Top 100 Carney Quotes
#1. If I could play drums like Patrick Carney or Taylor Hawkins, I'd be a really happy person.
Olivia Wilde
#2. Styles be fat like Jackie Gleason, the rest be Art Carney.
Phife Dawg
#3. Jay Carney, whose unenviable job is not to explain but to explain away what his employers say, calls the IRS's behavior "inappropriate. " No, using the salad fork for the entree is inappropriate. Using the Internal Revenue Service for political purposes is a criminal offense.
George Will
#4. Of course I knew the work of Roland Kirk and Harry Carney and the specific uses they would make of circular breathing, so I knew it was physically possible.
Evan Parker
#5. No baritone player should be afraid of the noise it makes. Harry Carney isn't!
Pepper Adams
#6. Sam!" cried Carney. "I'm afraid I lost the flashlight, but ... "
That was all she said for Sam took her in his arms. Holding her tightly he kissed her muddy face, not once but several times.
Maud Hart Lovelace
#7. Time magazine's Jay Carney and Richard Stengel are now in government while Obama aides David Axelrod and Robert Gibbs are commentators on MSNBC.
Glenn Greenwald
#8. I'm sure Mark Carney is a very clever young man, but I think that the government would be mad to move from inflation targeting to money GDP targeting.
Nigel Lawson
#9. Carney was hatless and gloveless, wearing her pink linen. Sam looked at her more than once.
"its just because he likes pink," she told herself.
Maud Hart Lovelace
#10. Jay Carney told the reporters at his morning briefing that he hoped they would watch the new movie about Obama's first term 'many times.' They might. Look how well 'Titanic' did at the box office.
Fred Thompson
#11. The Obama administration appears to regard intelligence leaks and briefings more or less like briefings by the Democratic National Committee or White House flack Jay Carney. You use any information at hand, classified or not, and you spin it any way you like, fairly or not.
Elliott Abrams
#12. Carney is like a graveyard where everyone already owns their plots and has built houses on top of them.
Holly Black
#13. Find the video that has been so offensive to Muslims to be disgusting and reprehensible.
Jay Carney
#14. Life is confusing. We're all just trying to get on with it, that's all.
Art Carney
#15. much of the developing world - no longer suffers from diseases of deficiency. Instead we get the diseases of excess. This
Scott Carney
#16. Trust arrives on foot but leaves in a Ferrari The Ferrari screeched out of the parking lot in 2008.
Mark Carney
#17. I buy five of the same shirts. I literally have six blue shirts. Now I have six green shirts.
Patrick Carney
#18. Once Arden said, "Why is it that one sheep is called a sheep and multiple sheep are also called sheep? It should be shoop and sheep. Like, 'Oh, look, there goes a shoop,' and 'Wow, there goes a lot of sheep'."
The Fire Stone
Riley Carney
#19. After a couple of attempts at making shorts, I decided to make a feature film with a friend, Tom Hall, whom I've worked with ever since.
John Carney
#20. The president assured the chancellor that the United States is not monitoring and will not monitor the communications of the chancellor.
Jay Carney
#21. So our focus has to be on the things that we can control, which is to take the necessary measures working with Congress to ensure that our economy grows, that we create jobs.
Jay Carney
#22. Children should not be used as pawns in a political fight.
Jay Carney
#23. The best way to catch my attention is to throw a Twinkie near my face.
Patrick Carney
#24. I guess the good news that the summer travel season that we were projecting is becoming a reality. We certainly felt that our numbers were going to be there. Our parking lots and parking garage have been full throughout the month.
Karen Carney
#25. It's very hard to tell an actor, 'Stop acting.' It's easy to tell a non-actor, because they're embarrassed when they act. They get ashamed when they do something cliche, whereas an actor is happy.
John Carney
#26. The Midwest breeds funny, eccentric people, to varying degrees. You play shows not because you're expecting to get a record deal, but to do something fun outside of mowing lawns. Everything else is just gravy ... Or mustard.
Patrick Carney
#27. Through the history of rock n' roll, you see lots of bands making the mistake of putting on the tights when they get to arenas. Don't do that.
Patrick Carney
#28. If you can't play guitar and sing in Nashville, you might as well just be a construction worker.
Patrick Carney
#29. The owner of Spotify is worth something like 3 billion dollars ... he's richer than Paul McCartney and he's 30 and he's never written a song.
Patrick Carney
#31. We believe that - the President believes that the economy will continue to grow, that the economy will continue to create jobs, and that we need to do everything we can to enhance that growth and enhance that job creation.
Jay Carney
#32. I see a lot of comments on Twitter and stuff about how ugly I am, how bad I am at the drums, how awkward I look, and I'm like, yeah, I agree with most of those things.
Patrick Carney
#33. Benghazi happened a long time ago.
