Famous Quotes & Sayings

Will Chase

Over the years, I've had to learn to play. For example, when 'Lennon' was on Broadway, I learned my way around the guitar chords because originally we were all going to play the instruments without a band.

Vince Clarke

With a track like 'White Christmas,' everybody has done that song in every format you can imagine, so I just looked at the chords at that particular song and what chords would make it work. That's kind of quite a sad song, and I had this idea of someone singing it in the subway, someone who is homeless, old and sad.

Anna Jameson

Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather

Patti Smith

The reason we did 'Land of a Thousand Dances' and 'Gloria' on 'Horses' was because I liked repetitious, three-chord rock songs, but I didn't understand that I could write my own. I didn't realize that you could use those chords a million times.

Dave Davies

I learned five chords; I thought I knew it all.

Kendra Wilkinson

I would get my laugh insured! Because my laugh is very important: it's a million dollar laugh, so if my vocal chords make my laugh any different, then I'm going to have to get insured.

B. B. King

I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.

Amy Tan

We are the kind of people who obsess over one word, ... but we have only one shot to get it right in concert. It was hard the first time I practiced with them. I was so nervous that my vocal chords were paralyzed for about a half-hour.

Billy Gibbons

We've been coming out with you for a long time, ... And it's the same three guys playing the same three chords right here.

will.i.am

Coming out with records when you're in a big, successful group that plays stadiums, that's scary to come out by yourself.

Chris Bohjalian

If you are stymied as a writer, if it's just not coming together, then take the pressure off and don't feel that you need to write 1,000 words today; just write one really good sentence.

Ellen Key

If, in the coming thousand years, a feminine culture shall really supplement the masculine, then this will be exactly in the measure in which women have the courage to create and to act as most feminists now do not even dare think.

Erin Karpluk

Sometimes, as a guest actor, when you come on, you're coming into a show that's already been established, and the wheels are already in motion. It can be very nerve-wracking, jumping in as a newcomer, but everyone on 'Saving Hope' was so welcoming.

Jeffrey Passel

The overall picture is that of young, working families coming to the U.S. to participate in the labor market.

Bobby Moresco

The pendulum in Hollywood is coming back to story-telling.

Joe Mullen

(The penalty kill) been huge for us. The guys have been coming up so big, especially on the 5-on-3 (opportunities).

Bryan Cogman

Coming out of Juilliard, I had a big head, and a lot of people wouldn't want to be an assistant. But I am so fortunate, and I've learned a ton.

Brendan Fletcher

I found myself drawn to the remote Kimberley region of Australia - in the far Northwest corner of the country - our last frontier. I still can't explain why. I kept coming back over many years and started shooting material.

Val Kilmer

I've been very fortunate and met the guys that have become, basically, philosophers and have a kind of sensibility about life that's very precious.

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.

Bill Hader

When you're performing, you're playing to the back row. With acting, you have to be more nuanced.

Rafael Nadal

I'm ambidextrous when I eat. But playing tennis right-handed - I can't do it. I'm clueless.

Dallas Roberts

I enjoy playing someone who doesn't show up and say, 'This is what I am, and this is what I'm about,' but is someone who, four hours in, makes you go, 'Really? Is that what's going on?'

Paul Weller

Playing live is what it's all about for me. It's cathartic, it's emotional, it's about communing with people. The way you feel after a gig is a such a powerful thing.

Trent Reznor

Sometimes the worst thing that can happen is, 'Oh, I'm on stage playing a song,' because you're daydreaming about something else, you're on autopilot. You have to fight that.

Alexa Vega

I don't want to get stuck playing the same character over and over again.

Alexander Payne

When I'm shooting, I don't care who the star is. I have an actor playing a part, and I'm serving the script, not serving anyone's career.

Tubby Smith

When a team shoots 72 percent, you're not really playing much defensively.

Stephanie March

We did well in the first half, but it's about the end product, ... We're playing together as a team.

Drew Carey

When the show's in production, we work for three weeks at a time and then take a week off.

Tom McLean

We're averaging about three a day right now in Citrus County.

Van Cleve

We had only three weeks to make a totally life-changing decision,

Mark Erickson

We were still with them through three (quarters), though.

Joey Porter

Three on the road? Nothing we've never done before.

Virginia Kennedy

Trophies can take over your life. So I keep them in three areas.

Brian Kerr

We got the three points. That's all you can say. ... We have to do much better on Wednesday.

Rowan Alexander

Whether it is 1-0 or 6-0, it is three points.

William Shakespeare

Shall I never see a bachelor of three score again?