Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dexter Holland

Selling another 10 million albums is not a priority. Putting out something you're proud of is.

Kaskade

Mix CDs are interesting. I'm known more for my artist albums and less for my mix CDs.

Mystikal

My girlfriend is rap. Music and albums and records and my kids.

Jim Adkins

Gil didn't know us well, which was good. It made us step up and really make an effort. We had only made albums with one person in ten years. It helped to have an outside perspective.

Jeff Jones

If an artist has five or six or seven albums in his or her catalog, a lot of times many retailers are only carrying two or three. Perhaps songs that were included on albums one, three and five might no longer get the kind of visibility or shelf space that a hits record will provide those particular songs.

David Bowie

The only time that I've adopted characterization again since that point, for my own albums, has been an album called "Outside" that I did with Brian Eno .

Glenn Tipton

We've never been to Chile before. The lobby is full of Priest fans. They're holding the albums and wearing our T-shirts.

Pete Murray

I'm a huge fan of Neil Young, and those great albums of his sound so alive. Many CDs today sound perfect, quite boring. I wanted to have that life in the songs. To me Feeler was quite a safe-sounding album. I was quite angry about that for a long time because I let it happen. Of course I judge it more harshly than anyone else; it's not a bad record. But I learnt I have to give more direction on what I want.

Sufjan Stevens

I have a love/hate relationship with Amy Grant, but I do go back to her Christmas albums once in a while. They're dated and sentimental and the production is nearly unlistenable, but there's something about her vocal performance that just feels really true. I would take her Christmas albums over Mariah Carey's or Destiny's Child's any day.

Djuna Barnes

Life is painful, nasty and short . . . in my case it has only been painful and nasty.

Mike Pence

makes a powerful case that Congress should reconsider before we create this massive new government entitlement.

Robert Hamilton

Make no mistake, John Casey feels that it is a horrible thing to have to lay people off. And hopefully our worst fears will not be realized.

Sandy Amass

Let's say I'm in Carroll County and I needed a backhoe. I could select backhoe, then click, and the database gives me a list of people in Carroll County who've volunteered their backhoes in case of an emergency.

Mo Shaoping

Many lawyers who handled criminal cases have ended up in prison.

Robert Snyder

Many New Yorkers, rightly or wrongly, feel that the union's case is not as strong as it might be because they don't have very good pensions themselves. It's not something like the safety issue or the conductor issue or the token clerk issue, where the union has significant common ground with the transit riding public.

James Diamond

Many cases are won or lost during the jury selection phase of the case.

Ken Dulaney

Settlement of the case remains the most likely outcome.

James Awad

Sell in May' very well may be the case this year,

Andrew Smith

Making the tax cuts permanent is one thing I think he can push through. That feeds into job growth and his concept of an ownership society.

Bob Podges

Liana is really starting to understand the concept of taking what she can get and not forcing it.

David Elkind

Learning teaches us what is known, play makes it possible for new things to be learned. There are many concepts and skills that can only be learned through play.

Jason Catlett

My initial concept was deplorably vague. All I knew was that the Internet and privacy were on a collision course.

Dave Winer

Net neutrality is a concept that the tech industry rallies around, but it is hypocrisy.

Anita Elberse

One problem with relying on existing concepts is that it could stifle innovation, weakening the film sector over time.

Sophie Aldred

My concept of a 'Doctor Who' girl was that you screamed a lot and ran around quarries in unsuitable footwear. Of course you fell over and twisted your ankle, because you had high heels on.

Paolo Bacigalupi

My conception of my ideal reader has expanded quite a lot as I've matured: Ultimately when I think of my ideal reader, it's someone who's not sitting down with the intention of automatically arguing with the book: somebody who's going to give me enough slack to tell my story.

Song Min

Now we are talking about the concept of the right to peaceful use of nuclear energy. We are not at the stage to discuss in details about how this concept will develop at a later stage,

Josh Beckett

Let's talk about the outing. I felt pretty good today, let's start with that. I don't want to fill it up with stuff like that, negative stuff. Let's be positive here.

Joel Parkinson

Losing one grounds you a bit. I learned a lot after losing the title in 2009, learned that I was probably too intense that year, and when I didn't win, I just felt horrible.

Brian Billick

Last year, we felt we were a Super Bowl-caliber team. I think in just about every measure you can put out there, we're a better team than we were last year.

