Famous Quotes & Sayings

Scott Terry

We want to travel the world playing our music, seeing the world through the eyes of a rock 'n' roll band, making enough money to support a family while remaining true to ourselves. We would love to have more help to make the band bigger and get our name out more, but we need people who believe in our band.

Caroline Corr

I listened to a lot of bands that were happening at the time, but no one in particular.

Steve Harwell

We are probably one of the most licensed bands out there for movies and TV shows.

Stone Gossard

We've actually rehearsed more for this tour than we've ever rehearsed in our lives. Matt is singing a lot of the vocal harmonies, and he's just killing it. The benefit of playing in a KISS cover band when you're 12 is that you learn to sing!

Scott Terry

We started the band when we were in college, but we didn't start taking it seriously until about five years ago.

Bill Wilson

We believe that Oneida will be the dominant holder of 2.5 GHz band spectrum serving 15 percent of the U.S. population.

Laurent Brancowitz

The bands you like and know that are French are always outsiders in the French music industry - Daft Punk, Air.

Nolan Sotillo

Going into hospitals and being able to meet kids that are in similar situations to those that the characters are facing in the 'Red Band Society' allows us to see the truth of these real humans' lives.

Nolan Sotillo

'Red Band Society' is inspiring, funny, and an uplifting story that makes you want to make the most of your life, love and live to the fullest, and that's a great message.

Steve Harwell

We are probably one of the most licensed bands out there for movies and TV shows.

Laurent Brancowitz

The bands you like and know that are French are always outsiders in the French music industry - Daft Punk, Air.

Simon Horrocks

We were always a fun-oriented jam band. We were never one of those bands that played the framework of the song and jammed on it for six hours. Maybe a few hours, but not six.

Bob Hartley

We're going to pick up whatever is left of him when it is over. I just hope the Finnish team will supply the elastic bands (used to treat groin injuries) when he comes back.

Jim Angell

We're going to do some old traditional folk songs. We haven't completely set up a list. We'll play some music from modern Celtic rock bands like the Seven Nations. We'll play a couple of more contemporary Irish tunes that I wouldn't call rock; they're more contemporary ballads. We haven't set it all out yet, but they run the gamut.

Mike Dirnt

When I was a kid, my influences were just my early friends' punk rock bands and listening to the radio,

Ric Ocasek

I don't think I'm an entertainer. I never think, 'Wow, I can't wait to get the crowd moving.' Some of my favorite bands never moved an inch.

Ric Ocasek

People sometimes say that bands sound like The Cars, but when I hear it I don't know if they do or not.

Ric Ocasek

There are a lot of bands that have a huge appeal, but I don't understand why. Guns n' Roses. U2. But you know, that's just my thing. Music is pretty personal.

Jose Gonzalez

We always had a guitar at home, but it wasn't until I was 14 when I picked it up myself when my father handed me these sheets of music of the Beatles and some other classics. That's where I learned all the chords and learned how to play and sing at the same time.

Chris Cornell

When I was maybe nine years old, I listened to the entire Beatles catalogue, non-stop, for about a year,

Brian Setzer

When I was a kid, I found out about Eddie Cochran and Gene Vincent through the Beatles and the Stones doing covers of rockabilly songs,

Todd Rundgren

It's nearly redundant to enumerate the reasons The Beatles are important. There are probably different reasons why The Beatles are important to a musician like myself and to the millions of Beatles fans who just enjoy listening to the music.

Matt Hartman

Love the Kinks, Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd, and then I run out of names. Those are the three heavies. The Beatles are pretty good. You heard those guys? They're not bad.

P. J. O'Rourke

You're not a baby boomer if you don't have a visceral recollection of a Kennedy and a King assassination, a Beatles breakup, a U.S. defeat in Vietnam, and a Watergate.

Alice Waters

Food culture is like listening to the Beatles - it's international, it's very positive, it's inventive and creative.

