Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joost Hiltermann

There are clerics who are very moderate and who understand what the current situation demands, and there are clerics who have political agendas and who marshal forces for their own gain. Those are the dangerous ones.

Edward Ruscha

I have no social agenda with my work. I'm deadpan about it.

Alanis Morissette

It's when someone has an agenda of their own for the record that it doesn't work for me.

Dick Wolf

The agendas on the management side of the table now are not in sync like they used to be because you have vastly different entities supplying programming to networks.

Brian Mulroney

Once you articulate an agenda, you have to follow it.

Benazir Bhutto

Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power.

Rachel Cusk

For years I had lived in my body half-consciously, ignoring it mostly, dismissing its agendas wherever I could, and forever pressing it into the service of mental conceptions that resulted, almost as a by-product, sometimes in its pleasuring and sometimes in its abuse.

Nelson George

When race is featured on shows like this, one of the agendas is to create racial tension. If the world moves too easily, it's not good TV. What this show seems to be doing is taking an important subject and trivializing it.

Eugene Jarecki

Ronald Reagan's legacy is deeply misunderstood because there are political actors in America who, for several reasons, have privately held agendas that they want to sell to the American public in the most appealing way possible. They often find the best way to do that is to package their product with the Reagan brand.

Karel Amaranth

We want to see children before anyone commits a crime.

Joe Paul

We want to remind everyone how important it is. All indications that anyone has told us is that this year's weather is going to be as bad as last year if not worse.

Jeremy Newberry

We have to get back out there and work our butts off. The only way to get a bad game out of the way is to go out there and work really hard to get better. ... Everyone has to go out there and not point fingers at anyone and continue to find ways to win.

Pam Walker

We have not 100 percent denied anyone yet. We have a number of people who are missing something.... They might owe as little as $17 to the Department of Revenue. We're working with them on that.

David Young

We have no intention of blocking or degrading other services on our network. We are giving customers what they want, which is fast pipes at a low cost. Anyone who tries to take that away from consumers will be punished by the market.

Rolf Wilson

We have so many more competitors now. Anyone who wants to can do it and it's a great spectator sport.

Mark Radke

Whenever you change technology, there will always be select individuals who will be resistant. When ATMs were introduced, people were saying, 'I don't want to get my money out of that box.' Now, hardly anyone walks into a bank.

Lleyton Hewitt

When your ranking gets outside 150 or 200, there's no doubt that it's hard for anyone to come back and play well week-in and week-out,

Edward Gardner

When he got the ball, he hit the hole. He either went left or right; he never let anyone hit him head-on. You can't coach that. You can't teach that.

Tom Stoppard

I have about a dozen cassettes lying about which I use in random order. Very often, I pick up a cassette to dictate a letter, and I find my voice coming back at me with the lines of plays three years old.

Imelda May

I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it was my turn, they would laugh at my choices. I would play Billie Holliday, Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf, but it was fine; if I had to listen to their choices, they had to listen to mine.

Zakk Wylde

Back when I was jamming with Axl and the guys they had boxes of cassettes with song ideas. How do you know which ones you like now when you have that many ideas.

J Mascis

Yeah, you know, I'm always into cassette. At least they seem to be the longest-lasting medium we used to have. I don't play cassettes much anymore, but I play records all the time.

J. C. Watts

The 8-tracks have a much better quality than cassettes but the problem was that the machines always broke.

Brian Koslow

Use your free time for self-development. Listen to motivational or educational cassettes while driving to work.

Brian Eno

I make a lot of pieces of music that I never release as CDs.

Brian Eno

I got an amazing 10-CD set, it's the music that Alan Lomax recorded in Haiti in 1936. And what's incredible is how fantastic the drummers are and how off-the-grid they are. The liveliness is astonishing; they're just totally alive, these recordings. It's very interesting, to me, to be reminded of that, that there was a time when things were not that tight.

Jan Hammer

Everything from now on will be done online - physical music media like the CD are dead in the water.

Chris Black

I like keeping music in front of people. I try to sell at shows as much as I can - setting up a distro table and bringing out crates of vinyl and some CDs. That's my favorite way to sell because you're actually face-to-face with the customer.

Lou Reed

The first generation of CDs sounded terrible. Any chance to remaster would make the music sound better than what was already out there.

