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.

Leslie Alperstein

Dean probably scares the market the most because he, for now at least, is calling for rolling back all of the tax cuts.

Jim Young

And there is no such thing as a no-sale call. A sale is made on every call you make. Either you sell the client some stock or he sells you a reason he can't. Either way a sale is made, the only question is who is gonna close? You or him? Now be relentless. That's it, I'm done.

Ryan Evanochko

I wanted to go; I didn't want to call a timeout. But that's our system. That's how we practice. We trusted the system, and it just didn't work out that time.

Charles Grassley

Now is the time for each of us to stand up and demand change. Call your senators at once,

Jack Bicknell

Thank goodness his mom was OK. He couldn't just call down there, and he couldn't go down there (for several days).

Daryl Hannah

Rudolph Diesel was dead long before they named that by-product of petroleum they call diesel fuel. It had nothing to do with him.

Keith Cooper

President Lincoln referred to the Confederate secessionists as insurgents. Today, we call them terrorists.

Wayne Hale

Perhaps some of the small pieces did in fact strike the orbiter but we don't have what I'll call solid evidence.

Wayne Hale

Perhaps some of the small pieces did in fact strike the orbiter, but we don't have what I'll call solid evidence.

Dan Hendricks

The state veterinarian made a note of it and put him on the injured list. It was just a mild little thing and not a problem at all. It won't cost him any time.

Rick Ford

When it was tied, we didn't do what you have to do to win a game like this. We were impatient and we forced the issue and it cost us the game.

Mike Chung

You may be saving $30 to $40 a month (the cost of one tank of gas for a typical driver. But is it worth a $4,000 or $5,000 premium?

James Leal

The results are fine. The issue is they are not telling us anything we don't already know ... we had a share buyback from Royal Bank, we had a cost efficiency program from Lloyds, but nothing new from HBOS.

Wayne Morris

There's no direct cost for that transaction but it's mainly for paper and the cost of keeping the system as a whole running.

John Woods

There's no consequence to them because Nova Scotia Power has been coddling these electric-heat customers and not forcing them to pay the cost they have been incurring,

Rock Cartwright

There's no excuse, ... I shouldn't have fumbled the ball, and it cost us seven points. It was a huge play. It was crucial.

Todd Purvis

There's nothing serious that will cost a long period of time. He's just resting comfortably at home.

Phil Jamieson

Whatever we do in food and whatever we do from a pricing perspective, the cost has to be competitive, without question.

Brendan Wilders

The figures were broadly in line with our expectations.

Robert Teeter

There needs to be a planned series of speeches, interviews, etc., over the next two or three months by administration officials and other public figures talking about President Ford, what he is trying to do and what he has accomplished.

O. Henry

The thing that gets me the most was that there were so many good shots.

Tim Federle

You can't tell the story of a 13-year-old boy who knows every lyric to 'Phantom of the Opera' without also referencing how much teasing he gets at school.

Teddy Pendergrass

It gets harder and harder to make sure your public understands you're a sensitive human being, but I am sensitive. I don't like to be hurt.

Robert Hoffman

Each week gets tougher and tougher. But this was very big for me because I got pinned here last year (in the final), and it?s good to come back and win where you lost before.

Chris Spillane

Every time he steps onto the ice, he gets the job done. He doesn't get a lot of ice time, but every time he does, he does a super job.

Jimmie Johnson

As the day wears on and gets into the evening, we'll try to hone in some new things and hopefully find some speed.

Romeo Crennel

As soon as that rumor gets out there and he reads it, he starts to wonder what's going on,

David Ross

When it gets down to two we'll open it up to a public hearing.

Dick DeGuerin

There's no setting, no trial, nothing that can be enforced. Whoever gets it, they can wad it up and throw them in the trash can.

Paule Marshall

You're going to be gone so maybe you aren't the right one to talk to.

Stanley A. McChrystal

There is only one Army in which you serve. When that identity is gone, it is gone forever.

Mason Cooley

Nothing goes sour more easily than the life of pleasure.

Jay Wright

I don't think we understand how hard people are going to come at us. These guys have never gone through a season like this, ranked early, getting so much attention. Everyone else wants to make their name off you. You can't imagine how hard people come at you.

Chris Pine

Anybody who's gone through puberty has understood what it feels like to be an outcast and alone.

Frederick Jackson Turner

The frontier has gone, and with its going has closed the first period of American history.

Frank Gehry

Well, I've always just - I've never really gone out looking for work. I always waited for it to sort of hit me on the head.

Felicity Huffman

The pressure on women to be thin is like a plague. I have gone through my life, like a lot of women, rating my experiences on the basis of, 'Was I thin at that time or fat?' And it doesn't seem to let up.

Fiona Gubelmann

I am so happy, each and every day that I come to set. Some days, I'll be there 12 hours, and it feels like five minutes have gone by.