Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Wilson

My folks got me a single cutaway Kay. It was acoustic but it also had a pickup. That's the guitar I learned to play on.

Shamir

My first time doing music was on acoustic guitar. I had a friend from Texas who taught me so much country, I entered a few country competitions. But eventually, I got tired of it.

Jim Stephens

Musically, I like to have a lot of different outlets. I like to have an outlet for my acoustic music, but at the same time I like to pick up my Telecaster and rock out. I grew up on classic rock, which led me to blues stuff and that led me to jazz.

Robert Vega

We met the first day and sang in the choir together. We played guitar at churches. We used to borrow the priests' guitars and take the microphones from church to sing. So many times we would sing in the bathrooms in Cathedral because the acoustics were awesome.

Robert Vega

We met the first day and sang in the choir together, ... We played guitar at churches. We used to borrow the priests' guitars and take the microphones from church to sing. So many times we would sing in the bathrooms in Cathedral because the acoustics were awesome.

Chris Carmack

I grew up playing the saxophone. I joined the jazz band in high school, but somewhere along the way I realized the guys who strummed acoustic guitars at parties were the ones who got the attention. So I asked a friend to show me a few chords, and when I moved to L.A. I spent a lot of time practicing my guitar.

M. Ward

I got this Christmas gift with the entire Beatles catalog. I had fun trying to duplicate what I was hearing on these records, only using the instruments I had at hand - an acoustic guitar, and that's all. It was endlessly amusing to me to try to imitate John Lennon and Paul McCartney's harmonies using the guitar.

Stephan Jenkins

I have all this technology-you know, I built this really cool recording studio in San Francisco-but when I write, it's with an acoustic guitar and a yellow notepad. I keep it very simple.

Kate Fleetwood

I am a massive fan of early electronica like Steve Reich, Pat Metheny and Thomas Dolby. I used to be a big raver, too, so anything dance. I love ambient music like Tunng. I love acoustic and classical, too.

Fyodor Dostoevski

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

B. F. Skinner

Let's face it, he was a beast in there. He just went in there and challenged them. That's what a senior does, he puts you on his back and carries you.

Tina Brown

The natural creativity of the staff morphed 'The Daily Beast' very fast into what has become a newsroom. Aggregation lives on the Cheat Sheet, the video player, and in the breaking news slot in the first big box. The rest is all original, generated by Beast writers and editors.

Susan Egan

I did 'Beauty and the Beast' like 780 times. And so there are going to be nights when things go wrong, like the set breaks down or the Beast mistakenly pulls your wig off.

Ben Jonson

Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.

Chris Sheetz

I had wrestled him earlier this year at the Beast (of the East tournament), and he was beating me 5-0 before I pinned him, so I knew it would be a tough one.

Heather Stewart

She was a beast on the boards tonight. She was crashing hard.

Darryl Tapp

Tim has been a beast in there for us. He has elevated his game and there has been no stopping the guy.

Lizzo

No one said, 'This is the best female rapper.' It's more like, 'Lizzo can really rap.' I think its because I'm not that sexy girl. I'm that beast girl.

Alexandra Paul

Electric cars aren't pollution-free; they have to get their energy from somewhere.

Philippe Gijsels

Lower prices are hurting utilities and energy companies. Electricity prices are an enormous risk for utilities so we shouldn't be surprised by the response.

Takeshi Uchiyamada

Because of its shortcomings - driving range, cost, and recharging time - the electric vehicle is not a viable replacement for most conventional cars.

Greg Walden

I did not come to Washington to raise the electricity rates by as much as $40 per month as this plan would do.

Leroy Shafer

The price of gasoline, electricity, the price of natural gas, it's been a triple hit for the consumer.

Michael Rispoli

I grew up around hardware. I could sell you all the plumbing and electricity you want.

James Lancaster

Basically, the electricity in my heart wasn't working correctly.

Alex Young

Imagine if your hair was to stand up from static electricity, that's kind of what the corona looks like all around the sun.

