Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jimmy Chamberlin

Part of the reason that I left the Pumpkins is because it was becoming all-consuming. Being the only member of that band who had two kids and a wife, it was a hard decision, but ultimately it was a decision I'm comfortable with.

Allison Robertson

Our manager expected us to throw things at him, ... but I said, 'I'll do it! Yeah!' and the rest of the band was fine with it. We weren't looking for (a bunch of fair gigs), but for some reason they keep coming to us.

Jon King

Our lives went off in different tangents when the band broke up, and there was a sense of wanting to move forward,

Joe Perry

(Our music) doesn't sound dated, because there are so many new bands that are trying to replicate a '70s sound or a '60s sound. The playing field is getting kind of leveled. If you want to go out and see what a big rock show can be, we're there to do it.

E. Hicks

People laugh at the Stones because of their age. Mick, Charlie, Ron and Keith can still play with the best of the young bands today.

Mark Demko

People love the music of Styx. Both bands are rock legends, and there are a lot of classic rock fans in the Lehigh Valley.

Jeff Russell

Spring Fair offers this headline act, as well as daytime stages with lots of high quality local bands that really highlight the energy we want.

Stan Kenton

Some of the wise boys who say my music is loud, blatant and that's all should see the faces of the kids who have driven a hundred miles through the snow to see the band... to stand in front of the bandstand in an ecstasy all their own.

Peter Mitchell

Some investment banks were on the bandwagon earlier than others and are doing quite well as a result. It's a product that does require knowledge of the market.

Don Swarthout

Our message is about Revival in our Churches and the Restoration of Godly principles in our daily lives.

David Wallace

People have the misconception that churches have deep pockets. What they don't realize is that we are a nonprofit and we rely on the items to conduct our services. It's not just robbing an institution; it's robbing people.

Jeff Gray

Some have been put in contact with local church groups from contacts back home, some have family members in Arizona; it runs the gamut.

Gerry Cruz

Some GPSS employees were not clear on the policies regarding church and state issues so (the memo) was just a matter of guidance. This is the same policy that all state and federally funded school districts throughout the nation follow.

Robert Ingersoll

That church teaches us that we can make God happy by being miserable ourselves;

Peter Peterson

Our five churches have paired together to help support (Louisiana Memorial), sending money,

Dave Parker

Out of 500 deals I've done, this is how I've done all of them, ... Ours is a straight deal. I just finished a similar deal with a national church organization. I'm really surprised.

Lars Trier

Reproduction is a little stupid. You have to put a little something in. It's like in the church you pay a little money to the tithe.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

RECTOR, n. In the Church of England, the Third Person of the parochial Trinity, the Cruate and the Vicar being the other two.

Arlen Specter

Regrettably, you need homeland security, and I think you are going to need it if not forever, for the foreseeable future,

Kenny MacAskill

Our message to the Scottish Diaspora this New Year should be to come home to Scotland.

Francis Thompson

Spring is come home with her world-wandering feet./ And all the things are made young with young desires.

Judah Friedlander

Stand-up is kind of like my home base, and doing stand-up in New York is what I like doing most.

Mike Rogers

Some of those old homes made it through a lot of hurricanes,

Bill Henderson

Someone from home will be praying for you,

James Augustine

That'd be the best. To do it at home on Senior Night, to do it with Dee. It would be a special night.

Taylor Twellman

Our first home match is going to be difficult, and we know that better than anybody,

Nick Russo

Residents of these temporary homes need to practice safety first at all times.

Sully Erna

Our music is very simple and doesn't go over people's heads, ... Simplicity has been the recipe for us so far.

Estelle

Success is based on music, not where you're from.

Keith Richards

Other than its sense of rhythm, it's music by the tone-deaf for the tone-deaf.

Walter Becker

Play what you enjoy! Try and find your own musical identity.

Bela Bartok

I cannot conceive of music that expresses absolutely nothing.

Bela Bartok

His pagan barbarity, his explosive and angrily defiant melancholy, his demoniacal instinct . . . these are all echoes . . . of the thousand-year-old Hungarian psyche.

Barry Mann

I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction.

B. B. King

Michael Bloomfield came in after rock n roll started, and he was a great guitarist. He idolized me - I know that. What else can I say ? he was a young, excitable man. To him, drugs were plentiful, and that was no good. I talked to him like he was a son of mine. He was a great and he was gonna be greater. But he was part of the "in-crowd" and so he never got there

B. B. King

The Blues? It's the mother of American music. That's what is is - the source.

Sathya Baba

Stay by me and keep quiet. I will do the rest.

Doctor Who

Rest is for the weary, sleep is for the dead.

Alain Vigneault

Rest is as important as anything else right now.

Rodney Melville

I will look for ways to restrict testimony.

David Bell

The Astros aren't going to win the rest of the way. We have a chance.

Ed Nemec

I think we are a much better restaurant today than we were one year ago.

Jay Hakkinen

I think this will live with me for the rest of my life.

Dwayne Hickman

Little did I know then that I would be tied to that role the rest of my life!

Robert Lang

It does get you going for the rest of the season.

Saleh Mutlak

They wanted to go in a more secular way, and I didn't. So there will be a split.

