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.

Cliff Reed

Sam is our strongest and most skilled player. With him and with the way Michael Williams is playing right now, we have what some of our opponents might call a two-headed monster.

Bob Clarke

Sami last week had a collision with one of our players when they were fooling around. He hurt his shoulder and had an MRI performed on him yesterday. The results were that he's got a slap tear, they call that, and a partial thickness tear of his rotator cuff. He'll have surgery early next week, and will miss approximately 10 weeks from the date of surgery.

Liz Tucker

Say to yourself, I will call the office at six every other day, and that is when you do it, so it is not going to dominate your whole holiday and you can get time to relax.

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?

Ed Collins

We just look at this as a way to do it more cost effectively.

Thomas Merton

If it so happened that I had once written a best-seller, this was a pure accident, due to inattention and naivete, and I would take very good care never to do the same again. If I had a message for my contemporaries, I said, it was surely this: Be anything you like, be madmen, drunks, and bastards of every shape and form, but at all costs avoid one thing: success.

Steve Berry

Everybody loves a thing more if it has cost him trouble.

Roman Coppola

I would like to do more feature work. I intend to do that. To be really honest, it's an economic thing because when you make a film that doesn't make what it cost back, it's very difficult to get back in the ring.

Susan Sarandon

I feel I`ve always been on the outside and always on the edge of an abyss. The women I portray, and the woman I am, are ordinary but maybe find themselves in extra-ordinary circumstances, and what they do is at great cost.

Thylias Moss

One must always be aware, to notice even though the cost of noticing is to become responsible.

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.

Tom Condon

There's nothing yet. We'll just have to wait and see what Dr. Andrews says after he gets a look at it.

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.

Jeanette Winterson

I dreamed I was a single moment in a single day. A note struck and vanished. A sounding. A reckoning. Gone.

Jeffrey Bernard

The only reason I would have liked to have gone to university is because I like cricket. Not a very good reason to want to go, but as good as any, I suppose.

Erich Maria Remarque

Suddenly I become filled with a consuming impatience to be gone.

Troy Polamalu

But I think if any team could do it, it's this team. Maybe that's why our season has gone the way it has.

Victor Thompson

But I look down at myself, and suddenly I'm in a wheelchair and my leg is gone and I say, 'How am I going to play with my leg like this?'