I don't like giving names to generations. It's like trying to read the song title on a record that's spinning.


Ian Williams

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IAN WILLIAMS
Aye, well, I've got my garden.
LIKE I
I told my Nike representative, 'Why didn't you guys use me for this?''' Williams said, laughing.
LIKE I
On the interception, I was out of bounds,
LIKE I
casually made his 'abort black fetuses' argument.
LIKE I
I can field my position. If I start worrying about being ready for a line drive too soon that means ...
LIKE I
I told him that he played a great game,'' said Falcons quarterback Michael Vick , who like Manning w...
LIKE I
I was so concerned with getting the ball out of my hands and not taking the sack, that sometimes I t...
LIKE I
I knew I had to throw the ball better,'' Manning said of his poor start.
LIKE I
I think the reason that I have that title or that moniker is because people don't know what to expec...
LIKE I
You're either ready and prepared to take on the task, or you're not,'' he said.
LIKE I
I did not have one butterfly out there today,'' he said.
LIKE I
Married to the Mob.
LIKE I
Hello you're with Drudge.
LIKE I
I don't expect Christian Fundamentalists to reach out to me. They are adamant that homosexuals are i...
LIKE I
throw enough shit at the wall and some should stick?
LIKE I
I'm not happy, that's all I can say about it,'' he said.
LIKE I
And kid Congress and the Senate, dont scold em. They are just children thats never grown up. They do...
WILL ROGERS
Like most American boys of my age I read a lot of Ian Fleming.
SCOTT TUROW
A Ritual to Read to Each Other


If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
WILLIAM STAFFORD
I want to set the record straight."
"The record's never straight, you idiot! Haven't you ever r...
DAVID EDDINGS
When I was growing up, you would put on a KISS record or a UFO or Aerosmith record and listen to it ...
STEVEN ADLER
I used to write songs so fast like this, like snapping my fingers. Some of them didn't even have a t...
IKE TURNER
I dont want the kind of love thats in movies, I want my own kind,
LYNDSEY ANN-MARIE SHEPARD
Don't lie to yourself?
SONYA.E.WILLIAMS
He leaned in for a sniff. 'Smells like a horse's arse! I've got Ian!' -'No sniffing allowed! We neve...
JULIE ANNE LONG
Looks like my baby dont live here no more...thats alright, ive still got my guitar.....................
JIMI HENDRIX
I like people, and I like listening to them because something that'll happen out of that convers...
BABYFACE
“Sometimes I try reading books upside-down because I think, thats what it would be like if I could...
LEIF ERICSSON LEO VENESS
I like straightforward names for my characters. When I get too symbolic with names or places, I star...
TAYARI JONES
It's like a radiator giving its heat to the atmosphere.
HARRY BRYDEN
Goddammit! How does the world keep spinning with women on the planet?"

Ian St. John in TH...
JACQUELINE LATOURRETTE
That's when I heard the sounds of a certified genius spinning around in circles like a dog chasing i...
ALLY CARTER
Pulsar: a dying star spinning under its own exploding anarchic energy, like a lighthouse on speed. A...
JEANETTE WINTERSON
I was wildly out of style when that television theme song suddenly pushed its way onto the Top Ten. ...
JOHN SEBASTIAN
The voices on the record, that was trying to treat my voice like guitar players treat guitar tones.
GARY CHERONE
Since the war started, I was doing that song every night onstage and couldn't get it out of my head....
BUDDY MILLER
In six years, this was not the first time they had found themselves in
such a compromising posi...
JACQUELINE FRANCIS - WANTING TO REMEMBER, TRYING TO FORGET
Lyrically and thematically, the title 'Doctor Faith', that song is about therapy, psychother...
CHRISTOPHER CROSS
people dont know you till they meet you. dont smile if you dont want to, dont be a false person, don...
CAROLINA JANETTE GOMEZ GONZALEZ
You can never sanctify to God that with which you long to satisfy yourself.
OSWALD CHAMBERS
Hey Atticus, do me a quick favour before we go? its easy.

Sure. What is it?

