Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gregory Pritchard

Mahler's first symphony is not a typical symphony in that it's not abstract music; it does conjure up images of nature and images of heroism.

Harry Reid

No one suggests that John Roberts was motivated by bigotry or animosity toward minorities or women, ... But these memos lead one to question whether he truly appreciated the history of the civil rights struggle. He wrote about discrimination as an abstract concept, not as a flesh and blood reality for countless of his fellow citizens.

Twyla Tharp

I'm not satisfied sitting in just the world of abstract work.

Robert Summers

Frary executed tremendous abstract paintings. Frary contributed significantly to mid-century modernist art in Texas.

Newt Gingrich

For so many Americans, what goes on here in Washington often seems abstract and remote, unrelated to their daily concerns,

Aaron Huey

I wanted to be a painter, somewhere between Abstract Expressionism and Pop.

Gayle Green

If we're going to teach it to all kids -- kids who might not naturally be abstract learners -- we need a variety of teaching methods.

Ad Reinhardt

I got out of Columbia and then into the American Abstract Artist group, which had almost all the abstract artists in the coutry in it, about 40 or 50.

Malcolm Gladwell

I'm a lot more interested in people than I used to be. I used to be most interested in abstract ideas, and people were an afterthought, but that's changed a bit.

Richard P. Feynman

Today we say that the law of relativity is supposed to be true at all energies, but someday somebody may come along and say how stupid we were.

Kurtwood Smith

If I had not gotten along so well with some of the people on the show, it would have been a different story. But in this case, it was great. But sure, it will be fun to look around.

Kumail Nanjiani

I've found that the common humanity of people is the most relatable thing, and even if your stories are very specific about a different place, if you have a relatable core of humanity, people will go along with it.

David Smith

Like a powerful medication, the Internet has a revolutionary impact on global business, and it is hard to imagine a firm that has not been affected. Unfortunately, along with the benefits come many side effects that have the potential to dramatically erode productivity and pose many other dangers to the enterprise and to employees, themselves. That is why it is so vital to carefully monitor employee Internet use. This study confirms that uncontrolled employee Internet use is a very serious threat to compliance, security and productivity.

Gary Warner

Lighting is too expensive, so we plan to lease the lights from TECO. The cost of electricity will be passed on to businesses along the road.

Stacy Schiff

Life-writing calls for any number of dubious gifts: A touch of O.C.D., a lack of imagination, a large desk, neutrality of Swiss proportions, tactlessness, a high tolerance for archival dust. Most of all it calls for an act of displacement. 'To find your subject, you must in some sense lose yourself along the way,' is Richard Holmes's version.

John Seabrook

Like Honeycrisp, SweeTango has much larger cells than other apples, and when you bite into it, the cells shatter rather than cleaving along the cell walls, as is the case with most popular apples. The bursting of the cells fills your mouth with juice. Chunks of SweeTango snap off in your mouth with a loud cracking sound.

Joe Morgan

Make no mistake about it, we lost a generation of inner-city players along the way. I think that starting today, with the opening of the field here in Compton, we will stop the erosion of inner-city players.

Christopher Cross

Lyrically and thematically, the title 'Doctor Faith', that song is about therapy, psychotherapy, and that song is about emotions and personal insight. I think all the songs on the record sort of go along with that.

Edgar Allan Poe

False hope is nicer than no hope at all.

Benny Blanco

Everything needs to be catchy because a listener is either going to stay with the song or lose interest in the first five seconds. But people also like those songs they can relate to and say, 'Yeah, I went through that.'

Billy Wilder

God save me from myself.

Tori Kelly

Gospel was the root of everything in my house, so there's a touch of that in everything that I do. If soul counts as a genre, I would also say that's the common thread throughout everything I do. There's rock and soul influence, too. The pop element comes at the very end and making the song catchy so people will remember it.

Russell Smith

Songs are great. I love songs. I sing them in the shower sometimes. They can be poignant or cheery or angry, and they can have catchy and satisfying melodies. There's nothing wrong with songs.

