Amateurs Quotes

It seems to me like nineteen amateurs with box-cutters taking over four commercial airliners and hitting seventy-five per cent of their targets, that feels like a conspiracy theory. It raises a lot of questions. A couple of years ago, it was severely unpopular to talk about any of this. It feels like from the people I talk to, and the research I`ve done and around my circles, it feels like the worm is turning. Just show us how this particular plane pulled off these maneuvers ... It is up to us to reveal the truth. It is up to us because we owe it to the families, we owe it to the victims, we owe it to everyone`s life who was drastically altered, horrifically, that day and forever. We owe it to them to uncover what happened. - On the September 11th attacks

I know there are groups at the top of the charts that are hailed as the saviors of rock `n` roll and all that, but they are amateurs. They don`t know where the music comes from . . . I wouldn`t even think about playing music if I was born in these times . . . I`d probably turn to something like mathematics. That would interest me. Architecture would interest me. Something like that.

Though there have been several attempts to launch and relaunch Charles and they`re still going on as we speak, they`ve all been by amateurs.

Sometimes, I wish we were all amateurs again. I`d play for nothing. Ab-so-lute-ly free. But that`s not the system.

In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs.

I love mixing amateurs and professionals.

It`s different today than it was then. In those days we were strictly amateurs. If I had wanted to stay in for the `80 Olympics, my parents couldn`t have afforded it.

I think for a lot of amateurs, their alignment is always out.

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

(Because) experts are too good at what they do, ... Amateurs are always striving ... This book is based on my mistakes as much as my accomplishments and I do not claim authority, just enthusiasm.

My main objective is to prepare candidates for professional baseball; however, the majority of our graduates will go home as much better qualified amateurs.

I`ll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.

When we started this, we were true amateurs.

Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned.