Joe Elliott quote: "Yep, big rich twatty rock stars! Compared to some rappers who've been 'on the scene' 15 minutes, we're minnows… but I won't be back in the factory any time soon! As for the music, it's ALWAYS been the focal point. We were never into it for the money. We wouldn't have spent three years recording a very expensive record, 'Hysteria' , if we were! When I saw Marc Bolan and David Bowie on 'Top of the Pops' I didn't shout, 'Wow! I want to be him for the money.' It was for the glory of it and a way out of dreary old day job land. That wasn't for me, the music gave me a motivation."

I love the fact we're still on the road. I was born to be a factory worker really, so for me the...
JOE ELLIOTT

The most frustrating thing for musicians who want to play stuff from the new album is when everyone ...
JOE ELLIOTT

Even Crazy Horses is a good song, by the Osmonds. I've known many bands who have covered that. I...
JOE ELLIOTT

Yep, big rich twatty rock stars! Compared to some rappers who've been 'on the scene' 15 minutes, we'...
JOE ELLIOTT

Canada is our biggest market,
JOE ELLIOTT

Well, it wasn't a conscious decision to do that, it just worked out that Phil [Collen , guitar] was ...
JOE ELLIOTT

We wanted to show people, absolutely and as a matter of fact, where we came from. We wanted to put t...
JOE ELLIOTT

Our only rule was that everything had to come from before we signed our first record deal. The Blond...
JOE ELLIOTT

Manhattan's always fascinating, too, just a big, stinky, smelly conglomeration of numbered avenu...
JOE ELLIOTT

The Vatican takes your breath away.
JOE ELLIOTT

A lot of these bands were huge in Britain but never really made it big in the States,
JOE ELLIOTT

It's a great honour to have the dean of Coventry Cathedral conducting the service. It will be a very...
JOE ELLIOTT

Same thing with 'Long Long Way to Go' . We like to think we can tell a good song from a so-so song w...
JOE ELLIOTT

Viv [guitarist Vivian Campbell ] doesn't like it all that much these days. After all, it was his fir...
JOE ELLIOTT

Let's get some hands in the air,
JOE ELLIOTT

I think it's being innovative and very creative to stay away from flat-out sampling somebody els...
MISSY ELLIOTT

Hugh Grant is the main man. He's the number one romantic comedy man in the world.
SAM ELLIOTT

I just went to see too many movies and I sat in too many dark matinees watching those old serials.
SAM ELLIOTT

Making movies is never going to get better than working on a Coen brothers project.
SAM ELLIOTT

I truly loved Jason Reitman. I was there on his first film, 'Thank You For Smoking,' and I&#...
SAM ELLIOTT

Any of these Vietnam vets that have been there and know the deal, they don't feel that any Holly...
SAM ELLIOTT

I'm a four star general in this thing, and you don't rise to the ranks of a four star genera...
SAM ELLIOTT

I've spent my entire career on horseback or on a motorcycle. It boxes you in, the way people per...
SAM ELLIOTT

I'm picky, very picky. I wanted to be an actor since I was nine years old, and I figured that wa...
SAM ELLIOTT

I don't want to be known as a sex symbol. There's a great stigma that goes with that tag. I ...
SAM ELLIOTT

I was single-minded on what I wanted to do since I was like nine or ten.
SAM ELLIOTT

It's never going to get better than working opposite an actor like Jeff Bridges. That's as g...
SAM ELLIOTT

I think anytime you can affect people in general, in a positive way, then you're a lucky individ...
SAM ELLIOTT

I think I might have been a more interesting actor, had more of a career earlier on, if I had more f...
SAM ELLIOTT

I'll do anything. I'll shave my head for the right job. I'm partial to my facial hair, I...
SAM ELLIOTT

Its funny, because for females in general - not just in music, but the corporate ladder as well - an...
MISSY ELLIOTT

As an actor, you have to get used to being told no, develop a thick skin, and just keep persevering.
EMUN ELLIOTT

Trust your landmark and run through the smoke. It's going to open up eventually.
EZEKIEL ELLIOTT

