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.'

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.

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.

Judith Krantz

Knowing what I do now, I certainly wouldn't decide to write a first novel because I wouldn't have anything like the necessary life experience.

Carol Foreman

Kids are healthier these days... more kids are in school around the world, and partly that's because Australians have been willing to invest in aid.

Viola Spolin

We have freedom of speech, but you got to watch what you say.

Vladimir Lenin

Freedom of speech and the press must be complete. But then freedom of association must be complete too.

Roger Ebert

Of what use is freedom of speech to those who fear to offend?

Larry Flynt

Freedom of speech doesn't protect speech you like; it protects speech you don't like.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Free speech is the bedrock of liberty and a free society. And yes, it includes the right to blaspheme and offend.

Ayn Rand

The freedom of speech of private individuals includes the right to not agree, not to listen, and not to finance one's own antagonists.

Alan Dershowitz

Being offended by freedom of speech should never be regarded as a justification for violence.

Alan Dershowitz

The threat or fear of violence should not become an excuse or justification for restricting freedom of speech.

Aung San Suu Kyi

The basis of democratic freedom is freedom of speech.

Karen Aroesty

Hate undermines communities, hate undermines democracy and so we look at it in a different way. The impact is much more broad. Hate kills people.

Jalal Talabani

I think the Iraqi minister of human rights wanted to show them which kind of democracy now we have,

Reinhold Niebuhr

Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems.

Woody Allen

The dictatorship is shut up, democracy is always concerned.

William J. Clinton

Democracy does not have to be a bloodsport, it can be an honorable enterprise that advances the public interest.

Samuel P. Huntington

Fascism and communism have not entirely disappeared but have been sidelined certainly, and liberal democracy has come to be accepted, in theory at least, around the world, if not always in practice.

Walter Lippmann

The present crisis of Western democracy is a crisis in journalism.

Ruhollah Khomeini

In the world there is no democracy better than our democracy. Such a thing has never before been seen.

Wynton Marsalis

There's so much spirit of integration and democracy in jazz.