Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chino Moreno

A band like Depeche Mode would go out and record them hitting a trash can with a steel rod or something and recording it. And that would be one of their sounds of the drums. I love the creativeness of that kind of really raw sampling.

Chino Moreno

A big problem for me was opening for Limp Bizkit and Linkin Park, two bands that wouldn't exist if it weren't for me, straight up!

Keith Henson

The picture that emerges for humans in the previous several million years is that of a social primate living in small bands and villages.

Brittany Howard

Every time I'm home, it's like a vacation, but I've been playing in bands since I was 11. I guess our goals were always small goals. It started off my goal was just to be in a band. Then it was to have a drummer that would show up.

Brian Bell

Bands should definitely pay some dues and go through it, go to small clubs, build a fan base, all that kind of stuff, because it's not real, otherwise.

Brendon Urie

Synthesizers were looked at as stealing the soul of music, but then there were these new bands who used it to contradict that idea.

Brandon Flowers

Bands that say they don't care about how their records sell are liars.

Brandon Flowers

'Hot Fuss' was all based on fantasy. The English influences, the makeup - they were what I imagined rock was. I'm a dreamer, you know? So I dug into that dream and made 'Hot Fuss.' But hearing people call us 'the best British band from America' made me wonder about my family and who I was.

Benmont Tench

I learned to play piano in a rock n' roll context or band context from country records - you know, Floyd Cramer - and from the Beatles and the Rolling Stones and Stax. And none of those are keyboard records.

Zac Efron

A lot of people ask: 'Will you play a psycho to really change your image and prove you can act?' But that's not what I'm about.

Willie Aames

Everything can change. You can always have hope.

William Shatner

I don't know how I got to this point but it must be as a result of everything that has come before so if I were to change something, I might not be at this point now.

Wendy Kopp

Research confirms that great teachers change lives. Students with one highly effective elementary school teacher are more likely to go to college, less likely to become pregnant as teens, and earn tens of thousands more over their lifetimes.

Virginia Postrel

Like John Kennedy in 1960, Obama combines youth, vigor, and good looks with the promise of political change. Like Kennedy, he grew up in unusual circumstances that distance him from ordinary American life.

Vanilla Ice

I turn my negatives into my positives because one of my mottos is, 'Yesterday's history, tomorrow's a mystery,' meaning that you can't go back and change anything in the past.

Billy Graham

Only the supernatural love of God through changed lives can solve the problems that we face in our world.

Zubin Mehta

One learns how to change gears within a concert repertoire.

Wynton Marsalis

When you create change with your point of view, you have to be ready for what comes with that.

Virginia Postrel

The glamour of twentieth-century air travel helped to persuade once-fearful travelers to take to the skies and encouraged parochial Americans to go out and see the world.

Constance Wu

Specificity is what makes good storytelling, and good storytelling is what makes money, and making money is then what encourages new producers to invest in different stories about Asians.

Dave Ramsey

While I encourage people to save 100% down for a home, a mortgage is the one debt that I don't frown upon.

Bonnie Tyler

My mother was the only one who encouraged and inspired me for singing. She was singing all the time in the house, playing records also.

Victoria Osteen

We want to encourage people. We want to help them. We want them to see all the good things God has placed in them and give them a right future.

Vera Wang

That was a major goal for me - to be able to reach and encourage more women, to encourage them to express themselves and be what they want to be. People get very trapped where they are.

Ansel Elgort

I want to encourage people. One of the things I do encourage people is that - that Internet is a place where we should share our ideas and be positive, not negative.

Rachel Friedman

Where has the peace movement gone? Here it is. You see that people are standing up and they want to make their voices heard and get encouraged by us and join us.

Ann Widdecombe

where hard-working people keep more of their own money, where we encourage enterprise and prosperity.

Colleen Hoover

I'm very passionate about music and was excited to see that the majority of readers loved the inclusion of lyrics.

Emmanuel Jal

I'm kind of weird - I don't get excited. Sometimes I fake that I'm excited just to make people happy.

Tony Romo

I think as a player there's a sense of urgency every single year that this is the year we're going to have success and do the things we're excited about.

Virat Kohli

Probably because I'm from a middle class family, I have that nature in me that I don't get too excited with big things.

Tim Howard

My faith helped me stay grounded in defeat and victory, to not get too excited about the successes and too low about the failures.

Kevin Kleckler

We did well. I'm excited about the kids doing well. It's a young team.

Mike Nichols

American society to me and my brother was thrilling because, first of all, the food made noise. We were so excited about Rice Krispies and Coca-Cola. We had only silent food in our country, and we loved listening to our lunch and breakfast.

Imtiaz Ali

I enjoy looking beyond the obvious and look at the stories happening all around me - you kind of formulate things in your mind and get excited about them.

Binyavanga Wainaina

I am quite excited that Moi is leaving. Kenyans have changed. We have a free press, and it is no longer a situation of 'follow in my footsteps.'

Persis Khambatta

If I send out positive messages, it will set a chain of healthy thought processes.

Tom Rath

Positive defaults align our short-term decisions with our long-term interests. And we don't always do that.

Michael Lynch

We have worked with Bode for several years now and know the type of person he is. Yes, he has been provocative, but we also recognize that he's revolutionized his sport and has energized the Turin Games, which is a positive for all of us who are vested in their success.

Rutina Wesley

When you're not working is when you have to stay positive and remind yourself that you're talented.

Henry Blodget

Thus, we regard the ruling as an incremental positive for the stock.

Henrik Lundqvist

As a goalie, you must stay positive. And if you do make a mistake, well, those things happen when you play my position.

Lance Bass

We're working on that. We should know this week. I'm a positive person so I always think positively.

Richard Mitchell

We're working on a positive leaflet to give to adults, but nothing grim.

William Shakespeare

What's gone, and what's past help, Should be past grief.

Lars Mikkelsen

I think you could find some waves on the west side of Denmark, but I never tried it.

Will Hobbs

I do have two wonderful awards from the Western Writers of America, one for 'Beardance' and the other for 'Far North.' The award is called the Spur, and the plaques really do have spurs on them!

Mel Brooks

I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.

Ann Strother

To have all of us go somewhere, to be all on the West Coast, too, it?s going to be really neat.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

The West is duly terrified. But it should not be surprised. ...

Ariel Sharon

We can also reassure our Palestinian partners that we understand the importance of territorial contiguity in the West Bank for a viable Palestinian state.

James Arness

What made us different from other westerns was the fact that 'Gunsmoke' wasn't just action and a lot of shooting; they were character-study shows.

Ai Weiwei

The world is a sphere, there is no East or West.

Djimon Hounsou

I always hope for the better for the continent and what I know comes from Africa. Living in the West we feel like we're so removed from the continent that we can somewhat shut off.