Famous Quotes & Sayings

Walead Beshty

It's extremely difficult to say what one actually means by 'sculpture' other than, in a provisional sense, it's something that goes on the floor or a pedestal, and loosely applies to a certain history of the use of that term.

Bethany Mota

I go on Twitter and I ask my viewers, 'What would you like to see next season in my line?' or 'What are things you love to wear?' They're the ones wearing it, so I want to make sure it applies to them.

Patricia Marx

It's better to spend a lot on a getup you love than a fraction of that on something, or even five of those somethings, that you'll never bother to take out of the shopping bag. By the way, this advice also applies to discount love interests. And half-price sushi.

Robert Gottlieb

'Black Swan' does what Hollywood movies have always done - it spends its energies on getting some surface things right while getting everything important wrong. Darren Aronofsky, the director, applies the same techniques and the same sensibility here as he did with 'The Wrestler,' only with a prettier protagonist.

Octavio Paz

Futurists wanted to suggest movement by means of a dynamic painting; Duchamp applies the notion of delay - or, rather, or analysis - to movement.

Diana Ossana

Michelle picked up on every beat in the story. She's from Montana, she has that background; there are things she grasps intuitively. The phrase 'still waters run deep' completely applies to her.

Noam Chomsky

The doctrine that everything is fine as long as the population is quiet, that applies in the Middle East, applies in Central America, it applies in the United States.

Mark Moline

We are hoping to make a technology that applies to a whole host of interest groups and the public.

Mack Whittle

I was very pleased. Everybody understands it applies to any bank. But it will be good for us and good for the state.

Carl Sagan

Eratosthenes was the director of the great library of Alexandria, the Centre of science and learning in the ancient world. Aristotle had argued that humanity was divided into Greeks and everybody else, whom he called barbarians and that the Greeks should keep themselves racially pure. He thought it was fitting for the Greeks to enslave other peoples. But Erathosthenes criticized Aristotle for his blind chauvinism, he believed there was good and bad in every nation.

Amanda Cunningham

Poet in Greek means maker. It's the idea of making something that has never been made before.

Euripides

Friends show their love in times of trouble.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Greek yogurt with some olive oil stirred in can transform many dishes.

David Sedaris

The Greeks had invented democracy, built the Acropolis and called it a day.

Eddie Izzard

So then there was the Greek, Socrates, he was great... He invented questioning. Before Socrates, no questioning. Everyone sort of went, ''Yeah, I suppose so.

Menander

The person who has the will to undergo all labor may win any goal.

William Shakespeare

For my part, it was Greek to me.

Billy Joel

I've come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it's a Greek tragedy.

Carrie Preston

Alan Cumming is such an amazing performer and person.

Peter Chapman

We have not had so many top performers before.

Marc Walters

We have struggled to put performers on the first team because that's not how our team is built.

Tift Merritt

My point of view as a writer has to be a lot more ego-less than just like being some performer on stage with a hairdo.

Damien Chazelle

At the upper echelon of musicians in general, I guess performers in general, you have to have this kind of live-or-die, cutthroat mentality.

Andy Goldsworthy

I'm not a performer, in that I don't like the public, but I work in that respect.

Aaliyah

I'm a total performer.

Frank Oz

In order to be a star performer you have to have someone to play against.

Lauren London

I've always been a performer. That's just what I know.