Top 1200 Has-Been Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Well the only reason to go back, for me and I think for anyone involved would be if we could do something truly spectacular. We've been talking about it for a couple years and there's always been this idea, a big idea, in the back of my head that we've been talking about.

Waiting for Godot was not allowed. Neither was Henry Miller. The Soviets condemned them both. Miller would have been used as an example of decadence, being a very good analyst of how terrible and monstrous American culture was. That they liked, but they wouldn't publish him. I guess it must have been the sex. With Beckett, it must have been the hopelessness.

Songwriting's never been a natural art for me; it's always been a bit of a struggle.

How prone all human institutions have been to decay; how subject the best-formed and most wisely organized governments have been to lose their check and totally dissolve; how difficult it has been for mankind, in all ages and countries, to preserve their dearest rights and best privileges, impelled as it were by an irresistible fate of despotism.

Education is the tool. Even if we haven't directly instructed a session, I think Wu-Tang has been an instructor of education to anyone who has been a fan, anyone who has supported our movement, whether its been from buying a Wu-Tang CD or coming to see a show.

I have been a woman for fifty years, and I've never yet been able to discover precisely what it is I am.

Throughout their career, the likes of Xavi and Andres Iniesta have all been taught to a play a certain way. English players have been taught a different way, just like Brazil have been taught a different way.

To have been torn from the study would have been as death; my time was entirely occupied with art.

I've been very lucky to have been able to act, write and direct and not have to choose just the one thing.

I've been lucky enough to have been given a platform through modeling, so now I can use it as an activist.

I've always been aware of both how extraordinarily normal and how extraordinarily extraordinary my life has been. It's always been important, first to my parents when I was younger, and now very much to me, to live in the world. I would never want to live in a cloister.

I have always been strong. My mentality is just that way; that's why I've been around so long.

It's been a long while, but, thank God, now I've been able to get my mum a house.

Television has been a powerful medium and it has been a huge part of my life at least 15 years.

If 'Hamlet' had been written in these days it would probably have been called 'The Strange Affair at Elsinore.

I've been almost everywhere. But I've never been to the steppes of Latvia. It's something I've always wanted to do.

Donald Trump has been saying that I think for as long as I've been listening to him of late, and that's what he's going to do.

I've always been an entrepreneur, but it's never been about the money. I like a challenge, the harder the better.

Nothing in my life has really ever been easy. I've always been someone who did it uphill.

Plenty of black people that I know have been on 'SNL,' and they haven't been utilized to the best of their abilities.

The American people were, in the beginning, Revolutionaries and Tories. The American people ever since have been Revolutionaries and Tories. They have been Revolutionaries and Tories regardless of the labels of the past and present. Regardless of whether they were Federalists, Democrat-Republicans, Whigs, Know-Nothings, Free Soilers, Unionists or Confederates, Populists, Republicans, Democrats, Socialists, Communists, or Progressives. They have been and are profiteers and patriots. They have been and are conservatives, liberals, and radicals.

The reason I've been able to be so financially successful is my focus has never, ever for one minute been money.

'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.

I've never been the type that's been highly athletically talented or can jump that high. I'm a guy who's 6-2.

Music has been already devalued by the consumer. There's an expectation that it should be free so the race to the bottom has already been won.

Sure, I've been a victim, but in retrospect, most of it has been of my own making. I allowed it to happen.

There's been someone up here screaming 'Landslide' for the whole show... Normally we don't play 'Landslide,' but on occasion we've been known to play it... So since this person's been screaming it all show long... That just about kills the chances of me playing it tonight, or ever again.

I think anybody who has been in Washington for almost 40 years has been there too long.

It is true not all has been accomplished that the earnest advocates would desire, but a start has been made.

Live shows have been going on for so long, can you really do something that's never been done before?

I've been fortunate to be able to try everything. But I have to say 'Warrior' has been my pride and joy.

Women have been charged with deviousness and duplicity since the dawn of civilization so they have never been able to pretend that their masks were anything but masks. It is a slender case but perhaps it does mean that women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism.

With the benefit of hindsight, had more care been taken, maybe this could have been avoided

In literature and in art, alike, this gloomy fashion of regarding Death has been characteristic of Christianity. Death has been painted as a skeleton grasping a scythe, a grinning skull, a threatening figure with terrible face and uplifted dart, a bony scarecrow shaking an hourglass - all that could alarm and repel has been gathered round this rightly-named King of Terrors.

I think, again, the overall intellectual structure of the speech is very much consistent with what Donald Trump has been saying on the campaign trail. He's against free trade. He's against immigration. But he has been in favor of tax reform, and he has been afraid of - in favor of developing American energy sources like through fracking or hydraulic fracturing.

There's never been a time when there hasn't been ritualistic dancing, and I think clubbing is our modern incarnation of that.

I've done so many funny jobs. I worked at a farmer's market through high school. I worked in the stock room of Ralph Lauren. I graduated to salesperson at Ralph Lauren, which was a big deal to me. I've been a P.A. I've been a stand-in. I've been an assistant's assistant.

A lot of the projects I've been involved with have been my babies, and I'm not going to give my baby to anyone else.

He hadn’t been peeping intentionally; he’d been trying to sneak into my room. So that was slightly less creepy, I supposed.

Oakley and Burton have been my main sponsors since '87. I've been riding for both of them.

My fingers are long and beautiful, as, it has been well been documented, are various other parts of my body.

I have to say it's been tough to leave the Ferrari family, which has been a big part of my career.

OK, I've been very wild, but I've never really been the sort of person who goes that crazy!

We've been living on a high, they've been talking on the low. But it's cool, know you heard it all before.

Christy has not been given a fair shake. She has not been identified as a competent premier.

Undertaker, for almost as long as many of us have been watching WWE, he's been part of it.

I think back at the time, if it had been 1988, I would have thought Michael and Sarah probably would have been cast but I don't think, I think it's much better that the girl is younger and if Sarah would have been 26 or 27 then.

If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted.

Bernstein has been disclosing musical secrets that have been well known for over 400 years.

The fact I've been in every lineup of Yes has been more by default than design.

Society has been conditioned for a very long time to see beauty as something that's been westernised.

Luxury has been railed at for two thousand years, in verse and in prose, and it has always been loved.

Virtual reality's been around for 40 years. People have been talking about storytelling in that world for all these years, and there have been experiments around of people trying to do that, and always excited about it.

To multitudes of sufferers on beds of pain and languishing, Jesus has been the great physician to-day; in many a weeping circle around precious dust, He has been the Divine comforter, and the tears have almost ceased to flow as this Jesus has touched the bier. Dying lips have whispered His name, and the valley of the shadow has been illumined as with the glory from the celestial shores.

Anyone who has been obsessed or been in a mad love affair, sometimes you don't make the right decisions.

I've been on a tennis court all my life. The only thing that's been there longer is the net post.

Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.

If 'New Girl' had been a movie, I don't know whether I would have been given the opportunity to do it.

I've never been lonely. I've been in a room... I've felt suicidal, I've been depressed. I've felt awful ... awful beyond all , but I never felt that one other person could enter that room and cure what was bothering me...or that any number of people could enter that room. In other words, loneliness is something I've never been bothered with because I've always had this terrible itch for solitude.

There's been a few things that have been insane with 'Rather Be', and being nominated for a Grammy is, like, the pinnacle one.