Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Rauschenberg

A canvas is never empty.

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.

Anne Stevenson

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

Matthew Lawrence

I'll take anything and slap it on a canvas.

Kurt Koeppen

Nick performed on a canvas in the sky.

Helen Mirren

hoping something would leap magically from the canvas into me. 'Who are you? Where are you?' I'd shout over and over.

James Rosenquist

I decided to make pictures of fragments, images that would spill off the canvas instead of recede into it like a medicine cabinet. I wanted to find images that were in a 'nether-nether-land': things that were a little out of style but hadn't reached the point of nostalgia.

Stephen Gaghan

I could have concentrated on George Clooney's character. I could have had him in every scene and told the entire story from his point of view. That certainly would have made my life a lot easier over the last several years. But the canvas was too large. These days, if you make a movie about East and West and turn it into a simple piece of disposable entertainment, that seems to me criminal.

Stephen Gaghan

I could have concentrated on George Clooney's character, ... I could have had him in every scene and told the entire story from his point of view. That certainly would have made my life a lot easier over the last several years. But the canvas was too large. These days, if you make a movie about East and West and turn it into a simple piece of disposable entertainment, that seems to me criminal.

Bryce Kaneshiro

Kaiser, they always step it up in the playoffs. They eliminated us last year, I didn't forget that.

Paul Lambert

I think it's going to slow the shopping around (of student-athletes). I don't know if it's going to eliminate it, but I think it's going to slow it down. It's a good deal.

Joe Herald

I didn't go into this with the underlying premise that I wanted to eliminate the idea of a centralized campus.

Charles Schumer

He has been one of the most outspoken anti-choice crusaders in the country. He has worked to totally eliminate even in (cases of) rape and incest a woman's right to choose.

Ariel Sharon

He must start to eliminate the terrorist organizations,

Walt Dabney

Our only option was to shut down operations and eliminate positions.

Bill Crawford

If you eliminate just one of those groups of people, we're just flat out of luck.

Kevin Wilson

If you get him in the pass game, sometimes you eliminate half of the guys he's got to beat.

Kathy Roberts

It has been proven to safely eliminate or reduce many of the normal discomforts of pregnancy.

Murray Walker

You have to say what comes into your head, and sometimes the wrong words come, in the wrong order or I'd make prophecies which immediately turned out to be wrong.

Dave Foreman

He's just got to be consistent. In order to pitch in the big leagues, you've got to be consistent.

Ronda Rousey

People say to me all the time, 'You have no fear.' I tell them, 'No, that's not true. I'm scared all the time. You have to have fear in order to have courage. I'm a courageous person because I'm a scared person.

Richard M. Nixon

Sharp increases in the minimum wage rate are also inflationary. Frequently workers paid more than the minimum gauge their wages relative to it. This is especially true of those workers who are paid by the hour. An increase in the minimum therefore increases their demands for higher wages in order to maintain their place in the structure of wages. And when the increase is as sharp as it is in H.R. 7935, the result is sure to be a fresh surge of inflation. Once again, prudence dictates a more gradual increase in the wage rate, so that the economy can more easily absorb the impact.

Rian Johnson

The fanboy community can smell in an instant, like smelling fear, when something was tailor-made in order to reach them as a demographic.

Richard Ford

Finally I do like best of all stories whose necessity is in the implied recognition that someplace out there there exists an urgency-a chaos-, an insanity, a misrule of some dire sort which can end life as we know it but for the fact that this very story is written, this order found, this style determined, the worst averted, and we are beneficiaries of that order by being readers

Richard Gere

In a way, one gets stability from being able to order the rational mind.

Rich Lowry

John Kerry couldn't even order a Philly cheesesteak properly.

Roald Amundsen

Victory awaits him who has everything in order - luck, people call it.

Richard Paul Evans

Iwas not a reader at all, not until I discovered 'The Hobbit.' That changed my life. It gave me the courage to read. It led me to the 'Lord of the Rings' series. And once I'd read that, I knew I could read anything because I had just read thousands of pages.

Robert Scoble

Never use pages for personal brand!

Willa Cather

Whatever is felt upon the page without being specifically named there--that, we may say, is created.

