Quotes About Scores

Chickenshit refers to behavior that makes military life worse than it need be: petty harassment of the weak by the strong; open scrimmage for power and authority and prestige; sadism thinly disguised as necessary discipline; a constant 'paying off of old scores'; and insistence on the letter rather than the spirit of ordinances. Chickenshit is so called—instead of horse- or bull- or elephant shit—because it is small-minded and ignoble and takes the trivial seriously.

Baseball fans love numbers. They love to swirl them around their mouths like Bordeaux wine.

Robert Townson at Varese is a huge fan of film music and has really done a lot to educate audiences about film music and scores.

I've done entire scores for I don't know how many films and series. I never kept track; I suppose it's up in the hundreds.

Sanitizing ESPN of politics and opinion would make it a relic; sports fans have dozens of places online to go for scores and highlights.

Some of my favorite scores include Bernard Herrmann's Hitchcock scores.

John Williams is, without question, talented. He writes very good scores and very good melodies and all that.

Album sales have collapsed, with few artists making money from albums; touring is more lucrative. But I'm 53 now and won't be able to tour forever, so a logical step is to get into writing film scores. Trouble is, you need to be somewhere which has a big film industry - another reason why I'm thinking about living in California.

Last year in Germany at a town hall in Leipzig there was a game music concert played by the orchestra and some of the Final Fantasy scores were played. This year there is another concert scheduled in the same location, for game music.

I do listen to music. Movie scores, exclusively, because it's all about mood and nonspecificity. I love the way modern movie scoring is all about nonspecificity. You know, if I shuffled the tracks from 'Inception,' I challenge you to tell me which is which.

I try to exercise in nature, and I try to play golf once a month. The last time I played golf with my wife, however, she got better scores than me, which became an additional source of stress.

When Bach died some of his children sold his scores to the butcher they had decided the paper was more useful for wrapping meat. In a small village in Germany a father brought home a limp goose wrapped in paper that was covered with strange and beautiful symbols.

I love to just go to the movies, watch movies, listen to the scores and all that 'cause that's, like, the next step for me.

I love it when the team scores... the lads are always giving me stick because of it, but I'm just so happy I can't help it.

We've got to have that mindset that we've got to close out games and go up by more than two scores to really shut out the opponent and just take away all their confidence.

Many film scores try to force an emotion into a story that inherently is not there in the first place.

I like philharmonic music a lot. That kind of symphonic music has always been an integral part of the arrangements in many of my songs and background scores.

When Department of Health and Human Services administrators decided to base 30 percent of hospitals' Medicare reimbursement on patient satisfaction survey scores, they likely figured that transparency and accountability would improve healthcare.

The way skateboarding contests were in the past was like going to a basketball game and being told at the end of the game what the score was and who won. Think about how unengaging that would be if you didn't know who was ahead or if it was a close game.

There are scores you have to write objectively without getting involved.

When newspapers started to publish the box office scores of movies, I was horrified. Those results are totally fake because they never include the promotion budget.

national inpatient-satisfaction scores have been falling. One survey placed the IRS at number 27 and hospitals at number 28 on a list of 30 industries measured.

My first real foreign holiday was my honeymoon 20 years ago, and we went to Bali. It was particularly special for that reason, I enjoyed it very much - I had packed music scores and a practice drum pad, suspecting that I would be completely bored, but actually they remained in my case.

The better the school library, the higher the reading scores.