Top 1200 Greatest Hits Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

"A meteor hits planet Earth" - that's a story idea but that doesn't give me any indication of what the character is.

There's tons of waste on every film. It really doesn't matter the budget, as long as it hits a bull's-eye.

Who is it needs such flawless shafts as fate? What archer of his arrows is so choice, or hits the white so surely?

To be honest I'd just love to keep writing hits for other people... That's kind of my secret dream.

Gene Richards swings, the ball bounces foul and hits him in the head. No harm done.

Money is a strange thing. It ranks with love as our greatest source of joy, and with death as our greatest source of anxiety.

I don't view any of the hits I've ever written as the climax of my career. They're just minor stepping stones.

But if one could go back in time, I'd love to have been directed by Howard Hawks, who's one of my great heroes. One of the greatest directors there ever was. He directed probably one of the greatest westerns of all time in 'Rio Bravo'.

Playing in front of the greatest fans in the NFL is easily the greatest honor that I've had in my 11-year career. I hope I was able to make you guys proud in the way that I was always proud when I told people boldly that 'I am a Cleveland Brown.'

Learning to forgive is much more useful than merely picking up a stone and throwing it at the object of one's anger, the more so when the provocation is extreme. For it is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others.

I'm not one of those spoiled rock stars who complains about how tedious it is to perform my old hits.

For the college years we will provide scholarships to high school students of the greatest promise and greatest need and guarantee low-interest loans to students continuing their college studies.

I just make the music, and people have the say. When I'm making songs, I never call them hits.

Usually, the things that are quickly slapped together become the big hits, rather than the ones you would painstakingly deliberate on.

The greatest contributor to the feeling of tension and fear of war arose from the power of the bombing aeroplane. If all nations would consent to abolish air bombardment . . . that would mean the greatest possible release from fear.

All of our early hits, 'Danke Schoen' and 'Red Roses,' were produced by Bobby Darin.

He (Babe Ruth) hits a ball harder and further than any man I ever saw.

I do not care about the greatest good for the greatest number . . . Most people are poop-heads I do not care about them at all.

I do know that whenever a player hits the ball out of the park, I have a sense of elation. I feel as if I had done it.

I actually have heard of acts who only do their new album, and don't do their hits. I've never been in that mind set.

So there was a way for you to get promoted and survive as an artist without worrying about AM radio hits.

Anthony 'Rumble' Johnson hits hard. You gotta watch out for him. He's got hammers as fists.

I think my greatest virtue is that I have the courage to take tough decisions. As for my greatest fault, I guess I should be a little tougher. The feedback I get always is that I am not as tough and demanding as I should be.

The world is a beautiful place, travel has been my greatest teacher, my close friends and folks are the greatest givers. I even have a ring of support around my bed as I type … Goodbye world. Spread good energy. Pay it forward!

My hero Socrates trained Plato on a rock. How much did that cost? So the greatest minds in history became the greatest minds in history without spending a lot of money.

I used to tease Joe Louis by reminding him that I was the greatest of all time. But Joe Louis was the greatest heavyweight fighter ever.

I'll tell you what - if you attend a Cowboy-Redskins game, you better not leave 'til that clock hits zero.

Chris Brown is a star. He's a genius. Anybody should want to work with him. He makes hits.

I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

[after the death of a loved one] It is when there is nothing more to be done that the reality of the loss often hits with full force.

I don't like working with hitmakers. I don't want hits! You're not even allowed to say that word around me.

I wish the world would swallow us here, whole, in this moment. And that's when it hits me that this - this - is falling in love.

My father - I once asked him what was his greatest achievement. He said his greatest achievement was that he fought in five wars in the infantry, always on the front line, and never hurt anybody.

One thing that's good is I don't lose it if some old mate goes 'bang!' and hits me in the face.

If you hate somebody, it's like a boomerang that misses its target and comes back and hits you in the head. The one who hates is the one who hurts.

I had a lot of songs which, I felt, if they come in an album, they can become bigger hits than in films.

Normally when it hits two and a half, three hours, the audience gets exhausted and start yawning.

If a tree falls in the woods, and nobody is around to hear it, and it hits a mime, does anyone care?

The greatest maxim of all is that children should be brought up as simply and in as domestic a way as possible, and that (not interfering with their lessons) they should be as much as possible with their parents, and learn to place the greatest confidence in them in all things.

It always disappoints me when I go to a concert and they don't play my favorite song, or at least one of their biggest hits.

I don't want to lead the league in infield hits because, at some point in my career, I can't get away with it anymore.

Future put out nine projects in a row that's all hits. 'Dirty Sprite 2' is one of the best albums ever.

As professionals we have a responsibility of providing a good show for the fans. Getting hits and home runs is what they want to see.

My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to turn people into children of mine.

If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second-greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first-greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they're happy.

There's never been a boxer better than Joe Louis. You'd take one shot from him and you were sure he'd have seven or eight more coming for you. Certainly Muhammad Ali was the greatest man ever to fight, but not the greatest boxer.

When good news about the market hits the front page of the New York Times, sell.

The ability and inclination to use physical strength is no indication of bravery or tenacity to life. The greatest cowards are often the greatest bullies. Nothing is cheaper and more common than physical bravery.

Stop waiting for what you want, and start working what you have. This can turn your greatest frustration into your greatest potential innovation. If you'll do your part, God will begin to do what only He can do: He'll make your box bigger.

I think one of the things we must constantly keep in mind is, 'If anybody hits you on one cheek, turn the other.'

Paper is the strongest material in the world. Things under which a mountain will crumble, you can place on paper and it will hold: beauty at its most intense; love at its fiercest; the greatest grief; the greatest rage.

Yeah, that test says he's dumb as a fence post, but when he hits he looks like Einstein to me.

The way that light hits objects, I think, is one of the more important things that sculpture and photography share.

Real slow hits from the bong... Make me feel like Cheech, And I'm kickin' it with Chong.

As everybody manages to say on TV, 'Yeah, he hits it pretty far for a little guy.' Well thanks.

He felt that there is a loose balance of good and evil, and that the art of living consists in getting the greatest good out of the greatest evil.

I wait until an investment idea is so good, it hits me over the head like an anvil.

At 60 the sexual preoccupation, when it hits you, seems sometimes sharper, as if it were an elderly malady, like gout.

When I was on 'Project Runway,' my website got a million hits a month, and there's nothing bad you can say about that.

Of the laws of nature, on which the condition of man depends, that which is attended with the greatest number of consequences, is the necessity of labor for obtaining the means of subsistence, as well as the means of the greatest part of our pleasure.