Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marnie Stern

Lightning Bolt and Hella are two bands I listen to, and there's a lot of finger tapping going on there.

Ken Stringfellow

Many bands that I like that have longevity on their side with consistent members are even splits. It makes a big difference to have the other two guys involved every step of the way. It keeps the thing moving. Everyone is taken with equal degree of seriousness. It's not just because it's a four-way partnership. It also relates to taking things maturely and taking other people's thoughts into consideration.

Mike Roth

One of the things we're trying to do with these games is showcase what makes them different than a game at Ohio State or USC. And the things that make them different are the fans, the bands and the atmosphere. These are Historically Black Colleges and Universities and we would be missing the point if we would go in and treat them exactly like we would treat a game at Ohio State.

John Meyers

Memphis Smoke has some of the best live bands and singers in Metro Detroit,

John Tesh

My favorite bands were Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Jethro Tull, Uriah Heep, Grand Funk Railroad. If you listen to some of my early music, you can hear it.

John Altenburgh

Obviously, it's for the musicians, to get the bands back together and play some music, because a lot of these guys don't play anymore. But, our main thing, one of the constant things, is that we give band instruments to the high school and middle schools (of north central Wisconsin). That's the really big thing that we do.

Dweezil Zappa

Frank's bands could play the hardest stuff and make it seem like no big deal.

Toni Tennille

My mother did play classical piano, not that well. And actually, my father sang with the big bands - he sang with Bob Crosby's band - but he had to give up show business when his father died. He had to come back to Montgomery and take over the furniture store.

Tyler Florence

I like loud music. I like music that fills my ears. I'm just going to pull out my iPod and see what we got here. We're always interested in new bands because we have a retail store in northern California. I think it's got to be happy.

Scott Adams

One "oh shit" can erase a thousand attaboys

Robert Rodriguez

My father did not want us to have an accent. It was a different era than it is today, where having a second language is a competitive advantage.

Mike Gascoyne

We had a very successful test with the TF105B, which features a different front suspension from the TF105, ... We had a problem with the power steering at the previous test, but here at Silverstone we were able to eradicate it.

Abdullah Ocalan

The stage has been reached where our armed forces should withdraw beyond the borders It's not the end. It's the start of a new era.

Jimmy McKinney

If we have a great tournament and we happen to win the tournament then we erase all the negative things that have been going on, especially the losing part.

Paul Allen

I felt like I was part of the new era of the Seattle Seahawks,

Kelvin Garnett

I felt for these kids after that football game. Hopefully we can erase some of disappointment in basketball.

Jonathan Swift

Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudices, eradicate virtue, honesty, and religion

Greg Boyle

The margins don't get erased by simply insisting that the powers-that-be erase them.

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

For me no good food is illuminated without acidity.

Isabella Rossellini

I would like to be forgotten. What's so good about being remembered?

Rick Perlstein

Whatever you think about his intelligence, what's unquestionable is that Reagan had extraordinary emotional intelligence. He could sense the temperature of a room, and tell them a story and make them feel good. And that's more fun, right? It's more fun to feel good than feel bad. That's part of our human state.

Robert Kazinsky

There is nothing harder than working 50 pages a day, working 16 hours a day, trying to be good with only shooting rehearsals.

Robert Klein

What makes a good nanny? A good nanny is someone who really wants to do the job. Someone who loves children, who really values what she does and, of course, is valued by her employer.

Malorie Blackman

A good book is a good book. End of story.

Chuck Reed

We're not doing as good a job recycling as we want to.

Darin Strauss

Like all writing rules, the injunction to start with the trouble can be broken, and it should be sometimes - if there's good reason.

Phillip Bloch

Like any guy, he needs a great jacket, good shoes, and good jeans.

Isabella Rossellini

There is often a great disparity between a director's personal style and the movies he makes.

Kristy Swanson

I can't ask for every movie I make to be great and brilliant. I can only try.

Mallory Ortberg

In the hands of a passive-aggressive person who wants to abdicate responsibility for things, texting is a great tool. You can really go nuts.

Malorie Blackman

Being the Children's Laureate has been educational, sometimes hectic, but most of all, great fun.

Jerry Reinsdorf

Like I said, Dennis has been of great value to our team.

Danny Kaye

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.

Danny Kaye

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.

Scott Peck

Life is difficult. This is the great truth, one of the greatest truthsit is a great truth because once we see this truth, we transcend it.

William Congreve

Let us be very strange and well-bred: Let us be as strange as if we had been married a great while; and as well-bred as if we were not married at all.

Bill Griffith

MTV won't do anything unless they own it 100% so that didn't tempt me at all because I would never give away the character.

Ty Segall

Any reality-TV show on MTV is gonna be fake and stupid.

Shirley Manson

No, I'm not Shirley the girl, I'm the woman on MTV with the big boots.

Cat Deeley

My friend made me a leather dress for the MTV awards. It gives you confidence, wearing something you love.

Billy Bush

Where is Tony? Why didn't he come to the MTV VMAs?

Carson Daly

MTV was such a great training for me. I did live interviews with everyone from Michael Jackson to Madonna.

Al Yankovic

In the '80s, I was the only game in town, I was the only one getting that kind of exposure in any rotation on MTV. Now with internet culture it seems like everyone is doing music parodies. And they're not all good!

Janet Jackson

MTV was completely unaware of it. It was not my intention that it go as far as it did. I apologize to anyone offended -- including the audience, MTV, CBS and the NFL.

Damon Albarn

My guaranteed way of sending myself into deep depression is to read music trade papers and watch MTV.

Alexandra Fuller

But I plucked a new, different, worldly soul for myself -- maybe a soul I found in the spray thrown up by the surge of that distant African river as it plummets onto black rocks and sends up into the sun a permanent arc of a rainbow.

William Wordsworth

Like a sea-beast crawled forth, that on a shelf/ Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun itself.

Keith Mason

Like any other kids, we all got into trouble. Having rock fights, things like that.

Pat Simmons

So it's a little R&B, a little rock 'n' roll, a little blues, a little folk, a little salsa, everything.

Mike McCready

My favorite rocker is Go because it is heavy and chaotic.

Charles Portis

It was old President Diaz who said that nothing ever happens in Mexico until it happens. Things rock along from day to day, and then all at once you are caught up in a rush of unforeseen events.

Dimitar Sasselov

We do care about planets like the Earth because by now we understood that life as a chemical system really needs a smaller planet with water and with rocks and with a lot of complex chemistry to originate, to emerge, to survive.

Eddie Van Halen

I'm just a guitarist in a kick-ass rock and roll band. What more could I ask for?

David Bowie

I am a D.J., I am what I play.