I enjoy nothing more than spending time with my loved ones, young and old, and at least once a year ...
ELLIOTT ERWITT

The U.S. has the power to block all anti-Israel moves in the Security Council, not just some of them...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS

Entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship. It drives everything: Job creation, poverty al...
ELLIOTT BISNOW

Everybody's got to do something... I'd been on my own since an early age and I thought I bet...
ELLIOTT ERWITT

I used to put all my doll babies on my bed with their hands up and I would do full shows for them. I...
MISSY ELLIOTT

I don't see kids with Palm Pilots. They are not common on college campuses, except among profess...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS

The Obama administration appears to regard intelligence leaks and briefings more or less like briefi...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS

My dad was so much fun growing up.
ABBY ELLIOTT

I'm young but I'm not stupid.
ABBY ELLIOTT

I think you have to create your own stuff so I'm working on stuff for myself right now.
ABBY ELLIOTT

I never really wanted to write and wanted to focus on acting.
ABBY ELLIOTT

There are some different things I'm writing and developing, but I don't know where they'...
ABBY ELLIOTT

I'm not a stand up at all, it's such a fear of mine. My sister does it, and she's really...
ABBY ELLIOTT

I want to make people laugh.
ABBY ELLIOTT

I first met Kim Dae Jung when he was a Korean dissident whose life was threatened by the military re...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS

That's what keeps me up at three in the morning: Who's looking at reviews of Cabin Boy right...
CHRIS ELLIOTT

During most of the Bush administration, human rights and democracy in Egypt were on the front burner...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS

In 2007, early in the improbable presidential candidacy of Barack Obama, the young first-term senato...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS

I know that some people shy away from what I say. They think it is too blunt, but when you don't...
MISSY ELLIOTT

The mishandling of the would-be airplane bomber Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab's visa is only the la...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS

The raids on Freedom House, the National Democratic Institute and International Republican Institute...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS

The intersection of religion and world politics has often been a bloody crossroads.
ELLIOTT ABRAMS

Scandinavia is boring. People living there apparently have little to do. And as European history tea...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS

I'm a guy that can play three downs. You don't have to take me off the field. I value blocki...
EZEKIEL ELLIOTT

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.
WALTER ELLIOTT

Leaders create an environment which everyone has the opportunity to do work which matches his potent...
ELLIOTT JAQUES

What is a Communist? One who hath yearnings For equal division of unequal earnings. Idler or bungler...
EBENEZER ELLIOTT

Anger always comes from frustrated expectations
ELLIOTT LARSON

Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn't hold much wate...
HUGH ELLIOTT

I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, a...
HUGH ELLIOTT

Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with it's touch and you have a right ...
HUGH ELLIOTT

If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.
HUGH ELLIOTT

I'm not a person that's walkin' down the street looking mean all day.
MISSY ELLIOTT

Tunisia was not for the United States an important country in the way, let's say, Algeria was be...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS

I'm an amateur photographer, apart from being a professional one, and I think maybe my amateur p...
ELLIOTT ERWITT

I'll always be an amateur photographer.
ELLIOTT ERWITT

While foreign competitors, French or Japanese or German, merrily bid for contracts abroad, American ...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS

The Obama administration has been trying out a new policy toward Syria since the day it came to offi...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS

In Iran, there is no freedom of the press, no freedom of speech, no independent judiciary, no free e...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS

If you play acoustic guitar you're the depressed, sensitive guy.
ELLIOTT SMITH

To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordi...
ELLIOTT ERWITT

When we go out there, we have fun, but we get to work, and I think we're at our best when we'...
EZEKIEL ELLIOTT

The U.A.E. is a firm ally of the United States and deserves better treatment than it received in the...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS

Rule number one in negotiating anything with Missy is never try and run me over. Never push me, beca...
MISSY ELLIOTT

First impressions matter. Experts say we size up new people in somewhere between 30 seconds and two ...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS

The double chin's not good for the red carpet.
MISSY ELLIOTT

While Argentina, Brazil, and Chile - what in textbooks used to be called the ABC countries - seem se...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS

