Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aya Cash

I think it's very hard to go into the same business as your family when you're an artist.

Avicii

I always used to travel without a passport case, and because of it I think I'm four passports in. I bought this small Tumi case to protect my new one, and it works really well, not just for protecting it but also for keeping credit cards and small stuff. I just throw it in my bag when I'm traveling, as opposed to stuffed in my pocket.

Avicii

Obviously there is stuff that I wouldn't play in a club that I play at festivals, and vice-versa, but my sets are still dominated largely by my own music. I think that's what makes me stand out a bit. My music is also festival- and club-friendly, so it generally works out well.

Axl Rose

I like feeling a sense of unity with the crowd even though everybody might be thinking something different.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

By declaring our Prophet infallible and not permitting ourselves to question him, we Muslims had set up a static tyranny. The Prophet Muhammad attempted to legislate every aspect of life. By adhering to his rules of what is permitted and what is forbidden, we Muslims supressed the freedom to think for ourselves and to act as we chose. We froze the moral outlook of billions of people into the mind-set of the Arab desert in the seventh century. We were not just servants of Allah, we were slaves.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

I think of Canada, first and foremost, in terms of space. The amount of space available is breathtaking.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

No one in the American Enterprise imposes their beliefs. We clash, and I think that's what the West is all about.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

In 2010, I suggested that if you are a good Muslim with a good conscience, go and look for a better God, and I think that was juvenile of me.

Avril Lavigne

I think it's important to find a line that suits your body, your body type, that you're comfortable in.

Avril Lavigne

I think it's awesome,

Arthur Erickson

Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.

Arthur Eddington

We often think that when we have completed our study of one we know all about two, because 'two' is 'one and one.' We forget that we still have to make a study of 'and.'

Arthur Eddington

We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about 'and'.

Arthur Eddington

The idea of a universal mind or Logos would be, I think, a fairly plausible inference from the present state of scientific theory.

Arthur Golden

I tried to continue, but somehow my throat made up its mind to swallow – though I can’t think what I was swallowing, unless it was a little knot of emotion I pushed back down because there was no room in my face for any more.

Arthur Golden

If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was.

Arthur Golden

I will think of you every time I need to be reminded that there is beauty and goodness in the world.

Arthur Conan Doyle

I should be very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen who can twist steel pokers into knots. That and a tooth-brush are, I think, all that we need.

Arthur Conan Doyle

It is decreed by a merciful Nature that the human brain cannot think of two things simultaneously . . .

Arthur Conan Doyle

So swift, silent and furtive were his movements like those of a trained bloodhound picking out a scent, that I could not but think what a terrible criminal he would have made had he turned his energy and sagacity against the law instead of exerting them in its defense. -Dr. Watson, The Sign of the Four

Arthur Conan Doyle

I am inclined to think -' said I. `I should do so,' Sherlock Holmes remarked impatiently.

Arthur Conan Doyle

You never tire of the moor. You cannot think the wonderful secrets which it contains. It is so vast, and so barren, and so mysterious.

Arthur Bloch

If your project doesn't work, look for the part that you didn't think was important.

Arthur C. Clarke

I suspect that religion is a necessary evil in the childhood of our particular species. And that's one of the interesting things about contact with other intelligences: we could see what role, if any, religion plays in their development. I think that religion may be some random by-product of mammalian reproduction. If that's true, would non-mammalian aliens have a religion?

Arthur C. Clarke

I sometimes think that the universe is a machine designed for the perpetual astonishment of astronomers.

Anton Chekhov

One must not put a loaded rifle on the stage if no one is thinking of firing it.

Anton Chekhov

My business is to be talented, that is, to be capable of selecting the important moments from the trivial ones. . . . It's about time for writers - particularly those who are genuine artists - to recognize that in this world you cannot figure out everything. Just have a writer who the crowds trust be courageous enough and declare that he does not understand everything, and that alone will represent a major contribution to the way people think, a long leap forward.

Anton Chekhov

If there's any illness for which people offer many remedies, you may be sure that particular illness is incurable, I think.

Anton Chekhov

I should think I'm going to be a perpetual student.

Anton Chekhov

Watching a woman make Russian pancakes, you might think that she was calling on the spirits or extracting from the batter the philosopher's stone.

Anton Chekhov

Do you see that tree? It is dead but it still sways in the wind with the others. I think it would be like that with me. That if I died I would still be part of life in one way or another.

Belinda Carlisle

However, if you listen to me I think you can hear years of abuse in my voice - both bad abuse and good abuse.

Bela Fleck

I think the musical evolution I've gone through has come from all the work with the material.