David Chase

Last year, we felt we needed more teachers. I'm troubled that we're not going after personnel just because we don't have the room for them.

Tim Churchill

Last year, we felt like we didn't have any winnable games.

Forel Davies

Last year was the first year I really felt comfortable with my game.

Brian James

Last year was really demanding. I just felt that at the end of the year I didn't have a lot of fire left in me.

Liz Gliem

Last year the pressure was on Jackie, but this year I felt a little more pressure on me. I had to take a little more of a leadership role.

Jeremy Bonderman

Last year went so fast. I felt like I was in and out of that game in like a matter of minutes.

Richard Rogers

If I remember rightly Holland for instance has something like 45, and it's a much smaller country. In comparison we have very few and they are very badly financed.

Richard P. Feynman

Physics has a history of synthesizing many phenomena into a few theories.

Robert Wilson

One of the few things that will remain of this time is what artists are doing. They are the journal and the diary of our time.

Ron Wood

Jo left me a few months ago for 10 days. I get this note: I'll come back when the real Ronnie comes back.

Stuart Anderson

Like any other day, you feel like you leave a few out there. But any time you shoot 68 with a hole in one, you can't complain.

James Kilts

Mach3 will remain No. 1 for the first few years, but Fusion will become our flagship brand.

Kelly Martin

Magdalena's beatable, but they're tough. Our girls got stuck a few times, but they never gave up.

David Margolick

Louis was a man of few words. And unfortunately most of the other guys were not great diarists.

David Margolick

Louis was a man of few words, ... And unfortunately most of the other guys were not great diarists.

Isabella Rossellini

There is often a great disparity between a director's personal style and the movies he makes.

Kristy Swanson

I can't ask for every movie I make to be great and brilliant. I can only try.

Mallory Ortberg

In the hands of a passive-aggressive person who wants to abdicate responsibility for things, texting is a great tool. You can really go nuts.

Malorie Blackman

Being the Children's Laureate has been educational, sometimes hectic, but most of all, great fun.

Jerry Reinsdorf

Like I said, Dennis has been of great value to our team.

Danny Kaye

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.

Danny Kaye

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.

Scott Peck

Life is difficult. This is the great truth, one of the greatest truthsit is a great truth because once we see this truth, we transcend it.

William Congreve

Let us be very strange and well-bred: Let us be as strange as if we had been married a great while; and as well-bred as if we were not married at all.

Raja Bell

We're not doing anything different. Guys understand that if it's going to be a week or a month, we're going to have to pick it up without him.

Pat Carroll

Let's rock the Capitol. Don't let these guys sneak back into town.

Mike Santiago

Leon is the starting quarterback for the Nicholls State game. Just like all the guys know, it is one day at a time. We have a lot of competition. You got to hold that spot.

S. Walker

Losing to those guys is always the worst. It's terrible.

Jose Guillen

Lots of times, you really need guys for motivation, guys trying to help your teammates. Lots of times, you see a lot of guys, they don't really care.

Tony Gwynn

Lots of guys took them. They were everywhere.

Jim Grobe

Last year was just one of those years when we didn't have a lot of old guys - and I'm talking about seniors in that mix. And some of the young guys, quite frankly, I don't think were tough enough to play.

Jeff Kent

Last year we started 12-2, and you guys had us going to the World Series already. Now we're 4-4 and you have concerns. I'm kind of perplexed.

Dusty Baker

Scott Eyre is a fun-loving guy, but the rest of the guys, especially the new guys we've got, they are all business.

John Philbrook

Man-hours, especially in the last two quarters, have jumped dramatically. Our position has always been to have enough work here so we don't have to travel to find work. Well, we are in that situation now.

Rabindranath Tagore

Let this be my last word, that I trust in your love.

Steve Reinprecht

Making the run that we made, we're going into the season with a different attitude. We want to win our last game, that's the mindset here.

Steve Hadley

made that request last week in his public statements very clearly.

Bobby Bowden

Leon's got a chance, ... Last week, he couldn't have done it.

Jim Bolla

(Losing on senior night) last year was kind of a bummer. But as least we got a win tonight and we've got a lot of people out there supporting them.

