Famous Quotes & Sayings

Greil Marcus

Rock 'n Roll is a combination of good ideas dried up by fads, terrible junk, hideous failings in taste and judgment, gullibility and manipulation, moments of unbelievable clarity and invention, pleasure, fun, vulgarity, excess, novelty and utter enervation.

John Mackenzie

We need a great deal more clarity before we're willing to talk about a referendum.

Barry Hyman

I think we are just mired in interest-rate concerns until we get some clarity on rates.

Brad Smith

It finally gives us the kind of specificity and clarity that we need in order to work in a constructive way and to move all these issues forward.

Michael Pond

I don't expect the market to gain momentum in either direction until it gains new clarity about the possibility of a May rate hike. The overall trend in housing demand remains relatively weaker compared with 2005.

Sam Donaldson

He can take a story, compress it into nine or 10 words, and have a greater clarity and punch then when I write two paragraphs.

Friso Abbing

if only to get as much clarity and transparency as possible.

Robert Barnett

I have been in contact with HUD on more than one occasion. I'm going to meet with them in the next few months, and I hope to gain a little more clarity as to what HUD expects of us.

Carl von Clausewitz

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

Heather Wilson

Junk faxes dried up after that. People stopped doing it,

William Butler Yeats

I'd as soon listen to dried peas in a bladder, as listen to your thoughts.

Charles McCarry

I was swimming in my swimming pool when 'The Secret Lovers' popped entire into my head. I got out, dried off, went upstairs, and finished the book in about 50 days.

Lynn Shelton

By the time I hit college, my secret shame was the reason I was an actor was my own words sort of dried up. I stopped writing. I stopped being able to form my own vision. That's actually what my first feature is about - looking back at two different selves.

Bob Lilley

We had streaks last year where we were good at putting the goals in and streaks where we dried up.

Robert Anderson

We had a false start. We pulled in and dried out.

Bible Bible

Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.

Wade Wimmer

Once that dried up, things went really well.

Michael Carty

There's not a lot of steam in this market. The volume has really dried up.

Jim Crace

I feel the political failings of the U.S.A. are presidential in length, but the aspirant narrative of the States is millennial in length.

Oliver Goldsmith

And e'en his failings leaned to Virtue's side.

Larry Walker

Reggie? Good luck. Congratulations. ... You guys win the championship down there?

Lydia Lenker

Re-election doesn't lead us. These are good issues.

Gregg Hostetler

Recognition is always good for the program. I think they have to prove it to me.

Jane King

Realtors should be all over this. It's a good product.

Joe Torre

Reggie was one of those guys who knew how good he was and let people know how good he was. Some players resented that during those times.

Stephen Hadley

Our relationships are in good shape. This is not a trip where the president has to come with a deliverable or an initiative.

Carl Pettersson

Pars are good. I had a good round going,

Mark Brunell

Patrick is a great guy and a very good player,

Doug Higgins

Patrick did a good job and we moved some guys around on defense. We started to play a little more solid.

Colin Angle

We will not have humanoid androids. It's interesting: when you start trying to make robots look more human, you end up making them look more grotesque. It takes very little to go from super-attractive robot to hideous robot.

Deborah Moggach

Whining writers are a hideous sight; we should really shut up, because we are lucky if we can cobble together a living from all of this.

Charles Baudelaire

Etre un homme utile m'a paru toujours quelque chose de bien hideux. To be useful has always seemed to me quite hideous.

Charles Palliser

I'm quite intrigued by the notion of a book that is completely self-contained but related to another book. I've coined a rather hideous word for it - a paraquel.

Mike Sellers

They weren't winning. They was just another team in the league. Now, they're the bomb. I can't take nothing away from them. But back then, they were nothing. And they had those hideous uniforms, too.

Rachel Perry

I didn't think I was hideous or anything.

Noam Chomsky

When Israel invaded Lebanon in 1982, the U.N. vetoed several resolutions right away, calling for an end to the fighting and so on, and that was a hideous invasion.

Steve Bruce

The kick in the teeth was the hideous mistake we made in conceding that first goal.

Ludovico Ariosto

Who seems most hideous when adorned the most.

Bebe Neuwirth

I loved Jay Thomas as Eddie LeBec. But there was a point where they [thought] maybe we would live together, and I didn't like the idea of Carla being with somebody because that would make you feel like [you're] not part of the people in the bar.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Are you keeping anything else from me?” “I’m keeping a lot of things from you.” “Like?” “Like the way I feel about being locked up in here with you. You have no idea what you do to me.

Barry McCaffrey

We say in a democracy that good ideas will drive out bad ones, so if the good ones aren't there, we're left with the bad ones

B. H. Liddell Hart

For the spread and endurance of an idea the originator is dependent on the self-development of the receivers and transmitters.

Larry Martin

We need plans and ideas from outside this committee.

Billy Corgan

People always seemed to pay attention to us. I have no idea why -- there was just a presence between the four people or something.

Bill Shankly

My idea was to build Liverpool into a bastion of invincibility. Had Napoleon had that idea he would have conquered the bloody world. I wanted Liverpool to be untouchable. My idea was to build Liverpool up and up until eventually everyone would have to submit and give in.

Bill Crawford

When we engage people positively, we create a receptive platform for the ideas and information we wish to communicate.

Bhagat Singh

It is easy to kill individuals but you cannot kill the ideas.

C. S. Lewis

This moment contains all moments.

Carl Sagan

We live at a moment when our relationships to each other, and to all other beings with whom we share this planet, are up for grabs.

