Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Jackson

I've always wanted to make a bluegrass album.

Hank Williams

We've all kinds of kinds of hells and damns in country. But we don't have that other. We haven't progressed that far yet or degenerated. Who knows? . . . There are a few that are trying it. It's true. Some of these guys say it 500 times. I said (to Kid Rock), "how many times do you say it on an album -- 500 times? He just has that little grin.

Patrick Keeler

We started off making a full album with Brendan in his studio in Detroit and had nine or 10 songs done, then he got busy with his own record and we started talking to Jack and Meg about touring together. So we decided to do something for the road, and it turned out that the five completed songs made a kind of cool record, with this dreamier, darker mood than some of our other stuff.

William Boyce

Where should that album be? Should it be anywhere other than with the family? Is there any sensible reason for it not being with them?

Nayvadius Cash

Big Rube was on my first album and some of my mixtapes. His words are so powerful. I want to speak every word he says into existence. I wanna be a part of that! I wanna be a part of greatness. His wordplay is great to me.

Les Baxter

I don't think the record company is aware of it. Because they just bury my albums and don't release them.

Les Baxter

You know, they wanted to do a Broadway album and every show was kind of a bomb. There was no music at all.

Billy Joel

It feels great to have a #1 album.

Dee Snider

There's no tour plans, no reunion, no new album... nothing.

Charles W. Chesnutt

We make our customs lightly; once made, like our sins, they grip us in bands of steel; we become the creatures of our creation.

Scott Terry

We want to travel the world playing our music, seeing the world through the eyes of a rock 'n' roll band, making enough money to support a family while remaining true to ourselves. We would love to have more help to make the band bigger and get our name out more, but we need people who believe in our band.

Jarome Iginla

We knew they'd be fired up. We've all gone through something like this during our careers when there's a shakeup or a tough change and you band together and get fired up. They battled and competed and found a way to get that third goal that we didn't get.

Mike Dirnt

When I was a kid, my influences were just my early friends' punk rock bands and listening to the radio,

Dhani Harrison

It was a relief to be able to do my own band, because I was very responsible for all this amazing music I didn't want to mess up before.

Dhani Harrison

Thenewno2 is sort of my little prototype band, really.

Caroline Corr

I listened to a lot of bands that were happening at the time, but no one in particular.

Steve Harwell

We are probably one of the most licensed bands out there for movies and TV shows.

Stone Gossard

We've actually rehearsed more for this tour than we've ever rehearsed in our lives. Matt is singing a lot of the vocal harmonies, and he's just killing it. The benefit of playing in a KISS cover band when you're 12 is that you learn to sing!

Charles de Gaulle

For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.

Charles Dickens

Some philosophers tell us that selfishness is at the root of our best loves and affections. Mr. Dombey's young child was, from the beginning, so distinctly important to him as a part of his own greatness, or (which is the same thing) of the greatness of Dombey and Son, that there is no doubt his parental affection might have been easily traced, like many a goodly superstructure of fair fame, to a very low foundation.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God's gifts are many; His best gift is one. It is the gift of Himself.

Bob Thomas

We want them to swim fast, and this is the best way to do it, in short races.

Farley Flex

We want them to be as comfortable as possible. So they can give us their best performance.

Steve Davies

We want to take care of our district games and then, game seven, eight, nine, 10 make sure we're playing our best football.

Jeff Matteson

We want to surround our families with as much support as possible. There are some great people working with kids in this town. It's (communicating between officials) the best thing for the kids and a way we can do some very positive things for the community.

Nick Saban

We want to support every player, and I think every player knows he has a responsibility for what to do and what not to do. As a coach, I also feel a responsibility to put a player in the best situation possible so he can have success.

Venancio Figueroa

We want to stay competitive and make sure we're providing customers the best value.

Charles Edison

Our democracy poses problems and these problems must and shall be solved by courageous leadership.

Alan Parker

I've always been completely autocratic. I've never learned to be diplomatic or democratic.

Alan Bullock

Democracy is not about making speeches. It is about making committees work.

Alan Blinder

Public opinion is presumptively an input to policy formation in a democracy because politicians respond to it or at least are believed to respond [to it].

Al Smith

All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy.

David McCullough

You can't be a full participant in our democracy if you don't know our history.

David Korten

We can have democracy and a prosperous, just, and sustainable human future. Or we can have corporate rule. We cannot have both.

David Korten

Capitalism has defeated communism. It is now well on its way to defeating democracy.

David S. Goyer

Mysticism and the supernatural are embedded in the show - it's called 'Da Vinci's Demons' for a reason, and it's not just metaphorical.

James Adams

You can fiddle enough with the system to (make the office) look better,

Klaus Schulze

My interest in his new toy, the Theremin, isn't very big. It simply does not fit into my way of playing music. I do not want to fiddle around with my hands in the air.

Irish Sayings

The older the fiddle the sweeter the tune

Steve Spurrier

I'm not fiddling, ... You give me an all-pro quarterback, and we won't have to fiddle around. I don't like to do this.

Scott Westerfeld

You fiddle lucker!' she cried.

Vicky Rideout

While many parents have used the ratings or the V-Chip, too many still don't know what the ratings mean or even that their TV includes a V-Chip.

Elliott Abrams

Palestine, as Icelanders see it, includes the Western Wall of the Second Temple, Judaism's holiest site.

Debbie Ford

My goal is always transformation. I love to watch people transform their lives, which includes their inner world and their outer world.

Chris Taylor

The project includes signs of every possible type.

