I don't think you can ever do your best. Doing your best is a process of trying to do your best.
TOWNES VAN ZANDT I don't envision a very long life for myself. I think my life will run out before my work does. ...
TOWNES VAN ZANDT I am interested in the interaction of a group of people who have a common goal, or a common obsessio...
STEVEN VAN ZANDT Boycotts are not something to be taken lightly.
STEVEN VAN ZANDT Half of the modern world goes back as far as Pearl Jam. The real historians go back to U2. But they ...
STEVEN VAN ZANDT The simple fact is we do not live in a democracy. Certainly not the kind our Founding Fathers intend...
STEVEN VAN ZANDT Band members have a special bond. A great band is more than just some people working together. It...
STEVEN VAN ZANDT As most of the population suffers through life, barely surviving, disappointed and confused day afte...
STEVEN VAN ZANDT There is an established tradition of actors directing films that have a particular, personal meaning...
STEVEN VAN ZANDT What the world needs is an Emergency Boss. An Emergency Czar. An Emergency Commander. A true Master ...
STEVEN VAN ZANDT Rock n' roll is our religion, and we will continue to lose disciples as we go, but we pick up th...
STEVEN VAN ZANDT Like most people, I've always felt using words like 'best' when applied to art is a fun ...
STEVEN VAN ZANDT I think I'm one of the few people who have experienced New Jersey becoming fashionable twice in ...
STEVEN VAN ZANDT Within three hours of a disaster event there should be a recon damage assessment of the infrastructu...
STEVEN VAN ZANDT I tend to personally judge issue by issue rather than sort of endorsing this football-team mentality...
STEVEN VAN ZANDT The quality of our lives is diminished every time we lose a great artist. It's a different world...
STEVEN VAN ZANDT Little Richard opens his mouth, and out comes liberation.
STEVEN VAN ZANDT I met all my heroes on the oldies circuit: Gary U.S. Bonds, Lloyd Price, Little Richard.
STEVEN VAN ZANDT C-17s should be ready to go at various military bases around the world packed with water, food, medi...
STEVEN VAN ZANDT What we have is almost like a boulder rolling down a hill. This is someone who is not going to stop ...
CLINTON VAN ZANDT A profile is an investigative tool. It is not science, it is not DNA, it is not latent fingerprints....
CLINT VAN ZANDT A lot of the idealism of the Sixties was spot on, from the environmentalism to the war to the Civil ...
STEVEN VAN ZANDT The Rascals are something else. They're up there with the Beatles, and Stones and Byrds. That le...
STEVEN VAN ZANDT Sometimes there's no qualitative difference between two-and-a-half and three-and-a-half hour sho...
STEVEN VAN ZANDT There are... certainly more innovations on 'Revolver'... but the truth of the matter is '...
STEVEN VAN ZANDT You can trace the E Street Band directly back to the Rascals.
STEVEN VAN ZANDT I'm very, very proud to have been at what I feel are two of the pivotal moments in this whole ne...
STEVEN VAN ZANDT Netflix completely shook up the world.
STEVEN VAN ZANDT Every successful person needs to have at least one person in their life who's not afraid of them...
STEVEN VAN ZANDT I've always been very thematic with my work, very conceptual.
STEVEN VAN ZANDT That's relatively old for a serial killer. What has this guy been doing for the last 10 or 15 years?
CLINTON VAN ZANDT It's not normal to wake up at age 37 and decide to kill three women.
CLINTON VAN ZANDT If they have a picture of themselves in their soccer uniform and a picture of their high school in t...
CLINT VAN ZANDT The state of Virginia is getting the word out. Not in our state. Not to our children.
CLINT VAN ZANDT The bottom line is you have an adult who took advantage of a child. It ought to be a slam dunk.
CLINT VAN ZANDT But if a witness says, 'I saw a car with smoke coming out of the window after a shot was fired and I...
CLINT VAN ZANDT There is a skeletal structure, so to speak, of certain individuals, but the clothes that we hang on ...
CLINT VAN ZANDT First of all, just because the Tea Party people appear to be generally uneducated, ignorant about th...
STEVEN VAN ZANDT A number of my friends used to kid me about it -- 'Nice solution, but what can it do?' They didn't s...
CHARLES TOWNES a lot of thinking, mathematics and talk.
CHARLES TOWNES Religion teaches you to try be able to stand up for what you believe in, even if other people don't ...
CHARLES TOWNES The great thing about my career in physics is that I never work, I just have a great time doing it.
CHARLES TOWNES “The only thing in this world that matters is life, because without life, nothing else will matter...