Ho...
KEVIN HEARNE
I grew up listening to The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, and every record those bands put out was very uniq...
KELLIN QUINN
My music is like a spinning ball, ... It can turn in one direction, and then it comes back to its or...
YOUSSOU N'DOUR
Hopefully I can break the Mercer County scoring record. I need to get better with my outside game. U...
SHEENA ADEN
At the time I played with him (Ian), I didn't think I would ever play with another quite like him. I...
DENNIS BERGKAMP
i dont like when people say you know when they are in the middle of telling you something to me it g...
DALLY SALAD
I'm Serena Williams on the court, but away I have so many different names. I call myself Butterf...
SERENA WILLIAMS
Take the Hank Williams' song,
SOLOMON BURKE
Ian lives five minutes away from me, ... We always get together and have dinner. Ian is like a broth...
BRIAN GREEN
Ian lives five minutes away from me, ... We always get together and have dinner. Ian is like a broth...
BRIAN AUSTIN GREEN
I'm in the game of spinning plates. I'm spinning a boxing plate. I'm spinning a Tae Kwon...
CONOR MCGREGOR
I'm not trouble at all. I'm just a guy trying to get a girl to give him the time of day. I'm like ev...
HAILEY ABBOTT
I always wished I had a song like that George Strait song, 'The Chair', 'cause it's ...
BLAKE SHELTON
Every single day I wrote a song, I was hoping somebody like Luke Bryan, Jason Aldean or whoever woul...
COLE SWINDELL
Love me like Saturday night, like three glasses of champagne, like the room is spinning, like you're...
C.J. CARLYON
How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS
It's like trying to judge a book from its cover.
ALEX LAATS
The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m...
ANDREW TO
Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
ANDREW TO
Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank...
ANDREW TO
The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ...
ANDREW TO
Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate...
ANDREW TO
We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ...
ANDREW TO
Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices.
ANDREW TO
I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag...
ANDREW TO
We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
ANDREW TO
I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea...
ANDREW TO
It's a curious seal-like cough or something like a dog trying to clear its throat.
DENNIS SCOLNIK
It's like taking a book and trying to turn it into a movie just by trying to read pages. It's a diff...
ALEXANDER PEREIRA
In a world where pleasure rules, people tend to be undeveloped in every way. " A House Like a Lotus
MADELEINE L’ENGLE
I feel like the thing Ben does best in his writing is scripting the tiny details and the spaces in b...
CHRIS WALLA
She's learning where the chess pieces go on the board. Ian is enjoying his title as a national champ...
IAN GILCHRIST
I like down-to-earth people.
AMOS LEE
Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can on...
VIRGINIA WOOLF
Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can on...
VIRGINIA WOOLF
My mom was a model, so she's been really good about giving me tips on how to navigate behind the...
GIGI HADID
When nations resort to arms, the human spirit is like a bird that cannot stand to hear its own song.
PHOENIX DESMOND
A lot of people call it temper, but I'd like to see the record straight. It's just how I play. I hat...
EDGAR SOSA
Let me in the wall
You've built around
We can light a match
And burn it down
Let...
THE CIVIL WARS
[The two share some similarities. Like Cash, Lynne has spent her career trying to escape being pigeo...
SHELBY LYNNE
Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
I am not commanding you, but I ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me.
NICHOLAS SPARKS
As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on...
HARPER LEE
You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
HARPER LEE
Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends c...
VIRGINIA WOOLF
I was just spinning like a little top. I accidentally hit the puck, hit the pipe.
ROSS CARLSON
A mind is like a puzzle; you must unlock it to read its hidden secrets.
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ
Real philosophy is like trying to read an alarm system installation manual in Korean.
CHRIS HARDWICK
Every song, the title dictates the architecture of the song.
SAMMY CAHN
Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full.
CHLOE THURLOW
I have vertigo. Vertigo makes it feel like the floor is pitching up and down. Things seem to be spin...
LAURA HILLENBRAND
I was forced to be an artist and a CEO from the beginning, so I was forced to be like a businessman ...
JAY-Z
Williams is a player that we really like. To get a receiver like him in the fourth round is unusual.
ERIC DECOSTA
She left my world spinning
like windmills
on the plains of la Mancha.
STEPHEN BROOKE
I'm trying to have my own thing, and I don't know if it's even possible. I didn't realize so many pe...
LISA MARIE PRESLEY
I do have a funny perception of mine I'd like to share. Being basically a lifetime poet. I've had ma...
STANLEY VICTOR PASKAVICH
Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be...
GARY F EVANS...

