Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Lewis

Regardless of its geographic origin, people quickly began to notice that the pox traveled from one person to another. They sometimes blamed transmission on common and morally innocuous practices - drinking from a common cup, kissing friends in church, following a syphilitic comrade on the latrine.

Diana Aviv

Our past research shows that adults are twice as likely to volunteer if they began participating when they were teens.

Steve Snyder

Our operations benefited from good but not great market conditions. Electricity prices and spark spreads, particularly in Alberta and the (U.S.) Pacific Northwest were reasonably strong in January and February but began to trend downward in March.

Ralph Friedgen

Our defense was on the field too long, and they began to wear down as the game went on.

Yang Yang

Starting in 1999, I began to join some of the international meetings. Through these activities, I have broadened my horizon to a large extent.

Courtney Pratt

Our results reflect the softening in North American demand and pricing that began in the third quarter of last year and that has continued well into 2005.

Ross Miller

Ours began in 1938 in the Methodist church for the Boy Scouts.

Chris Riddell

Roald Dahl worked with other illustrators, but it was only when he teamed up with Quentin Blake that the chemistry began to fizz. Quentin Blake is Britain's greatest living illustrator and has that special talent all the great illustrators have, of unobtrusive brilliance.

Kate Christensen

Reminded of what a diet really is, I began eating more slowly, being more conscious of when I was full. I started to enjoy my buckwheat bread with goat cheese and pureed butternut-squash soup as a response to real hunger.

Mohamed Abukar

Rebounding is probably the biggest thing that we didn't do as well as we needed to, but that wasn't the reason we lost. We didn't do a lot of things as well as we should have. We lost because of us, not because of Utah.

Willie Parker

Records? I don't really care about that record. The biggest record is that we were the sixth seed and we came in and shocked the world.

Jason Fisher

Relaxation is the perfect word for it. I think the biggest thing for me was knowing it was my last one.

Rachael Scoggin

Our overall goal is to win so that we can have a good winning record. We need to stay mentally focused for 80 minutes. I think that's the biggest struggle that we have had this season.

Todd Heap

Our offensive line has been blocking great and giving him time to relax and throw the ball. That's the biggest thing.

Larry Ellison

Oracle's database and e-Business applications have become the software standard for the Internet, ... All 10 of the world's biggest Web sites use Oracle, as do 93 percent of the public dot.com companies. The faster the Internet grows, the faster we grow.

Ron Hassey

People have to realize that. He won seven gold gloves. It's not like we have to clean him up. The biggest thing right now is learning our pitchers and how they throw. Any catcher that comes over here would have to go through that process.

Paul Dretsch

(Swain) is a freshman, but she's a pretty composed player on the biggest stage.

Leslie Moonves

Steven Bochco has had the biggest hits of the '70s, '80s and '90s. And we hope with 'City of Angels,' it's the biggest hit of the new millennium.

Glynis Johns

Relatives cannot help you in the studios," she says. "You stand or fall by your own efforts.

Mary Wittenberg

Our races are to our sport what Wimbledon, the US and French Opens are to tennis and the Masters, U.S. British Open and PGA championship are to golf.

Tom Baker

ordinary British folk: what is them, who do they and why?

Lee Raymond

Our movie also received offers from French, British and Japanese distribution companies.

Julian Glover

Star Wars was not a very big part but I enjoyed doing it and I get more fan mail for that than anything else I've ever done. It's quite extraordinary, it comes in every day, unbelievable.

Mick Fleetwood

That creates the magic, and that's the wonderment of the musical process and how precious that is.

Shinya Yamada

Pilkington has been in the glass business much longer than Nippon Sheet Glass and they have pride as a British firm, and it would be very difficult for Nippon Sheet Glass to control it.

Shinya Yamada

Pilkington has been in the glass business much longer than Nippon Sheet Glass, and they have pride as a British firm, and it would be very difficult for Nippon Sheet Glass to control it.

Jeremy Spencer

Playing live for a good cause is something I like to do. I like the response of the Indian people, I like their depth and the way they look beyond the surface of things.

Brian Ferneyhough

What effect these nine years have had or will have on my composing I really don't know - probably I'll be the last one to find out.

Tom Hooper

My two great loves when I'm shooting are working with great actors and composing images.

Alison Jackson

If you see everything through the lens, you are constantly composing pictures. I think in pictures; I don't think in text.

Sivamani

When I sit behind that electronic drum, it dominates me; there is no innovation in composing music like that.

Diane Labrosse

Port Symphonies is more of a composing project rather than a conducting project. The score is written in time, in seconds. The notes translate to ship horn on, then ship horn off.

Andre Previn

I run around so much that I finally reasoned that composing is the one musical endeavour which you can do anywhere, anytime.

Trevor Rabin

The process of composing the film score for each movie is completely different. They all have their own personality and their own completely different life, but there's never been a formula. Each time, it's a new thing.

Tony Williams

I think my playing has been orchestral throughout the years, and this is another way of expressing that. But I primarily see it as the ultimate accomplishment of a musician. Composing makes me feel like I've finally gotten all the way up the ladder as a musician.

Hart Bochner

I love directing more than anything in the world, and I love being in the editing room. I love cutting. When I'm shooting, I cut it in my head anyway. That's not to say that it always turns out that way, but you have a sense when you're composing a sequence or a scene how you want it to look anyway.

