Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gary Bongiovanni

Part of it is fate and just random, but it's also fueled by the fact that last year was such a bad year for the industry. This year, a lot of acts were reluctant to go out right away,

Peter Liguori

Our original films tend to go after an issue or chew on a nerve. But this movie, more than anything, defined for us an almost Greek-like version of drama and a dramatic question of: Can a man redeem himself? In this instance, can a man who's been convicted of the most heinous of human acts redeem himself?

Ismail Haniya

People have the right to defend themselves in the face of these acts by the occupation.

Kofi Annan

Such acts of provocation and vandalism will not deter the U.N. mission in East Timor from fulfilling its obligations,

Jim Lucas

Surf City, to me, is a state of mind, ... and the fact we have to go to the Legislature and legislative acts to either do it or not do it ? it?s somewhat disappointing. But I?m glad in one aspect that it?s like, ?Let?s just drop this thing.?

Atharva Veda

Stay away from evil deeds and indulge in virtuous ones, surrender totally to the will of God. A man, who acts thus, is inevitably blessed with immortality.

W. S. Gilbert

Our by-laws require us to include anyone who acts in a film into our ranks, but when we tried to find a loophole to keep these three individuals out, we happened upon another surprising regulation.

Mike Viola

Robby acts like he's no better or different than, say, a sophomore on the team.

Geno Auriemma

Renee is making a real case to be the starting point guard. She makes things happen. She makes plays. She's assertive. She acts like she's a real good player and that goes a long way into believing you're a real good player.

Joe Perry

(Our music) doesn't sound dated, because there are so many new bands that are trying to replicate a '70s sound or a '60s sound. The playing field is getting kind of leveled. If you want to go out and see what a big rock show can be, we're there to do it.

E. Hicks

People laugh at the Stones because of their age. Mick, Charlie, Ron and Keith can still play with the best of the young bands today.

Mark Demko

People love the music of Styx. Both bands are rock legends, and there are a lot of classic rock fans in the Lehigh Valley.

Jeff Russell

Spring Fair offers this headline act, as well as daytime stages with lots of high quality local bands that really highlight the energy we want.

Stan Kenton

Some of the wise boys who say my music is loud, blatant and that's all should see the faces of the kids who have driven a hundred miles through the snow to see the band... to stand in front of the bandstand in an ecstasy all their own.

Darrin Cody

Platinum is so popular because women always want what their mothers didn't have. They grew up seeing their moms with gold bands so the white metals became very popular.

Paul Clarke

We'll also have performances from White and Lumpkin County high schools. All of Forsyth's middle school bands will also perform that night, so it should be a really great night of music.

Mary Timony

I will go through these style phases. I think it's confusing in some ways. People like bands to be really consistent.

Brian Kerr

It is an end of the year celebration for the radio station. There are some really fantastic bands coming and I couldn't be happier with the lineup.

Paul Donovan

Rear-projection technologies will undoubtedly dominate from 50 in. onward. The incremental cost of making them bigger is much less and profit margins remain higher.

Shannon Burns

Our position is that as they grow bigger and bigger, and their tourism destinations get closer and closer, you have to question how much of a draw they will have.

Ginger Reeder

Our regular items draw bigger business for us. This year we think brooches will sell well.

Dennis Perry

Patience is the name of the game, ... I seem to do better in the bigger tournaments because I don't take as many chances.

Alan Heap

Past cycles of investor buying have proved short-lived. It's a bubble and it may get bigger before it bursts.

Jeff Simpson

partnered with these guys as opposed to bigger operators like Boyd or Harrah's.

Chris Bosh

Part of me wants to get out there, but the bigger part of me wants to see the other guys do well. If we're winning, that's all I care about.

Mike Hughes

Our little service has gotten bigger and bigger, and now they want to knock the legs out from under us.

Kelly Burke

Our only hope is that someone knows something and will make the call. The bigger the reward, the more enticing, I suppose.

Jennifer Egan

I write totally spontaneously. I actually write fiction by hand - that always seems to startle people. I think the reason I do that is to bypass the thinking part of me and get to the more unconscious part, which is where all the good ideas seem to be.

Bill Hare

Here is the moment where the international community can be held up by the United States or choose to bypass them.

Richard Simmons

My way is the sensitive, emotional way, because that's who I am. I try to be the clown and court jester and make people laugh. At the same time, you have people in the hospital who have had gastric bypass or lap-band surgery, and they still have to work out. If you don't work out and eat healthy, you'll look like a melted candle.

David Addison

We are not going to bypass them because of a small inconvenience.

