Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ahmet Necdet Sezner

Resorting to violence and the use of force at holy sites is unacceptable, whatever the reason might be.

Roy Harper

Remember, this was a world that was still ethnically separated. I was thirteen and ignorant of the social situation in America, but I felt these records were better than what my own culture was turning out.

Joss Stone

I didn't write those songs, but I can relate to every one of them... I have.

Ozzy Osbourne

I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.

Derek Bailey

I found that you couldn't use the same people anyway; there weren't that many people, so you'd be using the same ones over and over again.

Melanie Chisholm

I wouldn't say I worked with these people because I was looking for a particular vocal sound. I worked with them because I loved what they had done before-and because they really wanted to work with me.

Peter Gabriel

I love 5.1. Sometimes you can't squeeze everything in comfortably into a stereo picture. There is a lot more space in a 5.1 environment.

Joe Cocker

I think the only thing I would've ever been any good at was probably being a pub landlord. I've thought of that a couple of times.

Joss Stone

For me, personally, Mind, Body and Soul is my real debut.

Mike Evans

People listen to me because I can put together stories and rhymes. I'm no guitarist like Slash.

B. B. King

I always liked the steel guitar. I also love the guys that play the bottleneck. But I could never do it; I never made it do what I want. So every time I would pick up the guitar, I'd shake my hand and trill it a bit. For some strange reason my ears would say to me that sounds similar to what those guys were doing. I can't pick up the guitar now without doing it. So that's how I got into making my sound. It was nothing pretty. Just trying to please myself. I heard that sound.

B. B. King

Playing guitar is like telling the truth.

B. B. King

I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.

Big Bill Broonzy

Yes, we three were so happy, my wife, my guitar and me!

Ryan Key

I think it's time for a face-melting guitar solo.

James Mangold

John always said whoever played him, 'make sure they hold the guitar like they own it, that they don't hold it like it's a baby,'

Brad Tolinski

I think it literally might not have occurred to women to pick up a guitar and play.

Billy Unger

I love Aerosmith. I love Guns N' Roses, AC/DC, anything from that era, Led Zeppelin. So my guitar style is very much like Slash or Jimmy Page. I love playing that kind of music. It's where my heart's at.

Anthony Bourdain

Just because you like Jimi Hendrix doesn't mean you can play like Jimi Hendrix.

Charlotte Rampling

I was very friendly with Jimi Hendrix because my boyfriend at the time, Tommy Weber, was making a film about him, so I would go to all of his shows.

Mark Gottfried

Hendrix today was a big key on the backboard.

Eddie Money

Ive always loved the blues, John Lee Hooker, Janis Joplin, Hendrix.

Cassandra Peterson

I ended up spending some time with Jimi Hendrix and hanging out with him, and that was beyond awesome.

DJ Jazzy Jeff

QBert is pretty much the Jimi Hendrix of DJing. He is so far advanced. So far ahead of everybody else. He's like Yoda! Like the guru.

Nigel Kennedy

Maybe it's egocentric or whatever, but when I'm playing Beethoven, Bach, Hendrix, or whoever it is, in the end, it just feels like my own music and I'm making it up as I'm going along.

Perry Farrell

Jimi Hendrix's music was escapism.

Matt Osborne

Parks was open, just sitting there. It was just a scramble and then just a little jump shot.

Kenny Williams

That could be part of the explanation, ... That maybe we did jump out there and then lose that edge.

Persian Proverb

Risk - If one has to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If he doesn't know how wide it is, he'll jump and six times out of ten he'll make it.

Persian Proverbs

Risk -- If one has to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If he doesn't know how wide it is, he'll jump and six times out of ten he'll make it.

Stan Heath

We need a big jump there. Our team should be a plus-five rebounding team.

Rick Thomas

I was a little nervous, because it's a big jump from the JV up to the varsity.

Matt Harpring

I was just getting some open shots. I was just taking the jump shot when I had it.

Nelson Chamisa

It is an unfortunate and surprising incident. We were surprised to be told to go back when we had not violated any immigration laws. We did not jump the border.

Herb Stratford

I think there is so much going on in this building, it's so beautiful, people don't really find them. They don't jump out.

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.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Perfection is not when there is no more to add, but no more to take away.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.

B. J. Novak

Perfect. Why was this so hard to find?”The other type of perfect is the type you never could have expected and then could never replicate.

Azzedine Alaia

Perfection is never achieved, so you need to go on working.

Cecelia Ahern

Nobody's life is filled with perfect little moments. And if it were, they wouldn't be perfect little moments. They would just be normal. How would you ever know happiness if you never experience downs?

Cecelia Ahern

You all looked so happy together in the photograph. You looked like the perfect family. Is there such a thing anymore because if there is, my happy little unit was definitely not in the queue when they were handing out the titles.

Bill Bryson

Most of the time I am sunk in thought, but at some point on each walk there comes a moment when I look up and notice, with a kind of first-time astonishment, the amazing complex delicacy of the words, the casual ease with which elemental things come together to form a composition that is—whatever the season, wherever I put my besotted gaze—perfect.

Anton Corbijn

Grain is life, there's all this striving for perfection with digital stuff. Striving is fine, but getting there is not great. I want a sense of the human and that is what breathes life into a picture. For me, imperfection is perfection.

and City

I will never be the woman with the perfect hair, who can wear white and not spill on it.

Errol Morris

I think an interview, properly considered, should be an investigation. You shouldn't know what the interview will yield. Otherwise, why do it at all?

Gregory Petsko

Alzheimer's disease starts when a protein that should be folded up properly misfolds into a kind of demented origami.

Jon Brion

We're so used to everything being properly manicured, like you can hear every footstep in a movie, you can hear every bit of dialogue, and everything is in its place.

Albert Murray

If it is properly done, the 'as told to' autobiography represents how the subject wants his story told.

Marie Windsor

This I regard as a classic example of my not being properly prepared for a part I very much wanted.

Michael Foreman

Drawing teaches you to look at things properly and to understand form and structure.

Russell Tovey

I came out to myself when I was about 15 or 16, and to my parents when I was 18. When you come out to your parents, that's when it's properly official.

John Ashcroft

These individuals are being restrained and properly so. They are terrorists. They are uniquely dangerous,