Amy Irving

Theater actors know what their motivation is for each scene. They treat it very seriously as a craft. You do your homework. The reason I always need to go back to theater is the most stimulating moments are in rehearsal... whereas often in film, you've go to do it on your own.

Colum McCann

I think we're moving toward moments of grace and understanding. And I think these things take time.

Allan Houston

I always wanted to be in those moments when you could have an opportunity to win the game,

John Smith

I can't remember too many moments that exciting.

Marty Schottenheimer

I think it is tough; I think it is difficult. But you know that's just the nature of our business. I'm sure he has moments of frustration and/or disappointment. But he has a lot of fiber.

Randy Shaffer

I have my moments - my ups and downs.

Cate Blanchett

When I have my moments of insomnia, you'll find me on style.com.

Edward Norton

A lot of why I do something is just the novelty of the experience.

Denis Diderot

Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.

Anthony Zuiker

This won't be a novelty stunt where he opens the show up and disappears.

Mike Short

We're not going to get them just because they're a novelty item. We have to be responsible with our budget.

Andre Maurois

Novelty, the most potent of all attractions, is also the most perishable.

David Hume

Such is the nature of novelty that where anything pleases it becomes doubly agreeable if new; but if it displeases, it is doubly displeasing on that very account.

Charles Dickens

Novelties please less than they impress.

Stephanie Plowman

There's more to 'The Wizard of Oz' than just one movie. It's not just novelty cutesy things.

Jessica Savitch

Being a novelty had its advantages.

Billy Gibbons

Rock 'n' roll and automobiles have always had this synergistic connection,

John Hall

Rock Me on the Water ... Still the One.

Richard Engel

Rockets fired by the Taliban generally aren't guided.

Billy Corgan

Rock & roll is not about what you play, it's about how you play it.

Billy Corgan

We had a wonderful time with this kind of grunge awareness, where suddenly rock was cool again. People wanted to head loud guitars. It was a great time, and I'm glad we were there. But the gimmick part has worn off.

Billy Corgan

Where is this great love for rock and roll that existed for 50 or 60 years?

Bill Dixon

Rock musicians, and a vast array of popular-music musicians, due to their wealth, acquired through the mass of their notoriety, are able to be listened to and heard and thus are able to effect change on an international level.

Bill Cosby

These people marched and were hit in the face with rocks to get an education and now we've got these knuckleheads walking around.

Big Pun

Violence existed before our music was even suggested.

Dick Ebersol

I was just swept away with how that sounded. It just rolls off your mouth.

Frank Molinaro

That was a tough loss. But no excuses. Now we just have to take this win and try to keep rolling through the Shore Conference.

Derek Lowe

I think it's tough for everybody. We can't just go out there and roll over and die. ... To see where we are right now is very disappointing.

Tiger Woods

I don't feel like I'm on a roll at all,

Capt. Ball

If someone's challenging you, you let it roll off.

Rob Kurz

We're on a roll right now. We can't wait to play another game.

Kelly Hawthorne

We are on a roll right now. We just want to keep it going.

Alex O'Loughlin

I've always loved, as an Aussie, comedy is part of my life. My friends and I are always ribbing each other and that's how we get through the days. When it comes to cameras rolling and getting that timing right, the only way to do it and do it well is to throw yourself into it.

Dwight Schultz

In fact, their eyes sort of roll around and they kind of go, 'Hmm'- like there's something there and they don't want to talk about it. But they're not that kind when they are speaking in public.

Ed Baker

Part of it is just that they taste so wonderful.

C. S. Lewis

Only He who really lived a human life (and I presume that only one did) can fully taste the horror of death.

C. S. Lewis

The moment good taste knows itself, some of its goodness is lost.

Bethenny Frankel

Taste everything, eat nothing.

Bernard Berenson

Taste begins when appetite is satisfied.

Daniel Kessler

That was the worst taste you could have as a player. . . . That?s something you just don?t forget.

Tommy Amaker

I wish we could play. When you come off of a disappointing loss, you want to get back at it and get the feeling, the taste out of your mouth.

Jeff Lindsay

We're predators; we don't eat meat because it's handy, we eat meat because we have a taste for blood.

Miley Cyrus

I have an opinion. I have my own taste.

Larry Bowa

That was a terrible call. A terrible call,

Jerry Davis

I think it's terrible that we can only do it at the high-school level.

Andy Weir

I don't even date; I'm terrible with women.

Tom Mueller

From the very beginning, we said we wanted to know the truth about this terrible incident, ... Now we do

Ronda Rousey

I'm a terrible singer, but I'm not shy about it. I'm shy about dancing.

Edward Said

The just response to this terrible event should be to go immediately to the world community, the United Nations. The rule of international law should be marshaled, but it's probably too late because the United States has never done that; it's always gone it alone.

Auberon Waugh

Better to go than sit around being a terrible old bore.

William O'Neill

It's kind of a terrible irony, in a way, that the solution to America's problems was World War II.

Gina Hern

There is a terrible indentation where the implant is misplaced.

Cate Blanchett

The Oscar is very beautiful, utterly mesmeric, but I don't feel any more important because I have won one. It doesn't mean I'm any better than anyone.

Herman Gorter

The revolution came so suddenly, and in a way so utterly different from what we expected.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.

Abraham Lincoln

No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression.

Joey Lina

The expulsion, my friends, is utterly without any basis.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Utterance is the evidence of foregone study.

Autre Ne Veut

I started singing the second I could utter sound.

Kenneth Clark

Sweeping, confident articles on the future seem to me, intellectually, the most disreputable of all forms of public utterance.

Johann Gottlieb Fichte

God is not the mere dead conception to which we have thus given utterance, but he is in himself pure Life.