Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edmond Goncourt

a new system of decoration, and . . . a poetic fantasy in the creation of the art object.

John Niven

A novel, of course, is a fully self-contained work of art. You pick it up off the shelf, open it, and there it is - a whole universe waiting for you to enter. A screenplay is just a blueprint for making a movie. Until the movie is actually filmed, the script really means nothing.

David Rakoff

A secondhand wardrobe hand clothes doesn't make one an artist. Neither do a hair-trigger temper, melancholic nature, propensity for tears, hating your parents, or HIV. I hate to say it - none of these make one an artist. They can help, but just as being gay doesn't make one witty... the only thing that makes one an artist is making art.

Stephen Lam

As for legislation on Basic Law Article 23, we do not have a set timetable and we shall first conduct consultation of this matter.

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.

Dead Prez

As artists we have a responsibility to organize and ensure that funds we raise for this cause are disseminated in a timely, fair and orderly fashion,

Keith Anderson

As a new artist you're just hoping people notice you any way possible just so you can get your music to them, ... Then you just hope they dig the music.

Clive James

As a work of art it has the same status as a long conversation between two not very bright drunks.

Robert Stromberg

As a director, the biggest job is to discern the imperfections in emotional tone and then view it in the global picture of what you're trying to do, if that makes sense. It's a rhythm, like music is a rhythm or composition and art is a rhythm. Dialogue is a rhythm as well.

James Awad

I don't think we'll get any big surprises in the economic news next week, ... What the market will be looking for are any clues that point to anything other than four percent GDP (gross domestic product) growth.

John Crowley

I write in expectation that readers want to participate in a kind of two-sided game: They are trying to guess what I am up to - what the story's up to - and I'm giving them clues and matter to keep them interested without giving everything away at the start. Even the rules, if any, of the game are for the reader to discover.

Stephanie Parker

You don't have a family. You don't know the name of the child. Nobody reported her missing. Usually, we help look for missing children. This time, we're out looking for clues to the identity.

Shannon Schonrock

As long as we're winning, it doesn't matter. It's great to see different people step up on any given night. And it makes us hard to prepare for because you don't know who to focus on. A lot of our numbers are down, minutes-wise, but it makes us that much tougher knowing that we have so many people that can contribute.

Lori Bennett

Our serve and service return was very weak in the first two games. But we had a lot of things that worked well. So for the third game, we focused on serving more aggressively.

Michael Barrett

The one thing I like about this team is as great as it was, as fun as it was, there's no real celebrating what happened today. It means we're focused and moving on.

Tim McCutchen

It was the same press. We used the same press-breaker, but we didn't execute. We just were not as focused and ready to play as we were the first time." ()

Jane Garvey

The whole issue of wiring is something that people have been focused on for a while,

John Shin

This is stronger than expected, the highest since spring of last year. But it's less important since it doesn't show anything about the impact of Katrina and everyone's focused on Katrina right now.

Adrian Jones

You're not really focused on the star, but the co-stars to see what they're doing to help the whole scene.

Mike Scioscia

This win was a good win for the team and gave us a big lift. We have to focus on winning from here on out.

Bryant H. McGill

When one learns to focus energy through surrender and sensitivity, they become free, and can access the expansiveness of endless possibility.

Ryan Madson

Stuff started happening pretty quick, and I wasn't thinking out there like I should have been. I was just out there throwing.

Shia LaBeouf

There's this coming-of-age thing that's happening within me.

Rick Hoffman

Even though the storefronts looked vacant, there was a lot of work happening inside, ... Seeing that, we realized this place has a lot of potential.

Dennis Hinkle

We've had some nice things happening and there's more in the works. For years it was pretty bad.

Tamba Hali

We didn't know what to do. Then it started happening all the time. So we went into hiding.

Andrew Abraham

What is happening right now is that there are thousands and thousands of people all over the world sending their prayers for Daniel.

Lisa Origliasso

We feel like we've been working at it forever. But then it seems like it's happening so fast!

Peter Fiske

We were left with no choice. This doesn't give our membership much time to prepare. It's all happening very fast. What else can we say but this is a horrible time and membership should prepare their finances.

Johnny Isakson

What's happening today is not going to help us, because the refineries have had to shut down and the offshore wells have had to shut down.

Felipe Alou

People overlooked him because he doesn't throw hard. They didn't know the kind of man that was inside that body. They know now.

Larry Sabato

People don't react to all these things like they are inside the Beltway.

Barry Trotz

Defensively, we were real good. We had inside position. We battled one-on-one. We limited their chances.

Mike Patrick

Defensively, we need to keep the rebounding in a position where we can keep them to one shot and out. For us to have success, we have to get contributions from all three of our inside players.

Dave Marsh

The song sounds like it was recorded inside 'Animal House.'

Terrence Tumpey

Once you get the plasmids inside the cell, the virus assembles itself.

Jack Cloonan

Now how do you do that unless you've got support inside the building? How do you do that? It's impossible.

Alan Wiggins

I've been working out a lot and doing all kinds of work on my perimeter and inside games. It's all paid off.

Brian DeJong

Things wouldn't be where they are without our inside game. Kristin makes it all go for us.

Michael Cohen

People responded to Sandy. At public hearings, which can be so contentious, people would listen to Sandy's presentation and stand up and cheer.

Mike Reid

Sometimes we'll listen to a little voice that says, 'Maybe.' It always starts with the word 'maybe.' Maybe today is my day. Maybe this is my week.

Chris Sullivan

I've been listening to them my whole life.

Denise Bishop

You're sitting here listening to everything we have to say, but there's nothing we can do about this.

Brett Ratner

Listening is harder than just acting. Listening is the hardest part.

