Hits Quotes

We're more into expressing ourselves than making radio hits.

I don't really have much to prove. I can easily go in a comfort zone, make two films a year, hype them because I've signed them as a star, make them cheap and they will be big hits.

Latinas' life expectancies are relatively long. When a current retiree hits 65 and begins receiving her benefit check, she can expect to live another 22 years. That life expectancy is higher than white women or men.

Bananarama were written off from day one. Nobody believed in us but us. We kept having hits despite the record company, despite the press.

You don't make solo albums to have hits.

Sometimes you're in great demand. Then suddenly your career hits the breaks.

We live in a country where John Lennon takes eight bullets, Yoko Ono is walking right beside him and not one hits her. Explain that to me!

With The Guess Who, it took us fifty-something singles before we had hits.

He hits the ball a long way and he knows how to win.

Cole Porter wrote Anything Goes and four more hits for me.

A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys a book on loneliness and the store clears out.

It's the emotion of it that hits me, more than anything technical.

In the Rodgers and Hammerstein generation, popular hits came out of shows and movies.

Every piece of entertainment is made with the idea that 'This is going to be terrific' and 'This is the best thing I've ever done' and then it hits the public and then the public tells you whether it's good or bad.

When we were on the road, I found out that my greatest hits album went Gold. They freaked out. Things really came to a head when we started arguing about a Van Halen greatest hits package.

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

Some of the songs I do once in a while that I kinda... my set list is basically like my hits, there is a good reason why they are there; people really like them.

No sooner than I did take it seriously, I had million-selling hits and movies with John Wayne.

But to put out a greatest hits on one CD was totally impossible, I just couldn't do it. The best compromise was to put out two CDs - Early Days - which is what it is - and Latter Days.

I have a very lively and colourful show. It's two hours of hits and the music speaks for itself.

In Hollywood, the rainbow hits the ground for composers.

The mid-life crisis hits men harder than women.

It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into.

If someone hits me I consider it a challenge.

Hearing is a form of touch. You feel it through your body, and sometimes it almost hits your face.

It's kind of debatable whether or not the advertisement model is effective. Like whether Nielsen works. For years, Nielsen has been based on sampling. It's not like an electronic bullet that hits your house that tells the people at networks at all times what you're watching.

If a guy hits .300 every year, what does he have to look forward to? I always tried to stay around .190, with three or four RBI. And I tried to get them all in September. That way I always had something to talk about during the winter.

It is easier to take a position in the abstract than when it hits home.

Truth is, you make albums, and some of those songs are hits, and some of the greatest hits albums have songs that weren't hits. You have a career, the reason why we're still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.

I think that the economics of book publishing favor hits with long book runs. You make all your money on the last bunch of books, not the first.