Stewart Tucker

We had no electricity, water or services. One of us would volunteer each week to pick up the garbage and take it away to some nearby Bedouins who would offload the trash if they couldn't keep it.

Michael Graf

Looks like we're finally going to make it this February.

Carlos Emmons

Last year we would look at film and see linebackers not getting touched and making plays. I was like, 'If we don't get touched I'll make every play.' So finally we get to run around and make plays.

Rory Bremner

Scotland needs comedy more than ever. With the independence debate, finally after 300 years, reaching room temperature.

David Gallop

So finally it is time for kick off ... and what a season it is going to be.

Mark Reiland

Obviously we're in pretty good position. Sure, it's not over. I hope finally we can put it all together (today) and get it done.

Bill Cowher

Maybe it was poetic justice. We were finally able to get over the hurdle.

Bobby Bowden

Now, they know how we feel. We finally stole one from them like they have been stealing from us. (Last night) was our time.

J. K. Rowling

Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it. (Dumbledore)

Richie Allen

Now that we've got this finally all done, we'll be able to go back to having shows with a 500 capacity.

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.

Thom Yorke

I had a series of mini-breakdowns where the public persona - this thing, this face, this person who writes this music... I would walk past that person in the mirror or listen to that person playing guitar and I didn't know who they were.

Debra Wilson

I've played piano and guitar when I was younger.

Eddie Van Halen

A guitar is a very personal extension of the person playing it. You have to be emotionally and spiritually connected to your instrument. I'm very brutal on my instruments, but not all the time.

Eddie Van Halen

A guitar is just theoretically built wrong. Each string is an interval of fourths, and then the B string is off. Theoretically, that's not right, all the strings should be off.

Dave Navarro

And I've also come to the conclusion that, as far as guitar solos and things like that are concerned, it's more important to complement the music rather than take away from it.

Dave Navarro

Guitar playing is just something that came to me and is really second nature now.

Dave Mustaine

The guitar influence that affected my songwriting came from the New Wave of British Heavy Metal.

Dave Mustaine

My guitar was a loyal person to me.

Billy Unger

I love Aerosmith. I love Guns N' Roses, AC/DC, anything from that era, Led Zeppelin. So my guitar style is very much like Slash or Jimmy Page. I love playing that kind of music. It's where my heart's at.

Kristy Curry

Let's not make a mess of this. It started with our seniors today, for whatever reason. They didn't handle the situation. We will be better from today, I promise you that. The film clips are already being clipped.

Michael Gardner

Love is like handing someone a gun, having them point it at your heart, and trusting them to never pull the trigger.

Ehud Barak

lay its hands on the lowly murderers and will punish them with all severity of the law.

Digger Phelps

Let's get serious. Glen Davis, he's so tough in the paint. They can't handle him.

Salvation Army

Mother Nature had the upper hand in this situation.

Casey Neistat

One of my first questions when I interview prospective employees is, 'Do you know how big a sheet of plywood is?' Most people don't, and say they are different sizes, but it's 4' x 8'. Anyway, working with your hands is a very American thing that we kinda lost here, but it's an important skill to have.

Bruce Carter

Obviously we don't have a Superdome. We have to take a look at what we have in our county. We can handle hundreds or thousands, but not tens of thousands.

Brett Favre

No one is going to hand us anything, especially now,

Dorn Whitmore

Only a handful said they didn't like what we were doing.

Justin Dentmon

Man, I got scared real quick when I heard the news. I've never been in a situation like this before.

Jarvis Deberry

Lots of people talked about things they heard without actually seeing them.

Benjamin Franklin

Lovers, Travellers, and Poets, will give money to be heard

E. B. White

Las Vegas is the place all of us wanted to go. For the first week of the tournament there's nonstop basketball, and we heard that's the place to go.

John Freeman

Several of us had heard rumors, which persisted for a period of time.

James Carbone

Mr. Bradford was the leader of a ring. If you heard the word 'Detroit connection,' Mr. Bradford was the leader.

