Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Kantner

I wouldn't have expected an audience of ours to burn down our equipment.

Brian Harper

We probably did 25 percent of the sales we were expected to do.

Cao Yu

For a writer, published works are like fallen flowers, but the expected new work is like a calyx waiting to blossom.

Nikki Blonsky

Michael Clarke Duncan and I met at a music festival that was honoring films, and we happened to be seated next to each other at the dinner, and we just hit it off and kept in touch ever since. He was just the gentle giant in real life like you would have expected him to be.

Mark Anderson

We are concerned. There is a going rate for fruit-picking which is about $30 a bin. They are expected to do five bins a day.

Lee Watkins

When they evacuated, what most people took out was what they could put in a car. ... I don't think any of them expected total devastation.

Alison Moyet

My strength as a singer is my versatility. I find it really frustrating when I'm only expected to show off. The music industry is awash with female acrobats. What happens to the song, and treating it for its sake and not as an ego example?

Anne F. Beiler

When my husband Jonas and I started Auntie Anne's in 1988, we never expected or anticipated building an international pretzel franchise. It was the farthest thing from our minds.

David Alan Grier

I grew up in a home and in a world in which you can do anything. We were all expected to go to college. My father was a doctor.

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.

Val Kilmer

I've been very fortunate and met the guys that have become, basically, philosophers and have a kind of sensibility about life that's very precious.

Chuck Palahniuk

When I first used to tour, guys would come up and say, 'Where's the fight club in my area?' and I would say, 'There isn't one.' And they'd say, 'No, no, you can tell me, you can tell me.'

will.i.am

When you think about the guys who started Twitter, and the Google guys, and the Facebook guys and the Napster guys, and the Microsoft guys, and the Dell guys and the Instagram guys, it's all guys. The girls, they're being left behind.

Alberto Martinez

The overriding theme of these numbers is that these guys are pretty much tied, and will likely stay that way for a long time.

Brian Bell

The guys in the Twins understand that the better Weezer does, the more people will probably care about us.

John Jay

We played well enough to win. I though our guys played well. We just never quite got ahead.

Jason Spezza

We played well. Different guys are stepping up.

Duane Joubert

We played well as a team. That's what matters. There's not going to be one player for Kountze. There's going to be five, six, seven guys who are all playing a role.

Tony Banks

We play teams in 3A or 5A, and we play with them. That shows how hard these guys work, and we're really proud of them.

Siti Supari

The polio virus that hit Indonesia has been proven to have a high rate of attack,

David Kennedy

The overall picture is of an operator aggressively maintaining its market position in a highly competitive market, and sacrificing margin to do it.

Mike Vrabel

The Patriots have sort of become the measuring stick in the NFL, but that stick isn't very high right now.

David H. Murdock

Obesity is racing through America, everywhere. It's high time someone spent some money to do something about it.

Neil Peart

You have to know when you're at the top of your particular mountain, I guess. Maybe not the summit, but as high as you can go.

Rand Paul

The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Many of those people deserve to be in prison; however, some of them do not.

Gordon B. Hinckley

A nation will rise no higher than the strength of its homes.

Frank Quattrone

When we took Netscape public, if people wanted to invest in the web, that was the only stock that they could do it by investing in. So Netscape's market value was higher than it probably otherwise would have been if there were lots of other ways to play that theme.

Clea Duvall

I was a loner in high school. I keep to myself, but I love life.

Constance Marie

I just remember all those days in the unemployment line, stressed out over when my next job was coming.

Clotilde Hesme

People are affected by what they see, hear. This is what matters to me the most because then our job as actors is justified.

Evangeline Lilly

It's a surprisingly sacrificial job being an actor.

Evangeline Lilly

I used to watch actors and say, 'You poor suckers, that job looks miserable.'

Ben Carson

There is no job more important than parenting. This I believe.

Beeban Kidron

When I was 13, I had a weekend job at the Photographers Gallery Bookshop in London.

Fareed Zakaria

My friends all say I'm going to be Secretary of State. But I don't see how that would be much different from the job I have now.

