Famous Quotes & Sayings

Don Brewer

Our regional success was helpful when we broke nationally, because we'd laid the foundations and were used to being on television and performing live. We did it the old-fashioned way, and built our fan base through stopping by radio stations to promote our albums and touring extensively.

Clinton Sparks

People like Busta Rhymes would say, 'Clinton Sparks doesn't do mix tapes; he does albums. He just throws albums out on the street.'

Jason Mraz

Steven, my friend who came out to me my senior year, was a huge Madonna fan. So I may know all the words to 'Bedtime Stories,' 'Erotica,' and a few more of her albums - and we may have watched 'Truth or Dare' a thousand times.

Robert Forster

Somehow I think it would end up a folk-rock album if it came to pass.

Joe Russo

Our whole dynamic is kind of based around that push and pull. Marco is a very skilled jazz musician and I'm rock oriented. When we first started out, that's the way it was, he was very jazz, and I was very rock, and I think that's what has made the sound and the album special. But we've evolved to retain both of those features within ourselves as a result of playing together.

Rivers Cuomo

Rock and Roll Over' was the first Kiss album I heard, but I was totally oblivious to their whole image and the makeup and all that. I was so out of touch with the wider world.

B.o.B

Man, 2013, I would expect an album from B.o.B and a Rock EP as well. My Rock EP is like... I take pride in my work and I'm not going to do something just to say that I can do it if I ain't really passionate about doing it. I'm very passionate about my music. Sometimes I take it too seriously.

Bruce Springsteen

Making this album was creatively liberating because I have a love of all those different roots sounds. They can conjure up a world with just a few notes and a few words.

M.I.A.

Me, it was always about being able to bounce around to where I wanna be. Like, with 'Arular,' people always say it's so political, but I think 50 per cent of the album is not very political at all. It's just really a shouty, shouty girl thing.

Reed Tuckson

Regardless of who you are or what group you're in, there is a significant gap between the care you deserve and the care you receive.

Vince Carter

Regardless of our seeding, as long as we're playing well and rolling into the playoffs, that's what we care about. We're just looking at whoever we play, we have to be prepared.

Vitali Klitschko

Recently I have been fighting more often with injuries than with my opponents. It's hard to retire from this sport, but I want to finish my career at the summit and leave the way open for my successors.

Greg Mason

Reggie has just had a remarkable career and continues to give us a solid offensive presence that makes us a lot better.

Walter Miller

Price is a big concern in school districts all over the state. We didn't necessarily look this carefully at our contracts before.

Henry Johnson

Previous winners have come from all walks of life in our community, and they all had one thing in common, the uncommon way they cared about our community.

Nate Rien

Our passing was awful. It's so undervalued in today's game. We make a lot of careless decisions at times.

Don MacAdam

Our passing was abysmal. Passing is a caring skill. If you care to put the pass on the guy's tape, you can make it. I haven't played a game in 30 years and I know I can do it. I do it in practice every day.

Michael Howe

Our partnership with CVS has been crucial, ... They are visionaries, and their involvement in support of retail-based health care has been huge.

Bertrand Russell

Reason is a harmonizing, controlling force rather than a creative one.

Mary Mason

Part of what I've found is that people who can think creatively and can do this kind of work need a tolerant environment, ... Texas will wind up looking un-American, intolerant and very foolish.

Jon Nelson

People have their set impressions about the trumpet. It's either part of an orchestra, or it's played by one or two famous jazz musicians who are doing traditional music. But people are doing very creative things.

Dave Williams

Standardization of creative units allows us to focus more on the message and other key variables that drive ROI.

Christina Hendricks

Some people are way less creative than you wish they were.

Dan Glickman

Piracy not only has an economic impact on our industry, ... but it has an impact on the creative spirit in this country.

Becca Fitzpatrick

You're a psychopath." "I prefer creative.

B. J. Novak

I wanted to be a writer first, and I struck out in the world to be a writer first, and then found stand-up as a more creative outlet, as a 3D way to be creative.

Bibhu Mohapatra

As a creative person, you want to start with a blank canvas.

Joseph Zwilling

outstanding speakers who will provide a memorable and enjoyable evening to the guests at the dinner.

Sam McGinnis

That's the most enjoyable part of the whole season watching them enjoy their success.

Ed Colson

I think this is going to be an extremely enjoyable event and something totally different for our community.

Jim Baldwin

I'd been helping her in the classrooms, over the years, and had a growing interest in teaching as a rewarding and enjoyable profession.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Going out for a meal, especially for young urbanites, is less about socialising over enjoyable food than about enjoying food as a way to socialise.

Quentin Braun

If it's enjoyable to the body, it's good to the soul

Sam Wyche

I wish we'd have won one or two more ballgames, especially in the last year, ... I never really had a year, even though the record wasn't always real good, I never had a year where I just felt like it wasn't an enjoyable effort.

Gregory Olsen

I would do it in a heartbeat. It was one of the most enjoyable things I've ever done in my life; to be weightless is awesome.

Gary Numan

I got involved in music because I love everything about it, but now I'm in it you see the other side and it isn't much fun. Not as glamorous and enjoyable as you imagine.

John Cassavetes

People have said that my films are very difficult to watch, that they're experiences you are put through rather than ones you enjoy, and it's true.

Jonas Armstrong

I was always interested in films and thought that was the path I should go down, but I didn't start pursuing acting until I was 17.