Kevin Kelly

(McDowell) made up his mind to vote 'No' before he heard one piece of evidence.

Robert Roach

one of the worst ideas I have heard in a long time.

William Shakespeare

One that lies three thirds and uses a known truth to pass a thousand nothings with, should be once heard and thrice beaten.

Robert Burton

Many men are melancholy by hearing music, but it is a pleasing melancholy that it causeth; and therefore to such as are discontent, in woe, fear, sorrow, or dejected, it is a most present remedy

Dan Webster

My job was to get a fair and open hearing to all ideas.

Davis Eidahl

One meet Jerry will win, another will go to Matt and another will go to Adam. I like hearing them say that they should run in the top six and they don't say anything negative.

Richard Hall

None of us was contacted about any hearings on this plan. There was no dialogue. The interstate was designated the American Legion Memorial Highway, and that's just been forgotten.

Evelyn Glennie

My hearing is out of the ordinary as others might see it, but not for me. I'm used to my hearing in the same way that I'm used to the size of my hands.

Jacque Jones

No, I don't think so. Like I said before, I'm going to go out and play and play hard. Right now it's a little tough. I'm not getting very many hits. I'm hearing all kinds of stuff in the outfield. But, hey, I'm here to help this team win.

Scott Krugman

From what we've been hearing Saturday was a huge day for sales and a huge day for traffic,

Graham Arnold

From what I'm hearing at the moment from our medical staff, everything is fine.

Eddie Van Halen

I have selective hearing.

Tom Petty

When I was a kid, we didn't have any blues stations. I never heard Howlin' Wolf or Muddy Waters or any of those people until the Stones had come along, and I took it upon myself to find out who these people were that they were covering.

Robert Schwartz

We're not surprised that he would try to muddy the waters.

Dick Cavett

Well, it saved her a lot of muddy shoes,

Scott Neal

A lot of our new players struggled because of the conditions. They?re not used to playing in wet and muddy conditions, so it took them a little time to adjust.

Dick DeGuerin

This is a rabbit trail (Earle) is going down. There is nothing there, but he is trying to do what he can to muddy the waters.

Deke Thompson

Senior night is great, but I want to go dancing.

Unknown

May you live each day like your last, and live each night like your first.

Patricia Smith

One night she went to the restroom, and when I woke up she was walking into the wall. She couldn't find her place on the floor.

Barbara Turner

Obviously, we need her a lot. Obviously, if we had her the other night we would have won. That's just the reality of it. There's no other way to say. Obviously, we need her a lot.

Lynne Sipiora

Of course, on a night like tonight, in this situation, we won't turn away anyone, especially if they are able or a family. But things like being drug-free are still a must.

Alan Trammel

(Oakland) got back on track and we just couldn't stop them. It was just a night the Tigers got pounded.

Charles Portis

Listen, here's what I'd like to do: I'd like to live in a trailer and play records all night.

Charles Olson

what pudor pejorocracy affronts how awe, night-rest and neighborhood can rot what breeds where dirtiness is law what crawls below

Charles R. Swindoll

In the wilderness, God's covenant people struggled with a choice between feeding their bellies and nourishing their souls. God provided manna-a breadlike food that fell to the ground during the night-to sustain the wandering Israelites and to teach them how to value His Word more than physical fulfillment.

Mike Sanford

Leon is playing better and better every week.

Shaun McGinn

So he started playing every day and, since then, he's been doing very well.

Jim Tressel

Maurice is going to be playing tailback on our scout team.

Willie Thornton

Obviously. we're playing better. We're still not where we want to be. We're still a work in progress.

Kimo Oelhoffen

My apologies to him. It's unfortunate it happened, but that's the risk we all take playing this game.

Joel Edgerton

Polo is like playing golf with a saddle, and there are a lot of moving parts.

George Robertson

When the nation's very survival is at stake, there is no room for playing politics,

Rashard Lewis

I feel like we weren't playing hard. We were just kind of going through the motions.

Steve Rothchild

I feel like we're playing better right now. We just have to take things one at a time right now.

