Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wynton Marsalis

Musicians like to converse. There's always interesting conversation with musicians - with classical musicians, with jazz musicians, musicians in general.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.

Richard Bellzon

The pen was his voice and the page his tears, when he was done; they called it a classic

Brittany Howard

It'll help you be imaginative if you listen to classical music. It helps you understand dynamics and how important they are to create an environment.

Barry O'Farrell

I don't favour ethics classes being an alternative to special religious education classes.

Beeban Kidron

I had a sort of classic moment when a friend of mine rang up and said she'd just been to a funeral, and in the middle of the eulogy, this kid had taken out the phone and had a whole proper text conversation - while everyone was weeping!

Wolfgang Puck

When I do a cooking class now, I tell people that the most important part is to read the recipe many times so you know what you're doing. What I don't tell them, though, is that sometimes I do parties where I'm rushing so much I don't have time to follow my own advice.

Walter Kirn

I've noticed that the few times I've traveled first class myself, you've already got your drink, and your coat has been taken by the time the rest of the passengers file on, and it's hard not to feel sorry for them. They're sort of trooping past you like cows to slaughter and you're sitting there in your, you know, wide-body seat.

Noreena Hertz

It's actually very surprising how little we think about the quality of our decision-making and how we could improve it. How absent decision-making classes are from educational curricula. How little we think about how it is we think.

Nicole Holofcener

I went to NYU for a year and a half, and I graduated from there and then years later went to Columbia for graduate school.

Dinaw Mengestu

The MFA program did one great thing for me: It taught me how to be a better reader and critic. Nothing I wrote during my time at Columbia remains - but learning how to really deconstruct a work of fiction - that, of course, is a permanent part of me now.

Karl Marlantes

I grew up in Oregon, where as a teenager I worked with my grandfather Axel on his i shing boat at the mouth of the Columbia River.

Ezra Koenig

I went to Columbia University because I knew I wanted to go to a school that was academically rigorous. I prided myself on getting good grades, but I also hated it.

P. J. O'Rourke

The District of Columbia is an extreme example of disconnect between financial input and educational outcome. Unfortunately, extreme is not the same as abnormal.

Daniel Goldstein

I was creating commitment devices of my own long before I knew what they were. So when I was a starving post-doc at Columbia University, I was deep in a publish-or-perish phase of my career. I had to write five pages a day towards papers, or I would have to give up five dollars.

Eileen collins

We reflect on the last shuttle mission , the great ship Columbia and her inspiring crew

Fred Delk

This is a great opportunity for Columbia to show itself off.

John Lindsey

There are doctors and lawyers and professors all over Columbia waiting for opportunities like this to get a spot of heaven, to get away from the rat race.

Carly Fiorina

I lost my job in the most public way possible, and the press had a field day with it all over the world. And guess what? I'm still here.

Cary Fukunaga

I think I have this field around me that makes electronics work bad. It's not like an entropy thing; it happens very quickly.

Duke of Wellington

I used to say of Napoleon that his presence on the field made the difference of forty thousand men.

Karen Alexander

We played with no subs. We just had 11 girls on the field and I thought that they played really hard and pretty well right through to the end of the game.

Sue Vories

We played a lot of the game on our end of the field. That has a lot to do with our inexperience, but we're getting better.

Ron Allen

We played a lot better in the field. And all five pitchers we used threw well.

Jim Foster

We practice very intense and when it's game time the players go out on the field and do their job. The hardest we work is when we practice.

Vanessa Brown

I mean if I'm in the middle of a field with my keyboard and some headphones and I feel inspired to write something, I'll just write something really beautiful and mellow.

Eric Byrnes

When I get on the field, it's just going to be another game, ... You get out there and it's just baseball.

Drew Goddard

Like everyone else, I love 'Born Again:' that was a seminal work for me. Everything Frank Miller did on 'Daredevil' is like the Bible.

Sergei Lavrov

Frankly speaking, we don't see any other way for the steady development of the Ukrainian state apart from as a federation.

Mitt Romney

I love practical jokes and humor. That there's frankly no joke that I don't think is funny. I love practical jokes, but I don't like being scared.

