Famous Quotes & Sayings

Zoe Cassavetes

I got to grow up in an incredibly artistic family.

Penn Jillette

For us to make any sort of statement that our artistic expression is being trounced would be self-serving, unpleasant and not true.

Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

When you tell people you're a playwright, their eyes sort of glaze over. But when you say you write the 'Fantastic Four' or 'Spider-Man,' they perk up. It's a touchstone that has gained more credibility as artistic expression.

Neil MacGregor

Google the name Prometheus, and see how often it has been given to innovations in many different fields, notably science, medicine and space exploration. The fire he stole can be seen, too, as the spark generating all artistic creativity.

P. J. O'Rourke

When I was fifteen, I dreamed of living in the big city, as many a young person does if he is artistic and sensitive. By 'artistic and sensitive' I mean short, skinny, unkissed, bad at sports, and carrying a C average in high school.

Olivier Theyskens

Personally, I have had sometimes moments where I thought my idea behind the idea of a collection - the concept maybe - something that we don't see at the end on the catwalk, I think the way it was, the genesis in my mind, was probably artistic, an artistic approach.

Clive Thompson

Truly huge artistic collaboration on the Internet seems to work only if the gang has a well-defined objective.

Shania Twain

Writing is very much a playground; an artistic playground. It's the most fun thing I do.

Susan Vreeland

When I learned that near Roussillon there were ochre quarries and mines from which was extracted the ore which produced pigments in all the warm hues of the color wheel, I had a substantial artistic link to this region beyond mere love.

David Perlmutter

The bottom line is that this author, a practicing neurologist dealing with Alzheimer's disease on a daily basis, believes we need to expand the public awareness that modifiable lifestyle factors have a profound role to play in determining who will or won't get this disease.

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.

Michael Alexander

The name change is in the best interest of our corporation. We want to present a new image for the company as we continue to grow in the trucking and logistics business. We believe that the current name presents a limiting impression of the nature of our business.

Travis Parker

Once we got one stop, two stops, we started getting into it. Every time we stopped them on defense, I believe we got a basket.

Ma Shang

Actually, China is not very satisfied with OPEC. I believe in these talks OPEC will negotiate with China about more investments in the future.

Crystal Lowe

Acting, producing, writing, directing - it's all part of something that I believe I was born to be part of.

Jeff Gladstein

The more people believe the Fed is taking interest rates to 5 percent the more they are buying dollars. People are trading interest rates.

Terry Madonna

Do you want to trust and like the president--is that more important--or do you believe you have to vote for Gore to keep the peace and prosperity we've had the last eight years?

Kofi Annan

Violence breeds violence. I urge you to opt for restraint.

James Blake

A lot of the vocal music I've been doing recently has been quite clubby. But that's mainly because I've had more time to go to clubs, and that normally breeds that kind of influence.

Michael Terpstra

Oh I am gonna buy an island I am gonna buy an airplane. In reality, gee, not a fan of flying, and I do not really like water.

Andre Dreicon

The mood is negative. It could fall further, but whoever comes in now is buying cheap.

Jim Kliesch

Any category that you're interested in, you can buy green.

Kurt Barnard

Are consumers buying more? I don't know. I think what Wal-Mart said about people spending less of the rebate money this year in stores is significant. It shows people prefer to save any extra money than spend it.

Diana Yates

The strong are getting stronger. There are more opportunities to buy at a cheaper price.

Terry Mackin

Advertisers can't buy enough video in today's market.

Stephen Baker

Now consumers can buy the computer they want, not just the desktop they can afford.

John Crotty

Ten years ago, if I was sitting outside of the Jets stadium saying, 'I want to buy the Jets,' I'd get a pat on the head: 'Good luck, kid.' But with the technology now available, you can do something about it,

Scott Cleland

Qwest had few options before and now it has fewer options, ... People aren't lining up to buy Qwest.

Mike Schofield

Folks don't suddenly become tax hawks once they get to Austin.

Toni Cade Bambara

Old folks are the nation.

Jim Carley

She's interested in folks trying to find ways to be altruistic. She's trying to find ways to get them involved.

Diane Sullivan

I feel pretty good. I'm proud of the folks at Merck.

Mike Cameron

Because the game is on Monday, a lot of folks made it a full-out weekend.

James Hansen

I don't know how much is done to start with, ... It is a suggestion by political folks in the White House. I don't think that is 'done.'

Cassandra Gash

My folks have worked without knowing whether they are going to get paid.

Zach Duke

My folks had an idea of what my value was. And they wanted to stick with it.

James Curtis

One of the things that's important to me is to help people, as opposed to just getting up there and being sort of a pontificate, omnipotent and all-powerful individual lecturing folks from on high, ... Curtis Court.

Marilynne Robinson

It is hardship that makes clear who the "fighters" are.

Mark Twain

It is poison - rank poison - to knuckle down to care and hardships. They must come to us all, albeit in different shapes, and we may not escape them. It is not possible. But we may swindle them out of half of their puissance with a stiff upper lip.