Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Hazlitt

What a fine lesson is conveyed to the mind -- to take no note of time but by its benefits, to watch only for the smiles and neglect the frowns of fate, to compose our lives of bright and gentle moments, turning always to the sunny side of things, and letting the rest slip for our imaginations, unheeded or forgotten! How different from the common art of self-tormenting!

Miyavi

Usually I go to the studio to write lyrics and compose music. I try to be a dad as much as possible at home.

Penn Jillette

Working in television, you really need a composer who can work in many styles especially when you're working in comedy. Stockdale can do anything.

Neil Roberts

We're getting quality chances, we just gotta start finishing. We just need to keep composed and do what we're doing.

Charles Mingus

I always wanted to be a spontaneous composer.

Charles Ives

It is conceivable that what is unified form to the author or composer may of necessity be formless to his audience.

Michael Shannon

You can't escape this feeling of disintegration. The world is fragile. But you also can't let it ruin your life. I'm actually a pretty composed person. I guess people imagine I spend my life thinking about crazy, sinister things but I don't, really. It's not like I'm trying to exorcise any demons.

Alan Hovhaness

There are certain composers I have always admired very much, but I have always admired nature mostly and the music of the Orient.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Let's say intelligence is your ability to compose poetry, symphonies, do art, math and science. Chimps can't do any of that, yet we share 99 percent DNA. Everything that we are, that distinguishes us from chimps, emerges from that one-percent difference.

Charles Baudelaire

Pure draughtsmen are philosophers and dialecticians. Colourists are epic poets.

Jones Very

The poets of the present day who would raise the epic song cry out, like Archimedes of old, "give us a place to stand on and we will move the world." This is, as we conceive, the true difficulty.

Cary Fukunaga

I have aspirations of making a big, historical epic. I don't know if I'll ever get the money to do it...

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I'm fascinated by the period that goes from the Industrial Revolution to right after World War II. There's something about that period that's epic and tragic. There's a point after the industrial period where it seems like humanity's finally going to make it right. There were advances in medicine and technology and education. People are going to be able to live longer lives; literacy is starting to spread. It seemed like finally, after centuries of toiling and misery, that humanity was going to get to a better stage. And then what happens is precisely the contrary. Humanity betrays itself.

Camille Paglia

Hollywood movies of the Fifties, like The Ten Commandments and Ben-Hur, with their epic clash of pagan and Judeo-Christian cultures, tell more about art and society than the French-infatuated ideologues who have made a travesty of the best American higher criticism.

Camille Paglia

Young people today are flooded with disconnected images but lack a sympathetic instrument to analyze them as well as a historical frame of reference in which to situate them. I am reminded of an unnerving scene in Stanley Kubrick's epic film, 2001: A Space Odyssey, where an astronaut, his air hose cut by the master computer gone amok, spins helplessly off into space.

Bertolt Brecht

The alienation effect in German epic theater is achieved not only through the actors, but also through music (chorus and song) andsets (transparencies, film strips, etc.). Its main purpose is to place the staged events in their historical context.

Chad Smith

Cardiff Stadium was a warm up for the 3 Hyde Park shows. James Brown opened. And I think it may be the only time we played Mini Epic live.

Eli Roth

I love historical movies. I want to make a violent medieval epic.

Susan Minot

When I was in my teens and twenties, I could see friends expressing how radical they were, and I envied them, the way they lived, the way they dressed. Maybe there is a part of me that is reserved, even in rebellion.

Harry Belafonte

We respect you, admire you, and we are expressing our full solidarity with the Venezuelan people and your revolution.

Greg Hand

We respect the rights of people to express their opinions. We ask that while they express those opinions they behave themselves.

Randy Helfrich

We're going to have all the old members there, playing the songs that were popular during the time frame that they were in the band. We're going to take people through 25 years of Dixie Express in an 8-hour period.

Kent Beck

I lived near Santa Cruz for ten years, and the whole time, it bothered me what an exclusionary definition of 'inclusion' was in force. Social censure was applied to those who expressed unpopular or uncomfortable ideas.

Alan Bersin

What this budget does is express (Schwarzenegger's) best judgment of how all the competing needs of California can be met and in this case provide a very large increase in education funding. What he also understands is that his process requires a long and detail discussion with the Legislature, which he is eager to engage.

Randeep Hooda

When we are younger, we say a lot of things without often believing in them. The thoughts within you are much more important, and so often, one can't completely describe what one feels. As we grow older, we realize that there is more to love than what is expressed in the conventional sense of the terms.

Amr Moussa

What about freedom of expression when anti-Semitism is involved? Then it is not freedom of expression. Then it is a crime.

Deborah Muoio

We found that obesity was associated with a threefold increase in SCD1 expression in obese muscle, as well as a threefold higher level of SCD1 enzyme, compared to lean muscle.

Joyce Foreman

When we were living there, we always knew there was the danger of something catastrophic happening down there because New Orleans is below sea level.

Andrea Riseborough

When I was little, I would always try and look into the television screen along the sides. I kept thinking if you looked in there, you could see what was happening off camera.