Russ Ortiz

I can't. I wish I could. Nothing seemed to be where I wanted it.

Hope Schulte

I don't know what was going on. It just seemed like everything was just going in for me. I just did what I usually do, and (the shots) just seemed to fall.

Alex Hernandez

I don't know what happened, ... Every thing seemed to be going well, but Wilson was just too fast.

David Carradine

Quentin is very organic; there was no way that he was going to put someone else's hand in there and anyway, my hands are kind of famous. It seemed right.

Lisa Tuttle

I can't remember a time when I didn't write or make up stories, because it seemed to come with reading.

Mary Leakey

I got too old to live in the bush. You really need to be youngish and healthy, so it seemed stupid to keep going.

John Kruk

When I first came in the league, I thought Jack Clark and Steve Garvey were big. Then all of sudden it seemed like everyone was that big.

Todd Blackadder

Ulster seemed to get their tries effortlessly whereas we had to work for ours.

Elbert Higginbotham

We thought we'd take the scenic route. Every time we took a corner, it seemed like we took a wrong corner.

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

I used to sleep with the phone right by my pillow but I'm getting better. Now it sits on the table a few feet away.

Charles Spurgeon

Every hour of every day, God is richly blessing us; both when we sleep and when we wake His mercy waits upon us.

Charles Spurgeon

God gave us sleep to remind us we are not him.

Charles Olson

Forgive me if I sleep until I wake up.

Dennis Rodman

I'm very particular about who I sleep with.

Denis Diderot

Tous les jours on couche avec des femmes qu'on n'aime pas, et l'on ne couche pas avec des femmes qu'on aime. Every day we sleep with women we do not love and don't sleep with the women we do love.

Debra Winger

I just want to sleep, and eat, and learn about what's going on in the world.

Dean Rusk

While we are sleeping, two-thirds of the world is plotting to do us in.

Dean Young

I was satisfied with haiku until I met you, but now I want a Russian novel, a 50-page description of you sleeping.

Bill Lee

The only rule I got is if you slide, get up.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

Taking a hypersensitive approach to life had come to seem so much more pure and honest then joining the ranks of the numb masses who could let it all slide by. What I stopped realizing was that if you feel everything intensely, ultimately you feel nothing at all. Everything registers at the same decibel...

Al Goldman

Uncertainty in Washington has greased the slide downward.

Jose Rios

I was on the top of the slide going down.

Mark Dinger

No work can be done until the slide stabilizes and we don't know when that will occur.

Mark Dinger

No work can be done until the slide stabilizes, and we don't know when that will occur.

Greg Moore

The slide breached the back wall of the house.

Margaret Atwood

How easy it is, treachery. You just slide into it.

Naomi Judd

An expert is just somebody from out of town with slides.

David Swift

My expectations are that we're going to have a very smooth process.

Tu Mingde

The preparations have been going smoothly and well on schedule.

Cameron Johnson

It's not always going to be smooth sailing or everyone will do it. If you have something people want, it should be the perfect recipe for success.

Harold Vogel

He's done it in the right way. He's smoothed all the ruffled feathers.

Amanda Bynes

I wear Spanx to smooth things out. I read that Jessica Alba wears them and if she wears them, then so should I.

Ashley Wagner

You always imagine everything will go so smoothly in the Olympic season.

Aftab Dada

Everything is going as smooth as could be.

Stephen Robinson

Thanks to the whole team for making this day super smooth and easy, as well historic.

Giselle Davies

The tests went very smoothly and there were no complaints.

Moira Kelly

Money's not important to me. Movie star acknowledgement is not important to me. I don't want to be a big studio actress. I don't want to be in the limelight.

James Gray

I was going to Studio 54 when I was 12 years old. It's true. It's crazy.

Carol Ierulli

I did not play sports, I was the studious one and I was always in the library.

Vonda Shepard

I spend a lot of time working in the studio as a producer, not just a singer.

