Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lina Wertmuller

When I was young, I ran to see Astaire and Rogers, Huston, Lubitsch - they were formative for me. I also read 'Flash Gordon' when I was 6, but if I were still reading it when I was 16, I'd have been an imbecile.

Kenny Ortega

There's an old Fred Astaire movie where the stage becomes bigger and deeper and more complex. Moments like that really did impact on me and influence me.

David Hallberg

No one around me was obsessed with Fred Astaire except for me. It just snowballed, really. I started with tap lessons. When I didn't have tap shoes, I taped nickels on the bottom of my penny loafers.

Adam G. Sevani

I dug up my dad's old Fred Astaire tapes, and now I find him super-inspiring. He's, like, one of the best dancers.

Terry Teachout

Fred Astaire never let you see him sweat, but he sweetened his deceptively casual virtuosity with just enough charm to make it irresistible.

Matthew Bourne

Astaire never thought of what he was doing as balletic, but Kelly was always trying to dance with women on points. And his choreography is so showy and flashy. He always looks self-satisfied to me.

Max von Essen

I grew up with the movies of Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire and Judy Garland - these are the kinds of shows and the kinds of numbers in shows that I dreamed of being in and doing when I was a kid.

Liz Smith

I thought Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers were here dancing on black glass floors. And I thought everything was here. My idol, Walter Winchell was here.

George Hamilton

I said I need a little more Fred Astaire and a little less Ricky Martin.

Alan Curbishley

We have said to all the teams down the bottom we have done our hardest.

Alexandre Burrows

We have to have a better power play, that's the bottom line. We've got to get it done (tomorrow).

Tim Heekin

We have no economic numbers Monday and my sense is that the market is going to keep consolidating for the next few sessions, before we make a bottom and then build from there

Sung Sohn

We have probably hit the bottom in inventory liquidation, and hopefully we are actually now rebuilding inventory,

Brad Nisbet

We've seen kind of blase growth since the bottom fell out in 2001; it's nice to see that throughout 2005 we were accelerating.

Scott Walker

The real bottom line is, the national unions want their hands on the money.

Jared Bernstein

When income growth is concentrated at the top of the income scale, the people at the bottom have a much harder time lifting themselves out of poverty and giving their children a decent start in life.

Jesse McCartney

When I'm singing, that's all me. That's from the bottom of my heart - it's everything I've worked for. When you're on stage, there are no guidelines. No one's telling me what to do!

Sharan Burrow

What we do is look at the bottom line and what it will cost business - the truth is (it) doesn't cost business.

Ed Koch

If you listen to Giuliani, it's like nobody did anything to improve the city except him. I'm not part of the history. Bloomberg's not part of the history. It's like, he did it. He's the only one. That's why he's a little crazy.

Eve Plumb

I never wanted to do reunion shows for the sake of a reunion show. I've done all the 'Brady Bunch' stuff except for the Variety Show, but when a talk show wants us all to get together for their sake, it's not interesting to me.

Eugenie Clark

I want to be remembered as a nice person who didn't hurt people - except my ex-husbands, maybe.

Lajos Egri

No two dramatists think or write alike. Ten thousand playwrights can take the same premise, as they have done since Shakespeare, and not one play will resemble the other except in the premise. Your knowledge, your understanding of human nature, and your imagination will take care of that.

Nick Flynn

I'm not sure why working at a homeless shelter made sense to me, except that I needed to immerse myself in some sort of larger real-life situation to get me out of the cage of my mind, in some ways.

Mark Snyder

We're still learning how to practice, like everyone except the NFL,

Keith Jarrett

I don't like recording studios - except my own, which is just a little room above the garage.

Tom Wolfe

'Back to Blood' really took it out of me. While I was writing it, I just never went out anywhere, except to the gym.

Charles Osgood

There are no exceptions to the rule that everybody likes to be an exception to the rule.

Edward Brooke

Fred Thompson was a law partner of mine.

Steven Livingston

Fred Siegel is a great guy to work with and live next to.

Haley Barbour

Fred may be right, and I may not have heard it, ... I do not recall his saying that.

Bernard Laporte

Fred is a key player of our squad, that's why he was rested this week.

Kelly Middleton

Fred (Hester) and Terry Stanfield have done a phenomenal job for years. It takes unbelievable organization to put this together.

Jack Rio

Fred held up well and had some really nice runs. He really did a nice job running the ball.

Ozzie Guillen

Freddy is supposed to be a big-game pitcher. Everything is in Freddy's odds. He should be all right.

Ozzie Guillen

Freddy is supposed to be a big-game pitcher, ... Everything is in Freddy's odds. He should be all right.

Kevin Sheekey

Freddy can't even find one substantiated statistic that supports his claims,

Cameron Russell

I always wanted to become president! When I was a kid, I was obsessed with politics.

David Winters

Weyerhaeuser is a bigger, more complicated company. They're tackling some very tough things, but some of these things you can't resolve overnight, even though Wall Street is obsessed with the short term.

Augusten Burroughs

The more obsessed one is with getting thin, the more certain it becomes that one will never get there.

Aaron Paul

I'm obsessed with Radiohead. They're just the greatest band on the planet.

Ze Frank

I'm obsessed with media and the way audiences can become creative participants.

Aaron Paul

I'm obsessed with concerts.

Courteney Cox

I'm not going to deny it. I'm a neat person, there's no question. But I don't become obsessed with it.

Connie Britton

I'm obsessed with 'Thelma and Louise,' and therefore obsessed with Callie Khouri who wrote that movie.

Amanda Peet

I'd love to work with Joan Cusack again - I'm obsessed with Joan Cusack.

Alan Parsons

I started in a research lab for TV cameras, then I worked at a tape duplication facility. That was the first introduction for me to recorded music and hi-fi.

Skip Arnold

We're having to tap into our 'snowy-day' fund.

Chance The Rapper

A cool & diversified version of a mix tape. The BreakBeat Poets is a thorough and complete summation of Golden Era writers who continue to build the scene of literary and performance poetry.

Bill Maher

I'd just like to know what a cop WOULD have to do to get indicted - and what good are cop cameras since Eric Garner IS on tape?

Demetri Martin

There is probably more invisible tape out there than we realize.

Alfonso Soriano

When I look at myself on tape I can see that, but I just didn't make the adjustments at the time.

Josh Childress

Watch the tape throughout, and you'll see him doing things like that.

Derrick Brooks

Watching those tapes told me I've still got a lot of work to do,

Eddie Van Halen

Imagine if Beethoven had a tape recorder. Then you'd know exactly what he meant. Maybe he meant 'Da da da da' instead of 'Boom boom boom boom!' Who knows?