Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Cusack

Our parents more or less just kind of wanted us to pursue our passions. Whatever they would have been, they would have helped light the fire. They are very liberal, artistic people, but they didn't force us into acting. They let us find our own ways.

Keith Davis

Parks was a man of perhaps unparalleled artistic talent.

Susan Baker

Paul Kellogg has been a beloved and visionary leader of City Opera and we will miss him deeply. During the past ten years we have been fortunate to have had the benefit not only of his extraordinary artistic sensibility, his wise counsel and his inspirational leadership, but also of his impeccable human values, warmth and charm. That said, we cannot help but understand that he wishes to have more personal time after many years of service to the arts and we salute and thank him for his formidable accomplishments and significant contributions both to City Opera and to opera in general. Paul Kellogg's vision for City Opera has charted our course for the coming years. We are grateful beyond measure and will miss him profoundly.

Stephanie Szostak

People in fashion treat it as a business... I guess Hollywood is a business, too, but you talk about story: you talk about a more artistic world than in fashion.

Robert Forster

People often ask me would I swap the artistic reputation of a top 20 hit but I wouldn't and that comes down to how we feel about the music. Even in the early days when we formed in Brisbane we were always shocked after playing a gig that people we had never met before would come up to us and congratulate us on the songs and in a sense we've kept that naive sort of innocence about us.

Eric Greene

Overall I am pleased. All things considered I think it went very well and from an artistic standpoint I'm very proud of what we've been able to do. The goal next year is to provide the same quality and save a little money.

Christopher Moore

Our artists are very good technicians. They have sensibility and artistic balance. But quite often they lack in creation. I have one artist here in my studio in New York. She's a good painter, but she has problems of creating her own stuff, of inventing. She can copy from a postcard, but when she has to do other things she has a tough time. She knows it. Not everybody can do great things.

John Updike

Our artistic heroes tend to be those self-exercisers, like Picasso, and Nabokov, and Wallace Stevens, who rather defiantly kept playing past dark.

Don Robinson

The artistic talent in this country is phenomenal and this is an exciting time to be a designer. We and our partners look forward to seeing the best work that the Bahamian art community, both here and abroad, will have to offer.

Howard Stern

Regardless of how much money I make, this product costs a lot of money to put on. I don't think it's asking too much to ask people to pay 43 cents a day (to listen to satellite radio for the $13 a month fee to subscribe to Sirius).

Clarissa Estes

Refuse to fall down. If you cannot refuse to fall down, refuse to stay down, lift your heart toward heaven like a hungry beggar, ask that it be filled and it will be filled. You may be pushed down. You may be kept from rising. But no one can keep you from lifting your heart toward heaven-only you. It is in the middle of misery that so much becomes clear. The one who says nothing good came of this is not yet listening.

Horace

Refrain from asking what is going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Eric Sanders

Reese Morgan (a Hawkeye assistant coach) came and talked to me and Chris Aldrich and asked us to walk on there,

Ken Jefferson

Recognizing that, in light of this incident as well as some previous incidents with persons impersonating officers, we're subject to be asked for that and we have the patience that we need to calm that person down.

Thomas Malthus

Reason interrupts man's career and asks him whether he may not bring beings into the world for whom he cannot provide the means of subsistence.

Martha Smith

Related to that, the Marshallese at the same time send a lot of protests to the United States. They ask that the tests be stopped.

Jerry Krause

Reinsdorf told me, 'You have an invitation to a press conference on Monday. The new manager of the White Sox asks that you be there,' ... Ozzie never forgot to this day.

Nigel Hamilton

Regularly, customers asked for a book on Greenwich, and there was none. After all, Elizabeth I was born there. The Observatory is known all over the world; the Royal Naval College is there. So I decided to do it.

Andy Reid

Releasing players that have worked their tails off for the team is one of the toughest days for me,

Anne Coates

Preview days are the worst days of your life.

David Stevens

Or, from time to time, I've spotted people a few days until we can get something worked out.

Dana Williams

Our office has 30 days to make sure this petition is significant.

John Mattos

Our next twenty days are our rest days. We get to fine-tune all the little things we have maybe done wrong and concentrate on the those we've done right.

Roy Blumberg

Oracle is putting pressure on the technology stocks, but the Dow was up for seven days in a row before yesterday. The market was more than due for some kind of a sell-off.

Ellen Wheeler

People invite these families and actors into their homes five days a week,

Judy Tenzer

Sports is like life you have good days and not-so-good days, ... We always think about the what-ifs. We are making some adjustments with the ad....Andy will still be visible.

Lauren Pelletreau

Some of these 4-pass products may not have all 4 days left on them.

Gordon Miller

Our rescue teams have been working since early this morning.

