Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Lamm

We have as many audiences as we have phases of our career. And all of us are older now. We've grown in different directions, so that the result is a band that's sometimes a little scattered -- just like it was with the original version of the band, really. ... All Chicago albums are stylistically all over the map, and that's a good thing. We can play to anyone.

Felix Rodriguez

We wanted to work with an American producer. Every band wants to record an album in the States. If we have the opportunity, why not try it?

Agnetha Faltskog

When I was 25, Abba was formed. After Abba I made three solo albums. Maybe I have been productive enough.

The Weeknd

'Trilogy' was more of a claustrophobic body of work. Before it was released, I hadn't left my city for 21 years, and I had never been on a plane, not once. I spent my entire life on one setting; that's probably why pieces of the album feel like one long track, because that's what my life felt like. It felt like one long song.

Tom Odell

When I was around 13 or 14, I started getting really into songwriting. And one day, I was rooting through my mum's old tapes and records, and I found 'Grace' by Jeff Buckley. I remember so vividly the first time I put it on. It blew my mind: his voice, the way he could play the guitar. I must have listened to the album over and over for weeks.

Talib Kweli

I tour whether I have album out or not. I tour more than any other hip-hop artist.

Travie McCoy

Pain is definitely a genius in his own right. 'Thr33 Ringz' is definitely one of my top 10 albums. It's one of those albums you listen to front-to-back.

Tori Kelly

'Unbreakable Smile' was based off one of the songs I wrote for the album - it was actually the first song I wrote for the album without realizing it yet. I think I wanted to name the album that because it seemed like that was just the theme of that chapter in my life and just the theme of all the songs put together.

Ed Sheeran

If I can put on my album in a car or on my headphones and listen to the whole thing and love it, that's what I'm going to be happy putting out there.

Carlos Castaneda

Anything is one of a million paths. Therefore, a warrior must always keep in mind that a path is only a path; if he feels that he should not follow it, he must not stay with it under any conditions. His decision to keep on that path or to leave it must be free of fear or ambition. He must look at every path closely and deliberately. There is a question that a warrior has to ask, mandatorily: 'Does this path have a heart?'

C. S. Lewis

Submit to death, death of your ambitions and favorite wishes every day and death of your whole body in the end: submit with every fiber of your being, and you will find eternal life. Keep back nothing. Nothing that you have not given away will be really yours. Nothing in you that has not died will ever be raised from the dead. . . look to Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.

Dieter Zetsche

We have no shortage of capacity and we are not planning to take any of it out. Our ambition is to make our plants efficient wherever they are.

Abba Eban

It [idolatry] nourishes mans ambition to domineer over his fellow man. Idolatry, therefore, is the source of all social and moral evil in the world.

Charles Caleb Colton

Ambition is to the mind what the cap is to the falcon; it blinds us first, and then compels us to tower by reason of our blindness.

Charles Caleb Colton

The blindness of bigotry, the madness of ambition, and the miscalculations of diplomacy seek their victims principally amongst the innocent and the unoffending. The cottage is sure to suffer for every error of the court, the cabinet, or the camp. When error sits in the seat of power and of authority, and is generated in high places, it may be compared to that torrent which originates indeed in the mountain, but commits its devastation in the vale.

Charles Caleb Colton

All who have been great and good without Christianity would have been much greater and better with it. If there be, amongst the sons of men, a single exception to this maxim, the divine Socrates may be allowed to put in the strongest claim. It was his high ambition to deserve, by deeds, not by creeds, an unrevealed heaven, and by works, not by faith, to enter an unpromised land.

Jon Runyan

When I decided to run for Congress, I saw it as an opportunity to serve the South Jersey community that had become my home after signing to play for the Philadelphia Eagles. I didn't choose public service out of political ambition or a desire for power, and never once thought of making a career of it.

Tom Cotton

Inflammatory passion and selfish interest characterizes most men, whereas ambition characterizes men who pursue and hold national office. Such men rise from the people through a process of self-selection, since politics is a dirty business that discourages all but the most ambitious.

Matt Murton

We want to put last year behind us. This is this year, 2006.

Matt Murton

We want to put last year behind us. Any time you can start off successfully, it helps you relax a little. You might not press as much.

Art Hogan

We have to get used to the fact that the emergency level of the fed funds rate is behind us, ... The sooner we become cognizant of the fact that the global economy won't be crushed and corporate earnings won't roll over, the sooner the market will fight its way to trend higher.

James Nesbitt

We have to get behind the scientists and push for a dementia breakthrough. It could be that we fear dementia out of a sense of hopelessness, but there is hope, and it rests in the hands of our scientists.