Be sure to take the lens cap off before photographing.
ELLIOTT ERWITT

I don't really have a favorite camera. I use a Leica and Canon a lot. It depends, especially pro...
ELLIOTT ERWITT

The Third Quartet I made the instruments in pairs - Two different pairs - Violin and viola, and viol...
ELLIOTT CARTER

The war on drugs is not being won, and it continues to threaten stability and democracy not only in ...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS

Before, you only had one Public Enemy and one Rakim and one Salt 'N' Pepa. Now, people have ...
MISSY ELLIOTT

They know what the weight on their shoulders is. They're not going in there blindsided like some of ...
ASHLEY ELLIOTT

I think reality finally hit for them. They've been saying, 'Oh my gosh, the season is going fast,' o...
ASHLEY ELLIOTT

Second and third place is going to go to whoever hits. Harrison and us and Western are all so equiva...
ASHLEY ELLIOTT

It was more of an emotional than actual setback. I'd been coaching there about two-and-a-half years,...
ASHLEY ELLIOTT

I'm just trying to help her what little I can, because it's been a little while since I've run here,...
BILL ELLIOTT

The lap didn't feel that fast and the car was jumping around.
BILL ELLIOTT

We didn't even know what safety was. We didn't know the meaning of the word.
BILL ELLIOTT

She's doing a real good job. I'm very proud of her,
BILL ELLIOTT

We have two objectives for the 500 -- the first is to have a good solid run. And the second is to pu...
BILL ELLIOTT

It's all going to be safer for the drivers.
BILL ELLIOTT

The majority of our patients are dually-diagnosed. They either have a mental illness and a drug or a...
BILL ELLIOTT

I haven't burned any bridges yet.
BILL ELLIOTT

It always feels good to put on the McDonald's uniform and see that big arch on the hood of the car, ...
BILL ELLIOTT

I am kind of still on loan from Ray. But we really have no plan put together for anything yet this y...
BILL ELLIOTT

The good Jew is ritually observant and resists assimilation, in some sense living apart, never fitti...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS

Mass killing has very clearly not been eliminated, nor has the 'international community' dev...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS

There is no greater feeling in business than building a product which impacts people's lives in ...
ELLIOTT BISNOW

Turkey's solidarity with Hamas is not, of course, based on Arab nationalism, which as a non-Arab...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS

I need to learn to be more assertive.
BROOKE ELLIOTT

While we use American power to fight hard for democracy against extremism on both left and right, ou...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS

Every Israeli government since 1967, of left or right, has asserted that Jerusalem is Israel's c...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS

Reformist kings can save their dynasties now by helping their countries move smoothly into democracy...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS

I feel blessed. All the great running backs that have come through Ohio State - Archie Griffin, Eddi...
EZEKIEL ELLIOTT

I do Dance Dance Revolution. I'm not as good as the little kids that come in the arcade. Their l...
MISSY ELLIOTT

Terrorism exploded after the Camp David talks broke down in 2000 because the Palestinians' leade...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS

At Camp David in 2000, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak offered the Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS

In the Bill Clinton years, the foreign leader who visited the White House most often was Yasser Araf...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS

What Israel wants is peace with - and the acknowledgment of - all the Arab countries.
ELLIOTT ABRAMS

Iran exports about 2.2 million barrels a day.
ELLIOTT ABRAMS

Bahai Iranians are barred from holding government jobs, their children are excluded from the nation&...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS

It is a natural goal of Iran to try and expel the Fifth Fleet from Bahrain.
ELLIOTT ABRAMS

Al Qaeda's message that violence, terrorism and extremism are the only answer for Arabs seeking ...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS

My mother helped me to be who I am: to have strength and not to let people run all over me and yet t...
MISSY ELLIOTT

Now in its third year in office, the Obama Administration has never championed the cause of human ri...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS

I try not to be cruel to people. I know there's a karma, and I'm constantly thinking of my b...
MISSY ELLIOTT

