Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frank King

So here we have pi squared, which an engineer would call 10.

Alison Bechdel

When I grew up, I studied karate for years. I got pretty strong, but eventually I had to acknowledge that I really didn't like fighting at all, so I quit.

Mike Peters

We were called The Toilets originally - we were flushed with success.

Bill Griffith

When the Zippy movie first started being talked about very rarely would people actually say animation to me, because I would never consider it.

Dan DeCarlo

Because they feel that without them telling you to do this, you wouldn't have had the characters that you have, you wouldn't have the book that you have.

Tom Wilson

We are set to make very bad history.

Tom Wilson

These days an income is something you can't live without - or within.

Tom Wilson

Happiness doesn't depend on how much you have to enjoy, but how much you enjoy what you have.

Tom Wilson

Mondays are the potholes in the road of life.

Marnie Stern

Lightning Bolt and Hella are two bands I listen to, and there's a lot of finger tapping going on there.

Ken Stringfellow

Many bands that I like that have longevity on their side with consistent members are even splits. It makes a big difference to have the other two guys involved every step of the way. It keeps the thing moving. Everyone is taken with equal degree of seriousness. It's not just because it's a four-way partnership. It also relates to taking things maturely and taking other people's thoughts into consideration.

Mike Roth

One of the things we're trying to do with these games is showcase what makes them different than a game at Ohio State or USC. And the things that make them different are the fans, the bands and the atmosphere. These are Historically Black Colleges and Universities and we would be missing the point if we would go in and treat them exactly like we would treat a game at Ohio State.

John Meyers

Memphis Smoke has some of the best live bands and singers in Metro Detroit,

John Tesh

My favorite bands were Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Jethro Tull, Uriah Heep, Grand Funk Railroad. If you listen to some of my early music, you can hear it.

John Altenburgh

Obviously, it's for the musicians, to get the bands back together and play some music, because a lot of these guys don't play anymore. But, our main thing, one of the constant things, is that we give band instruments to the high school and middle schools (of north central Wisconsin). That's the really big thing that we do.

Dweezil Zappa

Frank's bands could play the hardest stuff and make it seem like no big deal.

Toni Tennille

My mother did play classical piano, not that well. And actually, my father sang with the big bands - he sang with Bob Crosby's band - but he had to give up show business when his father died. He had to come back to Montgomery and take over the furniture store.

Tyler Florence

I like loud music. I like music that fills my ears. I'm just going to pull out my iPod and see what we got here. We're always interested in new bands because we have a retail store in northern California. I think it's got to be happy.

Jason Silva

Movies have these transcendent moments where everything is just right, from the dialogue to the music to the lighting to the narrative context; everything is just perfect, and something magical happens - the film breaks through the screen and does something to you.

John Cherne

McNeill is a junior and he's gotten a lot better. He has a great mid-range jumper. He makes or breaks them.

Andre Morgan

Obviously, we have to rebound a little better. It was just the little things, and they got a couple of breaks here and there.

Steve Spurrier

Obviously, we want to be in the top half every year, and maybe some year everything breaks right and we put together a team that can win it. That certainly is our goal for the future.

Mary Williams

My 4-year-old grandson (in Texas) keeps calling and saying he's sitting on the steps waiting for me to come pick him up. It breaks my heart.

Viktor Yushchenko

My heart, as all of yours, breaks when it sees how the government is robbing the country of its riches, how they sell out our national interests.

D. James

My hats off to Coach Tarver and the Howard coaching staff. They have done a great job. We had some breaks go our way. I am happy for our kids, they have worked hard and it paid off for them.

Kate Dudley

(NU) played excellent defense and got a lot of fast breaks out if it.

Darrell Butler

Whenever you play a program the quality that Belleville West is, you have to take those opportunities, make them count and score. You may not get another one. We were fortunate to have that inning where we got a lot of breaks our way.

