I’d do entire music videos in my bedroom, where I used to stand in front of my television memorizing the moves to Michael Jackson’s ‘Beat It.’ – Jimmy Fallon
Big sporting events and spectacles might give the national morale a shot in the arm, but they are too transient and taste-specific to stand as robust symbols of nationhood. – Julian Baggini
Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Sobering up was responsible for breaking up my marriage. That’s what it couldn’t stand. – James Taylor
When we’re talking about brand, we’re talking about what does the brand stand for. And when we’re talking about approval, we’re talking about whether or not I approve of what the brand stands for. – John Quelch
We have to give feminism a shot. Out of sheer self preservation, we have to stand aside and let women run the show. – Irvine Welsh
I’m totally committed to the cause of individuality. That’s the only thing I stand by: independence. – Juliana Hatfield
In the early part of your career you are always compared with somebody until you can stand on your own two feet. – Charlie Hunnam
I actually cannot stand a room without a view – I would rather have a bedroom the size of a closet with a view over a suite without one. – Amy Landecker
I like to stand right in front of my opponent. I think it makes for an exciting fight. – Canelo Alvarez
You stand beneath the arthritic boughs of any English oak, and you survey a thousand tales. – Jim Crace
I cannot be Mary Hart – or even worse, Samantha Harris – and stand there with my hip out talking about Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes taking Suri to an art museum without making fun of it. – Chelsea Handler
If there’s one thing I can’t stand, it’s a quarterback who thinks playing quarterback is just about passing. – Bill Parcells
I’m not a natural story-teller. Put a keyboard in front of me and I’m fine, but stand me up in front of an audience and I’m actually quite shy and reserved. – Bill Bryson
You cannot catch a child’s spirit by running after it; you must stand still and for love it will soon itself return. – Arthur Miller
France needs to find something that makes it stand out. It’s not enough for it to do almost as well as its neighbors. – Bernard Liautaud
Narcissism and the Confederate dead cannot be connected logically, or even historically; even were the connection an historical fact, they would not stand connected as art, for no one experiences raw history. – Allen Tate
When I got a telly we had no aerial, but I discovered that if I or one of the children stood by it you could get a picture. So I had to make a statue that could stand by the telly. – Beryl Bainbridge
If the guitar synthesizer is really going to stand as a synthesizer on its own, it needs to develop a more characteristic sound; I don’ think it’s gotten there yet. – Andy Summers
Barkley was the first of many American skyjackers whose primary interest was money; by 1972, the majority of the nation’s hijackings would involve demands for ransom. Barkley himself was declared incompetent to stand trial in November 1971, at which point he was committed to a psychiatric hospital in Georgia. – Brendan I. Koerner
It does not do to use it with forms whose origin is intimately bound up with a specific material simply because no technical difficulties stand in the way. – Adolf Loos