Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ron Lanphier

The people around here who used to play pool are his age. I'd like to get them coming in. Walking around the tables is good exercise for their bodies and figuring out the shots is good for their minds.

Ninon de

If God had to give a woman wrinkles, He might at least have put them on the soles of her feet

Maggie Kuhn

By the year 2020, the year of perfect vision, the old will outnumber the young.

William Ernest Hocking

I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he will look forward with the work.

Paul Desmond

I would also like to thank my father who discouraged me from playing the violin at an early age.

David Bradley

We have traditional college-age students in the day, and at night a different crowd comes in.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.

John Fitzpatrick

Typically, on-line, there is no way to verify age. You have a credit card being offered or a check card that doesn't have a birth date. You're not looking at the person. There's no way to verify who you're dealing with. The only way to deal with that is at the point of delivery in the case of on-line sales.

Marge Gibson

We never had anyone his age. Sometimes they mate and find their special someone while they're here, but he never did.

Vince Gill

Well, more than me saying to the rest of the country music industry there is not enough traditional country music - that is not necessarily the statement in truth. I think more so that I, me, missed it more than anything else.

Vince Gill

This record for the first time - feels like a record that really represents my whole entire life and instead of just a period of my life. And it is really kind of eye opening and it makes me feel really good to hear this record and hear all the years.

Vanessa Carlton

I learned a lot from that first record and I learned a lot from my experiences touring, but really the biggest education I got over the past two years was learning the importance of arrangements.

Vanilla Ice

Shows have been sold out. It's overwhelming, you know. I had no idea what to expect with this new sound and everything and just to see so many people just come out and embrace it, it's overwhelming.

Ben Harper

So it's not so much that I set out to do something different, it's just that the songs themselves require their own individual voice and attention.

Cab Calloway

The only credit I can give them. They synchronize wonderful. That's all. They synchronize very - you would have thought that they were actually acting, but they were synching all the time, and that's a rough job.

Brenda Holloway

Success to me was getting out of that contract in one piece.

Bobby Hatfield

Rolling Stones, Beatles, we gave them all the break they were looking for. All they needed was a good opening act, and we went out there and performed as well as we could... over 15,000 kids chanting.

Bobby Short

But life is tough and if you're creative, it's tougher.

Chino Moreno

I've always had a deep passion for a lot of early electronic and sampled music.

Lloyd Coker

The peak outages hit between midnight Saturday and early Sunday morning.

Brenda Russell

I learned early in my writing career that if I try to tailor a song for someone else, I'm usually off base. They're usually looking for something from you with your character.

David Carson

I did an early version of my site where it was virtually impossible to get through it, just as a statement about the web. But after a few laughs and some angry e-mails, I realized it wasn't doing me much good. I think the web has become more about the final product, not what it takes to get to it.

Edward Carpenter

Early in 1888 one or two of us got together to establish our own Sheffield Socialist Society.

Edmund White

Looking back, I can see that the women I loved, at least early on, were status symbols. I suppose, in that sense, I was my mother's true disciple. She'd taught me that a good man, though elusive, could transform one's whole life once he was caught.

Caleb Cushing

Sir, allusion has been made, in an early stage of this debate, to the history of the excitement which once pervaded a considerable part of the country, in reference to the transportation of the mails on the Lord's day.

Naomi Martin

We played well in the first half and then let up in the second half. We need to learn how to play an entire game. Early in the season we try to play the game well and limit our mistakes.

Micah Marsh

We played well in spurts, but our intensity wasn't what it should be. Next week, we can't have that or we're going to have an early exit.

Don Rickles

I was 28 when my father died, and I was an only child.

Dilma Rousseff

I hope the fathers and mothers of little girls will look at them and say 'yes, women can.'

Tom Brokaw

I'm the father of three daughters, and they're all highly trained professionals. Two of them are mothers, and the other one wants to be at some point.

Henry B. Eyring

The Father to whom we pray is the glorious God who created worlds through His Beloved Son.

Natalie Cole

God was going to be to me the father that I never had, the father that I didn't have enough of, enough time with.

Lizzo

When I was born, my father named me Melissa, and I am still Melissa, but I got the nickname Lizzo around the time I was in the Cornrow Clique.

English Proverbs

As a servant desireth the approval of his master, and a son the approval of his father, so should we desire the approval of God and our own conscience.

Dear Abbey

O, heavenly Father: we thank thee for food and remember the hungry. We thank thee for health and remember the sick. We thank thee for friends and remember the friendless. We thank thee for freedom and remember the enslaved. May these remembrances stir us to service, That thy gifts to us may be used for others. Amen.

David Soul

Nobody teaches you to be a father. Nobody teaches you to be a husband. Nobody teaches you how to be a star. You have to learn to work with the tools.

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.

Calvin Klein

I have the New York Daily News to thank for the jeans controversy.

Nigel Hamilton

Thanksgiving is a time of togetherness and gratitude.

Nathan Kress

I'm thankful to say that I already have my dream job. I wouldn't trade it for anything.

Lori Cope

We could never thank them enough for what they did.

Marcus Samuelsson

Being an Ethiopian-born, Swedish-raised chef, there's nothing traditional about my Thanksgiving spread.

William Shakespeare

Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast.

Ed Jackson

We're going to be squeezing in just like you do at Thanksgiving dinner.

William Shakespeare

Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks, but I thank you; and sure, dear friends, my thanks are too dear a halfpenny.

William Shakespeare

A table-full of welcome!

George Eliot

Tis a petty kind of fame At best, that comes of making violins; And saves no masses, either. Thou wilt go To purgatory none the less.

Louisa May Alcott

…the violin — that most human of all instruments…

Joshua Bell

What drew me to the violin was mastering the instrument technically, which I'm continuing to do.

Leila Josefowicz

If I can add, say, 10 great new violin concertos to the repertoire before I'm done, that will be truly exciting.

Lara St. John

Let me be very honest and just say that if any airline would let me take the violin and the laptop on board I would fly that airline all the time.

Sheldon Harnick

As far as I remember, there was no actual lyric written to that.At the very beginning of "Fiddler on the Roof," there's a violin solo, an unaccompanied violin solo.

Randy Bachman

When I was five I had violin lessons.

Tommy Cooper

I inherited a painting and a violin which turned out to be a Rembrandt and a Stradivarius. Unfortunately, Rembrandt made lousy violins and Stradivarius was a terrible painter.

Alison Krauss

I started with the classical violin when I was 6, and I guess it went well.