Famous Quotes & Sayings

Muddy Waters

Oh, I started out young. They handed me a cotton sack when I was about 8 years old. Give me a little small one, tell me to fill it up. I never did like the farm but I was out there with my grandmother, didn't want to get away from around her too far.

Muddy Waters

There's no way in the world I can feel the same blues the way I used to. When I play in Chicago, I'm playing up-to-date, not the blues I was born with. People should hear the pure blues - the blues we used to have when we had no money.

Max Roach

The people who really got me off were dealing with the musical potential of the Instrument.

Adrian Belew

The only drawback is once the work is done you rarely see each other.

Jeff Ament

We've always been a band that stood up for what we thought was right.

Scott Ian

We've always been a band that just did out own thing. We've never really set any goals, we just did what we wanted and set out to do.

Solomon Burke

We started the publicity, we started moving in the same direction with them, and then the devil came in and just turned that right around.

Les Baxter

I've been down there 6 times and there's nothing like Brazilian percussion.

Merle Haggard

And then I have two children by Theresa, one boy 10 and one girl 13.

Bruno Tonioli

A good show makes me happy. It's a great sensation. If you could capture a great atmosphere and do it every time, that would be amazing.

Edith Wharton

The persons of their world lived in an atmosphere of faint implications and pale delicacies, and the fact that he and she understood each other without a word seemed to the young man to bring them nearer than any explanation would have done.

Gretchen Rubin

In 'Happier at Home,' I write a lot about my struggle to create an unhurried atmosphere at home.

Bill Johnson

Faith is generated in the atmosphere of experiencing truth.

Brian Gionta

Whenever there's a ceremony like that, if you're home or away, you always have to be careful not to get too stale. But it sparked a lot of emotion, and that kept us going. It felt like a playoff atmosphere out there.

Brad Richards

When you score two goals one game and one goal the next and you get four points, that's great because we weren't getting (points) when we were scoring three and four. It's huge and this is going to get everybody's confidence going. We need to pull out games like this and then atmosphere is a little bit better in the workplace, you know?

Bill Laswell

The atmosphere defines the environment of sound.

Bill Watterson

Planet Bog - Pools of toxic chemicals bubble under a choking atmosphere of poisonous gases... but aside from that, it's not much like Earth.

Mark Eaton

We remember the great atmosphere here, how inspiring the fans were. This is why you play. This is the best time in the year. Being able to start at home makes it that much better.

David Sze

Founded in August 2003, MySpace would go on to be the most-visited social networking site in the world from 2005 until early 2008.

Denise Levertov

breathe the sweetness that hovers in August ...

David Garrity

We believe that Ford's recall of over 46,000 Explorer SUVs overseas since August 1999 undermines Ford's efforts to place responsibility on Bridgestone/Firestone in connection with the U.S. tire recall. As a result, Ford's credibility with U.S. consumers, legislators and regulators may suffer. We are thereby threatening the January 2001 launch of the new model.

Larry Csonka

When I was playing and practicing in that heat in July and August in Miami with shoulder pads on, it just vaporized me, ... Shula would always come over and look at me and say, 'Where are you? I know you're not here. You're just on automatic pilot.' I was up here in my mind, fishing in a stream.

Charles Dutton

What's it about,' I asked, and he said, 'It's about a guy selling watermelons,' ... I said, 'You're gonna put a black man on stage selling watermelons?' And August said, 'He's trying to buy some land.

Bill Brooks

We're doing everything we can. Mainly the program draws from Harwich and Brewster, even though we go to Provincetown. It's just such a commitment. It's not like other sports that play once a week and play one game. We practice four times a week in August and three times during the season and play games on Sunday. That's more than any other sport.

Edna O'Brien

August is a wicked month.

Jeff Smith

We requested that the committee defer its request for a staff interview at least until after the August recess or until such time as we were better informed. We never received a response to this letter.

Michael Brown

We want to make sure the first time someone straps on a football helmet isn't in August of their freshman year. We've had some youth programming, but it's been piecemeal. With the new plan, we're trying to coordinate this.

Graeme Souness

The other pleasing points are that we've got through and won a tie 5-1 when we've played, first after only two weeks, and then after only 17 days of training.

Robert Kabushenga

The posters are depicting government in a negative light and this comes only a few days to the polling day.

Rick Michaels

We are pleased that we were able to reach record production levels, despite losing several days due to the holidays.

Dusty Baker

There are days when you don't have your premier stuff,

Donna Wisniewski

There are days they pick up two or three, but there's days that they come in with over 40 of them.

Walt Harris

There are days the offensive line looks like they're putting it together. At times we see the light at the end of the tunnel. They're starting to respond, but they've got to grow up fast.

Jody Conradt

There are days it's really been fun. And there are days when it's really been, well ... trying.

Karen Allen

There are days he just reads my mind.

Nicky Byrne

There are some days when you just want to push Shane off his chair.

Marguerite Gardiner

Here Fashion is a despot, and no one dreams of evading its dictates.

Kim Edwards

You don't know when you are immersed in a book what the reaction to it will be, but I feel great about 'The Lake of Dreams.'

Katie Stevens

I think that they way my parents raised me, they taught me to always follow my dreams and never give up, no matter what the obstacle.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

Man dreams of fame while woman wakes to love.

Stephen Colletti

It's hard because people always say, 'Follow your dreams,' but it's not a perfect world, and things don't always work out. But you've just got to work hard, and you can't take things for granted.

Anna Kendrick

In my dreams, I have Keira Knightley's eyebrows.

Tim Minear

Horror is about dreams and heightened states. It really is about taking away the logic on some level and getting right to the emotion of something.