Bill Cowher

I think we were very fortunate to be sitting there with Ben. You don't ever want to be drafting that high too often, but we were picking that high, and when you have a chance to get a premier player like that, you can't bypass him.

Clive Barker

Some people think that horror films are some sort of second class filmmaking, and the only way to bypass that thinking is being proud of the fact that we do it.

Joe Solmonese

Faith-based organizations have been partnering successfully with the government for years without the need to bypass civil rights laws in providing social services.

Paul Provenza

Social media allows comics to bypass the gatekeepers and connect directly with people who will want to come see them.

Carolyn Hunter

Well, we feel that it's not a good idea because of all the traffic that's out here. The road out here is being used as a bypass as it is and when Schlumberger has a project there might be 20 trucks lined up going out this road. It's just too congested already and a dangerous situation.

CeeLo Green

I feel like I'm a rock artist. I don't feel like I'm a pop artist. And I'm alt rock. I'm indie rock. I'm punk rock. Because it comes from the pots and pans. It's a lot of me, but I've got multiple personalities.

Aziz Ansari

I guess my music taste is pretty predictable: I like new indie rock stuff, older stuff.

Jeff Lemire

My indie work is mostly reality-based, focused on real life and characters.

Kristine Kathryn Rusch

Indie writers who promote their book instead of writing the next book are wasting their time. The more books you've written, the more books you'll sell. That's how it works. That's how it's always worked.

Andrew Bird

What's cool about indie rock is that one band can do effectively the same thing as another band, and one band nails it, and the other one doesn't. I like that elusiveness.

Andrew Bird

I've always found that whatever you say about indie rock, it is the most inclusive genre or title for anything. It doesn't pin you down too much, like other labels would. It's just newer, it has less baggage.

Amy Lee

I really do listen to all types of music, not only rock, but everything from good pop music - which is usually older pop music - to RB and indie rock. I love indie rock more than a lot of the commercial stuff that you'd expect.

Ed Westwick

I like the glamorous indie rock look, like The Libertines. But you know, without the heroin needle sticking out of my arm.

Sung Kang

I've produced before, and sometimes it's by default. In the indie level, you can't just come to set and be like, 'Oh, I'm an actor.' You have to be willing to help out, make the project happen.

Bernard Golden

Photo sharing, by its nature, is a high-bandwidth offering -- just the sort of Internet service that could be impacted by a lack of net neutrality.

Bill Tancer

I think there's a lot of romantics out there who use the Internet to get inspiration. People are at a loss for words.

Michael Mahoney

I think there is going to be more Internet consolidation.

Lauren Gelman

Just because we are talking about the Internet does not mean we should lose the right to speak anonymously.

James Awad

I would urge people not to speculate in the Internet sector.

Rod Lache

I think it's a smart move because it's less deceptive. People who are going on the Internet can get the right news up front.

Rob Enderle

He was an instrumental part of making the Internet happen. When your on the Web and doing shopping, say a little prayer for Scott because he's part of what got you there.

Bill Clinton

We're now up over 50 percent of the schools (are wired for Internet access), from 3 percent, and over 80 percent of the classrooms, from 14 percent, since 1994.

Al Gore

As many of you know, I was very instrumental in the founding of the Internet

Phil Savage

Reggie has a lot of talent. In my opinion, with Reggie Bush, more could be less and less could be more.

Sathya Baba

Peace is shore less ocean - it is the light that illuminates the world.

Katsuhiko Machida

Survival today means innovating and doing things that no one else does. This is a lesson not only for Sharp but for all of Japan.

Drew Frank

That'd be nice. Maybe I should. As I teach, I don't keep lesson plans from one year to the next and I don't keep anything from one season to the next.

Stephen M. Walt

Our Cuba policy didn't make much sense during the Cold War and makes even less sense now.

Andy Newman

Remember every storm is different. The better prepared you are, the less of an inconvenience it's going to be.

Louis Benevides

Plano West is just an up-and-coming team. They've come a long way in less than a season.

Darrell Nichols

I think there's less tolerance for repeat problems. I think they are now going to be a little more strict with what's going on.

Larry Colagiovanni

That was his normal route. He said he didn't like (Interstate) 95. Less traffic. Less lights.

Tim Henman

Our media is possibly the worst in the world.

George Shinn

Rod said that (Scott) had a problem with one of the players for something Byron said to the media.

Micah Knorr

I'm here to win a punting competition, not a media competition,

Bill Sienkiewicz

Nothing is really media driven or committee driven, so you can actually just produce something

Bill Cosby

Let me say this: I only expect the black media to uphold the standards of excellence in journalism and when you do that, you have to go in with a neutral mind.

