Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

Don't be afraid! We won't make an author of you, while there's an honest trade to be learnt, or brick-making to turn to.

Michael Leunig

It's a consoling notion that death is a very tiny hole, and you need to make yourself very small to get through it. One obviously needs to lighten off, and a rucksack full of bricks or a mantelpiece full of trophies will certainly have to be abandoned - the sooner the better, I say.

Nathan Sawaya

When I was in South Africa, I was meeting with people who never heard of Lego bricks. And yet, when I was like, 'Here they are,' they immediately got it. They saw the appeal, were snapping bricks and creating their little creations right there immediately.

Johnson Honimae

Mobs and looters have been hurling rocks and bricks at passing patrol police vehicles.

Reed PhD

Leadership without support is like trying to make bricks without enough straw. True leaders reinforce their ideas and plans with strategic partnerships, alliances and supportiveaudiences.

Gary Barnett

Web services are the mortar. But you also have to consider the bricks and the shape of the building.

Benjamin Britten

Composing is like driving down a foggy road toward a house. Slowly you see more details of the house-the color of the slates and bricks, the shape of the windows. The notes are the bricks and the mortar of the house.

John Barlow

I fought it hammer and tong, but the drummers had inoperable bricks in their head about it. What's worse is that they now want to remove all Dead music from the Web.

D. James

Of course a sports psychologist can help - it's certainly helped me. People think you must be crackers if you've got a psychologist but psychology is part of the building bricks to make a top athlete.

Laura Hunter

We want to see a clear, specific deadline that gets us from here to a (final) decision.

Roger Toussaint

We have no progress to report. That's not good because we have precious little time before the deadline approaches.

Joe Mihalich

When you run that baseline when it's a dead ball, you give a team life.

Ann Rice

When you're watching TV and they're reporting 50 people dead in Mississippi and you haven't heard from your family, well, you think the worst.

Tim Tebow

I want to help kids when I'm no longer here, when I'm dead and gone. I want to help kids when I don't have the energy and the time to help them but somehow still find a way to make a difference.

Ernst Toller

After that I could never pass a dead man without stopping to gaze on his face, stripped by death of that earthly patina which masks the living soul. And I would ask, who were you? Where was your home? Who is mourning for you now?

Jose Maria

The point is not extending deadlines but the honest will to disarm, which he (Saddam) so far has not showed.

Mark Barry

We're looking forward to Virginia Tech right now, they're pretty much dead even with us in rankings and with players. If we can get that win, I think we will be rolling from there into the Big Ten matches.

Richard Williams

This program is a blessing. If I didn't have this program, I would probably be dead by now. When I got here, I was slowly dying. They provided me with a doctor, and everything turned around.

Taylor Hawkins

The drummer is stereotypically the dumb guy. Maybe that's why I always respect drummers who do more than drum.

Philip Selway

You are never, ever gonna get a drummer to dis another one. It's part of the drumming rules, as important as being able to keep pace or smashing up hotel rooms. Drummers do not dis!

Sam Cohen

That has really shaped us more than anything else over the past year. One of the goals for this new record was to lay down more grooves than we had on Katonah and make something truly danceable. Having two drummers on stage will reinforce that element for us.

Zell Miller

There is a war being fought. I'm not talking about the war in the Middle East, but the war being fought at home, a war for our children's souls.

Lawal McCray

When it was all said and done, we fought through it. We had it at the 2, and didn't get it done." ()

Tom Hodgkinson

You can become very serious as a parent. That's got to be fought against.

Ellen McLaughlin

I just realized at some point that I was hopelessly in love with the theater. I fought it for a long time because I thought theater was for, you know, insufferable actors.

Bruce Braley

The people who know me and know the values I stand for ... know I've always fought to protect the rights of workers.

Byron Dorgan

We are telling a guy who fought for freedom that he doesn't have the freedom to see a sick child.

Lisa Papademetriou

My grandmother was German. She was an immigrant, and my great grandfather fought in World War I and was stationed in France.

Gisela Dulko

She fought until the last point. It was a really tight match. And I think yes, it's a really big win for me because I get the opportunity to be in the quarterfinals of this big tournament.

Melanie Hall

She fought hard. It's all about heart. And she's got it. Right then and there I knew she was something special.

Mick Durham

We've tried to hammer home a lot of different points.

William Shakespeare

I have been studying how I may compare This prison where I live unto the world; And, for because the world is populous, And here is not a creature but myself, I cannot do it. Yet I'll hammer it out.

Arthur Bloch

Don't force it... get a bigger hammer.

Billy Connolly

If I had a hammer, there'd be no more folksingers.

Jared Dudley

We always talk about that killer instinct. You don't want to trade baskets at this time of the year, and I thought for the first time all year we really put the hammer down.