Scott Sword

I feel terrible about it. I'm having a hard time forgiving myself because he was so chewed up.

Eric Johnson

When the tent went down, one of us chewed through the wall of the tent until he'd opened up a hole big enough to crawl through.

Don Young

He was probably helped early on by being a small player in a rapidly growing market. He honed his skills and management team, and whatever flaws he had, which were few, were gone by the late '90s, and he chewed up everybody in sight.

Joe Roetheli

Greenies are safe if they are fed properly and chewed by the dog.

Eric Bruntlett

If the guy's safe there and the runner goes to second base, I deserve to be taken out to the tunnel and chewed out. But it did work out for us.

Joel Fuhrman

Don't forget: cruciferous vegetables must be chopped, crushed, or chewed well for maximum benefit!

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

'The X Factor' is great entertainment, but it doesn't prepare people for getting chewed up and spat out by the music industry.

Joe Perry

After a while, no matter how much you love any pop song, you're going to get tired of it. That's the way it is with any entertainment. It's good when you first hear it or see it, you like it for a while, then it gets old. It gets chewed up and spit out and it's done.

Jack Campbell

After I saw our time, we just crossed our fingers and chewed our nails. Irvington's time was so close to ours the whole way, so we had to wait for the announcement. The kids really wanted to win, so I'm happy for them and proud.

Rick Perlstein

There's no question that Kennedy was an utter failure as a passer of laws during his proverbial thousand days.

Jeffrey Mount

Levee failure is not an 'if', it's a 'when'. There seems to be a willingness to tolerate the human suffering and property loss that might come with these events.

Jim Sturgess

Love is such a powerful subject matter because it comes in so many different shapes and sizes. It's about timing, fate, failure, redemption.

Lou Marcoccio

Many organizations have failures sitting in their systems, but they won't show up until they run the transactions.

Eli Khamarov

One failure is worth seven and a half successes

Jay Hood

None of these five incidents was a result of a failure to follow standard operating procedures in place at the time the incident occurred,

Randy Thompson

Obviously, they have the most to gain (and) the most to lose in terms of the market's success or failure.

Greg Biffle

I can't say what happened because we didn't have a failure all year.

Warren Miller

If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your thing.

David Greenwood

I can't put labels ? on these materials,

Deepak Chopra

Take away all your labels and you are the Infinite Being.

John Abraham

I don't have a problem being labeled a sex symbol, though I personally don't feel very sexy about myself.

Nathan Barankin

I don't know that it's ever been tested in court, but the law does label it a crime.

Dylan Moran

Yeah, I think Michael has had to deal with that label of being Michael Caine for a long time.

David Joyce

I like to think of myself as my own guy. I don't want to be labeled as a Tea Party guy, but I'm not necessarily against their agenda.

Jaime Camil

The projects I have done on television, they're sitcoms, situational comedies. The problem is, maybe because they go on every day, Monday through Friday, one-hour format, maybe that's why they're labeled as a telenovela. But technically speaking, they're sitcoms because they're situational comedies.

Sean Booth

I'd rather be on a label that understands us and allows us to be a bit odd.

Taryn Manning

After we wrote The Wreckoning, our record label did listen.

Jeremy Corbyn

Like a majority of the population and a majority of even Tory voters, I want the railways back in public ownership.

Mo Ibrahim

Make as much money as you can, but can you please pay your taxes, because this is a major problem.

Ayad Allawi

major negligence on the part of some members of the multinational forces.

D. James

Major market indexes are going to remain in a range, ... I don't see a big trigger on the upside.

Jaren Jackson

Major is not a big scorer but he can play defense.

Kathy Jordan

Many students major in things, and when they go to work they say, 'This isn't quite what I thought it was'.

Jeff Burns

One of our major points is promoting four-hour rounds or less. Our members really like that.

Ang Lee

My hometown was one of the major U.S. Air Force bases.

Jim Ford

Now, we've also got new major fundraising efforts.