Sarah Dessen

But it was too early to know: there were always more pages to go, more words to be written, before the story was over.

James Salter

Life passes into pages if it passes into anything,

Helen Vendler

If you like the precision and concision of poetry, a page of prose is unsatisfying in a certain way. And poetry is so direct.

Eddie Van Halen

I grew up on a lot of early Beatles, DC5, Cream, Clapton, Page, Beck and Hendrix.

Michel Faber

In 1978, when I was 17 and in my first year at university, I read approximately 3,500 pages of Dickens.

Allan Gurganus

There's a kind of ear music . . . a rhythmic synchronicity which creates a kind of heartbeat on the page.

Cy Twombly

It's absurd to talk about paintings that you haven't finished.

Bill Watterson

Van Gogh would’ve sold more than one painting if he’d put tigers in them.

Edgar Degas

For those who don't know what they are doing, painting is easy. For those who do know what they are doing, painting is difficult.

Bob Murray

People stop and say 'Why are you painting on a building?'

Jonathan Simon

I wanted a painting that shows a more simpler time.

Abraham Maslow

A first rate soup is better than a second rate painting

Brian Johnson

Painting is so much more than the materials.

Blaise Pascal

How vain painting is-we admire the realistic depiction of objects which in their original state we don't admire at all.

Blaise Pascal

Eloquence is the painting of thought ...

Anne Tyler

When I read, I'm purely a reader

Dan Brown

It's not about what you tell the reader, it's about what you conceal.

Ernest Hemingway

Show the readers everything, tell them nothing.

Eudora Welty

I'm a great reader that never has time to read.

Henry Miller

Leave out the parts that readers tend to skip.

Iris Johansen

I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.

Barbara W. Tuchman

I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning until the end.

Christina Baker Kline

I think a lot of readers are looking for a book they can talk about.

Binyavanga Wainaina

I like the idea of readers feeling a familiarity, whether it's with Africa or childhood.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue?

Patti Smith

We did get a request from the publisher to remove the title and we've done so.

Julie Mitchell

I don't do sculpture in the traditional sense,

Rudolf Steiner

When sculpting the human figure in stone it is necessary to draw the whole form out of the content of the head.

Yayoi Kusama

The thought of continually eating something like macaroni, spat out by machinery, fills me with fear and revulsion, so I make macaroni sculptures. I make them and make them and then keep on making them, until I bury myself in the process. I call this 'obliteration.'

Marsha Norman

There are things that music can do that language could never do, that painting could never do, or sculpture. Music is capable of going directly to the source of the mystery. It doesn't have to explain it. It can simply celebrate it.

Andy Goldsworthy

The main source of my income is through the commissions of the large-scale works and big sculptures, the projects.

Martin Puryear

There is the potential for much more spontaneity with prints than there is with the sculpture, which tends to be very slow, accretive kind of process-labor intensive.

John Ruskin

The sculptor does not work for the anatomist, but for the common observer of life and nature.

Melanie Griffith

There's a sculpture in our bedroom, a solid brass replica of Antonio's manhood. It's very expensive, he gave it to me as a romantic gift.

Henri Matisse

I did my sculpture as a painter. I did not work as a sculptor.

Stephen Toulouse

There's been some speculation that ... this trigger was somehow intentional. That speculation is wrong.

Clint Hurdle

Somehow we have to find a way to get him involved.

Herman Frazier

For the most part, they have really been our bank. They have been the ones to step up and support us when we somehow get to downfalls.

Monica Johnson

Somehow many have fallen into the belief that being a Christian is supposed to be a cake-walk. It's not.

Bob Greenly

Justus is very much a work in progress, ... but he's getting better all the time.

Mads Mikkelsen

I take my work enormously seriously. When I do something, it has to feel right. Everything has to be right.

Dan Kane

It can happen. We just all have to work together.

Glenn Storch

I think it's going to work out fine.

Ben Kuehne

It had nothing to do with her work as a lobbyist.

Irwin Cohen

I think this works for New York City.

Sienna Guillory

I think that, with homoeopathy, if you get the right mix, it works 20 times quicker than conventional medicine.

Rod Argent

I was wondering, 'Is this going to work?'

Sophocles

A word does not frighten the man who, in acting feels no fear.