Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dan Marsala

Our bass player ended up with a black eye, he was hit a couple of times, but other than that we did all right. We all escaped.

John Kolivas

Piano players are all wacky, and drummers just like to make noise. The bass player has to be responsible.

Steve Bailey

Pianists have the Van Cliburn competition and guitarists have a number of contests, as well, but the electric bass is such a young instrument, relatively speaking, that this sort of thing just hasn't happened until now. Victor and I have been talking about this for a couple of years because we go around the world and we bump in to people who just blow us away. They've been practicing for years on this stuff that nobody's ever heard. They might be well-known players or just hiding out in a practice room working on techniques we don't even known about.

John Entwistle

That was the producer who produced a couple of my solo albums. He produced my second, third and fourth solo albums. It was his project and I just joined him on it. I sang on one and played bass on another one.

Will Kirkpatrick

It happens every year. The first warm spell of late winter triggers a fictional bass spawn on most East Texas lakes. The fishermen go wild, and the fish stay deep. I've been keeping records on when Rayburn bass make a major move to the beds. Without exception, it's the first couple of weeks of April. From about now until taxes are due is when the big females will move up on the beds. This is when fishermen have the best chance at catching a trophy bass.

Kevin VanDam

I won FLW Angler of the Year, and BASS Angler of the year three times, but there is no comparison to winning a Classic. It is kind of sad, because winning Angler of the Year is harder than winning a Classic. But it is just like football; the Super Bowl is the deal.

Sammy Hagar

He just was the most humble rock star I have ever met, besides having the best hands of any bass player in the history of rock and roll,

Mark E. Smith

Guys who were bass fishing and had lesser equipment and boats, they saw these tournaments on TV and they saw if they had better boats and gear, they could go out and fish these tournaments. They just figured, 'Hey, I can do that.

Dawn Kelsch

I was just at a loss for what I would be able to do. Tony, my husband, likes to fish and even competes in bass tournaments. Turning the lake into a pay lake seemed like something I could do, even with blurred and double vision.

M. Wolfe

Preserving these historic schools builds pride and a sense of place in communities.

Peter Beutel

Last week's report showed builds in all three major categories, but we aren't expecting this week's report to be as bearish.

Jim McNamara

It does wonders for us to jump out early. Our psyche is pretty fragile with our record in the past. When we can jump out and get a quick lead it just builds momentum for us.

Dustin Lanz

I think just knowing we've been in those situations before helped. You could tell they weren't stressing, and they put in the extra effort. This is something that builds a lot more confidence.

Paul Azinger

I don't hate it as much today (Thursday) as I did yesterday (when the pro-am was played in strong winds). We players fuss and moan and complain that all the courses on Tour are the same and when somebody finally builds something different like this, what do we do? We fuss and moan and complain.

Susumu Tonegawa

When General Motors builds a car, they want to meet the specific needs of many customers. But if they custom-make each car, then it will not be economical.

Terry Matterson

Frustration builds up, but that's no excuse. We need to do better defensively.

Aaron Rowand

I think it builds confidence to know you can came back in situations like this. Next time we find ourselves in that situation, we know we can do it. We definitely have a group of guys who like being around each other. And I think something like this makes us even closer.

Pamela Jones

It builds their self-esteem, it builds their confidence. It helps them understand they have control over their lives.

Jim Benson

Our motor performed flawlessly during that flight. But we beefed up the engine even more.

Jim Benson

Our motor performed flawlessly during that flight, ... But we beefed up the engine even more.

Brian Phillips

Some of them are just as original as can be, and some of them, people don't know when to quit (with restoration). Even the engine compartments are a lot shinier than a lot of new cars, ... They are operational works of art.

John Lomax

Right now, our nation is in somewhat of a crisis. We don't have now and are not producing now enough engineers to keep the United States competitive in a global market.

Chris Riddell

I think stories can grow out of the visual. It can be an engine for literacy.

Bill Saunders

J.D. is sick to his stomach over this. In all their years in NASCAR, they've never had an engine infraction. We'll probably get a fine, but J.D. said he was paying it.

Steven Strogatz

That's the phenomenon. Why did they all start moving in step? They did it unconsciously. That is what nobody had thought about and engineers did not anticipate.

Craig Venter

I think future engineered species could be the source of food, hopefully a source of energy, environmental remediation and perhaps replacing the petrochemical industry.

Hoop Scheffer

He did not mention it. It's more use for us to send engineers with road-clearing and snow-moving equipment - because it will be winter soon - than that sort of operation, which, to my knowledge, Pakistan has not requested.

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."