Daniel Barenboim

It's funny, because in 1970 I met the Beatles quite by a chance at a party. It was the Beethoven bicentenary, and I was then also playing the Beethoven Sonatas. And that's all they wanted to hear about - I wanted to talk about them, and all they wanted to talk about was Beethoven.

Azita Ghanizada

My dad was in a Beatles cover band. My mom wore Candies and belly buttons. The people in our family were very glamorous. They wore pearls like Jackie O.

Lauren Tarshis

I had learning problems when I was in elementary school, and didn't really start to read well until high school. I never read any of the middle grade classics that were popular when I was young - 'Harriet the Spy', 'Charlotte's Web', 'The Witch of Blackbird Pond', 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory'.

Trofim Lysenko

Darwin himself, in his day, was unable to fight free of the theoretical errors of which he was guilty. It was the classics of Marxism that revealed those errors and pointed them out.

Trofim Lysenko

The classics of Marxism, while fully appreciating the significance of the Darwinian theory, pointed out the errors of which Darwin was guilty. Darwin's theory, though unquestionably materialist in its main features, is not free from some serious errors.

Thom Browne

I do love the provocative side of my collection, but I also like the classics - the simpler skirts and the sweater sets and the shirtdresses. And I always love to see girls in jackets and trousers.

Amy Lowell

In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern.

John Krasinski

I'm a huge classics fan. I love Ernest Hemingway and J.D. Salinger. I'm that guy who rereads a book before I read newer stuff, which is probably not all that progressive, and it's not really going to make me a better reader. I'm like, 'Oh, my God, you should read To Kill a Mockingbird.'

Robin Wright

Now that my kids are out of the house, I'm finally able to get to the classics I never read: Emily Bronte, Dylan Thomas, Joseph Heller's 'Catch-22.' It's endless. They're all in this gigantic pile next to my bed.

J. G. Ballard

I had a very mixed kind of childhood reading. I read the childhood classics like 'Robinson Crusoe,' 'Alice in Wonderland,' 'Chums Annual.' At the same time, I read an enormous number of American comics because Shanghai was an American zone of influence.

Blake Bailey

I'm a huge fan of 'The Lost Weekend.' I have this dog-eared copy of the 1963 Time Reading Program edition, which was a series of contemporary classics reprinted as a quality paperback.

Steve Cassady

She's a gifted player. She's fast and strong and covers a lot of ground, but she's still rusty.

Douglas Wilson

This process covers 60 percent of the Earth's surface, and it's an ongoing process that has replaced all of the seafloor since 180 million years ago. In terms of understanding the planet, it's a fundamental process.

Vidya Balan

I enjoy the sari. I think it's the sexiest garment ever. It shows you the right amount, it covers the right amount, it's extremely versatile, it suits every body type, it suits every face.

James King

Tire debris and wheel shrapnel resulted in damage to the No. 2 engine, puncture of three fuel tanks, and severance of several hydraulic lines and electrical wires. Additionally, a large hole was torn in the top wing skin which covers the wheel well area.

Wadah Khanfar

When an international news organization covers a story in Somalia, Yemen, Sudan or wherever, they will fly a crew to go there, spend a few days, interact with some officials and analysts, most of the time English-speaking elite, and file the story and go home.

Kenneth Branagh

You go to the airport and look at the bookstand, and you feel the titles are similar, the covers are similar, and you wonder how they can be different.

Tom Campbell

We started with 16 wardens which has been increased to 28 and covers a wider area. More people were looking for wardens in their area.

David Snyder

We prefer United for its service and because it covers most national routes,

Steve Asmussen

Potential is great. But when you can throw it down there on the (Daily Racing) Form and you can read it, it's impressive. He's won seven (actually six) in a row and a million dollars. That about covers everything.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it.

Charles Caleb Colton

In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.

Charles Caleb Colton

Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much of him.

Charles Dickens

The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away.

Charles Dickens

So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!...

Charles Dickens

But, in this separation I associate you only with the good and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you have done far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may.

