Famous Quotes & Sayings

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Let's find a new way to think about the entire taxonomy of solar system objects, and not clutch to this concept of 'planet,' which, of course, only ever meant, 'Do you move against the background stars, regardless of what you're made of?'

Neil Cornish

Several years ago we showed that any finite universe in which light had time to 'wrap around' since the Big Bang would have the same pattern of cosmic microwave background temperature fluctuations around pairs of circles.

Sam Johnson

Seniors provide us with a background of knowledge and experience that in this booming economy, where you can't find workers, they can fill the gaps and make companies whole again.

Bob Newman

Mike Mullen has a background in grant writing and that's what we'll be needing. Everyone is very impressed with how much the mayor is up to speed on this project.

Bruce Babbitt

Mistakes began with the preparation of the prescribed fire plan, ... Had those calculations been properly done, there would have been a larger background personnel and support (team on hand).

Rep Clymer

No one should be working until those background checks are completed.

Laurie Graham

My early novels were very understated and English. Fourteen years ago, I met and married my American husband, and as I learned more about his background and culture, I became interested in using American voices.

Ella Eyre

My background was always more soulful pop. I was named after Ella Fitzgerald, and when I was a kid, I was listening to Lauryn Hill, Etta James, Joss Stone. For me, it was always about the voice.

Adrian Holovaty

My background is pretty evenly split between journalism, databases and computer programming, and this was an opportunity to combine all three. My goal for the project was to create a useful resource for Chicagoans.

Jacqueline Leo

Seven is more than a lucky number or a famous baseball player's uniform. It's the brain's natural shepherd, herding vast amounts of information into manageable chunks.

Kelly Ryan

Mozart wrote some of the most famous operas of all time; Mozart wrote some of the most famous Masses of all time, strong quartets, symphonies.

James McCartney

Music is in me. I don't have much of a choice. People might listen to one of my songs or come and see my because of my famous last name, but if my music's not good they won't hang around.

Maisie Williams

No one teaches you how to be a famous person; no one teaches you how to be a role model. It's something you have to do on your own.

Max Clifford

Now people are famous for doing things that 15 years ago they would have tried hard to keep out of the papers.

Matthew Burns

When I grow up, I want to be an artist, a person who sews things and a guitar player. I hope I am famous someday.

Doug Harvey

I know that there are no famous 'Doug Harvey plays.' And I'm proud of that.

Edgar Allan Poe

This maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me.

Andy Borowitz

Get over yourselves with the coffee. You know, we all have it. It's like being famous for mustard or gum.

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

My father always said, 'If you love what you do, you won't mind slogging through it for several hours a day.

Richard P. Feynman

Before I was born, my father told my mother, 'If it's a boy, he's going to be a scientist.'

Bible Bible

Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.

Bible Bible

Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

Marcus Aurelius

So great is the modesty of your mind and face, Sophronius that I wonder you should ever have become a father

Mike Dunne

Mike was the kind of guy who would give the shirt off his back for anyone. He was like a second father to my kids.

Angela Carter

Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods

Raj Kapoor

My grandfather was a judge and my grandmother wished that my father Prithviraj Kapoor too would study law and become a judge like her husband.

Stephen Pagliuca

My father was a veteran and my mother a schoolteacher. They taught me the value of a good job and an honest day's work.

Rich Schoff

Luke's been playing very well lately. He's playing at a level where I'd like every to be playing heading into sectionals.

Marianne Faithfull

Lovers can do what they like to me - my head is cool.

Ellen Davis

Many malls will spend weeks, if not months, to start setting up. Many retailers are just trying to get a head start on the holidays so that when they arrive, they'll have everything decorated and in place.

Michael Cohen

Software really now has to be at the head of the company's strategy so it makes sense to have Jonathan at the role he's in.

Kyle Cooper

Mother Nature is going to be huge in the next several weeks. Long term I think we're headed to $30 to $35, but I don't think we're doing that yet. We have a lot of winter left.

Unknown

May the roof over your heads be as well thatched As those inside are well matched.

Paul Hewitt

My first year at Siena, my first year here, they were teams that people looked at and were scratching their heads thinking, 'How are they ever going to win a game?'

Arthur Jackson

One side of her head and neck was burnt. Everything was raw.

Goran Persson

One might say that after 33 years as head of state this should have been done before, but it should be painted when one is the middle of one's life, so here we are.

Twyla Tharp

I find the aesthetics of the 20th century hopelessly barren.

Aaron Paul

I'M A HOPELESS ROMANTIC

Carlos Ghosn

You'll never convince me there is a hopeless situation or there is any finality in any success or any failure.

William Shakespeare

Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!

Avril Lavigne

I might look like a tough chick - and I am - but I`m also a hopeless romantic inside.

David Atkins

He won't run if there is more rain. There is no point sending him around on a wet track. He's hopeless in the soft.

Abraham Cowley

Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.

Alex Pettyfer

I'm a hopeless romantic, I say very loudly and proudly. I get a lot of stick for it.

Aldo Leopold

That the situation appears hopeless should not prevent us from doing our best.

Alexandra Adornetto

Sometimes you meet a person and you just click-you're comfortable with them, like you've known them your whole life, and you don't have to pretend to be anyone or anything.

Italo Calvino

I'm afraid I don't think I really have a life on which something can be written.

