Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anton Chekhov

Can words such as Orthodox, Jew, or Catholic really express some sort of exclusive personal virtues or merits?

Allen Ginsberg

This is the same notion - Catholic exorcism, psychotherapy, shamanistic practices - getting to the moment when whatever it was gained access. And also to the name of the spirit. Just to know that it's the Ugly Spirit. That's a great step. Because the spirit doesn't want its name to be known.

Jack Baker

Tyco and WorldCom's comments soothe the market short-term, but it's a dead cat bounce. Things are too uncertain right now for markets to rally.

Rita Rudner

I just don't get cats. To me, they're a waste of fur.

Rita Rudner

Cats are a waste of fur.

Rita Mae Brown

I've met many irresponsible people in my life but never an irresponsible cat.

Thomas Huxley

As to sagacity, I should say that his judgement respecting the warmest place and the softest cushion in a room is infallible, his punctuality at meal times is admirable, and his pertinacity in jumping on people's shoulders till they give him some of the best of what is going, indicates great firmness.

Robert Moog

I happen to think that computers are the most important thing to happen to musicians since the invention of cat-gut which was a long time ago.

Sammy Hagar

I can be singing about cat food and I'll make you think that I mean it.

Samir Haj

I wanted to get everyone's attention. We need people willing to play and put out the effort.

Jose Andres Puerta

I want e by Jose Andres to be a discovery, to be a journey. I want people to find it and be astonished.

Martin Klebba

The one thing little people don't like is the 'M' word, 'midget.'

A. N. Wilson

The ones that are flagging up the 'no' vote are the ones that haven't suffered in this war, ... And the realism about it is that the people that have suffered in this war are most of the people that are saying 'yes.'

Tom Liston

After every large-scale tragedy 9/11, the tsunami people start scamming these fundraisers. We're just being proactive.

Charlize Theron

After Monster, when I started telling people about this story, some people said 'Oh, you're doing another ugly film'.

Megan Smith

The most important thing is, we really want to make sure the American people are able to get to any Web site they'd like to get to.

Ian Logan

The most important thing is to support work on search and rescue to get those people who are injured, then immediately to look after the people who are homeless.

Roberto Aguire

The most important thing for me is to continue to impact people through my work.

Patti Smith

I think we have a creative impulse where suffering can magnify our work, but so can joy. You can be in love and write the greatest love song ever. Sometimes I think too much suffering makes it difficult to do one's work.

John Galliano

In the early days I was incredibly creative and productive - I loved the research trips, I loved the creation and finding technical solutions to creative challenges. I didn't need alcohol and the pills for that. What changed was, I was afraid to say no - that little word, N.O. Because I thought it showed weakness. And with more and more success I would just say yes. And keep on taking more work on - which took its toll.

John O'Donohue

Your noble friend will not accept pretension but will gently and very firmly confront you with your own blindness. Such friendship is creative and critical; it is willing to negotiate awkward and uneven territories of contradiction and woundedness.

Jimmy Webb

The creative processes are so mysterious.

Garry Marshall

If you're creative, they let you be the showrunner, producer. The first thing my partner and I did as producers was hire ourselves as directors - because who else would hire me?

Lukas Foss

Since age seven, I've been composing and have never stopped composing, yet, the creative process is as elusive to me as it has ever been.

Lukas Foss

The best way to investigate the elusive phenomenon called the creative process may well be to target all the misconceptions, to explain what the creative process is not.

M. Night Shyamalan

I'm super confident about creative stuff, and I'm really not confident about human interactions stuff.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Meditation is making research into yourself, and into the subtler fields of activity. Day after day we culture our minds with the deep silence of our own Being. This is not the silence of a stone, but creative silence. We have to find it for ourselves. We decrease activity until silence becomes creative, and we sit in creative silence and close the gates of perception for insight into the content of life.