Bianca Jagger

I find it disturbing that the media keeps referring to my marriage, since I got divorced in 1979. But the media never wants to let me forget.

Carrie Fisher

I've never been that uncomfortable talking about it. Things come out [in the media] about me. When it's out, it's someone else's version of what's the matter with me. I want it to be my version of what it is. My recourse is to do my version.

Carl Sagan

One trend that bothers me is the glorification of stupidity, that the media is reassuring people it's alright not to know anything. That to me is far more dangerous than a little pornography on the Internet.

Bethany Hamilton

Learning how to deal with people and their reactions to my life is one of the most challenging things... people staring at me, people asking rude questions, dealing with media, stuff like that.

Peter Bart

Or, if it opens on three screens, it's going to stay on those three screens for much of the summer. He's not going to be pushed around like most studios are pushed around.

Mark Aaron

Our New York flagship store is staffed and open for business.

Tom Peterson

Our middles are very good. We passed really well and that opened things up for our offense.

Anders Igel

Our acquisition strategy is still very much the same as before, but we are opening up our thinking a little.

Chris Cornell

Rock will always have CBGB, whether it's open or closed.

Tom Thompson

We've tested oodles of time, but we're going to do it anyway. We'll pretend like we're open for business.

Tom Thompson

We've tested oodles of time, but we're going to do it anyway, ... We'll pretend like we're open for business.

Heath Miller

I was able to get open and Tommy got me the ball,

Marscilla Packer

I was just trying to get open, and when I got an open look I shot the ball.

Jim Lord

Reasonable people have to find that reasonable line.

Stephanie Laurens

Real people are never central characters in my works.

Tom Tremont

Really, what people want is more simplicity in their life. They want a sanctuary.

Jyoti Amge

Regular people should not underestimate people who are small. In every aspect, they can do the things that normal people can.

Robert Hamilton

Our policy is to let our people know first.

Alex Halavais

Part of it is it's a really safe place for people to talk about this.

Hanya Yanagihara

Part of adulthood is searching for the people who understand you.

Joel Edgerton

Particularly when you're making a movie of a book, people are always waiting with their knives - you know?

Jack Horn

Part of the problem, ... is there are so many more things that can be done for people - drug therapies are better, but more expensive. And there are more and better scanning technologies, which are also more expensive.

Lynne Black

Our position right now is that this is not an appropriate program and population to put in a heavily populated two-square-mile village.

Mike Smith

Some of the more popular schools could be filled.

Jane Goodall

Some often refer to the population as 150,000.

Lucio Gutierrez

I will regain the presidency by way of the constitution, the truth and popular support,

Ember Swift

Jazz: it's got folk, it's got funk, it's got various international influences...it's also got some pop and rock elements.

Johnny Depp

That would really send my popularity to the depths.

James Shuler

I thought I was going to pop it. No one was going to take that away from me.

Roger Ortmeier

He was battling. He was throwing strikes and he had a lot of pop on his fastball. He was locating it really well.

Grant Hill

It wasn't popular for college athletics to embrace Title IX.

Billy Gibbons

Rock 'n' roll and automobiles have always had this synergistic connection,

John Hall

Rock Me on the Water ... Still the One.

Richard Engel

Rockets fired by the Taliban generally aren't guided.

Billy Corgan

Rock & roll is not about what you play, it's about how you play it.

Billy Corgan

We had a wonderful time with this kind of grunge awareness, where suddenly rock was cool again. People wanted to head loud guitars. It was a great time, and I'm glad we were there. But the gimmick part has worn off.

Billy Corgan

Where is this great love for rock and roll that existed for 50 or 60 years?

Bill Dixon

Rock musicians, and a vast array of popular-music musicians, due to their wealth, acquired through the mass of their notoriety, are able to be listened to and heard and thus are able to effect change on an international level.

Bill Cosby

These people marched and were hit in the face with rocks to get an education and now we've got these knuckleheads walking around.

Big Pun

Violence existed before our music was even suggested.

Linda Martin

Lacy tends to be calming. She is not part of the therapy, but she's therapeutic.

Peter Hook

Democracy for us tends to be has to do with who shouts the loudest!

Peter R. Grant

Exchange of breeding individuals between two populations tends to homogenize their gene pools.

John Updike

A seventeenth-century house tends to be short on frills like hallways and closets; you must improvise.

Jeffrey Hirsch

There tends to be a lot of housecleaning from institutions in September,

Donald Rumsfeld

It tends to be speculative, ... It is not actionable. It is not verifiable.

John Gordon Sinclair

I don't like other actors much. The industry tends to attract insecure, needy people.