Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Levy

We were at a crossroads, and Barry and I decided we wanted to put more money in, and Glenn looked at the situation and didn't want to lose more money. You have to realize, as the majority owner, Glenn was taking the majority of the losses.

Erich Bergen

I get tips from Bob Gaudio. And one of my songs somehow caught the attention of one of my idols, Marty Panzer, who wrote big hits for Barry Manilow. So two guys who inspired me to write lyrics are now teaching me to write.

Rick Tocchet

When your confidence is down the last thing you want to do is scream at the players too much. But we were playing tentative and (associate head coach) Barry Smith and I had to get on them a little bit. We were on our heels, and championship teams play on their toes, not on their heels.

Mayor Slifka

There is no question that Jim Francis is the right man for the job because he will be able to step in on day one and be ready to help us with the many challenges facing our community. Jim has worked closely with Barry Feldman over the past 20 years and has a proven financial management record and an excellent working relationship with the financial community.

Stan Conte

We're going to play a lot off of what Barry tells us, because he's the only one who knows how his knee is going to feel. It's always going to be a day-to-day, week-to-week, month-to- month thing. You can't help but be pleased that he came here, he did some good stuff, he left, and we'll see how it is tomorrow.

Moises Alou

Since Barry came back, it's really made this team a lot better. It's a whole different game. Hopefully we can keep playing the way are playing, and I think we will.

Felipe Alou

Most teams know Barry didn't play a lot in spring training. They want to find out how he's swinging the bat. The only way to do that is to pitch to him.

Larry Elder

Mired in a batting slump, Bonds sat in the locker room and complained about his uncharacteristic struggle to get his offense going. I can't put my finger on the problem, said Barry aloud. I'm struggling. Can't buy a hit. Bonds then looked up and noticed a chronically poor-hitting teammate nearby. Bonds turned to him and said something like - you must feel like this all the time.

Roy McFarland

With the same three injuries to Wayne Allison, Shane Nicholson and Barry Roche, it means it's the same side as last time. They'll be given the chance to redeem themselves and rectify things and I'm sure they'll be hungry to do so.

Hootie Johnson

We have never been worried about scores. Our greatest concern has always been that the course be kept current with the times. Change has been a constant at Augusta National, starting in the earliest years of the tournament. Bobby Jones made innumerable modifications to the layout, and that philosophy continues to this day.

Jeremy Warren

We have some challenges to overcome in terms of fund-raising, but Bob is definitely getting his message out.

Craig Zadan

When Fosse died (in 1987), a lot of people who loved his film work felt very sad because in his career he didn't do very many of them. This is truly a lost Bob Fosse movie.

Tom Odell

I think everyone mentions Bob Dylan, but he's someone I just admire so much as a songwriter. I think people write songs, and then there's Bob Dylan songs. He's one step ahead of just everybody else.

Thomas Mallon

Bobby Kennedy's conduct toward Lyndon Johnson was childish and despicable. As the years went on, he displayed nasty, self-pitying, and messianic qualities that would have made him a dangerously authoritarian president.

Tommy Bond

The reason that MGM hired Bobby for Our Gang was that they could look at him and say, cry, and he'd cry, and not many kids can do that unless they really want to cry.

Tommy Bond

Bobby and I have been to various reunions of Our Gang. We've been to like three or four reunions over the past 15 years or so. We were at one in Palm Springs, California.

John Mellencamp

I was one of those guys, you know, playing and singing, and there was no reason for me to write a song, because there were so many beautiful songs out. And Bob Dylan was always the ultimate songwriter, and nobody could ever write a song as good as him, and nobody ever has written a song as good as him.

Alan Hansen

I go by records and Bob Paisley is the No 1 manager ever!

The Eagles

We want to put it on the defense's shoulders. More than anything we want to score on defense. We weren't able to do that, but we held on long enough so those guys could pick it up. They got in their rhythm and they did their thing.

Kevin Garnett

We have to hang on to our leads. We give them away like they're candy. It's frustrating. You have to understand the personnel. We have a young team. Our guys haven't been in these situations, and they're learning.

Sean Payton

We have to get some of these heavy guys up to speed quick.

