Famous Quotes & Sayings

Don Brewer

Our regional success was helpful when we broke nationally, because we'd laid the foundations and were used to being on television and performing live. We did it the old-fashioned way, and built our fan base through stopping by radio stations to promote our albums and touring extensively.

Clinton Sparks

People like Busta Rhymes would say, 'Clinton Sparks doesn't do mix tapes; he does albums. He just throws albums out on the street.'

Jason Mraz

Steven, my friend who came out to me my senior year, was a huge Madonna fan. So I may know all the words to 'Bedtime Stories,' 'Erotica,' and a few more of her albums - and we may have watched 'Truth or Dare' a thousand times.

Robert Forster

Somehow I think it would end up a folk-rock album if it came to pass.

Joe Russo

Our whole dynamic is kind of based around that push and pull. Marco is a very skilled jazz musician and I'm rock oriented. When we first started out, that's the way it was, he was very jazz, and I was very rock, and I think that's what has made the sound and the album special. But we've evolved to retain both of those features within ourselves as a result of playing together.

Rivers Cuomo

Rock and Roll Over' was the first Kiss album I heard, but I was totally oblivious to their whole image and the makeup and all that. I was so out of touch with the wider world.

B.o.B

Man, 2013, I would expect an album from B.o.B and a Rock EP as well. My Rock EP is like... I take pride in my work and I'm not going to do something just to say that I can do it if I ain't really passionate about doing it. I'm very passionate about my music. Sometimes I take it too seriously.

Bruce Springsteen

Making this album was creatively liberating because I have a love of all those different roots sounds. They can conjure up a world with just a few notes and a few words.

M.I.A.

Me, it was always about being able to bounce around to where I wanna be. Like, with 'Arular,' people always say it's so political, but I think 50 per cent of the album is not very political at all. It's just really a shouty, shouty girl thing.

Jeff Dungan

Paul will provide landscape architecture and we'll do civil architecture. We'll help with layout and all of the things he needs for construction.

John Chambers

Our line of business structure has served us very well in the past, when customer segments and product requirements were very distinct. Today, the differences have blurred between these customer segments and Cisco is in a unique position to provide the industry's broadest family of products united under a consistent architecture designed to help our customers improve productivity and profitability.

Vint Cerf

Some of us feel NAT boxes are sort of an abomination because they really do mess about with the basic protocol architecture of the Internet.

Thom Mayne

Somehow, architecture alters the way we think about the world and the way we behave. Any serious architecture, as a litmus test, has to be that.

Sandy Wilson

Our target is to deliver demonstrable evidence to our customer that in-hub electric-drive is mature enough to meet the FRES requirement and that the hybrid power architecture can be successfully integrated with an open standards electronic architecture. Further, this is an excellent opportunity for the customer to evaluate the transformational benefits of a hybrid-electric drive that offers track-like performance at wheeled vehicle costs, which has the capability to quickly balance or shift power to mission systems that may have different requirements based on mission profile. This optimizes performance for fuel efficiency, and removes traditional armored fighting-vehicle drive line constraints, which will significantly reduce the whole-life cost of ownership.

Dennis Mann

Overall, maybe 40 African-Americans become licensed in any given year. The numbers of African-American women (who number 145 nationally) are bound to continue the most dramatic growth because women now represent half of the student body in architecture schools.

George Fraser

Our architecture is set up so that you can stream any media through any transport, from any protocol to any device with full security built in.

Joseph Kosinski

I went to school for engineering, I studied jazz. So I always had this kind of creative side and technical side, and I thought architecture might be the way to combine them, so I went to architecture school in New York.

Jane Harman

It is appropriate to insist on an overall strategy for space architecture and to face tough decisions, ... Boeing management readily admits that mistakes were made on this program. But those mistakes are now corrected and I remain hopeful that a well-managed program will ultimately move forward.

Jaroslaw Kaczynski

Regardless of who will finally win this race between Law and Justice and the Platform, the road to change will be open.

James Browning

Regardless of what time you change or move or do anything, if it's for a positive effort, it's always a good day to do it.

Ali Larijani

Referring Iran's file to the Security Council won't change the Iranian stance about uranium enrichment. It serves no one's interest.

Roger Enrico

Recent changes in the home video market got us and others in our industry by surprise,

Will Whitehorn

Recent acquisitions coupled with further structural changes being made to the group, will provide a good platform from which to generate further growth in the next financial year.

Scott Reed

Regions is a big contributor to this community, and there have been some changes in the community. We just feel like this would be the time to reassert ourselves.

Karen Finney

President Bush's refusal to recognize that it's time to make a change and fire Secretary Rumsfeld is symptomatic of his administration's incompetent and failed leadership.

Frank Degen

Previously, someone like a plumber, who may have run his office from home and had a secretary there, could not take this deduction because he provided goods and services outside the home. Of course, the IRS realized the inequity there and changed the rules.

Liz Boyd

Our position hasn't changed and we would expect her to veto this legislation just as she did before. It's a divisive piece of legislation. The suburban communities and the city need to work together on these issues.

Mick Jones

Rock n' roll means so much more to people; it enriches the culture. Also, it inspires people; there's no half-feeling. When I first got into it, I was inspired by people who had come before me, and I found myself in the position of handing that on.

Henry Miller

He lives to express himself, and in so doing, enriches the world.

Bill Green

Just since the gas prices started to go up, they've enriched the state coffers by about $16 million just from the increase,

Vinod Khosla

The winter period between September and March in this country, when land sits fallow and is subject to topsoil loss, we could be enriching the soil and growing all the biomass we need to replace imported gasoline.