Tracy Morgan

God gave us dreams, but he gave us kids to make all those dreams worthwhile. And when I look at all my kids, I say everything that I've ever went through in my life was worthwhile.

Kate Bush

I do have the odd dream where I'm on stage and I've completely forgotten what I'm meant to be performing - so they are more nightmares than dreams.

Chua Bin

We started the year on a low note and we are ending the year on a high because all sectors bounced back.

Colin Jones

We're going to take it one week and one game at a time. Not getting to play in that game was so tough. It was a frustrating ending to a great season. Now we're healthy and ready to get started. This is going to be our year.

Keir Dullea

Kubrick never explained the ending to us, or what his intentions were. He didn't intend for it to be a predictable film.

Ryohei Muramatsu

Unless the market can get a firm perception that the US Fed is ending its interest rate hike cycle, the ongoing weakness of the yen may not come to an end.

Martha Grimes

There are people who read Tolstoy or Dostoevski who do not insist that their endings be happy or pleasant or, at least, not be depressing. But if you're writing mysteries - oh, no, you can't have an ending like that. It must be tidy.

Kerry Wilson

She, I hate to say it, uses men to move herself up. It's kind of a rags to riches story, but she was not well-liked by the military or the aristocracy. It's like 'Cinderella,' only the ending is not happy.

Bonnie Tyler

I love watching movies with happy endings or anything with Steve Martin or stuff like that.

Nicole Jordan

I had never written anything before in my life except maybe in high school when I wrote a short story, and my mother had to put an ending on that.

P. J. O'Rourke

Ending wars is very simple if you surrender.

Alan Jackson

I didn't realize until I was older what a huge music fan my daddy really was, and actually that my grandma played banjo at one time, and I didn't even know that until a year or two ago.

Al Sharpton

If Charlton Heston can have a constitutional right carry a rifle, why can't grandma have a constitutional right to health care?

Chris Colfer

To Grandma: Once upon a time, there was a boy who flew.

Chris Colfer

To Grandma, for being my first editor and giving me the best writing advice I’ve ever received: “Christopher, I think you should wait until you’re done with elementary school before worrying about being a failed writer.

Chris Bohjalian

My grandparents, like many genocide survivors, took most of their stories to their graves.

Bryan Sykes

By looking at the details of the DNA, it is possible to chart the flow of your ancestry from your ultimate grandmother to more modern times.

Caroline Kennedy

I feel like my grandparents and parents gave me a tremendous amount. And if I can pass some of that on, then I'll be very happy.

Camille Paglia

Our feminist culture at the present moment is completely dependent on capitalism . My grandmother was sill scrubbing clothes on the back porch on a washboard !

John Page

We've already done our investigation and presented it to the grand jury,

Betty Wright

You just have to realize that no matter how delectable that meal looks, there's a chance that you might not get to eat it while it's hot.

John Gibbons

We're going to give this a go. That's our plan. If somebody is really hot and we're trying to win games, it may come down to that.

Andre Woodson

We're going to give it to the hot hand.

John Hamilton

When we got here on Monday, we rented a hotel and started to get help.

Bam Margera

I'd say mostly I paint hot chicks.

Delta Burke

And sometimes, when you feel low on yourself, that's just when you have to go out there and be photographed or do a scene where you're hot stuff. You're always working on it.

Gina Lombardi

With the light-rail going in right next to us and all the development around, it makes our land a hot spot. You can't really stand in the way of it.

Curt Shaw

We knew what was on the line. The pressure was off after the loss to Hot Springs (Thursday).

Shashi Tharoor

A witticism in an airport security line is like a Swiss tap - turn it on, and you instantly find yourself in hot water.

David Hockney

Of course you can still paint landscape - it's not been worn out.

David Hockney

Enjoyment of the landscape is a thrill.

Bridget Riley

For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces.

Brian Setzer

Elvis Presleys' first album had more energy and more enthusiam than any other album at the time - when it was released it just blew everything else out. It changed the whole landscape of music

Aldo Leopold

The landscape of any farm is the owner's portrait of himself.

Daniel Day-Lewis

I live in a landscape, which every single day of my life is enriching.

Dylan Moran

I'm fascinated by how you'll change your position so many times over a lifetime, but really what you're doing is occupying a series of positions on a landscape.

Derek Walcott

Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves.

Andy Stanley

Uncertainty is a permanent part of the leadership landscape. It never goes away.

Caryl Chessman

I am not generally regarded as a pleasant or socially minded fellow.

Charles Spurgeon

We must all learn to hear what we do not like. The question is not, 'Is it pleasant?' but, 'Is it true?'

Charles Bukowski

There's nothing else as pleasant as being unpleasant when there's nothing else to do, and there's usually nothing else to do.

Karl Pilkington

I think it's a problem when something's a dream because it'll never live up to your expectations. It's better to go somewhere thinking it'll be horrible, and then be pleasantly surprised.

Henry J. Heinz

It is more pleasant to remember others than to be remembered.

David Graham

On paper,we should be fifth, sixth or seventh. The reality is, they have the potential to be a pleasant surprise.

Kofi Annan

Mr. Volcker has said that 'the findings do not make for pleasant reading,' and I agree.

Ann Taylor

One ugly trick has often spoiledThe sweetest and the best;Matilda, though a pleasant child,One ugly trick possessed.

Ann Taylor

One ugly trick has often spoiled The sweetest and the best; Matilda, though a pleasant child, One ugly trick possessed.

Nadine Velazquez

I don't usually like a smoky eye; if there is any smokiness, it's got to be a light color.

Ross Bannister

It was a smoky event, so wisely, everyone left.