Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Smith

I was interested in the nuts and bolts of its chemistry, the thermodynamics. I learned to blow glass in an artistic vacuum.

Jason James

Knowing that my wish list was pretty lofty and already busy working on other projects, I wrote Johnny Repeat in distinct chapters so high-caliber artists could contribute without having to make a 100-page commitment. I'm calling it 'cosmic noir.' I can't wait for everyone to see it!

The Bride

I would sooner destroy a stained glass window as an artist like yourself. However, since I can't have you following me either.

Rose Rosetree

Gwen has a very complicated, artistic temperament. It's intense, but she's OK with it. She's learned to let it fuel her artistic life.

Graham Elliot

I'm inspired by artists who use a limited palette, like painter Piet Mondrian, and the White Stripes, two musicians who create an incredible sound. Our food is starting to go back to a 'less is more' style.

Gore Verbinski

My respect for artists is very high. I think to get the most out of them, you have to liberate them. I think part of liberating them is saying, 'Come up with something brilliant, new, and fresh. Stop thinking based on what has been beat into you by executives or publishers in terms of what's going to work and what's not. Don't react, just act.'

Q-Tip

The song, 'Life is Better,' is about hip-hop. It's about my love for hip-hop. And, you know, I go through all the artists from the beginning to the end, you know. And, well, not to the end, but since the beginning to now, you know.

Mary Lambert

Going from someone playing 15-people venues to performing at the Grammys, it was this giant leap and sort of showed me it was possible with what I wanted to do and the kind of music I wanted to write and artist I want to be to impact a lot of people.

E. O. Wilson

He's got strong programs. He's got a lot of the basics and he could come through. The material and artistry are there. He's a player (for an Olympic medal), for sure.

Laura Bush

I think it is one of the most beautiful Christmas trees I've ever seen.

Gwen Harris

Here it's raining, but when we go north for a meet it's sunny and beautiful and we're running well and jumping well and throwing well.

Joe Taslim

Having kids has been a turning point in my life because when I was still single, all I wanted was to impress beautiful girls.

Diego Maradona

He's a leader and is offering classes in beautiful football. He has something different to any other player in the world.

Russell Crowe

He's gonna travel with me, ... A Beautiful Mind.

Francois Doumen

It is a beautiful dream, but not one I would be expecting.

Billy Bush

What do you do to look so, I mean, gosh you look awesome. Just a beautiful, beautiful woman. Is it exercise, do you not eat anything? Be truthful.

Marguerite Young

I think that the style is the writing, a beautiful sense of style. And if you don't have it, it doesn't matter what you write, it doesn't really make any difference. I'm not speaking of realistic novels now, but of the pseudo-poetic novel or short story.

Katie Johnson

I went to White Haven Beach, where they have the white sands and the beautiful turquoise water.

Viola Spolin

Theater Games are a process applicable to any field, discipline, or subject matter which creates a place where full participation, communication, and transformation can take place.

William J. Clinton

I want the ability to monitor high-tech communications among far-flung terrorists. I want to be able to have our people learn their plans before they strike. That's the key.

Riccardo Muti

Music does not know the difference between people; it only speaks to their hearts. It is the only form of communication that can bring this terrible world together.

Robin Hayes

The Internet was developed in large part by U.S. government research funding to develop new communications networks, starting with a network created by the Department of Defense.

Rudolf Steiner

We have to live over into the other; we have to dissolve with our soul into the other.

W. H. Auden

Without communication with the dead, a fully human life is not possible.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Sleeping people are so remote.... Right here, but out of communication. That's what strikes humans as uncanny about sleep. Its utter privacy. The sleeper turns his back on everyone.

Robert K. Greenleaf

Don't assume, because you are intelligent, able, and well-motivated, that you are open to communication, that you know how to listen.

Robert Orben

Humor is a marvelous communications tool, as Reagan has demonstrated so well. He has weathered many a storm that others might not have. With Reagan, people just say, 'There he goes again.' A sense of humor allows a president to back off a little from the tensions of the moment and take a calmer view of things.

N. Robert Hammer

There is no denying that downsizing can happen when a company receives private equity funding. It is unfortunate and hard on everyone who is affected.

Rachel Cusk

It seems to me that 'women's writing' by nature would not seek equivalence in the male world. It would be a writing that sought to express a distinction, not deny it.

Will Walker

They were denying me real well. It got frustrating, but I had to do other things to stay involved.

Ravi Moss

It's not one or two things; it's everything . It's getting in your stance to denying the ball.

Acie Law

I tried to get it back but OU did a good job of denying me the ball. So the second option was for Joe to try to go down and make a play and he didn't make it.

Steven Anderson

I told the linemen, 'I need one little crease. Just give me a crease and I'll score. They're not going to deny us of those touchdowns,' ... We thrive off of that.

Peter Nivio Zarlenga

What is a lie? It is to say what is real is not real. It is to deny the existence of what exists.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We are here to affirm, not to deny... when we affirm all that is God, all that is not God is automatically denied.

