Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kylie Minogue

When I was eight, my pals and I went up to my bedroom, put on our party frocks and mimed to ABBA records using broom handles as microphones.

Bjorn Ulvaeus

Critics used to say that ABBA were formulaic or that our songs were rubbish. We never had time for those comments, though. We were sincere and devoted to what we did.

Bjorn Ulvaeus

I want people to remember ABBA as we were. I don't think that four geriatrics wheeled on stage is what we should leave as our legacy.

Bjorn Ulvaeus

Of course, we wore silly outfits, the pictures were corny, and some people still focus on that. But ABBA wasn't a big intellectual thing. We were a pop group.

Bono

I think ABBA have a pure joy to their music and that's what makes them extraordinary.

Elaine Paige

I remember Tim telling me that he had an idea for a musical and he said to me that he was hoping that ABBA would be writing the music, which I thought was a pretty wild idea because they were obviously known very much as pop writers.

Bjorn Ulvaeus

The music of ABBA is not that happy. It might sound happy, in some strange way, but deep within, it's not happy music. It has that Nordic melancholic feeling to it. What fools you is the girls' voices. You know, I do think that is one of the secrets about ABBA. Even when we were really quite sad, we always sounded jubilant.

Bjorn Ulvaeus

I promise you, ABBA will never reform - I couldn't bear the stress of disappointing everyone.

Sharleen Spiteri

The song is Texas having a fresh look at that Giorgio Moroder vibe of uplifting electronic pop but with sexy slow vocals. I wanted to combine modern sounds with a real Billie Holliday kind of feel. When I was growing up my dad would be away at sea and my Mum, my sister and I would be at home blasting disco and Abba alongside her old Billie Holliday albums. I knew the spirit I wanted. I knew I could emulate that Billie Holliday sensibility - not the framed icon with the beautiful flower in her hair, but the slightly dark woman on the edge, this tortured brave singer who struggled around this merciless music circuit. It's a bit of a homage from my heart.

George Chapline

People have been vaguely uncomfortable about these problems for a while, but they figured they'd get solved someday. But that hasn't happened and I'm sure when historians look back, they'll wonder why people didn't question these contradictions.

Alando Tucker

Stay poised. We knew they were going to get up. We just figured if we stick together, keep running our offense and don't get rattled, we could still come out with a win.

Mike Stanton

We never wanted it to come to this, ... but we figured it was going to.

David Bergen

I was a big reader of Zane Grey as a young boy, and so horses and the West figured large in my imagination.

Peter Jackson

I was 12-years-old and I'd never seen her wear it, so I figured she didn't want it anymore.

Marshevet Hooker

I was just thinking about getting points on the scoreboard for my team. I heard the crowd, so I figured it had to be OK.

Daphne Brown

I was just frustrated at stuff going on in Biloxi, ... I figured it was a good opportunity. I thought if I could succeed at a top-notch school like St. Andrew's in academics, I'd be ready for college.

Denny Hamlin

That was my main goal. I figured I wouldn't have any help at all and all I wanted to do was gain respect from those guys for the 500. Hopefully we did that.

Kedric Golston

I still love him to death. He just took that (job) and figured he was satisfied with his career. I hate it for him, but I think he's happy.

Pat Clark

Our numbers grew approximately 20 kids this year.

Rod Smith

Somehow, in Arkansas, I grew up a Pittsburgh Steelers fan.

David Gibb

Our secondary grew up a little in the second half. There were some positive things going on.

Billy Corgan

I grew up in the suburbs and basically associate the suburbs with cultural death.

Bill Bryson

I'm definitely an American, because I grew up here. But I've lived very happily in Britain.

Daniela Ruah

I was always such a skinny kid, so I kind of grew up with an 'I hate skinny' mentality.

Greg Davis

I think they grew up, and they took a huge step toward maturity.

Troy Clarke

(The Asia/Pacific) market grew at about 6.5% year over year, and our sales grew about 20%.

James Nesbitt

I think a lot of us who grew up in Northern Ireland weren't politicised enough, frankly.

Gregory Lagana

People know when they take this job this could happen, because it's the nature of the contracting business, but it still hurts. We hate to see this happen. We hate to lose the work and we hate to lay off employees.

Harold Duarte-Bernhardt

People never hate you! They just dont like themselves in your presence.

Joseph Conrad

Remember, Razumov, that women, children, and revolutionists hate irony, which is the negation of all saving instincts, of all faith, of all devotion, of all action.

Bruce Fein

plant the seeds of racial separateness and of hatred in the law.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Patch smiled. “You come by your red hair naturally?” I stared at him. “I don’t have red hair.” “I hate to break it to you, but it’s red. I could light it on fire and it wouldn’t turn any redder.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Hate to disappoint, but no feathers. I came to Earth stripped naked.

Barry McGuire

Think of all the hate there is in Red China, then take a look around to Selma, Alabama.

Barry McGuire

Hate your next-door neighbor, but don't forget to say grace.

Barry Lopez

The opposite of love is not hate; it's indifference. To be indifferent is to not express love.

Joe Hession

He just wasn't interested. He waited for his teammates and practiced his putting. He's always trying to get better.

Kim Clijsters

I don't think I've even practiced in these conditions. It was so tough out there today.

Kevin Cosgrove

He was a little sluggish to start out with. It showed that he hadn't practiced for awhile.

Confucius

He does not preach what he practices till he has practiced what he preaches.

Gil Haskell

We've been watching him for two weeks. We've watched all the film we can watch. We've practiced a lot. We'll be fine. We'll just see how it goes.

Matt Light

We practiced all week in this, ... and, let me tell you, it got old quick.

Orlando Pace

I probably could have practiced today, but it was more precautionary.

Allan Ray

I've practiced two times already and the practices were great. My vision is back 100 percent, and I'm ready to get back out there and just play.

James Fleming

It was relieving when we got the decision. But I had practiced like I was going to wrestle. I didn't slow down or anything.

Billie Joe Armstrong

Punk will never be dead to me. It's my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.

Eddie Vedder

After the Ramones, it was more about new wave for me than punk.

Melissa McCarthy

I was never sullen. I was a terrible punk - I was still so chatty.

Chuck Berry

Music is music; you can't change rock and say well this is punk rock and this is acid rock or rockabilly.

Anna Sui

When punk really started to happen, it was a reaction against the disco craze of the time.

Malcolm Mclaren

I've always thought that gaming and YouTube and the web is a very post-punk extravaganza.

John Rzeznik

Punk's not dead, it's just at K-Mart.

Michelle Shocked

Punk is just as much a form of folk music as anything is!

Henry Rollins

When someone asks you, 'What's punk?' my reply is, 'If you have to ask, you're never going to know.'