Famous Quotes & Sayings

John C. Calhoun

If not met promptly and decidedly, the two portions of the Union will gradually become thoroughly alienated, when no alternative will be left to us, as the weaker of the two, but to sever all political ties or sink down into abject submission.

Michael Barrett

This string sextet by Schoenberg is based on a Viennese poem in which a women walks with her lover under the moon and confesses that she is pregnant by another man. The man tells his love he will stay with her no matter what and raise the child. The arc of the piece moves from abject sorrow and guilt to joy and underscores the transformative power of love and commitment.

Ben Carson

With everything that is complex, we learn. If you don't learn, then it's an utter and abject failure. If you do learn, and you're able to apply that to the next situation, then you take away a measure of success.

Gordon Brown

We are conscious of the abject poverty that so many countries and individuals face. We're being driven forward by the urgent need to act,

Kara Walker

My work is really abject and self-effacing sometimes. I mean, it's big and overwrought, but it's just paper dolls, and it's kind of silly.

Shawn Amos

Memphis is the place where rock was born and Martin Luther King, Jr., was killed. It's full of contradictions, abject poverty, and riches that only music can provide.

Jim Letten

New Orleans' survival depends on three things. Getting a handle on violent crime, building a viable public school system and eradicating the abject and debilitating corruption that that has plagued New Orleans for so long.

Rex Tillerson

There are still hundreds of millions, billions of people living in abject poverty around the world. They need electricity. They need electricity they can count on, that they can afford. They need fuel to cook their food on that's not animal dung.

Cherie Blair

I don't want to give this impression that I grew up in Liverpool in a cardboard box in abject poverty, but that didn't mean there weren't anxieties in my childhood about money.

Maajid Nawaz

I am a Muslim. I am born to Muslim parents. I have a Muslim son. I have been imprisoned and witnessed torture for my previous understanding of my religion.

Mohsin Hamid

Most Muslims do not 'choose' Islam in the way that they choose to become doctors or lawyers, nor even in the way that they choose to become fans of Coldplay or Radiohead. Most Muslims, like people of any faith, are born into their religion.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The persons born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

Lyle Kessler

I was born in Philadelphia, and I've tried to escape that city all my life. I end up writing plays that force me back to Philadelphia, at least psychologically if not physically.

Marisa Miller

I was born and raised in Santa Cruz, California, and the whole lifestyle revolves around the beach. My parents met surfing, and the beach was a major part of our daily lives.

Nicolas Maduro

Venezuelans have a long history. So we are able to listen to each other, to talk to each other. From here were born the liberators of the region, and they said before and after that process we have a culture of political action. We are not in despair. That's the image broadcast to abroad.

Ai Weiwei

I wouldn’t say I’ve become more radical: I was born radical.

Charlie Bell

When he finished last season, he came on like gangbusters once we got to know him and once he got the feel of varsity football, ... He was showing us all summer what we've got, offensively and defensively, so there's no surprise to us. Josh is just born with talent and skill, but to his credit, he works extremely hard to maximize it.

Chantal Kreviazuk

Well, Winnepeg has everything to do with my music in the sense it was where I was born and raised, cultured and all that sort of thing. A lot of my experiences come from Winnepeg.

Sarah Santana

We want them to have a full year of grieving before they volunteer.

Bob Day

The other times, we just preached at you, ... This time around, it's like you're getting christened in church. This is the full immersion version.

Justin Jeffre

We've all been living life to the fullest during our break,

Jacques Santer

We are at the end of an historic process, ... It has been a long path, a path full of successes and failures.

Ken Vaughn

We are at all full production and we have increased staff, with some openings at mines.

Mark Hansen

We split it up so the Sunday devotional is more spiritual and the Saturday show will be full of all different kinds of music so it lets people know we do more than just soft piano ballads.

Mike Sherman

We're not going to make it look pretty and say, 'Well, we've been here before,' ... We have 14 games to play and we can't panic. But I don't think you can tell them the glass is half full when it's not.

Glenn McGinnis

We have narrowed it down to those who are providing full financing.

Army Sgt.

When he first signed up, he wanted to go for the full 20 years, but we had to talk him into four. He knew the military, he knew what was involved with it the separation, the risks.

George Takei

I marched back then - I was in a civil-rights musical, Fly Blackbird, and we met Martin Luther King.

Abigail Washburn

Martin Luther King's 'I Have a Dream' speech always sends me down some path, some trajectory of some creative idea.

Ella Baker

Martin [Luther King] wasn't one to buck forces too much.

Francis Schaeffer

There would have been no Bach had there been no Luther.

Henry Zebrowski

It's so fun to hear the reaction from Martin Scorsese as he sees you nude for the first time.

Jonas Bjorkman

We used to have strong representatives like Todd Martin on the player council, ... But now a lot of the players are stepping back, they say (the ATP Council/Board system) is not working anymore.

