Famous Quotes & Sayings

Herbie Hancock

Recently I've been listening to Mahler; it's beautiful stuff. I just saw a performance of Mahler's Eighth Symphony on television, and it was awesome. The music was so gorgeous I wasn't just crying tears, I was sobbing.

Patricia Sun

Patriotism is a beautiful thing - to love your country, your land, and your people and have a deep emotional affinity. But it can be so easily corrupted to polarized thinking, to harming others and ourselves if we don't realize what it is that is beautiful. It is beautiful because it is love.

Peter Malkin

Particularly, I enjoy strolling in the streets, watching passersby, gazing at the beautiful variety of the dresses and perceiving their joy; their sadness. At home, during the small hours of the night, I'll paint from memory what I have seen in the streets until I am under the impression of being with them again.

Alice Hogan

Such an ugly thing to happen in such a beautiful place.

Mark Twain

Surgeons and anatomists see no beautiful women in all their lives, but only a ghastly stack of bones with Latin names to them, and a network of nerves and muscles and tissues inflamed by disease.

Tom DeLay

Sure, when you get this number of people, there are stories of sexual exploitation. But in interviewing these employees one-on-one, there was no evidence of any of that going on. No evidence of sweatshops as portrayed by the national media. It's a beautiful island with beautiful people who are happy about what's happening.

Jim Murren

Our core competence is making beautiful and creative space that makes people feel special. So they took that care and put it in a medical setting. Everybody was motivated by a personal experience. We tried our best to put ourselves in the shoes of the patients and families and how they might feel.

Jim Willis

Robbie is probably the fastest kid on the team, and has a beautiful touch. He has played everywhere off the bench for us, and has fit in wherever he has played.

Ronnie Cates

Right there on the lake with the sun going down, (the amphitheater) is a beautiful structure. It's just a great way to enjoy an evening.

Gerald Cox

Real quick, what had been a close game turned into a huge blowout. When you have a kid that can shoot it like Brent can, you're going to let him keep shooting it.

Dave Taylor

Our reports on him as far back as juniors were always positive and favorable. He's definitely someone we've kept a close eye on over the years.

Alex Johnson

Our poll tells us that we should take a close look at the potential impact of some popular technology on hearing health.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Patience with family members and others who are close to us is vital for us to have happy homes.

Rob Sumner

Part of it is that we don't score a lot, so we had better be good in one-goal games. We're confident and comfortable playing in close games.

Jason Stevenson

Our lightweights did a good job tonight. They all went out with fire in their eyes. The matches were all close and Tait was fighting hard down to the very end.

Brian Hukel

Our legs seemed to leave us. Our effort, our legs -- I'm not sure -- but we failed to close out on some guys. They've got a lot of guys that can knock it down. If you don't close out, they're going to make shots and he made some big ones.

Judy Pardonnet

Our legal staff looked into it very closely and carefully, and the train platforms are definitely covered.

Judy Pardonnet

Our lawyers took a really close look at this. It was ruled LaSalle Street is covered, and smoking is prohibited.

Larry Walker

Reggie? Good luck. Congratulations. ... You guys win the championship down there?

Lydia Lenker

Re-election doesn't lead us. These are good issues.

Gregg Hostetler

Recognition is always good for the program. I think they have to prove it to me.

Jane King

Realtors should be all over this. It's a good product.

Joe Torre

Reggie was one of those guys who knew how good he was and let people know how good he was. Some players resented that during those times.

Stephen Hadley

Our relationships are in good shape. This is not a trip where the president has to come with a deliverable or an initiative.

Carl Pettersson

Pars are good. I had a good round going,

Mark Brunell

Patrick is a great guy and a very good player,

Doug Higgins

Patrick did a good job and we moved some guys around on defense. We started to play a little more solid.

Gary Player

I was grinding like I was winning the tournament.

Kevin Cunningham

We are working on something. We are still working out our situation. We are working and grinding right now.

Orlando Hudson

We've got to keep grinding and stay on top of it. . . . The tide will turn for us, and we'll get it going. It's right around the corner.

Tom Sawyer

At 1-2, I wasn't grinding on the kids about performance or anything like that. It was about recovery. It was about understanding who we're playing and where we are with the program and where we want to go. It was about motivating to rebuild.

Casey FitzRandolph

That's a man's race. You'll have guys really going for it, really grinding it out.

Barry Ritholtz

There's still upside in tech but it's going to be more grudging and grinding and choppy, it's not going to be this moon shot that we saw a year ago.

Mike Sweeney

We've really been grinding it out, and now we are starting to click. It takes the pressure off the pitchers.

