Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marc Davis

When I was a kid, my family moved around a lot, and I lived and grew up in a lot of wild places. I lived in boom towns and oil fields and the like.

Captain Beefheart

An audience can really lift you right up off the stage.

Captain Beefheart

I think most people try to get others to see through their eyes.

Captain Beefheart

I don't think artists are made, I think they're born.

Captain Beefheart

Man has done a lot to make himself dangerous and animals get the worst of all of it. But then, man too is an animal.

Captain Beefheart

Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs.

Captain Beefheart

James Brown is important because he decorates the clock correctly and he's good with lower mathematics. Don't get me wrong - he's good.

Captain Beefheart

With my voice and my band, I can do anything.

Captain Beefheart

I don't even know what sound is, much less what it's for. It isn't to make money that's for sure. I've never made any.

Carlos Castaneda

A warrior must cultivate the feeling that he has everything needed for the extravagant journey that is his life. What counts for a warrior is being alive. Life in itself is sufficient, self-explanatory and complete. Therefore, one may say without being presumptuous that the experience of experiences is being alive.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Complete knowledge of the nature of an analytic function must also include insight into its behavior for imaginary values of the arguments. Often the latter is indispensable even for a proper appreciation of the behavior of the function for real arguments. It is therefore essential that the original determination of the function concept be broadened to a domain of magnitudes which includes both the real and the imaginary quantities, on an equal footing, under the single designation complex numbers.

Neil Fallon

We want to say thank you the only way we know how that's by playing rock 'n' roll. Any entertainment to break up the work week is great. You can forget about life, relax and have a reminder that there is an appreciation there.

Bruce Bochy

We have so many military here. This is our way to show our appreciation to our forces. We like to consider ourselves as the military's teams with all the bases we have in San Diego. It's an honor. Every Sunday we have the troops out at the ballpark. This is something we do with honor.

Charles Caleb Colton

Too high an appreciation of our own talents is the chief cause why experience preaches to us all in vain.

John Boyega

There is a level of appreciation for brothers and sisters in the hood.

Travis Bradberry

People like to know you're listening, and something as simple as a clarification question shows not only that you are listening but that you also care about what they're saying. You'll be surprised how much respect and appreciation you gain just by asking good questions.

Byron Katie

It's not easy to find your own way when you believe that you need love, approval, appreciation, or anything from your family. It's particularly hard when you want them to see things your way.

Byron Katie

Spare yourself from seeking love, approval, or appreciation-from anyone. And watch what happens in reality, just for fun.

Jose Gonzalez

When your hair is rising, that's when you know it's a good song - that's happened to me with some artists and some songs, John Lennon songs or when Nina Simone sings. It's great to make those moments yourself.

Hans-Georg Gadamer

There is no doubt that the leaders of the creative artists of the last 50 years concentrated their efforts mainly on eliminating that distance.

Tom Odell

What's nice about Twitter is that you've got that point of contact with your fans that artists have never had before. I think it's good for musicians. Just as long as you don't start tweeting things about your girlfriends or boyfriends - there's got to be a line.

Tess Henley

My voice is a combination of how I grew up and what I was listening to growing up. I like a lot of different kinds of music and am always being inspired in different ways by different artists for different reasons.

David Ellefson

Waking Up Dead does a great job of portraying the irony of stardom's illusive promise of money, fame and power only to have it boomerang back and cut so many artists to shreds.

Eric Fischl

The truth is that painting is all about scale; you use scale to create experience. A lot of artists have lost that ability. They don't even know that's something they should be doing.

Eric Fischl

Artists don't really want to be marginalized. They believe that everybody should be able to appreciate the experience that an artist gives them, an experience that connects us to each other in a deep way.

Elizabeth Peyton

In 19th-century France, artists were part of government. Artists are very sensitive to their time. They're very thoughtful people - it makes sense to hear what they have to say.

