Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dave Grohl

When I joined Nirvana, I was the fifth or sixth drummer - I don't know if they'd ever had a drummer they were totally happy with. And they were strangers. There was never much of a deeper connection outside of the music.

Colbie Caillat

Songwriting is like a therapy, it's a connection that you have with another person, and I'm not scared of it at all for some reason.

We are so involved. Everyone works in Washington. Everyone is connected to Washington.

To the extent that the architectural or engineering services are connected to home construction, they could slow down more in the future.

Isaiah Washington

I've written a book; I've become a better husband and father because I'm home every day. My connection to the Hollywood world has only been through Facebook.

A. R. Rahman

It's true that I love to connect with my fans on the social networking sites, but I try not to go overboard, ever. I just give people a peek into my mind space, but never bombard them with my tweets.

Ian Caldwell

I write about modern people who share a deep sense of connection to the mysteries of the past. I find that I understand myself and my world better when I'm able to peer into history as a mirror.

Isabel Allende

It is in giving that I connect with others, with the world and with the divine.

Isabel Allende

Everything I write has to be connected to my life. One of the things that always comes up in my writing is the search for freedom, especially in women.

Hunter Hayes

Country music busts the wall between performer and audience. There's a connection because there's a vulnerability, a confessional quality, to so much of the songwriting. Those lyrics take you in.

Hill Harper

We're living in a time, unfortunately, where, you know, a lot of young men, particularly young men of color, being raised by single mothers. And their mothers so desperately want to connect with them, but I found, in talking with a lot of young men, that sometimes it's difficult.

Hilary Mantel

Since I was a very small child, I've had a kind of reverence for the past, and I felt a very intimate connection with it.

Glenn Greenwald

When I was talking to strangers over the Internet in the 1990s, there would be a much more intense connection because they're disembodied, so it's just your brain and your soul interacting with this other person, and it just frees you up in this incredibly empowering way.

R. A. Salvatore

This little hobbit saves the world. The wizard kills the dragon and saves the town. So many people connect to that character; it doesn't matter if it's an elf or a hobbit or a dwarf. It doesn't matter. They're human in their heart and soul.

Sharon Lawrence

My problem is: as a singer and a dancer, if I get it in my body one way, it is harder for me to be open to something new - to something else; to something that is really organically connected to the piece and not just to my perception of it.

Everywhere we go, people can connect to it.

William Goldman

Fact: "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" is, no question, the most popular thing I've ever been connected with. When I die, if the Times gives me an obit, it's going to be because of Butch.

Pat Gillick

Fans here are rabid, ... It's important that you connect to them.

But of course this silly legislative effort has nothing to do with encouraging personal responsibility and everything to do with pleasing a powerful and politically connected industry.

Pia Toscano

I just want to make everybody feel what I'm singing. And just to relate to me and know that this has been dream since I was a little girl. I've worked so hard for this, and I just want them to connect with me.

Patricia Heaton

I've always felt a spiritual connection with acting. And I felt whole when I was onstage.

We were given a 100-percent funding for the first time in 2005. At present, in connection with the president's demand that the deployment of the GLONASS system be expedited, we are specifying the program.

Typically, the infective vector is a laptop connected to unsecured networks,

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Traveling is like gambling: it is always connected with winning and losing, and generally where it is least expected we receive, more or less than what we hoped for.

Melissa Manchester

Yeah, you know, I performed occasionally. I was in such despair because I just - if I didn't have my music to connect with, I couldn't figure out what I was supposed to be doing. There was never a 'B' plan here; it was just this. So it took me a long time to find my way.

Brian McCann

You know, he's one of the greatest pitchers of all time. Just to get a pitch up, out over the plate, and I connected - it was neat.

Bill Paxton

When I first read the Eddie Lowery connection in the script, I thought this scenario was created because it was Disney making the movie,

Peyton Manning

We know these people; these people know us. We have a connection to these people.

Hedi Slimane

Music has shaped men's fashion, and transposed in a playful and witty manner its riding or military heritage. It is difficult to figure out who leads, but music and fashion are connected genetically.

Gene Luen Yang

I would hope that maybe math teachers could use 'Prime Baby' as a way of establishing an emotional connection between students and numbers.

Most important, this map shows undeveloped areas. It shows connectivity between resources. There's a lot of connection for wildlife to move around properly between habitats.

Mercury is sometimes naturally occurring in the state, it is not always connected to mining tailings. We are trying to identify where it is and where it is not, so the testing is a multi-year project.

Jenny Lewis

When you're talking about your own music every day, listening to bands, going to festivals, you can kind of lose sight of your initial connection with music. Instrumental music - especially jazz - helps me refocus.