Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

O. J. Simpson

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

The British ballads became a new kind of form in their hand. And out of them came the blues, a new kind of song of commentary and satire, a song form which, after all, has become the main musical form of the whole human species.

Fyodor Dostoevski

Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.

B. F. Skinner

Let's face it, he was a beast in there. He just went in there and challenged them. That's what a senior does, he puts you on his back and carries you.

Tina Brown

The natural creativity of the staff morphed 'The Daily Beast' very fast into what has become a newsroom. Aggregation lives on the Cheat Sheet, the video player, and in the breaking news slot in the first big box. The rest is all original, generated by Beast writers and editors.

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.

Ben Jonson

Mischiefs feed / Like beasts, till they be fat, and then they bleed.

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.

Heather Stewart

She was a beast on the boards tonight. She was crashing hard.

Darryl Tapp

Tim has been a beast in there for us. He has elevated his game and there has been no stopping the guy.

Lizzo

No one said, 'This is the best female rapper.' It's more like, 'Lizzo can really rap.' I think its because I'm not that sexy girl. I'm that beast girl.

Koko Taylor

Blues is my life. It's a true feeling that comes from the heart, not something that just comes out of my mouth. Blues is what I love, and blues is what I always do.

Christine Martino

LRA is a blueprint for how companies put together an integration strategy.

Kofi Annan

Let us not be deceived when we look at a clear blue sky into thinking that all is well. All is not well,

Chad Hershner

Last year, we had mostly jazz, bluegrass and Broadway. We saw we needed more Broadway, story dance and family events. We've got something for everyone.

Charles Palmer

Security is the highest priority in the data center and in a secure network, but it is only half the equation. To have a truly secure system, security must be addressed end to end, from the data center all the way to the end user. Secure Blue has the potential to be a security 'seal of approval' in industries such as consumer, medical, government and defense, and digital media.

Unknown

May your voyage through life be as happy and as free, As the dancing waves on the deep blue sea

Nicholas Sparks

My life? It isn't easy to explain. It has not been the rip-roaring spectacular I fancied it would be, but neither have I burrowed with the gophers. I suppose it has most resembled the blue chip stock; fairly stable, more ups than downs, and gradually trending upward over time. A good buy, a lucky buy and I've learned that not everyone can say this about their lives. But do not be misled. I am nothing special; of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts, and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me, and my name will soon be forgotten, but I have loved someone with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough.

Rhett Bomar

One of those first two screens, he might of taken it a long way if he doesn't have those blue numbers. A touch or a little hand tackle isn't going to tackle Adrian.

Willie Dixon

My God, I never heard a woman sing the blues like you sing the blues,

Tom Bailey

Like Freddie Barnes (last year's All-Area standout now at Bowling Green), Trent is a great athlete,

David Garrick

Let others hail the rising sun:I bow to that whose course is run

David Garrick

Let others hail the rising sun: I bow to that whose course is run

Jason Snelling

Mac Publishing covers the entire Mac Industry, and tonight we put them in the same room for a worthy cause. Companies in the Mac community often compete fiercely. The same competitive, fun spirit comes with them to the bowling alley. No matter who takes home the trophy, the real winners are the kids at Marshall.

Guru Singh

Let everyone bow in worship to the Guru, who speaks the sermon of the Lord.

Brian McCarthy

Licensees are gearing up to flood the market with Super Bowl merchandise featuring the two teams.

Mary Scott

Lots of people mailed me ties after that -- bow ties, dress ties, all kinds of ties.

Britt Beemer

La-Z-Boy hasn't done much with football since that one campaign and I thought that was a mistake. They haven't made that connection with every Super Bowl and I think that is a mistake.

Grant Wistrom

Last year, the only reason we weren't in the Super Bowl was because of our defense. This year, we wanted to be part of the solution and not the cause of the problem.

Alexandra Paul

The human overpopulation issue is the topic I see as the most vital to solve if our children and grandchildren are to have a good quality of life.

Alexandra Adornetto

How could you tell children they were playing with fire if they´d never had the experience of being burned?

Rod Blagojevich

Whatever happened to a sense of idealism and embracing an idea that will help people and, in this case, children?

Malorie Blackman

Children find prescriptive reading lists daunting, and they are a dangerous thing to have in schools.

Malorie Blackman

Books teach children to see the world through the eyes of others and empathise with others. It's about the story.

Luke Selking

We're not doing anything to help those children excel.

Aaron Baker

like a lot of research tends to overlook children in some areas.

Margie Dorshorst

Lighted Schoolhouse Night is designed to connect the parents and the children with the school.

Bill Clinton

Let us, in short, do the work that is before us, so that when our time here is over, we will all watch the sun go down -- as we all must -- and say truly, we have prepared our children for the dawn.

Kofi Annan

Let us remember that every person who is infected, whatever the reason, is a fellow human being with human rights and human needs,

William Blake

Let man wear the fell of the lion, woman the fleece of the sheep.