Judea Pearl

We are honored to have such a varied and celebrated group of artists joining Music Days and using the power of music to promote cross-cultural understanding, ... Danny was a talented musician who always connected people through words and music; he truly lived the Music Days theme of 'Harmony for Humanity.'

William Shakespeare

Rich honesty dwells like a miser, sir, in a poor house; as your pearl in a foul oyster

Rig Veda

Only a person having trusted and worthy friend's lives and dwells in happiness on this earth.

Rig Veda

He should put in all efforts to increase his wealth and grain. He should only speak well about others. The person who does all these things always remains untouched by misery and dwells in happiness and peace.

The Talmud

He who is without a wife dwells without blessing, life, joy, help, good, and peace

Granth Sahib

Such is my Lord, who is all-pervading everywhere. He dwells near at hand - the Lord is not far away.

Atharva Veda

My soul is embellished with knowledge and is the one which, contemplates in the minds of men... it dwells in the heart.

Rig Veda

It is important for a person to remain healthy and sound because a healthy mind dwells in a healthy body.

Ella Wilcox

Who is the strong? Not he who puts to testHis sinews with the strong and proves the best;But he who dwells where weaklings congregate,And never lets his splendid strength abate.

Atharva Veda

The One Lord and Master dwells in the home; He is seen in the wilderness as well. I have become fearless; the Saint has removed my doubts.

Carol Shields

The recounting of a life is a cheat...even our own stories are obscenely distorted...

Carlos Fuentes

Writing is a struggle against silence.

Carlos Castaneda

What is a truthful life? A life lived with deliberateness, a good, strong life.

Carlos Castaneda

I'm never angry at anybody! No human being can do anything important enough for that. You get angry at people when you feel that their acts are important. I don't feel that way any longer.

Carlos Castaneda

Burn your bridges every 2 years.

Carlos Castaneda

One ,must have something to die for in order to have something to live for

Carlos Castaneda

For me the world is weird because it is stupendous, awesome, mysterious, unfathomable; my interest has been to convince you that you must assume responsibility for being here, in this marvelous world, in this marvelous desert, in this marvelous time. I want to convince you that you must learn to make every act count, since you are going to be here for only a short while, in fact, too short for witnessing all the marvels of it.

C. S. Lewis

Bridge-players tell me that there must be some money on the game 'or else people won't take it seriously'. Apparently it's like that. Your bid - for God or no God, for a good God or the Cosmic Sadist, for eternal life or nonentity - will not be serious if nothing much is staked on it. And you will never discover how serious it was until the stakes are raised horribly high, until you find that you are playing not for counters or for sixpences but for every penny you have in the world.

Agnes de Mille

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Bernie Bickerstaff

That was ludicrous that he wasn't in that game. If you see Raymond play, there's no way he shouldn't have been on that team.

Agnes Repplier

Discussion without asperity, sympathy with fusion, gayety unracked by too abundant jests, mental ease in approaching one another; these are the things which give a pleasant smoothness to the rough edge of life.

Edy Ganem

I like being a woman, but I'm a little rough around the edges. I've been bungee jumping twice, but I was scared.

Chauncey Billups

If it ain't rough, it ain't right

Ron Orlosky

Basically, she had a pretty rough time of it. She was always in and out of the hospital.

Greg Olsen

I had rough times. There were times that I wanted to give up and quit. Don't give up.

Matt Bryant

There hasn't been dissension, there hasn't been anything like that. And I'm very thankful for that. That can take place, especially with a rough season.

Peter Stark

To see him ski is to see fluidity, as if he were a droplet of water trickling down a rough plaster wall.

Marcus Williams

We had some rough edges, but we've smoothed all that out.

D. James

Today was a rough one for me but we got through it. I started off bad. We got the victory though, so I did enough to win.

Greg Jackson

We were as fundamentally sound defensively during that stretch as I've ever seen us.

Scott Stoker

We've seen worse. We've come through a lot together.