Paolo Ferri

When Dick Martin said he wanted to cooperate, I thanked him.

James Thurber

One martini is alright, two is too many, three is not enough.

James Thurber

One martini is all right, two is two many, three is not enough

Stephen Graham

I did 'Gangs of New York' with Martin Scorsese, and they used to call me 'Little Joe Pesci' on the set.

Jason Schwartzman

He just nailed it, ... I don't know how he nailed it; that's why he's Steve Martin ... he's a scientist of the heart, or something.

Blake Shelton

I always make a joke that they transplanted Martina McBride's eyes and put them in my head.

Anthony Anderson

Leo couldn't deliver Mr. Martin Scorsese his Oscar with 'The Aviator', but I will go on record to say I will do so in 'The Departed'.

Kevin Love

When he's healthy, Zach Randolph for the Memphis Grizzlies has always been somebody that has always been very tough to play against.

DeAngelo Williams

Memphis is a big city. You never see the same people twice.

David Johansen

I got arrested once on stage in Memphis for looking too much like Liza Minnelli.

Mo Williams

He got out of there to Memphis during the evacuation time, so he was safe. But he went back and everything was gone.

Carmelo Anthony

They started trash talking out there. It woke us up. We started to get up and down the court. ... I was pointing at the Memphis TV guys. They was talking trash, too.

Shawn Williams

Dane proved he can play the game. He proved he's a Memphis player.

Pau Gasol

I could have played, ... I've been able to play for a while now, but Memphis wanted me to rest so I can be ready for the season. They don't really want me to play during the summer because the season is so long.

Darius Jr

They wanted to run, so we're down running because that's our style. That's Memphis basketball. We run. They wanted to run with us. We got the victory.

John Fogerty

Big train from Memphis, now it's gone gone gone, gone gone gone. Like no one before, he let out a roar, and I just had to tag along.

Alanis Morissette

I started making music because I could.

Alanis Morissette

I am what I am Are you what you are or What?

Alanis Morissette

Writing a song doesn't heal things. Even if the song comes up with a solution, it's still only a theory. Going out and living my lyrics is a whole other deal. That takes courage.

Alanis Morissette

Music helps you find the truths you must bring into the rest of your life.

Al Jarreau

You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues.

Al Jarreau

Once you discover that you can, then you must.

Chris Colfer

I grew up doing musical theater.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I'm constantly discovering things. Like Bobby Bland. Right now I suppose I'm into the Eighties, which turned out to be a great musical period.

Chico Hamilton

Musicians have to suffer to a certain degree in order to obtain their outlet.

Deborah Kerr

[Autobiographies] are all the same - it's always rags-to-riches or I-slept-with-so-and-so. Damned if I'm going to say that.

Benjamin Franklin

Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.

Diana Ross

My life has often been described as 'from rags to riches' but in fact, the Ross's were never raggedy.

Alexis de Tocqueville

It is certain that despotism ruins individuals by preventing them from producing wealth much more than by depriving them of what they have already produced; it dries up the source of riches, while it usually respects acquired property. Freedom, on the contrary, produces far more goods than it destroys; and the nations which are favored by free institutions invariably find that their resources increase even more rapidly than their taxes.

Charles Spurgeon

Gospel riches are sent to remove our wretchedness, and mercy to remove our misery.

Daniel Gilbert

Our inability to recall how we really felt is why our wealth of experiences turns out to be poverty of riches.

Eleanora Duse

I have the greatest of all riches: that of not desiring them.

Sarah Hale

I have no riches but my thoughts, yet these are wealth enough for me.

Ali ibn Abi Talib

Riches without faith are the greatest poverty.

Alan Cooper

To our human minds, computers behave less like rocks and trees than they do like humans, so we unconsciously treat them like people.... In other words, humans have special instincts that tell them how to behave around other sentient beings, and as soon as any object exhibits sufficient cognitive function, those instincts kick in and we react as though we were interacting with another sentient human being.

Alan Bean

It seems farther away now because there are no rockets getting there. Nobody is going.

Alain Robert

With buildering, I get to keep that element of danger. Plus, I very much like the feeling of height, and buildings have even more of a feeling of height than rock faces.

Al Stewart

There's room in the world for one historical folk-rock singer to make a decent living, and I happen to be it.

Al Jourgensen

Rock n roll is for the young idiots, not an old fart like me.

China Mieville

I differ with myself then agree, like the rock that was broken and cemented together. I change my opinion.

Cheyenne Jackson

'30 Rock' is the holy grail of comedy in my opinion.

Dave Davies

Good rock music always tends to be around.

Dave Barry

By the eighties, a lot of radio stations had started playing "Sixties" music. They called it "Classic Rock," because they knew we'd be upset if they came right out and called it what it is, namely "middle-aged-person nostalgia music.