Robert Browning

Lied is a rough phrase; say he fell from truth

Ronald Reagan

My fellow Americans, there's an old saying that ""nothing spreads so quickly as a rumor,"" so I thought it was time to speak with you directly, to tell you first hand about our dealings with Iran.

Brian Fritz

One reason we have (etiquette) rules is because some people don't follow them. It's not a huge problem, but it has to be addressed every once in a while out of respect for fellow members and the club.

Don Reed

One thing we all work together on and that is helping our fellow man when needed,

Justin Martin

Monday morning we woke up and it was listing toward the north about 10 or 15 degrees. I figured, before it fell on the two adjacent barns, we better get it down.

Tony Torrez

My helmet, I was being cool. It wasn't strapped on. It fell off.

Daniel Snyder

My father took me to my first game in 1971, and I fell in love with the Redskins and the NFL right then. I was hooked. And we didn't even win that game.

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.

Keith Jones

one of the funniest people you ever met.

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.

Akiva Schaffer

You learn, even at 'S.N.L.,' that the funniest scripts a lot of the time were written with the actor, because they know what makes people laugh. It's always going to be better if they own it.

Roly Keating

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

Charles Keating

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

George Bernard Shaw

My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.

George Bernard Shaw

My way of joking is telling the truth; that is the funniest joke in the world

Julane Sullivan

Mary is one of the funniest women I have met.

David Pickett

Much has been written about 'super mums', but there are many 'super dads', holding down jobs and doing work at home.

Mike Greene

McNabb was having his game, but we were holding him pretty good. And we just let it get away from us. That's just part of being a young team.

Olivier Lapointe

Of course, there's only one person who stabbed the victim. They were not all holding the knife. But when we arrived, all those people were involved.

Jonathan King

Now you can see the end of the DNA. You can see the cylinder holding it, poised to go into the cell.

Gary Sawtelle

For right now, we're in a holding pattern because of potential new size requirements.

Kurt Eichenwald

I've often thought that Obama should come out in favor of oxygen, just to see how many right-wingers keel over from holding their breath for too long.

Mark Powers

I have been in touch with several rabbis around the community, and we're holding a meeting on Wednesday to see what collectively we can do, whether it's providing information in Russian to the Russian Jews, or holding meetings at different venues.

Susan Fredericks

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

Chris Duffy

I feel fine, like I should be out there playing. The only thing holding me back is the test. You have to remember a series of words and I just haven't been able to pass it. I'm fine, though. There's no need to worry.

Kris Gopalakrishnan

Infosys, with the rest of the Indian IT industry, has transformed the image of India around the world, transformed the image of Indian professionals, creating huge opportunities for them.

Steve Denney

Lots of wheels are in motion right now. This is a huge project involving lots of activities.

Terry Ryan

Last year we won 83 games, which was a huge disappointment for us. Eight, nine years ago I would have been thrilled to win 83. That's no longer the case.

Ian Forrester

One thing that perhaps isn't appreciated in the West is the huge potential that we have here.

Joe Gibbs

Now you've positioned yourself to play big games, ... This was huge for us, really a big deal.

Barbara Ryan

Obviously, it's a huge market and it's growing.

Peter Greene

Obviously, these stocks have had a huge run-up. The theory is to sell on the news. That's what's occurring is you're selling on the news.

Mark Slonaker

Obviously that five-point play was a huge momentum switch. It's disappointing. Then we couldn't make the plays to stay even after the five-point play.

Joseph Boyden

When I look in the mirror, I don't say 'I'm an Indian'. It's not a huge part of my make-up but a huge part of who I am.

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.

David Sedaris

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

James A. Moore

Ultimately, Lloyd Alexander's tales of Prydain were enough to make me come back and visit again and again, and each time, I laughed and I wept. Each time. No exceptions.

Erin McKean

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

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

Andy Kennedy

We just kind of laughed it off and said here's another one.

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.

Michael Slater

Let's just say that there was a settlement but, like many other creditors, I've been left out of pocket,

Curtis Haggins

Meacham could have won it with 1.7 seconds left on the clock. That would have been something.

Marc Pado

Net-net, there's probably plenty of oil in the market. OPEC left production quotas, so that's a plus for the market this morning.

Brad Faxon

Money is an important part. There's a little consolidation, and when you've got consolidation, somebody is going to get left out.

Ray Edwards

My grandmother works nights at Wal-Mart. I want to put a stop to that. That's why I left school early.

Richard Seymour

When I look back at football, I've always said to myself, 'I'd rather leave the game and have something in my tank rather than have left all of me out on the field.'

John Franco

When I left is when they started playing well,

Jon Anderson

When I left I just played in rock bands, and started playing acoustic, washed dishes, but pretty much supported myself with music,

Charles Peguy

There will be things that I do that no one will be left to understand.

