Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nancy Idland

We have musicians from as far away as Ontario and Seattle traveling all the way to Greenville to be a part of our first blues festival - this is exciting.

Jon Nicholson

We found her singing at a blues bar, ... where she was waitressing.

Larry Pleau

We're pleased to say that Bryce's career as a member of the St. Louis Blues will continue for several more years,

Robbie Robertson

I am fascinated by the places that music comes from, like fife-and-drum blues from southern Mississippi or Cajun music out of Lafayette, Louisiana, shape-note singing, old harp singing from the mountains - I love that stuff. It's like the beginning of rock and roll: something comes down from the hills, and something comes up from the delta.

Koko Taylor

Blues is my life. It's a true feeling that comes from the heart, not something that just comes out of my mouth. Blues is what I love, and blues is what I always do.

Josh Martin

Old blues stuff is pretty much what we really listen to, and what, on the foundation, structures the band, as far as music goes. That's what we're all collectively super into.

Eric Burdon

One of my reasons for living in California is its close proximity to Mexico. The Latin influence is in every corner of the community. My love of Spanish music hasn't wavered since the '50s. I could hear the blues voicing from the Flamanco families and I always dig for inspiration in Latin music.

Jay McShann

The only blues record I ever had was Bessie Smith. Mississippi Delta Blues, I think they called that. She had it put together beautiful.

Dan Crews

We don't have reggae or blues every year. We don't have enough time to have all (styles).

Clint Hurdle

We want to see his command, we want him to utilize his pitches, ... We also want to see him use his two-seam fastball and sinkerball.

Fisher DeBerry

The other team had a lot more Afro-American players than we did and they ran a lot faster than we did.

Ken Hitchcock

We started off fast and we kept it up.

O. J. Simpson

We started fast and did some good things early.

Bob Baffert

When you've got a 20-horse field and a fast pace, anything can happen out there.

Logan Pearsall Smith

There is one thing that matters, to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Bill Murray

Here's the thing, you just have to drive a lot faster, and if you don't get there, we're both fired.

Herman Edwards

We have to have a different mind-set - that was established today in our meetings, ... I think our players took hold of it and did a good job of practicing. It was a pretty fast practice, guys moving around where they were supposed to go.

Meles Zenawi

We have no intention of playing fast and loose with this document, with the OAU process, ... We only hope that this time around the other side really means what it says.

Samuel Witwer

I've been in situations where, in the midst of really hardcore events in my life, I made some ridiculous off-color joke that was in horrible taste, but made people laugh.

Dito Montiel

When I was a kid, I was into hardcore music. The scene in New York was tiny. Every person hanging out was in a band and played at the A7 Club. There was not much rehearsing or anything. Just doing.

Evan Goldberg

The hardcore fanbase of nerds that live on the Internet are not nearly as powerful as I thought they were. They really, really aren't. They also flip-flop like mad.

Mark Mikenas

We will be honoring Russ Wood with a moment of silence prior to the start and on the volunteer shirts. Russ was a longtime volunteer for the Hardcore Run and passed away this summer.

Jack Black

You're not hardcore, unless you live hardcore

Phil Anselmo

We definitely have a hardcore following.

Liam Payne

You have to live hardcore to be hardcore.

Bob Stanley

We got word that they're looting on Jefferson Highway, which is our neighborhood. We've quit worrying about the water. Now we're worried about the looting.

Mike Ricci

The only two teams we didn't see were Jefferson and Princeton.

John Young

I didn't want people being trapped in Jefferson Parish without these services.

Ben Stroud

I think Jefferson will be right up there with what we saw (in Salt Lake City). I'm not sure about Florida, but I think on paper, they should be as good.

Tina Brown

Not everyone has the survival skills of William Jefferson Clinton.

Becky Bailey

It's an updated, modernized engraving. It's Jefferson as you've never seen him before.

CeeLo Green

I would like to be a gang leader on 'Sons of Anarchy' or own a lemonade stand on 'Boardwalk Empire.'

Claude Williams

I'm a sweet eater. I love lemon pie and sweet potato pie.

Francois Englert

I feel squeezed like a lemon - interviewers and people keep turning up unannounced at my office!

Christine King

This was all her own idea. She woke up Saturday morning and she had had lemonade stands before. ... She got everything all set up and even made her own lemonade.

Jim McConoughey

There's no making lemonade out of this." ()

Alain Robert

All these buildings are like mountains I would like to climb, but I am forbidden.

Alan Alda

In 2003, I almost died of an intestinal blockage when I was on a mountain in Chile, filming a segment for 'Scientific American Frontiers.'

Al McGuire

There's no one who's dropped on top of the mountain. You've got to work your way to the top.

David Mitchell

...A mountain you're plannin' on climbin' ain't the same as the one you ain't. It ain't so pretty...

Bryn Terfel

For the mountains shall depart

Edward Hoagland

A mountain with a wolf on it stands a little taller....

Edward Hoagland

Once I climbed into a mountain lion's cage and she bounded at me and put her paw on my face, but she kept her claws withdrawn.

Bear Grylls

The extremes of jungles, mountains, and deserts are inherently dangerous places.

Bear Grylls

I was super skeptical about doing TV. I said no three times, part of which was confidence because I didn't really understand that world. I know how to climb mountains and do all that, but I wasn't a TV person.

Charles Caleb Colton

That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.

Charles Caleb Colton

The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life; but the same can be said of the most weak.

Charles Caleb Colton

There are three kinds of power,--wealth, strength, and talent; but as old age always weakens, often destroys, the two latter, the aged are induced to cling with the greater avidity to the former.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is more easy to forgive the weak who have injured us than the powerful whom we have injured.

Charles Caleb Colton

We make a goddess of Fortune ... and place her in the highest heaven. But it is not fortune that is exalted and powerful, but we ourselves that are abject and weak.

Charles Caleb Colton

Vanity finds in self-love so powerful an ally that it storms, as it were, by a coup de main,, the citadel of our heads, where, having blinded the two watchmen, it readily descends into the heart.

Charles Stanley

One of Satan's most deceptive and powerful ways of defeating us is to get us to believe a lie. And the biggest lie is that there are no consequences to our own doing. Satan will give you whatever you ask for if it will lead you where he ultimately wants you.

Charles Spurgeon

We declare, upon Scriptural authority, that the human will is so desperately set on mischief, so depraved, and so inclined to everything that is evil, and so disinclined to everything that is good, that without the powerful, supernatural, irresistible influence of the Holy Spirit, no human will ever be constrained towards Christ.

Charles Spurgeon

In proportion as a church is holy, in that proportion will its testimony for Christ be powerful.

Ben Casnocha

Expose yourself to as much randomness as possible.

Abbie Hoffman

Every rock or molotov cocktail thrown should make a very obvious political point. Random violence produces random propaganda results. Why waste even a rock?

Dave Bristow

I don't think it's a random thing and they got lucky. I think they knew.

Aaron Paul

I get random meetings, like, 'Ron Howard would like to sit down with you.' 'Really?' If 'Breaking Bad' hadn't happened, Ron Howard probably wouldn't want to sit down with me. Because he would have no idea who I was.

Stephen Jay Gould

[C]ontingency is a thing unto itself, not the titration of determinism by randomness.

Harland Williams

I don't go on tour tours - I just go randomly to cities to do shows if I have an opening in my schedule.

J. G. Ballard

Our lives today are not conducted in linear terms. They are much more quantified; a stream of random events is taking place.

Rick DiPietro

It's random testing, right, ... They see me and every time it's, 'OK Rick, you're up.'

Nicholas D. Kristof

Random violence is incredibly infectious