Mark Fields

Our path is not going to be linear or smooth. It's still early days.

Jim Wygonik

Our passing was crisp, and our movement on offense was fluid early on. That combination produced seven goals in the first quarter.

Jeb Bush

Particularly in the northern parts of the state, people need to wait and be patient ... until they receive instructions that it's okay to go back home, ... That may take place early in the evening (on Wednesday) or maybe (on Thursday).

Tanya Kessenich

Our offense just wasn't working together early on. But we turned it around and played better after that early start.

John Brady

Our league took a hit from people early because we had so many players graduate and so many players leave early (for the NBA), but this was a league with a lot of young talent and with some outstanding coaches. Our league improved as the year went along, and with two teams in the Final Four, I think we've proven ourselves to be a lot better league than people thought we'd be.

Cindy Hockenberry

People often wait until the last minute to get this done and realize they can't do it this year. Another reason they should plan early is so they can notify their employees so they can start deferring their money.

Becky Nelson

People now live and recover from it and live many, many productive years after having cancer. So often in the early years, the treatment was worse than the disease. That's really improved a lot. We've made great strides in the treatment of cancer.

Niels From

People now expect the ECB to hike in the first quarter, or even as early as December. This has been supporting the euro.

Jimmy Bennett

I formed some great friendships. I miss some of them. They're passed away and gone now,

John Wilson

Basically, the industry has formed a standard, and Microsoft ignores it and does something else, ... They are freezing the market when we have an API that is ready to go now. We invited them to join us several times but they declined.

Donald Brownlee

If it was formed in our solar system, then it had to be transported from the hottest regions to the coolest.

Richard Greenberg

I was formed by 'The Forsyte Saga' marathon. There was something about seeing all those events telescoped that was unbelievably moving: that sense of time as something that can be tinkered with.

Don Brownlee

There are two major possibilities. One that they formed in the innermost, hotter-most regions of our solar system when the sun and planets were forming, and they were thrown out -- all the way out to the Pluto region of the solar system. The other possibility is they were formed around other stars, in hot regions around other stars.

Zach Johnson

Sports formed me. I was always decently skilled but lacked size, so I had to resort to using my skill versus my power. I strategically play golf because that's all I can do. It's the same on the basketball court. I try to get open and shoot it. Or I use the open space on the soccer field.

Terry Wogan

I have great fun with the Togs - Terry's Old Geezers and Gals. They're a group that formed around me over the years of my radio shows. They are loyal to me and I'm loyal to them, so I've been to their conventions - Leicester University gives us their campus.

Tom Brokaw

The greatest generation was formed first by the Great Depression. They shared everything - meals, jobs, clothing.

John Ortberg

The question isn't if someone will sign up for spiritual formation; it's just who and what our spirits will be formed by.

Beck

Every band I knew or played with had flyers and properly-recorded demos and contacts; I couldn't even get a gig.

Matthias Platzeck

I will do everything to pay back this gigantic offering of confidence.

Allan Carr

I went to Montreal. My first gig went very badly. They just weren't laughing at anything. I found out they were a load of Christians, and it was a gig to raise money for a new church roof.

William Bryan

Gigantic troubadour, speaking like a siege gun / Smashing Plymouth Rock with his boulders from the West.

Kristy Curry

I talked to her on the phone (Saturday) and she had a little giggle in her voice and I knew she'd be OK.

Alex Turner

I get nervous about gigs sometimes, but not with records - I always get excited.

Nicholas Hoult

I'm not one of those people who sits around knowing all bands and going to gigs all the time.

Tom Stoppard

When I was a reporter in Bristol, which I was between the years 1954 and 1960, the newspaper would get tickets for whoever showed up to play a gig at the big hall down the road, so I saw some wonderful people. The Everly Brothers, for example.

Dan Hawkins

My favorite is still the one that I started off with, which is a Les Paul Standard. I've played that at every gig I've ever had. And that's my starting point in the studio.

Stephanie Eby

Susan played hurt and still led us in kills and digs. Nichole hit and passed well and served at 97 percent. Jessica picked it up a lot this year. Those players will be missed.

Marquis Daniels

Some of our shots went in and out, and some of theirs hit all around the rim and the backboard and went in.

Megan Schwab

Our practice is really structured this year. So, we'll have a time for hitting and a time for fielding.

Pete Dunn

Our pitchers were just horrible, horrible pitching with the lead. Everything you shouldn't do with a lead, we did. We started pitching from behind, walking people, hitting people.

Chad Artz

Our pitchers just need to pitch and let the other team hit the ball, and more than likely we'll get them out.

Dawn Ostroff

Our strength is having high-quality hits that it would take another (new) network years to develop.

