Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chad Smith

I met the guys through a friend of a friend, and their former drummer had quit. I wasn't too familiar with the Chili Peppers before that, so I joined at the end of 88' and we finished recording Mother's Milk at the end of 89', next thing I know I'm in Spin with a sock.

Chad Smith

The Chili Peppers do a lot of improvising, but it's within the framework of song structures. The Meatbats is from a purely instrumental standpoint. But when you hear the term 'instrumental music' you think it's real serious stuff and everybody's playing a million notes and it's about playing fast. That's not what we do.

David Simmons

We serve ice cream and frozen yogurt and hot dogs and chili dogs. We also have sugar-free ice cream.

Janet Fitch

My mother was an enthusiastic chef but wildly disorganized, and often preferred purchasing yet another jar of mace or chili powder rather than having to hunt down its last incarnation.

Scott Erickson

Chili was at the hospital and he couldn't stay there. It shows what a great guy he was because so many guys rushed to his bedside.

Keith Belling

We have 11 great potato flavors, and customers have been clamoring for tortilla. For over a year, we worked to develop the four flavors of tortilla popchips: chili limon, nacho cheese, ranch and salsa. They're made with traditional stoneground masa, are gluten-free, and have less than half the fat of other chips.

Josh Klinghoffer

It's a weird thing to have a Hall of Fame for rock. It's weird that I spent years worshiping the Cure, and here's the Chili Peppers, and then one gets in one doesn't. It's ridiculous. In my heart of hearts, it means nothing to me, but I do understand it means a lot to other people. It creates positivity.

Henry Miller

Americans can eat garbage, provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup, mustard, chili sauce, Tabasco sauce, cayenne pepper, or any other condiment which destroys the original flavor of the dish

Eddy Cue

This is an incredible offering for fans of the Red Hot Chili Peppers. We've put together a package that's unrivaled in the music industry for launching a new album, exclusive videos and a concert tour.

Warren Bennis

A great director or leader knows his people, creates a great team, and then makes a great movie that can influence millions more than the readers of his column.

David Binder

I love the experience the theater creates for a community of people.

F. Sionil Jose

The past could liberate or imprison - it creates a nation's character, provides the nourishment or the poison a people imbibe in their very marrow.

Sean Booth

It's kind of like trying to make straight lines from curves, but involving shapes that sort of dictate what the curves are, if you like, and the difference between two separate pieces creates a third transitional piece if you like.

Virginia Postrel

Glamour is an imaginative process that creates a specific emotional response: a sharp mixture of projection, longing, admiration, and aspiration. It evokes an audience's hopes and dreams and makes them seem attainable, all the while maintaining enough distance to sustain the fantasy.

Katherine Jenkins

After doing 'Doctor Who,' I'm open-minded to doing more acting. Part of the reason you do a show like this is because it creates other opportunities you haven't had before.

Theodore Zeldin

The great thing about marriage is that it creates trust, the most precious of things.

Charles Giancarlo

It's always a challenge whenever you have to nurture more than one culture inside an organization. When I say culture, you have one group that will have one set of priorities, and another with another set. It creates a different cultural environment.

Philip Zimbardo

A good cult delivers on its promises. A good cult nourishes the needs of its members, has transparency and integrity, and creates provisions for challenging its leadership openly. A good cult expands the freedoms and well-being of its members rather than limits 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.

Tobin Bell

Halloween is fun, but it wasn't always my favorite holiday. I think Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday.

James Gleick

In general, I think people should be skeptical of the Internet as a reference tool because so much of what's on it is unreliable and costumed - a hall of mirrors.

Kevin Spacey

When you study, as I did, every theatrical beginning in this country, none of them have been greeted well. The Royal Shakespeare Company was a disaster, Peter Hall was a disaster, Richard Eyre was a disaster, Trevor Nunn was always a disaster.

Nicky Whelan

I'd never heard of a hall pass until I came to America. It sounds like something at school.

Loretta Lynch

Jimmy Meng sought to be a power broker in the halls of justice. But the influence he sought to peddle was corrupt, and his power was illusory.

Ronnie Barker

There was a strange happening during a performance of Elgar's 'Sea Pictures' at a concert hall in Bermuda tonight, when the man playing the triangle disappeared.

William De Morgan

I don't want to achieve immortality by being inducted into the Hall of Fame. I want to achieve immortality by not dying.

David Arquette

The first horror film I remember seeing in the theatre was Halloween and from the first scene when the kid puts on the mask and it is his POV, I was hooked.

Pete Rose

I'm not sure Mark McGwire was a Hall of Famer to begin with.

Will Chase

'Miss Saigon' taught me what it means to help carry a big show, and it had some of the most gorgeous songs wrote.

David Wenham

My representation overseas can't stand me doing theatre because it takes me out of action. But it's what I want to do. If it means passing up other possibilities, them's the breaks.

David Foster

With Celine Dion, we were selling 25 million records a pop. 'Pop' stands for 'popular.' It means we're plugging into the masses.

Dev Hynes

'Chamalkay' is an old Guyanese slang word. It means a 'young mischievous girl.' It's not derogatory, but it isn't over complimentary, either. It was probably a word I just Googled one day, and the song kind of played into the feel of that.

Peter O'Toole

I'm Irish. That means I'm Catholic. But, truth is, now I'm a retired Christian.

Timur Bekmambetov

If I've seen the movie, it means it's an influence on my own filmmaking. Every movie has a reflection in 'Night Watch.'

Gerard Hoeppner

When a ride stops, it really means that our safety systems are working.

Lauren Oliver

I try to write characters that are as real, emotionally and psychologically, as I can make them; I feel the same way about setting. This often means that I'm drawing from my experiences and observations.

Margaret D. Nadauld

Standing as a witness in all things means being kind in all things, being the first to say hello, being the first to smile, being the first to make the stranger feel a part of things, being helpful, thinking of others' feelings, being inclusive.

Felix Feneon

If Monsieur X spent an eternity studying treatises on optics, he would never paint 'La Grande Jatte.'

Lisa Bonet

I spent a lot of time feeling alienated and rejected.

Peter O'Toole

Omar Sharif and I spent nine months in the desert, day after day for nine months.

Joe Battista

We've spent the whole week working on defense. Everything we've been doing has been working on defense.

Roger Wilson

We've spent more time at the tent than at the games.

E. O. Wilson

We've spent a lot of time together. If it works out, it would be great.

George Chapman

We've spent $300,000 and it doesn't look much different.

Emma Thomas

We've spent almost ten years of our lives making 'Batman' films.

Libba Bray

I grew up doing theatre and spent a long time as a playwright. I still think very visually when I write.

Barack Obama

You know, one of the things I think you understand as president is you're held responsible for everything, but you don't always have control of everything, right?

Dan O'Dowd

We're not going to have credibility overnight, and we understand that.

Nikki Reed

I guess the older I get, the more understanding and forgiving I've become.

Rick Wakeman

I always say that it's about breaking the rules. But the secret of breaking rules in a way that works is understanding what the rules are in the first place.

Bill Belichick

Understanding what not to do sometimes is just as important as what you can do.

Clayton Christensen

Understanding motivation is one of the most important things we can do in our lives, because it has such a bearing on why we do the things we do and whether we enjoy them or not.

Stephen Hawking

If you understand the universe, you control it, in a way.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do.

Alan Moore

As I come to understand Vietnam and what it implies about the human condition, I also realize that few humans will permit themselves such an understanding.