Famous Quotes & Sayings

Albert Einstein

We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.

Zubin Mehta

An American orchestra doesn't want to play more than it has to. I respectfully disagree with that attitude.

Chuck Zito

I broke two knuckles in my right hand when I gave Jean-Claude Van Damme an attitude adjustment. I got nothing except a medical bill.

Eartha Kitt

A lot can be said with just a look, or the way the body moves. Each song is a different character. So each song takes on a different movement of the body. And the body has to go with the subject and the attitude that you have toward that subject.

Esther Rolle

'Hollywood maids' are so idiotic. They grin at everything. I told Norman Lear I didn't want to play a maid because of that 'hee-hee/grin-grin' attitude, and he said, 'Who said I wanted that?' He told me he wanted two strong women that are the black and white of the same coin. I said, 'Oh, well - in that case, I'll be right there!'

David Byrne

Do creative, social, and civic attitudes change depending on where we live? Yes, I think so.

Amisha Patel

Being sexy is all about attitude, not body type. It's a state of mind.

Brendon Urie

I've always been that person: If it gets into my head, I've got to do it until I get it perfect - a perfectionist's attitude.

Ben Elliot

My father instilled in me an attitude that you couldn't really enjoy yourself unless you had done something to deserve it. So, my childhood was spent working on farms or local shops or, when I got older, in banks.

Peter Nivio Zarlenga

Divide your movements into easy-to-do sections. If you fail, divide again.

Ralph Taylor

We're a town of roughly 300 people. I don't think we need seven people to run it. I don't see any sudden movement telling me that we're going to be expanding.

Gloria Steinem

Movements are like rivers. Dipping into them is never the same twice.

Satoru Ogasawara

Today's movement is a reaction to news about geopolitical risks.

Stefano Gabbana

When you see the pants or the skirt in profile, you see the movement of the body. I make this for the men and I want to make the same for woman, because the movement, the woman now is always, she wants to be sexy but in movement.

Paddy Ashdown

We are not there yet, but I'd be disappointed if in two years' time there was not some movement towards truth as a precursor to reconciliation.

C. L. R. James

I had a national and international reputation. I had written the history and articles. So I brought to the Trotskyist movement some international reputation.

Bryan Clay

I'm excited to be a part of the Olympic movement again.

Carl Jung

Hitler's movement is near to Mohammedanism.

Tamara Tunie

I am always happy to use my song and dance training.

Valerie June

I just let the songs tell me what to do - they are my guides, and they are the boss. So I am subservient to the songs, and I let them tell me what to do. I don't judge them; I just write whatever comes to me.

Alan Cohen

I love the balls-to-the-walls rule-breaking approach the Beatles had in the studio (which I emulate), although I don't try to make my songs "sound" like their songs. But every time I crank a knob of some piece of equipment, or plug an instrument into the "wrong" amp/effect, I am channeling the Beatles.

Alan Cohen

In the end, we shall recognize our song and sing it well. You may feel a little warbly at the moment, but so have all the great singers. Just keep singing and you’ll find your way home.

Alan Cohen

I tend to write songs fast, so the process usually only lasts around 30 minutes. In the studio is where I really can artistically breathe, and let my ideas flow.

Sammy Cahn

I'm a professional songwriter - personal attitudes have nothing to do with writing a song.

Neil Innes

But mostly, I wrote songs and Viv wrote songs.

Barack Obama

Right around my first year of college - I remember "Song of Solomon," by Toni Morrison, just moved me tremendously. The power of language and how it can peel back truths, bring things to the surface. So I learned a lot from fiction.

Anna Chlumsky

There are songs where no matter how much you know you shouldn't - like the Ying Yang Twins' 'Shake' - I'll be in a dress, and I'll krump to it. It's horrible!

Nigel Barker

If I am to judge others, I should be subject to be judged. You make your bed, you must lie in it.

Hedi Slimane

Haute couture is a legitimate subject for Yves Saint Laurent and could resume one day.

Garry Wills

I don't really write for an audience. I just write what the subject seems to me to require.

Gin Wigmore

I remember when I wrote songs when I was about 16, they all sounded the same because I didn't know anything. And all the subject matter was all the same because I hadn't actually done much.

Bruno Tonioli

I like to read about subjects unrelated to my work, especially history.

Barry White

Everyone to me has to pick a subject to talk about in music if you're going to be a writer.

John Searle

Where conscious subjectivity is concerned, there is no distinction between the observation and the thing observed

Mahatma Gandhi

No nation keeps another in subjection without herself turning into a subject nation.

Robert Luskin

Mr. Rove is still a subject of the investigation.

Evan G. Galbraith

There's something about the Foreign Service that takes the guts out of people.

Randy Pausch

Smelling a crayon takes you right back to childhood. When I need to go back in time, I put it under my nose and take another hit.

Orlando Bloom

It takes obstacles to learn, grow, be better.

Gary Shutt

We'll let them do their work and see where that takes us.

Harry Triguboff

We can't express ourselves always at the time we should. Sometimes it takes time.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

As an audience member, if I go to a film, and I am watching two actors, and they're kissing, and it looks like they don't even want to be kissing, it just takes me out of the film.

Phil Garner

We'll get that straightened out. Sometimes it takes us a while to get them on track, but we'll get them on track.

and City

When you vote yes or no, ... it takes you out of the negotiations, and I don't ever want to be out of the game.

Wayne Stroupe

We're going to go where the truth takes us.

Clint Eastwood

I think 'Dirty Harry' was probably sensitive toward the victims of violent crime.

Preity Zinta

I am very reactive towards everything. There are some who don't react at all, they absorb everything quietly, while I'd go all out and show my expressions. This is not part of some tamasha I do; I do it because it's part of my personality. To each his own.

Jane McGonigal

We are moving towards a new form of collective intelligence.

Maurice Cheeks

We still have a long way to go and we're still working toward that.

Magic Johnson

I think that there are always goals for me to try to achieve, and I'm going to work toward those goals.

Ryan Getzlaf

We're just working toward that now. Everyone wants to be in the same place at the end.

Bible Bible

And Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran.

William Benet

One speck within vast star-space lyingAwoke, arose, resumed its clothing,And crawled another day toward dying.

Katharine Graham

For more than eight decades, Washington has been my hometown. My whole orientation is toward this place.