Dan Gilroy

I think there's a connection with 'Nightcrawler' and 'Blowup' and other films where visual imagery is integral to the story. It allows you to play with images.

Cary Fukunaga

'Jane Eyre' was one of those films that I was familiar with as a kid, and I always enjoyed the story.

Rod Marinelli

That was a full day for an hour of watching a man work, where I could have watched numerous films that day on other players -- and we're going to get film of that workout anyway.

Francis Coppola

I think it was more like the original Francis before The Godfather who just wanted to make personal films and use sensible-sized crews and equipment.

Tom O'Neil

I think this is the year of the smaller films with independent spirits.

Dawn Hudson

I think that's terrific that independent films are getting more and more mainstream press.

Dirk Benedict

It is marketing that makes films popular. Cross-marketing. Selling movies with hamburgers and Coke.

Master Kwon

Relationships flourish, when individuality,freedom and growth are respected.

Conan Stevens

Success is the freedom to do what you want, with whom you want, when you want, wherever you want.

Chen Hong

Our forefathers gave their lives for peace and freedom. Our generation has the responsibility to treasure what we have today.

Scott Walker

Maybe in the old days, Sully gets clutched and grabbed there and held down. Now he can spin around three times around three different guys. It gives a guy like that more freedom to move.

Dave Anderson

Many Americans don't have an understanding of the freedoms they regularly enjoy.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.

Bhagat Singh

Revolution is an inalienable right of mankind. Freedom is an imperishable birth right of all. Labor is the real sustainer of society, the sovereignty of the ultimate destiny of the workers.

Benjamin Rush

Without Virtue there can be no liberty

Mel Martinez

I will always vote on the side of freedom and our right to keep and bear arms.

W. S. Gilbert

It is immensely satisfying to see something like that come to fruition,

Sally Schneider

That being said, I often write into recipes techniques I learned in the restaurant kitchen. There are ways of organizing your prep and so on that are immensely useful. Those are woven into all the recipes I do.

Nimrat Kaur

I run on the beach in the mornings. I've also immensely enjoyed CrossFit with Dheepesh Bhatt.

Willa Holland

I enjoyed 'The OC' immensely but I want to expand my horizons more before repeating myself.

Sarah Hall

I used to dislike bookshops immensely as a child and was won over only later in life.

Jeff Overmyer

We've improved immensely as a team with his scoring going down.

J. Paul Getty

In Japan, I was immensely impressed by the politeness, industrious nature and conscientiousness of the Japanese people.

Antonin Scalia

And what I would say now is, yes, if a state enacted a law permitting flogging, it is immensely stupid, but it is not unconstitutional. A lot of stuff that's stupid is not unconstitutional.

Patrick Dempsey

We wouldn't be able to do what we're doing without her. We love her and respect her immensely and she makes us look good.

Jerry Maren

She was one of the all-time money makers for the studio, ... She use to tell us in the morning she could get anything we needed.

Virginia Postrel

Even before Sputnik, scientists and policy makers worried that not enough Americans were studying science.

John Rother

We just wish the same kind of self-restraint could be true for the makers of brand-name drugs.

Orson Scott Card

The Maker is the one who is part of what he makes.

Franklin Knight Lane

For you are the makers of the flag and it is well that you glory in the making.

Chuck Grassley

I'm the policy-maker; I'm the lawmaker.

Sathya Baba

Women are the makers of the home,the nation and the world. You are the mothers who shape the generation.

Stephanie Rollings

There will have to be policy makers in the room. These are serious discussions.

Eva Zeisel

I am a maker of useful things.

Sully Erna

Our music is very simple and doesn't go over people's heads, ... Simplicity has been the recipe for us so far.

Estelle

Success is based on music, not where you're from.

Keith Richards

Other than its sense of rhythm, it's music by the tone-deaf for the tone-deaf.

Walter Becker

Play what you enjoy! Try and find your own musical identity.

Bela Bartok

I cannot conceive of music that expresses absolutely nothing.

Bela Bartok

His pagan barbarity, his explosive and angrily defiant melancholy, his demoniacal instinct . . . these are all echoes . . . of the thousand-year-old Hungarian psyche.

Barry Mann

I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction.

B. B. King

Michael Bloomfield came in after rock n roll started, and he was a great guitarist. He idolized me - I know that. What else can I say ? he was a young, excitable man. To him, drugs were plentiful, and that was no good. I talked to him like he was a son of mine. He was a great and he was gonna be greater. But he was part of the "in-crowd" and so he never got there

B. B. King

The Blues? It's the mother of American music. That's what is is - the source.

John Nersesian

Rebalancing doesn't work every time. It works over time.

Mac McCabe

Our participants can work just as well as you or I.

Romesh Gunesekera

Sri Lanka is a part of my background: it's not where I live, but it's what I want to explore. And I find it works very well to explore through fiction.

Jim Coyne

Some of the work is in dispute. Hopefully, it will be settled.

David Frum

Republicans originally thought that Fox worked for us and now we're discovering we work for Fox.

Barry Ritholtz

The market is going to love it. The market always seems to applaud major mergers, even though the vast majority of them don't work out and don't increase shareholder value.

David Burnett

Well a little disappointed but we'll work with what we have to work with.

Bill Cosby

There is no labor a person does that is undignified; if they do it right.

Big Pun

I'd rather sell reefer than do pizza delivery.