Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ella Henderson

When I heard 'Back to Black' from Amy Winehouse, I was, like, 'Wow.' To hear such a soulful voice that feels like it's from a different era, I mean, it felt so fresh and unique, and that was something that opened my eyes and made me believe that it's not always about churning out the same thing in this industry.

Schuyler Sokolow

I can't say enough about what Amy has done for the team. She has brought a lot of new defensive concepts to the team. Last year was tough because we got away from our team defense concept. We're on the brink of getting back to where we were two years ago, in terms of playing as a defensive unit.

Steve Lapham

Francine made some very good sets and Amy got hot for us in the third game. We were much more consistent and cut out the errors.

Greg Kraft

If Amy was there in the last 200 meters we knew that would be bad for the competition.

Chuck Leavell

I wouldn't have met my wife (Rose Lane) if it wasn't for him. He gave my daughter Amy a job in the '90s. He touched me personally. He had boundless energy and a deep, deep passion for music.

Chelsea Peretti

So many people: Lucille Ball is the earliest incarnation of a woman I thought was funny, Joan Rivers, Roseanne, Carol Burnett, Gilda Radnor, down to current times, where you have Amy Poehler, Tina Fey, and Kristen Wiig.

Nelson Cundiff

Somebody had to step up with Amy out and we had several kids step up.

Emmy Rossum

People who take risks like Amy Winehouse and Norah Jones take a second to catch on, but eventually they do because they're different and honest in a musical landscape that's not always like that.

Chris Yoder

We'll probably play both Amy and Libby for now. The doctors want to bring back Libby slowly.

Isabella Rossellini

The secret of using makeup for fashion is to have fun with it. When people see that you are playful, that's attractive. Sometimes people apply makeup because they have bags under their eyes or because they don't feel good, and that just reads 'insecure.'

Paul Casey

Making a difference is essentially the most interesting aspect of my job. I would like to apply my background to the Senate.

Geoff Paddock

(Making the cuts) was a painful time. I am pleased to see us being able to apply relief to those folks who worked with us and stayed with us during that time.

Jan McDonald

Last year we had a total of 30 teachers apply for grants and we were able to either partially fund, or completely cover, all but two of them. The total they asked for was $145,218.53, but we only had $55,000 to give. So that leaves a little over $90,000 that we couldn't fund.

Maria Assimakopoulou

Legally all member states that apply reduced rates, they have to come back to the minimum standard VAT rate in the European Union, which is 15 percent.

John Devenanzio

Senior year was the best year of my life. I didn't take the serious route; however, of applying for jobs, and I thought applying for the show would be an awesome thing to do.

Natalie Forbort

So it's easier for identity thieves to take somebody's information and apply online.

Jack Lee

Minorities have to remain vigilant that Abercrombie is doing what it promised to do. Not only should minorities apply to Abercrombie, we need to monitor if Abercrombie is treating Asian Americans and other minorities fairly in the hiring process and when they are working. We need to hold Abercrombie's feet to the fire.

Persian Proverb

One pound of learning requires ten pounds of common sense to apply it.

Mary Myers

My 68-year-old mother, Dora Simpson, got up on a ladder and painted one of these rooms. She and my sons - Issac, Terry, Nakia and Tony - helped with the cleanup and painting. I'm grateful to all the people who've helped us get started, especially Ray Parrish,

Rick Helling

More than anything, I'm grateful that I got the opportunity again. It made all the hard work and everything I put in over the last two years pay off.

Terry Wogan

My God, ... let's just be grateful we're not out there.

Dennis Prager

Grateful people are good people, and good people are happy people

Dennis Prager

Choosing to be grateful earns you happiness

Dennis Prager

The more that you expect, the less happy you will be-- because if the expectations are realized you won't be grateful

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

What is happiness and unhappiness? It depends so little on the circumstances; it depends really only on what happens inside a person. I am grateful for every day and that makes me happy.

Chuck D.

From what we've heard, what happened in Savannah had an impact on the bill's passage. Unfortunately, it took a serious incident like this, but we are grateful senators opened their eyes.

Earl Nightingale

Be positive, cheerful, grateful and expectant.

Deng Xiaoping

Be reasonable with the students and make sure they see the logic in what we're doing.

Elbert Hubbard

Logic is one thing and commonsense another.

Ed Parker

An ounce of logic can be worth more than a ton of tradition that has become obsolete through the weathering of time.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.

Ronald Walters

I don't know where the logic was that says she could overcome that. I don't understand why she got into it in the first place.

Bernard Voto

The mind has its own logic but does not often let others in on it

Samuel Butler

Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.

Samuel Butler

If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.

Alexander Smith

Pleasure has no logic; it never treads in its own footsteps.

Rease Watson

One thing that has struck me the most is the hundreds of (electricians) out here. They're working their tails off. They're from all over the place.

Ken Jury

It immediately struck me as being ambergris -- it couldn't be anything else.

David Hernandez

I think she struck me as being a little overwhelmed,

Charles V

Name me an emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball.

Patti Smith

I knew William Burroughs really well, and I was always star struck being around him. I adored him.

Judy Garland

He struck me many times. He did a lot of drinking.

Antonia Bird

I've always been struck by the complexity of a world where drugs kill and cure. Where no one is immune.

Susan Collins

They struck me as not the typical request.

Christine Arron

They struck her working tools, her legs, her arms, her hands.

Richard King

Many of us view the bible and other religious teachings as mythology.

Charles Spurgeon

I believe nothing merely because Calvin taught it, but because I have found his teaching in the Word of God.

Charles Spurgeon

The man who, despite the teaching of Scripture, tries to pray without a Savior, insults the deity.

Charles Spurgeon

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.

Diane Paulus

I've gotten to the point that I don't even know what tomorrow brings. When I'm teaching, obviously I'm in town for the class every week.

Dennis Prager

There’s more time spent on teaching kids about recycling than on character development in the American schools.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.

Edsger Dijkstra

Teaching to unsuspecting youngsters the effective use of formal methods is one of the joys of life because it is so extremely rewarding.

Edsger Dijkstra

I think of the company advertising "Thought Processors" or the college pretending that learning BASIC suffices or at least helps, whereas the teaching of BASIC should be rated as a criminal offence: it mutilates the mind beyond recovery.

Grant Hill

I would probably say yes. I don't see getting another surgery. We tried it. It didn't work. I don't see doing another.

Kylan Robinson

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

Jim Gallagher

I didn't get a sense of what the temperature is on that. I tried to allay the fears, and there are significant fears.

George Jones

I tried to be a house painter, but I couldn't stand all that paint all over me.

Margaret D. Nadauld

I've tried to be active in civic organizations as well as the Church.

Carine Roitfeld

When I was a little girl, my mother tried to make me dance, but I did not like it then.

Billy Porter

For years I tried to put myself in a box, and it frustrated me, so I had to let go and let the universe take its course.

Peter Scolari

My first wife tried to get back with me a year later, but there was no way. I used to think she was the be-all and end-all, but I got my stinky little pride back.

Margot Robbie

When I first tried the American accent, for a moment I thought I could never be an actor because I just could not do it. But then I thought, 'Okay, it'll just be something that I work at until I get it.'