Brian Setzer Quotes

The songwriting has never really stepped forward from the '50's.

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• Think of the difference between a team sport and one that you do by yourself. Like it or not, if you're by yourself, you're going to be faced with a lot more of your own doubts and your own drawbacks and your own whatever.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Think
  • Team
  • Yourself

• More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • People
  • Future
  • Vision

• I was grateful to have two weeks to shoot this one scene in Harry Potter. It's a big, big scene, but they have to deliver. And they have high expectations.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • High
  • Two
  • Expectations

• There's nothing I like more than picking fresh vegetables then putting them in the dinner you make that night.

  

  Patrick Duffy
  • Night
  • Dinner
  • Fresh

• The five patients in 'Rethinking Cancer' share with us the path of their recovery: the courage to take their own lives in their hands with a natural approach to healing their bodies.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Courage
  • Path
  • Cancer

• Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.

  

  Hafez
  • Trying
  • Running
  • Happiness

• I'm a bit of a perfectionist. I'll watch myself back on 'Xtra Factor' and want to do it again because of a few hiccups.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Want
  • Myself
  • Back

• Angela Merkel puts Germany first.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • First
  • Germany
  • Puts

• It's time to recognize what compromise means: no side wins or loses all.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Time
  • Recognize
  • Compromise

• We're under some gross misconception that we're a good species, going somewhere important, and that at the last minute we'll correct our errors and God will smile on us. It's delusion.

  

  Farley Mowat
  • Good
  • God
  • Important

• Estimates of the ionic mobilities vary over a considerable range; but in any event, the positive ionic defect is much more mobile in the solid than in the liquid, and its mobility varies very little with the temperature.

  

  Lars Onsager
  • Positive
  • Event
  • Mobile

• Putting people before profits is how we've tried to operate from the beginning.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • People
  • Beginning
  • Before

• First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as Rabbi Gillman points out in the show, Christianity is based on Judaism. Christ was Jewish.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • Great
  • Christian
  • Religion

• I had worked in Hindi films like 'Jaago,' 'Abra Ka Dabra,' 'Koi Mil Gaya,' but 'Desamuduru' was a different experience.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Different
  • Experience
  • Like

• When you play, it's like you know that there are people out there who are hearing it for the first time, and I think that's really important.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • People
  • Time
  • Important

• If we are going to have self-driving cars, the technical specifications should be quite precise.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Should
  • Driving
  • Going

• Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • May
  • Silence
  • Speech

• When I was 23, I moved to Australia to be with this 43-year-old con artist I fell in love with.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • Love
  • Artist
  • Australia

• Ralston looked down his long, elegant nose at the vile creature at his feet, and said, “You just impugned the honor of my future marchioness. Choose your seconds. I will see you at dawn.” Leaving Oxford sputtering on the ground, Ralston spun on one elegant heel to face Benedick. “When I am done with him, I am coming for your sister. And, if you intend to keep me from her, you had better have an army at your side.

  

  Sarah MacLean
  • Long
  • Done
  • Future

• First they use technology to poison the planet, then they develop it further to escape from the planet they have poisoned.

  

  N. Katherine Hayles
  • Technology
  • Use
  • Poison

• It is clear that a poem may be improperly brief. Undue brevity degenerates into mere epigrammatism. A very short poem, while now and then producing a brilliant or vivid, never produces a profound or enduring, effect. There must be the steady pressing down of the stamp upon the wax.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Poem
  • Brief
  • Degenerates

• It's a presidential election year 2016, certainly everyone is talking about it, but if the history of the show tells us anything, the Big Brother cast does not usually discuss political issues like that in the house.

  

  Allison Grodner
  • House
  • Election
  • Discuss

• The tendency of our time is wholly oriented toward the secular. The efforts of the mystics will remain episodes. Despite a deepening of our conceptions of life, we will build no cathedrals.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Life
  • Time
  • Efforts

• The songwriting has never really stepped forward from the '50's.

  

  Brian Setzer Stray Cats