Harry Reid

Like all compromises, it includes provisions that are not supported by everyone in this body,

Todd Solondz

To be honest, I am often unsettled by the responses some people have had to my movies, and that includes many people who like them.

Peter Bicks

All parties are trying to feel their way around and that includes how juries will react to their cases. It's only after you have a track record that you can really refine your strategy.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

'Babel' is about the point of view of others. It literally includes points of views as experienced from the other side. It is not about a hero. It is not about only one country. It is a prism that allows us to see the same reality from different angles.

Adam Ereli

This includes working level officials in those ministries.

Charles de Gaulle

It is better to have a bad method than to have none.

Art Johnson

The point is, the Legislature has not met its constitutional requirements.

Nolan Sotillo

I met Victoria Justice once. She was so nice. I've always been a fan.

Ben Vereen

I didn't know who Langston Hughes was till he met me backstage.

Diana Wynne Jones

She was remorseless, but she lacked method.

Daniel Handler

For Beatrice, when we met, my life began. Soon afterwards, yours ended.

Raymond Kelly

We're doing a meticulous search at all possible locations,

C. S. Lewis

Where, except in the present, can the eternal be met?

Chadwick Boseman

When I met Rachel Robinson for the first time, she is a regal woman, and she was like a grandmother in that first meeting.

Alexander Ovechkin

For sure, Pavel Bure was my hero. I was very young, but I remember this moment. I recorded the game.

Brendon Urie

I recorded 'The End of All Things' right before I married my now wife. We had no vows publicly, so I wrote her this song and told her, 'This is how I see our relationship.'

Dennis Brown

Like Noel Brown and Scotty, they recorded as the Chosen Few, and I recorded as Dennis Brown then.

Jim Messina

We recorded several of Kenny's songs in the living room of my home.

Alison Krauss

It sounded like a drag...so we recorded it.

Christina Aguilera

I always wanted to have my own album recorded and released before I graduated high school.

Glenn Hughes

I think the greatest records we've ever heard, from Zeppelin to Purple to Sabbath to The Who, were all recorded in the studio live.

Jim Ed Brown

When I started in '54, it was only one track on a quarter-inch machine. We didn't have recording studios much around the country; we went into the radio stations and recorded our records.

Kate Smith

In 29 years, I had recorded over 2,200 songs. I was amazed.

Dick Cavett

I'm not all that enthralled by show business, and I'm not that much of a highbrow.

Ed Sullivan

I wouldn't have Elvis Presley on my show at any time.

Demetri Martin

I never set out to do a sketch show.

Monica Raymund

Lie to Me' is one of the smartest shows on TV. We have something different, unique and new to say to the audience that they're not going to get from any other show.

Stephen Urban

We don't have any documentation that shows ownership,

Carson Daly

It's hard to be a breakout show and stay on top. We're like the flagship show over here.

Al Yankovic

When I go to my live shows it's often a multigenerational audience, a family bonding experience.

Tracie Thoms

I like shows that are ensemble-based, that explore the humanity of every character.

Earl Nightingale

What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.

Bus Cook

We have to get some things resolved. I'm sure the Titans want to keep Steve, and I'm sure they will. Steve wants to stay, and we want to keep him in Tennessee.

Rafael Benitez

It is only a possibility that Steven can play.

Allen Iverson

Steve set the tone for them and everyone else just followed.

Matt Birk

Steve Hutchinson, in my opinion, is worth that money.

Digger Phelps

If this happens, this is time for Steve to make that move.

Xavier Niel

I don't think Steve Jobs had much desire to share his fortune.

David Steinberg

When I talk to Steve Martin, he's joyful when he talks about comedy.

Tom Muller

One job, one wife, one house. That's Steve Flores.

Jim Heath

We think Steven (Duncan) will make it (to state) in the 100 back.

Charles de Gaulle

One can unite the French only under the threat of danger. One cannot simply bring together a nation that produces 265 kinds of cheese.

Charles de Lint

It's all those stories and how they braid together that tells us who and what and where we are

Charles Caleb Colton

Logic and metaphysics make use of more tools than all the rest of the sciences put together, and do the least work.

Charles Spurgeon

God works all things together for your good. If the waves roll against you, it only speeds your ship towards the port

Alan Watts

...mysticism and empiricism go together in opposition to scholasticism...they base themselves on the non-linear world of experience rather than the linear world of letters.

Al Madrigal

Stop throwing us all together like some sort of Puerto Ricaminican Tex-Mex buffet.

Chogyam Trungpa

When you put relative and absolute truth together and they become one unit, it becomes possible to make things workable. You are not too much on the side of absolute truth, or you would become too theoretical. You are not too much on the side of relative truth, or you would become too precise. When you put them together, you realize that there is no problem.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

When I worked with Woody Allen, I only got the parts of the script that I was in. I was able to piece together the narrative from that, but I remember being quite excited to watch the movie - the movie that I was in but didn't know what happened in, like, 65 percent of.

David Guetta

We are one energy. Together we can make a change.

Jennifer Dunn

We've tried to make it very visual and interesting.

Flip Saunders

We wanted to win big right away. We didn't let things happen, we tried to make too many spectacular plays.

E. Hicks

We were trying some a little different. We didn't play well in the other ones, so we tried those.

Kylan Robinson

She tried to make it, but it was too late.

Doc Sadler

We tried some things. A triangle-and-two, some zone. And they made some shots.

Craig Biggio

We tried some of that the other day. That's hard,

Maureen Brunt

We tried not to think about it and just play our game.

Phil Budervic

We tried not to do that, because that's kind of unfair. But when we need a basket...that's who we're going to.

Tommy Tuberville

We tried everything that we could. There are no excuses.