George William Russell

It is true the orator may make a myriad replica of his own passion out of those who listen to him. But that does not prove he is right or they are not fools.

Carla Bley

Listening is more important than anything else because that's what music is. Somebody is playing something and you're receiving it. It is sending and receiving.

Alan Vega

Lately I've been listening to some classical music again, some jazz.

Austin Carlile

To me, music is emotion and if when you're listening to it and it doesn't make you feel that, then it's not music.

Struan Robertson

The BPI didn't want to sue its customers, but it will do to stop them stealing music.

Henry Giles

A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Jason Mraz

Professionally, I want to keep playing music; I can't escape that.

Josh Homme

People think that when they're playing it safe, they're trying to preserve what they have, but there is no preservation of what you have in music. There's no safety in music.

Kaskade

People don't listen to terrestrial radio. They don't find their music that way. They don't get their news that way. They go to blogs. They go through Sirius/XM. They go through all these different places.

AJ Case

After Wild Child, I had pretty much had it with the music business.

James Michael Tyler

Acting-wise, I did a web series. I play a music agent in a series called 'Keeping Up with the Downs.'

Katie Melua

The style of music I make now, that only started when I was about 15,

E. O. Wilson

The show is particularly significant because it was the same show, performed in 1989, that was the first musical in our new theater at its present location,

Gloria Allred

Some were told that the reason they had to stand in a particular spot was to make sure that construction workers passing by the trailer would not be able to see them.

Betty Cuthbert

You've got to stick at a thing, a particular thing, until you succeed.I feel that's the only way to succeed - by concentrating on something in particular. Once you know what you've got to do you will succeed, you will succeed.

Barry Unsworth

But whatever the ramifications, whatever turns the path takes, the beginning is always there, in a particular moment, a particular point of access.

Ronda Rousey

Every chick I try to intimidate in a different way. You have to think about their personality. You have to think about what would get under that particular person's skin the most.

Tom Sneddon

We have a cooperative victim in this particular proceeding.

James Allen

We say use a program that is appropriate for the particular situation.

Martin Lee

There's one particular woman who does a lot of cooking.

Dave Riggins

We've been working on this particular program since November.

Mike Slive

What I think you should know is that I'm not wedded to any particular format.

Kurt Angle

There are so many things that have evolved since I wrestled. They don't have periods anymore. They have rounds... it confuses the younger demographic.

Timothy Bottoms

Even though I was concentrating on that two-week period from September 11th to September 20th, I was seeing the policy for real, happening, that we were talking about in the film.

Lauren Kellin

We usually get it done somehow. We've always been a third-period team. As soon as we put all three periods together, we feel there will be no stopping us.

Jim Clyburn

We went through a period where we got rid of everything that was old. Everything had to be new

Pam Girardo

We went from 'Capital Who?' to 'Capital One' in a very short period of time.

Corey Hart

I became somewhat reclusive during a period of time in the '80s.

Alice Cooper

There was a period of time when I thought I had to be Alice Cooper all the time.

Mahela Jayawardene

We know it is a period that we have to rebuild.

Jessica Brown Findlay

You don't automatically assume everyone will fall for a period drama.

Jamie Newberg

As long as Pete Carroll is there, I don't see any reason why anything is going to change.

David Greenberg

Personalization is one reason the school is so successful.

O. Singh

no real reason you can't all live harmoniously.

Sathya Baba

No season for Love, no reason for Love;

Robert Richardson

Any organization of reasonable size is going to be attacked.

Peter Simonson

Anything she says could be construed as a reason for discipline.

Bernard Cornwell

The one thing I will not do is read other peoples' unpublished work. The reason for that is that it doesn't help.

Al Attles

The most important thing is that they won the game. And that's what I've always said about Wilt's 100-point game. We won the game. ... That's the reason you play.

Claire Danes

It was uncomfortable, I have to say, but I did think that it was relevant and useful, ... Also, it's erotic. There's no reason to pussyfoot around that. I thought it was vital, so I stripped.

Arthur Balfour

Society, dead or alive, can have no charm without intimacy and no intimacy without an interest in trifles.

Albert Einstein

Is it not a terrible thing to be forced by society to do things which all of us as individuals regard as abominable crimes?

Thomas Jefferson

A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society.

Robert Burns

Morality, thou deadly bane,Thy tens o' thousands thou has slain!

Richard Mitchell

You can shoot the tiger, or stay out of his way, but you cannot pronounce him a vegetarian.

Kin Hubbard

Very often the quiet fellow has said all he knows

Michel de Montaigne

We are nothing but ceremony; ceremony carries us away, and we leave the substance of things; we hang on to the branches and abandon the trunk and body.

George Bernard Shaw

Imprisonment, as it exists today, is a worse crime than any of those committed by its victims.

Roger Smith

By the turn of this century, we will live in a paperless society.

Dave Bush

On the whole, not very good. I think today kind of typified it,

Rhonda Smith

It was very tough. And even today it's still tough.

Sharan Burrow

The work is there today and it will be there tomorrow for independent contractors.

Carine Roitfeld

Today there is too much retouching, and I don't like it, except on me.

Jared Diamond

Today Charles Darwin is best known for establishing the fact of evolution and for recognizing the major role of natural selection in driving it.

Diane Ackerman

The well of nature is full today. Time to go outside and take a drink.

Dennis Ritchie

It's true that compared with the scene when Unix started, today the ecological niches are fairly full, and fresh new OS ideas are harder to come by, or at least to propagate.

Eike Batista

I can tell you that today 99% of my investments are in Brazil and will remain here.

Deepak Chopra

Today, I behold all the abundance that surrounds me.

Sharon Olds

Well, 'The Wellspring' was written from 1983 to 1986. And it had a section in the beginning that was poems that began from others' experience.