Brian McClennan

We have no stars in our camp. For us to win we have to have 17 guys playing well." ()

John Tortorella

We have no problems with those three guys being in the lineup this time of year.

Rodney Harrison

We have so many veteran guys like Willie McGinest, Mike Vrabel, Richard Seymour, Larry Izzo, guys that have been in the fire. We lose those two guys (Bruschi and Johnson), but other guys have really stepped up to really meet that challenge.

Robbie Reiser

When everyone had written us out of the chase, that spurred these guys on, and we weren't going to go down without a fight.

Avery Johnson

We want our main guys to start playing now. You'll see some different looks.

Gary Tague

We were a young team that just missed on some things last year. This year, most of those guys are back.

Stephen Ryan

We have had 6,000 hits in the first 24 hours,

Sugar Ray Leonard

The time to stop is when the other guy hits you more than you hit him.

Joe Farmer

We want to sure that if that storm hits South Carolina, people will have ample time to get out of its way.

Greg Sims

We're hitting the ball. Just not at the right times. We haven't been able to put together a combination of hits in the same inning.

Donald Lowe

When the meteor hits the surface, it instantaneously melts and vaporizes rock, and that rock vapor is sucked right back up the hole into the atmosphere,

Joe Vitt

There is no question. It's a point of pride for the players, for the coaches, for our families. When a man's butt hits the ground, a man better get back up again. We were kicked down last week, and we've got to rise.

Becky Harrold

When we got the passes, we could not get our hits to fall. We were doing all the things we needed to do, but were not doing them well enough.

Barry Shelton

Maybe we used up all of our hits yesterday.

Curt Schilling

Seven of the 11 hits were on fastballs,

Victoria Beckham

We've still got the melodies, we've still got the nice 'strong girl' lyrics going on.

Emmylou Harris

I have to have a guitar sitting around. I sing in the shower. I sing around the house. The music comes secondary. The lyrics come first.

Kou Shibasaki

I am always getting ideas for song lyrics and keep a notebook handy. Nowadays, I take a laptop with me everywhere, because I have a stock of handwritten lyrics in it.

Harold Prince

Lyrics can't do what they do - or should do - when you're creating a musical with rock lyrics. There's plenty of room for rock musicals, just not all rock musicals.

Rachel Platten

Lyrics are very important to me. I like speaking to women and saying what I mean.

Frank Black

The first thing that inspires any song is a chord progression. When I have one I really like, I get into the lyrics even more.

Matt Berninger

Usually, writing lyrics for me is like bleeding drop by drop from the forehead.

Matt Berninger

A lot of my lyrics are approximate meaning without me knowing why they sound right.

Dan Hill

When you look at the lyrics of 'Sometimes When We Touch,' it's really very much an adolescent song.

Alan Vega

Marty and I are playing with the same intensity. That's the beautiful thing, man, we're actually better now than ever, probably more intense now than ever, tighter now than ever.

Evel Knievel

Titanic Thompson and Amarillo Slim would have run from a game with Marty Stanovich. Marty could really play, and he didn't cheat.

Dave Tippett

We need Marty to make some more saves for us. We've got to find a way to win and he needs to be a big part of it.

Paul Shaffer

When Marty Short and I get together, I sit down at the piano and play the score of 'Godspell.'

John Casey

Jenny was the emcee. Marty would come out playing a plastic banjo, and they would do stage plays.

Alphonse de Lamartine

Assassination makes only martyrs, not converts.

Frank Rear

We should have walked Marty or pitched around him.

Paul Ranger

That's Marty St. Louis, that's what he does.

Olli Jokinen

It was working pretty well with Marty and Stumpy. But obviously when you don't win some games, there are going to be some changes.

Sarah Snook

I was always like, 'No, I don't like sci-fi,' and then I started watching it and thought, I didn't know that's what it was. I think I'd somehow got it confused with action and space-travel action - that sci-fi could only be like 'Star Wars.'

Laurie Colwin

Somehow or other, I always end up in a kitchen feeding a crowd.

Monica Johnson

Somehow many have fallen into the belief that being a Christian is supposed to be a cake-walk. It's not.

Vint Cerf

The idea that you can somehow erase the Internet is silly.

