Famous Quotes & Sayings

Murray Kempton

We are a government of laws. Any laws some government hack can find to louse up a man who's down.

Nina Totenberg

I didn't know how much I cared about having a woman on the court until the day there was a woman on the court.

Nina Totenberg

Well no administration ever wants an independent overseer, and there are very good career people who are in charge of this investigation, but it could get hairy.

Alexander Chase

There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

Alexander Chase

A soft refusal is not always taken, but a rude one is immediately believed.

Alexander Chase

The banalities of a great man pass for wit.

Alexander Chase

A shocking occurrence ceases to be shocking when it occurs daily.

Alexander Chase

People, like sheep, tend to follow a leader - occasionally in the right direction.

Alexander Chase

When a machine begins to run without human aid, it is time to scrap it - whether it be a factory or a government.

Alan Price

I use a lot more chords than most organists and I'm careful to phrase them with the guitar.

Chord Overstreet

I got my first instrument for Christmas when I was three or four years old. My parents got me a mandolin because it was the only instrument that would fit me because I was so small. I went straight from that into the drums when I was six, and then I started playing guitar when I was seven or eight.

Dave Edmunds

I never considered myself a songwriter, but now since I've been working with Nick Lowe, I am contributing to an extent. But I'm the guitarist and he's not, so we compliment each other in a way.

Dave Barry

Playing an unamplified electric guitar is like strumming on a picnic table.

Buddy Guy

Why did they keep changing guitars and amplifiers when they were perfect? They did the same things with cars, if you ask me. They forgot how to make them right, because they focused on style and bells and whistles.

Billy Gibbons

Every once in awhile I'll call up Eddie (Van Halen) and ask, Found that fourth chord yet?

David Duchovny

I may be learning guitar, but I'll never be able to sing.

Dee Dee Ramone

I like the guitar better these days. I like the bass, too, but it's hard to fit a bass amp in a small car.

Deb Caletti

I put the guitar back in the case. I can't even look at it anymore. Instead, I want to make brownies. I want an end result there's a recipe for. I want to combine eggs and water and oil and chocolate and flour and sugar and vanilla and get something fulfilling.

Charlie Daniels

I do more writing by myself than with anybody else. My best thing is sitting...around somewhere with a guitar, and having an idea. You never know where it'd come from. Songwriting is a God-given talent.

Charles Dudley Warner

One of the advantages of pure congregational singing is that you can join in the singing whether you have a voice or not. The disadvantage is that your neighbor can do the same.

Alanis Morissette

I started making music because I could.

Alanis Morissette

I am what I am Are you what you are or What?

Alanis Morissette

Writing a song doesn't heal things. Even if the song comes up with a solution, it's still only a theory. Going out and living my lyrics is a whole other deal. That takes courage.

Alanis Morissette

Music helps you find the truths you must bring into the rest of your life.

Al Jarreau

You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues.

Al Jarreau

Once you discover that you can, then you must.

Chris Colfer

I grew up doing musical theater.

Chris Colfer

You don’t get to pick where you’re from, but you always have control of where you’re going.

Roger Dow

Vegas is going to pick up, too, ... If you want to party, everything's there restaurants, gaming.

Benjamin Franklin

Squeamish stomachs cannot eat without pickles.

Jessie Coiffard

We have to get focused. This was pretty much a practice game. Now we have to pick it up and play really hard.

Wes Meier

We're going to have to (wait). There's no reason to pick one right now. It's not clear-cut enough to say one's better than the other.

Gary Williams

We're battling, and that's all you can do. This time of year, you can't make any trades, you can't pick up anybody. You have your team. This is what you do. You go play.

Bobby Bonilla

I don't have a no-trade clause. I figure someone is going to pick me up.

Mohammed Jassim

Soldiers with Kalashnikovs and pickup trucks is not an army,

Chris Masoner

Since then, we just picked it up, and hopefully, we just don't look back.