Famous Quotes & Sayings

Albert Einstein

We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.

Zubin Mehta

An American orchestra doesn't want to play more than it has to. I respectfully disagree with that attitude.

Chuck Zito

I broke two knuckles in my right hand when I gave Jean-Claude Van Damme an attitude adjustment. I got nothing except a medical bill.

Eartha Kitt

A lot can be said with just a look, or the way the body moves. Each song is a different character. So each song takes on a different movement of the body. And the body has to go with the subject and the attitude that you have toward that subject.

Esther Rolle

'Hollywood maids' are so idiotic. They grin at everything. I told Norman Lear I didn't want to play a maid because of that 'hee-hee/grin-grin' attitude, and he said, 'Who said I wanted that?' He told me he wanted two strong women that are the black and white of the same coin. I said, 'Oh, well - in that case, I'll be right there!'

David Byrne

Do creative, social, and civic attitudes change depending on where we live? Yes, I think so.

Amisha Patel

Being sexy is all about attitude, not body type. It's a state of mind.

Brendon Urie

I've always been that person: If it gets into my head, I've got to do it until I get it perfect - a perfectionist's attitude.

Ben Elliot

My father instilled in me an attitude that you couldn't really enjoy yourself unless you had done something to deserve it. So, my childhood was spent working on farms or local shops or, when I got older, in banks.

Vivienne Westwood

We based the look on rock 'n roll right from the beginning.

Chuck Palahniuk

'Romance' is based on my entire creative process. I fall in love with an idea, obsess over it, isolate myself with it, and when I eventually introduce it to my friends, they all tell me that it's stupid.

will.i.am

You know, I do music. If you look under the hood of the industry I'm in, it's all based on technology. From radio to phonographs to CDs, it's all technology. Microphones, reel-to-reels, cameras, editing, chips, it's all technology.

Constance Wu

It's my privilege to be able to play somebody not myself. I'm an actor who creates characters based in voice, movement, emotional quality, speech.

Elizabeth Warren

I never sought nor gained personal benefit in school or job applications based on my heritage.

Brian O'Neill

The overall performance of the Grand Caravan was similar in all three tests, except for the fuel tank, ... Based on these tests, the 2001 models manufactured before the redesigned fuel systems are rated poor for crashworthiness because of the leak.

Marc Chandler

The pendulum has swung back in favor of a March rate hike. The dollar-bull camp is based on the interest-rate differentials. They have really renewed their widening.

Rob Bennett

The PC makers are going to have to make their own decision how they're going to handle this based on their own business needs. It's not something that Microsoft can dictate.

Harry Forbes

The PBS philosophy is to keep the best and reinvent the rest, and MPT is taking the initiative based on that philosophy.

Billy Graham

Only the supernatural love of God through changed lives can solve the problems that we face in our world.

Christian Bale

'The Machinist' changed me. I learned that I really enjoy, literally, not saying a damned word for days at a time, except for what was in the scene. Whole days of... nothing. Just... standing still. I know a lot of people found it bizarre, because they'd be standing right next to me thinking, 'Why aren't we talking? What's going on?'

Mitch McConnell

The politics of tobacco have changed, and changed dramatically for the worse for our tobacco farmers," ()

Brad Coker

The overall leads and sizes of the leads haven't changed all that much, which tells me that, other than real-interested, more-tuned-in voters, the large majority of voters haven't paid all that much attention.

Andrew Gibson

The outsourcing model has changed pretty profoundly over the last three years. Outsourcing today is now viewed in a far more strategic light.

Brooke Smith

My child has changed things for me. Lately, I really wish there were greater roles for women. I think I see it in a different way now. I look at my little girl and I don't want her to think that all she has to be is pretty and quiet.

Bee Wilson

I appreciate recipes that tell you what can be changed and what must remain fixed. 'The Zuni Cafe Cookbook' by the late Judy Rodgers is superb at this.

Bruce Jackson

Technology has changed the way book publishing works, as it has changed everything else in the world of media.

Beeban Kidron

The film that changed my life is a 1951 film by Vittorio De Sica, 'Miracle in Milan.' It's a remarkable comment on slums, poverty and aspiration.

Keith Cieplicki

The only frustrating thing is that we haven't had all the pieces in place. The group that's healthy has gotten a lot better. They have great team chemistry, so really, and it's even hard for me to believe, that I've really enjoyed coaching this team. None of us like losing, but it's a pretty mature group. I hope for their sake we get a few more wins.

Shek Borkowski

The payoff is to make the national team. The pay is very good there, as well as in the reserve pool. So the reason these players come here is so they can train under high quality coaches and hopefully get a shot with their national teams.

