Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edmond Goncourt

a new system of decoration, and . . . a poetic fantasy in the creation of the art object.

John Niven

A novel, of course, is a fully self-contained work of art. You pick it up off the shelf, open it, and there it is - a whole universe waiting for you to enter. A screenplay is just a blueprint for making a movie. Until the movie is actually filmed, the script really means nothing.

David Rakoff

A secondhand wardrobe hand clothes doesn't make one an artist. Neither do a hair-trigger temper, melancholic nature, propensity for tears, hating your parents, or HIV. I hate to say it - none of these make one an artist. They can help, but just as being gay doesn't make one witty... the only thing that makes one an artist is making art.

Ben Vereen

As far as working with Chita Rivera, all I can say is it's a dream come true. Her artistry and discipline and dedication is a joy to be around.

Dead Prez

As artists we have a responsibility to organize and ensure that funds we raise for this cause are disseminated in a timely, fair and orderly fashion,

Keith Anderson

As a new artist you're just hoping people notice you any way possible just so you can get your music to them, ... Then you just hope they dig the music.

Clive James

As a work of art it has the same status as a long conversation between two not very bright drunks.

Robert Stromberg

As a director, the biggest job is to discern the imperfections in emotional tone and then view it in the global picture of what you're trying to do, if that makes sense. It's a rhythm, like music is a rhythm or composition and art is a rhythm. Dialogue is a rhythm as well.

Tim Riley

As an East Coast artist who paid his dues performing in the clubs of New York City, Redman's inspired rhymes bring the gritty realism of the city to life in our game. His bold lyrics and hard-edged funk beats capture the vibes of the city, from Washington Heights to Harlem and all the way down to Battery Park.

Ben Vereen

As far as working with Chita Rivera, all I can say is it's a dream come true. Her artistry and discipline and dedication is a joy to be around.

Dead Prez

As artists we have a responsibility to organize and ensure that funds we raise for this cause are disseminated in a timely, fair and orderly fashion,

Keith Anderson

As a new artist you're just hoping people notice you any way possible just so you can get your music to them, ... Then you just hope they dig the music.

Tim Riley

As an East Coast artist who paid his dues performing in the clubs of New York City, Redman's inspired rhymes bring the gritty realism of the city to life in our game. His bold lyrics and hard-edged funk beats capture the vibes of the city, from Washington Heights to Harlem and all the way down to Battery Park.

Mark Holden

The business of actually getting a record deal and having a career as a recording artist is not easy to secure, and is not guaranteed by being on a television show.

Dorothy Rothschild Parker

Authors and actors and artists and such - Never know nothing, and never know much

Stewart Cink

Augusta was always a place where you could have a lot of fun and you could demonstrate an artistic talent for strategy around the golf course. Now it's not.

David Banks

As people continue to get more and more recorded content for free, one can assume that artists will attempt to make more money by performing live. And the artists are pretty powerful.

Mark Joseph

Ralph is not only a man of accomplishment, but a man of integrity. Those of us who knew and loved Bob are confident that Ralph is just the kind of artist that he hoped would one day take the stage.

Karen Clark

The shop was going from summer clothes to fall/winter, so other Junior League volunteers helped me sort and go through clothing items that would work for South Africa,

Ben E. King

I do like what Alicia Keys and John Legend are doing. With their music, you keep your clothes on.

Celine Buckens

Well, I love clothes.

Katia Winter

I love Nike's running shoes and clothes because they feel as light as a feather.

Jamie Lee Curtis

Pick clothes that you really love. And wear them. And don't make anything "special." If it's being held for something "special," wear it to the market. Wear it every day!

Wu Yi

The only way out is to produce value-added clothes.Garment manufacturers should explore new markets to disperse market risks.

Anton Chekhov

Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.

Diana Vreeland

Balenciaga did the most delicious evening clothes. Clothes aren't delicious any more.

Diana Vreeland

You can see and feel everything in clothes.

Ben Folds

I look to an out gay man or woman as pretty much what I would aspire to. The strength that it takes to do that and the floodgates that open and what they pay for it.

