Famous Quotes & Sayings

Neil Peart

In 2007, I studied with Peter Erskine because I was doing a Buddy Rich tribute concert, and I wanted to take my big-band drumming up a level. I went over to Peter's house with my sticks, feeling like a 13-year-old again.

Norm MacDonald

When I was young, I'd watch guys on 'The Tonight Show', Buddy Hackett, guys like that, where all they'd be is funny. Later, I remember, on 'Late Night with Letterman', I remember he'd have Jay Leno and Richard Lewis as first guests and the entire point was to entertain and be funny, and I think talk shows have kind of lost that.

Sylvia Earle

I have come up at the end of a dive, and the boat was not where I left it. I had to take care of a buddy who did panic. But I was confident the boat would come back.

Corey Taylor

I feel like I've got a novel in me somewhere, but that's something... I was just talking to a buddy of mine about it, who's a writer as well, and he's nearly done with his first novel, and it's taken him 11, 12 years to do it. And I can totally understand; it's a long process.

John Roberts

Justice Rehnquist was friendly and unpretentious. He wore scuffed Hush Puppy shoes. That was my first lesson. Clothes do not make the man. The Justice sported long sideburns and Buddy Holly glasses long after they were fashionable. And he wore loud ties that I am confident were never fashionable.

Larry the Cable Guy

I don't really get to see a lot of other comedians, because I work with the same people all the time. The guy I really like is Nick DiPaulo. I love Nick DiPaulo, but again, he's a buddy of mine. But I liked him for a long time. I liked him before he was a buddy of mine.

Allen Johnson

We're evaluating it with the sports commission. We're certainly going to look at it, especially the boys. We're definitely going to look into it to see if the economics work. The mayor, Buddy Dyer, likes the tournament.

Donna Miles

(Wells) drives a Corvette and didn't have room for Buddy and her child.

Mark Hogan

Tom was an all-star catcher. He is a good buddy of mine.

Zac Efron

If I had a daughter, and some guy came home with her, I'd be on him like a hawk. When I meet people's parents, I know my place. It's not that hard.

Yotam Ottolenghi

The moment to tell my barber I was gay just never came up.

William Kamkwamba

People in my village had this mindset that in big cities like New York, if you are lost or without directions, no one will help you. The first time I came here, I tried to make sure not to walk by myself, because it would be difficult for me if I got lost. But people will help you.

Virginia Postrel

The low point for neon came in 1982, when Holiday Inn did away with its signature 'Great Sign,' replacing the neon extravaganza with a forgettable green plastic box.

Vikram Seth

If you were to ask me to pick my favourite author, well, there are so many of them, I'd really just have to say the first names that came to mind, and I'm sure that I'll later think 'Oh, I should have mentioned that one.'

Chuck Palahniuk

My parents divorced about the same time the movie 'The Parent Trap' came out, about two twins at camp who scheme to get their parents back together. I had that same fantasy.

Yani Tseng

Walking down the red carpet, suddenly I felt very special and different. All the flashlights from cameras and requesting voices from the media, the scene, it was just like what I remembered seeing on TV or a movie when I was a little girl - the scene only when movie stars appeared.

Yehuda Berg

Before we come to a challenging situation, before the universe squeezes us, how much of our effort is geared toward the reason we came to this world? The more focus we have on the front end, the less focus we end up needing on the back end.

Chita Rivera

The show did go on, but came very close to not going on at all.

Keith Brooking

The outsiders might second-guess this, but we didn't quit. Until the very end, we gave it all out there. Give the Panthers credit. They played well. We didn't, but it wasn't lack of effort.

Beeban Kidron

I once gave a talk at a girls' school and, once I'd finished, 29 out of the 30 girls wanted to be film directors. I think that's where we need to get girls interested in making films. We need to give them the idea that they can, that it's one of the things on their horizon.

Bill Hader

I hated pitch meetings. Pitch meetings were my least favorite part of the week. I just gave up. I was so terrible at them.

David Crosby

I gave a Collings dreadnought to a young guitar player in the Valley where I live because he didn't have a good acoustic, and he's a terrific player.

Rick Warren

God gave us the gift of life in heaven. Many people are given this gift, but they never open it. They never do anything with it.

Don Everly

They say shock therapy is good for some things, but it didn't do me any good. It was a pretty primitive treatment at the time - once they gave it to you, you couldn't remember how long you'd been there. It knocked me back for a long time. I thought I'd never write again.

