Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bobby Womack

When I first played New York, it was with James Brown at the Apollo, and I was playing in a band under the name The Valentinos. I remember Sam Cooke saying, 'I want you to go in there with James Brown. I couldn't be as hard on you as James Brown would be.' But we came out marching like soldiers.

Allison Tolman

I really respect the Coen brothers as directors and as creative individuals and with the way that they handle the industry and the business side of things.

ASAP Ferg

Chris Brown owns 14 of my belts. Swizz Beatz owns a zillion of my belts. They were supporting me before I was even anybody.

Sara Shepard

Judy Blume especially sort of broke the boundaries of what is appropriate and what should be written about - what teenagers are actually doing.

Henry Petroski

The space shuttle was designed, at least in part, to broaden our knowledge of the universe. To scientists, the vehicle was a tool; to engineers, it was their creation.

Guy Spier

I do not use short selling. The fund has not shorted a stock since the 2002 to 2003 time frame. At that time I did short three stocks, on which I broke even on two and made money on one of them. The experience taught me that I was not going to be using short selling going forward for a slew of reasons.

Gregg Allman

'Queen of Hearts' is one I'm really proud of because I worked so hard on it, and then I was told it wasn't good enough to be included on an Allman Brothers album. That directly led me to go into the studio and cut 'Laid Back,' my first solo release. So 'Queen of Hearts' is special to me.

Gregory Benford

My brother Jim and I shared a womb without a view for nine months.

The price has risen in defiance of the broader inventory picture as investors seek out the next hot commodity.

Walter Kirn

What should be, is.' As my grandmother explained it to our family the winter she lost three fingertips to frostbite when the furnace in her little house broke and she fell and cracked a hip while trying to light it, 'Accepting life's imperfections is not the secret. The secret, dears, is to understand life has none. How could it? We've got nothing to compare it to. We can dream something up, of course- some pretty maybe life where fingers are very hard and indestructible- but that's pure mischief, darlings. Fingers freeze. It's one of the things they like to do sometimes.

What she brought to our young kids was a role model. She brought more than points and blocks.

Cindy Morgan

I come from a broadcast background where I just prefer a lighter approach to my performance.

Eddy Curry

With coach Brown things are liable to change at any moment. You never really know, ... If you're not playing hard or he feels you're not doing the right thing, he's going to get you out. It's ultimately up to him to decide who he wants in the game.

Pope John

While I pray for those who are hit by this scourge, I encourage those in the Church who carry out an invaluable service of acceptance, care and spiritual accompaniment to our brothers and sisters.

Bryant Gumbel

While I am naturally disappointed that the show didn't fare better in the ratings, I am pleased with the quality of the broadcast we created. I remain grateful for the opportunity I had to make CBS a competitive presence in the morning.

Without the community's involvement, we wouldn't have brought this thing to closure.

David Anders

Without Mr. Sullivan's cooperation, it is likely that Ebbers would never have been brought to justice. I think it's fair to describe his efforts as exceptional.

Without immigrants, we never would've built this place. There were about 100 Japanese here that raised crops of lettuce and peas. The railroad companies brought in migrant workers. The Chinese and Native Americans built the railroads, and a lot were Irish, German or some other nationality.

Without her I would not be the same person. She was always there if I needed to talk. She was the kind of teacher that broke the teacher-student rules. She saw kids with old clothes that looked rough and she would help them. She would help them be better people.

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Sam Hunt

Within the songwriting community, there are these unwritten rules for the way that a song should be written in country music, and I think that those rules are constantly being broken over the years, and the molds change and the process is evolving.

Ricardo Lagos

We need to be more careful, but more compassionate. We must strike, not deal with terrorists, but to broaden our understanding of the world outside our borders.

When you're at the top of the tree, teams try to force some things. I think we saw that tonight with Flower Mound. They tried to force the issue and we broke them down.

We will have brought back about 25,000 people to the parish. We have restaurant owners and store owners who every day thank me for us being open because they're seeing their business picking up dramatically.

When I wrestle someone at 103, they're not as strong as what I'm used to because I wrestle my brother so much.

We've played better than that. We're just trying to get that momentum we brought from Boise.

Dave Wannstedt

We watched the Notre Dame tapes, and I brought them back in here at 7 p.m. on Sunday night and I personally gave them a scouting report on Ohio University, and that was it,

We wanted to find someone who brought a new level of intensity and a fresh vision toward this organization. There is no question in my mind that Dean will give us a realistic chance of competing for the Stanley Cup in the long-term.

We had some very skilled people in our group. A few do home construction and remodeling. I just brought my enthusiasm.

John Cusack

We'd been waiting decades to work together. Finally. I love John. He brought so much of himself to the character, so much improvisation, very encouraging and very free.

Kenny Wallace

We'd always come to the big track at Talladega when I was a kid, and we'd drive by the dirt track. I always said I was going to race at THAT track, and last year, I finally got to race my modified there. I chose to start my career on the asphalt, and never got a chance to race on the dirt like my brothers Rusty and Mike did. So now, I'm just catching up.

Kevin Smith

The president of HCI has worked pretty hard to resolve problems that have been brought to him.