Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dave Chappelle

There's something about doing stand-up that's cathartic.

George Will

Populism has had as many incarnations as it has had provocations, but its constant ingredient has been resentment, and hence whininess. Populism does not wax in tranquil times; it is a cathartic response to serious problems. But it always wanes because it never seems serious as a solution.

Charles Hazlewood

Somerset desperately needs more high-end music making on its doorstep, so the chance to share great music spanning genres as diverse as orchestral classics, trip hop and jazz, in the utterly relaxed and cathartic environment of a Somerset field, is for me the fulfilment of a long-term dream.

Sarah McLachlan

Having the opportunity to express myself through music has been extremely cathartic for me my entire life.

Dax Shepard

So if you're on the motorcycle, on the track you're not thinking at all about what's happening next week or tomorrow or anything. You're literally thinking about the turn you're setting up and there's something about that I find very cathartic and meditative.

Lisa Presley

I don't respond to music that's not honest, and music's had a huge influence on my whole life. It's gotten me through everything. I don't respond to music that's full of crap . Since it's also a therapeutic and cathartic thing for me to write, I'm not going to go halfway or be some puffball.

Nick Nolte

The greatest movie would be the movie that gave the audience a cathartic feeling of transcendence.

Sharon Van Etten

The only thing that's helped me get through some really hard times was just being able to write and express - it's very cathartic for me. I'm hoping that, by writing and performing for other people, it affects them the same way.

Frank Spotnitz

People love to be scared because it's a cathartic experience, because you get to experience all those emotions, all those fears you have ... and a hero or heroes take you through it, they make sense of it, and they emerge victorious at the end of the hour. By the end of the hour, you feel better and you feel safer.

Tim Parmeter

The only downside was that we started the second half with the same crap we've been doing. We had turnovers on our first four possessions, and all a sudden, our lead goes from 18 to 11.

Shawn Scobee

We're just starting to hit the crap out of the ball.

Stephen Colletti

I'm the type of guy if there's a haunted hotel in town, I'm staying there and will stay up all night waiting to get the crap scared out of me.

Brian K. Vaughan

I just make crap up more than anything else.

Tyra Banks

I don't think cellulite is great - that's not a flaw that I want in a photo by any means! I retouch that crap out. But I tell women that I'm retouching it out.

Bea Arthur

You know, I spend most of my life turning things down. There's a lot of crap out there.

Jessica Foley

She's got a pretty mean stare on her. She's got big shoulders, she's strong, and she doesn't take any crap on the court. She was not the person I wanted to be guarding in practice my freshman year. I was intimidated by her.

Will Self

The main differences between contemporary English and American literature is that the baleful pseudo-professionalism imparted by all those crap M.F.A. writing programs has yet to settle like a miasma of standardization on the English literary scene. But it's beginning to happen.

Dax Shepard

I've had plenty of crappy jobs, but the only job I've ever really dedicated myself to has been acting. It's my life.

Sarah Santana

We want them to have a full year of grieving before they volunteer.

Bob Day

The other times, we just preached at you, ... This time around, it's like you're getting christened in church. This is the full immersion version.

Justin Jeffre

We've all been living life to the fullest during our break,

Jacques Santer

We are at the end of an historic process, ... It has been a long path, a path full of successes and failures.

Ken Vaughn

We are at all full production and we have increased staff, with some openings at mines.

Mark Hansen

We split it up so the Sunday devotional is more spiritual and the Saturday show will be full of all different kinds of music so it lets people know we do more than just soft piano ballads.

Mike Sherman

We're not going to make it look pretty and say, 'Well, we've been here before,' ... We have 14 games to play and we can't panic. But I don't think you can tell them the glass is half full when it's not.

Glenn McGinnis

We have narrowed it down to those who are providing full financing.

Army Sgt.

When he first signed up, he wanted to go for the full 20 years, but we had to talk him into four. He knew the military, he knew what was involved with it the separation, the risks.

Dave Barry

We've actually gotten better musically over the years, ... But we've come to realize that we will never be good.

Nellie McKay

If you look through the century, certain things have gotten better and certain things have gotten worse. I wouldn't say overall that things have gotten better. I think you could say things have gotten worse, but I don't think you could say that things have gotten better. Overall. You can't say that.

Samantha Quigley

Yeah, it did. I thought it was going to hit the fence, so I was going so fast. Then I saw it went over and I was like, 'All right, all right.' The wind may have gotten it a bit, but I'll take it.

Rick Johnson

We're going to get serious. We've been playing around with this for too long, ... It's gotten totally out of hand.

Charlie Norwood

What we're really trying to do is level out the health care system. It has gotten so one-sided as more and more people have been put into managed care; in fact, about 70 percent of the patients in the country.

Kenneth Bonert

When I was growing up, Mandela's name was synonymous with terror. We were scared of him. You couldn't see any photos of him. A photo of him could have gotten you in jail.

Ellen Gerton

Maggie has worked really hard and her skills have gotten so much better.

Kristen Schaal

I've been lucky. The projects I've gotten to work on are projects I'd want to watch myself. That's what I try to shoot for.

Ezra Klein

People set newspapers on fire; they use them for wrapping fish. The Internet does not have that property. What I don't think we've gotten is that you can make things last longer than in print.

Kristy Curry

We are at the turn, we are halfway around the track. It's just about respecting Michigan State and approaching like we have the other seven (Big Ten games).