Jay Carney
#34. I love actors, and I love good acting. I love what actors do when they're good, and I'm a big acting fan.
John Carney
#35. I write about my life and my own experience, but I also write about things that I have no knowledge of whatsoever.
Reeve Carney
#36. What we see happening with this Republican strategy is a willingness to threaten the very foundation of the world's greatest economic power. That is a very risky proposition.
Jay Carney
#37. I'm friends with Dierks Bentley. Aside from that, I don't really know anybody else in the country music field, really. I've met the Lady Antebellum people and I met Marty Stuart briefly once. He's really nice, but I don't know any of them, really.
Patrick Carney
#38. I don't actually like explaining the meanings of my songs, because I think people can take away more from it if they use their imagination.
Reeve Carney
#39. [Justin Bieber]'s rich, right? Grammys are for music and not money. He's making a lot of money. He should be happy with that.
Patrick Carney
#40. The White House doesn't create jobs. The government together - White House, Congress - creates policies that allow for greater job creation.
Jay Carney
#41. Clapper has been straight and direct in the answers that he's given, and has actively engaged in an effort to provide more information about the programs that have been revealed through the leak of classified information
Jay Carney
#42. My dad was a jingle writer, and my mom was a jewelry designer and musician.
Reeve Carney
#43. We don't know how many people died on this land from the hands of racist laughter.
Jason Carney
#44. One day you look out and the audience consists of 65,000 people. It's like looking in the mirror and one day you realise you've gone grey.
Patrick Carney
#45. I wasn't raised super-poor, but my parents got divorced, and my mother didn't have much money. Even now if I have a cake, I'll eat it slowly, and I save most of the money I have.
Patrick Carney
#46. The simple fact of the matter is, as I know everyone in this room knows, that the recession that this country faced when this President took office was the worst since the Great Depression.
Jay Carney
#47. Raising the debt ceiling is not additional spending. It is simply saying, you, the United States of America, can continue to borrow the money you need to pay the bills you have already rung up.
Jay Carney
#48. You never really feel somebody's suffering. You only feel their death.
Art Carney
#49. Who you are as a person has a lot to do with who you are as meat
Scott Carney
#50. Finance that only talks to itself & deals with each other becomes socially useless
Mark Carney
#51. Americans like optimism, and 'Once' walks a tightrope: you feel uplifted at the end even if you're crying.
John Carney
#52. What sets Tibetan Buddhism apart from other Buddhist traditions - such as the Zen Buddhism of Japan or the Theravada tradition in Sri Lanka - is that while Tibetans aim to become enlightened, they don't want to enter Nirvana.
Scott Carney
#53. I - it's simply not for me to evaluate an independent rating agency's processes. But I will say that there was reason to be anxious - absolute reason to be anxious.
Jay Carney
#54. The Affordable Care Act reduces the deficit considerably. I would simply point out to you that the Supreme Court has spoken, the American people have spoken, congressional leaders of both parties have spoken, and we're going to continue with implementation.
Jay Carney
#55. Obviously a lot has gone on, and I feel I am different person, I haven't had a beer since New Year's, which is pretty big for me.
Todd Carney
#56. I became interested in film making at around 16, when I discovered a friend of mine had a HI 8 camera which belonged to his father, which we were forbidden to use.
John Carney
#57. My dad, being a jingle writer, and my mom, being a jingle singer, they hooked me up with some people when I was a kid that worked with children's jingle singing groups. I used to sing jingles as a kid.
Reeve Carney
#58. I think the best post-breakup album is The Strokes' first album. It's just fun.
Patrick Carney
#59. A lot of people see a Nissan ad and they see a finished product in a record store or on iTunes and that's the face of the band.
Patrick Carney
#60. There is so much good music in the U.S. and there is just a small section that gets recognised at the Grammys.
Patrick Carney
#61. It's always mildly unnerving when you're hanging upside down 70 feet in the air.
Reeve Carney
#62. When this president was sworn into office, he was handed a deficit of over a trillion dollars. Republicans were in control of Congress for much of the time that President George W. Bush was in office, and they didn't do a great job of controlling spending.
Jay Carney
#63. You're looking at an actor whose price has just doubled.
Art Carney
#64. It is an apple full of worms compared to an apple that's fresh and delicious.
Jay Carney
#65. Fast food is the one thing everyone can relate to. It's depressing, but also interesting, that people desire to eat the same sandwich in every single city in the world. But the biggest bummer is when you see a Subway in Berlin. Just devastating.
Patrick Carney
#66. Tune into my new lifetime movie. 'Dislocated shoulder' airing right now,
Patrick Carney
#67. I'd literally rather hang out at the T.G.I. Friday's in New Jersey than tool around at a place that sells $40 cheeseburgers.