P. Herbert

We are just going to sit tight and wait until after the weekend before we sit down and talk about it. There's no rush. Frankie will possibly know more about his plans as well by that stage.

Pia Zadora

I actually started singing those songs six or seven years ago, when I was an opening act for Frank Sinatra.

Irwin Thomas

If someone had told me when I was a kid I'd get an ovation from Frank Sinatra! One time, I did a song called 'I Am A Singer', but I rewrote the words for Frank. I was in tears and, when he got up, so was he.

Diane Swonk

We're more productive than we were in the 90s and frankly we didn't start hitting wage pressures in the 90s until about a 4-3/4 percent unemployment rate.

Frank Sinatra

a hand grenade will be thrown at Frank Sinatra sometime tonight during the show.

Benjamin Disraeli

There is no wisdom like frankness.

Paul Haggis

This is my first time back to the Kodak Theatre since March 5 and I couldn't be prouder to be with all of you.

Donna Rose

Kodak has been a leader since day one.

William LeFevre

I think this market is going to go a lot higher. From time to time you'll have some little stumbling blocks, like Kodak today. But in general, the market's going higher. Whether you want to talk 8,500, 9,000 later on this year, who knows?

Jonathan Crisp

The pictures are indisputable, ... they don't show that she wasn't a regular kid.

Taissa Farmiga

If you don't have a Facebook, like, you're nobody. There's all of these sort of requirements now, and if you don't have all of these things - Facebook, Twitter, etc. - you're made fun of. And Twitter for celebrities... everything is just getting so personal. Pictures of yourself, of what you're eating for breakfast.

Sam Taylor-Wood

I'm motivated every second by my work; it doesn't switch off. The pictures I make come from every blink of my lashes.

Jay Wright

We're going to do it nicely, so he'll do it with me and he'll be in the pictures with his classmates.

Ken Zipovsky

We received reports from many sources that inappropriate pictures were being taken.

Christoph Hartmann

We are thrilled to work with Sony Pictures on one of its most anticipated films.

Ron Turner

Before we showed him the pictures (on the sideline), he'd tell us what happened.

Jaromir Jagr

I saw a lot of pictures but I don't understand it.

Jake Paltrow

'La Notte' is my favorite of the Antonioni pictures and my favorite work of the master cinematographer Gianni di Venanzo, who also shot '8 1/2' for Fellini.

Charles Johnson

wasn't a professor here, he was only a student here.

Alex Hernandez

We have to look at race more often. And the professor seems to like to talk about race.

Todd Solondz

When I was making Storytelling, I couldn't watch while the violent sex scene between the student and the professor was being shot. It was too intense.

J. K. Rowling

Professor McGonagall: "Why don't you confer with Mr. Finnigan? As I recall, he has a particular proclivity for pyrotechnics.

Charles Johnson

(Brown) wasn't a professor here, he was only a student here.

Pankaj Mishra

Tenured professors are more prone than the rest of us to think that the university is the universe.

Joan Roscoe

It is like a documentary because she has it written day-by-day and incident-by-incident. She was a professor of English. Her writing is wonderful, wonderful writing.

Wystan Hugh Auden

A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.

Roe Hye

There is no way but that Professor Hwang has been involved.

L. E. Modesitt, Jr.

If I recall correctly, I think I signed my first contract with Tor in 1983.

Tim Hevly

We have not signed him and there's no announcement pending.

Ian Rosenberger

You wonder over and over why you signed up for it.

Tom Cole

We signed on 101 new members, and they were all from Hopkinsville.

Pam Schild

He didn't even tell us until after he'd signed up.

Mark Jones

My granddad always said, 'Until you have a signed deal, you don't have a deal.'

Kitty Kelley

I can't say I wasn't warned. Alarms started clanging the day I signed to write 'His Way: The Unauthorized Biography of Frank Sinatra' (Bantam Books, 1986).

Marin Alsop

I can't see that I'm going to be a much different person? I signed the contract.

Johnny Rivers

One of the first groups we signed was the Fifth Dimension.