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There is something magical about three you know - a trio is tight and nicely economical.
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Our music doesn't make many compromises, but we take it into a venue that's larger than peop...
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It's like that Simpsons joke - they're filming a cow in a movie and they go, 'OK, we'...
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I'm too tasteful for my pants.
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I think one of the most boring things is a person's taste.
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I think when I began, I played distortion more than the guitar. The results of my strumming. Now I p...
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I definitely like the mystery of not knowing how things will turn out, you know.
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We made happy sounds because we were upset... just trying to make a positive situation out of a nega...
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This is fun; consuming our music shouldn't be a responsibility like eating your spinach or somet...
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Now and then, I had moments of greatness, but I never knew how to duplicate it consistently.
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I don't like giving names to generations. It's like trying to read the song title on a record that'...
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Friendly, accommodating and customer-centered as always. Even though I don't normally have champagne...
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Juan and Andres pledge themselves to a Latino empowerment organization.
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This meets the density, quality, cost structure and scalability needs of the diverse embedded market...
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This is an unusual outbreak because it is linked to one source that has nationwide implications,
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American commentators always ridicule the Japanese as being outdated because of company loyalty. 21 ...
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I think there's a lot of naivete and hubris within our mix of personalities. That's probably our wor...
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A book tour is not a good opportunity to let your mind wander. You have to pay attention, remember s...
IAN FRAZIER
Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
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Seventy years old! How did that happen? I was part of the generation that wasn't going to die.
IAN MCSHANE
Training a puppy is like raising a child. Every single interaction is a training opportunity.
IAN DUNBAR
Once you're halfway home, you know that you can probably get the rest of the way there.
JANIS IAN
I'm still swimming.
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For myself, losing is not coming second. It's getting out of the water knowing you could have do...
IAN THORPE
I've enjoyed training again, I've enjoyed pushing myself in the pool and I'll keep on sw...
IAN THORPE
Maybe one of the only things I do well: I cook like a maniac! I would be a chef if I weren't an ...
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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
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You spend enough time on set as an actor and it's great when a director was at some point an act...
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The coming together of like-minded individuals through action is what's needed to see wide sprea...
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Kids are meeting in coffee shops and basements figuring out what's unsustainable in their commun...
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They say the way to a man's heart is through his stomach. It's the same way with women... or...
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Oceans are one of the most important things in the world now and that is a national security threat ...
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I can't let time move on without fighting tooth and nail and hopefully being a part of a revolut...
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Every love story needs a catalyst of some sort.
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I don't care how hot a girl is - if she doesn't like animals, it would be a major, major pro...
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I've sorta learned that I'm so tired of taking myself so seriously. It's so great to sho...
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A lot of things that happen in the world make me a bit crazy.
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You can't get anywhere without the people who have come into your life.
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There are always decades that interest people. For me, that's the Roaring Twenties.
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I always try to be reasonable and effective.
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Every human being makes mistakes.
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Freedom. And Justice. If you have those two, it covers everything. You must stick to those principle...
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Great ideas have no attachment to either money or class.
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I'm not into nostalgia, and I only look back to find lessons.
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Good design is good business.
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No matter how many awards you've won or how many sales you've got, come the next book it'...
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You need a great idea, but then you've got to carry it through. If you get it right, you're ...
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I wrote my first short story for a competition and won second prize. Another competition came up and...
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I'm often asked how I write books, but I don't think my approach is suitable for everyone. I...
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If you persevere long enough, if you do the right things long enough, the right things will happen.