Randy Osnes

Overall I was very proud of the way that we hit the ball, we just can't strand people like we did today.

Stephen Ames

Overall, it was just a matter of getting out of my own way. Every shot this week, I was able to see the shape of it and then hit it the way I wanted.

Kevin Sickey

Our vulnerability simply provided an opportunity to steal and they hit the jackpot with us.

Bijou Phillips

I never had innocence.

Adolph Gottlieb

If we depart form tradition, it is out of knowledge , not innocence.

Bat for Lashes

I was a nursery school teacher, and I worked with youth groups. I loved that job. It was exhausting, but you got a lot back - all their purity and insight and innocence is so on the surface, and they're so unrepressed; they'd really scream at you and then give you a massive kiss.

Albert Camus

The innocent is the person who explains nothing

Anthony Anderson

Everyone realized I was the innocent victim of a shakedown.

Anthony Anderson

More oftentimes than not, you're automatically guilty before innocent.

Christopher Walken

Sometimes a certain innocence is good, but not about yourself.

Alice Thomas Ellis

Adolescence is usually typified by an unanswerable combination of innocence and insolence.

Elizabeth I

A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.

Richard Rossi

Paths kept leading me back to Aimee McPherson,

Eric Zastoupil

Our motto was, 'Let's make history,' or at least that was the unofficial motto. We kept saying, let's do something profound. We did. Well be remembered. We'll be back here in 25 years being remembered for this. We won the state title. We are the state champions.

Karen VanHyfte

People kept telling us that everything is going to Mississippi and Louisiana and they feel forgotten.

Carl Schurz

Our country, right or wrong. When right, to be kept right; when wrong, to be put right.

Rebecca Reynolds

Robert and I kind of kept up with each other.

Richard Breitman

Most Secret, to Be Kept Under Lock and Key, Never to Be Removed From the Office.

Donnie Jones

We never really thought a lot about that, to tell you the truth. We just kept focused, kept working, kept getting ready.

Tyson Nash

I was just going through the motions but I didn't feel anything (wrong), so I just kept on going.

Kim Clijsters

It is a nice start for me, ... I had to make sure I kept the pressure on and stayed aggressive.

Mischa Barton

Paris isn't my rival. I met her one or two times and she's making out there's this big rivalry between us and there so isn't.

John Perkins

We never met Kirby, we didn't know Kirby, but you feel like you know him. He was part of our lives, with going to games.

Jamie Clayton

I was always just so feminine. I don't think anyone who ever met me would describe me as a man.

Julio Franco

That was awesome. They cheered more for Puerto Rico than they did the Mets. I thought this was supposed to be a Mets town?

Tie Domi

I was tougher when I was younger so when they tried to get met I threatened everybody,

Michelle Hall

I think Metro sets teams up for the playoffs. Metro is one of the toughest leagues. You have to come to play.

Terry Matterson

It hasn't really moved. He's met one of his managers. It's probably a 50-50 situation at the moment.

Christian Camargo

Juilliard is wonderful in that they don't pick just one way of working. They give you a palette. There is method acting. There is a lot of attention to Shakespeare and verse.

Daniel Snyder

I don't know Sally Jenkins. I've met her once. I wouldn't know her in an elevator.

Julie Gerberding

I think it would be naive to say we'd have it in under a year.

Rob Bibler

Here you have a true innocent, rather than a naive adult.

Mike Phillips

We get a lot of inquiries from naive people.

Ann Landers

I was naive, but I certainly was not duplicitous.

E. B. White

We have security alarms; it's like trying to rob a bank, we know when someone tries to get in here. You'd have to be pretty naive to think a place like this didn't have alarms.

Sarah Hawthorne

It's naive to think that you're not going to have unexpected barriers. In real life, they occur all the time.

Donna Karan

It's naive and sweet, yet at the same time it has a sensuality because it shows your breasts.

Sophia Amoruso

I often say my naivete early on in my career worked in my favor.

Christina Ricci

I'm incredibly naive.

Jim Lord

Reasonable people have to find that reasonable line.

Stephanie Laurens

Real people are never central characters in my works.

Tom Tremont

Really, what people want is more simplicity in their life. They want a sanctuary.

Jyoti Amge

Regular people should not underestimate people who are small. In every aspect, they can do the things that normal people can.

Robert Hamilton

Our policy is to let our people know first.

Alex Halavais

Part of it is it's a really safe place for people to talk about this.

Hanya Yanagihara

Part of adulthood is searching for the people who understand you.

Joel Edgerton

Particularly when you're making a movie of a book, people are always waiting with their knives - you know?

Jack Horn

Part of the problem, ... is there are so many more things that can be done for people - drug therapies are better, but more expensive. And there are more and better scanning technologies, which are also more expensive.