Brooke Shields

We live in New York. To be able to have a steady job and take your kids to school, and be around and work hard, is the perfect life.

Carly Fiorina

You know, the truth is this: it is a leader's job to challenge the status quo. And when you do, you make enemies.

Brian Harvey

I asked the question, 'Will I ever perform again?'

Brendon Urie

You can't just be a musician; you have to be an entertainer and perform and act just to hit the bar.

Charles Saatchi

I find the theatre faintly embarrassing for the actors performing on stage. It seems rather showy-off in an undignified way.

Chevy Chase

We never could have performed live for an hour and a half every week if we were doing drugs.

Erik Bruhn

It is important, even if you performed a role the night before, to think, 'This is the first time this is going to happen.'

Casey Wilson

I am riveted by Phaedra Parks and her performance of herself. She kills me.

Drummond Money-Coutts

I would like to do things like I did in Tanzania, going somewhere and exploring a theme and investigating as well as performing for those people.

Damien Chazelle

At the upper echelon of musicians in general, I guess performers in general, you have to have this kind of live-or-die, cutthroat mentality.

Tamara Tunie

I missed singing. I missed performing in a nightclub.

Tim Tebow

Regardless of whatever I do, I know what my purpose is: to make a difference in people's lives.

Donald Johanson

Regardless of what we look like on the outside, genetically, on the inside, everyone is an African.

Jeffrey Fieler

Regardless of the (earnings) metric, they're on the right path.

Ichiro Ozawa

I will do my best, regardless of whether I would be running at the top or at the bottom.

Debbie Smith

No one should be doing this to another person, regardless of whether they're students.

Alex Newell

Singing is my passion, regardless of anything else that I've ever done. That's the one thing that no one can ever take away from me is my voice, and that is what I really want to do.

Luke Hudson

I didn't want to get better any more just because I was out of the rotation. I wanted to get better regardless of where I was.

Lex Turner

(The nuns) were probably harder. Everything was more strict then, regardless of what you're talking about.

Sam Bradford

I feel like regardless of whether or not I win this award or I win that award or I don't win this award - I'm still Sam at the end of the day. And that's what defines me.

Marilyn Moon

We are not in a situation where we are required by desperation to make structural changes.

Ronald Hill

When you research companies, they now have a statement on Y2K compliance, which they are required to give you,

Bruce Douglas

We are required to do it. We have to do it.

Beck

I hadn't done much rapping in a while. I really wasn't sure I was going to do that any more. For a couple years I thought I was done with that. It wasn't really required of me.

Fred G. Gosman

Teenagers who are never required to vacuum are living in one.

Evan Osnos

To Confucius, harmony was consensus, not conformity. It required loyal opposition.

Leo Kipfstuhl

It required us to put on more workers.

Winston Churchill

It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required

Asia Argento

Most of the time nothing much is required of directors, which is a pity.

Alexa Von Tobel

I always have Moleskine notebooks on my desk. I am a big journaler. Every day I write down where I went, who I spoke to and what it was all about. Richard Branson told me to do that.

Ving Rhames

I can always do theater; I can do Ibsen, I can do Macbeth, I can do Chekhov, I can do Moliere, Othello, I can do Richard III.

Xavier Niel

Stephane Richard is far more attuned to the market than Didier Lombard.

Chris Corrigan

Well, Richard always is a colourful sort of sideshow, isn't he.

Kyle Petty

I never thought I had to live up to Richard Petty, ... I never had to live up to anything but what I expected.

Bill Bryson

Strange as it may seem, wrote Richard Feynman, we understand the distribution of matter in the interior of the Sun far better than we understand the interior of the Earth.

Maxwell Caulfield

Before 'Grease 2', I was called the next Richard Gere, then after 'Grease 2', nobody would touch me.

Brian Kerr

But I think Richard will be alright. I don't think it's too serious.

Craig Roberts

I would probably go so far as to say that I couldn't act before I met Richard Ayoade.