Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chevy Chase

A flute without holes, is not a flute. A donut without a hole, is a Danish.

Abigail Washburn

I played piano and was always in the choir. I tried to play flute because all the pretty girls played flute.

James Galway

I always play the flute with the head-joint which comes on it.

James Galway

I have never received a flute from them for free and I would not accept such a gift from any manufacturer.

Matsuo Basho

A flute with no holes is not a flute.

Plato

The flute is not an instrument that has a good moral effect - it is too exciting.

James Galway

The first flute I ever had was a Henry Potter wooden 5-keyed flute.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

It is not solid wood that can become a flute, but the empty reed.

Ian Anderson

(The flute is) an instrument that doesn't lend itself very readily to rock music. It's a gentle and sensitive instrument. To make it work at rock 'n roll levels, you really have to push it pretty hard.

Charles Tupper

The hon. gentleman had better spare his interrogations if they are as senseless as that one.

Charles de Gaulle

Gentlemen, I am ready for the questions to my answers.

Charles Dickens

Once a gentleman, and always a gentleman.

Charles Caleb Colton

The learned languages are indispensable to form the gentleman and the scholar, and are well worth all the labor that they have cost us, provided they are valued not for themselves alone, which would make a pedant, but as a foundation for further acquirements.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is far more easy to acquire a fortune like a knave, than to expend it, like a gentleman.

Charles Dickens

"Why, I don't exactly know about perjury, my dear sir," replied the little gentleman. "Harsh word, my dear sir, very harsh word indeed. It's a legal fiction, my dear sir, nothing more."

Charles Dickens

The word of a gentleman is as good as his bond; and sometimes better.

Thomas F. Wilson

Especially when you've become the father of two daughters, you hope the world can be a more gentle place.

Caitlin Kittredge

He's no kind of gentleman. That's all right. I'm no kind of lady.

Travie McCoy

I took vocal lessons for the first time and actually learned a lot about using my voice as an instrument as opposed to just doing what I've always done and going by feeling. I'm still doing that, but I've learned a lot of tricks and how to manipulate and play with my voice a little bit.

K'naan

It's not really that I'm interested in filmmaking. I'm interested in the instrument of it, you know.

Jesse L. Martin

We want to start a 'Flash' band. Everyone can play an instrument and sing.

Laura Marano

The only instrument I know how to really play, and the instrument that I absolutely love, is the piano. I have been playing piano ever since I have been 9.

Billie Joe Armstrong

Attack your instruments. Don't let them attack you.

Donald Tusk

Today, the most important political instrument in the hands of the opposition is the presidential veto.

Bobby McFerrin

The audience is like my instrument. It's not just me up there, it's collaborative.

Enrique Pena Nieto

Politics is an instrument that can transform society.

C. S. Lewis

Friendship is the instrument by which God reveals to each of us the beauties of others.

Enya

The music sold itself before anybody knew who I was.

John Eaton

We need to have as broad a range as possible, because life itself has that kind of range.

Louis MacNeice

A poet should always be 'collaborating' with his public, but this public, in the mass, cannot make itself heard, and he has to guess at its requirements and its criticisms.

Kage Baker

The 1910 Edison film of 'Frankenstein' was itself a dead thing revived by technology.

JR

If there's one thing I've always taken care of with my work, it's that it's never an advertisement for anything other than the work itself and for the people it's about - no 'Coca-Cola presents.'

Louis Navellier

One of the things that launched the strength in biotech is when the pharmaceutical industry itself got a little slow.

Louis Sachar

With 'Holes' I was troubled that there weren't very many female characters. I tried to put them in where I could. But the setting didn't lend itself to girls.

Jeff Justice

The outcome itself shows it was an unreasonable risk.

Stephen Graham Jones

Where 'Paranormal Activity' really comes into its own is its rhetoric of legitimacy - how it uses itself to authenticate itself, and thus furthers the pretence of being real.

Todd Shaw

We're still negotiating, trying to get lending terms that are favorable. These are very complicated transactions, and when you have to start from scratch, it doesn't get done overnight.

Michael Rushford

I can't see in what sense it would lend momentum.

William Ward

The pessimist borrows trouble? the optimist lends encouragement.

Lowell Highby

We are looking for more special pictures - ones that would lend themselves to a whole page - of people and unique settings.

Ronald Jones

The Premier League, for the first time in three years, will have a title sponsor who will also lend support to the senior national team and the U nder-21 team.

Jonathan Safran Foer

People always ask what a book is about, as if it has to be about something. I don't want to write books that lend themselves to that sort of description. My books are more a kind of breaking-down.

Jean Chatzky

Just because someone will lend money to you doesn't mean you should borrow it.

Tobias Wolff

Most of us don't live lives that lend themselves to novelistic expression, because our lives are so fragmented.

Ba Shusong

Raising the lending rate is the first tightening of the controls.

Albert Young

When you saw us getting pushed back over things that were non-existent ... come on. I don't know what to say about that.

Fred Couples

We were trying to push each other on.

Charlotte Bronte

Shake me off, then, sir--push me away; for I'll not leave you of my own accord.

Brandi Chastain

And to learn, you have to be willing to push yourself.

