Famous Quotes & Sayings

Christopher Young

I don't care how inventive you are; once you introduce strings into the ensemble for a horror film, you're entering into a world where a tradition has been thoroughly established. So it's repeated use over the years is like, 'Oh God, another film with strings, another spooky movie with strings.'

Feist

The idea of having one ensemble do everything is what was on 'Sea Lion' and that's what I tried to make happen for 'Metals,' which is having five people in the room and all of us contributing equally to every arrangement and every song.

Ricky Gervais

The A-list celebrities were always going to be the icing on the cake. It's always been more of an ensemble piece.

Richard Gere

I thought it was an interesting ensemble of characters, all of them searching in their own bumbling way, like we all do, searching for God. I hadn't seen that movie before.

Chad Kimball

You can actually hear the ensemble uniting as one on that song.

Flea

The quality of instruction is very high at the Silverlake Conservatory of Music. It's not about being a rock star. It's about the fundamentals of music, theory and technique on a particular instrument, and playing in an ensemble or private setting.

Paget Brewster

When you're on an ensemble show and you're messing around with everybody every day and you're not in every scene, and then all of a sudden you're in every scene, it's rough.

Michael J. Fox

The oldest form of theater is the dinner table.

Eric Bogosian

Ensemble is hard to do. It's like 3-D chess.

Alain de Botton

Cynics are - beneath it all - only idealists with awkwardly high standards.

Aimee Mullins

It's hard enough for women to walk on high heels. And I'm on stilts!

Tom Wolfe

I read somewhere that writers, as they get older, become more and more perfectionist. Which may be because they think more highly of themselves and they worry about their reputations. I think there's some truth to that.

Todd Rundgren

People have always said that I could have been a highly successful pop artist, if only that were my intention. It never was. My original intention was to be a kind of behind-the-scenes participant in music, to just be a record producer and engineer. And I made a record for myself just so I could have an outlet for my musical ideas.

Robert Hess

We're seeing very high levels relative to historical levels. Our shelters are over capacity.

Dave Lawrence

We're looking at a quick warm-up. It's a quick-hitting, high pressure system.

S. Jay Olshansky

In centenarians and supercentenarians - people over 110 - you see a higher level of fecundity much later in life.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Nobody is going to occupy a place higher than I.

Robert Toombs

The principles and policy of these Presidents were marked by the most enlarged and comprehensive statesmanship, promoting the highest interests of the Republic.

David Duchovny

I wouldn't succeed at musical theater.

Bebe Moore Campbell

The music was as much a gift as sunshine, as rain, as any blessing ever prayed for.

Baroness Orczy

music is the most absorbing of all the arts. It absorbs the mind of the artist, whether creator or executant, to the exclusion of every other consideration outside his own immediate necessities or desires.

Arthur Phillips

But music is, at the very minimum, inflammatory, exclusionary, divisive, encouraging of snobbery and solipsism.

Arthur Rubinstein

I am tired before the concert, not afterward.

Arthur Rubinstein

You cannot play the piano well unless you are singing within you.

Arnold Bennett

Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.

Derek Bailey

Undeniably, the audience for improvisation, good or bad, active or passive, sympathetic or hostile, has a power that no other audience has. It can affect the creation of that which is being witnessed. And perhaps because of that possibility the audience for improvisation has a degree of intimacy with the music that is not achieved in any other situation.

Derek Bailey

Diversity is its most consistent characteristic....The characteristics of freely improvised music are established only by the sonic-musical identity of the person or persons playing it.

Robert Mueller

As I said before, there are often disagreements as to what a particular set of facts mean. That is not at all unusual, and one shouldn't read into it more than is there.

Alison Goate

One particular allele of this polymorphism was being transmitted to alcoholics in these families.

Dorothy Sanders

One team tried to put a box-and-one on Monica. Another team tried to double-team the post. Each time somebody tries to shut down one particular player or area, the other parts of the team have stepped up.

Jeffrey Bryant

One who has never been tempted with a particular sin can never feel proud for staying pure of it.

Sergey Lavrov

must be aimed at making this happen, not making any threat which at this particular stage is not appropriate.

Samuel L. Jackson

She has been in here several times before but that particular day I don't remember her.

Jill Soloway

So many features at Sundance seemed to be powered more on the director's need to be a director than any particular story.

Sibel Edmonds

When you think of al-Qaeda, you are not thinking of al-Qaeda in terms of one particular country, or one particular organization.

John Keats

Point me out the way / To any one particular beauteous star.

Beau Bridges

And I like music, too, I like playing music.

Antony Garrett Lisi

My friends are all geeks. And many of them are scientists who love playing outside as much as I do.

Derek Bailey

Playing music is not really susceptible to theory much. Circumstances affect it so much.

Joel Edgerton

Polo is like playing golf with a saddle, and there are a lot of moving parts.

George Robertson

When the nation's very survival is at stake, there is no room for playing politics,

Rodney Atkins

With videos, I find I'm better off if I'm playing a role inside of it. The more you do it, the more you understand it.

Romeo Miller

When I was playing college basketball, I had to work out every day; it benefited me physically.

Mike Sanford

Leon is playing better and better every week.

Elaine Stritch

When I'm playing comedy, it is such a crap shoot of what will work and what won't.

Joe Wurzelbacher

Private unions, such as the UAW, is a choice between employees and employers. If that is what they want, then who am I to say you can't have it?

Greg Evans

Whenever you see a successful person you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them.

Betty White

Avoid tweeting any photos of your private parts.

Bode Miller

I like to keep my private life private for the most part.

Brigitte Bardot

My private life became public.

Wolfgang Schauble

My private financial situation is such that I don't need to worry about my investments. I don't have much to invest.

Jeb Bush

We are just going to keep at it, ... We have no alternative. It's not just to protect private property. It's our lifeblood.

Wendy E. Long

I have been in private law practice in New York City, where my husband and I are raising our children.

Wil S. Hylton

The tension between public and private science is powerful.

Bruno Walter

By concentrating on precision, one arrives at technique, but by concentrating on technique one does not arrive at precision.

Bela Lugosi

I have played Dracula a thousand times on stage and I find I have become thoroughly settled in the technique of the stage and not of the screen.

Bruce Lee

In combat, spontaneity rules; rote performance of technique perishes.

Cecilia Bartoli

It's like when you want to make a house... the technique is very important.

Donald Rumsfeld

A terrorist can attack any time, any place using any technique and you can't defend everywhere against every technique at every moment.

Adam Baldwin

Stillness as a technique is still really captivating to me.

Alain Resnais

So I used formal techniques to make the film more perceptive emotionally.

Bill Bruford

So I have the classic amateur's technique; I know some very tricky bits and I have large gaping holes.

Frank Busch

We have a lot of little things to work on - technique - but when you are tired, you tend to be that way.

Charles Darwin

If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down. But I can find no such case.

Charles Darwin

The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an improved theory, is it then a science or faith?

Brian Greene

A unified theory would put us at the doorstep of a vast universe of things that we could finally explore with precision.

Herbert A. Simon

The classical theory of omniscient rationality is strikingly simple and beautiful.

Bo Burnham

Was Einstein's theory good? Relatively.

Asa Butterfield

My theory. Music can fix anything. Anything.

Daniel Handler

Everybody has a theory.

Chaim Weizmann

Einstein explained his theory to me every day, and on my arrival I was fully convinced that he understood it.

Edwin Powell Hubble

Observation always involves theory.