Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Hockney

Who's going to ask a painter to see a diploma? They'd say, 'Can I see your paintings?', wouldn't they?

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We are not diplomats but prophets, and our message is not a compromise but an ultimatum.

Judith Kipper

US-Syrian relations are extremely strained. There is virtually no diplomatic discussion between the two.

Daniel Shea

This diplomatic move has stopped the suit right in its early stages.

Gerhard Schroeder

There will be diplomatic relations to North Korea,

Nicholas Burns

It is our judgment there is life left in the diplomatic process.

David Cunliffe

Ive worked as a diplomat before I became a politician.

Joseph Cirincione

As always, the different factions (in Washington) will use it to justify their existing positions. The vice president and his hawks will use it to show that the Iranian program can't be stopped through diplomatic means and, therefore, their preferred option of a military strike is the only option.

Jack O'Connell

Awarding a student a diploma without the necessary skills and knowledge does a great disservice to that student.

Thomas Morabito

They've been turning around for years now, and right now they're embarking on the latest phase of the turnaround.

Julie Hall

This latest news strongly suggests that the window is getting smaller with each passing day.

Elizabeth Thornton

There are times when we are just not very kind to ourselves. The problem with our negative thoughts is that the latest science has revealed that thoughts are very powerful, even impacting us physically.

Bobbi Brown

During the week my alarm wakes me up at 6 A.M., so the latest I can sleep on Saturdays is about 7 A.M.

Chris Beard

We're strongly recommending all users upgrade to the latest version.

Lawrence Dallaglio

Well, the latest news is that things are going as expected,

Patrick Lawler

What we saw is a modest slowdown in our latest quarterly data, but in the past we've seen slowdowns of this magnitude completely reverse in short order.

Venus Williams

No, I don't really watch the news. In some ways, I'm very unaware of the latest happenings in the world. I kind of leave it like that because sometimes it's better not to know.

Joe Glenn

Before this latest (increase) we were going to be over budget, and now we're going to be over even more.

David Travis

Photography is a unique art that allows people to go back, not only to rediscover themselves but also to get something in print for the first time.

David Travis

For the artist who practises photography, capturing the image is learning how to sketch on some medium, but is only half the challenge; learning how to print is applying a subjective pallet to that sketch, and completes the creative process.

David Hockney

With chemical film, it was possible to alter photographs, but you had to be an expert. That's not true any more. The LA Times fired a photographer at the beginning of the Iraq War for editing two shots together. Photography is crumbling. Certainly it is for the newspapers a bit now, isn't it? There will be painting again, absolutely!

David Hockney

...all along I've had an ambivalent relationship to photography - but as to whether I thought it an art form, or a craft, or a technique, well, I've always been taken with Henry Geldzahler's answer to that question when he said, I thought it was a hobby.

David Hockney

I've always said that the only thing a photograph is good at capturing faithfully is another flat surface.

David Hockney

There is nothing wrong with photography, if you don't mind the perspective of a paralysed Cyclops.

David Hockney

You had to be aware that I saw that photography was a mere episode in the history of the optical projection and when the chemicals ended, meaning the picture was fixed by chemicals, we were in a new era.

David Hockney

All painters are interested in photography to a certain extent.

David Hockney

People criticized me for my photography. They said it's not art.

Tom Smith

They say a picture is worth a thousand words, and we're going to give them a whole lot of pictures.

Stephen Foster

This picture represents all the contributors to the arts, taken in 1988.

Mike Byers

That picture was taken at 8:27 a.m., May 18, 1980.

Peter Bart

The temptation to do remakes is simply that, if the picture worked once in the past, why not try it again?

Samuel Goldwyn

("You say you've never made a picture before?") Yes, but that's our strongest weak point

Hulk Hogan

You need to know the whole picture of this business.

Pam Shoemaker

When you put the whole picture together, recycling is the right thing to do.

Willie Smith

Everything you can think of, he was there taking people's pictures and he was just an outstanding person.

Joan Miro

You can look at a picture for a week an never think of it again. You can also look at a picture for a second and think of it all your life.

Alan Watts

You can't figure out the Universe, especially if you're using figures to figure it.

Alan Paton

But perhaps when you were too obedient, and did not do openly what others did, and were quiet in church and hard-working at school, then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.

Alan Bennett

I've never forgotten that experience. But I had nobody at school that was either like Hector or Irwin. The masters had no idea what was expected of you in the scholarship exam, so you just had to busk it really.

Alan Ball

I'm 53. I don't care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed.

Alan Alda

When I studied how to think in school, I was taught that the first rule of logic was that a thing cannot both be and not be at the same time and in the same respect. That last note, “in the same respect,” says a lot. As soon as you change the frame of reference, you’ve changed the truthiness of a once immutable fact.

Al Stewart

Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he's fresh out of law school, you gave him a license to steal.

Akio Morita

I established the rule that once we hire an employee, his school records are a matter of the past and are no longer used to evaluate his work or decide on his promotion.

Chris Cleave

I think, in common with a lot of novelists, I wasn't the most athletic guy at school.

Chris Colfer

I kind of did this thing in high school, a spoof of 'Sweeney Todd' called 'Shirley Todd,' and I had a great time doing that.

Alain Prost

In 1980 I finished three or four times in seventh place.

Chris Copeland

The three-ball is an easy shot if you're uncontested, but when they know you can shoot, it's a lot harder to get off.

Bill Wright

The other three have really made strides. They're consistently getting better.

William Shakespeare

Preferred three hours quicker over one moment late.

Agnes Varda

When I started my first film, there were three women directors in France. Their films were OK, but I was different. It's like when you start to jump and you put the pole very high - you have to jump very high. I thought, I have to use cinema as a language.

Chiang Kai-shek

There are three essential factors in all human activity: spirit, materials, and action.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

Purpose, and to be thoroughly wedded to that purpose, is three quarters of salvation.

Bill Maher

Recognition is one of the three big elements of comedy.

Bill Bailey

Three women walk into a pub and say, `Hooray, we've colonised a male-dominated joke format'

Derek Bok

Fewer than half of all university professors publish as much as one article per year.

Ben Barnes

I actually went to university.

H. Judd

This is the only university I've been to that doesn't have campus-wide recycling. In a way it's embarrassing.

Jeanna Mastrodicasa

The university is not going to do that.

Ray Giacoletti

To give back to the university like that is unbelievable.

Tony Campolo

I'm a minister, and I serve as a minister in addition to being a university professor.

Frantz Fanon

Introducing someone as a "Negro poet with a University degree" or again, quite simply, the expression, "a great black poet." These ready-made phrases, which seem in a common-sense way to fill a need-or have a hidden subtlety, a permanent rub.

Scott Michael Foster

If I did want to go back to school, I'd want to go to Loyola Marymount University over in, I believe, Morina, or Pepperdine. Those are just beautiful campuses. I know that's probably not the right reason to go school. The campuses are just stunning.

Ken Robinson

I like university professors, but you know, we shouldn't hold them up as the high-water mark of all human achievement. They're just a form of life, another form of life.