Patrick Carney
#68. And it's important to remember we are all responsible - or certainly the elected members in Washington of both parties are responsible for making decisions and choices to ensure that the economy grows and jobs are created.
Jay Carney
#69. Everybody makes mistakes, everybody has those days.
Todd Carney
#70. I never thought I'd be acting. It's very accidental for me.
Reeve Carney
#71. Good ideas die every day" in command-and-control companies.
Brian M. Carney
#72. Arden, Matt discovered, was a force to be reckoned with. She had a flair for fighting with two curved knives, about the length of daggers. She whirled around like a flailing tornado, blocking and striking with fury.
The Fire Stone
Riley Carney
#73. When no one's buying your records, it's easy to justify selling a song. But once you start selling records, you can't really justify having two songs in Cadillac commercials. It looks greedy. And it is greedy. This whole music thing should be about music.
Patrick Carney
#74. I imagine if Spotify becomes something that people are willing to pay for, then I'm sure iTunes will just create their own service, and they're actually fair to artists.
Patrick Carney
#75. Well, I haven't seen the records. I haven't seen Hilary Rosen; I personally know three Hilary Rosen's, so I don't know that this Hilary Rosen is the one we're talking about.
Jay Carney
#76. No matter what you're going through, as long as you have some specific emotion, whether it's positive or negative, it is all stuff that you can use on stage.
Reeve Carney
#77. I had this fascination with four-track recorders when I was in high school.
Patrick Carney
#78. Obama wanted to offer his support to birth control activist Sandra Fluke. He wanted to express his disappointment that she has been the subject of inappropriate personal attacks and thank her for exercising her rights as a citizen to speak out on an issue of public policy.
Jay Carney
#79. The idea of a streaming service, like Netflix for music, I'm not totally against it. It's just we won't put all of our music on it until there are enough subscribers for it to make sense.
Patrick Carney
#80. I kept thinking, 'How do you make a modern musical?' Then it became clear that I could do it just like a small indie art-house movie, very naturalistically. I could create a world where it's o.k. to break into song, without an orchestra coming up out of nowhere.
John Carney
#81. Congress passes bills that appropriate money. Congress says, 'We're building this bridge or funding that defense project, and they cost this much.'
Jay Carney
#82. Love wasn't about the heart. It was about the soul and how much of it you were willing to lose.
Amanda Carney
#83. I think that's the whole point of music - to inspire people.
Reeve Carney
#84. I dropped out of school at 17 and joined the Irish band The Frames, getting my first glimpse into the world of professional film making while shooting of a number of rock videos.
John Carney
#85. Just as any revolution eats its children, unchecked market fundamentalism can devour the social capital essential for the long-term dynamism of capitalism itself.
Mark Carney
#86. I was extremely excited personally about the Obama-Biden victory.
Jay Carney
#87. I really don't have an ear for pitch. I can't sing at all, I can't hum melodies and I can't write riffs.
Patrick Carney
#88. I like 'Guys and Dolls,' 'Singin' in the Rain' and 'A Star Is Born.' When it works, a musical is an amazing thing. But it rarely works.
John Carney
#89. The fact we get played on the radio now blows our minds.
Patrick Carney
#90. You're more constrained when you're wealthy. Or when you're making a bigger film and people complain about no budgets; but having a small amount of money to make a film means you're at your absolute freest to express yourself as an artist.
John Carney
#91. With no challenge to overcome, frontier to press, or threat to flee from, the humans of this millennium are overstuffed, overheated, and understimulated. The
Scott Carney
#92. As soon as you start mixing up politics and some sort of ethical code in music, you've got it all wrong.
Patrick Carney
#93. I think ultimately audience members like to see someone controlling the quality of a film. A lot of films you see are made by committees and studios and producers.
John Carney
#94. The debate we won't be having is whether or not the debt ceiling should be raised. We will not have a situation where people will hold the American economy hostage in order to achieve a specific agenda - at least not until 2013. So we think that is incredibly important as a matter of economic good.
Jay Carney
#95. And once the music is out there, when you're selling a record and selling music and people are going to do whatever they want with it, it's kind of hard to resist certain opportunities, especially in the record market now.
Patrick Carney
#96. Rock n' roll is dying because people became OK with Nickelback being the biggest band in the world.
Patrick Carney
#97. I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.
Patrick Carney
#98. Little drops of water, little grains of sand,
Make the mighty ocean, and the pleasant land.
So the little minutes, humble though they be,
Make the mighty ages of eternity.
Julia Abigail Fletcher Carney
#99. When I go stand up at the podium in front of the White House press corps, I never lie. I never say something that I know is untrue. Credibility is enormously important to a press secretary.
Jay Carney
#100. Life is available to anyone no matter what age. All you have to do is grab it.
Art Carney