But I was also doing odd jobs around Portland, like spreading gravel and transplanting bamboo trees.
ELLIOTT SMITH

That was one of the big problems when I was at Harvard studying music. We had to write choral pieces...
ELLIOTT CARTER

Nineteen-seventy-nine had been a year of American setbacks around the globe. Before the year began, ...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS

The opportunity, number one, to work with Ang Lee is an amazing thing for me.
SAM ELLIOTT

In 2004, President Bush gave Prime Minister Sharon certain guarantees about American policy, but the...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS

The anchors of the Arab consensus have long been Egypt and Saudi Arabia, and both are now weakened f...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS

I understand what's expected of me. I understand the lineage for the running back position of th...
EZEKIEL ELLIOTT

I want to be cutting-edge.
MISSY ELLIOTT

I like playing dress-up, and I love pretty jewels, but for me, being a 'movie star' would be...
ALISON ELLIOTT

The criticism is what I expect, honestly, because I'm criticizing myself every day when I come i...
EZEKIEL ELLIOTT

It's going to be different. I've never experienced that. I think I'll be yelling at the screen. I th...
BRIAN ELLIOTT

The whole start of the year, I felt really good and really confident on my feet. It's a good feeling...
BRIAN ELLIOTT

We were walking downtown this morning and people were giving us high fives on the street. A lot of p...
BRIAN ELLIOTT

I guess you can speculate all you want. I'm just happy that the team pulled through.
BRIAN ELLIOTT

I knew I had the short side, so all they had was the far side. Hopefully if it was any closer, hopef...
BRIAN ELLIOTT

The guys in front of me have been playing unreal lately just diving and blocking shots. They say in ...
BRIAN ELLIOTT

The guys in front of me have been unreal lately. Just blocking shots, as we say in the locker room, ...
BRIAN ELLIOTT

They score their first goal when we're still wrapped up with what happened with Mac.
BRIAN ELLIOTT

I don't think the true release has actually come. We won a game, but we don't even realize what we j...
BRIAN ELLIOTT

The guys did a good job blocking shots. Everybody was putting their bodies on the line.
BRIAN ELLIOTT

I'm the only one who's not interested in either position.
BOB ELLIOTT

It's very exciting for us, It's fun because all the pressure's off; it's just getting up there and h...
BOB ELLIOTT

And all the coffee you could drink.
BOB ELLIOTT

That's the best you can do. He's a big, powerful back with blazing speed. He was a freak when everyo...
BOB ELLIOTT

If you try to tackle him low, he's liable to knock you out with his powerful legs. If you try to tac...
BOB ELLIOTT

I guess we still look forward to any other input, but it looks like the budget will be workable at 3...
BOB ELLIOTT

They were thin last year on the defensive line, and anytime you're thin at a position on the line of...
BOB ELLIOTT

He's the best I've ever seen. I've coached against Eddie George and played against Archie Griffin - ...
BOB ELLIOTT

The best way to stop him is for him to turn pro after his second season,
BOB ELLIOTT

Schools recruit band directors like they do football coaches. The big dream is to direct a high scho...
BOB ELLIOTT

Harry Truman, who was a Bible-believing Christian Zionist, defied the secretary of state he so admir...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS

It had a high arc, and as it was coming down it looked like it was off, so I just attacked the glass...
CARL ELLIOTT

I'm a big shot guy.
CARL ELLIOTT

Our goal is to keep it moving and ride this as long as we can. One of the things Coach Hobbs keeps t...
CARL ELLIOTT

He's a great coach, and he's going to make you better. He asks every player to believe in what he's ...
CARL ELLIOTT

We are going to make the necessary adjustments to him not being around.
CARL ELLIOTT

It was definitely a wake-up. We are still in the Top 25, but [beating N.C. State] would have showed ...
CARL ELLIOTT

I think we were very intense and put a lot of ball pressure on them. Coach wanted us to come out and...
CARL ELLIOTT

We came out very intense and put a lot of ball pressure on their guards and forced them to do someth...
CARL ELLIOTT