Mario Gallucci

We absolutely, vehemently deny the charges. He was not doing anything illegal or wrong when he harvested.

Bill Tierney

His role is no less than mine is. And it is a lot greater than mine in some ways.

Frank Tyger

There is no greater loan than a sympathetic ear.

Jim Hunter

The range is greater for sound than for sight.

French Proverbs

Report makes mischiefs greater than they need to be.

Robert G. Allen

It's priced much too low, ... That's disappointing to you, and it's totally unacceptable to us. The leadership of AT&T has no greater priority than to increase shareholder value.

Francois Heisbourg

It sounds very banal, but people have greater trust when politicians do politics and operational guys do operations.

Alan Cohen

Evaluate every act by whether it brings you greater life, or deadens you.

Meister Eckhart

God is greater than God.

Kathleen Blanco

The devastation is greater than our worst fears. It is just totally overwhelming, ... We need to save as many people as we can save, and that is our mission for today.

William Gilmore Simms

Modesty is policy, no less than virtue.

Sarah Fielding

If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his reader.

John Adams

Modesty is a virtue that can never thrive in public.

Mark Twain

The convention missionaries call "modesty" has no standard, and cannot have one, because it is opposed to nature and reason and is therefore an artificiality and subject to anybody's whim - anybody's diseased caprice.

Jules Renard

It is easy for a somebody to be modest, but it is difficult to be modest when one is a nobody.

Roberto Maroni

The modest success of the strike should prompt everyone to work for more collaboration between the country's political and social forces.

Vilhjalmur Stefansson

False modesty is better than none.

Mason Cooley

A modest demeanor arouses thoughts of seduction.

Jean Cocteau

Be a constant outrage to modesty There is nothing to fear: modesty is exercised only among the blind.

Laurence Sterne

I should have no objection to this method, but that I think it must smell too strong of the lamp.

James Hunter

Most people's objection was that I was in my 40s. There was nothing I could really do about that.

Greek proverb

It is not possible to step twice into the same river

Tomas Vokoun

I don't feel any pressure. I don't think this has got anything to do with pressure. Sometimes you just play really well, and then get in a slump. Now is the worst possible timing.

Robb Felton

I'd like to see them as soon as possible and get them out. I'm sure they're probably going crazy, they're not used to being in a kennel.

Richard P. Feynman

It is scientific only to say what is more likely and what less likely, and not to be proving all the time the possible and impossible.

Richard P. Feynman

So my antagonist said, "Is it impossible that there are flying saucers? Can you prove that it's impossible?" "No", I said, "I can't prove it's impossible. It's just very unlikely". At that he said, "You are very unscientific. If you can't prove it impossible then how can you say that it's unlikely?" But that is the way that is scientific. It is scientific only to say what is more likely and what less likely, and not to be proving all the time the possible and impossible.

Bob Williams

If there was something someone wanted that we didn't have, we could usually get it for them in a day or two. We tried to make things as simple as possible for our customers. I think they appreciated that.

Jacques Chirac

I'll try as much as possible to be,

Jonathan Winters

Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.

David Pursell

It's possible (we'll see $4), but I don't think so.

Martin Winterkorn

If you want to be promoted into the first league of carmakers, then you can't just follow suit.

John Catsimatidis

I promoted myself as a fusion ticket. I was running as a Republican liberal.

Lydia Lenker

Those are agricultural products. We do promote Tennessee products.

Amanda Sandford

We wouldn't want to see it promoted as a completely safe alternative.

Louis Freeh

I think we have the tools there. I just think we need more resources,

Richard P. Feynman

Mathematics is a language plus reasoning; it is like a language plus logic. Mathematics is a tool for reasoning.

Neale Donald Walsch

You have all the tools right now to make this day, this moment, happy. The best of these tools is love.

Eric Holder

Guantanamo is a chief recruiting tool for al-Qaida. It has put a wedge between the United States and at least some of its allies.

Andrew Lochart

Even when you've got the tools in place, it's something you want to be vigilant about.

R. Lee Ermey

Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.

Marshall McLuhan

First we build the tools, then they build us.

Marshall McLuhan

We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us.

Julian Huxley

Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

Samuel Larsen

I'm a Christian, and I'm not judgmental towards anyone. I think that's really important.

Bryan Ball

I was just battling. Trying to give us a chance.

Kevin Madden

It can be done without trying to browbeat people.

Drew Brees

We're trying to be that franchise that year-in and year-out is competing for a championship.

Greg Bowers

We've been trying to play at Brooke's level, and we've been disappointed in past, but this is an accomplishment.

Andre Iguodala

I was just trying to put on a show.

Robert Fick

I don't give a ----. I was trying to make a play.

Reginald Delk

I don't know. We're soul-searching right now, just trying to get a win.

Shay Espinoza

I don't know why, but that's what they were trying to do: take my baby.

Jeremy Corbyn

I am just an ordinary person trying to do an ordinary job.