Ted Ligety

My parents never pushed me to ski race. It was my choice and something I really wanted to do. I would have rebelled if they had pushed me, and I wouldn't have had the same passion.

L. J. Smith

'Shadow Souls' pushes probably every border that you can.

Jamie Hyneman

We're constantly pushing these materials and processes to the extreme to see what will happen. It's an insight into things that you don't normally see.

Camille Paglia

My argument has always been that nature has a master plan pushing every species toward procreation and that it is our right and even obligation as rational human beings to defy nature's fascism. Nature herself is a mass murderer, making casual, cruel experiments and condemning 10,000 to die so that one more fit will live and thrive.

Billie Joe Armstrong

I'm a songwriter-I'm obligated to keep pushing myself.

Alan Greenspan

often in ways that were not readily foreseeable a year ago.

Carlos Castaneda

This very rock where we're sitting is a rock because we have been forced to give out attention to it

Carlos Castaneda

I'm afraid you will have to fly holding the rock with its heavy chain.

Alan Thicke

I wouldn't call myself a standup in the presence of Jerry Seinfeld or Chris Rock, but I do my share of it and it has been and remains part of my activity and I like it.

Alan Light

A rock band is a mysterious thing. Somehow, every once in a while, a few individuals bump into one another, and they look exactly right together and share a focus and an aspiration and the right balance of musical similarities and differences.

Brian Cox

Look at that! If you ever needed convincing that we live in the solar system, that we are on a ball of rock, orbiting around the Sun with other balls of rock, then look at that! That's the solar system coming down and grabbing you by the throat.

Brian Cox

No one gets teased for being a geek anymore- science is the new rock n roll

Bret Michaels

I want to tell the story. Mostly, when you see rock movies, it has to be this over-the-top thing. I want to give people a Bret Michaels movie where they see that my life is a comedy of errors. I also want to show my fans how to get through the kind of troubles that would leave most people flat on the floor.

Bret Easton Ellis

Rock 'n' roll. Deal with it.

Brandi Carlile

My songwriting is so influenced by orchestrated music, dramatic, super glam rock-y stuff. Two of my biggest influences in songwriting were Elton John and Freddie Mercury.

Kara Walker

I trust my hand. If I go into a space with a roll of paper, I can make a work, some kind of work, and feel pretty satisfied.

Bob Gaudio

But we weren't a phenomenon like the Beatles or Elvis Presley or the Rolling Stones: We were only as good as our last hit. We lived on our music and couldn't slide on anything - and this show is that story.

Brad Rex

We're getting on a roll at the right time.

Diablo Cody

I don't know why, but I've always been a sucker for roller coasters in movies.

Tiger Woods

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

Austin Stowell

I want to get out there and do anything, but I still don't know about riding roller coasters. I've never been on one. There is something about being strapped in and on a track; I always feel like we're going to be launched off somewhere.

Randy Foye

We've got to get it together. We can't wait for them to roll over and die.

Jon Garland

When one person starts it off, it all seems to roll from there.

Chris Aronson

We think the juggernaut will just roll on.

Dianna Agron

Having a dance background, I became used to rejection at an early age. Dance is very competitive, especially for a sensitive person like me. But I realized it’s better not to take it so seriously. If you beat yourself up, it’s hard to keep going.

Bette Midler

I read neither good nor bad about me. I let it not even in my life, so it has no effect on me. I am very sensitive.

Bob Dylan

Either I'm too sensitive, or else I'm gettin' soft

Deborah Kerr

When you're young, you just go banging about, but you're more sensitive as you grow older.

Dennis Farina

We keep monitoring ourselves, censoring ourselves, being too sensitive to this, too sensitive to that. We can't keep doing that.

Ben Howland

We were really sensitive to him shooting threes.

Peter Thomson

A light, tender, sensitive touch is worth a ton of brawn

Torin Francis

He just has a good, sensitive game. And I think with time he's going to keep getting better and better.

Xosha Roquemore

I'm sassy, even though I hate that word! I'm sensitive and cry real easily.

Carl Edwards

Whatever it is your doing out there, don't lose hope, you just keep digging and things can work out. I'm proof.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

A reply to Olbers' attempt in 1816 to entice him to work on Fermat's Theorem. I confess that Fermat's Theorem as an isolated proposition has very little interest for me, because I could easily lay down a multitude of such propositions, which one could neither prove nor dispose of. []

Said Musa

We have much work ahead, to stand still.

Chris Garza

When you're young, you don't know why you do what you do. But 14 to 18 are the most important years. That's when you have to work the hardest.

Stephanie McGilvrey

We want her to go back to Mexico. That was all she worked for.

Trent Yawney

We've still got some work to do. It's a work in progress.

Aaron Tveit

Especially like right now, I'm not shooting a show so you get to act. You get to do that stuff, kind of treat everyone as 'All right, throw the paint against the wall and see what I can do with this and what people say.' I think it's a great mental workout because you have to ready something, learn something fast. It's good to stay on your toes and keep sharp if you're auditioning.

Alan Ladd

I'm working myself to death.

Kim Delaney

We've still got a lot of work to do.