Famous Quotes & Sayings

Duane Propes

We never really realized how big we were and we kind of knew it wouldn't last. We went from playing bars to playing arenas and when you do that, you don't think about it ending. We made a lot of money and we spent a lot of money, and now we're looking forward, not backward.

Rafer Alston

That's the way it is in some arenas. Some are as loud as can be. They're rocking and rolling. You have your Arco Arena, then you have your Atlanta. That's the way some arenas are. As players, we have to go out and play the game and do the things we need to do. That should be the last thing on our minds, if we have 18,000 or 8,000.

Terry Stotts

Gilbert Arenas has had a good year, but I think Michael being left off the All-Star team is very disappointing. He's having the best year of his career. He's leading a team that hasn't been under .500 all year. He's scored in double figures every game. He's improved every part of his game. And I think it's a shame that he's not on the team.

Trent Reznor

I get involved with the set design, lighting and the use of film because I always hated seeing bands in arenas. They usually suck. You're not meant to see rock shows there. You're meant to see a basketball game. In approaching the idea of arenas, I asked, 'What can I do in arenas I can't do elsewhere?' I tried to make it unique, help frame the music, and make it more like theater, so it starts at one place and winds up at another.

Jeremy Roenick

The owners can sit there and do giveaways and lower ticket prices to get the fans back to the game knowing that what they are really doing is taking it out of our pockets, ... It's important to get people back into the arenas to watch hockey, but it is a lot easier to do when (the owners) know they still get money back because they are taking it out of our paycheck. In essence, the players are paying for all the giveaways and free stuff that the owners are doing. Which is all well and good, but you don't hear about it.

Bill Guerin

The people who are excited and ready to come back, we're extremely lucky to have them. The ones who are upset . . . you know what? We're going to do everything in our power to make them happy and to get them back in the arenas because hockey's a great game. You want everybody to come back and enjoy the sport.

Lou DiBella

Memphis has illustrated clearly that it is a boxing town and the FedEx Forum is one of the finest arenas in the country. We look forward to the Southern hospitality in June.

Rick Carlisle

Most of these new arenas have very good color schemes so you don't have depth perception problems.

Francisco Goya

I have just returned from Arenas and feel very tired. His Excellency loaded me with a thousand honours; I have painted his portrait and that of his wife and boy and girl with unexpected success, for other artists had been there previously and not been successful.

Daddy Yankee

Reggaeton means the same thing to Latino youth as hip-hop does to African-American kids. We didn't have artists to look up to before. But the young kids now, they're looking at Daddy Yankee and Tego Calderon and Ivy Queen like kids in the American 'hood look up to 50 Cent or 2Pac. I'm representing for my culture and my people. It's their music.

Susan Barnes

Our lives are so hectic today. I don't care what we are, artists or whatever, people need to come and enjoy it.

Pam Walker

Our legal folks say we don't have copyright clearance. Graphics artists are working on it as we speak.

Karen Hughes

Our music and film industries, our artists and entertainers create very powerful impressions, sometimes good, sometimes bad, but they're always, always powerful.

Richard Browne

Spike Jonze and his peers were contributing to the culture in as meaningful a way as any of the artists they were working for. The paradigm shifted to the director being the artist.

Benjamin Jones

Some of (the young people) have been exposed to a culture that suggests that in order to have fun you need to use mood-altering substances. They're getting those messages from hip-hop artists and many other ways. This is one of our efforts to try to counteract those messages.

Adam Kluger

Pitbull is great with brands. Endorsements with hip-hop artists work because hip-hop artists typically set the most trends... It's every brand's goal to be seen in the mainstream, and hip-hop music has become mainstream music.

Steve Lynn

Reducing render errors enables our artists to run more test renders within the given schedule and can result in a better final result.

Damon Albarn

Manchester is the centre of Britain, we're only ever going to do this once so it makes sense to do it somewhere in the middle of the country. London gets all the gigs. It's time to do something a bit different to readdress the balance. We're very excited to be getting all the guests artists together in one place for these shows.

George Carlin

Regarding the Boy Scouts, I'm very suspicious of any organization that has a handbook

Bill Selvey

Our own boy Cleveland pitched well, but he pitched a little better.

Christine Brennan

Paula Creamer is Title IX exploding on the golf course. This law told girls it was okay to play sports, to be tough, to play like the boys and still look like a girl. If Billie Jean King had had a master plan of what women's sports would look like in 2006, it would be Paula: Play all these sports, love them all and then pick one that, by the way, can make you a millionaire a few months after graduating from high school.

Bryan Robson

Paul Robinson's been terrific, he's just signed a new contract as well so he's on a high and he's kept all the boys on a high because of getting that goal,

Heather Mills

People in every other country in the world should now boycott Chinese goods.

Laura McDowell

Surf and skateboarding - all these looks are influencing boys fashion.

Frank Wolfe

Starvation is that government's weapon of choice liberally spiced with high-altitude bombing, mass murder and even selling Sudanese boys and girls as slaves,

Debbie Johnson

Some of the boys there are getting paid to help with clean-up efforts, ... Anthony (the older son) doesn't want to leave, but James is supposed to start his senior year of high school, so we want to get everyone together and get them up here.

Richard Griffiths

Some of the boys have been growing things just for this show for the last six to nine months, and it's been a complete waste of time.

