Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Smith

I was interested in the nuts and bolts of its chemistry, the thermodynamics. I learned to blow glass in an artistic vacuum.

Rose Rosetree

Gwen has a very complicated, artistic temperament. It's intense, but she's OK with it. She's learned to let it fuel her artistic life.

Curtis Jones

What I'm making music for now is more similar to what I was doing in the beginning. In those days it was all about doing music so when people heard it in a club it would take their minds of their worries. I got more artistic but now I've gone back to basics.

Mary Noone

I think we have a really strong artistic showing here in the valley. And I think everybody is wanting to reconnect with the open treasures (the land) we have left.

John Updike

Our artistic heroes tend to be those self-exercisers, like Picasso, and Nabokov, and Wallace Stevens, who rather defiantly kept playing past dark.

Keith Davis

Parks was a man of perhaps unparalleled artistic talent.

Andrea Seigel

If there is one thing for which the 'Real Housewives' franchise deserves artistic recognition, it is the patient and immaculate building of a villain.

Henry Lee

If we want to go global, the focus has to be on the quality. It's a trial-and-error process whose end-result is an artistic creation of refined quality. Each item, no matter whether it's for collection or personal use, has to be perfect.

Guy Pearce

I have real dilemmas at times in trying to understand what I really think about the things that are in films and how people respond to them. I flip back and forth from going, "It's a slice of life. This happens in life. A film is an artistic venture. It's expressing life, so why not?

Trent Reznor

Just spent the day discussing touring up through next summer, then played our asses off to the least responsive audience I can ever remember playing to. As I'm walking to the bus to leave Sacramento as soon as I can, I learn Jerome is back in the hospital. I have no idea what this means.

Glenn Stanton

John and I are both very disturbed by audience members who don't conduct themselves well, regardless of which side they are on. But that is very rare. Most people seem thankful for the way and seriousness with which we engage the issue and our obvious respect for each other.

Zhang Ziyi

He creates characters that draw in an audience no matter what language they speak. His insight into the human heart crosses all boundaries. I know he is also making a huge influence in the lives of younger filmmakers and actors.

Rory Bruer

Having a Jim Carrey film over the holidays is a pretty sure bet. Audiences trust he'll have the goods, and they want to laugh and have a good time this time of year.

George Pierce Baker

In all the great periods of the drama perfect freedom of choice and subject, perfect freedom of individual treatment, and an audience eager to give itself to sympathetic listening, even if instruction be involved, have brought the great results.

Ingrid Jensen

There are so many pockets of places around the country where I play at tiny little towns, and the audiences in general there are so much more appreciative than big city audiences.

Cillian Murphy

He obviously knows through his movies how to exploit terror, and he seems to be able to investigate fears that we all have and exploit them or magnify them. There's a particular way of doing films like this. There's a particular way to manipulate the audience to get sort of a reaction out of them, and he can do that.

Wendy Liebmann

Here is this audience that is waiting to be plucked. They have a lot of money to spend, so they are a really big deal.

Frank Darabont

He's delighted with it, ... And indeed, I think that for him, this really came from the heart, this piece. So to have it represented well to the movie-going audience was quite a pleasure for him.

Michael King

I was a little surprised they didn't get more money for retroactive royalties, ... but I think it's a reasonable settlement given Gilead's part of it, Roche's part of it and the broader public health implications ... neither wanted to come out of this looking greedy.

Gary Rodkin

We look forward to sharing details of the impact of these decisions in our investors' meeting in March. These are only part of our broader plans to drive sustainable top- and bottom-line growth.

Joe Malugen

We look forward to closing the Hollywood transaction promptly. With a broader geographic presence and greatly improved distribution capabilities and scale, our combined company will be a strong competitor.

Michael Sheldon

Intel's news is going to hurt techs tomorrow. I think if the payroll numbers are disappointing, too, you're going to see a broader sell-off.

Charles Crane

If there's any doubt about this bull market's stamina, yesterday should have quieted some of those doubts. There was no news, positive or negative, in the marketplace. And yet the Dow rose to an all-time high and the broader market was strong as well.

Tom Vosa

In the short term these difficulties won't have too much impact because of the broader trends that are under way. But if this continues it may start to have an impact on the strength of house prices and inward investment.

David Vitter

I'm very excited to be at least some small part in the effort, ... This is a great, state-of-the-art facility that can be used for many events, especially the equestrian and 4-H activities. It also is a broader resource for education and economic development.

Stephen Voss

In any case, narrower representation has more power than broader interests.

Richard Hunter

The certification is important, especially for customers who want to export their product. It's a much broader market than what we had before. I'd probably say over half of our business right now is medical.