ASHLEY TOWNES It's a dream. It would need the support of just about every business in Greenville. But it could be ...
BOB TOWNES Up until two or three years ago, I think very few people knew he was a native son. More recently, I ...
BOB TOWNES I think everybody will take a look at the plaque and the statue, which depicts the moment of Townes'...
BOB TOWNES I'm just very happy about this symposium. There are so many excellent people here, I'm enjoying it d...
CHARLES TOWNES This is a very unusual universe,
CHARLES TOWNES Coach Heath addressed that whole thing how Alabama and LSU beat them up inside. He did mention that ...
DARIAN TOWNES Steve got us going early with the blocked shots on [Dwayne] Curtis. That gave us a run and gave us s...
DARIAN TOWNES It's my first time to see him in person. I'm going to take some of what he speaks about and try to p...
DARIAN TOWNES We've got to beat them up inside. We've got to establish that because that's a team that plays real ...
DARIAN TOWNES At least we jelled in the second half. We didn't fold.
DARIAN TOWNES It was real aggressive on both ends. It just came down to the free throw situation to beat us.
DARIAN TOWNES We got their big men in foul trouble, so they relaxed in the post, and we decided to attack them. Th...
DARIAN TOWNES They kind of got in foul trouble, and starting playing a little lax in the post. We wanted to go rig...
DARIAN TOWNES I took some bad dribbles. But I went to the bench and coach told me to start going up strong. So I c...
DARIAN TOWNES Vanderbilt felt like they had some momentum and we wanted to take that back from them.
DARIAN TOWNES We've got to protect our home, and we let this one get away. It's very disappointing.
DARIAN TOWNES She's a no quit type of individual.
KAMELA TOWNES I was like, 'Kam, that's what you should be doing. She watches for those kinds of things.
KAMELA TOWNES I pour into them church, things around the house. It's great whenever you see good results.
KAMELA TOWNES The imposing edifice of science provides a challenging view of what can be achieved by the accumulat...
CHARLES H. TOWNES What I'm doing is basically the same as Bob Dylan did with folk songs and Woody Guthrie songs, t...
JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE It was strange, in a way, because there were no ideas involved in the laser that weren't already...
CHARLES H. TOWNES You have to have an avenue of addressing that problem for those who don't clean up the graffiti.
MAYOR MARLIN TOWNES You have to live what you write, or you have to know it. There are exceptions, like story songs, whe...
JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE I think there's a world market for about five computers.
CHARLES HARD TOWNES I was very eager to produce an oscillator for short waves. I was doing science with microwaves, and ...
CHARLES H. TOWNES I think a lot of men are afraid of pretty things, and I'm not, I like pretty songs.
JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE I didn't get into music to become a blues musician, or a country musician. I'm a singer-song...
JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE There's no such thing as a teenager that listens to a single word their father says.
JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE Nashville's like any other hometown - after a while, it's stifling.
JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE Much public thinking follows a rut. The same thing is true in science. People get stuck and don'...
CHARLES H. TOWNES I don't think that science is complete at all. We don't understand everything, and one can s...
CHARLES H. TOWNES The development of science is basically a social phenomenon, dependent on hard work and mutual suppo...
CHARLES H. TOWNES Science has faith. We make postulates. We can't prove those postulates, but we have faith in the...
CHARLES H. TOWNES There is some truth to the idea that, in the fields of science, individual contributions of great si...
CHARLES H. TOWNES Science is exploration. The fundamental nature of exploration is that we don't know what's t...
CHARLES H. TOWNES I was brought up as Christian, and while my ideas have changed, I have always felt myself religiousl...
CHARLES H. TOWNES Alfred Nobel really understood very well the necessary supra-natural character of the human enterpri...
CHARLES H. TOWNES One of the things my family taught me - I think very important in religion and science - is that you...
CHARLES H. TOWNES My parents split up when I was about 2. I realize more and more how much I'm like my father. My ...
JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE I've got a 27-inch waist. Before, I was stupid smaller. Finding clothes in the South was impossi...
JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE I always watched movies and rooted for the bad guys, you know? I've always been that kind of guy...
JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE Every city needs a tool on this particular fight. The longer you leave graffiti on a building, the w...
MAYOR MARLIN TOWNES I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything ...
VAN MORRISON You take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because it rhymes, not becau...
VAN MORRISON When I started you were more in touch with the people you were playing to. There wasn't the dist...
VAN MORRISON It was really strange for me when I started to play concerts in America where the audiences were all...
VAN MORRISON Large audiences did not suit my low-key approach.
VAN MORRISON You've got to separate the singer and the songs.
