Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ad Reinhardt

I was drafted in '45 and I was a sailor for a year. They didn't know what to do with me so they made a sort of photographer out of me.

Howard Finster

And since they wasn't able to turn my art over, I sort of just switched off to Phyllis Kind, she's really my agent. She has a gallery in Chicago.

Howard Finster

So all I have to do is just when that Holy Spirit says to do something, I know that's supposed to be done, regardless to anything else.

Robert Rauschenberg

And if I see in the superficial subconscious relationships that I'm familiar with, cliches of association, I change the picture.

Norman Rockwell

It was a pretty rough neighborhood where I grew up The really tough places were over around Third Avenue where it ran into the Harlem River, but we weren't far away.

Max Cannon

We're going to have the same demographic spread of nutcases and the same spread of everybody in between.

Conrad Hall

My first semester, I got a D in creative writing.

Conrad Hall

I realize that every picture isn't a work of art.

Conrad Hall

There is a kind of beauty in imperfection.

Slavoj Zizek

It's bad if we are controlled, but if we're not, it can be even worse.

Harry Reasoner

We're all controlled neurotics.

Dayton Moore

I never saw Derek Jeter when was young, but that's who he reminds me of. He's just real sure and real controlled with everything that he does.

Flip Saunders

They controlled the tempo. We played out of character.

Helio Castroneves

What a team, what a team. I drove it like I stole it.

Clint Bowyer

We just got loose over there off turn two, and I got sideways, but Kyle pretty much drove through me. What goes around comes around.

Chosun Ilbo

We welcome the Wards' return, but we are also ashamed. It was us who drove them out 30 years ago.

Scott Podsednik

I got a good pitch to hit and I drove it out,

Aaron Lee

He understood his economic situation. That's part of his work ethic. He knows how Stephanie struggled to get him some shoes. Part of her sacrifice drove him. He talks about repaying his mom.

Nick Lachey

I don't pretend to understand Joe. I don't know if he ever liked me. To this day I couldn't say. It was painful. Do I think Joe drove a rift between us? No. Was he an influence in our marriage? Absolutely.

Mike Blair

We drove past the ticket office this morning on the way to training and there were 500 people queuing for tickets.

Greg Knox

We drove it all the way down the field. We had a turnover, but it was a really good day for the offense.

Donna Murphy

We drove 14 hours and only got 200 miles.

Rick Harris

A flat market is normal during the winter months.

Spencer Roecker

Flat Rock is a good team. There's a reason why they're in the top one or two teams in the league every year.

Bobby Hauck

We just had our lunch handed to us by a real talented, well-coached football team. We couldn't handle their front four on defense. It starts with them. We just flat couldn't handle them.

B. F. Skinner

We went flat and started coasting after the 7-1 lead after two innings. But I thought we played pretty good for the first game of the season.

Mason Cooley

Flatter me, but delicately, please, for I am fastidious.

John Sevier

Should I be so happy as to merit your patronage, I flatter myself neither you nor my country, could have any occasion to regret.

Jean Paul

It is easy to flatter; it is harder to praise.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

It is a flat'ning Thought, that the more we have seen, the less we have to say.

Janet Jackson

I'm flattered that other artists consider me a role model.

Jack Ma

When I was 12 years old, I got interested in learning English.

William Shakespeare

And simple truth miscalled simplicity

Rita Mae Brown

Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.

Seymour Papert

A programming language is like a natural, human language in that it favors certain methaphors, images, and ways of thinking.

Seymour Papert

You can't teach people everything they need to know. The best you can do is position them where they can find what they need to know when they need to know it.

Linus Pauling

[Instead of collecting stamps, he collected dictionaries and encyclopaedias:] Because you can learn more from them.

Linda Ellerbee

How is it that so often . . . I get the feeling I've worked hard to learn something I already know, or knew, once.

Peter Senge

Perhaps for the first time in history, human-kind has the capacity to create far more information than anyone can absorb; to foster far greater interdependency than anyone can manage, and to accelerate change far faster than anyone's ability to keep pace.

John Thomas

By this afternoon, I'm sure there will be some emergencies.

Gar Heard

He'll be back, I am sure he'll be back.

Tom Fisher

He's a veteran quarterback. I'm sure he'll be on top of his game.

Chance VanGundy

I thought for sure we were a top-10 team in our district.

Bob Shoop

I'm not sure what to make of them.

Bob Brenly

I'm pretty sure Tony has already been ejected from this ballgame,

Jim Ryun

I'm sure there will be more things done before it's over,

Becky Hale

I'm sure there's something out there. I'm just not sure where.

Richard Baldwin

I'm sure there's going to be a deal. At a country-by-country level, everyone can win.

Marcia Cross

I have always wanted to know what's going on under the surface.

Prince Royce

I think when you translate songs, you lose the real essence and the meaning.