William Temple

Holland is a country, where the earth is better than the air, and profit more in request than honor; where there is more sense than wit; more good nature than good humor; and more wealth than pleasure; where a man would choose rather to travel than t

Pat Jr

We've got to look at what Georgia did and what led to a successful decision there. The one thing about our leadership in Texas Gov. Perry and some others they don't necessarily put the most money on the table, because we pride ourselves here in this state on having other competitive factors that make a company choose Texas.

Veronica Roth

I choose him over and over again, and he chooses me.

Vikram Seth

I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.

Brian Townsend

Our real goal is to really make our city where people choose to live, regardless of their demographic or social makeup,

Kelli Johnson

Passengers have to choose another route or another airport. We've seen a dramatic loss in seats.

Jill Pendley

Our lives a series of defining moments,strung together by passing time.Surrender fully to this moment,because it is not the moment itself that defines us,but how we choose to live in it.

John Lubbock

In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking

Mark Ambrose

In your free time, you will choose who to hang out with. If you were to show me your friends, I could tell you your future.

Benjamin Franklin

The excellency of hogs is fatness, of men virtue

Meister Eckhart

What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To accomplish excellence or anything outstanding, you must listen to that whisper which is heard by you alone.

Helen Thomas

You're only as good as your last story.

Patrick Kane

When we find a problem, we have service excellence teams that work through them.

Bill Johnson

Perfectionism is the counterfeit of excellence. Excellence is Kingdom, while perfectionism is religion. What ever you do, do it with all you might, and as unto the Lord. That is excellence.

Brian Tracy

Set excellent performance as your standard and strive to achieve it each day

Baltasar Gracian

There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.

Marjorie Kelly

Those that perform to a higher standard in serving a variety of stakeholders with excellence and integrity.

Preity Zinta

I'm more grounded now. I've started doing fewer films. I've started meditating. I want to live my today because I may not have a tomorrow.

Li Yongbo

If not the 21-point scoring system, there would be fewer opportunities for the young players such as Wang Lin to come out.

Dan Fauser

Their physical size hurt us. They have more kids than we do and they wore us down. They executed well. They made fewer mistakes tonight.

Tim Chase

The longer the problem went on, fewer VPs seemed to be around. Only the occasional technician would accidentally pick up the phone if you were lucky.

Bill Clinton

And I hope that the end will come sooner rather than later, so fewer people will die.

Earl Boykins

It's money time. There are fewer possessions and I haven't done anything for two weeks. I struggled in the first half because I was a little overaggressive. I relaxed in the second half and was able to hit some shots.

Nicolas Retsinas

It is unprecedented. It is one more option for people who have fewer and fewer options.

Russell Kinnel

It's a challenging thing to do, and probably can be done a little more tax-efficiently by the mutual fund than by the investor who has fewer holdings.

Tom Golisano

If you have fewer teenagers having children, they could focus more on their vocational development.

John Montgomery

Hard Rock has this cachet and image that can't be under-valued. I think if it had gone to Vail, for example, which already has a number of world-class hotels, the impact wouldn't have been as great.

Bill Snyder

I think the people that have come through the program and have gone on to be productive young people in society means as much as anything, ... I mean really productive people become special people in their own right.

Alex Salmond

We've gone from a small parliamentary party now to being a large one.

Scott Maddox

we've gone a long way to eliminating a primary, and that's what we need to do to win.

Paul Kurtz

We thought we were prepared, ... I think we could have gone all the way.

Jim Albert

He's getting better every day. He's just really athletic. Before you've gone up once for a rebound, he's gone up twice.

Randy Brown

I don't know what else could have gone wrong.

Sally Alleyne

I am heartbroken. It has been a while since I've been there. I should have gone more.

Bible Bible

He is come to Aiath, he is passed to Migron; at Michmash he hath laid up his carriages: / They are gone over the passage: they have taken up their lodging at Geba; Ramah is afraid; Gibeah of Saul is fled.

Bill Gates

I am impressed by what I have seen today.

James Johnson

I'm not surprised; he's a tough young man. He was just an impressive young man, even then. He had a can-do attitude.

Phil McNichol

I'm just very impressed with the team we've been able to field.

Frank Coleman

That really impressed me; it's a significant figure.

Erin Hertzog

It's something impressive because it's something we could use in Arizona.

Brandon Duckworth

It just seemed like the opportunity was going to be here. The Pirates left me with the impression that this was going to be the right place for me.

Martin Lawrence

Women love to impress and be their best.

Nicole Murphy

A lot of people get the impression that it's BS, but there is a lot involved in it. We do play a lot of games, but what we actually do has a lot of structure to it.

Kip Anderson

They have done remarkably well, and they are all very talented. That's just so impressive that they are so young and they are doing these things.

Peter Greenaway

I don't want to become an ivory tower filmmaker. That sounds peculiar, but I want to be a mainstream filmmaker. I want the largest possible audience that I can find - but, of course, on my terms.