Alison Jackson

It's always fun to put fake celebrities in unlikely situations, but somehow it's even more fun when politicians are involved.

David Givens

We were going to somehow win this game.

Ronda Rousey

There are so many ridiculous arguments that MMA is somehow anti-woman.

David Bergen

I always have a book that I use that somehow inspires my novels.

Paul Giamatti

Somehow whatever I play ends up being sleazy.

Etta James

Most of the songs I sing, they have that blue feeling to it. They have that sorry feeling. And I don't know what I'm sorry about.

Kate Micucci

My first songs were about animals and shoes. I wrote one song about PF Flyers, and one to my fish.

Todd Rundgren

I don't know what the inspiration for most of songs really mean until I finish them. For the most part, I'm going for a visceral impression, and I write the words last.

Lucinda Williams

My approach to recording and all that is pretty organic. It just has to do with all the songs I wrote; go in and record them.

Billy Sherwood

I wrote songs with the guys from Air Supply for their record... So I was just writing songs.

Ringo Garza

We're trying to keep it fresh. The songs are never the same every night.

Billy Porter

For me, I really feel like if there's not a real, true connection to the material, I don't need to sing it. I don't need to sing songs just because I like them anymore. I've done that.

Brian Wilson

Probably not much of a song left in me, you know, if any, because I've written so many, some 250 songs or 300 or whatever it is.

Adam Jones

I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other.

Carlos Fuentes

Reading, writing, teaching, learning, are all activities aimed at introducing civilizations to each other.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

...as our friend Zach has often noted, in our days those who do the best for astronomy are not the salaried university professors, but so-called dillettanti, physicians, jurists, and so forth.Lamenting the fragmentary time left to a professor has remaining after fulfilling his teaching duties.

Agnes Repplier

Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.

Charlie Haden

I want them to come away with discovering the music inside them...

Charles Caleb Colton

Where thou perceivest knowledge, bend the ear of attention and respect; But yield not further to the teaching, than as thy mind is warranted by reasons. Better is an obstinant disputant, that yieldeth inch by inch, Than the shallow traitor to himself, who surrendereth to half an argument.

Charles Caleb Colton

When you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Charles Stanley

If you tell God no because He won't explain the reason He wants you to do something, you are actually hindering His blessing. But when you say yes to Him, all of heaven opens to pour out His goodness and reward your obedience. What matters more than material blessings are the things He is teaching us in our spirit.

Charles Spurgeon

I am content to live and die as the mere repeater of Scriptural teaching - as a person who has thought out nothing and invented nothing - but who concluded that he was to take the message from the lips of God to the best of his ability and simply to be a mouth for God to the people. - mourning much that anything of his own should come between - but never thinking that he was somehow to refine the message or to adapt it to the brilliance of this wonderful century and then to hand it out as being so much his own that he might take some share of the glory of it.

Charles Spurgeon

Rest assured that the most fervid revivalism will wear itself out in mere smoke, if it be not maintained by the fuel of teaching.... Sound teaching is the best protection for the heresies which ravage right and left among us.

Rich Knighten

We're getting hundreds of tips all over Mexico.

Lee Humphrey

I don't know about that. I don't know if he can take any tips from me. We play two different sports.

Edgar Cayce

Tips for a long lifeKeep sweet, keep friendly, keep loving, if ye would keep young

Kathryn Harrison

I wrote 'The Kiss' 12 hours a day for six months.

Kent Haruf

I write in a journal first, briefly. Then read something I've read many times before, for about half an hour, then rework what I wrote the day before.

Kent Haruf

Writing is the hardest thing I know, but it was the only thing I wanted to do. I wrote for 20 years and published nothing before my first book.

Alan Furst

I wrote out little mysteries in longhand, and my mother typed them out on an old Remington.

Ed Emberley

I don't know how old I was when I started writing books. But, I was born in 1931, and I wrote my first book in 1961.

Gail Carson Levine

I wrote as a kid, but I never wanted to be a writer, particularly. I had been drawing and painting for years and loved that.

Alice Walker

My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig.

Natalie Babbitt

My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too.

William Gibson

In 1981, I was a futurist - or at least I was a guy who put on a futurist hat occasionally - and I wrote about the 21st century.