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Mum and Dad were both happy for me to do what I wanted.
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People tweet before they think, and it becomes obsessive.
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My daughter said, 'I don't think granddad really suits you.'
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The bad boys get all the best lines.
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Bosses will tell you they are looking for something different but they're not, actually.
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I mean, I'm an actor. I do what comes along.
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Acting's boring.
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IAN MCSHANE
You set paths for yourself, but as you get older, things change.
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There's only two kinds of actors - good ones and bad ones... and lucky ones and unlucky ones.
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You don't particularly want to stay close to your ex-wife. Or why would she be your ex-wife?
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I only seem to date younger women.
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I have little routines in the theater. Once I've established something, like the order of puttin...
IAN MCKELLEN
There is a fantasy as old as the modern gay rights movement that if all our skins turned lavender ov...
IAN MCKELLEN
You mustn't upstage the bride.
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I like sleeping a lot.
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My friends are my family.
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IAN MCKELLEN
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I've often thought the Bible should have a disclaimer in the front saying, 'This is fiction....
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I have never had the money to make too many large purchases.
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I don't hold grudges.
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The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel r...
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It should simply be an empirical matter whether the climate is changing or not and whether we're...
IAN MCEWAN
Reading reviews makes you thin-skinned. It's like waves washing layers off your skin.
IAN MCEWAN
Not being boring is quite a challenge.
IAN MCEWAN
One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
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I apologize for being obvious, but every time I watch the curtain come down on even a halfway decent...
IAN MCEWAN
I was an intimate sort of child who never spoke up in groups. I preferred close friends.
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What I've discovered and really confirmed to myself is that opera really likes loud colours, and...
IAN MCEWAN
I want to live in a place where strangers rush to help someone in distress.
IAN MCEWAN
You can spin stories out of the ways people understand and misunderstand each other.
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One important theme is the extent to which one can ever correct an error, especially outside any fra...
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True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.
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But he did say that the character would be on the sidelines in movies One and Two, and move into the...
IAN MCDIARMID
For me it's even more interesting, because my character comes out of the shadow. It's a chan...
IAN MCDIARMID
I suppose it's easy to play a hypocritical politician with a smiling face; it's also quite g...
IAN MCDIARMID
I'm the blackest villain of all time.
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The part that I think is one of the most interesting is of course the one that Hayden Christensen pl...
IAN MCDIARMID
If you got the DVD you can see that George Lucas has taken that person out, as well as the voice, an...
IAN MCDIARMID
That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance.
IAN MCDIARMID
There were a number of people who helped me get there, and the one I always mention is Michael Byrne...
IAN MCDIARMID
To start your life as a character of 120 years when you are in your late thirties, and then go back ...
IAN MCDIARMID
When George asked me to be the prequels, it was the same kind of meeting - it was very short and to ...
IAN MCDIARMID
And also, it's sort of my job to make you believe things about him that aren't true about me...
IAN MCDIARMID
Consistency is very important when you're making films.
IAN MCDIARMID
It was a scene I was really looking forward to, and one that I embraced, and when we were filming it...
IAN MCDIARMID
Ultimately, I'm not the most prolific person, but I've been doing this for a long time, and ...
IAN MACKAYE
At every election, my vote goes to the candidate less likely to declare war. You're dropping hug...
IAN MACKAYE
I was into Ted Nugent, I was a Nugent guy. I was a skateboarder listening to Ted Nugent.
IAN MACKAYE
Yeah, if someone's selling downloads and collecting money for our songs I would be unhappy about...
IAN MACKAYE
Basically we just created our own label, but again we just did it to document our own music and crea...
IAN MACKAYE
I consider the guitar a tool for the most part. I do pick up the acoustic now and then, I certainly ...
IAN MACKAYE
I have thousands of tapes, and photos and fliers, letters, posters, artwork - basically everything t...
IAN MACKAYE
I feel completely fortunate to have this outlet for something I don't really feel like I have a ...
IAN MACKAYE
I stand behind all the lyrics I've ever written; I don't have a problem with that.
IAN MACKAYE
What I find interesting as a 40-year-old is the idea of trying to be a part of a pronounced, continu...
IAN MACKAYE
I'm not a religious person, and I'm not too interested in being a part of a religion, but I ...
IAN MACKAYE
I never, ever had it in my mind that I wanted to be in the record industry, because I still contend ...
IAN MACKAYE
I just have work to do; I just do it.
IAN MACKAYE
The first time I ever recorded, which was into my boom-box, I was like, 'Wow, check that out....
IAN MACKAYE
To me, music is no joke and it's not for sale.
IAN MACKAYE
Music is a language and different people who come along are each using that language to do something...
IAN MACKAYE
An unlocked door means that, occasionally, you might get a devil come in, but a locked door means yo...
IAN MACKAYE