Jim Thome

Starting with spring training, from Day 1, they really talk about winning here, and preaching winning. It's been very fun. It's been great. I can see now why this team wins. They're very focused, they're very upbeat about playing every day, and it's great.

Chester Pitts

Our first year, we had 76 sacks, ... That's not very good. Playing like this, we'll be right back where we started.

Garry Houston

Playing with Sergio was theatre and I suppose I thrived on it.

Trent Yawney

Playing with poise under pressure is something you can't teach.

Jeremy Roenick

Playing with Cammalleri and Frolov, I have to work a little harder, ... They're speedy.

David Carr

Playing the Titans is always tough, whether you're favored or you're not favored,

Tyler Murovich

Playing there would give me a lot of opportunities.

Gary Waters

Playing Princeton is like pulling teeth. It's been that way for a long time.

Lindy Ruff

Playing our own end, we've been flat-out sloppy.

Frank Tyger

Reputations are made by searching for things that can't be done and doing them

Tu'u Seva'aetasi

Reputation does not get you a win. Right now, we are doing enough. But at some point, we'll need to turn it up.

Charles Churchill

And reputation bleeds in ev'ry word.

Blaise Pascal

The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.

Ben Jonson

He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.

Ben Kuehne

This tarnishes his reputation in ways that are just unfair and unauthorized.

Alice Lowe

Manchester has a certain reputation of being cool.

Albert Bandura

Once established, reputations do not easily change.

Alexander Pope

At ev'ry word a reputation dies.

William Cooper

I will be shocked if he didn't play.

Joe Hampton

I'm shocked by the turnout. We're very pleased.

Richard Shoemaker

I'd be shocked if it was done by this weekend.

Bobby Bowden

I was shocked that he wasn't first team All-ACC. It made so sense.

Jeff Justice

I would be shocked if we had a verdict before the first of April.

Dan Brown

I have been shocked at their reaction. Furthermore I do not really understand it.

Janet Jacobs

When he told us, I got up from the table, shocked and surprised,

Astro Teller

When you attack a problem as though it were solvable, even though you don't know how to solve it, you will be shocked with what you come up with. It's 100 times more worth it. It's never 100 times harder.

Heather Stephens

She's amazing. I was shocked I was able to do that because she's so great.

Dan Hill

Songs sometimes are so connected to the sociology of the time.

AJ Case

I got a team of songwriters I used to work with, and we wrote songs day and night.

Nick Cave

I would hate to think my songs were giving advice to people.

Vince Neil

If the songs aren't there and you throw a TV set out of the window, who cares?

Todd Rundgren

I don't know what the inspiration for most of songs really mean until I finish them. For the most part, I'm going for a visceral impression, and I write the words last.

Lucinda Williams

My approach to recording and all that is pretty organic. It just has to do with all the songs I wrote; go in and record them.

Gene Ween

I wrote most of these songs right before the end. A lot of these songs are about that. Even if it's not direct, you can feel the beginning of the end of the breakup in these songs.

Valerie June

I just let the songs tell me what to do - they are my guides, and they are the boss. So I am subservient to the songs, and I let them tell me what to do. I don't judge them; I just write whatever comes to me.

Neil Innes

But mostly, I wrote songs and Viv wrote songs.

Jeff Crowe

I think they need to sort it out.

Ben Windsor

That's the whole thing, we work well together and we're all sort of into the same stuff.

Suzanne White

That's the sort of story we need to tell.

James Mercer

I tend to write a pretty half and half split of, like, slow, morose things and then sort of more upbeat stuff.

Gordon Fischer

I think he does sort of have this patina of independence. But I don't think he is all that independent from the White House.

Glen Mathison

I think it would be irresponsible to speculate at all that this was some sort of attack.

Rudolph Penner

I think they're going to squeeze out all sorts of other spending items.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

He used to sit on my lap. I was sort of ambivalent about that. He was surviving any way he could.

Ray Stevenson

I feel like I don't exist. It's like I'm some sort of an alias.

Patti Hoch

That was our top relay. There's not much else I can say about that other than it was disappointing.

Paul Malone

I think that will put us over the top and make the story simple,

Dennis Thompson

I don't know what I'm going to say, ... I'll just go off the top of my head.

Ed Burnsed

He is one of the top sprinters in the state.

Kerri Brown

Guarding the opponent's top scorer is a lot of work, and we all know that.

Carles Puyol

I can't see the top of the Eiffel Tower yet.

Steve Swasey

From top to bottom, Blockbuster is deliberately and willfully infringing on our patented methods.

Jeremie Cook

I was disappointed. He was unbeaten. I didn't do what I wanted on top in my final.

Gary Linden

Going from underdog to top dog is exciting, but it comes with problems.