Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barbara Kingsolver

To people who think of themselves as God's houseguests, American enterprise must seem arrogant beyond belief. Or stupid. A nation of amnesiacs, proceeding as if there were no other day but today. Assuming the land could also forget what had been done to it.

Brian Bosworth

When you're 20, we all make stupid and impulsive decisions.

Alan Keyes

It's like the neighborhood I would have grown up in, I think, if I had have grown up here.

Charles Kettering

Action without intelligence is a form of insanity, but intelligence without action is the greatest form of stupidity in the world.

Charles Barkley

You can't start a diet in the middle of the week, that's just stupid.

Jane Austen

Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all.

Jane Austen

If this man had not twelve thousand a year, he would be a very stupid fellow.

Jane Welsh Carlyle

Teaching, I find, is not the most amusing thing on earth; in fact, with a stupid lump for a Pupil, it is about the most irksome.

Diane Cilento

I had a place in England and was commuting from England to Australia, which is pretty stupid, but after two years I sort of knew what I wanted to do, more or less.

Ben Vereen

As far as working with Chita Rivera, all I can say is it's a dream come true. Her artistry and discipline and dedication is a joy to be around.

Stewart Cink

Augusta was always a place where you could have a lot of fun and you could demonstrate an artistic talent for strategy around the golf course. Now it's not.

Mark Joseph

Ralph is not only a man of accomplishment, but a man of integrity. Those of us who knew and loved Bob are confident that Ralph is just the kind of artist that he hoped would one day take the stage.

Roz Chast

I've always wanted to learn how to hook rugs. A wonderful artist named Leslie Giuliani taught me how. The nice thing is you can change it as you go along.

Iman Iman

I wanted to do something other than just sign books, ... I thought that by doing makeovers I could make this more of an interactive thing. So I have makeup artists there and I do a little Q and A. I just want to make myself available. I want them to feel that I will treat them as well as I would any celebrity. Some people may not think it is my forte, but I am actually very approachable -- unlike my photographs.

Boris Vallejo

There have been many different artists that have been inspirational. I suppose the question is directed to what was the reason why I went into fantasy illustration.

Auguste Rodin

The artist enriches the soul of humanity. The artist delights people with a thousand different shades of feeling.

Brenda Ueland

... the great artists ... do not want security, egoistic or materialistic.

Brad Dourif

If it's stage, the two most important artists are the actor and the playwright. If it's film, THE most important person is the director. The director says where the camera goes.

Paula Abdul

I've never been to MAGIC before. This is a little overwhelming.

Ben Okri

The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.

Jamie Cullum

When I look back on my ordinary, ordinary life, I see so much magic, though I missed it at the time.

Jane Yolen

Touch magic. Pass it on.

Brian May

There is no way that you can ever really repeat something. I have this great belief that the magic of the moment can never be recaptured.

Charles Bukowski

I could never accept life as it was, I could never gobble down all its poisons bu there were parts, tenuous magic parts open for the asking.

Alicia Dixon

We just track the market very closely. We don't have a magic formula. It's not a science. We just track the futures market and find the most reasonable supply available. We're more sensitive to the (natural gas) market.

Dorothy Allison

The only magic we have is what we make in ourselves, the muscles we build up on the inside, the sense of belief we create from nothing.

Alberto Manguel

Without Leskov there would be no Bulgakov, no Chekhov, but also no Garca Mrquez and Julio Cortzar. . . . Leskov is the essential storyteller: he does not portray life, he creates it in all its wonder and terror and magic.