in the sense that chimpanzees and gorillas, our closest relatives among the primates, are also social.

Dane Cook

I was doing comedy in laundry mats in 1992, literally where I would bring a little gorilla amp and a lapel mike and just start performing.

Tom Foreman

This is the first time that Ebola has been identified as a widespread threat to gorilla and chimp populations in the region.

Robert Strauss

It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired-you quit when the gorilla is tired.

J. M. Roberts

I told the guys it was like getting a monkey, and then I said a gorilla off our back.

Bruce Feiler

There is profundity to explore, but also laundry to do.

Jude Law

In a way it was like washing your laundry in public and, yep, there you go, you've seen my underwear. And now I feel like there's nothing left, you've seen it all and I can get on.

Nicholas Sparks

You know, I do do the laundry in my house!

Amy Ryan

I know how to separate my own laundry.

Jerry Seinfeld

You'll fold faster than Superman on laundry day

Jenni Allen

The first question was a laundry list explanation of peoples' activities.

Corinne Kowpak

The laundry room will be expanded and much nicer.

Lindsey Vonn

I find folding laundry very relaxing.

Kesha

I do my laundry on a weekly basis.

Chuck Morton

We've started off with literally nothing, and now we have 60 students.

Jim Ramstad

When I had alcoholic blackouts, I literally could not remember what I did the preceding night,

Doug Liman

'Mr. and Mrs. Smith' - every scene is from those characters' point of view. They're in literally every scene, very unusual in a big studio film.

Patti Savrick

We're quite worried. She's literally on minute-to-minute care.

Lawrence Vale

New Orleans was slowly sinking, literally and figuratively, well before Katrina.

Bianca Kajlich

That's literally been the story of my career. I'm always the second choice. And you know what? I'm more than happy to be that person.

Kathleen Bergen

We've been consolidating radar services literally for decades. When we do this, we make optimum use of the resources we have.

Beto O'Rourke

We in El Paso and Juarez are literally one community. There's no separation; there's no DMZ; there's no buffer.

Ryan Rourke

We saw literally no response from faculty, which was disheartening.

Lesley Manville

When I make films, I work with Mike Leigh, who's the most prolific director in England.

Bruce Bochy

We're going to play Mike as much as we can.

Nicholas Hytner

Mike was a little nervous ... We weren't, because his reputation is so immense.

Jon Gruden

Mike Tomlin is a candidate, obviously, in Minnesota.

Dan Rooney

Mike speaks up all the time. I don't see him taking any back seat.

John Shirreffs

Mike said he was waiting for the call.

Shaun Alexander

Mike said from the very beginning, that we are always going to be the 'other' team.

Derek Schulz

Mike plays with a lot of passion in everything he does. It showed tonight.

Floyd Burnsed

Mike Neville's become more of a pocket passer. He's making the right reads and the right throws. He's come a long way.