Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Palmer

I loved the music, but the excesses of rock n' roll never really appealed to me at all. I couldn't see the point of getting up in front of a lot of people when you weren't in control of your wits.

Curtis Adams

Magic has not appealed to a younger market for a long time. What I'm trying to do is to appeal to the younger fans, as well as the older ones.

Ashley Bell

Growing up, I always wanted to always be something new. I thought if I was an actress, I would have a chance at doing it all. What's incredible about this profession is every role you play; you learn a different skill set. That really appealed to me.

John Lasseter

When Walt Disney was making his films, he trusted his instincts and made films for himself, but they appealed to everybody, not just kids.

John Badham

I would do it today because the thing that appealed to me was not necessarily the mechanics of the robot, but it was his personality and how funny and charming he was.

Frank Pavone

I have appealed to Michael to sit down and dialog about this, to work toward reconciliation, ... I've heard nothing from him.

Douglas Scott

I fell in love with dance. It combines the artistry with discipline and the repetition that always appealed to the part of me that craves structure. It was a perfect match for what I wanted to be.

Tom Wolfe

I used to go through the dictionary looking for unusual but nontechnical words. At one time, I thought the greatest word was 'jejune' and I would throw it into every piece because something about it appealed to me.

Adam Michnik

In Czechoslovakia in 1968, communist reformers appealed to democratic ideals that were deeply rooted in the country's pre-second world war past.

Jeff Greene

My early windfall was a result of the excesses of the S&L era.

Jean Bruyere

There are few finer excesses in the world than an excess of gratitude.

Will Durant

We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street an Broadway.

J. B. Priestley

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

Chuck Schumer

Wall Street excesses helped lead to the Great Recession.

Kenneth Koch

I mean, there are excesses all over the place. People are always saying what are the different schools of American poetry.

Pat Buckley

I've never made the trip to or from Connecticut without its resembling the worst excesses of the French Revolution.

James Padinha

It's really just a waiting game. You can't expect excesses to be done correcting just because you want them to be done correcting.

Larry Parrish

We're not centering. We've been late on the fastballs and out in front of the off-speed pitches. We're stuck in the middle.

Steve Watkins

Making the team is not in the front of my mind at all. I just wanted to come in here and show them what I can do.

Dan Castellaneta

Lets just plop them in front of the TV. I was raised in front of the TV and I turned out TV

Mike Stapleton

Lower the front end. Try to keep him level. Watch the top of his head.

Helli Homburg

Mrs. Richardson insists on that. But there are a lot of changes. We will have a new front door. We are putting up shutters that will open out. We are going to make this place look like a chalet in the Alps. We say it is 'The Chalet' next to the White Horse Motel.

Dave Mills

Mountain View has a very strong team. They don't have the runners up front in the (girls') races but they have a really, really strong group. They would be the next logical one with Borah as well.

Orlando Cabrera

Moving up in the order, hitting in front of Garret and Vladdy, that has helped a lot -- seeing better pitches. That is the spot. There are a lot of things you can do.

Sergei Gonchar

Maybe we just didn't shoot enough in previous games on the power play. But with a guy like John LeClair in front of the net, he's a great guy to have there when you shoot, so we have to use him.

Lindsey Vonn

My favorite ski run in the U.S. is International on the front face of Vail Mountain.

Albert Schweitzer

Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice, but in such a way that we are transported from the world of unrest to a world of peace, and see reality in a new way, as if we were sitting by a mountain lake and contemplating hills and woods and clouds in the tranquil and fathomless water.

David Circle

Let them know that you support music programs.

Dan Hill

Let's face it: pop music in its myriad permutations will always be sexually presumptuous, racially controversial and, frequently, politically charged.

Janice Stockigt

Several of its themes and musical motifs are strikingly similar to those present in other Vivaldi works.

Grimes

My image seems to be so infantilized, and I don't really know why. It belittles the music.

Laura Mvula

One of the things I haven't been ready for is how male-dominated the music industry is. I just didn't have a clue.

H. Hart

Music is feeling. Once you start thinking about it then you overdevelop it. It should come from the heart, the soul, and the subconscious. Music is all about the moment, and if you think about it then you're already in the next moment.

Rutina Wesley

Music is definitely influential on how I approach my scenes.

Daron Malakian

Music is an emotion, and I put it out there.

Isabella Rossellini

It always amazed me that people believed I was this beautiful object.

Isabella Rossellini

I'm always a little worried when people have met me in person because I'm worried they'll be disappointed.

Rick Perlstein

Do people still read before bed? I play 'Words With Friends.'

Robert Mankoff

People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist.

Robert Mankoff

I don't think most people know what's going to be in their obituary, but I do.

Robert Teeter

There are not enough people out talking about the President positively.

Roger Penrose

Some people take the view that we happen by accident. I think that there is something much deeper, of which we have very little inkling at the moment.

Kristy Swanson

My parents were like the kind of people who read the 'Enquirer' and believed everything it said.

Malorie Blackman

I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.

Kelly Golob

Scoring points has never been a priority. It's always been the team's success.

Ken Goldstein

One of the things this points out is that we're on the road to recovery, but the road is going to be bumpy -- it always is.

Mark Dyer

Obviously, we're getting closer. At some point in the calendar, we have to have negotiations with the one it comes down to.

Jeff Shaffer

No one point is more important than another.

Mike Heimerdinger

No. I don't have a point of reference.

Heather Bowie

No, I don't feel like I have a point to prove. I don't think there is anything to prove.

Julie Robertson

No point in going out of here too early. We'll take all the time we can get.

Dennis Ritchie

A program designed for inputs from people is usually stressed beyond breaking point by computer-generated inputs.

Mike Graham

(Girard) has pushed him to the point where his serve is much better.

Alexandra Fuller

But I plucked a new, different, worldly soul for myself -- maybe a soul I found in the spray thrown up by the surge of that distant African river as it plummets onto black rocks and sends up into the sun a permanent arc of a rainbow.

William Wordsworth

Like a sea-beast crawled forth, that on a shelf/ Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun itself.

Keith Mason

Like any other kids, we all got into trouble. Having rock fights, things like that.

Pat Simmons

So it's a little R&B, a little rock 'n' roll, a little blues, a little folk, a little salsa, everything.

Mike McCready

My favorite rocker is Go because it is heavy and chaotic.

Charles Portis

It was old President Diaz who said that nothing ever happens in Mexico until it happens. Things rock along from day to day, and then all at once you are caught up in a rush of unforeseen events.

Dimitar Sasselov

We do care about planets like the Earth because by now we understood that life as a chemical system really needs a smaller planet with water and with rocks and with a lot of complex chemistry to originate, to emerge, to survive.

Eddie Van Halen

I'm just a guitarist in a kick-ass rock and roll band. What more could I ask for?

David Bowie

I am a D.J., I am what I play.

Tiger Woods

I don't feel like I'm on a roll at all,

Kelly Hawthorne

We are on a roll right now. We just want to keep it going.

Dwight Schultz

In fact, their eyes sort of roll around and they kind of go, 'Hmm'- like there's something there and they don't want to talk about it. But they're not that kind when they are speaking in public.

Diablo Cody

I don't know why, but I've always been a sucker for roller coasters in movies.

Brad Rex

We're getting on a roll at the right time.

Kara Walker

I trust my hand. If I go into a space with a roll of paper, I can make a work, some kind of work, and feel pretty satisfied.

Tori Amos

There are enough scary rock & roll mothers in the world.

Rob Kurz

We're on a roll right now. We can't wait to play another game.

Capt. Ball

If someone's challenging you, you let it roll off.