Mark Fields

We have to get a stronger message behind that.

Clint Hurdle

When he gets in a groove there's some pop behind it. He brings some noise.

Kazuo Kitagawa

We want police to clarify the facts behind the scandal so it will not happen again.

Michael Clarke

We wanted to win. This game is behind us now. We have to just keep working hard so that we can stay in front.

Dayton Miller

We've still got some work to do. Everybody's ultimate goal is to win the national championship. Putting what is done behind us and striving for that ultimate goal is what we've got to do.

Margaret Thatcher

On my way here I passed a local cinema and it turned out you were expecting me after all, for the billboards read: The Mummy Returns.

Mark Hayes

because people see the billboards at the Arco station.

Mayor Slifka

The real shock was when somebody would turn into their driveway, so to speak, and their next-door neighbor had a huge billboard on their front lawn.

Aaron Marks

We've got the most pressure. We can't go out and spend money on commercials and billboards and all that. It's all a matter of getting out to different places, seeing different people, and hoping they tell their friends.

Jerry Thompson

You are making (Alliance One) look good, ... But you might just be making a billboard for them (gang members).

Chris Ware

There seems to be such a laziness in - and I hate to use this phrase - the modern world. Everything is pumped out so quickly so that you can read it while passing by, like billboards or those flashcards before movie shows.

Christopher Mintz-Plasse

When I was 16, at night I went to my high school and chucked rocks at the billboard sign and broke the light bulbs. That was fun.

Andrew Barbour

The only way that I'm comfortable with billboards in the future is with a special use with a time limit,

John Walsh

We reach a lot of people through television, but billboards are seen daily and serve as a constant reminder.

Edmund Hillary

Some day I'm going to climb Everest.

Abdul Latif

To my knowledge, the Malaysians who have seen Everest have only seen its South Face. We may have been the first Malaysians to have reached the North Face,

Anatoli Boukreev

I respect Everest very much.

Gordon Janow

For many climbers, Everest is usually a one-time deal,

Jon Krakauer

The way to Everest is not a Yellow Brick Road.

Michael Ward

Every mountain has at least one way up it, ... We reckoned there must be a route up Everest from Nepal.

Liu Qi

The torch will also go to the top of Mount Everest as it is known in the west. This has never been done before.

Joe Carnahan

If I can do a romantic comedy with women, that's Everest to me.

Edmund Hillary

As far as I knew, he had never taken a photograph before, and the summit of Everest was hardly the place to show him how.

John Reid

Madonna has nailed it with this record and we are rolling it out very big indeed.

Maripol

Madonna and I worked very closely. I was more like the big sister to her.

Brent Weeks

Maybe when you were born on the top of the mountain you could pretend the mountain didn't matter, but those who climbed it and those born at its base who could never climb at all knew differently.

David Mitchell

...A mountain you're plannin' on climbin' ain't the same as the one you ain't. It ain't so pretty...

Bryn Terfel

For the mountains shall depart

Jase Robertson

Group texts are the worst. They're like a terrible, technological snowball, coming down a mountain, and you can't stop it.

Alain Robert

All these buildings are like mountains I would like to climb, but I am forbidden.

Alan Alda

In 2003, I almost died of an intestinal blockage when I was on a mountain in Chile, filming a segment for 'Scientific American Frontiers.'

Al McGuire

There's no one who's dropped on top of the mountain. You've got to work your way to the top.

Edmund Hillary

Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.

Edward Ruscha

When you're on a highway, viewing the western U.S. with the mountains and the flatness and the desert and all that, it's very much like my paintings.

Carol Kane

The Oscar nomination made me a recognizable name to other actors and people in general.

Carol Leifer

I was over there in Hawaii. I was there on the big island. The 'Big Island' - that name cracks me up. First of all, it's not that big, so I'm pretty sure a guy came up with that name.

Carlos Mencia

If you're Filipino, you're the beaner of the Asian community 'cause you're just like us. You're indigenous people that got banged by some Spaniards. That's why you have names like Kwan Ping Del Toro.

Carlos Fuentes

In the name of certainty, the greatest crimes have been committed against humanity.

C. S. Lewis

In your world, I have another name. You should know me by it.

C. S. Lewis

They call him Aslan in That Place," said Eustace. "What a curious name!" "Not half so curious as himself," said Eustace solemnly.

C. S. Lewis

All names will soon be restored to their proper owners.

C. S. Lewis

Puddleglum's my name. But it doesn't matter if you forget it. I can always tell you again.