Charles Dickens

Let me feel now what sharp distress I may.

Charles Simmons

True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Shinzo Abe

The other side has not responded to any of our requests regarding the abduction issue, so it is highly regrettable.

Kevin Cox

We're doing a much better job in Indiana being prepared and collaborating, which speaks highly of the involved agencies.

Richard Garnett

Liberal justices like Thurgood Marshall and Ruth Bader Ginsburg think as highly of him as someone like Clarence Thomas. I think that's a testament to the respect he enjoys.

Tracy Morgan

You have to be highly intelligent to get away with a dumb joke. That takes a pretty smart fella.

Tom Wolfe

I read somewhere that writers, as they get older, become more and more perfectionist. Which may be because they think more highly of themselves and they worry about their reputations. I think there's some truth to that.

Todd Rundgren

People have always said that I could have been a highly successful pop artist, if only that were my intention. It never was. My original intention was to be a kind of behind-the-scenes participant in music, to just be a record producer and engineer. And I made a record for myself just so I could have an outlet for my musical ideas.

Dr. Coats

We had not had highly pathogenic avian influenza in the U.S. for over 20 years.

Richard Brodhead

When it was offered, I thought it was highly appropriate.

Donna Jones

She was a quite a lady. And a leader. Everyone spoke so highly of her.

Carl Hagelin

I like to wear tight jeans. Most of my stuff is pretty slim fit.

Bill Rancic

I'd wear flip-flops and jeans. I guess that's not cool.

Cheryl Cole

I'm like any other woman - my weight fluctuates. I have a pair of jeans one size bigger than the other just in case that week I'm a little bit heavier.

Charlize Theron

And I was victim to that very early in my career, where I would go into auditions, and I'd be wearing a big T shirt, a big baggy T shirt and loose jeans. You know, to try and show people that there was more to me than just that.

Charlize Theron

I'm 50-50 on glamour stuff. I'd rather put on a pair of jeans and get on my Harley and act like a guy.

Blake Michael

I usually always start with the jeans, which is weird because most guys, I would say, start with a shirt and build around the shirt. I always start with the jeans and I have so many jeans. I have an entire rack of just jeans.

Ashley Benson

I love jeans, T-shirts, boots, and tennis shoes.

Ashley Benson

I love guys who know how to dress. I love the motorcycle boots, and I love the skinnier jeans with jackets and scarves. Anybody who gets his clothes at All Saints, that's my guy.

Ashley Olsen

The Aly loafer is our modern take on the penny loafer with a subtle slit across the top. I wear loafers with everything these days- skinny jeans, long skirts and dresses.

Bobby Lamb

We've all been at Furman for so long. Being at Furman so long has led to loyalty. The transitions are so smooth.

Doug Bleadorn

West led us and we rode the third period to victory.

Harmony Korine

When I was a child, the temptation to sin was always a romantic option. This romantic option led me to the cinema, a place where sin was welcome.

Selman Waksman

The discovery of streptomycin as a product of a rather obscure group of microorganisms, the actinomycetes, led to the study of these organisms as potential producers of other chemotherapeutic substances.

Elliott Abrams

Legislation for the Caribbean basin has led to more jobs in the Dominican Republic.

Laura McElroy

led to the commotion, but they have nothing to do with the charges.

Beeban Kidron

Arguably, it was the introduction of international non-proliferation treaties in the late '80s that finally led to the missiles being removed from Greenham Common.

Nikki Sixx

I know when I wear a Led Zeppelin shirt, I am happy to put that Led Zeppelin shirt on. It's not, 'Well, they kind of suck.'

Lia Ices

I realized that there was much more to my voice than I'd ever been led to explore and that I could make my own songs.

Bill O'Reilly

Gross negligence in handling national security is a felony.

Lee Melchionni

Whenever you can be a part of something where the number one team and number two team are playing each other on national television, it is special. How many people get that opportunity?

Russ Knocke

We were already operating under the National Response Plan.

