Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edith Wharton

. . . an unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences.

Susan Kevorkian

Any company getting into this space needs to devote resources to categorize the artists they are representing.

Ruth Draper

Aren't the artists brave to go out and paint a sea as rough as that? I don't see how he kept his canvas dry.

Susan Hurt

The size of the houses makes them perfect for use as studios for artists and photographers and other art-oriented people.

David Young

The subcontractors on this job bring in an artist's element to the renovation. Many of these workers are artists in their own right.

Randy Couture

The show's put us over the top. And the biggest thing is educating them on what we do and who we are as athletes. That's huge. It breaks down a lot of misconceptions people have about us mixed martial artists that fight in a cage.

Brent Grulke

The thing about these particular artists is that they're great artists who have been able to dictate the course of their own careers.

Iman Iman

I wanted to do something other than just sign books, ... I thought that by doing makeovers I could make this more of an interactive thing. So I have makeup artists there and I do a little Q and A. I just want to make myself available. I want them to feel that I will treat them as well as I would any celebrity. Some people may not think it is my forte, but I am actually very approachable -- unlike my photographs.

Chick Corea

The most important lesson I took from Miles was his certainty as an artist. He was criticized in a lot of different ways, as most artists are ... when they try and do something, but he never wavered from continuing to make the kind of music that he really wanted to make. And that was very inspiring to me, ... that spiritual quality of courage and forthrightness.

Carl Hiaasen

These are all kids who are going to be growing up to vote. They have a much clearer idea of the kind of world they want to live in, ... I like to think sanity will prevail.

Joseph Simone

We wanted a clearer master plan from the Ministry of Public Security.

Joe Girardi

I think by Monday things will be a lot clearer to everyone.

Ned Colletti

I went into it with the idea of trying to keep him a Dodger. It was clearer and clearer there was no way to make this thing work. I got no glimmer at all that it could work.

Carola Sandy

Investors are going to shy away from Peru until they see a clearer electoral outcome. What hurts the markets more than anything is the uncertainty.

Arthur Conan

In an experience of women that extends over many nations and three separate continents, I have never looked upon a face which gave a clearer promise of a refined and sensitive nature.

Jeremy Corbyn

I'm interested in the idea that we have a more inclusive, clearer set of objectives. I would want us to have a set of objectives which does include public ownership of some necessary things such as rail.

Mike Malpede

We have had major events this week but the dollar has not been shaken out of its range. The market is not ready to make a move until it has a clearer picture of the Fed's plans.

Frank Bsirske

We could not have had a clearer result in the strike ballot.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The surest way to remain poor is to be honest.

Steve Johnson

This isn't a 'doping positive'. This is just a publication in a French tabloid newspaper. That's our perspective.

Charles de Secondat

Power ought to serve as a check to power.

Eddie Izzard

ello, Sue. I've got legs. Do you like bread? I've got a French loaf. Bye! I love you

Jean Glavany

could be a new tragedy for French farmers.

Ken Lee

You get French fries that are really just warm potatoes.

Li Keqiang

China is not looking for a trade surplus but wants to import more French goods.

Marcel Carne

The problem is that to be a producer, one must be a gambler, and the greatest French producers were gamblers.

Pierre Dubois

Many immigrants are doing the work the French don?t want, ... They are more likely to take on short-term contracts.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali

For us, genocide was the gas chamber - what happened in Germany. We were not able to realize that with the machete you can create a genocide.

Claudia Schiffer

Berlin is like being abroad in Germany. It's German, but not provincial.

Franz Beckenbauer

What FC Bayern has become is thanks to Gerd Mueller.

Hans Berger

In Germany I am not so famous.

Robbie Keane

That was a great result for England, but it has gone and I don't think the Germans will be welling on it when we play them this summer.

Joshua Cohen

I think if German literature could survive the '40s and Russian literature could survive Sovietism, American literature can survive Google.

William Joyce

Germany calling! Germany Calling!

Sibel Kekilli

I have to make sure I don't eat too much chocolate. You can't imagine how hard that is for a German to not eat chocolate.

Joschka Fischer

Germany is to be contained from outside and heterogenized from the inside by influx, 'diluted' so to speak.

Barbara Steele

The crew, like all Italian crews, was generous, warm, and enthusiastic.

