Famous Quotes & Sayings

Waylon Jennings

Mainly what I learned from Buddy, ... was an attitude. He loved music, and he taught me that it shouldn't have any barriers to it.

Todd Tiahrt

Many countries are preparing for the future economy, and this country seems to be trying to erect new barriers to making us more competitive.

Shona Robison

Many barriers have been broken down in female employment but it seems that for whatever reason, when it comes to computing, girls are deciding to stand back.

Frederick Warren

Second, by reducing the demand for general-purpose PC operating systems and the barriers to entry in the PC OS market, cross-platform technologies can be expected to reduce the price that end users pay for operating systems.

Lauro Baja

Much will depend on how we remove the attitudinal barriers from both sides while building an environment that nurtures trust and confidence,

Ed Zander

Motorola designs and delivers innovations that transform the way people think about - and experience - the world around them. We're leading the way with new and compelling devices that work together to erase the barriers between places and services and empower people to connect with personalized entertainment and information.

Don Evans

measures ... sanctions, or other kind of barriers to our markets.

Frank Marsala

My feeling is they will get by it. It's hard for me to think that we're going to put up regulatory barriers to keep foreign companies from investing or buying our companies.

James Wolfensohn

One need only look at the cement barriers surrounding these buildings to understand the big difference of the past year.

Ronald Kessler

I have one anecdote about the FBI breaking into an embassy in Washington, and under Hoover, they had this sort of ruse whereby they didn't want to recommend a break-in that might be a big flap and cause all kinds of problems.

Jim Pedrojetti

Mike was breaking (Willis) down with left hooks to the body. Mike was throwing some really sweet combinations.

Ed Roth

None of us have gone through life without breaking things.

Dennis Christopher

Everybody cheats, I just didn't know.

Lars Trier

If Breaking the Waves had been rendered with a conventional technique, I don't think you could have tolerated the story.

Justin Rose

I feel like I'm hopefully really on the verge of breaking through here. It would make the last two years that I spent over here pointless to go back to Europe full time this year.

Chow Fat

For me, shooting films and breaking into Hollywood are just like gambling. For an actor, good scripts, appropriate roles and good film crews are not that easy to find. I am so lucky to have had so many chances.

Tobias Levkovich

From a technician's point of view, breaking through 1,300 was an important factor.

Jeff Hennion

From what we have seen, Steelers fans are breaking all the rules with support of the team.

Vera Farmiga

I'm part wood nymph. I require mountains and warm, dense patches of moss to thrive.

Andrew von Eschenbach

Over the past decade, prescribing information has grown more and more complex, more and more dense and more difficult to negotiate.

Chris Ware

When I was a kid, I liked books that just seemed so dense you could lose yourself in them for a whole afternoon. They were like their own whole world.

Chris Stein

We didn't want a hybrid of the old stuff. The old records were very dense musically. Now there's a trend towards minimalist sound. That's the main thing.

Robin Weigert

The Deadwood dirt they painted on us with powder. The air always smelled of livestock and something burning, gave a sooty, dense feel to the air. It was a mixture of odors.

Ann Patchett

Happiness compresses time, makes it dense and bright, pocketsized.

Rob Stillwell

Five miles of dense housing, especially in this town, is an extremely large distance.

David Brown

If you look at what's going on around there, you could be a lot more dense on that property. Theoretically, you now have another opportunity for one that reaches the sky, which would really be impressive on the skyline.

Mark Willis

This overall figure is down significantly from previous years, probably due to the fact that there was a dense fog during the a.m. hours, and also due to the fact this has been a very mild winter.

Jeremih

I got my first set of drums when I was around 3. I went from band to marching band to Latin jazz band - it's like riding a bike.

Johann Gottfried

Touch not the flute when drums are sounding around; when fools have the word, the wise will be silent.

Vanilla Ice

I meet everybody. If somebody invites me to their house and they got a drum set close, I'm going to play, man. Let's jam. I don't care. Get in where you fit in and enjoy the experience.

Dave Grohl

It was that famous joke: What's the last thing the drummer said before he got kicked out of the band? 'Hey, I wrote a song.'

Charlie Watts

People say I play real loud. I don't, actually. I'm recorded loud and a lot of that is because we have good engineers. Mick knows what a good drum sound is as well, so that's part of the illusion really. I can't play loud.

Curtis Jackson

Puffy's contribution to hip-hop culture was the remix. He offered us the music that his mom played in front of him, with newer drums and younger artists. That worked, and will consistently be there. The remix comes right after the original record, that's something Puffy did to influence the culture.

Atharva Veda

With the drum and the skin of the antelope all the gods, that sway the battle, have scared away the enemies.

Pat Mastelotto

Not really, drums found me, I just liked music, all kinds of music.

Beck

I can't tell you how many things I've worked on where I sat on it for a few years, and then somebody else did something very similar. Whether it's some weird vocal effect you hear on another record, or a drum beat, or even a song title, a subject matter, or a mixture of different kinds of music.