John Davis

No one is hurt, that's the important thing -- remember that.

Charles Phillips

Because you remember Meredith was walking along the highway there and somebody shot him.

Susan Carney

I can't remember when we've had so many three-setters. They just don't give up. They play right to the end.

John Mendel

I can't remember when it wasn't really a rough year.

Phill Laursen

I can't remember really how this started. It just happened.

Jeff Greene

I can't remember in 1980 who I voted for. I wish I could tell you.

Bill Hancock

From what I remember about Des Moines and its hotels, ... (The metro) will do fine.

Dan Rice

I don't remember voting. What's the difference? It passed.

J. Taylor

I don't remember things about that play, to be honest, ... I think I was in a zone or something.

Sheryl Kingstone

Now we see more application vendors selling these suites.

Margi Nanney

Now, they say, 'No, because you're going to sell the camp.'

Tod Kowalczyk

I was surprised it didn't sell out in September.

John Roberts

If they want to sell and get out, if they have enough land, it's OK, they can downsize and do that.

Ed McIntosh

If this situation isn't fixed, they won't be able to sell their house.

Todd Rundgren

I can't stand Beyonce. The way she sells it so hard, constantly. Everything is shoved right in your face. Like, you don't have the sense to make a judgment of your own.

Chrissie Hynde

Look, as long as we can make records and sell enough so we can do some shows, that's all I want. You know what? I just want to play guitar and be in a band. Same as I always did.

Erin O'Connor

It's like recycling: selling old clothes to help make new ones.

Mark Cuban

Get me selling and I can figure out the industry. Once I can figure out the industry I can start a business in that industry.

Mark Jones

My granddad always said, 'Until you have a signed deal, you don't have a deal.'

Kitty Kelley

I can't say I wasn't warned. Alarms started clanging the day I signed to write 'His Way: The Unauthorized Biography of Frank Sinatra' (Bantam Books, 1986).

Marin Alsop

I can't see that I'm going to be a much different person? I signed the contract.

Johnny Rivers

One of the first groups we signed was the Fifth Dimension.

Thomas Carroll

She signed me up and said, 'You have to do this,'

Asa Hutchinson

She delivers the signed affidavit to Mr. Jordan,

L. E. Modesitt, Jr.

If I recall correctly, I think I signed my first contract with Tor in 1983.

Stephen Taylor

We're finalizing a settlement. It should be signed soon.

Pam Schild

He didn't even tell us until after he'd signed up.

Thomas Needham

From what they tell me he is a smart, hardworking and talented person.

Jeff Bzdelik

I don't know that it was anything (SDSU) did that really factored into that. But they are just so much more talented than they have been in the past.

Virat Kohli

Irrespective of whether you have talent or not, one has to work hard. Just being talented doesn't mean anything; you can end up wasting it before you realize.

Joe Girardi

He's a talented young man. You know what, he's going to make some mistakes.

Tommy Bowden

He's as talented a tight end as we've had here in a while, but doesn't understand the tempo.

Carl Taylor

He's a very talented young man. He is really the only one that does that (voice call) especially at his age.

Jeremy Mincey

He's a very talented guy. He would have been unstoppable.

Joel Thompson

We're not the most talented squad. We have to outwork our opponent.

Ricky Woods

I think they may be the most talented team we've ever played.

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.

Armand Assante

I don't go to work unless I feel I really have a story that would be interesting to tell.

Gore Vidal

I don't even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view.

Ciara

I don't curse when I talk. Unless I'm mad.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse - and things won't get worse unless they get elected.

Dean Ornish

There's no point in giving up something you enjoy unless you get something back that's even better, and quickly.

Mark Zuckerberg

Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

Kim Crosby

Unless you've been there, unless you've woken up in it every morning,

James A. Michener

Unless you think you can do better than Tolstoy, we don't need you

John Owens

Unless you're going to under-developed part of the world, they're everywhere,