I think we all realize this, but like most things we already know, this has been empirically verifie...
CARL ELLIOTT

We attack Temple by attacking the zone, finding open guys in the zone and not settling for long jump...
CARL ELLIOTT

I'd like people to know that you can head off kidney disease, maybe prevent a transplant or stop...
SEAN ELLIOTT

In Arab capitals, the failure of the United States to stop Iran's nuclear program is understood ...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS

Is multilateralism nothing more than a dodge for simple inaction?
ELLIOTT ABRAMS

Believe it or not, the first spark for everything I've done today came down to me meeting one pe...
ELLIOTT BISNOW

I don't think that Dreamworks would have signed me expecting to really mess around with whatever...
ELLIOTT SMITH

The Iron Dome is great for the U.S.
ELLIOTT ABRAMS

I had a Spider-man costume when I was about three, and I lost the mask. So I went to the underwear d...
EMUN ELLIOTT

Then, when the Depression came, all of this changed completely. Since that time, the entire public i...
ELLIOTT CARTER

The United States already has in place comprehensive trade sanctions against Sudan, imposed because ...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS

I want to dip my foot in some acting. And most definitely want to mentor upcoming artists and give t...
MISSY ELLIOTT

We've got high expectations this year. We like to think we're going to play for a national champions...
ELLIOTT AVENT

That guy, if he's not the first pick in the country, I'd be awfully surprised.
ELLIOTT AVENT

It's a dual-sided thing. As much as we knew in our dugout that we could come back against East Carol...
ELLIOTT AVENT

I thought the biggest thing of the game tonight for our guys, and I give them a lot of credit, was a...
ELLIOTT AVENT

I heard him yell at [All-America first baseman Aaron] Bates the other day. Not many people yell at A...
ELLIOTT AVENT

You can say what you want about his stuff, but his makeup is off the charts. And he has great stuff....
ELLIOTT AVENT

We faced one of the best pitchers in the country today, a tremendous competitor and a class act, and...
ELLIOTT AVENT

Jeff Stallings was one of the top pitchers in the conference. We lost him towards the end of last ye...
ELLIOTT AVENT

Unbelievable. He was great. It was the best I've seen him -- I've had Gibby for three years, and he'...
ELLIOTT AVENT

You have to feel good about that offense.
ELLIOTT AVENT

I knew he was going to get some time, but man. That's a long time.
ELLIOTT AMBROSE

I'm disappointed with the results.
ELLIOTT AMBROSE

She was basically going to need more time.
ELLIOTT AMBROSE

He has asked for me to withdraw.
ELLIOTT AMBROSE

There are several things that have happened in this case . . . .
ELLIOTT AMBROSE

President Bush was disgusted by the Assad regime's oppression of the Syrian people as well as it...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS

An effective U.S. policy toward Sudan - one capable of changing the situation in the south and affec...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS

Somehow Photoshop and the ease with which one can produce an image has degraded the quality of photo...
ELLIOTT ERWITT

These wealthy people were very interested in contemporary music. They wanted to help diffuse it and ...
ELLIOTT CARTER

Enlightened despots are mythical creatures; real despots seem more interested in stealing money or i...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS

I think it's hard for Aaliyah to be duplicated, because she had her own lane.
MISSY ELLIOTT

Silences between movements are employed only in order to bring the opposing duo to the fore.
ELLIOTT CARTER

To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary...
ELLIOTT ERWITT

You can call it the 'Perfect Moment' when the universe aligns and the music in your head actually ma...
HUGH ELLIOTT

You thought I was writing The Truth? Honey, I don't even know what The Truth means.
HUGH ELLIOTT

When a miracle happens, even if not to you, its nature is to naturally expand. You can almost feel t...
HUGH ELLIOTT

Share your M&Ms. There are bags and bags of them all over the place. If you give them one of yours, ...
HUGH ELLIOTT

Its such a part of me, I assume Everyone can see it.
HUGH ELLIOTT

Personally I think birthdays and anniversaries are like menstrual cramps, a regular pain in the ass ...
HUGH ELLIOTT

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