Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Andrews

loves the idea of kids going to see rock 'n' roll icons and seeing the Impressionists, maybe for the first time. We've done such a slick job of eliminating the arts from the schools that Allen's effort is especially important.

Paul Chambers

Many of us have seen images or read about the devastation down there. This is a tangible way for the performing arts community to get together and help out.

Norm Dicks

Mr. Chairman, obviously a $60 million cut in the National Endowment for the Arts would be a disaster.

Patricia Lopez

My friends, all Hispanic girls, we went to school with the kids from North, Central and Alhambra, and we discovered we were not attuned to their level. 'Are they smarter than us?' we asked, ... I learned later about the arts and grammar. I don't want our kids to feel at a disadvantage when they reach high school.

Andre Breton

Of all the arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.

Doc Severinsen

Music and the arts are not just something to make people feel good. They elevate the soul and broaden the entire personality. It's easy to say they aren't needed because culture seems intangible. But not having it deprives young people of a cultural heritage.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Music of all the arts has the most influence on the passions and the legislator should give it the greatest encouragement.

Richard Corley

No other performing arts group has had to go two years without a home space.

Milla Jovovich

When you're able to survive a martial arts workout session, it definitely builds your stamina and builds your tolerance.

Kelly Rowland

I actually started singing in church when I was about five years old. I remember looking at the choirs and just hearing all of those great big beautiful voices. And there was this one woman who could just wail. And I remember trying to sing like her when I was like going home.

Kelsea Ballerini

I grew up loving music, like, loving it. I was involved in church choir, leading worship and all the choirs in my school - even glee club.

Charles King

I always sang in church always was in a gospel choir and directed choirs and always performed, but I never thought of it as a powerful thing.

Anne Dudley

I wanted to do something that had a purely musical inspiration, and I was inspired by the sound of choirs and the English pastoral music I used to hear when growing up. I was also inspired by the textures and rhythmic vitality of the so-called minimalists, Philip Glass and John Adams, and I'm always intrigued by the sound of the recording studio.

Rachel Platten

I've always sung in choirs and acapella groups, but when I was in college, I finally started writing songs and playing with a band, and that ignited a desire to do it full time and pour everything I had into it.

Albert Schweitzer

There is no higher religion than human service.

MaryEllen Elia

Luckily, in this community, we have a pretty good working relationship with all of those entities.

John Best

Making a left turn onto Sawmill Road (from Sawmill Forest) is difficult if not downright dangerous. The last thing this community needs is another fatality due to shortsightedness.

Richard Opper

Lewistown is not unique in having contamination problems, but what is unique is the way the community faced up to the issue. They got together and faced it head on.

James Browning

Look what's happened to our community we're starting to come back and not just Rome but this whole region. Look what happened with BRACC, the grant today. Ladies and gentlemen we've been kicked, beaten, and bloodied, and now it's our turn to come back and with this team of people with the governor, and lieutenant governor it's impossible for us to fail,

Mike Kearney

Last year was the first year that the community 100 percent funded it on its own. So we put some of that away, and would like to eventually start an endowment ... but we're just so happy that we finally crested the hill and that we are well on our way.

Dan McAllister

Last year we raised $140,000; but our goal this year is to raise $250,000 to ensure that the neediest and most deserving students get what they need to graduate and become successful community members.

Ted Kennedy

Many in the scientific community are concerned that the president's decision will delay development of cures for dread disease for many years, at the cost of countless lives and immeasurable suffering,

Henry Hubble

Many in the investing community weren't expecting these earnings.

Cy Thannikary

Legislators failed. We decided to take the process out of Trenton. If we leave it to legislators, it will never happen.

Lee Miller

Last year was the first year we did this. We started talking about it four years ago, ... Last year, we decided to head it up and make it a project.

Jim Haslett

Last year was a hard year on myself and all the coaches, and really the whole city. So I decided that if I didn't get a job, or the right job, that I would probably sit out a year and see if I could get back in the next year.