Natalia Kills

When I was in my early teens, I joined a cult. And we weren't allowed to listen to secular music or anything that wasn't made by us. So I spent a lot of time not listening to music, and by the time I could, I just didn't get into it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout.

Joseph Campbell

Within the field of a secular society, which is a sort of neutral frame that allows individuals to develop their own lives, so long as they don't annoy their neighbors too much, each of us has an individual myth that's driving us, which we may or may not know.

Karen Armstrong

Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are all in different ways seeking to drag him out of that peripheral position, back to center stage.

Jim Wallis

The best response to bad religion is better religion, not secularism.

Ulrich Beck

The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion.

William Booth

Secular music, do you say, belongs to the devil? Does it? Well, if it did I would plunder him for it, for he has no right to a single note of the whole seven. Every note, and every strain, and every harmony is divine, and belongs to us.

Lori Glass

Some have wives or girlfriends that say 'Don't send me roses,' though they specify they want at least one rose.

Dee Brown

That's the way the tournament goes. Wherever they send you, you've just got to go and play.

Rick Bragg

It is not unusual to send someone to conduct an interview you don't have time to conduct. It's what we do.

Dusty Baker

It doesn't send me no message. It's his career. It ain't my career.

John Chaney

I'm sending a message, and I'm going to do what we used to do years ago - send in the goons.

Joseph Biden

He didn't say who's going to send more troops,

Goodman Ace

I would have answered your letter sooner, but you didn't send one.

Linda Holden

He said, you want pumpkins? We'll send you pumpkins. Ever since we've called him mayor-peter-peter-pumpkin-sender,

Stephane Dion

There is an urgent need to send a signal to the world about the future.

Bede Griffiths

This is criterion by which the Church is to be judged, not by the forms of its doctrine or ritual, but by the reality of the reality of the love which it manifests.

Bede Griffiths

...the need to overawe people and demand obedience from them is powerful and seductive. It is a part of that world that the kingdom of heaven is not of.

Bede Griffiths

The main theme of the Bible is the restoration of humanity and, through humanity, of the whole of creation to its original harmony.

Bede Griffiths

This was the very purpose of creation that each unique, individual being should participate in its own way in the divine Being, should realize its eternal 'idea' in God, should 'become' God by participation, God expressing himself through that unique being.

Bede Griffiths

In his (Christ's) surrender on the cross all the pain and agony of mankind was concentrated at a single point, and passed through from death to immortality, There is no pain of any creature from the beginning to the end of time which was not 'known' at this point and thus transmuted. To know all things in the Word is thus to know all the suffering of the world transfigured by the resurrection, somehow reconciled and atoned in eternal life. It was God's purpose which he set forth in Christ as a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in him, things on heaven and things on earth'.

B. R. Ambedkar

The basic idea underlying religion is to create an atmosphere for the spiritual development of the individual. This being the situation, it is clear that you cannot develop your personality at all in Hinduism.

B. R. Ambedkar

My final words of advice to you are educate, agitate and organize; have faith in yourself. With justice on our side I do not see how we can loose our battle. The battle to me is a matter of joy. The battle is in the fullest sense spiritual. There is nothing material or social in it. For ours is a battle not for wealth or for power. It is battle for freedom. It is the battle of reclamation of human personality.

Billy Corgan

I've always been spiritual but I've never had a proper context, and it took me awhile to find the proper context. It's hard to realize you can have any kind of relationship with God you want... and so I now have a punk rock relationship with God.

Billy Corgan

I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It's a journey of recovery. It's a journey of uncovering your own inner nature. It's already there.

Sathya Baba

Start the Day with Love;Spend the Day with Love;Fill the Day with Love;End the Day with Love;This is the way to God.

Steve Wilson

Some of the things offensively are starting to come together,

Jermaine Wiggins

Man, that ain't even a thought for me, ... I can't get into that world. I've been around too long to start something like that up.

Beck

Every time you go in, it's like starting over. You don't know how you did the other records. You're learning all over. It's some weird musician amnesia, or maybe the road wipes it out.

Brian Boland

I think Doug is starting to take it to another level.

Bill Budge

The power of the computer is starting to spread.

Charles Davis

That was his first start and he was sharp.

Kim Parker

That will be a big start all over for us, but you've got to start somewhere,

Neil Thompson

That way we have something to start with if you do go missing.

John Nersesian

Rebalancing doesn't work every time. It works over time.

Mac McCabe

Our participants can work just as well as you or I.

Romesh Gunesekera

Sri Lanka is a part of my background: it's not where I live, but it's what I want to explore. And I find it works very well to explore through fiction.

Jim Coyne

Some of the work is in dispute. Hopefully, it will be settled.

David Frum

Republicans originally thought that Fox worked for us and now we're discovering we work for Fox.

Barry Ritholtz

The market is going to love it. The market always seems to applaud major mergers, even though the vast majority of them don't work out and don't increase shareholder value.

David Burnett

Well a little disappointed but we'll work with what we have to work with.

Bill Cosby

There is no labor a person does that is undignified; if they do it right.

Big Pun

I'd rather sell reefer than do pizza delivery.