Jeff Valdez

When I got into this business, the 18-34-year-old thing was hammered into me.

Bill Cowher

I went over it and over it and over it, really hammered on it. When I thought I'd mentioned it enough, I made sure I mentioned it again.

Carol Smith

We hammered the walls in the pouring rain, in the mud.

Abraham Maslow

When all you own is a hammer, every problem starts looking like a nail.

Michael Turner

We have to get our heads and telescopes around that.

Quinton Young

We wanted to win the conference, and even though we didn't do that we still have a lot to prove. We're heading up there with a swagger.

Tommy Shaw

It is all about being open and paying attention to the music in your head. I think most people have original music playing in their heads from time to time.

Brian Eno

I don't like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.

Cherie Lunghi

It's a bit of a headache being a perfectionist. You're never satisfied.

Al Goldman

The possessed kid in 'The Exorcist,' whose head spins around.

Nicholas Byrne

The positive news in our view is the dividend... however, the headline net profit looks light.

Adrian Schmidt

The performance was stronger than the headline numbers suggest. It suggests that manufacturing is accelerating.

Jack Nichols

We are pounding our heads on the wall trying to get a solution, ... It's just a little overwhelming.

Andre Previn

When you're working with music that is invariably better than you are, it's difficult to become swell-headed.

Agnes Obel

Even though music is something I travel around doing, it is also a very private thing. A sort of escapism.

Agnes Repplier

What strange impulse is it which induces otherwise truthful people to say they like music when they do not, and thus expose themselves to hours of boredom?

Charlie Byrd

And a musician has to learn to be frugal and to carefully manage financial affairs

Charlie Byrd

I had been to São Paulo the year before and became pretty well acquainted with the music of composer Antonio Carlos Jobim, I had already started playing that music, and the audience response had been pretty good because those songs are so melodic. I knew it would be something that would be appealing; I wasn't thinking that it would make the top of the pop charts or anything like that.

Charlie Byrd

Music's not like becoming a doctor, who can walk into a community and find people who need him.

Charlie Byrd

The guitar is a means of expressing music, When you get into the emotional side of it, then it's not the guitar that matters so much as the music itself. But the guitar is the vehicle I use. It's how I express myself. As for the emotional side, music takes up where language leaves off. To try and verbalize what music says, emotionally and spiritually, is futile. Let me put it this way, Louis Armstrong once said if you've got to ask, you'll never know.

Charlie Byrd

Usually, no one quite knew where Django Reinhardt was going to be, but I met his brother and about an hour later in walks Django with an entourage of friends. He always traveled with a large group-carried his own admirers with him, the most sinister-looking bunch of hoodlums you've ever seen. I walked up and offered to buy him a drink. That seemed to be the right thing to do... he was the first really brilliant solo guitarist I ever became aware of, I had records of his when I was 10 years old. It just blew my mind that anyone could play a guitar like that. Still does.

Charlie Byrd

A person should design the way he makes a living around how he wishes to make a life.

Patti Smith

We did get a request from the publisher to remove the title and we've done so.

Ginni Rometty

When you remove layers, simplicity and speed happen.

Kat Clark

If they're in a destructive mood, we'll remove the mat, too.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue?

Terry Greene

The scare is if they remove the steroids, it can return.

Jack Kerouac

Remove literary, grammatical and syntactical inhibition,

Li Deshui

Through the survey, we are able to remove the 'water' from the statistics of the manufacturing sector, in particular, from small-sized enterprises.

Joan Lunden

Remove failure as an option.

Robert Mugabe

Only God who appointed me will remove me.

Katharine Cornell

I was nervous from the very beginning, and it got worse as the years went on. I was conscientious and wanted to do more, always, than I was able. I don't think, when I was playing, that I was ever happy - beginning at 4 o'clock any afternoon.

Quentin Richardson

Just when I thought we couldn't get any worse or go any lower, we find another way to do it.

Dusty Baker

He's day to day. He's no better or worse than he was yesterday.

Gerhard Richter

I don't think I can do this - painting under observation. It's the worst thing there is, worse than being in the hospital.

Chuck Hill

I would have expected, even without FD, to see more preannouncements this quarter. Things are worse out there.

Sean McCarthy

If we do nothing, things will get that much worse sooner.

Andy Roddick

I got out there and it was just stiff. It got progressively worse the more I moved. I just didn't feel real comfortable for the whole match.

Derrick Brooks

It could be a whole lot worse then where we are.

Richard Madden

I thought 'Game of Thrones' had this challenge in filming, and it's one of those things you think, 'It can't get worse than this,' because it's really cold, and you're in pain, and it's miserable.