Brad Soderberg

Last year, we played 12 games that were decided in the last 90 seconds, and we lost 11 of 12. If we win a game when we're not playing well, it's a step in the right direction.

Frank Guzzetta

Many of our guests have expressed a need for more time to decided if their purchases are right for themselves or their gift recipients.

Raekwon

So for me, I had to get something going to promote the new project that I got. I decided to come with the 'Lost Jewelry' EP, which is a mixtape but it's more sexier because it's all fresh music.

Tina Shipp

So many left when Dennis came, and then not much happened, so a lot of people decided to stay this time.

Jim Haslett

My kids enrolled here, but we've decided they're going to go back with my wife. They're going to go back around the first of October, when school starts.

Edwina Ashe

My first year at Salem State, 1998-99, I decided I needed to get used to my surroundings so I didn't play basketball.

Robert Toombs

The principles and policy of these Presidents were marked by the most enlarged and comprehensive statesmanship, promoting the highest interests of the Republic.

Richard Garnett

Liberal justices like Thurgood Marshall and Ruth Bader Ginsburg think as highly of him as someone like Clarence Thomas. I think that's a testament to the respect he enjoys.

Chris Healy

Lieberman has high marks on Iraq but he is still very much a liberal and we are Republicans.

Bob Mulholland

Look who has the highest percentage. Neither of them.

Ellen Tolley

Looks like last-minute shoppers lived up to their high expectations.

John Christiansen

Last year we had an accelerated program, so this year, to take an accelerated program to a higher level, it's safe to say that because of 318A.

Tom Davies

Last year, the winds were around 25 to 26 knots out of the north. This year, it was even higher winds, but out of the south.

Charles Greene

less respect for high standard and more interest in high enrollment.

Vince Cable

Many voters still...associate us with high taxes and big spending.

Neil Peart

I sang the hymns, and I read the Bible stories, but I was always perplexed, like, 'Really? Jesus wants you for a sunbeam? For a what?'

Prince Royce

I always sang in English. It's just that nobody heard me.

Thomas Campbell

Our bugles sang truce - for the night-cloud had lowered, / And the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky.

David Walton

My wife is a very talented singer. She sang a lot on 'Roswell,' and I am embarrassed to sing around her.

Bruce Johnston

You know, Glen Campbell sang with the group right before I joined the group.

David Smith

We sang every one of the operettas -- straight through -- when we were in Rockville, Maryland, ... We sang from 8 a.m. until 3 a.m. Since then we've sung them all again, but we've taken it a little easier.

Christopher Lee

The first 'Charlemagne' album is metal, of course, but what I sang was more symphonic.

Jerry Nelson

I not only worked with him, I sang a song with him.

Charles Olson

what can we do when even the public conveyances sing? how can we go anywhere, even cross-town how get out of anywhere

Elena Roger

At the age of 15 I began my singing lessons, and once I became a professional performer, I dove into acting.

Ahmet Ertegun

The first time I heard Clyde McPhatter singing with the Dominoes at the Apollo I just fell off my chair

Sam Elliott

She's an R&B singer, and she got back to singing and doing nice, pretty songs.

Pierce Brosnan

I have had a singing teacher in L.A. for many, many years just to work on my voice as an actor.

Natalie Cole

I can laugh at myself because I've had to. Everything would have been much worse if I'd been the singing son of Nat 'King' Cole.

Chris Brown

I started when I was about 11, singing.

Bryn Terfel

I started singing because I come from Wales

Bryan Clay

I do catch myself driving around singing tunes, but I don't know if it's necessarily show tunes.

Dennis Bailey

I did a small part, he's the one who did the big part.

Scott Kahan

For small investors, they probably aren't the place to be.

Jean Prewitt

If anything is going to get around a quota, it is those big projects. What is not going to make it in, is the smaller product.