Bill Self

Last year, there were the seniors and then there was the rest of the team. This year, because we're so young and everybody's kind of an unproven commodity, everybody's about the same. I do think this is a closer-knit group maybe than we had last year.

Ron Robson

Softball is something I strive to do. Where else could you go out and meet this group of guys without playing ball?

Shaun Alexander

Mike is just so key for us as a team, as a group of young men trying to grow up.

Stanley Ho

Mocha Slots was the primary contributor to our group results with turnover of HK$63 million; with 700 machines we have 25% of the Macau market,

Joe Tiller

My initial take on this group is that it's my second-best staff. It may prove to be the best.

Todd Wilkinson

My first task is how we can win the Group A bracket.

Reg Alcock

one of a group that jumps around looking for a hot spot so they can slander people without substantial evidence. It's disgraceful.

Tom Jones

No one individual or group wants to be in-politically correct, so they leave it alone.

John Schneider

One thing we put on our maps was population in the next ten years. Half of us said there would be a 10-15 percent increase, to about 28,500. The rest of the group said it would be more in the 30,000 to 35,000 range.

Edmund Phelps

Liberal redistributionists in favor of heavy taxation place less weight on incentive than do small-government conservatives.

Dave Morris

My first memory of the public library is of lugging home a volume of Norse myths as heavy as a thunder-god's hammer.

Robert Mintz

Obviously they are taking a look at the evidence. They must be heavy into deliberations.

Samuel Coleridge

When the ivy-tod is heavy with snow, / And the owlet whoops to the wolf below.

Shameik Moore

I have a lot of friends who are in love the '90s. Girls, boys. '90s music? That's Tupac. That's Biggie. That's TLC. That's Aaliyah. I still listen to Aaliyah. I still listen to Tupac and Biggie. There's people who are really heavy on that culture.

Chris Evans

I have a pretty fast metabolism, so I don't really have to worry about getting pudgy. What I try to do when I'm working out is taking in a lot of heavy protein - clean chicken, clean meats.

Bill Clinton

I have apologized to the American people for what I did wrong, and most Americans think I paid a pretty heavy price.

Roger Clemens

We played with heavy hearts, ... I don't know if I could've done what Paul O'Neill did.

Adrian Smith

We are one of the last heavy metal bands. Iron Maiden has always been unique.

Darius Kasparaitis

screaming at us, telling us what to do like the 'Full Metal Jacket' movie.

Chris Hillman

Underlying everything is a country-folk foundation. You're not going to see us do a Metallica or Snoop Dogg song.

Adam Rich

Being on Ozzfest has been a great way for us to break out and show metal fans that we have a heavy side.

Brian Posehn

You don't hear Metallica complaining about Pearl Jam.

Ville Valo

Everyone wants to pretend their cock is big and metal is the medium, but ultimately it's about the songs.

Edward Kempf

Every metal has been taking it on the chin.

Corey Taylor

The weird thing about metal fans is we're all so maladjusted in a lot of ways. We're individualistic and opinionated and severe in our personalities - sometimes we really turn each other off. A little bit of a metal fan goes a long way.

Corey Taylor

Some of the smartest people I know are metal fans.

Gang Four

Metal is what it is, when it is what it always was.

Mekhi Phifer

When break dancing was out, I break danced. When rapping was the thing, I freestyled rap on the street and battled and all that kind of stuff.

Miikka Kiprusoff

Of course, I want to win games, but I don't think about records too much.

Wayne Patterson

From all of our records and correspondence with EPD, they have done that.

Elizabeth Edwards

The way campaign funds are distributed are all a matter of record.

Samuel Butler

The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.

Tom Jenkinson

I don't know how many records I'm selling.

Aaron Neville

When I record something, I'll take a drive and just listen

David Sanborn

I just kinda like playing. I don't necessarily go on tour to promote my albums. I'm on the road all the time. The fact that I have a new record is out is a coincidence.

Bryan Ferry

Get down with your old Allman Bros. records!

Carl Hiaasen

My driving record is not exemplary, but I have never had a speeding ticket over 100 m.p.h. I can say that unequivocally.

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.

Tom Harkin

No one ever wore the title of 'senator' better and used it less.

Larry Clark

I'd like to win one more title to make it an even dozen,

Peyton Reed

What I loved about 'The 40 Year-Old Virgin,' the title is the easy sell, but when you see the movie, the comedy is more free-form and more relatable.

Cary Fukunaga

I'm terrible at making titles. I never like the titles of my films.

David Icke

I am a channel for the Christ spirit. The title was given to me very recently by the Godhead.

Robbie Earl

Yes, I have that kind of title on my back. But I'll put up my numbers. It's just going to be a little harder.

Blaise Pascal

The whole title by which you possess your property, is not a title of nature but of a human institution.

Bong Joon-ho

I love the Japanese director Shohei Imamura. His masterpiece in 1979 called, the English title was 'Vengeance is Mine.

Adelaide Kane

You can be born with a title, but not respect. You have to earn that.