Russell Jones

Linemen come in and get their trucks loaded up and away they go.

Jay Hopson

Mississippi was loaded this year. We're tickled to death.

Jennifer Peppin

We did sweep the plane and we did find the handgun, and it was a loaded handgun. Once we got that we turned it over to the state police in Boston.

Janice Hahn

I think a loaded weapon aboard an airplane, whether it's in the cargo section or in your overhead baggage, is a security issue.

Brandon Flowers

We're loaded with talent down here, but if that's the coaches' decision, you have to respect that. I still think they can do pretty well down here.

Andrew Stacy

We have to play well. Batavia is very good. They are loaded year in and year out.

Terry Fleming

We have a very successful team and we are loaded with talent.

Scott Hartman

West and Bozeman look really loaded up. They have a lot of depth.

Toney Baker

I'm loaded with bait. I have a bait-cast rod, not too many people know how to use those.

Morgan Fairchild

I get really tired of getting painted up all the time. Basically, I'm a bum.

Richard C. Armitage

Monet was like a conductor. He painted with quite a straight arm and used bold strokes.

John Burnside

Many of the birds Audubon painted are now extinct, and still we go on killing them, more or less casually, with our pesticides and wires and machinery.

Billy Hughes

When having my portrait painted I don't want justice, I want mercy.

Kathleen Carroll

While it's true that power is being restored and schools are being painted and progress is being made

Blake Anderson

I just bought a Jeep painted like an American flag. No one better question how patriotic I am.

M. Wolfe

We painted him a shirt; it was still wet when he put it on.

Jamie Wyeth

I view anything on this farm as model. I actually painted Union Rags as a yearling.

Jennifer Taylor

It is unusual. It is not your typical painted furniture,

Maria Altmann

I would also like the portraits to remain in Austria.

Alfred Stieglitz

To demand the portrait that will be a complete portrait of a person is as futile as to demand that a motion picture be condensed into a single still.

Alexander Smith

To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.

E. M. Forster

Roger Fry is painting me. It is too like me at present, but he is confident he will be able to alter that. Post-Impressionism is at present confined to my lower lip... and to my chin.

Anthony Powell

Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going on.

Anatole Broyard

The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait.

Chuck Close

Neurologically, I'm a quadriplegic, so virtually everything about my work has been driven by my learning disabilities, which are quite severe, and my lack of facial recognition, which I'm sure is what drove me to paint portraits in the first place.

Jamie Wyeth

Everything I paint is a portrait, whatever the subject.

Jamie Wyeth

I'm an odd portrait painter in that I'm not just interested in human faces. I consider almost all of my paintings to be portraits.

Jack Wagner

If PCI is not going to use these funds, they should be returned to their rightful owners, Pennsylvania taxpayers,

Nancy Vinson

Eighty-four were successful. Forty-eight violated the terms and returned to jail.

Al Gore

that they may be returned to us safely and soon.

Woody Hayes

Success - it 's what you do with what you've got.

Paul Meyer

Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, worthwhile goals.

Reo Hatfield

Our success has been obvious, at least from the word on the streets, and I feel like we have opportunities that are still arising.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

He who bears in his heart a cathedral to be built is already victorious. He who seeks to become sexton of a finished cathedral is already defeated.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

If you are to be, you must begin by assuming responsibility. You alone are responsible for every moment of your life, for every one of your acts.

Barry Mann

Probably most successful songwriters have an innate songwriting ability.

B. R. Ambedkar

For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights.

Bill Shoemaker

Desire is the most important factor in the success of any athlete.

Bill Condon

There's no question that Whale's movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful.

Ron Redmond

There are tens of thousands in there who are probably going hungry,

Jake Shulaw

He's doing a lot more wrestling now. But sometimes it comes back because he's drilled in thousands and thousands of times.

Derrick Brooks

I would give up one thousand yards to get a win.

Edward Abbey

One word is worth a thousand pictures. If it's the right word.

Don Miguel Ruiz

For thousands of years, there have been lies about being gay or not being gay. If you know they're lies, you're free.

Sergio Garcia

Two thousand? Two thousand was... Valhalla. He's not back at where he was in 2000 for sure.

Joe Gershtenson

When you get a thousand cuts, it can kill you.

Roz Chast

I like being able to go grocery shopping and not feel that I'm fighting a thousand people.

Eddie Compass

thousands of people, who want to voluntarily evacuate at this time.

Jeff Goldblum

I was thinking, Why am I doing this, do I really want to go... it was unexpected thing after another, but I made a lot of friends.

Charles Kennedy

The one thing we can all be sure about in politics is you are as well to expect the unexpected.

Alex Flinn

Sometimes, unexpected things can happen.

Aaron Klug

One cannot plan for the unexpected.

Dante Hall

Anything that is unexpected is the X-factor.

Alice James

Truly nothing is to be expected except for the unexpected.

Alice Duer Miller

It's been my experience, Charlotte, that the crisis never comes as or when you expect.

Ambrose Bierce

PROVIDENTIAL, adj. Unexpectedly and conspicuously beneficial to the person so describing it.

David Brooks

Often, I go and see films where I can see the beats coming. So, if I read something where I don't see the beats coming and it takes me somewhere unexpected, that's a great thing to build upon.