Roger von Oech

Either you let your life slip away by not doing the things you want to do, or you get up and do them.

Kurt Andersen

I think we tend to be kind of ahistorical, and think that life as we are living it in the moment is all we know.

Marcy Kaptur

I view myself as someone who is always trying to make life better in practical ways and putting the pieces together to do that.

Malorie Blackman

A film of my life would never happen!

Mamata Banerjee

I have seen in my life, I have struggled so much. I did not get support from anyone.

Albert Schweitzer

Late upon the third day, at the very moment when, at sunset . . . there flashed upon my mind, unforseen and unsought, the phrase 'Reverence for Life'.

Albert Schweitzer

Reverence for life . . . does not allow the scholar to live for his science alone, even if he is very useful . . . the artist to exist only for his art, even if he gives inspiration to many. . . . It refuses to let the business man imagine that he fulfills all legitimate demands in the course of his business activities. It demands from all that they should sacrifice a portion of their own lives for others.

Alexandra Fuller

I love my mother so much, because I see the whole of her.

Alexandra Fuller

One of the things about being raised British in Africa is that you get this double whammy of toughness. The continent in place itself made you quite tough. And then you've got this British mother whose entire being rejects 'coddling' in case it makes you too soft. So there's absolutely nothing standing between you and a fairly rough experience.

Alexandra Adornetto

I believe it stands for 'mother I'd like to...befriend,

Amy Milliron

Mothers risk prosecution every time they go out in public and nurse their children.

David Lucas

Mother nature really stuck with us on this,

Joe Wooden

Mother nature is not cooperating. Things will get worse as the day progresses.

John Humphreys

Mother Nature didn't make slate for the purpose of putting it on a roof. We did. We've taken out all of the vulnerabilities and disadvantages of the natural material.

Anna Lee

Mother, ... if you could stop time, when would you stop it?

Jennifer Johnson

McCauley called his mother and said he had killed someone.

Albert Schweitzer

Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice, but in such a way that we are transported from the world of unrest to a world of peace, and see reality in a new way, as if we were sitting by a mountain lake and contemplating hills and woods and clouds in the tranquil and fathomless water.

David Circle

Let them know that you support music programs.

Dan Hill

Let's face it: pop music in its myriad permutations will always be sexually presumptuous, racially controversial and, frequently, politically charged.

Janice Stockigt

Several of its themes and musical motifs are strikingly similar to those present in other Vivaldi works.

Grimes

My image seems to be so infantilized, and I don't really know why. It belittles the music.

Laura Mvula

One of the things I haven't been ready for is how male-dominated the music industry is. I just didn't have a clue.

H. Hart

Music is feeling. Once you start thinking about it then you overdevelop it. It should come from the heart, the soul, and the subconscious. Music is all about the moment, and if you think about it then you're already in the next moment.

Rutina Wesley

Music is definitely influential on how I approach my scenes.

Daron Malakian

Music is an emotion, and I put it out there.

Janice Stockigt

Several of its themes and musical motifs are strikingly similar to those present in other Vivaldi works.

Jason Moore

For your first musical in New York, to go to Broadway and be nominated for a Tony is a dream come true.

David Bowie

When the musical keyboard was created in the 1970's, you had electronic geeks that had no background in music created these devises and gave them to musicians that had no background in electronics. The result was some of the wierd sounds that came out in the '70s.

Rita Moreno

When was the last time you saw a musical about people at war with each other?

Joel Murray

I'm a little musically inclined; I play the clarinet and the saxophone.

Slash

I think that was the whole idea behind doing the solo record was to be able to do musically whatever I wanted to do.

David Gilmour

No-one can replace Richard Wright - he was my musical partner and my friend.

Nathan Lane

Look, I'm 40, I'm single, and I work in musical theater - you do the math!

Lin-Manuel Miranda

The musicals that leave us kind of staggering on our feet are the ones that really reach for a lot.

Dennis Wilson

All I need is a big surfboard and a piano.

Eddie Van Halen

The piano is a universal instrument. If you start there, learn your theory and how to read, you can go on to any other instrument.

Ahmad Jamal

I have looked to the Steinway piano since I was three, not only as my ideal choice of an instrument. But, as a responsive and ever reliable friend.

Lia Ices

I can play piano, and I write everything on piano, but I don't really feel like a piano player, necessarily.

Abel Korzeniowski

I wrote my first piano piece when I was in 4th grade.

Roger Williams

Only my loyal Steinway piano endures. Be it beaten or caressed, its gorgeous tone remains.

Conrad Sewell

You have those songs that are very special to you that you don't want to get ruined by production. Something like 'Start Again' shouldn't be touched. It's a classic-sounding song on a piano and violins and harmonies, and I think those songs are perfect as they are.

Caio Fonseca

I've been playing piano my whole life, but I'd never tried to understand how compositions are made, really. Try to imagine if you'd loved paintings your whole life but had never painted one. My aspiration now is just to understand.

Buffy Sainte-Marie

I didn't know what I was gonna get the first time I sat down at a piano, but I loved it and it became my playmate for life.

Mary Rowland

It does really well, and we have tons of different publications.

Rob Lowe

I'm perfectly flawed... I've got tons of flaws.

Russ Diamond

There's tons more to come. This is just the first wave.

Carmine Giovinazzo

I don't necessarily have friends who are forensic scientists, but I have tons of friends who are cops.