Willie Aames

I never learned to study in studio school, so I had to teach myself to study.

Bruce Weber

Sometimes there's a sense of closing yourself off on a shoot, and I try not to do that. Sometimes you have to, like when you're in a studio and you're doing fashion shooting, but I don't even do it then.

David R. Ellis

Well, I think on second units it's all about execution. Because you come in there, you don't have to worry so much about the studio and all the other actors and all that.

Derek Bailey

Nowadays, I really like playing in studios.

Harry Treadaway

I was used to getting changed in pub toilets before going on set. Then suddenly I had studios in L.A. advising me on my hair.

Robert Osborne

I think there's something about traveling in airplanes all the time that's not the healthiest thing in the world for you.

Albert Schweitzer

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.

Jerry Costello

Make no mistake, our troops will be in Afghanistan and Iraq for a long time.

Jack Rio

So it was a valuable time for us.

Scott Ellis

My first time ever on the Tony Awards was in 1984, the year of 'The Rink.'

Anwar Robinson

One Moment in Time because I think it describes me as a person and how I felt about being on the show.

Rick DiPietro

Obviously, you're going to have jitters the first time you play in this event, but at the end of the day, it's still the same game.

Phil Lesh

Of course, in the band, we all interpreted in our own way simultaneously, so this time I'm just going to do it all by myself and see what comes out.

Denise Bottcher

No one got confirmation that she was napping. There was no time for napping.

Deepak Chopra

The mind and the body are like parallel universes. Anything that happens in the mental universe must leave tracks in the physical one

Elizabeth Baker

I don't have other salespeople in here wondering what's going in and out. I keep track of what's selling.

Tom Jenkinson

I like my stuff 'cause I only ever end up with tracks that I really, really like. It always appeals to me.

Carol Foreman

We're not going to get everything we want and the track will not get everything it wants. There's going to be compromise.

Alan Alda

How can I ever hope to communicate something to you unless I get signals back from you that I'm on the right track or that I've started at some place that you're familiar with?

David Mitchell

But no, we cross, crisscross, and recross our old tracks like figure skaters.

Buddy Rice

Its always a little different, racing on your hometown track. It makes it more special.

Bryan Ferry

I like to piece together different guitarists, unlikely bedfellows. You have Jonny Greenwood playing next to Nile Rodgers on the same track, so it becomes like an orchestra of sounds.

Carl Lewis

I enjoy my life, I love track, I'm set for life financially.

Maj. Nester

More or less, residents just turned their neighborhood over to us.

Huston Street

Ginter and Elly, they turned it so quick. Off the bat, I thought they had no chance. That right there is the game. It's another run.

Sheldon Danziger

I was surprised. I thought things would have turned around by now.

Monty Python

-She turned me into a newt! -A newt?-I got better...

Mainbocher

To be well turned out, a woman should turn her thoughts in.

Jeff Goldblum

I've turned my guest house into this little studio, and we have actors come over and do readings.

Igor Ivanov

We have turned the corner, ... any deviations or surprises.

Norv Turner

We had opportunities. There were little things that turned into big things.

Timothy Simons

When I was in Chicago, I was working as a carpenter while I was doing plays. I thought it'd be a fun set construction job, but it turned up to just be a straight-up factory.

Joss Whedon

I have an obligation to do press, but I don't have an obligation to stay out dancing until 3 A.M.

Patricia Bryant

She was there until the week before she died.

Johnny Gimble

I didn't really get crazy about Bob Wills until 1940.

Michelle Wie

I didn't want to write anything on my scorecard until I made a birdie.

John Oates

I didn't make a solo album until the year 2000.

Samuel L. Jackson

It wasn't until I let go of the idea of the brass ring that it showed up, and fortunately for me, it coincided with getting clean.

Waite Hoyt

You never really know baseball until you put on a pair of cleats and get out and play it; and if you play for five years, you still don't really know what it's about.

Tracy Reese

I did not have a big view of many designers until I got to high school.

Tim Curry

I remember candy rationing until I was, like, 7.