VAN MORRISON If you're a pop singer, you don't need to evolve. You just get a set together, have some hit...
VAN MORRISON I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.
VAN MORRISON I'm very lucky, I'm happy with life because my experiences led me to do what I had to do. I ...
VAN MORRISON What you see is what you get.
VAN MORRISON The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.
VAN MORRISON There's always got to be a struggle. What else is there? That's what life is made of. I don&...
VAN MORRISON A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'...
VAN MORRISON Every performance is different. That's the beauty of it.
VAN MORRISON I just need somewhere to dump all my negativity.
VAN MORRISON In order to win you must be prepared to lose sometime. And leave one or two cards showing.
VAN MORRISON If it's what you do and you can do it, then you do it.
VAN MORRISON I always record far more than I can use. There's probably twice as much recorded as comes out.
VAN MORRISON Singing is my profession - there is no plan B.
VAN MORRISON I've never felt like I was born with a silver spoon at all, although I've felt like howling ...
VAN MORRISON The future is keeping you out of the present time.
VAN MORRISON You've never seen a Columbine done by a black child. Never. They always say, 'We can't b...
VAN JONES Let me say what I actually believe. I believe that 9/11 was a conspiracy, by Al Qaeda, and Osama Bin...
VAN JONES I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explai...
VAN JONES I'm not a success, I'm a sensation.
VAN CLIBURN An artist can be truly evaluated only after he is dead. At the very 11th hour, he might do something...
VAN CLIBURN These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a ...
VAN MORRISON If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into...
VAN GOGH Music is spiritual. The music business is not.
VAN MORRISON Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it ...
VAN MORRISON Instinct is action taken in pursuance of a purpose, but without conscious perception of what the pur...
VAN HARTMANN There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.
VAN MORRISON When I started studying tenor saxophone as a kid in Belfast, I did so with a guy named George Cassid...
VAN MORRISON I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club...
VAN MORRISON hark, now hear the sailors cry,
smell the sea, and feel the sky
let your soul & spir...
VAN MORRISON From the dark end of the street -- To the bright side of the road -- We'll be lovers once again on t...
VAN MORRISON Instinct is action taken in pursuance of a purpose, but without conscious perception of what the p...
VAN HARTMANN In order to win you must be prepared to lose something. And leave one or two cards showing.
VAN MORRISON Never before have so many been taken for so much and left with so little.
VAN PANOPOULOS I think that's the best Tina played all year,
VAN CHANCELLOR I hadn't slept a wink in a week. I've never been in a game that meant any more to me than this game.
VAN CHANCELLOR He has a lot of the same skills, just isn't as polished and refined at this point.
VAN COLEMAN [In] I Forgot That Love Existed, ... If my heart could do the thinking/ And my head begin to feel/ T...
VAN MORRISON I write songs. Then, I record them. And, later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. Tha...
VAN MORRISON His sound was stunning -- it was the blues, it was R&B, it was gospel, it was swing -- it was all th...
VAN MORRISON [10.] Cleaning Windows ... Live at the Grand Opera House Belfast.
VAN MORRISON I don't feel comfortable doing interviews. My profession is music, and writing songs. That's what I ...
VAN MORRISON Then let's go to the funeral home. My son was beaten so badly it was unbelievable. We had to close t...
VAN HORN News should be based on facts. If not, it's a show … to damage people, to slander people. That is n...
ANITA VAN I think what the family is doing is terrible. I don't think it's their right to do these things like...
ANITA VAN This just goes to show you that what you want is a lot of people looking for stuff. You want them to...
VAN TURNER Science marches slowly, and my biggest fear all along has been that another specimen of the same ani...
VAN TURNER Give Nicole Powell credit for making a great shot,
VAN CHANCELLOR I've been tailgating here for about 15 years, and I like tailgating here better than at Auburn,
VAN HORN News should be based on facts. If not, it's a show … to damage people, to slander people. That is ...
ANITA VAN Early on in MTV's life cycle, the novelty of the video wore off.
VAN TOFFLER We had preordered and also had cheese quiche with potato crust. It was absolutely wonderful,
VAN HORN It's tough to be a really good team when you're losing guys out of your state, ... I think that's so...
VAN ALSTYNE That's how my career has been, ... It's been a battle with ups and downs.
VAN ALSTYNE It was a crime of opportunity. One of the females entered the office, there was money that had been ...
VAN ALSTYNE a small town with a big heart.
VAN ALSTYNE Great Days of Service.
VAN ALSTYNE My doctor was discouraged because the drugs that I had been taking had so many side effects, ... And...
