Famous Quotes & Sayings

O. J. Simpson

I did some classic ballads and actually some old school R&B fun stuff. It's all over the place.

Bobby Hatfield

Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil wrote a lot of stuff for Phil Spector... we had done all rock and roll and rhythm and blues. I mean, we liked ballads and I suppose we did them OK, but that wasn't where we were emotionally and musically coming from.

Elton John

She can sing anything. She can sing the best ballad in the world. She can sing classical stuff and she can sing soul and rock and roll.

Imelda May

There have never been so many women in the music industry, but they're doing ballads and pop. Where's the new Joan Jetts and the Wanda Jacksons and the Debbie Harrys, all these strong women? I wanna be the woman that rocks.

Victor LaValle

'The Ballad of Black Tom' was written, in part, during the latest round of arguments about H. P. Lovecraft's legacy as both a great writer and a prejudiced man. I grew up worshipping the guy, so this issue felt quite personal to me.

Deborah Cox

When I first heard that song, it was a ballad but it had a lot more. It felt like a gospel song when I first heard it and it just moved me.

Keri Hilson

Years ago, I wanted to be like the girl Ne-Yo. You know, with the mid-tempo ballads - I come from the Babyface era. But that's not trendy; that's not hip-hop.

Alan Lomax

We went over Lead Belly's repertory with him. And we helped him round it off into concert form so that when he got up in front of his audience, he sang ballads and work songs and lullabies and children's games and square-dance tunes, the whole thing.

Elvis Costello

I've always thought of myself as a ballad singer who could sing rock 'n' roll, not the other way around,

W. Hull

That's the way it has been all year. The other team goes to the line 30 times. But that's the nature of the beast with the press.

Willie Martinez

That's the nature of the beast of our job. How was your day? I won the race, but I broke my shoulder and had to put my horse down.

Andy Katz

That's the nature of the beast in this city. There's so much construction happening here, and so many (manufacturing) firms are moving here because of our proximity to other Western states.

Kevin McBride

I watched him in Cleveland at my last fight. He's tough, strong and fast but I'm up for the challenge. I respect the man but once you've beaten Mike Tyson these guys don't hold any fear for me. Once I've won the title I'd love to get in there with the Beast and take his belt as well.

Jerry Kill

He (Carroll) makes them a whole different beast to defend.

Susan Egan

I did 'Beauty and the Beast' like 780 times. And so there are going to be nights when things go wrong, like the set breaks down or the Beast mistakenly pulls your wig off.

Brandon Gray

King Kong is not the dominant beast people either expected or hoped for. Crowd pleasers and family movies tend to do well over the holidays.

Chris Sheetz

I wrestled him at the Beast of the East tournament in December. He was beating me 5-0 when I pinned him. It's a hard road to the finals for everybody in this weight class.

Chris Sheetz

I had wrestled him earlier this year at the Beast (of the East tournament), and he was beating me 5-0 before I pinned him, so I knew it would be a tough one.

Curtis Sliwa

Our red is of the red, white and blue of America. We stand on our liberty.

Philippe Cousteau, Jr.

Our oceans are facing innumerable threats - from overfishing and pollution to ocean acidification and invasive species - yet we haven't had a blueprint for its use and development, incredible as that seems.

Duncan Potter

Our objective is to provide the reseller with that vision and blueprint to be able enter and be profitable in the business, and they understand what they need to do through the whole sales process.

Li Zhi

Optimism abounds on the market. Retail investors expect an influx of funds from institutions and the government to lure overseas-listed blue chips back to mainland markets.

Chelsea Cain

Somehow, having an office that I had to go to made me want to work from home, which is easier to do if you don't have a boss waiting for you at the office, even a very blue office.

Dan Hamhuis

Our forwards can't hold up their forwards as they come over the blue line. So you know you're going to get hit. And some teams' third and fourth lines are just relentless about taking the body.

Sarah Allen

Out of the clear blue sky, they called and said we've got three children for you.

Patricia Cox

Out of the blue this roundabout came up.

Brian Setzer

Rockabilly is really part of our background, ... It's a cousin to the blues and country. And it's that important.

Rosecrans Baldwin

Paris's neighborhoods, the arrondissements, are organized like a twist. They spiral from the river like toilet water flushing in reverse and erupting out of the bowl - a corkscrew or what have you, a flattened pig's tail, a whorling braid notched one to 20.

Michael Vaughan

Steve produced one of the greatest spells of bowling by an England player,

King Solomon

Start with GOD-the first step in learning is bowing down to GOD; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.

Robert Hoffman

some kind of lit sculpture. I think he mentioned bowling balls.

