Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexandra Fuller

I listen mostly to classical music.

Richard P. Feynman

There were several possible solutions of the difficulty of classical electrodynamics, any one of which might serve as a good starting point to the solution of the difficulties of quantum electrodynamics.

Phil Lesh

Many people out there know that I was trained in classical music, and I studied composition for many years before joining the band.

Alex Estrada

My first time in this game seven years ago I didn't realize it either. This is a game where records don't matter and it's all about two teams in classic games.

Gracie Gold

My go-to is a red lip. It's a timeless fashion statement, and I've loved doing it ever since I was little. My favorite classic red is CoverGirl Lip Perfection in #305 Hot.

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.

Willie Reid

Obviously it didn't come out the way I wanted it to. But I'm just happy to be a part of a classic game like this.

Jamie Cullum

When I was at school, I wanted to play a piano, and they said, 'No, that's for the classical students.' There's always been this air around pianos, which can very often discourage a young person from having a go.

Dennis Ritchie

I listen to mostly-classical music, but mostly by radio - I'm not an audiophile.

Carl Honore

My first book, 'In Praise of Slowness,' examines how the world got stuck in fast-forward and chronicles a global trend towards putting on the brakes. That trend is called the Slow movement. 'Slow' in this context does not mean doing everything at a snail's pace. It means doing everything at the right speed.

Joe Arbona

One of the things that is particularly painful within the context of this poor family is that the engineers actually had to witness this, knowing that when you get into a locomotive, there is no steering wheel. As you can imagine, they are pretty shook up about this whole thing, too.

Samantha Power

On the rare occasions when U.N. blue helmets have made the news in the past, it has unfortunately too often been in the context of situations where peacekeepers have failed to shield civilians, or even when the peacekeepers themselves have been involved in abuse.

Walter Martin

I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet.

Stefano Tonchi

While technology efficiently delivers news stories to our desktops, laptops and mobile devices, magazines are all about context - how ideas and images are presented in relation to one another and within a larger point of view.

Hubert Burda

We are the only living creatures who can create a context, and as far as we know, everything else can only follow a context, without recognizing the context as such. Herein lies the source of creativity and the genuinely new.

Wynton Marsalis

As a jazz musician, you have individual power to create the sound. You also have a responsibility to function in the context of other people who have that power also.

Ravi Zacharias

I deal with cultural issues whether they be in the Middle East, Far East, the Orient or the West. You broach questions in the context of their culture and then present Christian answers.

Peter T. King

I felt that the IRA, in the context of Irish history, and Sinn Fein were a legitimate force that had to be recognized, and you wouldn't have peace without them.

Coleman Stipanovich

We're not disputing the fact that (executives) deserve to make a lot of money. Just make it performance based, so everyone is benefiting, not just them. It's all about increasing shareholder value.

Ron Simmons

Madison Township has a large geographical area, and the people there, are mostly farmers, mostly rural community. For that reason, we don't have high population numbers. Our school is the smallest; still, those kids deserve to have their own school.

Dwight Yorke

Let's party tonight. The Mariners didn't deserve to lose - but it's all about taking your chances.

Pat Cleland

Let 'em enjoy it. They deserve it. I'm so happy for our community. I'm so happy for the kids.

Ty Wigginton

Seth deserved to win. The offense just wasn't there to support him.

Ty Wigginton

Seth deserved a W, and the offense wasn't there to support him.

Budge Pountney

Sean went extremely well for the Wanderers on Monday night. He deserves his chance. We want to make the Wanderers competitive in that if a player plays better for the Wanderers than the player who played for the Saints, they will be up for selection.

David Brabham

Sebastien and Scotty did a great job and the guys deserved everything they got tonight.

Dave Sica

Mike has just done a tremendous job in just his first year with that team. He and the team deserve every accolade and honor they have received.

Isabella Rossellini

There is often a great disparity between a director's personal style and the movies he makes.

Kristy Swanson

I can't ask for every movie I make to be great and brilliant. I can only try.

Mallory Ortberg

In the hands of a passive-aggressive person who wants to abdicate responsibility for things, texting is a great tool. You can really go nuts.

Malorie Blackman

Being the Children's Laureate has been educational, sometimes hectic, but most of all, great fun.

Jerry Reinsdorf

Like I said, Dennis has been of great value to our team.

Danny Kaye

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.

Danny Kaye

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.

Scott Peck

Life is difficult. This is the great truth, one of the greatest truthsit is a great truth because once we see this truth, we transcend it.

William Congreve

Let us be very strange and well-bred: Let us be as strange as if we had been married a great while; and as well-bred as if we were not married at all.

Isabella Rossellini

It always amazed me that people believed I was this beautiful object.

Isabella Rossellini

I'm always a little worried when people have met me in person because I'm worried they'll be disappointed.

Rick Perlstein

Do people still read before bed? I play 'Words With Friends.'

Robert Mankoff

People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist.

Robert Mankoff

I don't think most people know what's going to be in their obituary, but I do.

Robert Teeter

There are not enough people out talking about the President positively.

Roger Penrose

Some people take the view that we happen by accident. I think that there is something much deeper, of which we have very little inkling at the moment.

Kristy Swanson

My parents were like the kind of people who read the 'Enquirer' and believed everything it said.

Malorie Blackman

I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.

Brian Hill

If anything, this shows we're not throwing in the towel on the season.

Pete Carroll

If anything, it shows that we can finish.

Earl Nightingale

What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.

Casey Wilson

So many shows don't have laugh tracks now that, when you hear it, it can be slightly jarring.

Paul Pierce

I majored in criminal justice. I like 'CSI,' all that, '24.' I watch those shows on A&E, if I watch TV. I don't really watch TV shows.

Bruce Cockburn

'Gifts' was just a short little one-verse song that I used to close shows in the '60s.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

When I was a kid, I would be watching TV shows like, you know, like 'Get Smart' and be like, 'That's what being an adult is.'

Terry Wogan

Nobody really knows what they look like. The mirror shows you only what you want to see.

Constance Wu

Authentic programming that shows the outside world garners authentic interest.

Lucinda Williams

My approach to recording and all that is pretty organic. It just has to do with all the songs I wrote; go in and record them.

Todd Rundgren

I don't know what the inspiration for most of songs really mean until I finish them. For the most part, I'm going for a visceral impression, and I write the words last.

Valerie June

I just let the songs tell me what to do - they are my guides, and they are the boss. So I am subservient to the songs, and I let them tell me what to do. I don't judge them; I just write whatever comes to me.

Gene Ween

I wrote most of these songs right before the end. A lot of these songs are about that. Even if it's not direct, you can feel the beginning of the end of the breakup in these songs.

Neil Innes

But mostly, I wrote songs and Viv wrote songs.

Miranda Cosgrove

When I was 5, I started taking singing lessons, and then, after 'School of Rock,' I started taking guitar lessons. I would always write songs and play them for my friends, and I would play my guitar on the set a lot.

Liz Callaway

Time After Time/Dodsworth: New Songs from New Musicals.

Etta James

Most of the songs I sing, they have that blue feeling to it. They have that sorry feeling. And I don't know what I'm sorry about.

Kate Micucci

My first songs were about animals and shoes. I wrote one song about PF Flyers, and one to my fish.