William Jefferson

Louisiana is last on the things that we ought to be first on, and first on the things we ought to be last on. We can do better than this,

Ron Zook

Lou turned up the wick considerably this year from last year.

Sullivan Sykes

Last year we had the potential, but we could never get over that hurdle. This year we play more as a team.

Derek Bailey

I'd like trios and quartets actually, but I like duos because a lot of musicians who I like playing with like playing duos.

Kathleen Blanco

We have a lot of talent in Louisiana, ... For years, our musicians have had to go to Nashville or New York to record.,

Robert Moog

I'm an engineer, ... I see myself as a toolmaker, and the musicians are my customers. They use the tools.

Bill Dixon

If musicians don't do any music, then there isn't any music. Musicians are very tricky and can be quite elusive.

Z. Sheppard

The sad thing is so many of the musicians have died.

Donald Harrison

The musicians will come back. It's going to take a long time, but New Orleans can actually be a better place because of this.

Robert Brown

The rest may reason and welcome; 'tis we musicians know.

Scott Baldwin

This is only the second time Tommy has been here in Texas for something like this. Normally, musicians of his reputation work with college-level students; we're very fortunate.

Isabella Rossellini

It always amazed me that people believed I was this beautiful object.

Isabella Rossellini

I'm always a little worried when people have met me in person because I'm worried they'll be disappointed.

Rick Perlstein

Do people still read before bed? I play 'Words With Friends.'

Robert Mankoff

People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist.

Robert Mankoff

I don't think most people know what's going to be in their obituary, but I do.

Robert Teeter

There are not enough people out talking about the President positively.

Roger Penrose

Some people take the view that we happen by accident. I think that there is something much deeper, of which we have very little inkling at the moment.

Kristy Swanson

My parents were like the kind of people who read the 'Enquirer' and believed everything it said.

Malorie Blackman

I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.

Jim Leyland

Makes a big difference. Players always make the difference.

Zeke Moreno

L.T. is fast. It takes 11 players to stop him. If 11 players are on the same page, then it's cool. But it's going to be very hard.

Dick Vermeil

Now the players are going to say we don't need to practice on Thursday.

Tom Bailey

We won't be one-dimensional on offense, ... We have linemen who can give our skilled players time to make the plays.

Joe Kines

I did a poor job. That's my fault. That's not the players job, that's my fault.

Tommy Taylor

One of the players said that we couldn't make anything and (Republic was) making everything.

Larry Brown

I wish this would get over. It's really about the players and us getting better.

Jody Bronson

I was pleased with the way a lot of our players performed.

Lori Ulferts

She's one of the most underrated players in the league. Even when she wasn't scoring in the first half, she was the source of most their points.

Kurt Barnard

One of the reasons why stores did not do better than they did is because there were not enough new designs, not enough new fashions.

John Grisham

One of the reasons we wanted to target Mississippi is, obviously, we are from there,

Debra Conner

One of the reasons we have been so successful as a staff is every single staff person was a volunteer before being a staff member.

Penelope Cruz

There are roles I have said no to, but for different reasons. And, I never talk about those because I feel it's disrespectful to say, 'Oh, I said no to this project or that other project.' I'd rather talk about the ones that I said yes to and the reasons why.

Nick Flynn

The only strategy I know of is to write every day, which I don't always do, because sometimes I just can't, for various reasons that seem out of my control.

Lydia Leonard

You have to accept that when you don't get the part, it's to do with all sorts of reasons completely beyond your control, unless you know it's because you weren't prepared.

John Miner

When it was put there in 1982, there were very specific reasons why,

Marshall Strickland

There are so many reasons for us to win.

Tom Davies

I think there are several reasons for that.

Stephen Covey

What air is to the body, to feel understood is to the heart.

Nigel Hamilton

I've never really understood the term 'Post-Impressionism' as more than a label for Cezanne, Gauguin and van Gogh.

Mary Wilson

We have always understood that visibility is viability.

Byron Katie

We fear only what we haven’t understood.

Carl Jung

Nothing worse could happen to one than to be completely understood.

Charles Darwin

Music was known and understood before words were spoken.

Elie Wiesel

My God was never happiness, but to understand and be understood.

Arthur Helps

We are frequently understood the least by those who have known us the longest.

Jessica Sanchez

On 'Idol,' I understood that everyone wanted to hear my vocals, so I stuck with the ballads.