Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shawcross

If trustees feel it is in their charity's interest to pay high salaries to attract talented people, then they should have the courage of their conviction and explain their decisions publicly.

Virginia Postrel

Like Disneyland, luxury retailers have long had to figure out how to overcome customers' natural inertia. Unlike less pricey stores, they tend not to attract idle browsers who make impulse purchases.

Virginia Postrel

In a media culture, we not only judge strangers by how they look but by the images of how they look. So we want attractive pictures of our heroes and repulsive images of our enemies.

Arnie Berman

The outsize rally in the publicly traded debt for companies in this sector suggests that the bond market is sending a signal that the communications equipment sub-sector is particularly attractive at present relative to other technology sub-sectors,

Beeban Kidron

This idea of the digital native in the bedroom taking down a fascist regime and building a billion-dollar company is a very attractive image, but actually, if you look at the research, young people are on the lowest rung of digital opportunity.

David Wenham

Hollywood's a big place, and they make all sorts of different movies. Some movies I'm attracted to; a lot of the movies I'm not. But there are some terrifically talented people over there that I'd love to work with.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I was attracted to 'Half of a Yellow Sun' because of the story.

Victoria Justice

I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.

Wolfgang Puck

The good news about showcasing chefs and the TV shows is they've attracted a lot more smart kids to the profession than 30 years ago. On the downside, though, these young chefs all say they want their own restaurant and their own TV show.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Believe it or not, I'm as much a fan of a supper shortcut as the next person.

Yotam Ottolenghi

I'm a firm believer that the world should be your oyster when you're cooking. People should open themselves to other cuisines - there are a lot of hidden secrets all over the world.

William Hamilton

I simply can't believe nice communities release effluents.

William Kirby

Now, I believe that war is never inevitable until it starts, but there has been a great proclivity in human history, and including in recent history, for war.

William Hung

Whatever you believe in, and if you keep trying, you can eventually succeed.

William H. Gray

I believe there ought to be school choice, so that parents can choose within the public school system.

William John Wills

We all think we are right, or we should not believe as we do.

Whitey Ford

Army life was rough. Would you believe it, they actually wanted me to pitch three times a week.

Wesley Schultz

When I was a kid, award shows were super-interesting for me. But when I started making music, it was kind of hard to watch because I believed in what I was doing and yet knew I didn't really have a shot.

Brittany Howard

It'll help you be imaginative if you listen to classical music. It helps you understand dynamics and how important they are to create an environment.

Charles Hazlewood

Parallels between classical and pop are not new. The whole San Francisco movement of John Cage and Terry Riley went hand in glove with what the Velvet Underground were doing.

Charles Hazlewood

Classical music has become rarefied, like a maiden aunt that nobody wants to talk to.

Tim Curry

When I did 'Amadeus,' I hadn't done a play for five years. And I was so happy doing it and felt so foolish that I hadn't done a play for such a long time that I wanted to go back and really kind of reach out for a classical career.

Roberta Flack

When I go back home and go to church, I still see the woman who helped me learn to sing and play the piano, ... She still treats me the same way she always has. I'll go to the piano and play some classical music piece, dressed in my white dress, just as I always did on Sundays.

Christian McKay

Originally I studied as a musician, a classical pianist. That was my career before I took up acting in my late 20s.

Katherine Jenkins

I've always said that I count myself as a classical crossover artist. To be so, you have to have the core classical training, which I did for many, many years, but also be interested in the pop side of things. You can fit in somewhere in the middle. I feel I do that really well.

Katherine Jenkins

You're now getting a new breed of people like Il Divo and Andrea Bocelli and I think that's why people feel less intimidated by classical music than they once did.

Terry Teachout

Copland was the first important American classical composer to go to work for Hollywood.

Will Chase

The thing I like about 'Nashville,' it just happens to be about musicians, and all the music is practical, meaning it's performed at a concert or during a rehearsal.

Zubin Mehta

The private sector is growing so incredibly in India, in every city you have industries for whom building a concert hall would be nothing financially. But they just don't do it.

Zubin Mehta

Even in music concerts in Mumbai and different parts of the world, seats are reserved for sponsors.

Bill Hader

My wife and I got to go onstage at a Flaming Lips concert at Webster Hall once. We dressed up like Scientology aliens and danced around. We had a shootout onstage with Santa Claus.