C. S. Lewis

Feeling like the voice she liked best in all the world was calling her name.

Andy Puckett

Then you can start to get an idea of what its orbit is and be able to predict where it's going to be in the future.

John Carroll

Politics and the affairs of State are dissociated from the orbit of the individual, and in so far as they cannot be repossessed as his living private property they must be rendered impotent.

John L. Phillips

After assembly complete, when we have a larger crew on orbit, a more complex vehicle, more laboratories and more robot arms, maybe we'll have room for specialists. But right now we don't.

Richard Dawkins

I am not absolutely positive there is no god. Only in the sense that I'm not absolutely positive there is no large china teapot in orbit in the solar system.

Robert Crippen

Looking down at the Earth, you started to pick up a sense of speed much more than I had noticed on orbit.

Tycho Brahe

There is something eccentric in the orbit of Mars.

Agnetha Faltskog

When I was 15 I became a full-time singer in a band. At 18 I made my first record.

Marc Chandler

We've seen speculators try to get out of short yen positions, which were at record levels.

Ben King

We used to record with string sections, so it's like going back to that time.

Tom Odell

I tend to write and record things quite quickly. You can tamper with things for years, and it's artistic laziness sometimes.

David Sanborn

I just kinda like playing. I don't necessarily go on tour to promote my albums. I'm on the road all the time. The fact that I have a new record is out is a coincidence.

Bryan Ferry

Get down with your old Allman Bros. records!

Elton John

Well, I was making a record, and I had to choose a name, because they said, you know, you can't make a record under the name of Reg Dwight, because it's never going to - you know, it's not attractive enough.

Kid Rock

When I was making my first record there would be something that would come out that would inspire you, you know? You'd see someone on TV or on the radio.

Jane Austen

I am fond of history and am very well contented to take the false with the true. In the principal facts they have sources of intelligence in former histories and records, which may be as much depended on, I conclude, as anything that does not actually pass under ones own observation; and as for the little embellishments you speak of, they are embellishments, and I like them as such.

Charles Dickens

Ah, if only I had brought a cigar with me! This would have established my identity.

David Sedaris

It's hard to love a place that's outlawed smoking but finds it perfectly acceptable to serve raw fish in a bath of chocolate.

Cesare Pavese

Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.

Jami Attenberg

You can quit smoking, and never have to have a cigarette again to survive. But with food, it is a daily challenge.

Charles Lamb

For thy sake, tobacco, I would do anything but die.

Charles Lamb

May my last breath be drawn through a pipe, and exhaled in a jest.

Kurt Vonnegut

I'm eighty-three and I've been smoking since I was eleven. I'm suing the cigarette company because it promised to kill me and it hasn't.

John Green

I ran like a cheetah - well, like a cheetah that smoked too much.

Edward Norton

I don't smoke and I don't want to smoke. I am not a fan of gratuitous smoking in films.

Jorge Cruz

We want our voices to be heard. Us students, we will take action. We will stand up for what we believe.

Jeff Olson

The expectations are very high. The standards were set long before I was born.

Boomer Esiason

Nobody, from that standpoint, is any luckier than I am or will ever be any luckier than I am. It's great.

Norma Aviles

Wake up. See what's happening. Today it's me, tomorrow it could be you standing here. It's a place you don't want to stand.

Alan Paton

Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.

Alan Bennett

Of course my standards are out of date! That's why they're called standards.

Bob Doyle

We want to stand on our two feet.

Charles Handy

You have to stand outside the box to see how the box can be re-designed.

Coco Chanel

Keep your heel, head and standards high.

Alan Perlis

Optimization hinders evolution. Everything should be built top-down, except the first time. Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.

Chloe Grace Moretz

I love going to Topshop, Urban Outfitters and American Apparel, I'm in love with their jackets.

Benoit Mandelbrot

Until a few years ago, the topics in my Ph.D. were unfashionable, but they are very popular today.

Brandon Sanderson

...somehow the old philosophers could make even the most salacious topics seem boring.

Bill Gates

I am not topper in my university but all toppers are working in my microsoft company.

Orlando Hudson

We'll be around the top of our division.

Jeff Malloy

She has to be (on the top of her game).

Eduardo Galeano

Unlike solidarity, which is horizontal and takes place between equals, charity is top-down, humiliating those who receive it and never challenging the implicit power relations.

Bruce Feiler

Americans know more about religion than almost any other topic.

James Gray

William Atherton has a very different acting style to Bonnie Bedelia; she has a very different style than Bruce Willis.

Allen Wallace

I thought it was a disappointing year in Arizona. Jermaine Williams was the only top-ranked player.

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