Bette Midler

Sometimes my brain goes on CD shuffle. You know, you put a bunch of CD's on and hit play and random things come out.

Dan Ariely

If I gave you now, $10 as a gift, how happy would you be? Would you be happy, is the marginal $10, the best use of $10 you can use? Of course not. If I have you a CD, you know exactly what you are getting and you will have a value for it. So, money has lots of problems with it.

Leslie Mann

Women do not like CDs of live music. We only like the original recordings. If a song sounds different from the version we fell in love with, then it's awful.

Ed Sheeran

I saw Damien Rice in Dublin when I was 13, and that inspired me to want to pursue being a songwriter... I practised relentlessly and started recording my own EPs. At 16, I moved to London and played any gigs I could, selling CDs from my rucksack to fund recording the next, and it snowballed from there.

Mark Gandler

The reality is that the better he does, the higher his price is. So you're constantly late. At some point, you have to make a leap of faith.

James Glassman

There is a way they come to a conclusion, and it is your job to not constantly be picking fights with it,

Bruce Dressel

We used to re-time traffic signals once a year. With these cameras, we're constantly doing that on a daily basis. . . . We can do it in real time rather than going out there time after time.

Sean MacBride

Governments go to war directly or by proxy without declaring war. Force, or threat of force, are constantly used to dominate other countries.

Tiffany Thornton

I don't think once you book a part you should stop going to class. I think you should constantly remind yourself that you're working and that you're working on getting better.

Tom Ford

You never make it, especially in this industry where you constantly churn out stuff, things. You never finish.

Timothy Noah

You have to let the market reward effort and skill. But a system in which inequality of incomes constantly increases over time is worrisome.

Tobias Menzies

I've been really lucky to have had a variety of roles, and I don't think I'm in danger of being typecast as the romantic lead. I think there's honour in working as constantly as you can. That isn't easy. And I'm no matinee idol.

Tobias Hill

With a novel, there is no hurrying it. You're constantly walking into the unknown.

Carol Shields

The recounting of a life is a cheat...even our own stories are obscenely distorted...

Carlos Fuentes

Writing is a struggle against silence.

Carlos Castaneda

What is a truthful life? A life lived with deliberateness, a good, strong life.

Carlos Castaneda

I'm never angry at anybody! No human being can do anything important enough for that. You get angry at people when you feel that their acts are important. I don't feel that way any longer.

Carlos Castaneda

Burn your bridges every 2 years.

Carlos Castaneda

One ,must have something to die for in order to have something to live for

Carlos Castaneda

For me the world is weird because it is stupendous, awesome, mysterious, unfathomable; my interest has been to convince you that you must assume responsibility for being here, in this marvelous world, in this marvelous desert, in this marvelous time. I want to convince you that you must learn to make every act count, since you are going to be here for only a short while, in fact, too short for witnessing all the marvels of it.

C. S. Lewis

Bridge-players tell me that there must be some money on the game 'or else people won't take it seriously'. Apparently it's like that. Your bid - for God or no God, for a good God or the Cosmic Sadist, for eternal life or nonentity - will not be serious if nothing much is staked on it. And you will never discover how serious it was until the stakes are raised horribly high, until you find that you are playing not for counters or for sixpences but for every penny you have in the world.

Agnes de Mille

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Alan Lewis

Failure comes when you don’t listen. You can’t put something out there and assume it’s great. It’s up to us to make sure we’re listening to improve our chances for success-if not this time, next time.

Charles Stanley

Yieldedness is vital in listening to what He has to say.

Charles Spurgeon

No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.

Brian Eno

Listening to something is an act of surrender.

David Amram

When you are accompanying someone, you are listening to them the way you listen to a Bach Chorale, where four parts are going on at the same time, all of which are gorgeous melodies, all being played simultaneously.

Buddy Guy

I can't learn nothing from listening to me. That's something I already know.

Jane Asher

Listening to my regular favourites - Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and so on - I always feel, quite misguidedly, that nothing can be too bad if such beauty and brilliance exists in the world.

Janine Benyus

Listening to nature's operating instructions.

Jane Yolen

It is the last thing we learn, / listening to the creature world...

Terry Olson

This isn't some lunatic fringe. People want this to end.

Cassandra Clare

Doubtless the lunatic asylums of the world are filled with unfortunate women who have failed to see my charms.

