Famous Quotes & Sayings

Roz Chast

I've always wanted to learn how to hook rugs. A wonderful artist named Leslie Giuliani taught me how. The nice thing is you can change it as you go along.

Iman Iman

I wanted to do something other than just sign books, ... I thought that by doing makeovers I could make this more of an interactive thing. So I have makeup artists there and I do a little Q and A. I just want to make myself available. I want them to feel that I will treat them as well as I would any celebrity. Some people may not think it is my forte, but I am actually very approachable -- unlike my photographs.

Jane Hirshfield

Every other year or so I go to one of those great generous places, the artist retreats. Some of the poems in The Beauty were written at the MacDowell Colony, in New Hampshire, and others at Civitella Ranieri, in Umbria.

Diana Vreeland

Photographers aren't artists, for goodness sake.

Bret Michaels

For me as a solo artist, I never want to be a nostalgia act.

Bobby Sherman

I'm such a lover of music that it would be very hard for me to pinpoint it to a particular artist.

Charles Bukowski

The Artist," an ancient sage had once said, "is always sitting on the doorsteps of the rich.

Lynne Salisbury

We have about 45 artists in the show this year. They usually each show two pieces.

Kelis

There's a difference between a pop star and an artist. Pop stars have to be perfect all the time; an artist is allowed, on occasion, to suck. And I put myself in that category because I sometimes suck. I'm not trying to please the masses. It's not going to happen, so I don't try.

Aristotle

Talent is culture with insolence.

Arlen Specter

embedded deep in the culture of the country.

Alex D. Linz

Every culture loves scatological humour. That's always a favourite.

Chuck Palahniuk

We're the culture that cried wolf.

Tim Burton

I'm going to put that on my gravestone. "He created such a category of unwanted pop culture - - Famous for directing unwanted cultural references"

Frantz Fanon

When we revolt it’s not for a particular culture. We revolt simply because, for many reasons, we can no longer breathe

Erica Jong

Poetry is the inner life of a culture, its nervous system, its deepest way of imagining the world. A culture that ignores its poets, chokes off its nervous system and becomes mortally ill.

Greg Egan

Screw every known human culture.

James Bell

He's pretty much engaged in what we have in place today, and also the culture of integrity, the leadership culture we want to have in the company,

Emily Hall

As a group, the funds have shown that you can do about as well in a screened universe as in a non-screened universe. But that doesn't mean all socially screened funds are good.

David Hale

Back when I gave that speech in March, some of my hedge fund friends thought it would be a big issue by the third quarter. But here we are, it's July, and it just hasn't seemed to register.

Lisa Bluder

It was a long wait. It seemed like forever. I wish we could relive it again., though, I wish we could see our name and relive it again, because that was a fun moment.

Marissa Brown

Things are going pretty well this year. It has been a lot of fun to be a part of this team.

Jarome Iginla

That one wasn't so funny because he got hurt.

Steve Holland

The most fun I had in my life with my pants on was in Natchez.

Bryan Blair

Zach is a lot of fun to watch. He genuinely has a good time on the court. He's hit some big shots for us.

Raul Roges

You sacrifice holidays. You will be working when everyone is having fun.

Rollie Massimino

You're not always right, obviously. That's the fun part of the game.

Carmen Bambach

A showdown of the two greatest rivals of the Renaissance.

Mark Mohl

Osage had a very tough week with three quality opponents. We are disappointed we didn't win all three, but the kids had great effort.

John Tavares

Any player in the NHL would be a great comparison, but when you name a guy like Sidney Crosby . . . but I don't know if I'll be able to do things he's done in the league because we're different types of players,

David Phillips

Are we no longer the Great White North? It's incredible.

Porter Bibb

Sony has got a solid distribution network, ... It's got a great library and it's got a lot in the hopper ... Realistically, there are some significant buyers.

Michael Hegarty

Tennessee is a truly great and competitive opponent. I can tell by the way we played them today that we are really starting to come along.

Reggie Lewis

Scoring a lot of points is great when you win, but when you lose it doesn't matter.

Bill Bowles

Ross made a great play and kept them out of there.

Ryan Goodman

Ryan did a great job defensively the whole weekend, and scored just enough to win. It was a masterful performance.