Courtney Riepenoff

She's small and she's inexperienced . . . but she's feisty.

Douglas Jerrold

Treason is like diamonds; there is nothing to be made by the small trader.

Chris Alexander

The marginal tax rate for high income earners is going up. Small businesses are no longer enjoying some of the exemption from payroll tax. Now there will be carbon taxes.

David Suzuki

Despite the international scientific community's consensus on climate change, a small number of critics continue to deny that climate change exists or that humans are causing it. Widely known as climate change "skeptics" or "deniers," these individuals are generally not climate scientists and do not debate the science with the climate scientists...

Cary Grant

It takes 500 small details to add up to one favorable impression.

Barry Diller

I've not conducted my life in the service of smallness.

Mallory Ortberg

There's no specific mission statement for the 'Toast.'

Larry Jacobs

No one state is the same. You wouldn't want to look at that ranking and think 'Minnesotans are getting screwed' because that really isn't the case.

John Esposito

Frankly, I find (such accusations) humorous. A lot of these statements are ideologically or politically motivated.

David Wojciechowski

For sure he's going to play. It's a state championship game.

Elizabeth Bowen

writers do not find subjects: subjects find them. There is not so much a search as a state of open susceptibility.

Wendell Byrd

When we say local, we say the state of Virginia and Maryland.

Al Mollozzi

When the state inspectors look at us, they will see that the systems are in place. You have to have a system whether you have one person or 100.

Sourav Ganguly

Only time will tell. It's not right for me to make a statement now.

David Jensen

Iwish the state would have done that, and Ithink they will in two years,

Eliphas Levi

Everything is possible to him who wills only what is true! Rest in Nature, study, know, then dare; dare to will, dare to act and be silent!

David Epstein

When we started studying it in 1998, frankly, it worked much better than we ever anticipated.

Maria Mitchell

Study as if you were going to live forever; live as if you were going to die tomorrow.

Prince

I have friends that are gay, and we study the Bible together.

Charles Spurgeon

The closet is the best study. The commentators are good instructors, but the Author Himself is far better.

Howard Schnellenberger

We'll be getting the tape tonight and be studying them.

Bill Johnson

Bible study without Bible experience is pointless.

Joe Pannunzio

We're going to have a two-a-day, but it's going to be academic. We're going to study two times today.

Madeleine Albright

I spent my life studying communism and Soviet systems.

Dustin Lynch

My favorite thing about touring is the new towns and new faces every day.

J. Taylor

No one in town has a seven-member band,

John Anderson

I would have thought most towns had some kind of evacuation plan.

Estelle Parsons

I think in small towns like this one, whether you're a man or a woman, you basically do what there is to do.

Alan Rickman

Los Angeles is not a town full of airheads. There's a great deal of wonderful energy there.

Beau Bridges

As an actor, I travel around a lot and live in a lot of hotels, and many times I've been in a town where the only entertainment to be had is what you find in the hotel bar or lobby.

Charles Kuralt

You know, most reporters can't go back to the towns they wrote stories about. I never wrote that kind of story.

Amanda Walker

With no students, the town is pretty quiet.

Hannah Baldwin

We're just a little town that did things that were unheard of at the time.

Armstrong Williams

In Washington, DC, politics dominate even the most casual conversations.

David Remnick

Washington as a Surveyor. We should have been clearer.

Susan Brooks

Remarkably, there are leaders in Washington who don't understand why it's so important for us to have a budget.

Mike Easley

We're considering everything right now, ... The most important thing is to see is what Washington does.

Michael Bennet

I'm not a career politician, so the ways of Washington may be a little obscure to me.

Stephen Greene

For sure, Washington is going to be rowdier.

Seth Greenberg

Deron Washington is a wonderful kid. What he did was wrong and I can't condone it.

Robert Jordan

I tore all the ligaments around my collarbone. I don't know if I will be able to play (against Washington State).