Action Bronson

I don't ever have the pressure of making a hit, because I've never had a hit song, per se. The closest thing to a hit song was 'Shiraz,' and it's not your prototypical hit song, with a catchy hook and all this other stuff.

Kenneth Branagh

Mozart had a tremendously fertile and creative ear for a catchy tune.

Ethan Mentzer

I like songs that are so damn catchy that you wake up in the morning with them in your head.

Danny Elfman

I'll do it very quickly and spontaneously. I expect that it will be slightly strange and bizarre, but catchy at the same time.

Richard Peterson

Mr. Pompey may have told (another inmate) some of the same things he told me, to collaborate with some of the things I have already conveyed to you,

Debasish Sen

Now that the government has decided to erase graffiti, things are clear. The decision will be implemented in letter and spirit and with immediate effect. The decision has been conveyed to the commission.

Timothy Noah

Spoken language's elaborate rhythms and inflections convey more meaning per word than the printed word.

Carmine Giovinazzo

I grew up in a neighborhood with blacks and Puerto Ricans and Italians, the whole gamut, so conveying unity has always meant a lot to me.

Morris Chestnut

I felt it was important to convey to people, especially younger people, that everything on the surface is not always what it seems.

Marian Keyes

Many nations use language simply to convey information, but it's different in Ireland. With most conversational exchanges you get an 'added extra' like the free little biscuit you sometimes get with a cappuccino in a fancy coffee place.

Tom Brokaw

You convey something that the public either trusts or it does not trust, and it has to do with the content and how you handle the news, but it also just has something to do with your persona.

Vince Staples

Basic emotions can be conveyed through anything. As long as you show people that you're human, they'll relate to it.

Ving Rhames

I don't need dialogue to convey emotion or thoughts to my audience.

Steve Williams

Sea lions have the potential to severely deplete mature female sturgeon, which are their preferred prey. Those sturgeon represent the future of the species.

Johann G. Seume

Music is the key to the female heart.

Diane Kruger

Television is also a great tool for women. As you know, the best female roles are often on television, so it's a very exciting time. I've really embraced it. The pace is great, but also not so great sometimes. You feel like you have to make sure to pay attention, at all times, to not let anything slip through.

L'Aura Goldner

Growing up, there were two ghosts in my house, a male and female. They hung out in the basement. The male was more frightening, but the female was good.

Kym Whitley

I love female company. I love men, but women are different.

Jessica White

I have male friends. I'm the type of girl that always had male friends, more male friends than female friends. So just because you see me with the person doesn't mean that I'm kicking it with them, hanging out with them, or we're romantically involved in any way, shape or form.

Liza Minnelli

The male gay community seems to be very into female singers. I think it could be the songs we sing. They're more open with their feelings. And they have good taste!

Shirley Chisholm

Of my two handicaps, being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black.

Willa Holland

I think that at 21, I still look like I'm 17 years old, so I feel like I'm going to be playing teenagers for a while, and that's a very relatable stage in a teenage life for a female - that kind of rambunctious stage.

Patrick Ho

If Intel guides up at all, it's a huge positive,

Pat Merrill

We're really lacking a comprehensive plan that guides us.

Arthur Rimbaud

Faith assuages, guides, restores.

Bob Marley

God, guide and protect us. When we're wrong, please correct us.

Charles Babbage

As soon as an Analytical Engine exists, it will neccessarily guide the future course of science.

Chuck Smith

Where God guides, God provides.

Jason Bay

I started this neighborhood, and it's slowly been taken over. But that's OK. I'm just going to get one of those idiot's guides to Spanish. I'm terrible at it.

Clement Freud

I understand it is 13-8 against Egon Ronay publishing a Good Betting Shop Food Guide by 1997.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Experience will guide us to the rules. You cannot make rules precede practical experience.

Albert Schweitzer

An idea is, in the end, always stronger than circumstances.

Stavros Cosmopulos

Make the layouts rough and the ideas fancy.

Stephen Parker

No one respected language more than Nabokov. You don't read it for his ideas, you read it for his presentation.

John Walsh

on interesting subjects, ideas and unfamiliar artists, with many surprises for visitors.

