Famous Quotes & Sayings

B. B. King

I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.

Tom Scholz

I will say that I know Nirvana did a show and played a few chords from 'More Than a Feeling' before they did 'Teen Spirit,' and it wasn't very good. But in all seriousness, 'Teen Spirit' was a great song. If subconsciously or somehow I had any influence on that, I'll take that as a compliment.

Dan Bartlett

The accusations of racism and things like that is something that touched a chord with him. It wasn't one of the finest moments for our government.

June Wozny

I think it will be overwhelming to see. It is a simple idea, but it will look so professional. I think it is going to strike a chord when I see it, and I am just really proud of them.

Rain Phoenix

For me, songwriting starts with a melody. When a musician plays a chord progression, either the words and vocal melody come to me, or they don't. That's how I determine who to write with. It works, or it doesn't.

Simon Templeman

I think The Hulk really hit a chord with me, I love the Hulk. But, I never dreamt I'd be playing Doctor Doom.

Leo Ornstein

There is a paradox because I think you've struck a chord there that we ought to simply pursue - it is true that music is a form of communication.

Willie Nelson

I always thought Hank Williams was a great person to listen to, ... because his messages were simple, to the point, usually just three chords but they hit you right in the bone.

Jesse Harris

Neil Young does throw in a major seven chord here and there, so if you're a new guitar player learning Neil Young songs, you'll learn some seven chords, and some different positions. Nothing too complicated, just enough to kind of open up your knowledge a little bit.

Steve Alexander

We have the interests of the state and the interest of the medical community and they are clashing here.

John Dyer

My work all stems from my enjoyment of the medium. I also have a passion for colour, strong colours, clashing colours, all colours.

Michael Copps

The issue is whether a few large conglomerates will be granted content control. Will we still be able to get local news and clashing views?

Kristin Spangenberg

One of the things you'll notice about the sky is that he's taken a horizontal format: Holland is flat. The sky is rarely depicted other than as a foil to all of the detail in the foreground and his horizon line is often very low.

Leonard Maltin

Most other world-shattering events have not been depicted so soon.

Nat Turner

When I got large enough to go to work, while employed I was reflecting on many things that would present themselves to my imagination; and whenever an opportunity occurred of looking at a book, when the school-children were getting their lessons, I would find many things that the fertility of my own imagination had depicted to me before.

Katie Hafner

Divorce, and broken marriages, are all around us, but they're not frequently depicted on screen, or if they are, they're often depicted in ways that have very little to do with reality.

Bernie Sanders

For much of America, the all-American values depicted in Norman Rockwell's classic illustrations are idealistic. For those of us from Vermont, they're realistic. That's what we do.

David Gross

The progress of science is much more muddled than is depicted in most history books. This is especially true of theoretical physics, partly because history is written by the victorious.

Don Shula

We're depicted as being happy about somebody's misfortune.

Marquis de Lafayette

One time, I was given an essay topic: to describe a perfect horse, whom the mere sight of the rider's whip would make obedient. I depicted this perfect horse throwing his rider at the sight of the whip.

Elliott Abrams

U.S.-Israel relations are often depicted as an extended honeymoon, but that's a false image.

Bob Streeten

I was pleased to see us overcome a lackluster first quarter. I don't think we hardly got off a shot in the first.

Tom Rowe

I think it's too much of a major league market. Nobody thinks minor league sports. They're hardly on the radar.

Shahzia Sikander

I was very, very quiet. I was always a loner, hardly spoke, and I was quite a nerd in school. So I was an outsider always.

Chris Burke

I was hardly the hero tonight. Roy was great.

Greg Willis

He did not hardly play any offensive line last year.

David Morse

He didn't hardly ever wear a hat around here,

David Beckham

I think it is better for the team to have a regular penalty-taker rather than me who hardly ever takes them for Real,

Seth Meyers

I'm a terrible grocery shopper. I hardly ever do it. And if I do, there's never more than three things in the bag.

Arthur Conan

I hardly looked at his face. His knees were what I wished to see.

Phil Ramon

Some of them will need some major (repair).

Joe Jenkins

That day, there was nothing major going on,

Harley Dale

Outside of NSW spending on major renovations was softer, but not substantially so at the end of 2005.

Alan Greenspan

Roger was the major policy maker during 9/11.

Shane Coursen

We now know that it's not only a threat to smart phones. All these regular phones that support J2ME are vulnerable and can become a major target.

Shizuka Arakawa

I was a little nervous today, but there was not any major mistake tonight. It was ok.

Silvan Shalom

I think there was a very major breakthrough today in the relations between us and Pakistan,

Tony Benn

The anti-war movement now represents a majority in the country.

Steve Forbes

The American administration is making a major mistake, trying to pressure the Chinese. I wish we'd back off.

Craig Colten

Rebuilding here means so much more than walls and roofs and levees.

Akinobu Okada

Our rally was a little late, but things are by no means over.

Cheri Cihak

Parents who understand the risks recognize that it is important to keep teens from riding with other teens, even if it means playing 'chauffer' for one more year.

Lisa Busch

State means everything to this team. As seniors, it means so much more for us.

Barack Obama

Some of that means that in your public statements, ... you end up trafficking in public platitudes more than you'd want to do at home.

Mahmud Abbas

Our security services are trying to use all means to prevent their arrival.

Phil Klay

'Redeployment' is a military term. It means to transfer a unit from one area to another.

Sharan Burrow

(We need) a broad-ranging inquiry, one that travels around the country, so that working people can talk to the senators about what it means for them.

Joe Hymer

It is an encouraging sign, but we don't know what it all means and where those smelt will end up.

Chuck D.

Melody is an important part of all the music I've written. I think that's why it has been so successful. It's music that sticks in your head.

