Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carlos Castaneda

... the daily world exists because we know how to hold its images; consequently, if one drops the attention needed to maintain those images, the world collapses

Rowan Woods

Whenever you go to these things, everyone's modest and say they don't want to be nominated but it's great publicity and attention for the film.

Wallace Wattles

Whenever you find yourself hurrying, stop. Fix your attention on the mental image of the thing you want and begin to give thanks that you are getting it.

Alan Brewer

Whenever there's a lot of media focus on Country Music, music supervisors start looking for Country material. Increased media attention creates a greater awareness of Country Music as a genre in Hollywood.

Michael Phelps

We wanted to try something new to get more attention from the average Joe. Hopefully, everyone likes it and it will attract new fans to the sport.

Charles Dickens

I should never have made my success in life if I had not bestowed upon the least thing I have ever undertaken the same attention and care that I have bestowed upon the greatest.

Charles Stross

I have a CS degree and a history that includes working as a software developer and being a computer magazine columnist back during the 1990s. I guess I simply paid attention to the social effects of the IT revolution as I lived through it.

Charles Stanley

You always have God's undivided attention.

Stephen Flynn

The fact of the matter is criminals have been operating in seaports a long, long time. The bad guys know how open the system is. The good guys don't seem to have a real command on it here because we haven't paid as much attention to this problem as we need to.

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.

Palitha Kohona

There is a limit to entertaining excuses. The package of excuses may have now run out.

David LaChapelle

I'm part of what I consider the entertainment industry. For my photos to be entertaining, they have to be provocative and new.

Eloise Mumford

My dad's a scientist, and my mom's a teacher, so I didn't grow up in a family that was into the entertainment world at all.

Candace Cameron Bure

It wasn't always easy at times, having grown up on television and being in the entertainment industry.

Louise Nurding

I like to work; I like to be creative. I work in the entertainment industry where work may come up, and it may not, so I wanted to do something proactive. I've got a brain; I don't want to just sit at home - I want to do as much as I can.

Jane Austen

[W]here other powers of entertainment are wanting, the true philosopher will derive benefit from such as are given.

E. Hurley

We are providing a stage where everyone can participate and everyone can be seen. We see ourselves as a combination of America's Funniest Home Videos and Entertainment Tonight.

Mike deMaine

We're interested in providing something for people of all types and ages. It's going to be family-friendly, and there'll be entertainment between each inning.

Britney Spears

My prerogative right now is to just chill and let all the other overexposed blondes on the cover of Us Weekly (magazine) be your entertainment.

Nathan Myhrvold

Ultimately, my Ph.D. is in mathematical physics, focusing on quantum field theory and curved space-time, and I worked with Stephen Hawking.

Steve Ludlow

We're still focusing on who's going to emerge.

Haley Barbour

We've turned a corner. We're well into the cleanup phase now. We're focusing on the future for the state of Mississippi.

Kevin Systrom

I think not focusing on money makes you sane because in the long run it can probably drive you crazy.

Jodi Hermanek

We'll be focusing on holding them to three runs or less, and our pitching has been strong enough to do that.

Rob Honzo

She was trying some new things, like staying low in her shots and not going for power, but focusing more on control.

Sen Hooser

Working with my colleagues, we're focusing on making that a reality.

Matt Smith

We're focusing on what our program is going to be rather than what it was.

Scott Sandelin

We're focusing on Thursday and to hopefully play three games there. We're not satisfied just to get there.

Carlos Fuentes

I've lost audiences, I've recovered them.

C. S. Lewis

Am I lost or just less found?

Charles Caleb Colton

Our very best friends have a tincture of jealousy even in their friendship; and when they hear us praised by others, will ascribe it to sinister and interested motives if they can.

Charles Spurgeon

The gospel is not for you who can save yourselves, but for those who are lost.

Pat Robinson

We have residents here who have lost people. It's very sad.

Jasmine Guy

One disco, one soft ball game, one lost love, one gay pride rally at a time.

Alan Greenspan

When trust is lost, a nation's ability to transact business is palpably undermined.

Chris Cornell

And I'm lost behind The words I'll never find And I'm left behind As seasons roll on by

David Castillo

When you've lost something, and you find it again, it has so much more meaning.

William Andrews

We used to watch a lot of movies,

Taylor Handley

Ultimately, making movies is a really, really small world. Being on sets and going to the same locations, like shooting in Shreveport, you're always working with somebody from another set that you worked with.

Tom Irwin

If theatre paid as well as movies and TV, I'd do it all the time.

Terry Hayes

Movies are a team sport now, and I want to play singles.

Tracy Letts

I don't write plays for them to be turned into movies.

Rinko Kikuchi

When I was a little girl, I used to watch a lot of monster movies, like 'Godzilla.' All those monster movies.

Elvis Presley

Those movies sure got me into a rut.

Ehren Kruger

The movies that will truly be successful will feel different than the movies of the year before.

Eiza Gonzalez

When I was a girl, there wasn't anything in Spanish in the movies until you saw it on DVD.

Catherynne M. Valente

Family is a transitive property.

Linda Newman

I always wanted waterfront property but this is ridiculous.

Ned Freed

Never, in my experience, has the IETF seen such a ridiculous flap over intellectual property rights.

James Wray

If this can be done to us, no one's property is safe.

Charles Yates

I'd like to sell them some oceanfront property in Dickenson County.

Edmund Phelps

A nation's economy is more than its markets, tastes, technologies and property rights.

George Miller

We're tight. We secured the property for the future, which is what we need.

Cheng Chin

We are controlling the fundamental property of material.

Paul Wolff

if we don't support that tourist industry, our property taxes are going to go through the roof.

Rupam Das

Software is a type of seduction, it's addictive, it's better when it's free.

Bill Gates

Software empowerment can be used here as well.

Augusten Burroughs

I never could have written the screenplay because I would have been forced to learn new software and I can't learn one more thing.

Dave Evans

If they think Napster's bad, I can tell you there's a lot worse coming. ...The software that is untraceable is just around the corner.

Vint Cerf

Writing software is a very intense, very personal thing. You have to have time to work your way through it, to understand it. Then debug it.

Richard Williams

These software stocks are all overvalued on the fundamentals that we see today.

Christopher Klaus

Anti-virus software does nothing to stop a worm,

Nathan Myhrvold

Software is a gas; it expands to fill its container.

Michael J. Saylor

I think my software is going to become so ubiquitous, so essential, that if it stops working, there will be riots.

Brian Eno

I wanted to use the studio like a microscope for sound, which is what good engineers do.

Brian Eno

I enjoy working with complicated equipment. A lot of my things started just with a rhythm box, but I feed it through so many things that what comes out sounds very complex and rich.

Brian Eno

I take sounds and change them into words.

Brian Eno

As soon as I hear a sound, it always suggests a mood to me.

Dick Armey

Hillary Clinton bothers me a lot. I realized the other day that her thoughts sound a lot like Karl Marx. She hangs around a lot of Marxists. All her friends are Marxists.

Dexter Gordon

Music is a reservoir... of sounds.

Elizabeth Jennings

I hate a word like 'pets': it sounds so much Like something with no living of its own.

Kathryn Prescott

When you hear someone say something homophobic, it really ages them. It sounds old-fashioned.

Jandy Nelson

Music: what life, what living itself sounds like.