E. Hicks

We just need to keep grinding and hope they don't have a 52 percent shooting night because they're going to mostly be 3s.

Pat Flannery

We just had to keep grinding and grinding.

Stephanie Eby

Susan played hurt and still led us in kills and digs. Nichole hit and passed well and served at 97 percent. Jessica picked it up a lot this year. Those players will be missed.

Marquis Daniels

Some of our shots went in and out, and some of theirs hit all around the rim and the backboard and went in.

Megan Schwab

Our practice is really structured this year. So, we'll have a time for hitting and a time for fielding.

Pete Dunn

Our pitchers were just horrible, horrible pitching with the lead. Everything you shouldn't do with a lead, we did. We started pitching from behind, walking people, hitting people.

Chad Artz

Our pitchers just need to pitch and let the other team hit the ball, and more than likely we'll get them out.

Dawn Ostroff

Our strength is having high-quality hits that it would take another (new) network years to develop.

Randy Osnes

Overall I was very proud of the way that we hit the ball, we just can't strand people like we did today.

Stephen Ames

Overall, it was just a matter of getting out of my own way. Every shot this week, I was able to see the shape of it and then hit it the way I wanted.

Kevin Sickey

Our vulnerability simply provided an opportunity to steal and they hit the jackpot with us.

Dawn Ostroff

Our strength is having high-quality hits that it would take another (new) network years to develop.

Chad Slyter

I think they are just wondering what we have to do to win these short run games. The difference, right now, is we're not getting hits with runners at second and third.

Emily Martin

Jamie is really pounding the ball. She's been getting big hits for us all season.

Terry Cornett

(Lang) had them at bay. Then they had two hits and scored them.

Jeff Messer

That's the way he was last year. He's not overpowering, but he hits his spots.

Dan Haren

I think our offense is even better than last year. Milton and Frank, I mean, look at the hits they had tonight. It's nice to see them in the lineup.

Joel Edgerton

I don't appreciate, really, talking to journalists when there's a sense of wanting to kick up dust to sell more papers or get more hits on their Internet site.

Tim Chambers

He'll be able to go wherever he wants to go, if he keeps those hits up.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Grief is so human, and it hits everyone at one point or another, at least, in their lives. If you love, you will grieve, and that's just given.

Megan Schwab

Our practice is really structured this year. So, we'll have a time for hitting and a time for fielding.

Pete Dunn

Our pitchers were just horrible, horrible pitching with the lead. Everything you shouldn't do with a lead, we did. We started pitching from behind, walking people, hitting people.

Rex Walters

I'm hitting the road tonight to find some players.

Darren Clarke

I'm hitting it nicely and I'll try to keep it going. There are a lot of people who want to win this a lot more than I do. I would love to do it myself, but it's not that important.

Charles Coody

I think they accomplished that. All the players are hitting the same irons they did 20 or 30 years ago.

Louis Whorton

That was the story of the game. They were hitting two shots to our one. We didn't rebound worth a flip, and they doubled us on rebounding.

Venus Williams

That was an unbelievable tie-break. She just kept hitting winners but somehow I stayed in there,

Brandy Williams

It has been hard. At first, we were struggling. But then we started to come together when we needed to. We started hitting our peak at the right time, and I feel like we've done well.

Bob Jacoby

Last year, our pitching wasn't as strong. Our fielding and hitting have improved.

Allard Baird

Out of respect to him, I'd rather have him do that.

Koyie Hill

I think they'd rather get somebody for me, though. It would look better.

Simon Leung

I think the timing is going to be more towards the end of this year rather than earlier.

Terry Bradshaw

I will tell you what I feel, right or wrong. I don't want to do it. I would rather make you laugh. But that's my job. I did it. Archie's mad. I understand.

Jon Karkow

I think he was thinking more about the end of the runway approaching rather than the birds.

Joker Phillips

It didn't take long for me to say yes. Once we started talking, he said that we had been on the up and up with him and that he'd rather come here.

Michael Long

I think I would rather that he didn't run.

Brian Penn

It could have been worse. They could have been using grenades rather than eggs.

Craig Berman

He really wants to get back to the work he's been doing for 15 years in search rather than running a company.

Enrique Garcia

Somehow a struggle ensued. One victim was shot and the other was stabbed.

Ryan Gomes

(Pierce) has been making those big shots for us.

Bethenny Frankel

I've often thought if I didn't make my marriage work, I would have failed at my one true shot at happiness.

Bo Ryan

That was his shot in the 1920s and 30s.

