Top 100 Quotes About Charts
#1. Sad? Nonsense! Parting with friends is a sadness. A place is only a place." He glanced at the charts on the table. "And Arrakis is just another place.
Frank Herbert
#2. It would be nice to be on the charts again, nice to be recognised.
Nancy Sinatra
#3. I reach for the Band-Aids and shake them across all her charts and folders and files. "Flesh color," I read on the box. "Tell me, which one of these is flesh color? My flesh color?" Two
Jodi Picoult
#4. If critics have problems with my personal life, it's their problem. Anybody with half a brain would realize that it's the charts that count.
Mariah Carey
#5. My mind held fast to that hot morning and the moment of coolness in the cabin. I could so easily re-enact every moment. Again-why had I gone back to exchange the beautiful charts at that precise moment? How many times would I, in whatever innocence, be compelled to choose the right time?
Ernest K. Gann
#6. I never thought I would go into the dance charts.
Yoko Ono
#7. Influenced by Pete Seeger and the Weavers, McLean proudly wore the mantle of troubadour in the early 1970s, when 'American Pie' topped the Billboard charts, and has never shed the cape.
Douglas Brinkley
#8. The Republicans released their 'Pledge to America.' It's 21 pages of phony charts and bad ideas. Sarah Palin got a copy, and she said, 'How am I supposed to fit all this crap on my hand?
Bill Maher
#9. For me, geopolitical issues are becoming more important, because how can you understand economy if you don't understand geopolitics? People think economists just deal with spreadsheets and charts. That's a narrow-minded caricature.
Nouriel Roubini
#10. In the birth charts of tarot readers, Neptune tends to figure prominently, often in aspect to the Moon, which is also related to intuition and psychic awareness.
Anthony Louis
#11. Welcome to my nightmare," Elvira muttered. "Though you got yourself a biker who fills his Levi's so well he should be in Harley Davidson ads and has an off-the-charts ability to give pleasure so you can't really understand my pain.
Kristen Ashley
#12. How about no one's ever going to outsell Michael Jackson at selling records because the record industry is over. Game over. There's no more record stores. With no more record stores there's no more pressing plants. With no more pressing plants, there's no more charts.
Will.i.am
#13. I remember seeing the song in some diners on the selection gadget that plays records at the table while you were eating. We were never told if the songs ever got on any charts.
Phil Harris
#14. I am not insecure enough to count the bouquets I receive on my birthday, I don't assess my popularity by the number of magazine covers I am on, I don't get worried if my song is on the seventh position on countdown charts.
Shahrukh Khan
#15. In the days when we had paper charts, typically the paper chart would be in the door outside of the patient's room. Well now when you walk up to the door there's nothing there. Except maybe a folder with their name on it so you know who's in the room.
William Davis
#16. The last word smelled of desperation,and the old lawyer sighed. 'I can tell you that the law is an ocean of darkness and truth, and that lawyers are but vessels on the surface. We may pull one rope or another, but it is the client, in the end, who charts the course.
John Hart
#18. If you look at the charts every year, there may be five or ten memorable songs from each year.
Randy Jackson
#19. I would like my album to be on the pop side with a little bit of soul. I would like to make music that is on the top of the charts right now.
Hollie Cavanagh
#20. It's so off the charts and off anybody's radar screen, that place. It might as well be another planet. Just try to find somebody who's been to Madagascar. Nobody has been to Madagascar.
David Douglas
#21. I want to produce with people that are going to be on the charts and win Grammys because having regular old street songs is cool, but I did all that already.
AraabMuzik
#22. I'm just not interested in selling out to get on the charts and make people happy.
Lisa Marie Presley
#23. Growing up, my parents were very, very strict. And then I went to UCLA with John Wooden, who was just off the charts.
Bill Walton
#24. I knew maps of the sea floor, maps that depict weaknesses in the shield of the earth, charts painted on skin that contain the various routes of the Crusades. So
Michael Ondaatje
#25. While he himself was marking out lines and courses on the wrinkled charts, some invisible pencil was also tracing lines and courses upon the deeply marked chart of his forehead.