Derrick Byars

Man, I looked up at the clock, was that right? That was kind of weird too, looking up there and seeing they only had 30.

Sandra Lerner

My aunt looked like Lucille Ball, and everything she touched was beautiful and elegant. But I was intelligent enough to understand I would never be like her.

Carrie Zaitz

When I looked through that first telescope my paradigm shifted up course. I realized it was a really big universe and I wanted to know all about it.

Jason Terry

When I looked at the mistakes I made in the playoffs, it was more because I was indecisive. This year, I'll be more deliberate, more assertive.

Dustin Moskovitz

The first time I looked at Yammer, I thought I was on Facebook. Work is not a social network, with serendipitous communications and photo collections. Work is about managing tasks and responding to things quickly.

Jack Baldwin

From our angle, you couldn't tell if it was going to make it to the net or not. It looked like everything was moving in slow motion.

Vijay Singh

On paper it looked very satisfying but I was very disappointed with the way I played the majors.

Ryan Hamby

On the first catch, Troy kind of looked at me and grinned.

Lupita Nyong'o

I was raised in Kenya, and I always wanted to be an actor from when I was really, really little, but the first time I thought it was something that I could make a career of was when I watched 'The Color Purple.' I think I was nine, maybe, and I saw people that looked like me - Whoopi Goldberg and Oprah.

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.

Iris Krebber

Much too much time has already been lost. In mid-2004 we already saw the first signs of a serious drought.

Pat Cleland

Much better shooters than what we saw statistically and from what we saw on film.

Craig Schlanger

Of course, no one saw him do this, no one is saying they saw him do it.

Joshua Michael Stern

Of course, I saw 'The Social Network,' which is a beautiful film.

Talulah Riley

I have an obsession with mortality. I saw a friend die when I was 18, and I can't get over it.

Dennis Rodman

If I die young, everybody's going to say they saw it coming.

Donna Smith

I can't live over water. I can't swim. I wouldn't want to see no more water. I saw enough already.

Richard Foreman

From that time through the time I was a New Dramatist, when I was something like twenty-two, I saw absolutely everything in New York. Absolutely everything.

Doug Nelson

When we saw the site come up for sale, we said we've got to be part of this.

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.

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.

Bill Cosby

Most of us learn to read by looking at each word in a sentence - one at a time.

Colleen Hoover

When I sat down and wrote the first paragraph, I was like, 'Oh, I can go with this.' I didn't do an outline. I didn't do anything. I just wrote sentence by sentence, not knowing where the story was going.

Aimee Bender

I find I can write for two lines, and then I have nothing else to say. For me, the only way to find something comes through the sentence level and sticking with the sentences that give a subtle feeling that there's something more to say.

Pete Wentz

When I read a review, 90% of the review is about my lifestyle, and the last two sentences are about the record.

Carl Jung

Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.

David Hume

Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other.

Enrique Pena Nieto

One single visit is not enough to be able to say that you know Mexico.

Mitch Leigh

My advice to singers is always the same: 'Don't sing the song, sing the lyric.'

Ken Kutaragi

My homeroom teacher told me I wasn't cooperative, ... I used to get mad, thinking I was being singled out.

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

Eileen Caddy

A human being is a single being. Unique and unrepeatable.

Elena Roger

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

Dave Mustaine

I'm not a great singer

Ahmet Ertegun

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

Daniela Hantuchova

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

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.

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,

Bobby Rahal

At this stage of the game, I am not sure what the hell is going to happen.

Denis Leary

When I'm on stage, that's me. It's blown up, but that's me.

Michael Collier

We're still in the preliminary stages of getting information.

Dena Crews

We're still in the development stage for that.

Celia Cruz

I love living on that stage. Without that, Id die.

Daddy Yankee

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

Charles Caleb Colton

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

Buffalo Bill

I found Spotted Tail's lodge. He invited me to enter.

Beatrix Potter

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

Ally Carter

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

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.

Christopher Paolini

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

Peter Brimelow

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

Dennis Prager

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

Dennis Prager

No day passes without a Democratic politician, a left-wing commentator, or, if I may be excused a redundancy, a left-wing academic labeling Republicans and conservatives racist.

Dennis Prager

Once one understands that 'racial tensions' is a euphemism for a black animosity toward whites and a left-wing construct, one begins to understand why the election of a black president has had no impact on most blacks or on the left.

Dennis Prager

Every Left-wing hysteria of my lifetime has turned out to be untrue. Every single one

Dennis Prager

Tell me of a right wing-induced hysteria of the last 50 years

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.

Charles Caleb Colton

All the poets are indebted more or less to those who have gone before them; even Homer's originality has been questioned, and Virgil owes almost as much to Theocritus, in his Pastorals, as to Homer, in his Heroics; and if our own countryman, Milton, has soared above both Homer and Virgil, it is because he has stolen some feathers from their wings.

Alan Jay Lerner

I could have spread my wings and done a thousand things I've never done before.