Charles Hazlewood

I want to prove that Holst's 'The Planets' can be as much of a sensory overload as a concert by the Grateful Dead, and just as exciting.

Pauline Marois

I hope that one day the people of Quebec will one day be a part of the concert of nations. This is an internal debate. This will happen when Quebecers are ready.

David Gilmour

If people would like to come to my concerts I'd love them to come. And if they like the music that I make, I love that too. But I do not make music for other people. I make it to please myself.

Zubin Mehta

Though there is such a rich tradition of culture and arts, I have never been invited to perform at a concert in South India.

Zubin Mehta

Just imagine, the thousands and thousands of concerts that take place every single day, all over the world. And the positive effect that they would have on the people listening. Now imagine a world without this. This void... it is unthinkable.

Zubin Mehta

Even in music concerts in Mumbai and different parts of the world, seats are reserved for sponsors.

David Gilmour

If people would like to come to my concerts I'd love them to come. And if they like the music that I make, I love that too. But I do not make music for other people. I make it to please myself.

Zubin Mehta

Just imagine, the thousands and thousands of concerts that take place every single day, all over the world. And the positive effect that they would have on the people listening. Now imagine a world without this. This void... it is unthinkable.

Neil Tennant

When we did concerts, we wanted them to be theatrical events - collaborations with designers, choreographers, and directors - because we thought traditional rock concerts were boring.

Richard Eyre

The desire to share is not a vague, windy sentiment, not when you see the massive rise in live concerts in response to the phenomenon of downloading music... People want to get rid of the headphones and be part of a shared experience.

Pam Slaton

We'll have five Gainesville concerts plus three children's concerts plus two in Hiawassee. Six years ago I would not have dreamed this day would be possible.

Oscar Goodman

We're going to have our parades, we're going to have our symphonies, our concerts and everyone's going to have good time,

Jack Liebau

With the last few years of consecutive declines in attendance, the trends for live concerts overall aren't particularly encouraging.

Jason Couch

We want folks to leave our concerts feeling better than when they arrived.

Viswanathan Anand

There is technology where you can watch the match live online and also on TV. If people understood the game, I'm sure we would have a lot of chess fans by now.

Ken Sawyer

The Penguins and our fans will always be very grateful to Craig.

Becky G

I feel like a little beast when I'm onstage, and I feel like my fans have that little beast inside of them, too: this hunger for life.

David Stern

I'm persuaded that sports is the one place where the rules are pretty well set out, where fans are equal. And if you got game or you're a good official, you make it here, whether you're white or you're black.

Enya

The fans are very, very loyal. They're always saying, 'When is the next album?' They know when I finish in the studio it's got to be a few years before the next album.

Cobi Jones

I think the Commissioner is taking the steps necessary to give the game back to the players and the fans and hopefully take the league to the next level.

Travis Barker

The whole time after you record an album, you're just waiting for the release date. You're waiting for fans to hear it and stuff.

Tom Felton

It sounds like a media line, but I'm passionate about thanking the fans for their support.

Theo James

I've had some strange notes from fans and a few weird gifts.

Whoopi Goldberg

I don't have to be bam, bam, bam, funny when I'm working. I can tell stories, and there's some funny in them.

Constance Wu

I do think there are some actors that can get away with trying to be funny, and they're still funny because they're just likeable, and you want to see them. Me, though, when you see me trying to be funny, it's like the worst thing in the world. It's needy, it's cloying, it's manipulative - it's bad.

Don Rickles

If something strikes me as funny, I'll put it in my performance.

Mark Twain

The past may not repeat itself, but it sure does rhyme

Brad Goreski

I'm obsessed with sparkle for men. It's so funny watching people's reaction to a disco-ball shoe!

Bill Hader

There are some really funny women at 'SNL,' man.

Bill Hader

Pete Davidson - he's in the movie 'Trainwreck.' He has a small part in it. I told Lorne Michaels about him, said he was really funny.

David Walton

It's funny how when your kids get sick, they get even cuter when they have a stuffed nose and they mouth breathe.

David Walton

Chemistry's a funny thing. It can be instantaneous, but it helps when you know someone.

Loretta Lynch

Jimmy Meng sought to be a power broker in the halls of justice. But the influence he sought to peddle was corrupt, and his power was illusory.