Paul Tagliabue

Our fans in Mexico are knowledgeable and passionate and they are ready for this next step. They have supported the American Bowl games in record numbers, and NFL programming has been a part of television in Mexico for many decades.

Mack Brown

Our fans have been able to enjoy a national title game again. ... Now, they'll want to enjoy one every year, and that's OK. We expect to be at the Fiesta Bowl playing for the national title next year.

Ben Obomanu

Our four years have been amazing. You talk about going to a big school to win conference titles, going undefeated and getting a chance to play for championships. We won a championship, we went undefeated last year. We went to four bowl games.

Bob Woolmer

Overall, it has been a brilliant performance and the bowlers excelled in tandem.

Greg Chappell

Our bowlers learnt from the experience of bowling on flat pitches.

Eric Williams

Originally a one-day event, local schools would identify needy children who would otherwise fall through the cracks.

Suomi Sakai

Organizers of any demonstration or public gathering have a responsibility to ensure that children are out of harm's way, particularly children without family, such as street children who have no-one to look after them and are even more vulnerable.

Christine Jackson

Parents who smoke feel guilty about being role models for smoking; they feel hypocritical about trying to prevent their children from smoking. For these reasons, it's difficult to persuade parents who smoke to become anti-smoking advocates in the home.

Jim Duggan

Parents who send their children to school are entitled to expect that in that environment, at least, they will be protected from predatory sexual behaviour,

Walter Dellinger

Patently offensive material is widely disseminated on the Internet, and computer-literate children ... can easily find and retrieve it.

Quincy Jones

Peace is possible around the world, and children are the answer.

Rocky Watson

Our main concerns right now are the two children,

Barbara Schneider

Our lives are busy, but we have to find time to enjoy our family's company and share experiences. When parents and children do things together, it can relieve stress.

Jonathan Kozol

Our nation's oldest sin and deepest crime is the isolation of minority children - black children, in particular - in schools that are not only segregated but shamefully unequal.

Stan Heath

Steven fell awkwardly and tweaked his back. He had a sharp pain.

Ron Mason

Some of these people fell through the cracks.

Bob Good

Some of the fellows say they don't remember that, but I remember a lot of it.

Rose Johnson

Someone kept me from drowning, when I fell into the water.

Bryant Hilton

Our financial footing just fell out from under us.

Tom Collen

Out of the shoot, we fell prey to a team that was fired up. When I watched them lose to Temple the other night, I knew we were in trouble.

Julissa Ventura

I went to visit the school and just fell in love with the campus.

Arron Afflalo

I was just trying to mainly guard the 3-point shot. But, he's (Steele) so quick, he made a sudden stop and gained enough space to get a look. Fortunately, it just fell short.

Sidney Crosby

That was a nice goal. I don't know why he fell over. But he did a good job of putting it in.

Charles Keating

Robin Williams, by the way, is the most consummately skilled actor, and one of the funniest people I've ever encountered.

Mike Rumph

I thought it was one of the funniest things I ever saw. The locker room is like a fraternity. The outside world can't really judge that.

Roly Keating

Harry was a truly independent spirit and one of the funniest people I've ever known,

Sean Hayes

I got one letter at the very beginning, like, in the first season, saying - from a woman who was very religious, very Christian, saying how wrong she thought the show was, but she thinks it's the funniest show on television.

Seth Landau

Much like I want 'Take Out' to be one of the funniest things people have seen I want this movie to be one of the scariest.

Donna Air

My daughter is the funniest person I know, and I couldn't imagine my life without her.

Brooke Elliott

Ty Burrell could be one of the funniest people on the planet. I'd love to meet him.

Jake Johnson

My brother was an improviser. He's now a lobbyist, but he used to perform improv in the city when he was in high school, and one of the funniest guys I know to this day.

Keith Jones

one of the funniest people you ever met.

Mark Oaten

Real opposition and principled opposition is about making a stand on this key issue of holding suspects without charge.

Dallas Green

Im Holding onto What i Hope Will Keep You by My side

Suzy Buchholtz

That's the key -- we keep holding on to them.

Jerry Graybeal

I was holding out hope that we could still sneak into the tournament. But it didn't work out that way.

Tommy Haas

I'm slowly getting back into things and the shoulder is holding up. If I play to this level I know I can do well here,

Asma Jehangir

I did not see ill will on the part of the government, that they were holding it for themselves, or misappropriating it. But nevertheless, what they didn't understand is the need for speed. They're being bureaucratic.

Shinzo Abe

I'd like to keep holding this sentiment as I have done so far,

Al Groh

He did a real nice job today, he's proud of his touchdown and I'm sure he wishes he had that holding penalty back. Right, John.

Susan Fredericks

I feel great. I'm the one holding the trophy.