Benito Mussolini

Yet if anyone cares to read over the now crumbling minutes giving an account of the meetings at which the Italian Fasci di Combattimento were founded, he will find not a doctrine but a series of pointers... It may be objected that this program implies a return to the guilds (corporazioni). No matter!... I therefore hope this assembly will accept the economic claims advanced by national syndicalism.

Alexander Payne

I always wanted 'Sideways' to be like a great 1960s Italian film.

Albert Camus

In Italian museums are sometimes found little painted screens that the priest used to hold in front of the face of condemned men to hide the scaffold from them.

Sophia Loren

I'm not Italian, I am Neapolitan! It's another thing!

Roger Federer

I am a sucker for those old traditional places, and Rome is as good as it gets, particularly when you throw in Italian food.

Sullivan Stapleton

I love cooking. I like to make lasagna - its authentic Italian-style. I also do a great chicken recipe for a barbecue.

Stephen Starr

You try to come up with new ideas, but in the end, people just want to eat Italian food.

Tilda Swinton

I was always, and I still am to a certain extent, one of those lazy people who spends a lot of time with Italian friends and yet constantly says I don't speak Italian. Things slow down when I start speaking Italian.

Heber J. Grant

Prosperity comes to those who observe the law of tithing.

Catherine Crier

The Rule of Law is being trampled by a heart-felt but misguided power play for revenge,

Trish Hoffman

It was another law enforcement officer. He was part of our family.

Carlos Lopez

These encouraging results could not have occurred without the contributions that law enforcement partners throughout Texas have made to traffic safety,

Greg Serbon

The state is having to take the law into its own hands. There has been zero enforcement nationally.

Richard Ford

This is not what you ordered, ... This is not what the law requires.

Dan Robertson

This is per state law and off of the total value of the home.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

The welfare of the people is the ultimate law

David Wilkins

The way the law is written requires passports or similar secure document,

Jeff Tweedy

I've been buying instruments and musical gear for a long time.

Boz Scaggs

I really just followed my musical instincts every step of my life.

Arturo Toscanini

God tells me how the music should sound, but you stand in the way.

Demetri Martin

A musical is the same as a burlap sack, I would not want to be in either

Adam Lambert

I try not to get trapped in any one musical or visual style at all.

Oscar Isaac

The very first proper play I did was 'Godspell,' and I played the guitar for it, and I had a small part in a high school play. And before that, in sixth grade, I wrote a musical about Noah's ark.

Alex Trebek

My musical development stopped when Frank Sinatra died.

Claudio Monteverdi

Text first, rhythm second, melody third.

Chuck Klosterman

Nine Inch Nails were the best and most popular industrial band of all time; as a consequence, industrial purists usually assert that Nine Inch Nails aren't an industrial band at all (this is a counterintuitive phenomenon that tends to occur with purists from all subcultures, musical or otherwise).

Ronald Hill

When you research companies, they now have a statement on Y2K compliance, which they are required to give you,

Marilyn Moon

We are not in a situation where we are required by desperation to make structural changes.

Fred G. Gosman

Teenagers who are never required to vacuum are living in one.

Gloria Steinem

Each others' lives are our best textbooks.

Binyavanga Wainaina

I love playing with words and texture.

Douglas Coupland

Who wants to talk on the phone? If you want to talk to me, text me. Or if we must, let's meet in person.

Brad Meltzer

there's nothing more intimate in life than simply being understood. And understanding someone else.

Brad Pitt

There's peace in understanding that I have only one life, here and now, and I'm responsible.

Cameron Diaz

Intimacy starts with a relationship with yourself, an understanding of who you are.

Alain de Botton

For all his understanding of worldly concerns, when it came to fathoming the deeper meaning of his own furious activity, Sir Bob displayed the sort of laziness for which he himself had no patience in others. He appeared to have only a passing interest in the overall purpose of his financial accumulation.

Charles Jencks

In 1979, postmodernism lost its understanding of the meaning of ornament. It degenerated into kitsch applique.

Damon Lindelof

When I saw 'Blade Runner,' my understanding was that 'Blade Runner' and 'Alien' were sequels to each other - or they were related. They were set in the same world.

Bodhidharma

When your mind doesn't stir inside, the world doesn't arise outside. When the world and the mind are both transparent, this is true vision. And such understanding is true understanding.

Albert Einstein

Relations between pure and applied mathematicians are based on trust and understanding. Namely, pure mathematicians do not trust applied mathematicians, and applied mathematicians do not understand pure mathematicians.

Albert Einstein

The most difficult part about understanding something is that we understand it all.