VAN ALSTYNE There is nothing (educators) can do inside this classroom that is going to solve this problem unless...
VAN ALLEN The meet this past weekend really marked a point where we set new standards for our team at Hopkins.
VAN ALLEN We have never had this much depth on the women's sprint side. We have very healthy inter-team compet...
VAN ALLEN I couldn't be more proud of the way we're competing right now.
VAN ALLEN Having that consistency in the coaching staff has really been helping all of our athletes improve.
VAN ALLEN We are looking forward to doing a little better. We have to recharge our batteries.
VAN SWEET I guess that the homework has not been done very well.
VAN NIEUWENHUIZEN She didn't concede, and I think that was probably appropriate.
VAN COLEMAN Blake is going to be our starting third baseman. He's on a mission. I told him third base could be h...
VAN HORN It's sort of the 19th century equivalent of a blow horn, ... It was used primarily as a form of comm...
BOBBY VAN You know, every time you visit a facility, you see things that are really great, ... We don't want t...
BOBBY VAN We want to go out into different areas of the county, where it's more accessible for citizens, to gi...
BOBBY VAN I understand they've come up with some more numbers on fuel costs, but I would still like to look fo...
BOBBY VAN It would be better to issue COs than to want for the federal government to order us to build somethi...
BOBBY VAN It was approved by the president's council and the white paper was accepted.
VAN HUYSSTEEN I see the maturity of Michelle Snow, getting better and better each day.
VAN CHANCELLOR The best times we’ve had on earth are usually with those we love.
VAN HARDEN I found parts all the way from cranial elements to the tail. I found individual vertebrae and fused ...
VAN TURNER Absolutely a good idea, but I'd recommend using a grout stain instead.
VAN PURCELL I just need somewhere to dump all my negativity
VAN MORRISON I think Stamps.com is well positioned versus their competitors, ... They approached this from the po...
VAN BAKER The accessory market, I don't see them going into that in a widespread basis with lots and lots of p...
VAN BAKER The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport.
VAN MORRISON Jump!
VAN HALEN and I shall watch the ferry boats, and they'll get high, on a bluer ocean against tomorrow's sky. an...
VAN MORRISON I think Stamps.com is well positioned versus their competitors. They approached this from the point ...
VAN BAKER has broken down the dam so that we can be brave, too.
VAN CLEVE First and foremost, Xbox 360 is a game machine, and so is anybody going to go out and buy an Xbox 36...
VAN BAKER Since we announced this campaign, there has been an incredible outpouring of support from the music ...
VAN TOFFLER Since we announced this campaign, there has been an incredible outpouring of support from the music ...
VAN TOFFLER A lot of people who were writing when I came through originally as a singer-songwriter have disappea...
VAN MORRISON They would often pull on his beard and say he must be the real Santa Claus,
VAN ORDEN He never missed an opportunity to miss an opportunity
VAN JONES It's always the goal to come out and win. The field is definitely improving. I mean, all across the ...
LINDSAY VAN I just tried to focus on what I really needed to do. I haven't been feeling too well lately, but it ...
LINDSAY VAN Drew had a big day. He did a good job playing first base for us and made some things happen at the p...
VAN ARNOLD The media market it fragmenting like crazy right now,
VAN BAKER We do have great depth, and great depth is good,
VAN CHANCELLOR has truly recognized and received my deep love and lifetime devotion.
VAN CLIBURN He's a good, solid big-man recruit. He's long; he runs the floor really well, excellent shooting tou...
VAN COLEMAN Louis B. Mayer once looked at me and said, 'You will never get the girl at the end'. So I worked on ...
VAN HEFLIN Hunters need to remember that there are many other folks spending time outdoors during early Septemb...
VAN HORN Their inside game allowed them to get things done. We had too many scoring opportunities that we did...
VAN HOLT The Board can only do so much and we now have a better understanding of how this matter came to be, ...
VAN HUYSSTEEN I can't help but feel we are being used as a pawn in the political game, and I'm not going to take i...
VAN JOHNSON Coincidence is important, the convergence of different ideas.
DRIES VAN NOTEN Clothes is just something you put on to cover yourself... fashion is a way to communicate.
DRIES VAN NOTEN One must work and dare if one really wants to live.
VINCENT VAN GOGH I believe in the paramount importance of entertainment, but I have something to say.
WENDELIN VAN DRAANEN I write early in the morning at the computer, and people think I'm crazy, but I still use my Mac...
WENDELIN VAN DRAANEN If you are interested in writing, get out and live your life! Do a lot. See a lot. Keep your eyes an...
WENDELIN VAN DRAANEN