F. Sionil Jose

The influence of teachers extends beyond the classroom, well into the future. It is they who shape and enrich the minds of the young, who touch their hearts and souls. It is they who shape a nation's future.

Wendi Deng Murdoch

I'm loyal, and I like my friends. Friendship enriches your life and makes it more interesting.

Billy Joel

If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things. You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings.

Kevin McCloud

Your home should be about enriching the daily experience.

Geri Halliwell

If people choose to engage on a one-dimensional level that's fine. But going beyond the surface can enrich ourselves as human beings.

Donna Roberts

Our main fundraiser is the gala. We raised $200,000 during the gala and our hope is to raise $50,000 here today.

E. O. Wilson

Our losing streak ended, so hopefully the Leafs' will end theirs (tonight).

Jim Eastin

Our line has been our strength so far. We get after people and stay after them. Our season is not over. Hopefully the kids understand that.

Jeanette Siemens

Our leadership was well represented and we hope it will be again.

Dan White

Our members look for leadership from us and hopefully they'll take our advice. The majority said they liked what Culver had to say and that's where the endorsement went.

Helio Castroneves

People might see an opportunity, but I hope people are more patient a little bit, ... This is the last road course, but there is nothing I can do. It's out of my control.

Peter Jensen

Sure there are things that are discouraging. But I'm never going to lose hope.

Bart Schouten

Sure, some words have been exchanged. They've been talking about training together next year, and I hope they still feel that way.

Ben Tate

Some of the linebackers tell me what they're going to do. Steve Gandy told me he was going to put the 'boom' on me -- knock me out. I just laugh. I don't know if we're tackling or not, but hopefully we are. I get to show what I can do a little bit.

Benjamin Disraeli

I am the blank page between the Old and the New Testament.

Eddie Van Halen

I grew up on a lot of early Beatles, DC5, Cream, Clapton, Page, Beck and Hendrix.

Abdul Kalam

Everyone's life is a page in the human history irrespective of the position he or she holds or the work he or she performs.

Hermann Havermann

There are only 100-million Web pages right now in Arabic, and that's nothing. It's only 0.2 percent of the total worldwide.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I dare hope that all the peoples who have lived through communism will understand that communism is to blame for the bitter pages of their history.

Alec Baldwin

Soaps are the best. They really are. If you can do a soap, well, you can do anything. You have to learn pages of dialogue very quickly.

Abigail Adams

When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}

Don Winslow

So I thought I should write five pages a day. And that's what I did. Eventually I had a book.

Sergio Aragones

For every issue, I send four pages of finished marginals and they select the ones they need.

Mike O'Connell

Part of it was the uncertainty of not being able to sign him. If it comes to the summer and he wants to come back, we'll listen. ... I wasn't sure of which way he wanted to go.

Horst Koehler

It is a symbol of reconciliation and a sign that there should never be war again,

Peter Kretzmer

It is a strong number. There is little sign of a slowdown,

Adam Ereli

It is a sign that we are all working together.

Manny Acta

It is a sign of what we can do.

M. Wolfe

I still think we could be better, though. We showed signs in the first inning of being very good. We let up after that.

Bruce Bochy

He wanted me to sign it, ... He took it over to me.

Pam Schild

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

Peter Scobie

There are tentative signs things are slowing. It's not a foregone conclusion.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

This is the only place that I don't feel out of place, because everyone here is out of place.

Common

All that glisters is not gold.

William Shakespeare

The villany you teach me I shall execute; and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction.

William Shakespeare

In sooth I know not why I am so sad. It wearies me, you say it wearies you; But how I caught it, found it, or came by it, What stuff 'tis made of, whereof it is born, I am to learn;...

William Shakespeare

He is well paid that is well satisfied.

Anais Nin

Descendants of pigeons once fed by Keats, Byron, George Sand, Chopin and many other famous lovers are still being fed, and the sudden sound when they all rise together, frightened away, is like the sound of giant sails flapping.

Arthur Symons

A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him.

Barbet Schroeder

Everything was happening all the time. You never needed television.

Eli Roth

Quentin [Tarantino] called me and said: "Yeah, you've got to be in my movie. You've got to be in Death Proof." But he made me audition. I was like: "Dude, I don't even want to do this..." So I left the casting of Hostel: Part II to drive to Venice, where Quentin was holding his casting, and the person ahead of me was Derek Richardson from Hostel 1 and he was like: "Dude, what are you doing here?" I said: "Don't ask!"

Ayn Rand

Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth.

Edward Norton

Everyone keeps saying the western's dead, but it's not.

Bruce Campbell

Westerns pop up every so often, everybody does a western and then they all die.

Frank Mauro

Western New York is probably characterized more by stagnancy than anything else.

Will Hobbs

I do have two wonderful awards from the Western Writers of America, one for 'Beardance' and the other for 'Far North.' The award is called the Spur, and the plaques really do have spurs on them!

Mel Brooks

I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.

Clint Eastwood

I tried being reasonable, I didn't like it.

Clint Eastwood

Ever notice how you come across somebody once in a while you shouldn't have messed with? That's me.

Eckhart Tolle

Especially for those of us living in the Western culture, death to a large extent is still a taboo subject. It's considered something dreadful that shouldn't be happening. It's usually denied. The fact of death is not faced. What we don't realize in Western culture is that death has a redemptive dimension.