Famous Quotes & Sayings

Neil Young

I don't think I'm a thorn in the industry, I'm just another part of it.

Chantal Kreviazuk

The real excitement comes from continually making records that I'm really proud of and finding my identity in the record making process.

Geddy Lee

When I do a take, I very often try things that I haven't planned to try to see if I can pull it off.

Sebastian Bach

So, it ended up being what you have there, seven songs brand new and ten live songs which is a good mix.

Rick Danko

Just this last year, I made the statement by hooking up with Greenpeace. By not only contributing money, but by contributing more my time.

Eric San

I think that for a long time it scratching was sort of frowned upon within music because people didn't understand that there was a craft involved.

Alanis Morissette

I remember thinking during those times that I wanted to write in a way where there are no rules.

Eric San

It'd be interesting if you had to find a record for everything you had to say. But I think that whole talking code thing is great.

Geddy Lee

Other times, I'll just sit with the lyrics and, basically, the lyrics will inspire me to write a particular melodic part or vocal melody.

Luke Bracey

I see similarities in the sports I played growing up in the sense of how I tackle a role when I get a job. A lot of effort goes in on an individual basis. There is a lot of time spent by yourself working on your craft and what you have to do. But, at the end of the day, you're there to serve the movie just like you would the rugby team.

David Hockney

Well you can't teach the poetry, but you can teach the craft.

Demetri Martin

Glitter is the herpes of craft supplies.

Stuart Witt

The FAA is now finding that the statutes as crafted don't fit. So now they have to be very liberal in their interpretations of the law in order to accommodate the emerging technologies.

Sarah Koenig

I've been a radio reporter for ten years, and if I learned anything from my time at 'This American Life,' it's how to craft a narrative so that even if the ending is ambiguous, it is somehow satisfying.

T'Keyah Crystal Keymah

I'm inspired every time I see a role I'd like to play, an actor turn in a well crafted performance, a story I'd like to tell, direct or produce.

Brooke Shields

I took my work seriously, but not as a craft. More as a life.

Aaron Carter

I'm always studying my craft because I want to be the best at what I do.

Julia Quinn

There are people who say they want to write novels. They think, 'I'll learn my craft on the romance novel.' If you don't love the genre, it's going to show, and it's not going to be a good book.

Charlie Fink

I can only speak for myself, but public school did nothing for me musically. I got the impression a musical career was frowned upon. But in the arts, resistance can often be the strongest inspiration.

Philippe Petit

I've frowned at the idea of breaking records, the first one to do something, or do it longer, higher, more difficult.

Charlie Daniels

I do more writing by myself than with anybody else. My best thing is sitting...around somewhere with a guitar, and having an idea. You never know where it'd come from. Songwriting is a God-given talent.

Charles Dudley Warner

One of the advantages of pure congregational singing is that you can join in the singing whether you have a voice or not. The disadvantage is that your neighbor can do the same.

Alanis Morissette

I started making music because I could.

Alanis Morissette

I am what I am Are you what you are or What?

Alanis Morissette

Writing a song doesn't heal things. Even if the song comes up with a solution, it's still only a theory. Going out and living my lyrics is a whole other deal. That takes courage.

Alanis Morissette

Music helps you find the truths you must bring into the rest of your life.

Al Jarreau

You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues.

Al Jarreau

Once you discover that you can, then you must.

Chris Colfer

I grew up doing musical theater.

I sell these intermediate bond portfolios for people that can't go to stocks.

I just think self-satisfied people ignore certain signs about other people.

Michelle Rodriguez

People forget we come from an embryo and we're part sperm and part ovary. We have both sides in us.

Michael Shannon

The thing about New York is, more than any other place I've ever been, you run into people on the street that you would never imagine you'd see, old friends, people just like there for a day or two. I find that all the time when I'm walking around Manhattan, running into people that I had no idea were even there.