Michael W. Smith

I sang at the Inaugural prayer service at the National Cathedral.

John Wilhelm

We've become persuaded that, after two years of trying to reform the national AFL-CIO, it is unwilling to change,

LenDale White

We're back-to-back national champions. You can't spell BCS without USC.

LenDale White

We're back-to-back national champions, ... I know you can't spell BCS without USC.

Vladimir Putin

Russian democracy is the power of the Russian people with their own traditions of national self-government, and not the realisation of standards foisted on us from outside.

Kofi Annan

What governments and people don't realise is that sometimes the collective interest - the international interest - is also the national interest.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Charles Dickens

A multitude of people and yet solitude.

Charles Dickens

My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable.

Charles Dickens

Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness.

Charles Dickens

Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything.

Charles Dickens

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

Charles Dickens

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Charles Soule

Superman/Wonder Woman, people expected, I guess, a lot of romance, or maybe something that wasnt emotionally deep. Who knows?

Arthur Miller

Pop, I'm nothing! I'm nothing, Pop. Can't you understand that? There's no spite in it any more. I'm just what I am, that's all.

Bono

What I like about pop music, and why I'm still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes our folk music.

Danny Boyle

Originally I'm a big pop-music aficionado, that's my love.

Gerard Way

To me, the coolest, shiniest, sexiest, darkest, scariest thing you can be is pop.

Jackie Robinson

Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade.

Iggy Pop

If I don't terrorize, I'm not Pop.

Laura Merritt

We shut them down and another one pops up.

Gerry Beckley

Every decade has its ABBA; that's the proof that pop will always be around.

Lady Gaga

Applause was designed to bemuse and confuse you until it explodes into a chorus that reminds us why we love pop music.

Alan Perlis

If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up.

David Kay

The Libyan program recently discovered was far more extensive than was assessed prior to that.

David Deutsch

If we can't program it, we can't understand it.

David Deutsch

If you can’t program it, you haven’t understood it.

Sandy Williams

We started participating in the program in 2004. We started with six students at the Rockledge hospital, and now we have 12 there and two in Melbourne.

Nathan Myhrvold

Sooner or later the space program will need to save us by detecting and deflecting an incoming asteroid.

Derek Bok

Early admission programs tend to advantage the advantaged.

Charles Evers

I don't like a lot of social programs either because it makes you non-productive.

Josh Matthews

We've been able to turn the program around and we're an (Jayhawk East) power. That's just because of the support that we've received.

Yoshihiko Noda

There's a tendency for the yen to strengthen because it's rated highly, but I don't think that accurately reflects Japan's economic performance.

Lenny Klompus

When Secretary (Tom) Ridge was here, everyone was saying we were rated triple-A.

Terry Semel

This will be a film ... that will be rated R,

Terry Semel

look more and more like a portal. And as a portal, it probably would be rated No. 4.

Day One

We get rated down by homeowners associations because we have no slums.

Patricia Vance

Congratulations for selling a lot of violent video games, I didn't sell them, sir. I just rated them.

Chief Joseph

Cursed be he that scalps the reputation of the dead.

William Shakespeare

You have lost no reputation at all, unless you repute yourself such a loser.

Elizabeth Arden

Repetition makes reputation.

Charles Dudley Warner

The tenure of a literary reputation is the most uncertain and fluctuating of all.

Baltasar Gracian

Work is the price which is paid for reputation.

Ariel Pink

I get to live down my reputation for being cantankerous if I slowly evolve towards being a really good live show.

Desiderius Erasmus

Concealed talent brings no reputation.

Blaise Pascal

The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.

Sydney Smith

Avoid shame, but do not seek glory; nothing so expensive as glory.

Nikki Cox

I'm a McDonald's girl - several times a week. Usually the two-cheeseburger combo meal.

Scott Kim

What I always want is to have several little 'aha' moments where your brain is very happy.

Bill Hall

Several students have called and said, 'I have a video, do you want it?'