Juan Felipe Herrera

I write while I'm walking, on little scraps of paper. If I have a melody going, I can feel it for days.

Billy Bob Thornton

[The lyrics and melody] usually come a little simultaneously, but I would say the lyrics are first; usually I have the idea for a story in my head, or few lines.

Aaron Copland

A melody is not merely something you can hum.

Burning Spear

Music is creation. In reggae the lyric, the music itself, arrangement, that vibe, such melody - everything within the music moves the people, understand?

Douglas Levine

But other than that, I go from the text and the rhythms of the words. The melody comes from that,

Drake Bell

With a good melody... music gets me through everything.

Erich Bergen

'Dawn (Go Away)' is a sad lyric, but the melody is so happy and fun.

Ariel Pink

I still have a very nonintellectual, nonjudgmental relationship with melody and the music as I hear it all in my head.

David Shulman

Our logo is located in the same place as one of our minor competitors,

Ian Snell

I think it's time for me to get a major-league job. I really don't know what else I have to prove in the minor leagues. I've won at every level. I've done everything I can do.

Tony McCoy

Racing may be a minority sport, but I wouldn't swap it for all the money in the world.

Josh Byrnes

He's done everything there is to do in the Minor Leagues. Right now, there's just no spot for him in the big leagues.

Vincent Alfano

We've been very busy. They're (police officers) running around. We're very short-staffed with people tied up with mostly minor incidents.

Robert Rose

Occasionally we have problems, but usually it is a minor incident, nothing like this,

Bob McDonnell

There is no question that the minority party always makes a sport of going after the governor.

Cal Ripken, Jr.

I had trouble with my temper all the way through the minor leagues.

Adam Smith

The problem with fiat money is that it rewards the minority that can handle money, but fools the generation that has worked and saved money.

B. B. King

Notes are expensive... spend them wisely

Bharati Mukherjee

I had never walked on the street alone when I was growing up in Calcutta, up to age 20. I had never handled money. You know, there was always a couple of bodyguards behind me, who took care if I wanted... I needed pencils for school, I needed a notebook, they were the ones who were taking out the money. I was constantly guarded.

Bill Bryson

When the poet Paul Valery once asked Albert Einstein if he kept a notebook to record his ideas, Einstein looked at him with mild but genuine surprise. "Oh, that's not necessary," he replied . "It's so seldom I have one.

Bernadette Peters

It was like being high when you reach those high notes.

David Bernstein

He used no notes and yet his speech was passionate and moving. It was very impressive.

Steve Miller

I get many notes from hourly workers, a lot of them angry. And they say some unkind things about me,

AJ Punjabi

We're offering a reminder service. If you sign up for our e-mail subscription list, the notes are going to automatically be in your e-mail box.

Alan Cropsey

When he was in the United States Senate, he was noted as an intellectual powerhouse,

Channing Tatum

I've cried a hundred times at The Notebook. My wife cries and that makes me cry, and she makes me promise we're going to die in bed together. I'm like: "That's weird, I don't want to talk about that."

Jonny Greenwood

I think rhythms can be more satisfying in the short term - like, more immediately. It can be kind of obsessively and compulsively rewarding.

Ai Miyazato

I don't feel tired at all, and want to keep with the rhythm I have right now.

Shinji Mori

I did that a lot in Japan. By doing that, I can get some rhythm back and keep my balance.

Sophie Marceau

I need the seasons to live to the rhythm of rain and sun.

Richard Kovalcheck

I feel like we got in a rhythm towards the end there,

Jameer Nelson

I feel like I'm starting to get my rhythm now.

John Burnside

What makes me write is the rhythm of the world around me - the rhythms of the language, of course, but also of the land, the wind, the sky, other lives. Before the words comes the rhythm - that seems to me to be of the essence.

C. S. Lewis

Music. A meaningless acceleration in the rhythm of celestial experience.

Matt Maldre

Search for variety in between the rhythm of what we already know, and you will find wonder.

Gilbert Arenas

It got weird toward the end on this one, but it was our third win in a row.

Kyle Gilchrist

I thought I was in better shape. He had so much weight to cut. I thought that if I got him into the third period, I could get him.

Robert Eenhoorn

He can play first, second, third or the outfield.

John Smoltz

If it were the old way there would have been another four-spot in that third inning.

Marc Crawford

He was a difference-maker in the third period.

Rupert Grint

One in the third film, I'm looking forward to meeting one of the Dementors.

Bartolo Colon

More than puzzled, I'm ticked off. I had two outs and I couldn't get the third one.

Brandon Jacobs

If it's third-and-one, then I'm going in, no ifs or buts about.

Jim Rich

Sen. Landrieu said she wanted to be our third senator.

Rabih Alameddine

Every writer uses his own way to motivate oneself.

Chris Rainier

I am a storyteller who uses a camera.

Sherry Scarberry

Someone has to be there with him 24/7, whether it be me or Robbie.

Scott McCallum

I think there can be some disagreement as to whether Kerry really won Wisconsin or not.

Tom Woods

I don't know whether 3-3 would do for us, I don't know if 4-2 would do. But I know 6-0 would do.

Susumu Tonegawa

It doesn't matter whether it is chemistry or immunology or neuroscience: I just do research on what I find interesting.

Deirdre O'Kane

I can't function if I don't have tea. I don't know whether it's psychological or a real necessity, but I just need it.

James Wallace

From our standpoint, we're being very reasonable. It's up to (RIM) whether they want to be shutdown.

Steve Lambert

I would say that by the end of the month, we will know whether it can work.

Mary Pierce

I think it is possible. Whether it happens, I don't know.

Nick Cave

Everything that's said against me offends me, whether it's true or not.