Joshua Johnson

The past two games the coaches were trying to see who was going to be their go-to guys.

Carmelo Anthony

The past two days, George (coach George Karl ) has been stressing that if the playoffs were today, this is who we'd play. We wanted to make a statement right away and tell them this is what they'll see if they play us.

Cobi Jones

I like the guys on the team and the coaching here. I especially like the management. The Galaxy have been really good to me.

A.J. Burnett

We play scared. We manage scared. We coach scared.

Marlen Ronten

We played with patience and had great shot selection. I have never coached a game where we had only four 2-point field goals. It was a true team effort.

Antawn Jamison

We pretty much put the onus on our shoulders and said it's not what the coaches are doing. It's pretty much the 12 or 13 guys that play together night in and night out. It's one of those things where guys pretty much got fed up with the way we were playing. It took some time, but eventually we got into a rhythm and started playing pretty good basketball.

Tim Howard

I think I have some ideas on coaching, but listen, coaches work harder than players. The hours they put in, the headaches that they have. That's the one thing I've never liked about coaching. They have all the emotion, passion and preparation without actually getting to be able to dictate what happens.

Will Shields

Just looking at society as a whole, there are a lot of different things that we are not doing as a group to make sure we are close. Everything is in transit. People are moving from place to place. You can have a neighbor you live next to for five years and never speak to, and nobody has a problem with that.

will.i.am

If you listen to the songs I write, they are the most ADHD songs ever. They have five hooks in one and it all happens in three minutes.

Evel Knievel

I play golf five days a week. I find that if I play seven days a week, I get stale.

Emma Watson

I could never really imagine myself doing one thing, and I'm pretty sure that I'll end up doing four or five different things. I want to be a Renaissance woman. I want to paint, and I want to write, and I want to act, and I want to just do everything.

David Bailey

All my ex-girlfriends or wives are all kind of great friends and I've never understood somebody who can live with somebody for five or six years and then not like them.

Tim Armstrong

The overall radio space looks similar to the way the Internet did five or six years ago.

Benmont Tench

I don't know about five guys against the world. It's more like five guys against these three chords, and we're gonna wrestle 'em down no matter what it takes.

Christina Baker Kline

Radiation is relentless: my protocol is five days a week, 33 sessions altogether.

William Gibson

In the early '80s, I happened to find myself in the vicinity of people who would work for Microsoft five years later.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Swiss chard is undervalued in Britain. It's a great substitute for spinach and keeps its shape well.

Yotam Ottolenghi

A great ratatouille is one in which the vegetables interact with each other but are still discernible from each other. The trick is to cook them just right: not over, not under.

William Shatner

I love technology. Matches, to light a fire, is really high tech. The wheel is really one of the great inventions of all time. Other than that, I am an ignoramus about technology.

William Shatner

In entertainment, whether it's movies or television or whatever, I'm a great audience, but I don't remember the names of the people I've seen or the groups that I've heard.

Wentworth Miller

I know what it takes to go from the point where someone's looking at a newspaper article, and thinking, 'Oh, this would make a great TV series,' to the point where you're actually on a set and there's a camera aimed at someone.

William Manchester

He was a great thundering paradox of a man.

Wes Anderson

Every time you do a take on a movie, you're not sure if it's going to succeed. Even if you have a great cast, like we had, every scene you're kind of waiting for the release. 'Oh, yes; it happened. We got it!' There's always the possibility that it's just not going to work.

Zubin Mehta

The New York Philharmonic is a tremendous opportunity, a great orchestra.

Abraham Lincoln

I have great respect for the semicolon; it is a mighty handy little fellow.

Chuck Palahniuk

When I first used to tour, guys would come up and say, 'Where's the fight club in my area?' and I would say, 'There isn't one.' And they'd say, 'No, no, you can tell me, you can tell me.'

will.i.am

When you think about the guys who started Twitter, and the Google guys, and the Facebook guys and the Napster guys, and the Microsoft guys, and the Dell guys and the Instagram guys, it's all guys. The girls, they're being left behind.

Alberto Martinez

The overriding theme of these numbers is that these guys are pretty much tied, and will likely stay that way for a long time.

Brian Bell

The guys in the Twins understand that the better Weezer does, the more people will probably care about us.

John Jay

We played well enough to win. I though our guys played well. We just never quite got ahead.

Jason Spezza

We played well. Different guys are stepping up.

Duane Joubert

We played well as a team. That's what matters. There's not going to be one player for Kountze. There's going to be five, six, seven guys who are all playing a role.