Dan Corridon

Reconciliation is huge with us. It's a mantra.

Lee Raymond

Our numbers are huge because the scale of our industry is huge,

J. J. Johnson

Some people are doing it, but there haven't been huge numbers yet.

Bill Cleary

Our schedule was very tough this season and it's been a huge success largely because of the strength of our schedule.

Bryce Fisher

Rocky made a huge play, and the next thing you know, we've scored 14 points in (30) seconds. That's how you win in this league.

Miss Robinson

Representing Maryland agriculture, our state's No. 1 industry, has been a huge honor,

Matthew Henderson

I think the speaker's work, the governor's work and our work made huge headway.

Rob Wheeler

I think there is a huge need to get the word (out).

Alan Davidson

I think there are huge land mines with wireless ahead.

Manolo Saiz

Someone laughed at me when I said it, but I think that Roberto is a rider for second efforts.

French Proverb

That day is lost on which one has not laughed

Drew Brees

Me and Gates, we laughed in the weight room today because that wasn't our 'A' game,

Damien Hirst

There was a point I could have just churned out the spot and spin paintings for ever and laughed all the way to the bank.

Evan Goldberg

'The Hangover' was, like, solid. I laughed a bit, you know. Seven out of 10, maybe. But I made it 32 minutes into 'Hangover 2' before I walked out.

Chris Collins

We laughed over a new mobile phone which neither of us could make work.

Alan King

Right when I started in show... Milton Berle was my first idol. When I was a kid, I went to see Milton at Lowe's State, and I never laughed so much, and I said, 'That's who I want to be; that's what I want to be.'

Erin McKean

A love letter is to be savored; a love email... is to be forwarded to all your friends, and probably laughed at.

David Sedaris

But I don't distinguish between being laughed with, and laughed at. I'll take either.

Bill Womack

Our left side should be really solid and we should be strong up the middle.

Andres Obrador

Start working. Meet your responsibility, because you still have time left in office.

Ken Gaddy

Our saying is it's not what's in the museum, it's what's left out.

Orlando Bloom

Right where i left you... Not where i left you?

Kurt Busch

Roger told me to stand on the right pedal, turn left and go fast. He doesn't want me to do anything different. Just race hard, race smart.

Phil Garner

Roger's left hamstring is slightly strained. He's the proverbial day-to-day. We'll have to see how he is as we go along,

Bill Dixon

I do not, as a rule, do encores. When I have finished playing, I have indeed finished playing. I have nothing left; there has been no reserve.

Dee Smith

Just as one of our spotters to the north called in that he'd spotted a tornado, another one from the south said he saw another one. But they went around and pretty much left us alone.

Tim Moe

Janae was unbelievable. She's realizing she has three weeks left and she doesn't want to go out in three, she wants one more.

Joe Godinho

Parker looked real sharp and was real aggressive.

Liz Walton

Some of these wonderful little stops were not things that we looked for the same way.

Chad Johnson

Our press looked very good. At times it seemed like we could turn it on when we wanted to and be up by 20.

Fernando Pisani

We never looked at it like that. We just said, 'Let's keep playing like we're playing.' We played a patient game.

Mike Snyder

We never looked at aerial or ownership maps. I do that on purpose because I don't want to know. I don't want to be influenced.

David Gant

I whipped them all. They looked like grasshoppers.

Wendy Hall

I think they looked like they had a little doubt. They looked a little lethargic at times.

Roy Blumberg

I think they're probably somewhat disappointed. They probably looked at their portfolio and said, I didn't do as well as the Dow. I made money, but I'm kind of disappointed.

Rick Adelman

I think the Spurs are going to play the same no matter who's out there. When I looked at the tape, I thought it's possible they'll send a message and (upgrade) it to a flagrant foul, but I had no idea they would suspend him.

David Beckham

It's not easy when someone pulls your ponytail.

Chris Lasoya

Actually, having a ponytail made me who I am.

Ted Nugent

At 62, I remain clean and sober and my ponytail remains erect.

Brian Young

Some of the (people) actually saw a three-foot shark swimming down I-10,

Bede Griffiths

I suddenly saw that all the time it was not I who had been seeking God, but God who had been seeking me. I had made myself the centre of my own existence and had my back turned to God.

Anand Gopal

I was living near the Twin Towers on 9/11, so I saw the attacks, and I had friends who were killed in the attacks.

Shawn Chacon

Just getting ahead. I watched Smally do it all day yesterday, and I saw how that turned out for him.

Bill Burr

Patrice O'Neal is the best comic I ever saw.

E. B. White

That was a train wreck that we saw in New Orleans,

John Nicks

That was the first time I ever saw her distraught.