Alan Dershowitz

The very concept of an Iranian university is an oxymoron. There are no free and open places of learning in that repressive theocracy. Dissenters are not given tenure; they are murdered, after first being tortured. Blasphemy, which is broadly defined, is punished. Gays are not only excluded from Iranian universities, but are imprisoned and killed.

Jasmine Guy

I don't much care who is gay or straight or married or not. I mostly notice if they are brave enough to confront bigotry.

Brian Eno

I love San Francisco and Brighton has something of San Francisco about it. It's by the sea, there's a big gay community, a feeling of people being there because they enjoy their life there.

Bret Easton Ellis

The Smiths are singing and someone says "Turn that gay angst music off.

Boy George

I'm not gay, and I'm not a transvestite.

Boy George

A lot of people come up to me all the time and say thank you for helping me be who I am. So my thing wasn't just about sexuality. It was about anyone who felt different; anyone who felt out of place. Being gay was one part of it.

Bruce Vilanch

To be gay and out of shape is almost as much of a stigma as just being gay used to be.

Andrew Solomon

The absence of marriages will result in all kinds of financial burdens that gay people wouldn't face if they could get married.

Derek Fisher

As a veteran player, you hate to be out there in that situation, but tonight was about the other 29 games.

Sathya Baba

Practice the vocabulary of love - unlearn the language of hate and contempt.

Sgt. Maynard

I've worked law enforcement a little over 10 years, and have been on the road six or seven of those years, and I've never taken a report of a hate crime.

Lindsey Hunter

That's just a theory, man, nobody knows. I hate to see him go through this. I know if it was me, I would be home.

Joe Edgens

That's kind of the catch-all. I hate to reduce that too much.

Randy Matthews

Younger kids don't understand people promoting hate have a right to come through here.

Terry Austin

We regret and hate to lose an industry of that caliber.

Augusten Burroughs

I hate feelings. Why does sobriety have to come with feelings?

Aziz Ansari

I always hate telling my jokes in print 'cause I always feel like it reads so not funny and people read it and they think, 'Oh, so that's what that guy does in his stand-up? That's terrible.'

Frank Ogden

We don't want him acclimated to people. In order to survive they've got to keep hating people.

Barbara Sher

A good work is a partnership between you and nature... Nature will help you every step of the way.

Auguste Rodin

To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature

Bertrand Russell

Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent

Benjamin Disraeli

Nature is stronger than education.

Calvin Coolidge

There is new life in the soil for every man. There is healing in the trees for tired minds and for our overburdened spirits, there is strength in the hills, if only we will lift up our eyes. Remember that nature is your great restorer.

Bryant H. McGill

Command the space of your beingness - a space where you are allowed to grow into your true, unique nature.

Charles Darwin

We have seen that the senses and intuitions, the various emotions and faculties, such as love, memory, attention and curiosity, imitation, reason, etc., of which man boasts, may be found in an incipient, or even sometimes in a well-developed condition, in the lower animals.

John McCarthy

When thugs by nature meet thugs by political conviction, 5-0 is not surprising.

Blaise Pascal

All this visible world is but an imperceptible point in the ample bosom of nature.

Jacques Chirac

A new resolution is neither useful nor necessary,

Michael Barnett

Neither of these goaltenders has ever been viewed as backups.

Dr. Chauvet

I don't tolerate insensitivity and neither do they.

Marie Curie

I was taught that the way of progress I neither swift nor easy.

Bhagavad Gita

There is neither Self-knowledge nor Self-perception to those whose senses are not under control. Without Self-perception there is no peace; and without peace there can be no happiness.

Thomas Lee

I visited with every student here at one point or another and none of them have said they feel unsafe here.

Rick Forney

There's none of that just-down-to-the-foundation devastation that we saw out of Mississippi after Katrina.

Kim Hunter

None of this has been done before; all of this is new ground,

Reuven Paz

None of these terrorists shows any remorse. They are proud of what they do.

Don Brash

She is talking some of the talk, but walking none of the walk.

Dave Wannstedt

he said. I've tried all that, and none of it works.

Joe Horn

None of us will give up. Trust me.

Jake Green

None of us want to leave. We're really pointing for this District.

Richard Ross

None of us want to be here Saturday night.

Greg Evans

Every human-being has the propensity to be an upstanding citizen.