Famous Quotes & Sayings

One of my major objectives is to build a long-term enterprise, to build shareholder value over time.

Ntozake Shange

White people use their literature to maintain culture. That's why you find references to Milton and Spencer and Shakespeare and Dostoyevsky in contemporary novels.

Curtis Mayfield

As a kid, sometimes you have nobody to turn to. I could always go back to some of the sermons and talk to myself in a righteous manner and put that in a song.

Craig McCracken

First, there was 2 Stupid Dogs. Then, Dexter's Laboratory. And now, Powerpuff Girls. There were a lot of little things in between, but those were the main ones." ()

Publilius Syrus

The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself.

Philip Dick

Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.

Phil Jackson

You have to be able to psychologically help your players, support-wise, be in touch with them, so I think managing people is very important.

Rachel Corrie

Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with.

Nuno Bettencourt

It's just a bunch of songs. I'm not trying to cure any major disease.

Nuno Bettencourt

A band is like a marriage - you don't know why it works, but when it does, everything feels right.

Pablo Casals

I am perhaps the oldest musician in the world. I am an old man but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life, and to say things to the world that are true.

Cynthia Ozick

Profound subject matter can be encompassed in small space - for proof, look at any sonnet by Shakespeare!

Coolio

I know I'm just one man trying to do one thing, and the next day is not promised to any man. I'm very humble.

Edward Coke

We have a maxim in the House of Commons, and written on the walls of our houses, that old ways are the safest and surest ways.

Drummond Money-Coutts

Magic, historically, has been a man doing tricks with no wider story behind it.

Paul Hawken

Really, the proper study of economics is fulfilment, not consumption... It doesn't even matter if it's a green product or a green house... It's still consumption. What matters in this world is the fulfilment of people's needs and the fulfilment of their aspirations.

Paul Anka

I wrote 'She's a Lady' on the back of a TWA menu, flying back from London after doing Tom Jones's TV show. Jones's manager wanted me to write him a song. If I have an idea and I don't have a pad of paper, I'll write on whatever is available. What's the difference? Paper is paper.

Paul Theroux

Travel magazines are just one cupcake after another. They're not about travel. The travel magazine is, in fact, about the opposite of travel. It's about having a nice time on a honeymoon, or whatever.

A learned man has always riches in himself.

Paul Merton

Maybe there's a perception of me as grumpy old bugger who suffers from depression. It's a total misconception. I don't think of myself as any grumpier than the next person. I'm not even grumpy first thing in the morning.

Paul Kantner

One of the main things we learned as a band in those days was not to be the headliner.

Each man has his own desires; all do not possess the same inclinations.

We played well when it mattered and pulled it out, and that's all that mattered.

We played another solid game. Maybe more solid than spectacular.

Jerry Sloan

We played a lot harder. That's the main thing. That was interesting that we did that.

We plan to play a season no matter how that happens.

We presented all the options, but the president and the two vice-presidents want to see the first match before making any decision.

Terry Gilliam

Actually, I began to think that maybe there is a god, after all. Or maybe it's a different one. The old one got fired.

Ted Lindsay

The owners and managers were too stupid to realize we had brains.

Stewart Butterfield

People think I'm smart because Flickr was successful. I'm lucky. Maybe I'm smart, too. But, I'm lucky.

Seinabo Sey

I suddenly got used to that feeling of being in control, which I never, ever feel when I'm not onstage - a feeling that you're the master of your own universe.

A mate of mine said recently said a lot of stuff sounds like you're listening to it outside, but also like you're surrounded by it, and I think that's quite similar.

Tom Colicchio

Don't touch my napkin. I do not want the server to pick up the napkin and put it on my lap. I know it belongs there; maybe I don't choose to put it there.