John Whiting

That's the sort of simplistic thing we'd like to avoid, ... That was a train wreck that we saw in New Orleans.

Christyne Nicholas

I think people, for the first time, saw New Yorkers unfiltered.

Dave Ross

I think the state accidentally sent the wrong message,

Susana Almanza

It has sent a frightening wave of terror throughout the community.

Sergei Mitrokhin

If today or tomorrow the sentence had been pronounced there would simply have been international uproar.

Matisyahu

I feel there's a lot of anti-Israel sentiment in the world and a lot of ignorance about what Israel is and does. But it's not for me to speak on Israel's behalf.

Kraig Troxell

He was sentenced a total of 115 years. All but 25 years were suspended.

Leonard Underwood

If they got trouble, they would be sent here and I would put them to work. But they weren't here very often.

Blaise Pascal

All our reasoning boils down to yielding to sentiment.

Maureen O'Hara

One time I was taking a little too long in the toilet and Mr. Zanuck sent for me. And he said, what are you doing that takes so long?

Mark Johnson

She sent a laser in there. You look for breaks, you look for bounces, and we got one on that first goal.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

Peace; come away: we do him wrong/ To sing so wildly: let us go.

B. B. King

I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition.

Bernadette Peters

Singing lessons are like body building for your larynx.

Tom Lewis

I think it will be a lot like our first match, where Nos. 2-3 singles will be critical,

James Nesbitt

I don't know a single person who doesn't regret the things that they did to hurt their parents, or the things they didn't say to them.

Daniela Hantuchova

I feel fantastic. It's something really special. Now I can concentrate on my singles career.

Carrie Underwood

I thought about deviating from that and singing other things, but then I thought, 'Well, if I don't win ... this is what I want to do after the show, so it doesn't really make sense for me to try to be something that I'm not.'

Joni Mitchell

I sing my sorrow, and I paint my joy.

C. S. Lewis

We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage.

Carrie Underwood

I'm not the person in person that I am on stage.

Christy Austin

I was just sad. It's real unfortunate. Now I'm at the stage where I'm mad.

James Bailey

If it's still in the trial stage no.

Arthur Ashe

There's no better stage than the U.S. Open for me

will.i.am

I don't want to be on stage when I'm 57, talking about... 'Let's Get It Started.'

Peter Chan

We are not making a concert, this is not a stage musical,

A. Hodge

This stage has got a stinger in the tail.

Bill Burr

The first night you walk down to a comedy club, at least for me, I had my voice, and then I went on stage and I lost it.

Albert Einstein

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor. On being reproached that his formula of gravitation was longer and more cumbersome than Newton's.

A. A. Milne

It's not much of a tail, but I'm sort of attached to it.

Daddy Yankee

I would rather be the tail of a lion than the head of a mouse.

Peter Brimelow

I think the Iraq War is not particularly tailored to American interests.

Christopher Paolini

Go slowly, so that you do not bite your tail by accident.

Ally Carter

First time it's a stranger. Second time its just a coincidence. Third time it's a tail

Billy Joel

I work with musicians whose opinions I respect and if they don't like something they don't hold back. They'll say, 'That really sucks' and 'You've lost it' and 'You're no good anymore.' And I crawl away with my tail between my legs and I fear that kind of ridicule, but I want them to like the music I'm bringing to them.

Beatrix Potter

This is a fierce bad rabbit; look at his savage whiskers, and his claws and his turned-up tail.

Charles Caleb Colton

The head of dullness, unlike the tail of the torpedo, loses nothing of the benumbing and lethargizing influence by reiterated discharges.

David Davies

Sven's got a roving eye. He's like a seagull and can wrap his wings around people.

Arsenio Hall

If God wanted us high, He would have given us wings.

Charles Churchill

When satire flies abroad on falsehood's wing, Short is her life, and impotent her sting; But when to truth allied, the wound she gives Sinks deep, and to remotest ages lives.

Carl Sandburg

Poetry is a fossil rock-print of a fin and a wing, with an illegible oath between.

Carl Sandburg

Poetry is a dance music measuring buck-and-wing follies along with the gravest and stateliest dead-marches.

Abdu'l Baha

Joy gives us wings! In times of joy our strength is more vital, our intellect keener, and our understanding less clouded. We seem better able to cope with the world and to find our sphere of influence.

Abdul Kalam

We are all born with a divine fire in us. Our efforts should be to give wings to this fire and fill the world with the glow of its goodness.

Augustus Hare

There is no being eloquent for atheism. In that exhausted receiver the mind cannot use its wings, - the clearest proof that it is out of its element.

Dennis Prager

The right wing walks the walk; the left wing taxes the people that walk the walk