Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brandon Lee

My mother is very wise and intelligent. If I have children and can do half as good a job as she did in keeping me in line, I'll be very happy.

Jane Austen

I would much rather have been merry than wise.

Baltasar Gracian

Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.

Baltasar Gracian

The wise have a solid sense of silence and the ability to keep a storehouse of secrets. Their capacity and character are respected.

Charles Fort

[Wise men] have tried to understand our state of being, by grasping at its stars, or its arts, or its economics. But, if there is an underlying oneness of all things, it does not matter where we begin, whether with stars, or laws of supply and demand, or frogs, or Napoleon Bonaparte. One measures a circle, beginning anywhere.

Aristotle

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

Aristotle

To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.

Ben Jonson

No man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

Don Rickles

When I first went to Vegas, there were just high-rollers and gamblers and the wise guys treated you great.

Jonathan Miller

People can't draw now and don't feel it's necessary. Art students don't seem to want to draw.

Sigmar Polke

People expect things from art that are horrible for us who make it! They put the things we make in these restrictive places called 'museums,' then don't want to hear another word from us.

Peter Gabriel

People go on and on about the copyright issue, and that is central to what is going on now. Someone sent me an article from the Register this morning about this person named Fisher who has proposed an extra $6 per month on every broadband user's bill that would supply enough revenue to pay all the money that is earned from records and films.

Jake Wien

During my time in New York I was interested in what was going on in the arts culture music, galleries, auction houses that's where I learned as much as I did about art history. It was the vortex of the art world and a fabulous place to get up to speed and develop one's eye.

Eric Liu

The summer of 1991, I took $2,000 of my savings and a desktop program, and I asked my friends to write 800 words about something they cared about. I got eight or nine articles and put them together. It was no frills, black and white, no graphics. I printed them out and just dumped piles around D.C.

Omar Vizquel

I've always said I'd like to dedicate my life to art for a whole year to see what comes out of it, painting, sculpting, everything related to art, then go from there. I feel like I have something with art. I'm connected with art somehow and I would like to do something with that.

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.

Greg Robinson

I've always had a real love for Northwest art and some of the traditions here. Part of the reason I'm so interested in the museum is being able to focus on this region and really understand it.

Sufe Bradshaw

I've always been a creative person since I was young. I enjoyed art, museums, plays, but it wasn't until I was about 10 that my mother encouraged me to choose a career, and it was acting.

John Thune

People believe we have to finish the job. But certainly they're war-weary, they're battle-weary.

Don Aaron

Officers are permitted to use deadly force when their lives are in danger or citizens' lives are in imminent danger. Officer Davidson believed he was in imminent danger.

Stefan Molyneux

Deep down, I do not believe that there are any really good parents out there - the same way that I do not believe there were any really good doctors in the 10th century.

Doris Day

DAY: "I have a good job, a lovely apartment, I go out with very nice men to the best places, the finest restaurants, the theater. What am I missing?"/ RITTER: "If you hove to ask, believe me, you're missing it.

Lynn Swann

Coach Noll is not a great one for speeches. He's not the rah-rah type trying to fire us up in the locker room. He gets us ready to play and gives us a game plan that we've grown to believe is going to work. Usually it does.

Li Deshui

Compared to France and Britain, there is still a certain gap ... but I believe that this gap is getting smaller.

Michael Capellas

Compaq is the premiere Windows 2000 partner, and we believe this is one of the foundation platforms for the Internet economy.

Fred Moore

Companies need to reconnect with their delete keys. Many organizations now believe that the time is right to repeal Sarbanes-Oxley.

Robbie Wine

Coming out of there, that confidence has to be high as far as competing, now there is an element you worry about with learning how to win. That's probably what I'm concerned about, but I still believe that if we go out and play hard every inning of every game, the wins will come.