Philip Gee

Maybe just to get my idea out. Maybe to find out other people's ideas, to see if they're similar to mine.

Fred Brown

Now we would like some ideas for different shows. These must be quality shows.

Ludwig von Mises

Only to bureaucrats can the idea occur that establishing new offices, promulgating new decrees, and increasing the number of government employees alone can be described as positive and beneficial measures.

Ludwig von Mises

The idea that political freedom can be preserved in the absence of economic freedom, and vice versa, is an illusion. Political freedom is the corollary of economic freedom.

Chris Evans

I had no idea there were so many ways you could burn yourself out.

Harbhajan Singh

It is very disappointing to see the Punjabi music scene of today. The lyrical quality has deteriorated; it is only people like Sartaaj and Gurdas Maan Ji who are sticking to their roots.

Chester Bennington

Once we start hitting lyrical themes that can whack you from all these different perspectives, we know we're onto something special.

Tina Arena

It is really positive because it is musically positive, lyrically interesting and probably a side of me people haven't yet seen,

Mason Cooley

Beauty is lyrical. Ugliness is elegiac.

Aaron Copland

A melody is not merely something you can hum.

Erich Bergen

'Dawn (Go Away)' is a sad lyric, but the melody is so happy and fun.

Ariel Pink

I still have a very nonintellectual, nonjudgmental relationship with melody and the music as I hear it all in my head.

Billy Bob Thornton

[The lyrics and melody] usually come a little simultaneously, but I would say the lyrics are first; usually I have the idea for a story in my head, or few lines.

Drake Bell

With a good melody... music gets me through everything.

Juan Felipe Herrera

I write while I'm walking, on little scraps of paper. If I have a melody going, I can feel it for days.

Burning Spear

Music is creation. In reggae the lyric, the music itself, arrangement, that vibe, such melody - everything within the music moves the people, understand?

Douglas Levine

But other than that, I go from the text and the rhythms of the words. The melody comes from that,

Norman Blake

There's more pressure on the melody when you don't have all the embellishments,

Dennis Eckersley

That first year in Chicago was one of the most memorable in my career. Getting traded rejuvenated me, and I had something to prove. I wanted to show them what I could do

Dick Cheney

My belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators.

John Nersesian

Perhaps the price of comfort is that life passes more rapidly. But for anyone who has lived in uneasiness, even for a short, memorable duration, it's a trade-off that will gladly be made.

William Shakespeare

When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentler gamester is the soonest winner

William Shakespeare

He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again.

William Shakespeare

You cram these words into mine ears against The stomach of my sense.

William Shakespeare

Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter.

William Shakespeare

The Devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape.

Alexander Smith

It is not of so much consequence what you say, as how you say it. Memorable sentences are memorable on account of some single irradiating word.

Scott Sharp

Therefore nurturing tends to be sporadic and untargeted.

Lily James

Drama school was a lifeline for me, it saved me. I found it very nurturing - I just clung on.

Tagg Romney

You just couldn't be in George Romney's presence without some of his goodness and integrity wearing off on you.

Jeff Fisher

We're not done. Veteran presence is important to us.

Buck Showalter

The presence of someone like that, really in what should be the prime of his career, is exciting.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We cannot enter into the presence of God while we are rebelling against God.

Nancy Young

We're still going to have a significant presence in Alabama.

Odette Annable

Richard Gere's got this very old-school Hollywood charm. He has a presence that when he's in a room you just feel him. I mean, I'm married, but he's sexy!

Jane Austen

She felt that she could so much more depend upon the sincerity of those who sometimes looked or said a careless or a hasty thing, than of those whose presence of mind never varied, whose tongue never slipped.

Mary Carillo

His presence shows how much respect he has for her, and he's so deferential.

Gary Waters

He may be the strongest presence in the league. The thing he's doing consistently is rebounding.

L. J. Smith

'Shadow Souls' pushes probably every border that you can.

E. O. Wilson

Yes, no question about it. And that's good, because that pushes you. It even pushes me.

Terry Stotts

When he pushes it like that, the team follows.

