Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vin Abene

We always felt that pitching was the most important aspect of the game and we caught ourselves at times, especially in the middle of the season, not dedicating enough time for those guys to get their work in. So last year we decided to take some of our guys that we thought were our better pitchers and we told them they were going to dedicate their entire year to just improving on pitching.

Kathryn Lasky

It is not a happy lot being a princess in any country, but especially Japan in which every tiny aspect of one's life is governed by the most rigid rules of protocol.

Miriam Toews

When everything does seem out of control, writing fiction is a way I can order that chaos and restore some sort of meaning. I like the playful aspect of writing fiction. You know how it is when we are kids and we make up our worlds: You be this guy, and I am going to be this guy, and we are going to go slay dragons.

Matisyahu

When I listen to music, there's usually some aspect of that music that I like, and that's what I take and try to bring into my own music. Bringing in other musicians to collaborate with is a good way for me to test out new ways or make music that I might have not discovered on my own.

Tom Verica

Having spent a lot of time on sets, I was really interested in the overall storytelling aspect of shows and projects.

Tom Stoppard

I think... the history of civilization is an attempt to codify, classify and categorize aspects of human nature that hardly lend themselves to that process.

Todd Rundgren

It would be really great if someone would invent a new Internet with the specific purpose of not making money off of it, but making it what it originally was, a free marketplace of ideas, and there are still aspects of the Internet that are that. Wikipedia, essentially, is still the bastion of the original ideals of the Internet.

Todd Rundgren

When I got out of the Nazz, I had it in my mind that simply to be eclectic was an important aspect of making music. It was something that I derived from The Beatles.

John Meyers

We're looking at this as one of the future aspects of photography. Photography and seeing ultimately will converge.

David Duchovny

I wouldn't succeed at musical theater.

Bebe Moore Campbell

The music was as much a gift as sunshine, as rain, as any blessing ever prayed for.

Baroness Orczy

music is the most absorbing of all the arts. It absorbs the mind of the artist, whether creator or executant, to the exclusion of every other consideration outside his own immediate necessities or desires.

Arthur Phillips

But music is, at the very minimum, inflammatory, exclusionary, divisive, encouraging of snobbery and solipsism.

Arthur Rubinstein

I am tired before the concert, not afterward.

Arthur Rubinstein

You cannot play the piano well unless you are singing within you.

Arnold Bennett

Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.

Derek Bailey

Undeniably, the audience for improvisation, good or bad, active or passive, sympathetic or hostile, has a power that no other audience has. It can affect the creation of that which is being witnessed. And perhaps because of that possibility the audience for improvisation has a degree of intimacy with the music that is not achieved in any other situation.

Derek Bailey

Diversity is its most consistent characteristic....The characteristics of freely improvised music are established only by the sonic-musical identity of the person or persons playing it.

Kate O'Brien

I only use my sick days for hang-overs and soap opera weddings.

Benjamin Britten

I liked the opera very much. Everything but the music.

Howard Thompson

The proceeds are used for the operation of the Bedouin Shrine Temple and to support our transportation department,

Bruce Beresford

I'd really been interested in opera when I was about 16, and I really like staging them.

Megan Smith

Net neutrality is such an important principle for the Web and for the Internet. It's how the Internet's operated for all this time.

John Byrne

Ultimately it's going to be better for the patient. It's going to transform otherwise high-risk operations into lower-risk operations.

David Rubenstein

For me, few things are more compelling than watching a great opera.

Cecilia Bartoli

I still the love classic period, but also the baroque period, and even 17th-Century music such as the music of Monteverdi. He's one of the greatest opera composers. He was the one who really started the opera.

Ashley Benson

I was on the soap opera 'Days of our Lives.

John Grace

Macquarie may have to raise the offer. It's a question of what shareholders want.

Joseph Grundfest

There are a lot of complicated questions to answer.

Rep. Schultheis

We're here to represent our constituents, and there's no question they want this bill.

Meggie Ford

This question may as well be in Chinese.

Steve Bietau

She is not 100 percent, and we know that. Right now, it?s a question that we don?t know how to answer.

James Rubin

Mr. Haider is still going to be governor, as I understand the reports, and still going to be in the party. So the question is what the party's role will be in the Austrian government.

John Hunter

set out systematically to question every established process.

John Fitzgibbon

Semiconductors have always done well, ... The question is how well.

Stuart Klaskin

The possibility of a strike exists. There is no question about it. The possibility is distant, but it exists.

Kevin Henkes

When I work on a novel, I usually have one character and a setting in mind.

Sam Aiona

There are various interpretations of the new law. It is setting us back.

Mike Harris

She's our unquestioned leader. She does so much, whatever we need, whether it's points, rebounds, assists, setting up plays. She does it all.

David Leslie

I don't think it's so much of a disadvantage setting up from scratch.

Ariel Sharon

I have begun, with my colleagues, setting up a new party,

Gilbert Arenas

I'd been setting up my team all night, ... I'm going to win the game. That's what I do. . . . They didn't say it was going to be easy.

Veruschka von Lehndorff

In the Sixties, fashion was about liberation. It was about setting women free; it wasn't about being unable to walk.

Patrick Leahy

A victim is a victim is a victim. We should stop setting up standards that say we will have one standard of law enforcement for one group of victims but not for another.

Mikhail Gorbachev

I don't think Russia is setting this as a goal; I don't think this should be Russia's goal. I think even the United States doesn't need to be a superpower. China doesn't need to be a superpower. It's a different world.

Al Capone

Prohibition has made nothing but trouble

Charles Kettering

Don't bring anything to me but trouble.

Charles Barkley

I don't know anything about Angola, but Angola's in trouble.

Ayrton Senna

Women - always in trouble with them, but can't live without them.

Cardinal Richelieu

Had Luther and Calvin been confined before they had begun to dogmatize, the states would have been spared many troubles.

Busta Rhymes

I have no trouble being a good dude because that's what I am.

Britney Spears

I go out with friends, but I don't have time to get in trouble.

Brandon Sanderson

It’s what happens when you shoot someone,” Wayne pointed out. “At least, usually someone has the good sense to get dead when you go to all the trouble to shoot them.

Letitia Baldrige

She's not going to have any trouble at all,

Denis Waitley

You must be worthy of the best, but not more worthy than the rest.

Benjamin Franklin

One Mend-fault is worth two Findfaults, but one Findfault is better than two Makefaults

Joseph Kahn

potentially interesting, if true, but not something really worthy of a story in itself.

Susan Smith

If we have enough people, it will be worth it.

Daniel Borochoff

If it's worth that much, why aren't they getting the value?

Jeff Bowden

If it wasn't worth it, I wouldn't be here.

Ann Brashares

It was wrong. But it was worth it.

Chris Fecera

We actually renovated it so we could show about $20,000 worth of merchandise here.

Mark Edwards

We're doing what we can. We think it's a worthy cause.