Jim Sweeney

We didn't do anything spectacular on offense. But Tony Porto bailed us out several times.

Toks Olagundoye

I've several times had jobs that I thought were going to be my big break, and it didn't pan out.

Hanoi Hannah

And we also read Newsweek, Time and several newspapers.

Ruth Winstrom

We're going to be there for several days.

James Gill

We were able to talk to several witnesses at the playground.

Greg Strobel

We don't know when he's going to be back. He'll be out for several weeks. That's a big deal.

Leo Burnett

To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is swear off having ideas.

Moises Alou

When things are like this, I swear to you, you play better as a team.

Dane Cook

When you swear to God, its true ... right now God is watching and saying, this is true.

Irene Dunne

I'll leave the swearing to the Jane Fondas.

Jennifer Lopez

I swear to God, I don't remember anything Gwyneth Paltrow was in. Some people get hot by association. I heard more about her and Brad Pitt and I ever heard about her work.

Harry Potter

I solemnly swear I am up to no good.

J. D. Salinger

That's the terrible part. I swear to God I'm a madman.

Minnie Driver

I swear to God, I would marry the first person who asked me, just because it seems so completely impossible that anyone would ask.

Peter Jacobson

Bradley Cooper was an asshole, but he was - like Sidney Lumet, like George Clooney - the nicest guy in the world. I sound like the biggest ass-kisser ever. But I'm telling the truth, I swear to God!

Deepak Chopra

Our biological rhythms are the symphony of the cosmos.

C. S. Lewis

Perhaps the experience had been so complete that repetition would be vulgarity - like asking to hear the same symphony twice in a day.

Charles Sanders Peirce

And what, then, is belief? It is the demi-cadence which closes a musical phrase in the symphony of our intellectual life.

Charles Mingus

I'm too busy playing. When I'm playing I don't pay attention to who's listening. When I was listening I listened to symphony orchestras, Beethoven, Bach, Brahms, Stravinsky. You don't listen to one instrument; you listen to music.

Jane Byrne

The Chicago Symphony is considered the greatest orchestra in the world.

Sharon Long

Some of it will go to have the Tupelo Symphony back with us this year.

Charles Bukowski

I don't know if this is true to you but for me sometimes it gets so bad that anything else say like looking at a bird on an overhead power line seems as great as a Beethoven symphony. then you forget it and you're back again.

Edward Abbey

Mozart, striving for perfection, wrote the same symphony forty-one times. In his case, it worked. He wrote a perfect symphony.

Edward Abbey

The critics say that Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony has no form. They are wrong; it has the form of Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony.

Chris Blackwell

I was touring a lot... I loved the touring because you could really feel the audience. You were much closer to everything.

Bruce Dickinson

I'm not going to do any more solo touring.

Liam Gallagher

I'm not going around touring the U.S. when I've got nowhere to live.

Trent Reznor

Touring in the past, the show was just something you had to do to get to the after-show,

Andy Partridge

I felt pressured by continuous touring.

Daniel Johns

Touring doesn't kill me and I can handle it.

Cyril Cusack

I have been on my own all my life except during those touring days.

Daniel Johns

The touring for this album was definitely going to be the most intense touring we've done.

Jeff Lynne

I don't actually like touring.

Anthony Kiedis

I didn't really get to Led Zeppelin until I was in my 20s.

Freddie Mercury

We were disliked by the press in the early days because they couldn't put their finger on us, and that was the case with Zeppelin as well.

Jimmy Page

But if you want me to knock Kingdom Come, all I will say is that I heard the guitarist said he'd never heard my playing, and I'd defy any guitarist in American not to have heard Led Zeppelin.

Jimmy Page

No. I usually rest in my satin-lined coffin, actually. I'm not allowed out in daylight hours.

Ronnie Hawkins

I am a cross between Carl Perkins and Led Zeppelin.

Robert Plant

There's still time to change the road you're on.

Robert Plant

I'm too old for Led Zeppelin.