James Blankenship

We played well for about a quarter and a half, but after that we didn't play well at all. When we didn't protect on that punt in the second quarter and gave them a short field, that really started to turn things. And then, when we got tired, we started making mental mistakes.

Tana Croft

We played well, but we still struggled on the service line. We missed 19 serves. We gave them 19 points and somehow still won.

Joe Killilea

We played well tonight. You have to give up something. We gave up the outside shots and they hit them.

Wendy Kopp

It gets to whether we're a teacher-education model or a movement for social justice. I would say we're about the latter.

Bonnie Tyler

The international travelling gets harder as I get older, but when I'm performing on stage, it makes it all worth while.

David Carson

Just because something's legible doesn't means it communicates. More importantly, it doesn't mean it communicates the right thing. So, what is the message sent before somebody actually gets into the material? And I think that's sometimes an overlooked area.

Nile Rodgers

My career has been wacky and not at all normal. I've never had a manager, nobody gets jobs for me. I wind up working with artists that I meet.

Nas

I don't want any title. I just say what I say, and hopefully somebody gets it, man. I'm not perfect, and I'm just here and trying to make a dollar, and being real at the same time, you know?

Steve Buscemi

When I get cast, I always flip to the end of the script to see if my character gets beaten up or killed.

Charles Manson

When I go on the mountain and I say "Do it!", it gets done. And if it doesn't get done, then I move on it. And that's the last thing in the world you want from me!

Vincent Simeone

When a tree gets transplanted, its growth slows down because it's in shock.

Matt Winkler

When a team gets into a slump, it seems everyone does. Fortunately, Jake and Jordan stepped up.

Vanessa Paradis

It has been extraordinary, wonderful, I've been three feet off the ground since I made that first record.

Cheryl Cole

I can't hurt any more than I've been hurt, I can't cry any more than I've cried. I've been to the highest of highs and lowest of lows, so one day I'm going to find my middle ground and be happy.

Charlie Kaufman

There's this inherent screenplay structure that everyone seems to be stuck on, this three-act thing. It doesn't really interest me. To me, it's kind of like saying, 'Well, when you do a painting, you always need to have sky here, the person here and the ground here.' Well, you don't.

Val McDermid

On one hand, you've got 'decent' men, and on the other you've got neanderthal misogynist bawbags - and the middle ground is what's disappearing.

Tommy Caldwell

In some ways, climbing in the clouds is comforting. You can no longer see how high off the ground you are.

Victor LaValle

The journalistic endeavor - at least theoretically - is grounded in objectivity. The goal is to get you to understand what happened, when and to whom.

Bruce Jackson

War is grounded in the notion of triumph and defeat. It is zero-sum.

Faran Tahir

I think you can do science fiction, but you have to ground it in some realism. People need to identify with the characters, with their plights and their issues.

Kelly Overton

Being a mom kind of grounded me in a way. Your body takes on a whole new meaning.

Wendi McLendon-Covey

I like to play the weirdos. I like to play the people that are hard to like. You get to say and do things that you would never say and do in real life.

Virginia Postrel

A standard 'well woman' checkup can last as little as 10 minutes, hardly time for any in-depth discussions.

Yayoi Kusama

I have done all the work myself, not assistants. That's why I'm in a wheelchair: I've been doing it physically - it's hard labour - throughout my life.

Chet Faker

I always try to work hard and get things done as soon as possible, but never at the loss of quality of the product.

Evangeline Lilly

Saying 'no' is not hard for me; it's scarier for me to say 'yes.' I'm actually more afraid of commitment than of saying 'no.'

Elaine Stritch

I'm a hotel baby, absolutely: it's hard to think of a hotel I haven't stayed in.

Eartha Kitt

Maybe subconsciously I feel I was meant to work hard for a living.

Chelsea Clinton

Role models really matter. It's hard to imagine yourself as something you don't see.

Shannon McSweeney

The pipe is hard as a rock. They were able to practice on it (Wednesday) even after all the rain.

Christo

You see, we are not machines and we do not have lots of ideas in a drawer.

NeNe Leakes

I'm not a real makeup girl - you see me in lots of makeup on 'Housewives,' but I'm really all about skin. Take it from me: Wash, moisturize, and never neglect the neck.