Toby Keith

Probably 75 percent of the people in this town think I'll fail, and the other 25 percent hope I fail,

Mike Slive

Right now, there is peace in the valley. We hope to keep it that way for a little while.

Ian Shepherdson

This is as upbeat a testimony as could reasonably have been hoped for.

Tim Frisby

This is a start. Hopefully I'll get more this season,

Jimmy Rollins

You've got to respect them. You can't just put up lollipop pitches and hope to get them out.

Mary Shelley

You seek for knowledge and wisdom, as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent to sting you,as mine has been.

Rick Clunn

You're going to be making a lot of decisions, and you hope they're the right ones.

Baruch Spinoza

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

John Piper

I owe my life and hope to the gospel.

Jarkko Nieminen

The second set was huge. I knew at the end of the second set that I could win.

Joan Baez

I see a young man playing 'Plaisir d'Amour' on guitar. I knew I didn't want to go to college; I was already playing a ukulele, and after I saw that, I was hooked. All I wanted to do was play guitar and sing.

Kristi Toliver

As soon as it left my hand, I knew it was going in. I knew I was going to take that shot. Big-time players take big-time shots.

Billy Henning

As soon as I saw the name on the postcard I knew who it was. You could've knocked me over with a feather.

Roy Harper

As soon as I heard skiffle, I loved it and I knew that I wanted to play it.

Joby Scroggs

We knew going in that they were going to zero in on Kevin, who still had 115 yards in the game. Now, we've got another weapon - teams have to prepare even harder.

Jason Arnott

We just stayed positive with it. We knew (a comeback) was coming.

Nick Fruendt

We just had to relax and play our game. We knew we could come back and take this thing. I think we just stepped it up to another level in the second half.

Rose Hill

We weren't even sure they knew where they were, ... We knew they were trying to find them and get them out, but we had no idea it would be today.

Laura DiDio

You're paying a lot for these licenses, but you're getting a lot, too. These are real, tangible benefits.

Lang Lang

So I think for me, it's nice, like a big brother, I can tell them what should pay attention, what shouldn't pay attention, what words you should take, what things you shouldn't take.

Jeff Kagan

People who want traditional phone service will pay what they are paying now.

Benjamin Franklin

Poor man, said I, you pay too much for your whistle.

Allen Douglas

No one should have to pay more than his or her portion of fault.

Terry Davis

No one can suppress the truth forever, but some people never stop trying. It is the journalists who pay the price.

Carlos Delgado

One time, they didn't pay me. But for the most part, they have treated me well.

Rich Vallinaggi

No one wanted to volunteer, so I did. I thought I'd try it. They were paying for the course.

Charles Moskos

now that we pay soldiers to die for us, that Americans don't want to be reminded of sacrifice?

Bill Clarke

That's where we are now. You take what they give you in this offense. That what we saw and worked with it.

Bob Dylan

I never saw myself as a folk singer.

Doug Nelson

When we saw the site come up for sale, we said we've got to be part of this.

Richard Foreman

From that time through the time I was a New Dramatist, when I was something like twenty-two, I saw absolutely everything in New York. Absolutely everything.

Mark Salling

I saw the film 'Amadeus' from when I was five, which made me want to take piano lessons.

Charles Smith

I saw that 'X' and thought it would be OK. It had been checked.

Scott Turow

I saw that universality had got to be the ultimate objective.

Kenyon Martin

I saw some highlights. I just got updates on the scores.

Dan Jenkins

I saw him do things this week that I never saw Hogan do.

Dan Hopkins

With the kind of support he sees around the state, he thinks it would be something important to enact.

Demi Lovato

My personal style is kind of sophisticated edgy, I guess. I wear a lot of black and it's what I feel comfortable in.

John Adams

There's just a real style to these boats.

Hao Fang

We just wanted to keep the style of the magazine.

Douglas Adams

I seem to be having tremendous difficulty with my life-style

E. B. White

A breezy style is often the work of an egocentric, the person who imagines that everything that pops into his head is of general interest and that uninhibited prose creates high spirits and carries the day.

E. B. White

To achieve style, begin by affecting none.

Adam Savage

Isn't television glamourous?

Thomas de Quincey

The pulpit style of Germany has been always rustically negligent, or bristling with pedantry.

Timbaland

My style is to take something unexpected and make it into a hit. That's what I do.