Famous Quotes & Sayings

B. B. King

I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.

Tom Scholz

I will say that I know Nirvana did a show and played a few chords from 'More Than a Feeling' before they did 'Teen Spirit,' and it wasn't very good. But in all seriousness, 'Teen Spirit' was a great song. If subconsciously or somehow I had any influence on that, I'll take that as a compliment.

Willie Nelson

I always thought Hank Williams was a great person to listen to, ... because his messages were simple, to the point, usually just three chords but they hit you right in the bone.

Will Chase

Over the years, I've had to learn to play. For example, when 'Lennon' was on Broadway, I learned my way around the guitar chords because originally we were all going to play the instruments without a band.

Vince Clarke

With a track like 'White Christmas,' everybody has done that song in every format you can imagine, so I just looked at the chords at that particular song and what chords would make it work. That's kind of quite a sad song, and I had this idea of someone singing it in the subway, someone who is homeless, old and sad.

Benjamin Disraeli

When we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, and opening quotation is a symphony precluding on the chords those tones we are about to harmonize.

Anna Jameson

Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather

Eddie Trunk

The power chords in 'Come Sail Away' were super heavy to me as a kid. Metal? No. Hard rock? At times, for sure.

Patti Smith

The reason we did 'Land of a Thousand Dances' and 'Gloria' on 'Horses' was because I liked repetitious, three-chord rock songs, but I didn't understand that I could write my own. I didn't realize that you could use those chords a million times.

Richard Flanagan

In 1995, the Paul Keating Labor government commissioned an inquiry into the forcible removal of Aboriginal children.

Nina Daniels

People just have to have an open mind and a better understanding of the sport. People don't really understand it, and how it works.

Gitte Lindgaard

People make up their mind very, very quickly about how much they like what they see.

Jon Gruden

Some of those runs you will never forget. And you may never see them again. Those are the one where you say 'Oh, my God! Oh, my God!' They are runs etched in your mind forever.

Chris Martin

Some people are into bondage... and some people are into crossdressing... and some people are into Coldplay. It's okay, I don't mind being a fetish.

Allan Ray

That comes with experience. We've been through this. We know we can come back if we put our mind to it.

B. R. Ambedkar

Freedom of mind is the proof of one's existence

B. R. Ambedkar

Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.

B. F. Skinner

A person's genetic endowment, a product of the evolution of the species, is said to explain part of the workings of his mind and his personal history the rest.

Bhumibol Adulyadej

Nature is something outside our body, but the mind is within us.

Anders Igel

Our acquisition strategy is still very much the same as before, but we are opening up our thinking a little.

Mark Buehrle

I think I'll be ready for Opening Day. I could go right now.

Jana Lindsey

It hasn't sunk in yet and probably won't until the Opening Ceremony.

Mike Gonzalez

I feel like I'm right where I need to be. I feel like I'm really sharp right now and ready to pitch in a regular-season game. I wish opening day was tomorrow.

Barry Bonds

If Opening Day was tomorrow and I had to go out there, I'd go out there. It's what I get paid to do.

Brian Roberts

I think, without a setback, I don't see why I won't be ready for Opening Day. I haven't really put that much thought into Tuesday yet.

Bill Cowher

If we were opening up (the regular season) tomorrow, I think that's the way I'd go,

Dan Hedges

If they come away from your opening statement confused, you're in big trouble for the rest of the trial.

Anthony Geary

I have friends in France who are artists. I go to gallery openings and things like that.

Kevan Barlow

Regardless if it's Terrell Owens or Marvin Harrison, we are going to prepare the same way.

C. S. Lewis

Whatever you do, He will make good of it. But not the good He had prepared for you if you had obeyed him.

Steven Smith

I think the schools are prepared for some reduction.

Mike Rader

That was a simple little thing to throw at them, but that's why we prepare for it.

Dan McTeague

I think they were better prepared for this.

Marc Shapiro

I wish I could tell you, ... We're cooperating with all investigations, and we're prepared to do that as long as it takes.

Billy Corgan

I think rock & roll has prepared me for a lot of flexibility.

Mike Degory

It is early. It's an excuse. We have to prepare better.

Sue Ellett

I didn't want to prepare for that, so I didn't. I just told them I was so proud of them, all the things they went through.

Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting.

Barbara Pym

Those quotations were really quite obscure. Anyone can see that he is a very well read man.

Ambrose Bierce

Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

Charles Buxton

Proverbs are potted wisdom.

Samuel Johnson

Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.

Martin Gardner

Wouldn't the sentence 'I want to put a hyphen between the words Fish and And and And and Chips in my Fish-and-Chips sign' have been clearer if quotation marks had been placed before Fish, and between Fish and and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and Chips, as well as after Chips?

Paul Eldridge

Authors hide their big thefts by putting small ones between quotation marks.

James Joyce

Quotation marks quotato marks! Bah!

William Safire

Avoid overuse of 'quotation “marks.”'

Joan Armatrading

Just an hour with you, and I understand why we had to meet.

James Boswell

I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding.

John Hope

I grew up thinking that you were supposed to read and write all your waking hours.

James Boswell

He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.

Khaleda Zia

Does any one know the number of illegal arms in the country?

Robert Anderson

I expect we will become more demanding as citizens.

Mangosuthu Buthelezi

I remain your servant and I will do as you ask of me.

Brian Koslow

One way to evaluate your own reputation is to think about what would be said of you at your eulogy.

Brian Koslow

During a negotiation, it would be wise not to take anything personally. If you leave personalities out of it, you will be able to see opportunities more objectively.

Aaron Copland

Listening to the Fifth Symphony of Ralph Vaughan Williams is like staring at a cow for 45 minutes.

Sharon Long

Some of it will go to have the Tupelo Symphony back with us this year.

Eduard Hanslick

So long as we refuse to include lottery tickets among the symphonies, or medical bulletins among the overtures, we must refrain from treating the emotions as an aesthetic monopoly of music in general or a certain piece of music in particular.

Edward Abbey

Mozart, striving for perfection, wrote the same symphony forty-one times. In his case, it worked. He wrote a perfect symphony.

Edward Abbey

The critics say that Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony has no form. They are wrong; it has the form of Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony.

Edward Abbey

Anton Bruckner wrote the same symphony nine times, trying to get it just right. He failed.

Atul Gawande

When I do an operation, it's half a dozen people. When it goes beautifully, it's like a symphony, with everybody playing their part.

Aleister Crowley

Having to talk destroys the symphony of silence.

Alfred Schnittke

I attempt to compose symphonies, although it is clear to me that logically it is pointless.

Matt Ryan

'The Descent,' 'Dog Soldiers,' those films, I've loved for years, and the tones of those.