Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alison Krauss

I started with the classical violin when I was 6, and I guess it went well.

Aleksey Igudesman

I do use an electric violin. Actually, my regular electric violin, which I sometimes use, is by Ned Steinburger.

David Garrett

Violin for me is a great instrument because you can use it as a rhythmical instrument and also as a melodic instrument. ... You can pretty much do everything with the violin. Sometimes I feel classical music limits the violin.

Daniel Barenboim

I can't stand being in Chicago anymore and hearing the Brahms Violin Concerto in the elevator. Because that shows me that when they come to the concert hall they listen to it in the same way.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

CREMONA, n. A high-priced violin made in Connecticut.

George Eliot

Tis a petty kind of fame At best, that comes of making violins; And saves no masses, either. Thou wilt go To purgatory none the less.

John Coltrane

The first violins have the most interesting part.

Louisa May Alcott

…the violin — that most human of all instruments…

Larry McMurtry

The older the violin, the sweeter the music.

David Guetta

My studio is a laptop. Everybody I work with is the same. We make computer music, we're the laptop generation.

James Harden

Growing up, I wish that I'd had the supplies and laptops and all the new technology that's out right now.

Richard Engel

The Arab Spring is over. The days of the protesters with laptops and BlackBerrys in Tahrir Square are long gone.

Cory Doctorow

Once you get to naming your laptop, you know that you're really having a deep relationship with it.

Curt Schilling

I had a laptop when they weighed 10 pounds.

Nicholas Negroponte

The laptop brings back a more seamless kind of learning.

Paul Oakenfold

Can you imagine Grandmaster Flash on a laptop?

Okky Madasari

I have used Lenovo since I wrote my first novel. My old laptop broke, so I bought a new one, but still a Lenovo. It is one of my most essential devices.

Lykke Li

I do it live on tape with a band. It's not like I'm doing electronic music with a laptop.

Becky Hammon

We have to get to the offensive glass. We didn't crash the boards when we should have. We settled for jumpers instead of getting to the line.

Pig Miller

We know Gary will go to the boards and will press. We've got to turn it into our style of game and get out and run.

D. J. Cotrona

I did the 'Justice League' thing the wrong way. I read too much on the Internet. You can't do that. The Internet is the devil. Or the Internet is not the devil - the comment boards are the devil.

Karen Finerman

I have been able to have a family and to dedicate quality time to my two sets of twins and my husband, as well as to serve on the boards of The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research and Montefiore Medical Center.

Jay Wright

We've won games that way. We've shot poorly and then got on the offensive boards and played defense. They were just too good.

Charlaine Harris

I thought about making biscuits, but there seemed to be more than enough calories on board.

Todd Tripp

We struggled on offense, but we kept playing defense and kept getting stops. I thought we controlled the boards and our defense was good tonight.

Don Brownlee

We've undergone a very heavy level of scrutiny by review boards because of Genesis and because of the Columbia accident. . . . It was a cultural shift in NASA, that you're now required to understand all the risks.

Charlie Munger

A board member should be perfectly willing to leave at any time and willing to make the tough calls.