Robert Kelly

When she pushes the ball, we're a different team.

J. Taylor

because it may be the one that pushes our students the most.

Chris Farley

I live in a van, down by the river!

Chris Farley

First off I am 35 years old, I am divorced, and I live in a van down by the river.

David Olson

We won't be out of Valley River altogether.

Deng Xiaoping

Cross the river by feeling for stones.

Edgar Allan Poe

Ah, broken is the golden bowl! the spirit flown forever! Let the bell toll!-a saintly soul floats on the Stygian river; And, Guy de Vere, hast thou no tear?-weep now or nevermore!

Deepak Chopra

Those trees are your lungs. The earth recycles as your body. The rivers recycle as your circulation. The air is your breath. So what do we call the environment?

Bobbie Gruninger

With the way the river runs through the park, it's just beautiful.

Minna Antrim

Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.

John Rutter

We get the view. We can concentrate on the wildlife and the trains. And the river itself, the water flowing.

Thomas Ryan

Let him sit here in his skivvies while we get him a new suit if they want to play like that.

Greg Sterling

Many of these video-sharing sites are all variations on a theme. So at some point, we're going to see consolidation.

Joe Keller

Now we won't be sitting on each other's laps. This will be nice.

Jack Nicholson

Well, I'm not going to sit here and pretend that I haven't been a rogue most of my life.

Todd Jones

When I left, I didn't like the situation and didn't want to be here.

Dean Smith

There is a point in every contest when sitting on the sidelines is not an option.

John Delaney

I can't see a sustainable situation here, because there are too many loopholes.

Eric Takamura

From where I am sitting now, 2008 is not realistic.

Bulgarian Proverb

From walking - something; from sitting - nothing

Lucinda Williams

My approach to recording and all that is pretty organic. It just has to do with all the songs I wrote; go in and record them.

Chris Cornell

It's great when you play to an audience that knows the words to all your songs, and sings them back to you.

Chris Cornell

My first favorite band that made music important to me was the Beatles. I was a little kid. I didn't know who was singing what song or who wrote what song.

Chris Cornell

Once you sit in front of people and start playing songs, it's all on you. No matter what happens, it's entirely your responsibility the entire time. I like that intensity.

Chris Cornell

I never wrote music or arranged songs or lyrics when I was under the influence of anything but coffee. That's not gone away.

Chris Cornell

Ever since I can remember I’ve had positive and negative fan reviews. And whether it was positive or negative it wasn’t always based in reality or what my perception of the music was. But judging from playing these new songs live and my feelings on the record [Scream] – and it’s a great record – there is definitely an audience for it. Also, I don’t really go to clubs so I don’t know what sounds are made there.

Chris Cornell

What makes that song, I think, is how stark it is.

Chris Cornell

Sometimes, if a song is written, in essence, to be that stripped down, it's very touchy when you start adding things, because even the smallest thing can have a huge impact. Somebody has to make the decision that there's a better song in there if there's less.

Chris Cornell

To me, music shouldn't be ego-driven. When you go out on stage and play songs, it is. But when you're sitting in a room, writing songs, it's a completely different process. It's a completely different place. It's a creative place, a musical place. It has nothing to do with who likes what.

Jon Johansen

Basically, if I have no intention of using a service then I won't bother reverse-engineering it.

George Wald

The only use for an atomic bomb is to keep somebody else from using one.

Ban Ki-moon

We are using resources as if we had two planets, not one. There can be no 'plan B' because there is no 'planet B.'

Aerin Lauder

I think every woman should be using a foundation, whether it's liquid or compact.

Tom Jenkinson

This current round of gigs, I'm just doing it using pure electronics.

Lucy Liu

When you work with chains or any kind of weapons, or just when you're using hand-to-hand combat, you are going to get hurt.

Alan Chambers

One of the many evils this world has to offer is the sin of homosexuality. Satan, the enemy is using people to further his agenda to destroy the Kingdom of God and as many souls as he can.

Bernard Meltzer

Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best.

Nathan Thompson

I think using this lumber makes it very unique.