Famous Quotes & Sayings

Soul lyrics, soul music came at about the same time as the civil rights movement, and it's very possible that one influenced the other.

I came up in hip-hop, where people value the ability to tell it straight.

Seamus Heaney

I came from a farming background, and my career was teaching.

Stephen Stills

That was when Neil discovered Jack Nietzsche. They went off and pretty much came up with that by themselves, but I thought it was a great song, and I was more than happy to do my harmony parts on it.

Sarah Gadon

Movement is very important to a character, no matter what period you're working in. So when it came to playing Emma Jung and lacing up in the corset, it was really not a foreign thing for me.

Sarah Gadon

I'm really into acquiring film paraphernalia - that's my hobby. I love old movie posters, cameras and film reels.

When I was 26 or 27, I gave up journalism. I came to England after my mom died, to let serendipity take its course. And I just found myself back in journalism again.

Gerard Butler

When I was a vocalist, a lead singer in a rock band, I was a law student at the time. It wasn't a professional rock band, it was for fun. I was already way out of that by the time Phantom came along. Having to learn to sing, it was such duress, having to really try and get to such a quality.

Gia Coppola

Costumes say a lot about a character. When it came to 'Palo Alto,' it was important for me that the kids didn't look perfect. In most teen movies today, all of the clothes are expensive. I remember wearing a lot of dirty vintage clothes.

Gene Kelly

I didn't want to be a dancer. I just did it to work my way through college. But I was always an athlete and gymnast, so it came naturally.

Go Ah-sung

I got Elliott Smith's photography book as a gift before. The publisher of that book's logo were glasses, and those glasses came to my mind when I was thinking of having a tattoo.

George Mastras

I started writing prose before I started writing television. Then 'Breaking Bad' came around, and to me, writing 'Breaking Bad' is like writing a novel each season. So it's been very creatively satisfying writing for the show.

Gregory Benford

Congress came to see NASA primarily as a jobs program, not an exploratory agency.

George Smoot

When I came to Berkeley, I met all these Nobel laureates and I got to know that they were regular people. They were very smart and very motivated and worked very hard, but they were still humans, whereas before they were kind of mythical creatures to me.

Ben Mendelsohn

Let me give you a little Mendelsohn 101: I came up in television in the early- to mid- 1980s in Australia.

When you go into a bar, there are hundreds and hundreds of cameras in that bar - many of them installed by that bar. They might be checking something or taking a picture of you.

When you get to this point, you have to play all four quarters. We were making a charge and I told the guys this would have to be the hardest final five minutes they have ever played. We just came up a little short.

The price index came in higher and that kind of confirms expectations for at least two more rate hikes from the Fed.

The players knew their assignments. (Central Michigan) came out and made plays. We didn't.

Richard Davis

The players had heard me talk about how nice this market is going to be for them, and they got to see it firsthand. It woke up the players' eyes. We came away with a renewed sense of urgency.

The players are very confident after playing and having the success we had last year. We came up just short of our goal and I'm excited about this year.

What kept us going was our defense came up with some big plays. We had good field position and all those factors worked together for us.

We were talking about (Steel), and it just came together at the hospital. She ended up going into labor right before the Cincinnati-Pittsburgh game so we thought the whole thing was fortuitous, so that clinched the deal.

We were surprised because (news about) the report came not from the (East Timor) government but from another party. As yet, we haven't seen it.

We've got to do better than that one inning. We've got to get an out when they give us one with the bunt. But we righted the ship, (Danny) Farquhar came in and got a couple of big outs and Chad (Beck) did what he's supposed to do in the ninth.

Mark E. Smith

We've got to do a better job of getting in the shooting lanes and clearing guys out in front. Three of those came from shots from the point. That's something we have to work on, and take away from their game.

Bengie Molina

We've got to come in and do our thing. We're not just any player on the team. We came here knowing what we need to do.

We've got to be happy with our third period and how we came together down the stretch. But we've got to be embarrassed about the first two periods.

Chad Greenway

We've just got to come together. We have to play Iowa football. We didn't do that, but give the credit to Iowa State. They came out ready to go. They're obviously a very talented team and they had a lot of weapons and shut us down.

We've hung on in a couple of games lately. We came through at the end.

Gerard Butler

Angelina came up, and as soon as we said hello, I thought, This is going to be great. I'm really going to love doing this with her. And I did. And then I was very excited to do the movie after that.

Gerard Butler

I remember when 'Grease' came out, I used to force my mum to try and grease my hair back, and it was never long enough, and literally I'd be screaming at her, 'Do it. Just do it!'.

Helen Hunt Jackson

On the king's gate the moss grew gray; The king came not. They call'd him dead; And made his eldest son, one day, Slave in his father's stead.