Dennis Fermoyle

That was the only shot we got in the third period.

Eric Osmundson

That was the big shot of the game.

Melvin Buckley

That was crucial. I was like 'Wow, here we go again' ... this time, not to even get a shot off.

John Shuster

That's the shot we always work for the win.

Joey Mullen

I thought he was solid all night. He didn't have a lot of shots for two periods, but when they did, he was there.

Ryan Gomes

(Pierce) has been making those big shots for us.

Bethenny Frankel

I've often thought if I didn't make my marriage work, I would have failed at my one true shot at happiness.

Joey Mullen

I thought he was solid all night. He didn't have a lot of shots for two periods, but when they did, he was there.

John Ontjes

Friesen's a tough player. She made some unbelievable shots in the first half.

Justin Gray

I take tough shots all season. I do take a lot of them. You end up making some.

Frank Sciolla

It didn't matter. We were getting lay-ups. We were getting all the shots we wanted. They just weren't going in.

Kirk Hinrich

I thought all of my shots were going in. When they didn't, it starting getting frustrating.

Bernie Bickerstaff

He's had to do a lot of things because we haven't been making shots from the perimeter.

Russ Crist

We made the shots to win the game. They just had enough time to get one off.

Ben Howland

I was uncomfortable standing there. I'm wanting water after water out of the machine.

Tommy Tuberville

I get off the bus, and he's the first one I see, this 18-year-old standing there crying. It takes you back.

Ayn Rand

You don't know how hard I've tried to be left standing all by myself.

David Levithan

I'm always standing on the edge of something bad.

Cindy Gallop

I like to stand out and make a statement.

Holly Derrick

We told her, just standing there, in the street. It was bad.

Bruce Lee

We have more faith in what we imitate than in what we create

Charles Handy

You have to stand outside the box to see how the box can be re-designed.

Joe Farmer

We're standing by, waiting for them to tell us what to do.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

You'll be bothered from time to time by storms, fog, snow. When you are, think of those who went through it before you, and say to yourself, 'What they could do, I can do.'

Beeban Kidron

Making a big commercial movie is hard when you think about how many of them flop.

Bebe Neuwirth

People are at their happiest if they are true to themselves. I think that applies to their chosen profession, friends and relationships. It goes for your health too. If you are true to yourself, it seems to me everything should work out pretty well

Beck

For the records I've work on over the last 10 years, I get sent the really compressed version and the non-compressed version, and oftentimes you end up going with the more compressed one because it's what people's ears are attuned to. I think the bigger problem is saturation and people being desensitized.

Beck

I do think music sounds better when it's on tape and more simply recorded.

Beck

Sometimes, I think the way the music business has been destructive and the way the fans are been put through it and try to navigate through it, so much is so foreign to what musicians would actually want to do or what would be natural to them.

Beck

I think it's interesting being American, the expectations for an American guy, and the image that has to be projected. 'Oh, I can't wear pink,' that kind of stuff. There's none of that in Europe.

Beck

I think trying to be offbeat is the most boring thing possible.

Beck

I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.

John Hull

Our starting point then was trying to find a way to incorporate mean reversion into the HoLee model.

Wilson Alvarez

I'm here trying to do it one more time. I'm doing it for my kids. I'm doing it for my wife. I'm doing it for my teammates. So they can all say you've still got it.

Bebe Neuwirth

Anything that I do, I try to make it as good as I possibly can.

Beck

With my own music, I try to get away from things that are familiar and things that would be easy for me to go to.

Beck

I would love to do an electronic record. There's just so much to see and do and try. And life goes by.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I wrinkled my nose, trying to figure out what he smelled like. Not cigarettes. Something richer, fouler. Cigars.

B. B. King

I don't try to just be a blues singer - I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.

Billy Corgan

I was trying to be this person who is cool, eternally rocking.

Billy Corgan

I'd reached a point where there was a direct conflict between what I was trying to be and who I really was.

David Davies

Sven's got a roving eye. He's like a seagull and can wrap his wings around people.

Kevin Morris

Out the end windows of the cafeteria, it's all new,

Max Mathurin

Rene Preval has been declared the winner with 51 percent.

Ben Curtis

I'm here to win and that's what I want to do,

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The tree is more than first a seed, then a stem, then a living trunk, and then dead timber. The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky.

Beck

I never had any expectations of winning a Grammy. It wasn't something I was set on, that I was hoping and praying and starving for.

Beck

Let the desert wind cool your aching head. Let the weight of the world - drift away instead

B. B. King

I can't afford no liquor, all I can buy is beer and wine.