Nick Price

We've seen this trend now, and my hat's off to her, ... reeks of publicity.

Tom Rath

We've seen the enemy, and he is us.

Maria Rooth

We've seen 'Miracle' so many times. We said (Thursday) we were going to make a new miracle.

Lovie Smith

We've seen him (Hutchinson) all through training camp, so we really want to get a look at the other guys.

Patrice Duker

We've seen gyms go in as anchors. We've seen day spas go in.

Kim Cattrall

I've seen some women who are not particularly attractive but they have an assurance, and there's something so attractive about someone who doesn't have to work so hard.

Jessalyn Gilsig

I remember before I did 'Boston Public,' I couldn't get seen for drama. Once I'd done 'Boston Public,' I couldn't get seen for a comedy.

Mark Twain

Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.

Charlie Ergen

The world is changing.... I don't, as a consumer, want advertising that's not relevant. If we're going to take a side let's take the side of the consumer,

Charles Dudley Warner

It is difficult to be emphatic when no one is emphatic on the other side.

Dave Gahan

Vocally, I really like going into the darker side of myself.

Charles Spurgeon

God works, and therefore we work; God is with- us, and therefore we are with God, and stand on His side.

Chloe Grace Moretz

An actor always goes to the safe side.

Jack Thompson

The other side wants to make me the issue,

Madeleine Albright

There are a lot of similar aspects in all the religions. The question is which side of it you hold up.

Elie Wiesel

Take sides. Neutrality always serves the oppressor and never the oppressed.

Agnes Smedley

My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike. She said little, especially when my father or the men who worked for him were about I remember her instinctive and unhesitating sympathy for the miners.

Charlotte Bronte

Sir,' I interrupted him, 'you are inexorable for that unfortunate lady; you speak of her with hate --- with vindictive antipathy. It is cruel --- she cannot help being mad.

Charles Dickens

A silent look of affection and regard when all other eyes are turned coldly away-the consciousness that we possess the sympathy and affection of one being when all others have deserted us-is a hold, a stay, a comfort, in the deepest affliction, which no wealth could purchase, or power bestow.

Charles Spurgeon

Sympathy is especially a Christian duty.

Bram Stoker

Though sympathy alone can't alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.

Alan Hovhaness

It's hard for me to think of others because I'm not particularly in sympathy with the music of this century.

Al Smith

It is the right of our people to organize to oppose any law and any part of the Constitution with which they are not in sympathy.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Peace of heart that is won by refusing to bear the common yoke of human sympathy is a peace unworthy of a Christian. To seek tranquility by stopping our ears to the cries of human pain is to make ourselves not Christian but a kind of degenerate stoic having no relation either to stoicism or Christianity.

Charlaine Harris

Could I tell them I was sorry their loved one was dead, when he’d tried to kill me? There was no rule of etiquette for this; even my grandmother would have been stymied.

Catherynne M. Valente

I burn, I freeze; I am never warm. I am rigid; I forgot softness because it did not serve me.

M. Thompson

When they're still on a ventilator and under a warming blanket,

Sven Butenschon

He would do it before a game, like when some of us would warm up in the gym.

Bill Burns

Usually when you're interim CEO, you just kind of warm the chair.

Geoff Coulson

The weather has been pretty amazing. It's much warmer than normal.

Mike Hargrove

I probably would not use him for more than one inning. And if I got him warming up in the bullpen, I'd want to get him in the game.

Irving Berlin

I've got my love to keep me warm.

Emeka Okafor

It made me feel real special, all warm inside,

Spider Robinson

It's always coldest before the warm.

Jeffrey Smith

We work within the system. I don't want to say we're rebellious.

Jeremy Duxbury

We will have to work within the budget.

Kerry Bailey

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

Gary Thompson

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

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.

Roberto Azevedo

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

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.

Daryl Kimball

They say, 'we're within the treaty, we're within our rights'.