Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kevin Henkes

I usually do my writing in a very nice room, my studio, which is in the attic of our house in Wisconsin. But the nice thing about writing is that I can do it in many places. So sometimes I'll write in coffee shops.

Meshell Ndegeocello

I find myself wanting to make music at the dining room table or in the bedroom - I'm kind of a mobile writer, so I sort of move around the house. But the attic is definitely where I can make the most noise. While everyone on the lower floors screams 'Earthquake!' But no! It's just my bass!

Robert Ward

Up until the attic took off, we had everything controlled. At least we thought we did,

Robert Ward

When the fire did break through, we had a crew in that attic (on the 209 side), ... They got lost and disoriented. We had a mayday call.

Alice Morse Earle

By the year 1670, wooden chimneys and log houses of the Plymouth and Bay colonies were replaced by more sightly houses of two stories, which were frequently built with the second story jutting out a foot or two over the first, and sometimes with the attic story still further extending over the second story.

Amy Wilson

When I go back, life won't be like it was. If we're lucky, our roofs are still on and our houses didn't catch on fire. If we're not, water came up to our attic and we lost everything.

Michael Hamilton

When I first looked at it I though 'Oh my gosh.' It's not what I pictured them buying. But the main floor had a good floor plan, and the central location of the stairs to the attic made it workable.

John Halliday

We generated some documentation and we went to an international symposium and made our presentation and suddenly we went from the basement to attic in terms of credibility,

Melissa Etheridge

We were just talking about how hard it is to come here and get all dressed up and know that there is someone sitting in their attic hoping they are not going to die. I called my manager today and I said what can I do. I hate this feeling of wanting to do something.

Rob Blake

We have to get points in every game. We'll take this point and we're not satisfied, but we'll definitely take it after being down with 7 minutes left.

Jerome Bettis

Whenever you go into a situation where it could be your last play, there's a sense of desperation. I definitely feel it, and I try to encourage my teammates and lead by example. It doesn't matter how we do it, all that matters is we get it done.

Wade Redden

Whenever something needs to be done, it seems like he's the guy who's out there, leading the way. He's definitely a candidate.

Julian Gardner

We were belted in the set pieces by a NSW team that was definitely up for the game.

Lisa Nash

We've seen some very heavy trading today, which could be related to the news. Once the news broke, there definitely was an increase in trading.

John Margarita

The extra week helped us since we're a young team, but the guys are definitely ready to start playing for real. We'll see what Ophelia brings, but they've got the turf down there and we're expecting to play regardless.

Olli Jokinen

We've still got Krajicek and Bouwmeester as well. You definitely need four guys on the power play, maybe even three units during the year.

Janet Baird

We've still got a long way to go, but making it back to state is definitely in the back of their minds. Hopefully, we'll improve enough to make a run at it.

John Campbell

There is a lot of good quality music being made and from this tour and the touring we've been doing over the 10 years there has definitely been a big pickup in people showing up, especially in girls 18-24.

Dennis Chandler

We want families to come back to see us and sit around the family dining room table.

Steve Kepic

She runs the dining room like it's her living room.

Steven Martin

We're hoping for downtown hotel stays. We're hoping for the volume of downtown dining to increase.

Kimberly Harrison

My kitchen and dining room are completely gone.

Wan Kim

Too often, the ease and enjoyment of restaurant dining is not a reality for individuals with disabilities.

Howie Mandel

My wife doesn't cook, so we eat out every night. It's not fine dining or anything - we're not fancy people.

Tom Colicchio

If you're dining with someone who wants the same cut, it's always better to get a 16-ounce steak and split it than to order two eight-ounce steaks. The longer something cooks, the more flavor it develops, so you'll get a better taste with a bigger piece of meat.

Meghan Markle

I grew up with that farm-to-table dining before it was sweeping the nation. I do think there's some value to really throwing yourself into food and embracing where it comes from.

Nancy L. Johnson

We've found that people are often looking for one of two things when they're traveling: efficiency and convenience, or a truly unique dining experience.

Jason Cook

We want to show people what search-and-recovery teams go through. The windows are the floors, and the floors are the walls. Their world is literally turned upside down.

Thomas Hardy

Where once we danced, where once we sang, Gentlemen, / The floors are shrunken, cobwebs hang.

Jim Schaffer

Wood floors are a good value and you usually recoup what you put into it.

Tom Hank

There are whole floors of people in studios that worry about such things, as though there is power that can be wielded over such matters,

Jana Pittman

We had no food, no electricity, we moved floors in the hotel because the ground floor was flooded. Three people who were staying there passed away after they were electrocuted when they went out on the street.

Jim Compton

We tore everything out of here. All that was left when we started was the floors and the walls.

Elise Armacost

The roof is completely gone and there are some floors that are collapsing.

Colin Angle

You're not going to talk to your vacuum cleaning robot: in fact, you may never see your vacuum cleaning robot because, ideally, you come home every day and your floors are freshly vacuumed.

Michael Freeman

You can't even get people to acknowledge that there's a problem. That's what floors me.

Lee Kuan Yew

If you are going to lower me into the grave, and I feel something is wrong, I will get up.

Vince Farrell

We might get to the lower 8,000's before we get through with this.

Noreena Hertz

Most organisations do not actively seek out input from their lower echelons.

Mark Waggoner

We're going to move lower from here. It's not going to take months and months to get all these refineries back.

Dave Chitty

We'll be introducing chum salmon into the lower reaches - that's what was there historically.