Greg Bender

Usually, when he does these things, he'll give a talk, and then he and everyone else leaves and comes back the next day. Here, the students stayed together and were able to keep talking in the halls and the restaurants and lobby.

Charles R. Swindoll

You won't find God at the Seminary and you won't find wisdom in the halls of intellectualism.

Mark Dobson

I am ecstatic. I want to keep representing the residence halls as true as possible.

Harold Brodkey

Death is not soft-mouthed, vague-footed, nearby. It is in the hall.

Stetson Kennedy

The real threat are the unrobed Klan in the halls of government, ... Dissident at Large.

David Steinberg

I don't really dissect comedy. Nothing kills off humor more than overanalyzing it.

Bruce Nauman

I think humor is used a lot of the time to keep people from getting too close. Humor side-steps and shifts the meaning.

Tommy Lee Jones

I don't think I would describe my sense of humor. Doesn't sound like the kind of thing I'd do.

Bob Newhart

What you see on stage is pretty much the way I am... a dry sense of humor.

Jeff Foxworthy

That's the great thing about a tractor. You can't really hear the phone ring.

John Perry Barlow

I think that humor is part of what saves us from despair.

James Gleick

Humorists are using Twitter to tell jokes in an interesting way. It doesn't have to be profound, and it doesn't have to be earth-shaking, but it is transformative.

Lauren Willig

My own inclination is to skew towards humor. They say that some people view life as a comedy, others as a tragedy. Me? Comedy all the way.

Jerry Seinfeld

Nobody enjoys the 'little show about nothing' humor more than me, but that is never the way I look at it.

Damien Chazelle

Mozart was born Mozart. Charlie Parker was born Charlie Parker.

Robert Morris

Well, I don't know any piece by heart, but Mozart goes something like this... What do you think?

Michael Luxner

This is the first time we've ever done Mozart outdoors.

Cecilia Bartoli

Performing this music here, where he was born, in a way you feel 'Oh, this is what Mozart saw, this is what Mozart was breathing; the air, the atmosphere'.

Steve Lacy

Some people really want to play Mozart and be just performers. I was more interested in invention.

Compay Segundo

I play music the way it was played in yesteryear.

Chino Moreno

I don't watch TV. In my spare time, if I have any, I want to make music.

Chet Faker

My high school career counsellor said I shouldn't pursue music as a career.

Ellie Goulding

People always try to find my agenda, but I don't really have one. It's safe to say that I make pop, but I think that I'm doing important music, too. I've just always done what I wanted to do.

Edward Norton

I like music, but I need to get outside more.

David Byrne

We tend to mistake music for the physical object.

David Byrne

Music has to be sort of ignorable sometimes.

David Byrne

Before recording technology existed, you could not separate music from its social context.

Brittany Howard

To me, if you're a musician, then you're interested in music, and if you're interested in music, then you should listen to a lot of different types.

Yuvraj Singh

People who don't know me, how will they know what I am really like? They will only see me on the field, only see me in an advertisement. People who know what kind of a guy I am will tell you I'm a very open person.

Yoko Ono

Most people like to hear sounds they are used to.

Yoko Ono

Many people do remember their births, but they deny it.

Willie Aames

I think there are people that have very addictive personalities.

William Shatner

I like making people laugh. It comes off and shines in everything I do.

Wentworth Miller

They told me at the end of that test that they wanted me to be a part of this project. I walked out and had a moment of clarity where I thought, not many people will ever have this moment.

William Clay Ford, Sr.

I think sports are a wonderful diversion. People can relate to sports very easily. It's a quick study.

William Sleator

Stories develop from things I read and also from my own experiences and experiences of people I know.

Will Poulter

I need to try and get away from that brat role, or people are going to think I'm a natural brat.

Al Madrigal

I've always been 'ethnic friend,' without any serious moments, all jokes.

Jim Gillespie

We're not going to be taken seriously if we speak or we may not have a voice at all,

Alex Rodriguez

We're taking this (stretch run) as seriously as the playoffs.

William Shakespeare

There is nothing serious in Mortality

Scott Smith

We had discussions, but nothing serious enough to warrant any offers.

Mitt Romney

I read serious books, but every now and then, I read just for fun.

Alan Arkin

My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.

Bryan Ferry

As you get older, you get a bit more serious.

Bryan Clay

Repercussions are serious and they will take you places.