Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ernie Wise

We were travelling from Birmingham to Coventry during the blitz. Eric's mother suggested that we should try to become a double act.

Bryan Robson

The possibility of playing Birmingham in the next round is an exciting proposition for fans in the midlands - but I've not looked too far ahead, because we've got to get past Reading first. I am confident we can do a job in the replay, and I hope the team will see things through.

Susan Terpay

There are two corridors we?re using to go around the line. Between Birmingham and Atlanta, we usually run 25 trains a day, so it?s causing some delays.

H. Hunt

On paper the Birmingham event was our worst showing of the season. But it showed the true character of the team that we stayed with it and had a good race car for Robert in Round 10. Electrical problems are the most frustrating to deal with because they're so hard to find. It's not like a suspension problem, that's relatively easy to diagnose.

Clare Short

But we had the Birmingham pub bombings in which 20 something people died and I know obviously this is worse but 20 is a big number.

Rafa Benitez

Maybe Birmingham will be more concerned about their league position and this might not be as important to them as staying in the division.

Sarah Miller

I found out that two of my students have lost everything, one of them will not be returning to St. Peter's because her parents had to place her with family members out of the area. I found out that another one of my students has moved to Birmingham with his mother as well so he will not be returning.

Jim Gibbons

If America's movie stars want to be human shields, let them shield the gang-ridden streets of Los Angeles, or New York City, let them shield the lives of the children of North Birmingham whose mothers lay them down to sleep on the floor each night to shelter them from stray bullets.

JoLaine Jones

My friend from Birmingham invited me to lunch with a bunch of folks from Florida. That's when I met Dave.

Keith Emerson

We set the stage worldwide to go into the new millenium. I have all the music. Carl Palmer loves the music, he wants to play it.

Eric Clapton

The first one was quite cheap, but that was expensive for us. For my folks to buy on the Never Never. It was quite, you know, a rare object to have and I gained quite a lot of status by having this.

Eric Clapton

Yeah, I wanted to know where they got it from, what it was all about, you know, and it seemed to strike something in me that was you know rearing it's head and I still don't know what that is.

Mark Knopfler

After a while, though, the group just wasn't a good vehicle for the songs I'd written.

Norman Cook

I think English people were a lot better at breakdancing than they were at making records.

Norman Cook

I'm very superstitious... I never shout at magpies, walk under ladders or put my shoes on the table.

Liam Gallagher

I refuse to dance. And I can't dance anyway. I'm not in a band for that.

Keith Emerson

There's a clip where he had someone miming me running around from keyboard to keyboard. Oh dear, I am sure a lot of people didn't know what he was going on about.

Keith Emerson

We'll be presenting a broad spectrum of the music and looking at how the younger guys can carry it on.

Charlie Chaplin

I will not join any club who will take me as a member.

Judah Friedlander

When I'm not filming anything or on the road doing stand-up, I'm usually doing stand-up shows every night - usually a few shows a night at different clubs in the city.

Chris Williams

Ultimately Health Canada's position on this is compassion clubs are illegal.

David R. Brower

A great deal of pressure was then built up to remove me from the club and my resignation was, finally, a forced one.

Buddy Guy

The jazz and blues clubs are like the jazz and blues musicians - they're disappearing.

Luis Suarez

At clubs like Liverpool, great players come and go.

Terry Ryan

When you take clubs like Minnesota, Oakland, many of these small-market teams, you're going to have some changeover,

Tim Purpura

We have a personal services contract with him. If he wanted to do that, that's something we'd have to run by the commissioner's office. Other clubs could have an issue with it.

Brad Pitt

You have to consider the possibility that God does not like you.

Tracy Morgan

I have a nice following in Boston. The Boston crowd is very hip.

Alan Parker

If you'd been where I'd been... if you'd seen the things I'd seen!... you... you'd be me... Or someone following me around...

Frank Lesh

We want to see whether or not the following months follow on up out of here after September gets out of the way. We could be looking at the highs right now.

Blaine Taylor

We've all had fun following George Mason. But we've got a lot of other good teams in our league.

Mark Barrowcliffe

A dog doesn't care if you're tired or it's raining. It wants to go out - and if it doesn't go out, it's going to be mournfully following you around the house for the whole evening.

Nick Woodman

Dedicating myself to actually following through was my single biggest achievement.

Barbara Walters

We're still following some leads. With every lead we get, we're hoping it turns over another new lead.

Beth Moore

If we are leading but not closely following Christ, we are misleading.

Daniel Handler

Blinded following the Blindfolded

Andre Previn

When you're working with music that is invariably better than you are, it's difficult to become swell-headed.

Agnes Obel

Even though music is something I travel around doing, it is also a very private thing. A sort of escapism.

Agnes Repplier

What strange impulse is it which induces otherwise truthful people to say they like music when they do not, and thus expose themselves to hours of boredom?

Charlie Byrd

And a musician has to learn to be frugal and to carefully manage financial affairs

Charlie Byrd

I had been to São Paulo the year before and became pretty well acquainted with the music of composer Antonio Carlos Jobim, I had already started playing that music, and the audience response had been pretty good because those songs are so melodic. I knew it would be something that would be appealing; I wasn't thinking that it would make the top of the pop charts or anything like that.

Charlie Byrd

Music's not like becoming a doctor, who can walk into a community and find people who need him.

Charlie Byrd

The guitar is a means of expressing music, When you get into the emotional side of it, then it's not the guitar that matters so much as the music itself. But the guitar is the vehicle I use. It's how I express myself. As for the emotional side, music takes up where language leaves off. To try and verbalize what music says, emotionally and spiritually, is futile. Let me put it this way, Louis Armstrong once said if you've got to ask, you'll never know.

Charlie Byrd

Usually, no one quite knew where Django Reinhardt was going to be, but I met his brother and about an hour later in walks Django with an entourage of friends. He always traveled with a large group-carried his own admirers with him, the most sinister-looking bunch of hoodlums you've ever seen. I walked up and offered to buy him a drink. That seemed to be the right thing to do... he was the first really brilliant solo guitarist I ever became aware of, I had records of his when I was 10 years old. It just blew my mind that anyone could play a guitar like that. Still does.

Charlie Byrd

A person should design the way he makes a living around how he wishes to make a life.

Carl Crawford

I'm going to try to not put a lot of pressure on myself.

Lee Daniels

When you're traveling, you can take it with you. You can use it for walking and I've done that many times actually trying to find restaurants.

Aaron Sorkin

Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.

Andre Walker

We were trying to play an up-tempo game, but then we started to play their style. That is how they usually play and they were more comfortable than we were.

Brian Schmidt

We were trying to get the word out, but they were stranded.

Alan Titchmarsh

Once I was on a plane and a woman said to me, 'Now, what's the matter with my tomatoes?' And I said, 'Well, it's a bit difficult to see from here.' She took offence and said, 'I was only trying to be friendly.'

Charlotte Bronte

Jane! will you hear reason?' (he stooped and approached his lips to my ear) 'because, if you won't, I'll try violence.

Charlotte Bronte

Better to try all things and find all empty, than to try nothing and leave your life a blank.

Charlie Haden

The whole underlying theme for the new music... is to communicate honest, human values, and in doing that to try to improve the quality of life.