Paul Chan

Lowering the marginal salaries tax rates is welcome and will go some way in relieving the pressure on the middle class.

Gary Jones

What's lower than writing a man a ticket for sleeping on the street? If he had somewhere else to go, don't you think he'd be there?

Michael Brown

We're doing everything we can to make sure it's safe to live and work in Lower Manhattan.

Warren Shouldice

Personally, it's devastating. The scores were a lot lower than I expected. It was mine for the taking up there. If I had stuck my second jump, I could be up there on the podium.

Vicki Warker

The potential is huge, considering that 55% of the U.S. population subscribes to a mobile phone.

Edward Zander

Mobile phones today are more like television when I was a kid,

Mark Taylor

Mobile and fixed-line services are also converging as rapidly as the worlds of voice and data.

Jeff Jordan

With the overwhelming popularity of mobile phones, the time has never been better for the merging of e-commerce and wireless devices.

Jon Tetzchner

With Opera Mini, most people can start surfing the Web with the mobile phone they have today.

Bruce Tulgan

Today, the most mobile part of the workforce is the most marketable.

Mike Rucker

He's kind of like a younger version of Brett Favre. You don't see him as a mobile quarterback. He made some plays today.

Scott Kerstetter

We had a lot of turnovers, but Hannah Tobin was the MVP of this game. She was really mobile in this game.

Gene Miller

The project starts as soon as school is out. We will move them (the mobile units) in when school is out.

David Walker

We have to get some movement on it shortly,

Deborah Marshall

We have no plans to move at this time.

Chris Bell

When you're trying to move away from a system that is overburdened with loopholes, you don't replace it with a system with still more loopholes.

Hans Mosesmann

We've seen the same movement (as Philips). We think this quarter is the bottom.

Jonathan Pulik

The process at this point is being re-examined on how we will proceed, but it will move forward. The project is still in the planning stages.

Malik Peiris

The real culprits who are doing the movement you probably don't see. They're probably healthy. Obviously, if they're sick, they would not be able to migrate.

Thomas Haden Church

When I moved to L.A. in 1989, the very first thing I did was this horrific pilot called To Protect And Surf.

Thomas Bangalter

Artists are overcompensating with this aggressive, energetic, hyperstimulating music - it's like someone shaking you. But it can't move people on an emotional level.

Thomas Dooley

The other thing is I don't want to move any more. I have moved so many times in my life.

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.

John Perkins

Every play was loud, but a big play like that was deafening, with the screams and the cheers.

James Bell

That's one of those that screams 'concept,' then they tell you, 'No, it's production,'

Bruce Eric Kaplan

When I'm on the set, I'll come up with ideas if I'm sort of just between responsibilities, because there's a lot of sitting around on set. Invariably, though, the stuff I come up with on the set tends to be bad.

Sarah Snook

I always wanted to do some sort of action film - even a superhero movie - and when 'Lucy' came out, I was like, 'That's what I want to do.'

Lyle Bauer

What we didn't want was it to be sort of a one-hit wonder.

Nigel Kneale

You set up a story and it turns inside out and that is, for me, the most exciting sort of story to write. The viewer thinks it's going to be about something and it does the opposite.

Kiesza

I tend to sort of dive into things without worrying about risk or anything. Like, when I get an idea, I tend to just go for it and see what happens.

John Godfrey

Until they sort it out, we're not going to get in the way.

Ernie Hudson

I think it's important to find the joy in your work and the things that sort of renew that.

Paul Souza

We're sort of bucking the trend a little bit.

Desmond Soon

Let's see what sort of spreads it comes out at.

Caio Fonseca

My uniform is sweatpants, so crusted over with dried paint that they're as hard as a table. I wear T-shirts that are also covered in paint, and Crocs.

Alan Cooper

Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair. If you are making a chair, the sandpaper can make it smoother. But no amount of sandpaper will turn a chair into a table.

Chris Bauer

I'm not one of those actors who sits around the table and intellectualizing anything, or discusses much of anything. Everything for me is intuitive and instinctive.

William Shakespeare

A table full of welcome makes scarce one dainty dish.

Diana Vreeland

Poor, darling fellow - he died of food. He was killed by the dinner table.

Dana Perino

I waited tables at Govnr's Park Tavern in Denver.

Elizabeth Warren

If you don't have a seat at the table, you're probably on the menu.

David Hilbert

Keep computations to the lowest level of the multiplication table.

Denis Leary

I'm not saying being a comedian is brain surgery, but it is definitely - it's like being a carpenter. You learn how to make tables and chairs. You have to have the right tools, and you have to know how to put the thing together, right?

Brad Meltzer

There's nothing wrong with wanting someone to save us - or admitting we can't do it all ourselves.

Brad Meltzer

The point is, as death gets closer - what's so wrong with wanting someone you love to live forever?

Bobby Womack

Leave them wanting more and you know theyll call you back.

Michael Taylor

I'm always wanting to score. I want to win the game.

Ron Gardenhire

I can't see Rad not wanting to go out there.

AJ Michalka

You kind of need to weed through who is wanting to be a true friend.

Oscar Isaac

I'm very happy to have the heritage that I do, but I'm not wanting to be 'the Latino actor.' I just want to be 'an actor.'

Hill Harper

There's nothing wrong with wanting a partner and doing the things to have one. To protect ourselves, we have to say, 'I don't need one.'

Marilyn Monroe

When I was five, I think, that's when I started wanting to be an actress. I loved to play. I didn't like the world around me because it was kind of grim, but I loved to play house. It was like you could make your own boundaries.