Stan Heath

Steven fell awkwardly and tweaked his back. He had a sharp pain.

Ron Mason

Some of these people fell through the cracks.

Bob Good

Some of the fellows say they don't remember that, but I remember a lot of it.

Rose Johnson

Someone kept me from drowning, when I fell into the water.

Bryant Hilton

Our financial footing just fell out from under us.

Tom Collen

Out of the shoot, we fell prey to a team that was fired up. When I watched them lose to Temple the other night, I knew we were in trouble.

Julissa Ventura

I went to visit the school and just fell in love with the campus.

Arron Afflalo

I was just trying to mainly guard the 3-point shot. But, he's (Steele) so quick, he made a sudden stop and gained enough space to get a look. Fortunately, it just fell short.

Sidney Crosby

That was a nice goal. I don't know why he fell over. But he did a good job of putting it in.

Kevin Furtado

Pinot noir is very site specific. You can recognize a Russian River style. The area's influences is why the taste is so unique.

Bill Crawford

To influence others, we must know what is influencing them... and they must know that we get it.

Todd Oldham

I want to thank him for being such a kind influence to me personally. There's a lot to learn from someone who celebrates life in that bigness.

Dean Clark

I think there's a tremendous influence on the community.

Peter Fisher

I think that's their major source of influence.

Vicky Rideout

I think parents' media use is probably an important influence on kids' media use.

Jim Haslam

I don't give so I can have influence over there,

Gordon Drummond

James has been a tremendous influence at the club, not only with his performances on the field, but also with his coaching,

Bob Kinniebrew

I would say that every person who is successful in the mortgage and title business, Mel had an influence on.

Kelly Ripa

Regis is not fired. He's just on special assignment. And we love each other.

Clare Balding

Particularly when you're young, you're terribly flattered by people who like you, so you think you love them.

Jessica Alba

Paul loves the water. It seems like that's where he's the most happy.

Bryn Terfel

People have come up to me in the street saying 'Hey Meatloaf, I love that song you do, Two Out of Three Ain't Bad,'

Phil Magney

People just want to track their loved ones. It?s as simple as that.

John Harrigan

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

James Alexander

People need a powerful PC to run XP, which is why PC makers love it.

Richard Walker

People immediately love them because they think they are a lot cleverer than they really are.

Luis Diaz

People here are paying thousands to get their loved ones killed.

Sully Erna

Our music is very simple and doesn't go over people's heads, ... Simplicity has been the recipe for us so far.

Estelle

Success is based on music, not where you're from.

Keith Richards

Other than its sense of rhythm, it's music by the tone-deaf for the tone-deaf.

Walter Becker

Play what you enjoy! Try and find your own musical identity.

Bela Bartok

I cannot conceive of music that expresses absolutely nothing.

Bela Bartok

His pagan barbarity, his explosive and angrily defiant melancholy, his demoniacal instinct . . . these are all echoes . . . of the thousand-year-old Hungarian psyche.

Barry Mann

I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction.

B. B. King

Michael Bloomfield came in after rock n roll started, and he was a great guitarist. He idolized me - I know that. What else can I say ? he was a young, excitable man. To him, drugs were plentiful, and that was no good. I talked to him like he was a son of mine. He was a great and he was gonna be greater. But he was part of the "in-crowd" and so he never got there

B. B. King

The Blues? It's the mother of American music. That's what is is - the source.

Arthur Vint

Now we have more recordings of us playing, which is great.

Leonard Sharenow

This is the first time I have seen the allegation that they have recordings or summaries of Erin Finn.

Robert Greene

I will say it's been a while since we've been this healthy,

Shane Valdez

I think that's the first time since I've been here that we had everyone qualify.

Charles Djou

I think he sincerely wants recycling. Can't we do this right?

Kenny Thomas

I'm starting. Since no one has told me, I'm starting.

Asaf Shariv

I don't know about anything since then that is new.

Dale Scott

He'd been disgruntled since the sixth inning, so it was time for him to go.

Stieg Larsson

I started to write in 2001. I wrote the books for the fun of it. It was an old idea I had had since the nineties.

Ned Colletti

I take nothing for granted. I know the value of finances, I know the value of people. I've had to be street-smart since I was a little kid,

Ken Slater

Burlington will be a big challenge, to see where we're at. It (Friday's game) will be something that will tell us what kind of a team we have and if we've made improvements since Christmas.

Darius Rucker

Our sound is a combination of a lot of influences,

B. J. Novak

Battered Women: sounds delicious. Doesn’t make it right.

Bhagat Singh

If the deaf are to hear the sound has to be very loud

Saddam Hussein

The arguments were sound then, and they are sound now,'' said Fox.

Steve Doocy

That's what it was all about. You didn't want to sound like KLWN; you didn't want to be Top 40.

Martin Freeman

I think acting is all about the other people. Sounds like a worthy thing to say, but it's true.

Paul Briggs

It doesn't sound like you have an incubator.

Rick Christman

It doesn't sound like a lot, but they do a whole lot of work.

Timothy Chaucer

It does kind of sound like the writing is on the wall with this issue, doesn't it?