Herman Melville
#26. Fundamentalists who say they are not going to pay any attention to the charts are like a doctor who says he's not going to take a patient's temperature.
Bruce Kovner
#27. Not a day goes by that I don't click on RealClearPolitics at least once, the presidential poll charts, graphs and moving averages are great. If RCP didn't already exist, somebody would have to invent it.
Charlie Cook
#28. The only way for us to make sense of life today is to appreciate where the future is going. Scripture outlines that future, not with detailed dates, but with a general outline of what is to come. That outline is designed not to have us prepare charts, but to prepare our hearts.
Darrell Bock
#29. Jordan [Ruddes], he learned that way, and that's what he knows how to do. That's how he kind of approaches all music, whether it's to learn a cover song that we're going to play, or to review Dream Theater music - he always uses charts. That's what he knows. I really rely a lot more on memory.
John Petrucci
#30. It's interesting, because as a musician, I don't feel like I need to be on the top of the pop charts.
Zooey Deschanel
#31. Plenty of blanks in the world's charts. There will have to be a lot surveying before all of them are filled in.
John Blaine
#32. The success of a meeting often depends on having the right documents - proofs, artwork, schedules, research charts, etc. - present at the start of the meeting. All too often we arrive like plumbers, leaving our tools behind.
David Ogilvy
#33. The Eurythmics were back on the charts. Dirty Dancing was at the box office. The Iron curtain was still standing. Margaret Thatcher had been re-elected for a third term. There we were, back in 1987.
Nicola Lagioia
#34. Posting dramatic charts or funny pictures is good and giving people smart reasons to believe what they already think is great.
Derek Thompson
#35. Anything that's ever gotten on the charts as a result of "American Idol" or "The X Factor" in the UK. It's born out of karaoke culture. It's been a long time coming, but it's absolutely affected radio.
Johnny Marr
#36. Because it is so scatterbrained and has absolutely no charts and graphs, I'm actually quite surprised the Bible sells.
Donald Miller
#37. I'm never the kind of person who's sitting at home reading the charts and basing how I feel about myself or even my career on stats. I've always based it on, 'Am I doing the best that I can do?'
Pink
#38. Charts are a leading indicator of fundamental analysis
John Murphy
#39. Dance with the sufis, celebrate your top ten in the charts of pain.
Tori Amos
#40. China
Whales follow
the whale-roads.
Geese,
roads of magnetized air.
To go great distance,
exactitudes matter.
Yet how often
the heart
that set out for Peru
arrives in China,
Steering hard.
consulting the charts
the whole journey.
Jane Hirshfield
#41. Throw away your 10-function chronometer, heart-rate monitor with the computer printout, training log, high-tech underwear, pace charts, and laboratory-rat-tested-air-injected-gel-lined-mo-tion-control-top-of-the-line footwear. Run with your own imagination.
Lorraine Moller
#42. In the mid-1980s to the early 1990s I was writing songs not because I particularly liked what I was doing, but because I was desperately trying to get back into the charts. I really didn't enjoy it. I didn't like the music I was making, I wasn't proud of it, like I have been before or since.
Gary Numan
#43. If you're a conscious rap artist and you're worried about Billboard charts, you're gonna have a problem.
KRS-One
#44. The next time you have a choice between chasing the charts (whichever charts you keep track of) and doing the work your customers crave, do the work instead.
Seth
#45. Then there's the business of standardized tests. Henry refused to take the SATs - he'd probably score off the charts if he did, but he's got some kind of aesthetic objection to them.
Donna Tartt
#46. The song 'Take This Job and Shove It' spent 18 weeks on the country charts in 1977. 1970s country music fans had a clearer understanding of the ennui of wage-slavery than modern elites.
Alex Pareene
#47. There are a number of places on marine charts where even the most weathered sailors point and say, "Right there, nothing can go wrong. Everything has to go right." One place is the turbulent passage south of Cape Horn. Another is the dead center of the Indian Ocean.