Wolfgang Niersbach

We're getting the message to cab drivers, airport staff and everyone that the World Cup isn't just happening in stadiums.

Courtney Cox

We're going to take a look at what's happening here and try to find out what's really going on before we draw any conclusions.

John Shaughnessy

What we're seeing happening is the best of all worlds. The economy is strong yet inflation remains quiescent. The earnings outlook remains reasonably good. Given those things, the money continues to flow into the market from both domestic and foreign sources.

Dennis Speigel

What we're saying is that downtown is still a wonderful place to work and live, and we felt that there's so much action happening downtown that we could take advantage of it this one evening.

Justin Wilson

When we are in full production, the trucks are rolling in and out of the plant all of the time. That's not happening now. They don't have enough people for full production.

John Abizaid

When we continue to pick at the wound and show the pictures over and over again it just creates the image - which is a false image - that this is the sort of stuff that's happening anew, and it's not,

Randy Graham

When we have younger people here, then that's sometimes when the trouble comes. Any time you have a nightclub, you're subject to anything happening at any time.

James Loney

When we were released I was sure I could jump right back into ordinary life and that's what I wanted the most, but I'm afraid no such luck. When I can get through an ordinary day without shaking legs and a pounding heart, I think that will be a sign that I can start to tell my story.

Dave Morris

When I was in France, ... people selling the cheese and buying the cheese were ordinary people, not sophisticates.

Richard Archer

We write songs about ordinary people, not people that have a certain haircut.

Yasin Malik

Unless the ordinary Kashmiri folk are taken into confidence and also roped into the decision making process, what meaning does the dialogue have?

Yasin Malik

Unless the ordinary Kashmiri folk are taken into confidence and also roped in the decision making process, what meaning does the dialogue have?

Rob Cummins

Unless something out of the ordinary happens, it's going to be a tight game just like they always are.

Source Unknown

Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

Chris Abani

If you encounter a human shadow burned permanently into the concrete in Hiroshima, you realize that this is the trace of a very ordinary person now elevated into the emblematic. Time, shame, complicity, or discomfort are the only things that make us pretend History is impersonal or far removed from the power and consequences of our every lived moment.

Chogyam Trungpa

Spirituality doesn’t exist on another level different from ordinary life.

Charlaine Harris

Softie was not a word you could use in the same sentence as Eric.

William Schulz

Untie the hands of state and federal judges and prosecutors, ... Give them options other than turning the courts into assembly lines that mass produce mandatory life-without-parole sentences for children.

Kurt Vonnegut

Rabo Karabekian: I'm in the middle of a sentence. Circe Berman: Who isn't?.

Anatole Broyard

Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words.

Elias Canetti

Speak as though it were the last sentence allowed you.

Karen Thompson Walker

These days, I like to think of sentences as workers. Only one of their jobs is to look and sound good. Sentences are the carriers of plot. They're the conjurers of images, the conveyors of tone and meaning and voice. The best sentences surprise us.

John Irving

If you're still wondering about details - how am I going to get these two to meet, or whatever - when you're writing, you can't pay proper attention to the sentences themselves.

David Mitchell

It's true that stammerers can become more adept at sentence construction.

David Rabe

I get a sentence, an idea, an image, and I start. I don't know anything beyond it. I follow it.

Jen Kasel

We've basically been trying to clean up our game in general. Making better passes, playing smarter, hitting the slide on defense, talking, communicating. We've been doing a lot of seven-on-seven to get prepared to play such a talented team.

Bob Collins

We've asked all our section pros to put their program up on the Web site and I'm really, really excited the way they're starting to get involved. We're trying to create some awareness in the area and to get people to play. People always want to know, where do I go for a class? Where do I go if my kids want to learn? You can find it in there.

Isiah Thomas

We've always said this is a rebuilding phase that we're in, and we keep trying to acquire assets to help us in that process. In doing that, we also want to secure and help our present.

Joe Hudak

We've always played well here. We're a good club, and I think we're trying to show we can play with other good clubs. We're certainly not intimidated.

Juli Inkster

We've always got a good field here, and the course and the facilities are great. We've all enjoyed the experience here. I think it's great that they're trying to work it out to stay.

Jon King

When we were younger we were all trying to score points. But as musicians all we wanted to do was to make something that sounded great, and we became obsessive about it.

Gregg Brandon

When we were working through some of the issues, I was just trying to make a first down. But it's become a very good system.

Ken Macha

When we were trying to pick a fifth starter back in camp, it was between Saarloos and Etherton, and we weren't quite sure which way we were leaning. So we went to Kendall, and he was adamant about Saarloos. That's what clinched it.

Marty Schottenheimer

When I was playing, it was 10 or 12 plays that determined the outcome of a game. Now, because of the balance of talent in the league, it's come down to three or four plays a game. All you're looking for is to be in a position where you have a chance to win at the end. We haven't been able to do that, in a number of cases but we just keep chipping at it, trying to find a way to turn that corner.