Loretta Lynn

You can't be halfway in this business. If you don't meet the fans, you lose all you've got.

Bob Beamon

Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

Alan Vega

That's what so sad about a lot of modern music, in my opinion, so many young bands never stay around long enough to fulfill their ultimate promise. They only get halfway there or a quarter of the way there.

Jodi Smallcomb

We are a little over halfway there. For our last fundraising event, we want to push it over the top.

Frank Haith

We're above.500 (in the ACC) at the halfway point and you have to be pleased with that. But we have to understand that we're a long way from where we want to be.

Amanda Harlech

I think I am really easygoing. Well... as I was about halfway through that sentence, I thought, 'No, actually you're really picky.' But the things I ask for are really simple to do.

Don Ward

Set your goals to paper and you are halfway there!

Roger Dearing

What if someone forecloses on a house halfway through? Do their kids still get to go to that school?

Scott Borg

We started seeing huge vulnerabilities. And portions of those systems were extraordinarily secure. But they were Maginot Lines.

Luis Rivera

We still need to win three games. I feel like if we win those three games, there's going to be a huge celebration.

Bill Halbrehder

When you take a player off the ice, even if it is your own team, that opens space and can be a huge advantage, especially when you have a player like Allie. She is just so dynamic... one of those worth-the-price-of-admission kind of players.

Lisa Papademetriou

I was a huge rereader, so I've read all the Chronicles of Narnia, at minimum, 13 times each. In reading that series, I realized that someone had written those books, and that was that person's job. And I thought, 'That is the job for me. That is the job I'm going to have when I grow up.'

Paul Campbell

Whether or not a land is for sale weighs in hugely for criteria.

Pete Carroll

We're so young in so many areas. These next two weeks will be huge for our development.

Kent Beck

There's a huge latent market for software development that's just flat-out honest.

Harvey Jewett

With the limited monies we've got, we know it's going to show the need for a huge appropriation by the state.

Keke Palmer

I'm not a huge musical fan. It's like when people just jump out singing; it's not real.

Chad Harbach

Another older writer that had a huge influence on me is Chekhov. More contemporarily, it's hard to say.

Lykke Li

Where I've been hasn't influenced my music. It's more what I listen to. You can find music everywhere, so moving hasn't really influenced my music, more me as a person.

Bill Johnson

Faith doesn't deny a problems existence. It denies it a place of influence.

John Malone

We have no extraordinary insight or influence in AOL, nor do we seek any,

Bela Kun

My personal influence in the Revolutionary Governing Council is such that the dictatorship of the proletariat is firmly established, since the masses are backing me.

Nobu Matsuhisa

I used to watch my mother cooking when I was a child; she influenced me a lot.

Brian Tracy

Your ability to negotiate, communicate, influence, and persuade others to do things is absolutely indispensable to everything you accomplish in life.

Boz Scaggs

My earliest influences were things I heard in my household.

Arthur Henderson

Whatever we do or fail to do will influence the course of history.

Alanis Morissette

I started making music because I could.

Alanis Morissette

I am what I am Are you what you are or What?

Alanis Morissette

Writing a song doesn't heal things. Even if the song comes up with a solution, it's still only a theory. Going out and living my lyrics is a whole other deal. That takes courage.

Alanis Morissette

Music helps you find the truths you must bring into the rest of your life.

Al Jarreau

You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues.

Al Jarreau

Once you discover that you can, then you must.

Chris Colfer

I grew up doing musical theater.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I'm constantly discovering things. Like Bobby Bland. Right now I suppose I'm into the Eighties, which turned out to be a great musical period.

Chico Hamilton

Musicians have to suffer to a certain degree in order to obtain their outlet.

Anne Keene

We've accelerated the time structure. The students are responding very well to the new system, and they like writing.

Gary Harris

When we have a call, it's not a stranger we're responding to,

Elizabeth Thornton

We are not a victim of our emotions or thoughts. We can understand our triggers and use them as tools to help us respond more objectively.

Mike Kramer

We had a very preliminary discussion. All we have done is respond to an inquiry.

Erika Yowell

We did respond saying yes, we would be interested.

Horacio Gutierrez

This would be the same as taking away the right to a hearing, or the right to respond to a statement of objections.

Chris Drury

Those were some tough losses. Responding to them was a pretty big step for our team confidence-wise.

Jaromir Jagr

We didn't respond to the stuff they played. We weren't smart enough.

Skip Prosser

We didn't respond back. We had a run to start the half, they had a run back, and it was up to us to make a run back at them. We didn't have the wherewithal to do that.

Charles Dickens

There is no substitute for thoroughgoing, ardent, and sincere earnestness.

John Hull

We started giving presentations at practitioner conferences in 1986, and since then all of our derivatives research has been stimulated by contact with practitioners.

Charles M. Schulz

How can we lose when we're so sincere?

Lindsay Lohan

I've always been interested in singing, and I've always been singing and dancing since I was little.

Jonathan Todd

What they have done is insufficient. It's now two years since the decision.

John Felmy

We're in uncharted territory. We haven't experienced something like this since the 1980's.

Isla Fisher

You know, I didn't get to go to university because I've been acting since I was a kid.

Kristy McNichol

I say to my mother all the time, 'You're the child.' And she says, 'Yeah, you're the mother.' I've been that way with her since I was 11.

Thomas Steinbeck

Since I can't write the greatest American novel, I'm going to write the longest American novel.