Abby Sunderland
#48. I'd had my time in the charts and made loads of money. I was no longer hungry for success.
Rick Astley
#49. Every generation throws a hero up the pop charts.
Paul Simon
#50. I intend to put them on the charts.
MC Hammer
#51. I love what I'm doing most of the time, but it's hard work. People only see your albums in the charts. They see us at award shows and after-show parties. They don't know about your doubts, the hard work that goes in.
Gavin Rossdale
#52. But one thing I'd figured out about labels early on: naming something didn't actually help you fix it. That was really all psychology was. It catalogued mental diseases, made neat little charts with symptoms and checkboxes. It couldn't cure a damn thing - least of all me. Lance
Skye Warren
#53. Chart numbers can be deceiving. An album doesn't have to sell that much these days to show up really high on the charts.
Kerry King
#54. I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.
Vanessa Mae
#55. after midnight
Just words.
No more pictures. No charts or plays or poems.
Now it's just about the words.
Andrew Smith
#56. You cannot beat the feeling of sitting on top of the charts. I had almost forgotten what it feels like ... It feels great! It is really a very exciting time and I am enjoying the ride.
Lionel Richie
#57. Love isn't something you can legislate. Love is more than charts and graphs and matching interests. Love is messy and complicated and it is a mistake to deny its random magic.
Amy Engel
#58. In my life right now, in my music, and just overall I feel like I'm winning. It doesn't matter what this person is saying or what the charts are saying or what award shows are saying, the public opinion doesn't matter. I feel like I'm winning in my spirit.
Brandy Norwood
#59. I never take any notes or draw charts or make elaborate diagrams, but I hold an image of the shape of a book in my head and work from that mental hologram.
Jonathan Lethem
#60. When I used to put an album out, I knew everyone on the charts. There weren't that many bands. Now, I couldn't even name half the new groups.
Joe Cocker
#61. 'Rolling Stone,' my first single, was only a hit in Portugal, but when we recorded my second single, 'Can The Can,' I got that hair-on-the-back-of-the-neck feeling, and I knew it would be huge. It topped the charts in the U.K. and Australia in 1973, and I got my first gold disc.
Suzi Quatro
#62. I'm watching the charts every week and hoping something will pop into my head.
Al Yankovic
#64. To Rickover the titles and organization charts meant nothing; only the realities of responsibility mattered.45
U.S. Government
#65. I grew up when the whole Motown thing was huge. The charts in those days were dominated by groups more than solo artists at one point.
Simon Cowell
#66. I once had a dream and this one familiar god, who was probably one of my master teachers, said, 'You should not worry about being on the charts. That's not important.'
Nina Hagen
#67. We're alone then, all of us, even me, each treading a deserted highway, toting in a bundle on a shouldered stick the schemes, the flow charts, for unconscious advancement.
Ian McEwan
#68. Politics is like navigation in a sea without charts, and wise men live the lives of pilgrims.
Joyce Cary
#69. By now the perpetually changing landscape of breast cancer was beginning to tire him out. Trials, tables, and charts had never been his forte; he was a surgeon, not a bookkeeper.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
#70. Boundaries have no existence save on charts or in small minds. Nature does not draw lines.
Jack McDevitt
#71. Hit songs did not come out of musicals. Pop-rock was creating the hits. There were very few songs that made the charts out of any Broadway musical.
Stephen Sondheim
#72. Stories are not lists, decks, Power-Points, flip charts, lectures, pleas, instructions, regulations, manifestos, calculations, lesson plans, threats, statistics, evidence, orders, or raw facts.
Peter Guber
#73. Put the park rangers to work. Lazy scheming loafers, they've wasted too many years selling tickets at toll booths and sitting behind desks filling out charts and tables
Edward Abbey
#74. Books are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which other men have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human life.