Andre Previn

When you're working with music that is invariably better than you are, it's difficult to become swell-headed.

Agnes Obel

Even though music is something I travel around doing, it is also a very private thing. A sort of escapism.

Agnes Repplier

What strange impulse is it which induces otherwise truthful people to say they like music when they do not, and thus expose themselves to hours of boredom?

Charlie Byrd

And a musician has to learn to be frugal and to carefully manage financial affairs

Charlie Byrd

I had been to São Paulo the year before and became pretty well acquainted with the music of composer Antonio Carlos Jobim, I had already started playing that music, and the audience response had been pretty good because those songs are so melodic. I knew it would be something that would be appealing; I wasn't thinking that it would make the top of the pop charts or anything like that.

Charlie Byrd

Music's not like becoming a doctor, who can walk into a community and find people who need him.

Charlie Byrd

The guitar is a means of expressing music, When you get into the emotional side of it, then it's not the guitar that matters so much as the music itself. But the guitar is the vehicle I use. It's how I express myself. As for the emotional side, music takes up where language leaves off. To try and verbalize what music says, emotionally and spiritually, is futile. Let me put it this way, Louis Armstrong once said if you've got to ask, you'll never know.

Charlie Byrd

Usually, no one quite knew where Django Reinhardt was going to be, but I met his brother and about an hour later in walks Django with an entourage of friends. He always traveled with a large group-carried his own admirers with him, the most sinister-looking bunch of hoodlums you've ever seen. I walked up and offered to buy him a drink. That seemed to be the right thing to do... he was the first really brilliant solo guitarist I ever became aware of, I had records of his when I was 10 years old. It just blew my mind that anyone could play a guitar like that. Still does.

Charlie Byrd

A person should design the way he makes a living around how he wishes to make a life.

Stevie Jackson

When I'm making records, I like it to be quite fast. Don't let the band learn it too well.

Richard Cook

We're in a state where we're not quite sure what's happened,

Bob Hartley

We have a pond, and I've never seen it come up so fast. I haven't seen this much (rain) for quite awhile.

Kate Smith

Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously.

Buddy Bell

Woody wasn't throwing at him. But, quite frankly, Doug did what he had to do to keep things from escalating.

Ruth Asawa

Sculpture is like farming. If you just keep at it, you can get quite a lot done.

E. B. White

She stayed until her shift was over at 6. She's fine, but she was quite shook up.

Rudyard Kipling

She was as immutable as the hills. But not quite so green.

Elizabeth Hardwick

She was extraordinary. She had her own voice and her own tone and her own subject matter. There was no one quite like her in American literature.

Todd Phillips

When I'm writing, I'm writing for a particular actor. When a lot of writers are writing, they're writing an idea. So they're not really writing in a specific voice.

Bob Hamilton

We?re still proceeding at best-possible speed and we?re still trying to get the specifics on the street.

Michael Robinet

When the new vehicles arrive, you don't want too many of the old ones on the lot. I see this as a specific case, not a wide-ranging trend.

Chris Benz

I have specific playlists for arrivals in different cities. Tokyo skews new wave, Paris more jazz, and New York is Top 40.

Raf Simons

We all know and we all perceive Christian Dior in a very specific way.

Gustavo Torres

We are going to target them in a specific way.

Brendan Coyle

By the time you've been single for quite a long time, you can get quite specific about what you can and can't put up with.

David Gilmour

I don't like to get too specific about lyrics. It places limitations on them, and spoils the listeners' interpretation.

Hilary Rhoda

I've never had a specific style philosophy. I wear what I know works on me and I'll play around with accessories or some other fun additions for the outfit.

Joe Battista

We've spent the whole week working on defense. Everything we've been doing has been working on defense.

Roger Wilson

We've spent more time at the tent than at the games.

E. O. Wilson

We've spent a lot of time together. If it works out, it would be great.

George Chapman

We've spent $300,000 and it doesn't look much different.

Emma Thomas

We've spent almost ten years of our lives making 'Batman' films.

Libba Bray

I grew up doing theatre and spent a long time as a playwright. I still think very visually when I write.

Ernest Cline

I spent most of my childhood welded to my Atari 2600, until I got my first computer, a TRS-80.

Italo Calvino

I have spent more time with other people's books than with my own. I do not regret it.

Michael Heisley

I have spent my career making a difference with underperforming assets.