Iain Banks

Torture is such a slippery slope; as soon as you allow a society or any legal system to do that, almost instantly you get a situation where people are being tortured for very trivial reasons.

Hubertus Andrae

The other two people have not been able to be located yet. There have been no signs of life.

Chris Edwards

The power of a website comes from the people using it, not the people making it.

Jeff Cohen

The positions are probably at this point so enormous. Most people are up to their limit.

Courtney Pratt

The people who vote on this are the bondholders and they are not supporting this at this stage.

Nigel Kneale

You set up a story and it turns inside out and that is, for me, the most exciting sort of story to write. The viewer thinks it's going to be about something and it does the opposite.

John Godfrey

Until they sort it out, we're not going to get in the way.

Ernie Hudson

I think it's important to find the joy in your work and the things that sort of renew that.

Paul Souza

We're sort of bucking the trend a little bit.

Candace Parker

What's so special about this team is that we all have the same mentality, this sort of, 'We've been knocked down, let's get back up' mentality.

Julia Mancuso

We're just used to it. Every race, there's always some stuff that happens, whether it's a teammate or not. You sort of have to refocus at the start and go.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

When I'm on the set, I'll come up with ideas if I'm sort of just between responsibilities, because there's a lot of sitting around on set. Invariably, though, the stuff I come up with on the set tends to be bad.

Sarah Snook

I always wanted to do some sort of action film - even a superhero movie - and when 'Lucy' came out, I was like, 'That's what I want to do.'

Lyle Bauer

What we didn't want was it to be sort of a one-hit wonder.

We are at the brink. Time is short.

Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end; Each changing place with that which goes before, In sequent toil all forwards do contend.

What's past and what's to come is strew'd with husks And formless ruin of oblivion.

Liza Minnelli

I think every time you go to do something, it's a challenge. Somebody said to me, 'You've done it all. If you could do anything right now, what would you do?' I said, 'I'd do everything I did better.'

What is past is prologue.

I don't know what's going on, and I'm probably not smart enough to understand if somebody was to explain it to me. All I know is we're being tested somehow, by somebody or some thing a whole lot smarter than us, and all I can do is be friendly and keep calm and try and have a nice time till it's over.

If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.

What else may hap, to time I will commit.

I that please some, try all, both joy and terror Of good and bad, that makes and unfolds error.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do.

Alan Moore

As I come to understand Vietnam and what it implies about the human condition, I also realize that few humans will permit themselves such an understanding.

David Shuster

There are a lot of folks at Fox News who bring a certain level of sophistication to their understanding of politics.

This was the consequence of seeing too much and understanding the horrible truth: No one is safe. The world is not manageable.

I'd always thought that I understood this, but lately I realize that what I call "understanding" is basically just fantasizing.

David Koechner

What helps you as an actor when it comes to roles is that deeper understanding of so many different fractions of humanity. Because oftentimes, even in comedy, there is conflict.

Carl Sagan

Understanding is a kind of ecstasy

Carl Sagan

The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos.

There is a strength, a power even, in understanding brokenness, because embracing our brokenness creates a need and desire for mercy, and perhaps a corresponding need to show mercy. When you experience mercy, you learn things that are hard to learn otherwise. You see things you can't otherwise see; you hear things you can't otherwise hear. You begin to recognize the humanity that resides in each of us.

Nizam Idris

I would say it's more within my expectations.

Michael Mann

We're number-crunching to see what we can do within our mandate.

Gary Thompson

We have very well-trained RAs and RDs within residence halls,

Kerry Bailey

Typically within two weeks, we're done with the analysis.

Roberto Azevedo

We have to learn how to work within the limits that are possible, not what is desirable.

Jeremy Duxbury

We will have to work within the budget.

Checky Herrington

We should be able to energize it within one or two days.

Kate Looby

Within about two weeks, we'll have made those decisions.

Ann Strother

It?s just an unbelievable experience. To come into it and have no idea where you?re going to go and find out within minutes, I think it?s really exciting. I can?t wait.