Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.

Larry Brumley

Without a doubt, the basketball scandal (of 2003 under then-head coach Dave Bliss) was the most trying time. I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy. It was agonizing, and the most agonizing part was the effect it had on the families.

Countee Cullen

So in the dark we hide the heart that bleeds, And wait, and tend our agonizing seeds.

Tom Brokaw

I've lost seven friends to smoking-related lung cancer. Each death was a long, agonizing experience.

Daniel Rodriguez

The deceased victims' deaths were slow and agonizing and, in essence, occurred in ever-increasing stages of mental anguish and physical pain.

Walt Patynski

When they got two more runs to put us down six, I think we got down a little bit. The next thing you know, it was a slow and agonizing death.

Dorothy Day

You can spend your time agonizing or organizing.

Diego Rivera

Never before had a woman put such agonizing poetry on canvas as Frida did at this time in Detroit.

Reinaldo Rueda

If we had done better at home, we wouldn't have been in such an anxious, agonizing situation.

Damien Hirst

You'd never look at a Rembrandt and say, 'That's just wood and canvas and paint - how much?!' It's all about how many people want it. It works on a pair of jeans as well - they're just material and stitching, and as soon as you walk out of the shop, they're worth nothing.

Kurt Koeppen

Nick performed on a canvas in the sky.

Tom Yawkey

Some men like to go in for polo, for example, and spend thousands of dollars on ponies. Some go nuts for paintings, and give half a million for a hunk of canvas in a fancy frame. But my passion is baseball.

Geoff Johns

The ocean is 90% unexplored. It's a great canvas to paint Aquaman stories across, just like Green Lantern has space. It's more organic, which makes it different and interesting. It's alien, but it's terrestrial.

Elie Wiesel

Writing is not like painting where you add. It is not what you put on the canvas that the reader sees. Writing is more like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain.

Henry David Thoreau

This world is but a canvas to our imaginations.

Linda Lavin

Once you have the pattern of life of this person, the choreography, so to speak, you have the canvas that you present eight times a week, not without feeling underneath it, but it's not as churning as the discovery process was.

Dwayne Hickman

The print on canvas is the closest to the original work. I personally sign them as well.

Anne Stevenson

I don't like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas, as it were.

Bill Hicks

If you want to understand a society, take a good look at the drugs it uses. And what can this tell you about American culture? Well, look at the drugs we use. Except for pharmaceutical poison, there are essentially only two drugs that Western civilization tolerates: Caffeine from Monday to Friday to energize you enough to make you a productive member of society, and alcohol from Friday to Monday to keep you too stupid to figure out the prison that you are living in.

Ray Tanner

That was really impressive. I told him after the game, I don't know that he's a Friday night guy yet, but he just got closer.

O. J. Simpson

We'll play these two teams on Thursday and Friday before we travel back to Sydney and have a light gym session and rest.

George Gero

We have a good rally going on because of what's going on in Saudi Arabia. It is Friday and nobody wants to be short the gold over the weekend, so up go all the metals.

Patrick Brown

We've got some young guys who have worked hard who need to step up. It's time. We've got a good group of sophomores, and going to find out on Friday if they have (stepped up).

Bob Stalker

We've got rain tonight. Tomorrow. Tomorrow night. Rain Friday. And then a big improvement Friday night - showers likely.

Mike Norman

We're still trying to find an identity and Friday night was a step in the right direction.

James Wallace

Judge Spencer's guidance last Friday was very helpful.

Ed Belva

We have another big one on Friday when we go to Nashville.

Octavio Paz

Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision.

Octavio Paz

Any reflection about poetry should begin, or end, with this question: who and how many read poetry books?

Phoebe Snow

Back then, I was an acoustically-oriented artist. Honestly, 'Poetry Man' wouldn't have been my first choice.

Edward Hirsch

Poetry takes place in time. It is a durational. Things take place in sequence.

Dave Evans

Poetry should be for the people. It always has been, ... Ted writes poetry for the people.

Edward Hirsch

Poetry itself hasn't been well served by poets who fled to the margins.

Robert Pinsky

Poetry is not easy. Or should I say, real poetry is not easy.

Edward Hirsch

Poetry is a vocation. It is not a career but a calling.

Juan Felipe Herrera

Poetry is a call to action, and it also is action.

Gaines Adams

I like to have fun, but I also try to make time for my son.

George Allen

It's time for an American comeback... where leaders in Washington listen to 'we the people.'

Zadie Smith

We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are.

Zadie Smith

Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.

Vivienne Westwood

I am in my own head most of the time.

Zubin Mehta

New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.

Zubin Mehta

I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras.

Yakov Smirnoff

When you like something, you find time to do it.

Evangeline Lilly

I'm a bit delusional, but every time I do a job, I think I'm retired.

Kate Winslet

I feel very strongly that 'curves' are natural, womanly and real.

Oriana Fallaci

The most humiliating thing a woman can be is a coquette.

Ian Gray

It is not so far-fetched for a 63-year-old woman to be with an 18-year-old boy.

George Granville

Of all the plagues with which the world is cursed, / Of every ill, a woman is the worst.

Hilary Swank

She was a woman very out of her time,

Ian Mcewan

Shall there be womanly times? Or shall we die?

Nick Kirby

You'd think a 40-something-year-old woman would have better sense than that, but she didn't.

Ona Solomon

I'm a woman of mystery. I can do anything but skinny.

Gina Servedio

It's been a wonderful experience. I think every woman has a story to tell.