C. S. Lewis

Your people eat dry and tasteless flesh but it is off plates as smooth as ivory and as round as the sun.

Chuck Jones

I'm not a believer in putting designers off in an ivory tower. They need to have a voice at the table so they can identify where and why design can make a difference. We also need to understand the business issues. If we don't make our numbers this quarter, we don't earn the right to do something cool the next time.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Jeff Palmer

Just watching the news, seeing what those people are going through, touches me,

Stephen Graham

I adore my job. I think I'm one of the luckiest people out there. I've worked hard, but I get to mess about every day - that's how I see it.

Graham Elliot

I do take pity on some of the people that have to work with me.

Gale Norton

I think that our cooperative conservation approaches get people to sit down and grapple with problem solving.

Gary Sheffield

I'm not one of those people who have to try and remember what they told people, because I always tell the truth. That should count for something, right?

Sam Rockwell

I always do drama. It's just that some people laugh at it and some people cry.

Sam Worthington

I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.

Kevin Whately

I'm not interested in more money for the sake of it.

Jonathan Raban

Travel. It was an intransitive verb. It didn't involve any destinations. It was going to the going's sake, to be anywhere but where you were, with motion itself as the only object.

Niklaus Wirth

I have never designed a language for its own sake.

Kenny Smith

Among the multitudes will be found many who cannot discriminate between what is merely wanted and what is needed, what is necessary for bare subsistence and what is indispensable for the sake of the freedom and clarity of one's higher powers.

Pope John Paul II

Freedom exists for the sake of love.

Peter Hammill

I had then and still retain an interest in science for its own sake and as a metaphor for our current lives.

Pierce Brosnan

I'm Irish, for gods sake. I'm a romantic.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

It is when we act freely, for the sake of the action itself rather than for ulterior motives, that we learn to become more than what we were.

Shunryu Suzuki

We do not exist for the sake of something else. We exist for the sake of ourselves.

Julie Myers

I will seek to work with those who are knowledgeable in this area, who know more than I do.

Malayan Proverb

If you have, give; if you lack, seek

Timothy Radcliffe

Seeking the good is not primarily about rules and commandments.

Rumi

What you are seeking is also seeking you.

Charles Miller

My understanding is we were seeking what keywords are put in and URLs. Nothing personal.

Danys Baez

We didn't seek this out, but after an in-depth exploration, it made sense for us.

Brian Billick

I think that's a quarterback trying to take on his share of responsibility,

Tyler Perry

When it all comes down to it, life isn't about how much we get - it's about how much we share.

Warren Buffett

We have learned to turn out lots of goods and services, but we haven't learned as well how to have everybody share in the bounty. The obligation of a society as prosperous as ours is to figure out how nobody gets left too far behind.

Robert Louis Stevenson

You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.

Mike Flynn

Okogbaa is going to get her share of kills, but we have to stop every one around her,

Karl Malone

What good is success if you're not willing to share it?

Tricia Neuman

That's a smaller share than many had feared.

Karrine Steffans

There are a lot of things that I have not shared that I will never share. I do have a personal private life.

Ralph Charell

Do more than you have to do, more than your share, and do it as well as you can.

Pierce Brosnan

I have had a singing teacher in L.A. for many, many years just to work on my voice as an actor.

Ruben Studdard

Dairy products are not good for a singer.

Travis Tritt

If you're gonna sing, sing loud.

Robert Wyatt

When I'm singing I try not be a singer with a capital S. I just try to get it out so I feel comfortable with it.

Rod Parsley

God loves to hear your singing - so sing.

Robin Trower

It was an experience being on a Beatles tour. They weren't very good. The singing was great, but the playing was a bit weak.

Wes Moore

Life's impermanence, I realized, is what makes every single day so precious. It's what shapes our time here. It's what makes it so important than not a single moment be wasted.

Tracie Bennett

I'm not a singer. I'm a musician, which is different.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

Peace; come away: we do him wrong/ To sing so wildly: let us go.

Al-Waleed bin Talal

My own center, my Kingdom Center, which is the highest priced tower in Saudi Arabia, was vacated twice because of terrorist attacks, terrorist threats.

Anthony Trollope

Barchester Towers has become one of those novels which do not die quite at once, which live and are read for perhaps a quarter of a century.

Harry Seidler

I've always thought Blues Point Tower is one of my best buildings and I stand by that.

Neale Donald Walsch

There is no truth except the truth that exists within you. Everything else is what someone is telling you.

Kate Looby

Within about two weeks, we'll have made those decisions.

Kerry Bailey

Typically within two weeks, we're done with the analysis.

Jeffrey Smith

We work within the system. I don't want to say we're rebellious.