Tony Banks

We play teams in 3A or 5A, and we play with them. That shows how hard these guys work, and we're really proud of them.

Chris Duhon

We pretty much have the same guys back, doing the same things.

William K. Sessions

Looking back on my life, I wish I'd stepped forward and made a fool of myself more often when I was younger - because when you do, you find out you can do it.

Marshall Wittman

The overall problem the Republican Party has is it is increasingly looking like Tammany Hall, ... An odor of sleaziness is enveloping the Republicans and seeping into the administration.

Ron Artest

We play like a team, ... Sometimes I may not score. I was not looking to score. The buckets came.

Ansel Elgort

I'm looking forward to, as an actor, having to do some stuff that's out of my comfort zone. It makes for interesting work and when you're uncomfortable doing something; then it's going to be interesting when they film it.

Charles Foley

We are not looking for a repeat of anything of the magnitude of this weekend.

David Taylor

we are not in the market to be looking for a manager.

Jeff Ross

If you keep looking backwards, you don't go anywhere.

Ramon Ang

We're looking at $ 300 million. That's our target.

Wayne Carl

We're looking at 10-hour days, every day, from the contractors.

Ivern Ball

The past should be a springboard, not a hammock.

Samuel Butler

And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods.

Terry McGowan

We preached all week don't look past these guys. Once we got behind, we started pressing. We weren't relaxed.

Stacey Phillips

We did what it took to win. Everyone is a little worn out from the past weekend, but we still pulled through for the win.

Alan Cohen

Revisit your past only to recognize how far you have come.

Alan Cohen

View the past as your enemy, and it will be an albatross. View it as your friend, and it will give you wings.

Alan Cohen

You change the past when you change the way you see it.

Pearl Jam

Where have they been the past 10 years?

Dick Cheney

I have argued in the past, and would again, if we had been able to pre-empt the attacks of 9/11 would we have done it? And I think absolutely. We have to be prepared now to take the kind of bold action that's being contemplated with respect to Iraq in order to ensure that we don't get hit with a devastating attack when the terrorists' organization gets married up with a rogue state that's willing to provide it with the kinds of deadly capabilities that Saddam Hussein has developed and used over the years.

Paul Simpson

We are not in a position where we have to let players go and we have let Livingston know that.

Al Kaline

Players shy away from talking to announcers today.

Joanne Bracker

We're at the end of the season now, so we're going to regroup with the players we have.

Wes Welker

I go out there with whatever the coaches call, and whatever they do, I just go out there, and I'm the player. Coaches coach, and players play.

Bill Parcells

So if the players trust the coach, it's not a problem. If the players don't trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.

Colin Lee

There are not a lot of players who want to come here,

John Bernett

We know that we have players who could be at other schools scoring 20 points. For us, we are just here to win.

Heather O'Reilly

Our journey has taken 21 players but our goal is still the same, to win the World Cup.

Kirk Cheney

We got to 22 points in a hurry, and then how many two-footers did we miss? It's all about a team effort, and who's going to step up. And we had some players do that for us tonight.

Bruce Poston

Where do you stop it? When do you start taking DNA? For what crime? And for what non-crime? Um, they're children.

Keith Busse

We're not going to go out there and start whacking heads.

Jack Smith

We are going to take it to them. Zero-zero starts the game.

Steve Ron

We're at least two years away from starting construction.

Mario Andretti

When you start thinking you may get hurt, it's time to get out of racing.

Linda Flohr

We have a must-win on Saturday, so that is what we are going to start working on.

Scott Jones

We were handicapped from the start from our own error.

Olivier Martinez

We were going to start working on it after the tour was over,

Jonathan Taylor

Tribes are starting to make it on their own.

Lionel Blue

Some of the parables of the Kingdom made wonderful sense, but the exclusivity in the New Testament put me off.

Drew Neitzel

We know they'll try to get after us like that. This is going to be a test of our composure.

Jim Alexander

We'll do the beta testing in June. That will be your ticket.

Fernando Alonso

We'll try to win even though in the tests McLaren was faster.

Bryan Shelton

I would expect an extremely high percentage of the chickens would test positive. Our poultry industry clients wouldn't like that.

Eartha Kitt

I have to keep testing myself.

Arnold Bennett

The test of a first-rate work, and a test of your sincerity in calling it a first-rate work, is that you finish it.

Edwin Land

The test of an invention is the power of an inventor to push it through in the face of staunch-not opposition, but indifference-in society.

Bill Watterson

Everybody I know fails the acid test of friendship.