Valentina Zelyaeva

We are skinny; this is our work. There are lots of overweight people working in offices, but I'm not going to say, 'This girl is fat; she can't work in an office.'

Tinashe

I love fashion. For me, it's always interesting because I like to be able to mix up different styles and different brands, kind of like how my music taste or personality is. There's lots of influences.

Jamie Sale

We have lots of time for a honeymoon, and we're always together.

Bob Mitchell

There is just no prospect of having an accident. We've been doing this kind of thing now for nearly 40 years and have lots of fly-bys of planetary bodies.

Ivan Radenovic

We know that they play slow basketball. We have to put lots of pressure on them and keep it like that for 40 minutes.

IdaRose Sylvester

TI has their foothold in lots of these markets already,

Michael Todd

We are seeing lots of young people with melanoma, ... It's actually scared me quite a bit.

Marc Faber

The politicians are all useless individuals. Nobody is reducing the problems in the U.S. or Europe, just putting on a Band-Aid and postponing the problems endlessly.

Ferdinand Piech

During my career several people have tried to push me out the door... Nobody has succeeded yet.

Terry Teachout

No translation can possibly be perfect. Every production and every performance is a different path up the mountain, and nobody ever makes it all the way to the summit.

John Ravitz

We're not going to have to put the voters and our staff through something that nobody seemed to want.

Poppy Harlow

I've made my mistakes at CNN. As I learn and I grow, one thing that has always stuck with me is you can never be over-prepared, and nobody can fight the facts.

Nils Frederiksen

We'll review any request that's made to this office. At this point, nobody has made a request.

Dirk Matson

Unfortunately, there does seem to be a need for younger kids' treatment. Nobody does anything until there's a problem.

Robert Lang

You know you're doing something special, and part of something, but nobody is thinking about it day to day.

Yahya Jammeh

Every Westerner is jubilating that the Berlin Wall has fallen. Something worst than the Berlin Wall is in Palestine; and nobody is talking about it.

Bill Elliott

We never could get up there. This is the kind of race if you can't win there's no sense to wreck yourself or someone else. You just want to stay out of trouble and keep your nose clean.

Edith Wharton

I discovered early that crying makes my nose red, and the knowledge has helped me through several painful episodes.

Diana Gabaldon

He was dead. However, his nose throbbed painfully, which he thought odd in the circumstances.

Barry Williams

I am a big Bewitched fan... something about the way Elizabeth Montgomery twitched her nose.

Busy Philipps

I love my nose! I was so nervous when I got pregnant that I was going to get that weird nose spread that you sometimes see pregnant ladies get.

Brian Eno

The biology of purpose keeps my nose above the surface.

John B. Hood

On the tape, it showed he just stuck his nose right out in front.

Bert Blyleven

Getting into the Hall of Fame won't change me. I'm still going to pass gas and pick my nose like I always do.

Carrie Fisher

Sometimes I feel like I've got my nose pressed up against the window of a bakery, only I'm the bread.

Kofi Annan

Usually, because society's inequalities puts them at risk -- unjust, unconscionable risk.

Francis Bradley

There are those who understand everything till one puts it into words

Larry Coker

This puts us right where we want to be ? things will get real interesting.

Jim Stone

This puts them on the same side of the table as you,

David Whitehead

It essentially puts our little town on the map.

Chad Clanton

We're going to be ready for Katherine Harris. Or whoever the other side puts up.

Mack Strong

He comes out to compete. He comes out and puts up MVP numbers.

Jeff Long

Certainly, I don't think it puts us at a (recruiting) disadvantage.

Mike Erlandson

It puts him (Warner) in the top three on the stage for 2008.

Akio Toyoda

I respect my father as a father, but I also respect him as an honorable chairman.

Walter Isaacson

I have a strong emotional respect for Steve.

Catherine Hardwicke

I respect all the teenagers I work with and feel that everything they have to say is just as valuable as anything I have to say.

Preston Sturges

I never write down to my audiences. I respect honest sentiment and honest pratfalls.

Rebecca MacKinnon

There is respect for law, and then there is complicity in lawlessness.

Henry Cabot Lodge

I would rather see the United States respected than loved by other nations.

Rob Brzezinski

We have a lot of respect for Seattle. This wasn't about trying to be antagonistic or anything like that. It's business.

William Shakespeare

You have too much respect upon the world; They lose it that do buy it with much care

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

I am not going to respect ... gray hairs unless there is wisdom beneath them.