Famous Quotes & Sayings

Keith Haring

I think you have to control the materials to an extent, but it's important to let the materials have a kind of power for themselves; like the natural power of gravity, if you are painting on a wall, it makes the paint trickle and it drips; there is no reason to fight that.

Keith Haring

People were more interested in the phenomena than the art itself. This, combined with the growing interest in collecting art as an investment and the resultant boom in the art market, made it a difficult time for a young artist to remain sincere without becoming cynical.

Joe Henderson

I was joking but he took responded seriously: 'I would know, and I couldn't live with myself knowing that I'd only run 97 miles or whatever.'

Arthur Godfrey

I was in one of the touristy country bars downtown, and I asked a guy onstage who was playing for tips to play a Hank Williams song.

Adrian Belew

King Crimson will soon be touring parts of Europe.

Ken Mehlman

Kerry's political attacks are not supported by reality, which shows rising employment and higher wages, and his policies -- higher taxes, increased regulation and bigger government -- would move America backward.

Amy Walter

Kerry's focus and his message has really been middle class, middle America, 'I'm standing up for the little guy' and middle class investors respond to that, but that raises the question of how do you go back and talk to the business community after that.

Talcott Parsons

Knowledge is held to be an entirely quantitative affair. The one important thing is to have observed what had not been observed before.

Colleen Atwood

Knowing who the actors were as you were designing them helped, with Catherine's beauty and Renee's frailty, they directed me visually just by who they were.

Sissy Spacek

He is just fantastic. As Ruth Fowler, I had to hate him while we were filming. And when I saw the film, I had such empathy for him.

William Safire

President Reagan is a rhetorical roundheels, as befits a politician seeking empathy with his audience.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Part of the particular interest and beauty of science fiction and fantasy: writer and reader collaborate in world-making.

Walt Whitman

I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person.

Roger Ebert

Movies are like a machine that generates empathy,

Roger Ebert

Movies that encourage empathy are more effective than those that objectify problems.

Zhuangzi

Hence it demands the emptiness of all the faculties. And when the faculties are empty, then the whole being listens. There is then a direct grasp of what is right there before you that can never be heard with the ear or understood with the mind.

Zhuangzi

The hearing that is only in the ears is one thing. The hearing of the understanding is another. But the hearing of the spirit is not limited to any one faculty to the ear, or to the mind.

Rebecca Solnit

We make ourselves large or small, here or there, in our empathies.

Rosalind Murray

I think it's apathy that's been fueled by the feeling like you have the inability to change anything in your life.

Yolanda King

To do peace, you must get up off your apathy.

Tony Leon

The inevitable upshot is increased voter apathy and disengagement with the political process.

Mary Williams

It just seems there is more apathy now and the only time people come forward is to complain.

Publilius Syrus

Apathy borders upon folly.

Michael Maddox

Apathy is why we end up with ridiculous laws. People say, 'That is crazy and will never pass,' but then it does.

Mother Teresa

If I look at the mass I will never act.

Emiliano Salinas

Fear is better than apathy because fear makes us do something.

John Dos Passos

Apathy is one of the characteristic responses of any living organism when it is subjected to stimuli too intense or too complicated to cope with. The cure for apathy is comprehension.