Jesse Lee Bennett
#75. I'm not anti single. I'm not one of them niggas that say "Aww record sales ain't everything." No. I wanna sell good. I would love a platinum record on radio and charts.
Schoolboy Q
#76. The Beatles and Ray Charles were in the same charts together, and that was just called pop music - it wasn't called soul or rock. The best pop music just stands out as something that's just original, and I think it should all be called pop again.
Eliza Doolittle
#77. I have never seen an experienced programmer who routinely made detailed flow charts before beginning to write programs.
Fred Brooks
#78. I am the entertainer and I know just where I stand Another serenader and another long haired band Today I am your champion, I may have won your hearts, But I know the game, you'll forget my name, And I won't be here in another year If I don't stay on the charts.
Billy Joel
#79. What do we got on the chopping block? And by the way, I'm smarter than you. My IQ is off the charts, man. If the chart only reached fifty, then yeah. No need to tax his poor brain with numbers, though.
Gena Showalter
#80. Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.
Harold S. Geneen
#81. I had to learn chord shapes. I bought books with chord charts. I used to listen to all kinds of pop music.
Mick Taylor
#82. We have reached the open sea, with some charts; and the firmament.
Dorothy Dunnett
#83. I feel like I'm doing something in Atlanta that nobody ever did as far as rap. If it happens to end up on the top 40 or the pop charts, it doesn't mean I meant to go pop. It's just where the music took me. It started at the bottom, and it rises.
Nayvadius Cash
#84. I don't care about the charts; I just want to make great music that I enjoy performing on stage and I'm proud of.
Cher Lloyd
#85. In this day before sonar, a submarine traveled utterly blind, trusting entirely in the accuracy of sea charts. One great fear of all U-boat men was that a half-sunk derelict or an uncharted rock might lie in their path.
Erik Larson
#86. It is socialism. It moves the country in a direction which is not good for anyone, whether they be young or old. It charts a course from which there will be no turning back.
Carl Curtis
#87. Charts are great for predicting the past.
Peter Lynch
#88. The actual language of life is not the charts and graphs and stuff we map out to feel smart. The hidden language we are speaking is really about negotiating the feeling God used to give us.
Donald Miller
#89. Since the big band started I'm just always swamped with movies and things. It certainly pays the bills and it's very satisfying, because I get to write all these big charts and all this crazy music.
Brian Setzer
#90. Now there is a new group every week; it seems like everybody and anybody can get into the charts.
Barry Gibb
#91. I try to keep my confidence on the charts, but I'm a confident guy as well. You've got to be that way. If you don't think that you're the best, then you won't perform that way.
Robert Griffin III
#92. When things are running perfectly smoothly, with people and boxes on charts enjoying a one-to-one relationship, then the processes and infrastructure have caught up to the business.
Eric Schmidt
#93. Have you finished your column for tomorrow's headline?" It was Vee. She came up beside me, jotting notes on the notepad she carried everywhere. "I'm thinking of writing mine on the injustice of seating charts. I got paired with a girl who said she just finished lice treatment this morning.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#94. When it comes to wine, I tell people to throw away the vintage charts and invest in a corkscrew. The best way to learn about wine is the drinking.
Alexis Lichine
#95. The title, the name Frank, comes from this extraordinary British character Frank Friedbottom. He was very big in Britain in the '80s, but I, as an Irish kid, saw him on 'Top of the Charts.'
Lenny Abrahamson
#96. I find it strange that there isn't more of a melting pot of language within the pop charts. I feel it becomes really two dimensional when everything's in English.
Gwenno
#97. In England, rock music very rarely infiltrates the charts, but country music even less so.
Joe Elliott
#98. There's more evil in the charts than an Al-Qaeda suggestion box.
Bill Bailey
#99. I never really set out to do anything in the charts with music. It came as a total surprise that I did, and it's fun.
James Blunt
#100. I've always done quite well as far as the charts are concerned. And yet I always felt I conveyed the spirit of the music I love, which didn't have any chart success.
Steven Morrissey
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