Sam Walton was a master storyteller who used illustrative stories to reinforce his cultural standards.

When wearing a trench coat, you're allowed to act like Humphrey Bogart when he was detective Sam Spade.

When I was a kid, I wanted to be That Girl. I even wrote a spec script for it and sent it to Sam Denoff.

I would have to say Sam Cooke is the one I admired most. His artistry and vocal, just the way he did it.

I love the pioneers like Sam Cooke and Otis Redding, but when I write music, it comes out in my own way.

I had been on tour with people like Roy Orbison. I knew Bobby Darin, Sam Cooke. So many great performers.

When I was a little girl - well, like, a teenager - I wanted to be Sam Jackson. I always wanted to be men.

I have always had deep respect for Sam Schmidt Motorsports and couldn't be happier in partnering with Sam.

I got to meet one Chief of Staff: Sam Skinner. He was Chief of Staff at the end of George Sr.'s White House.

Wal-Mart has always paid low wages, or, as Sam Walton put it, 'as little as we could get by with at the time.'

I drew a lot of inspiration from the Ginuwines, the Ushers, the Michael Jacksons, the James Browns, Sam Cooke.

We can identify with Frodo and Sam, setting off not knowing quite where they are going and what they are to do.

My job playing Sam Malone was to let the audience in, to love my bar full of people. And that informed my life.

I've signed four autographs for Sam Worthington in L.A., and I haven't told any of the people that I'm not him.

For me, 'Sam & Cat' is cool because it's got this buddy-comedy aspect that 'iCarly' or 'Victorious' didn't have.

My family is all from the Southwest. My great-great-grandfather was at the Battle of San Jacinto with Sam Houston.

Michael Sam will help us, and we'll give him every chance to succeed, and you know what? It's gonna be pretty cool.

During the late '50s, I had worked on the script of Ben-Hur in an office next to that of the producer Sam Zimbalist.

Yeah, I think we did the term Muppets before we got the show Sam and Friends - a few months after I started working.

Along with former President Bill Clinton, we have Sam Nunn to thank for the sorry debacle of 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell.'

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

I have been impressed by Carlo Ancelotti, Kevin Keegan, Arsene Wenger, Guus Hiddink, Christoph Daum and Sam Allardyce.

I've played under Alan Pardew, Gianfranco Zola, Avram Grant, Sam Allardyce, Alan Curbishley and Slaven's made me captain.

Sometime between when the Summer of Love ended and the Summer of Sam began, America became a nation of cynics about love.

iTunes kind of feels like Sam Goody to me. I don't feel cool when I go there. I'm tired of seeing John Mayer's face pop up.

My father Sam, by his lifelong example, displayed for me the virtues of an honest day's work and of great personal courage.

Guys like Philip Seymour Hoffman or Sam Rockwell are the guys I look up to and have the kind of career I'd like to emulate.

People forget that, for example, Adele wasn't always the Adele we know. Sam Smith wasn't always the Sam Smith that we know.

I played around with the idea of touring with a soul revue, with Smokey Robinson, Sam Moore, Darlene Love, people like that.

Oh boy, I grew up hearing Sam Cooke, The Soul Stirrers, Mahalia Jackson, sitting on Mahalia Jackson's lap in my dad's church.

Yes, the Masters is too stylish to be an American icon. It's as out of character for Uncle Sam as a McDonald's is for France.

I love that on country radio, you can hear a George Strait song, and the next is Sam Hunt. I love that there's such a variety.

I think I'm the only actor in the history of film who got to slap Sam Jackson on the face and butt and lived to tell about it.

Since I was growing up, I liked love songs - Smokey Robinson, Sam Cooke. That was the kind of songs getting the girls dancing.

Sam Wood, the director, made most of his money as a real estate agent; there was nothing of the temperamental artist about him.

I took opportunities, big or small, to show that I was a constant professional. I feel like the Sam Jackson of network TV drama.

When I first met Sam Mendes, I was a bit confused and said to him, 'I'm 50 years old. What am I going to do at 50 in a Bond film?'

I was just an animal lover. Everything that the Sam Simon Foundation does is supposed to help dogs and people - that's our mission.

We have two older brothers and two younger sisters; Sam and I are in the middle, and I've always felt protective and closest to him.

Popular music has always been rooted in the blues, whether it's Adele or Led Zeppelin or Sam Cooke. It's just the beat that changes.

The key to sitcom success is miserable people. If you see a happy couple, it's just gone, like when Sam and Diane got together on Cheers.

I had the fortunate experience to play with people from different schools of music. Sam Rivers is from the fundamentalist school of music.

My father was against the death penalty, and that was hard in the Son of Sam summer when fear was driving the desire for the death penalty.

I tell people that I've had a chance to work Sam Esmail, Damien Chazelle and Cary Fukunaga, and those guys are working on a different level.

Sam Cameron has managed the near impossible: to have lived in Number Ten for three years and maintained a benign and broadly positive press.

Sam Shepard is - I didn't tell this to Sammy, but if I had to point to one artist that made me want to do this for my life, it's Sam Shepard.

By the '40s, Sam Goldwyn is a very serious man. By the '50s, he's the dean of American producers. To the end, he was Hollywood's gray eminence.

If you thought car maintenance was covered by Uncle Sam and you never saw a bill, what would keep your from getting new brakes every few months?

I felt I had a good chance of playing for England for exactly 67 days - the length of time Sam Allardyce was manager of the Three Lions in 2016.

'Raiders of the Lost Ark' made me want to make films. I am wild about the films of John Carpenter, Ridley Scott, Howard Hawks and Sam Peckinpah.

Share This Page