Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Bukowski

the way to create art is to burn and destroy ordinary concepts and to substitute them with new truths that run down from the top of the head and out of the heart

Alec Baldwin

Anderson Cooper has a job to do. And that job is to try to reinforce his credibility in the gay community after the fact that you couldn’t get him out of the closet for 10 years with a canister of tear gas. Now he’s the sheriff; now he’s running around writing everybody a ticket!

Ali Smith

You never know if you're a writer. You can't trust it. If you woke up and said, 'I'm a writer,' it would be gone. You wouldn't see anything for miles - even the dust would be running away.

Adolf Galland

As a fighter pilot I know from my own experiences how decisive surprise and luck can be for success, which in the long run comes only to the one who combines daring with cool thinking.

Douglas Massey

Markets are a social construction, they're made from institutions. We in a democratic society create markets, we constitute markets, we bring them into existence, and we shouldn't turn markets over to a narrow group of people who regulate them and run them in their interests, rather they should be run democratically for the common good.

Donald Barthelme

Some people', Miss R. said,'run to conceits or wisdom but I hold to the hard, brown, nutlike word. I might point out that there is enough aesthetic excitement here to satisfy anyone but a damned fool.

Don DeLillo

Time seems to pass. The world happens, unrolling into moments, and you stop to glance at a spider pressed to its web. There is a quickness of light and a sense of things outlined precisely and streaks of running luster on the bay. You know more surely who you are on a strong bright day after a storm when the smallest falling leaf is stabbed with self-awareness. The wind makes a sound in the pines and the world comes into being, irreversibly, and the spider rides the wind-swayed web.

Donald Sutherland

I'm running out of time, and a Western is America's answer to a Greek tragedy, so that's what we did. [Kiefer] hired Brad [Mirman] to write the script and he had the ideas, and then he and I did stuff on the script to make it a little cleaner to ourselves. And then, we played it. We were just actors working together, and our DNA must have informed it somehow. Certainly, we came out of it purified a little bit.

Don Kardong

There's no such thing as a bad carbohydrate.

Anne Graham Lotz

If you feel far from God right now, guess who moved? You’re only a decision away from reconnecting.

Andy Downs

We are in a position where a number of people could sue us. By making this decision we've reduced the number of people who can sue us.

Keith McKeown

We are delighted they have come to a decision so we can move forward to the next stage and focus on science.

David Paulson

We'll get all the reports in the morning and make a decision at that time.

Crystal Robinson

Those girls knew right from wrong. What he did was wrong, but they made the decision to sleep with him.

Ratu Ganilau

Those who are unhappy about the decision must have a major problem.

Nan Stoltzenburg

You haven't made a decision on how dense you want the hamlets. That's the first step.

Bill Belichick

We'll make that decision when we're sure we're not going to have to double back on it. We'll make it when we're sure it's going to be the right decision for that point in time.

Jim Bates

We'll make that decision (today). But we'll go on a lot of plays and the total preseason, not just tonight.

Stevie Smith

You must have some money if you are going to live simply. It need not be much, but you must have some.

Erica Jong

Why does life need evidence of life?

Enrique Pena Nieto

Mexico urgently needs a series of structural reforms that will detonate its true economic potential for once and generate more public welfare.

Eminem

I need to keep working on myself for a while.

Elton Gallegly

Congress has greatly tightened the loopholes terrorists can use to harm Americans. We need to do more. We need controls immediately on what forms of ID are adequate to board planes and enter secure sites.

Elon Musk

You need to live in a dome initially, but over time you could terraform Mars to look like Earth and eventually walk around outside without anything on... So it's a fixer-upper of a planet.

Elon Musk

Obviously Tesla is about helping solve the consumption of energy in a sustainable manner, but you need the production of energy in a sustainable manner.

Jason Patric

I really tried to make movies I wanted to see. I thought that if I was good enough, somebody would always need me.

Jason Schwartzman

What I love about lyrics is that they don't have to be very complicated. A good sentence over a great chord with a good melody - all you need is that one moment.