Famous Quotes & Sayings

Randall Jarrell

He thinks that Schiller and St Paul were just two Partisan Review editors.

Ogden Nash

There are people who are very resourceful, at being remorseful, and who apparently feel that the best way to make friends is to do something terrible and then make amends.

Ogden Nash

A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.

Mattie Stepanek

The way of life is not as easy as some people think... like me.

e. e. cummings

I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.

Muriel Rukeyser

Our poems will have failed if our readers are not brought by them beyond the poems.

Marianne Moore

The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint.

Amiri Baraka

God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning.

Amiri Baraka

Thought is more important than art. To revere art and have no understanding of the process that forces it into existence, is finally not even to understand what art is.

Todd Rundgren

I used to have sort of mixed feelings about a producer whose only skills seemed to be going into the studio, schmoozing the artists and making them feel good. I can see now that in some cases, that's what you have to do because that's the only way you're going to get them to produce.

Idina Menzel

I wish I had read more and majored in literature rather than theatre. I think I would have been a better artist for it. I am trying to play catch-up now.

Idina Menzel

My husband and I grew up with parents who supported our passion, and we're grateful to them for that. It really helps you find your identity when you're younger. It helps you become a really well-rounded person, the more you can show from different perspectives. The arts show us empathy, which is so important.

Inara George

I was raised in Topanga Canyon. It's an eclectic community up in the Santa Monica mountains. A lot of musicians lived there - Joni Mitchell, Neil Young - as well as artists and craftspeople.

Glen Hansard

My life at home is super simple. My local bar with my mates, cooking for my mother, making tables, planting vegetables: It's the classic idea of the artistic existence.

Zach Braff

I'm a person who likes these sort of movies... sad but moving 'art movies' that normally are at a festival and then they go to a small art house theater and disappear.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Dad likes my food, but he probably thinks it's too busy. He is a wonderful cook but only uses three ingredients. My mum rips out my articles and makes my recipes.

Warren Farrell

I'm a great supporter of women who take risks and don't make victimhood into an art. It's not good for women, and it's not good for men. Too many men put all their emotional eggs in one basket - a woman's basket.

William Quigley

Art should be witty, like a good Eddie Murphy movie, to make your life a little easier and better.

Becky G

I did a lot of little girl groups here and there just to get more comfortable on stage. When you're in girl groups, it's a lot different because if you mess up, there's someone on stage to back you up, and finally I got to a point where I knew I could do it on my own.

David Hyde Pierce

Last year, I finally got my own grand piano, and that was a big thing for me because it's always been and always will be a very important part of my life.

Nile Rodgers

I've found great solace in finally taking care of myself and others.

Chris Richard

That was the plan for the whole game, but we just didn't do it. We tried, but they played good defense. Once we got it worked out, we kept going at it and going at it, so it finally worked.

Tracy Roller

That whole last minute was just surreal. We finally did everything that we needed to do. It just took us until the last two possessions to get to that point.

George Clark

That was a good win for us, ... We finally put together a full game. The players should be proud because they did it as a team

Dave Huber

We just didn't react (early). It took a little while, but finally we started reacting and started doing some good things.

Fred Griffin

We were having trouble with their press and getting into our offense, but we finally got into a groove. The other night it was 16 teams left, then eight. Now it's four. We just want to finish the mission.

Bobby Carpenter

We've done about 30 or so of these. Now, it's finally winding down.

Gore Vidal

If you are a Representative and want to be a Senator, you must be careful not to do anything which might upset the various forces you need to harness to get elected.

Fareed Zakaria

The Web forces me to be disciplined and not to waste time - but before the Web was invented, there were plenty of opportunities to do that anyway.

Eddie Compass

We have thousands of people who want to voluntarily evacuate at this time, ... Once they are all out, then we'll concentrate our forces on mandatory evacuation.

Robert Tuttle

U.S. forces do not use napalm or white phosphorus as weapons.

Peter Pace

Surrender your forces and give yourselves and your troops the opportunity to be a part of Iraq's future and not a part of Iraq's past.

Bayan Jabr

You can be proud of our forces, ... Our forces ... respect human rights.

Ron Kaminski

It forces one to step back a bit.

Anthony Chan

With all that as a backdrop, there are some real positive forces to stimulate growth.

Bill Self

He's a good on-the-ball defender, loose-ball guy and forces help offensively. Now that he's not worried about making shots, he's shooting better. He's playing really well.

D. A. Carson

What the Bible says is what God has disclosed and we want to approach this sacred text with cognitive reverence.

Albert Schweitzer

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

Julie Harris

one of this country's most acclaimed and revered actors.

Matt Groening

Ned, have you considered any of the other major religions? They're all pretty much the same." --Reverend Lovejoy

Rajneesh

I have a deep reverence for everything that is alive, a reverence for life itself.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Let us seek to fathom those things that are fathomable and reserve those things which are unfathomable for reverence in quietude.

Pythagoras

Above all things, reverence yourself.

Saint Augustine

God is not greater if you reverence Him, but you are greater if you serve Him.

Carl Sagan

We go about our daily lives understanding almost nothing of the world.

Bill Buford

The most important knowledge is understanding what you can't do.

Rick Wakeman

I always say that it's about breaking the rules. But the secret of breaking rules in a way that works is understanding what the rules are in the first place.

Emma Stone

I was very lucky with the parents I was blessed with. I don't think it could have worked out any better. They've always been so understanding of me and understanding of what I want to do.

David Blunkett

My sense is that there is a new understanding, yes.

Gene Orza

My understanding is that Pedro, very frankly, is doubtful.

Crystal Chappell

My understanding is that Olivia had no idea what was going on.

Ray Nelson

My understanding is that he didn't have a weapon when he was arrested,

John Sweeney

I have a very understanding wife, and she understands this is part of the job.