Famous Quotes & Sayings

Agnes Repplier

The friendships of nations, built on common interests, cannot survive the mutability of those interests.

Atharva Veda

The eyes of us two shine like honey, our foreheads gleam like ointment. Place me within thy heart; may one mind be in common to us both!

O. J. Simpson

The fact is, we've worked so hard to get to the point where we finally see revenues, we would sure like to be able to keep it and put it to common use for our residents.

Theodor Mommsen

The Celtic, Galatian, or Gallic nation received from the common mother endowments different from those of its Italian, Germanic, and Hellenic sisters.

Tom Odell

Every musician writes about past relationships. And other than that, I can promise you, I have very little in common with Taylor Swift.

Stefan Hell

I've always enjoyed doing challenging things and also challenging common wisdom.

Ted Cruz

It's remarkable that the failures of the Obama, Clinton, Kerry foreign policy are not only uniting the Left and Right in Israel but might even be creating some common ground between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.

Diane von Furstenberg

Use your brains, your common sense, and do not become an object. The way you look is important, but who you are and how you project it is eventually who you will become and how you will appear.

David Deutsch

Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense.

Mark Patterson

Whenever someone takes a lesser role in the operations, it's not too uncommon to see this type of thing.

Marjorie Gubelmann

When you're young, you worry about what other people think. The older you get, the less that matters.

Donald Sterling

When you're winning, anything you say has value. When you're losing, the less you say, the better.

Katrina Kelner

We were already worried about the 2004 paper and this doesn't make us any less worried.

John Landgraf

There is a lot less overt bigotry in America.

Celso Senise

There is a lot less money for high-risk investments and no liquidity. The polls are not enough.

J. C. Watts

The popular things become more popular and the less-popular things get less popular.

Cael Sanderson

Unless you continually work, evolve, and innovate, you'll learn a quick and painful lesson from someone who has.

Dan Savage

There are so many people out there with less shame talking about their problems.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

Any supreme insight is a metaphor.

Aristotle

The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor.

Aristotle

Metaphor is halfway between the unintelligible and the commonplace.

Robert Schmuhl

Branson is a metaphor for red state America,

Paul Ricoeur

The dictionary contains no metaphors.

John Green

You live for pretentious metaphors.

R. Buckminster Fuller

We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking...

Florence King

Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.

Gerald Edelman

Early human thought proceeded by metaphor,

Agnetha Faltskog

When I was 15 I became a full-time singer in a band. At 18 I made my first record.

Marc Chandler

We've seen speculators try to get out of short yen positions, which were at record levels.

Ben King

We used to record with string sections, so it's like going back to that time.

Tom Odell

I tend to write and record things quite quickly. You can tamper with things for years, and it's artistic laziness sometimes.

David Sanborn

I just kinda like playing. I don't necessarily go on tour to promote my albums. I'm on the road all the time. The fact that I have a new record is out is a coincidence.

Bryan Ferry

Get down with your old Allman Bros. records!

Elton John

Well, I was making a record, and I had to choose a name, because they said, you know, you can't make a record under the name of Reg Dwight, because it's never going to - you know, it's not attractive enough.

Kid Rock

When I was making my first record there would be something that would come out that would inspire you, you know? You'd see someone on TV or on the radio.

Jane Austen

I am fond of history and am very well contented to take the false with the true. In the principal facts they have sources of intelligence in former histories and records, which may be as much depended on, I conclude, as anything that does not actually pass under ones own observation; and as for the little embellishments you speak of, they are embellishments, and I like them as such.

Etta James

Most of the songs I sing, they have that blue feeling to it. They have that sorry feeling. And I don't know what I'm sorry about.

Kate Micucci

My first songs were about animals and shoes. I wrote one song about PF Flyers, and one to my fish.

Todd Rundgren

I don't know what the inspiration for most of songs really mean until I finish them. For the most part, I'm going for a visceral impression, and I write the words last.

Lucinda Williams

My approach to recording and all that is pretty organic. It just has to do with all the songs I wrote; go in and record them.

Billy Sherwood

I wrote songs with the guys from Air Supply for their record... So I was just writing songs.

Ringo Garza

We're trying to keep it fresh. The songs are never the same every night.

Billy Porter

For me, I really feel like if there's not a real, true connection to the material, I don't need to sing it. I don't need to sing songs just because I like them anymore. I've done that.

Brian Wilson

Probably not much of a song left in me, you know, if any, because I've written so many, some 250 songs or 300 or whatever it is.

Adam Jones

I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other.

Theo Rossi

I'm so crazy now about 'organic' and 'fresh' and stuff that's 'free range.'

Brian Eno

I've discovered this new electronic technique that creates new speech out of stuff that's already there.

Brian Eno

The point about working is not to produce great stuff all the time, but to remain ready for when you can.

David Mitchell

Whoever opined "Money can't buy you happiness" obviously had far too much of the stuff.

David Giuntoli

There's a lot of great stuff on TV.

David Sanborn

When I make records, I never listen to stuff after it's done. Ever.

Catherine Hardwicke

Some of the best stuff in all my movies has been improv.

Carole King

It's very difficult for me to evaluate my own stuff.

Jamie Luner

I love playing the vamp, and I get sent out for a lot of that stuff, maybe because I do it well.

Alan Ball

Obviously death is a theme I'm fascinated by.

John Kearns

Many things done tonight come from the theme of renewal.

Meg Browne

Just like a pendulum, ... the current-account theme is back in the market.

Deepak Chopra

The basic theme of the kapha metabolic type is relaxed.

Moby

I did a cover of the James Bond theme, and I felt like such a fraud, because the original is so good.

Michael Heizer

This theme of bigness — all painters and sculptors have dealt with it ever since.

Mason Cooley

The theme of my autobiography could only be repetition.

John O'Hara

They say great themes make great novels

Eve Arnold

Themes recur again and again in my work.

Carre Otis

I think that we can't deny the public's want for balancing out the images that are out there depicting women. Not all of us are 17 and a size two.

Carol Roth

Before you can pick a social-media strategy, you have to think of your customer and what the value proposition is for them. Social media is a way to engage customers, not to give your business a 'shout out.'

Carol Leifer

I think what I would say to my younger self, and probably to younger, just starting-out writers is that a lot of times you're just afraid to put yourself out there, and it's uncomfortable because it's working up the courage to do something, to push yourself to do those things.

Carol Shields

Words are our life. We are human because we use language. So I think we are less human when we use less language.

Carol Shields

Bookish people, who are often maladroit people, persist in thinking they can master any subtlety so long as it's been shaped into acceptable expository prose.

Carol Moseley Braun

I think it does suggest that the American people really do want to listen to somebody who actually has some solutions, some answers, and gives them some hope.

Carol Moseley Braun

I think its time to get a reapportionment process that frankly takes out the incumbency protection and the raw politics of the process.

Carol Moseley Braun

And frankly, being a woman I think gives me a slightly different take on a lot of the issues and on a lot of the solutions to the problems we face.

Carol Moseley Braun

I think the legacy of the civil rights movement is that now whites are more open to being represented by people of color or people who are women or, again, non-traditional candidates.