Barry Barish
Barry Barish

It's hard to do large, expensive projects without some sort of hierarchical structure where somebody can tell you - maybe softly, but at least tell you - what to do, or you have some supervision over you. Physicists like to be completely independent of each other. So that's a constant struggle. And it's a place that sometimes we get in trouble.

Carla Bley
Carla Bley

One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded 'Sing Me Softly of the Blues' and 'Ad Infinitum'.

Catherine the Great
Catherine the Great

I praise loudly. I blame softly.

Chris Young
Chris Young

I'm really loud. I can't sing softly.

Dawn Powell
Dawn Powell

I want so much for my lover. At night when our beds are drawn close together I waken and see his dear yellow head on the pillow - sometimes his arm thrown over on my bed - and I kiss his hand, very softly so that it will not waken him.

Dean Wareham
Dean Wareham

It's easy enough to foist your music collection on your kids. Lectures are not required; you just play the stuff while they are prisoner in the back seat on a long drive, or softly in the background while eating dinner.

Donald Justice
Donald Justice

Men at forty Learn to close softly The doors to rooms they will not be Coming back to.

Frederick Tennyson
Frederick Tennyson

Softly the loud peal dies, In passing winds it drowns, But breathes, like perfect joys, Tender tones.

George Packer
George Packer

On foreign policy, Obama has talked softly and carried a big stick.

Gerald R. Ford
Gerald R. Ford

Teddy Roosevelt... once said, 'Speak softly and carry a big stick.' Jimmy Carter wants to speak loudly and carry a fly swatter.