Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eric Liu

The summer of 1991, I took $2,000 of my savings and a desktop program, and I asked my friends to write 800 words about something they cared about. I got eight or nine articles and put them together. It was no frills, black and white, no graphics. I printed them out and just dumped piles around D.C.

Ben Nicholson

Realism' has been abandoned in the search for reality: the 'principal objective' of abstract art is precisely this reality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

We should comfort ourselves with the masterpieces of art as with exalted personages-stand quietly before them and wait till they speak to us.

Mary Lambert

Yes, I would loved to have just sustained myself through my art, but less than one in a billion musicians gets that life. So rather than being like, 'I'm an exception!', like a moron, I thought I'd get a real job.

Charles Bukowski

escape from the black widow spider is a miracle as great as art. what a web she can weave slowly drawing you to her she'll embrace you then when she's satisfied she'll kill you still in her embrace and suck the blood from you.

Charles Bukowski

A woman must be nursed into subsistence by love, where a man can become stronger by being hated." - from 'Cows in Art Class

Charles Bukowski

The Artist," an ancient sage had once said, "is always sitting on the doorsteps of the rich.

Charles Bukowski

Bullfighting can be an art Boxing can be an art Loving can be an art Opening a can of sardines can be an art

Charles Bukowski

To me Art (poetry) is a continuous and continuing process and that when a man fails to write good poetry he fails to live fully or well.

Carrie Catt

When a just cause reaches its flood tide - whatever stands in the way must fall before its overwhelming power

Tom Ellis

I feel like I'm giving back to society a little bit. There's a lot of causes out there, and 99% of them are for people. There is very little out there for the animals.

Michael Gartner

He's involved in a lot of central Iowa causes and issues and is just a terrific guy.

Gigi Hadid

If you don't like it, don't follow me, don't watch me, cause I'm not going anywhere.

Sam Stovall

Increased volatility can certainly cause increase tension, but that's not a reason to step out. It is certainly white-knuckle time, but that does not necessarily mean the good run has ended.

David Dean

inconvenient to tenants and cause loss of substantial revenue.

Brent Scowcroft

Indeed Saddam's goals have little in common with the terrorists who threaten us, and there is little incentive for him to make common cause with them.

Julian Cope

I'm going to become the best-remembered artist of my generation by staying away from the party as often as possible. That way, people will remember me, not because I was great, but because I didn't cause them any later embarrassment.

Milton Bradley

I'm not going to have opinions. I'm not going to cause problems. I'm going to go with the flow.

Beth Keating

I'm very excited about it, particularly for the summer. It's a lot of work. But it's great not having a boss. And I have some ideas.

Jermaine Wallace

I knew I had time for about one or two dribbles and when I shot it, I fell. I actually looked through the back of the glass to see it go in and am just so excited right now for my teammates.

Kurt Suzuki

I like the fact the teams are mixed (with players from different organizations). A lot of guys in this league have played in Triple-A, some briefly in the majors. You get excited every day.

Bob Christmas

I like it. To me, that's what it's all about. You'd like to be able to win those big games. We're excited about it.

Doug Jolley

I like it, I'm excited. It's real similar to the offense that I had at Oakland my first year. I think it's a good fit for me and the other tight ends, so I'm real excited for it.

Courtney Smith

I'm not gonna get excited about it, but I want one.

C.C. Sabathia

I'm not excited about what happened. Nobody ever likes to get hit around. But I felt good. I really did.

Paul Gray

I'm not excited about giving up that property on a permanent basis.

David Kirsch

I'm excited that Gov. Taft has thought of us.

Andy Johnson

Some people think that because it's a threatened species, that every one we save is good. But not if they never get to live in the wild.

Andrew Niccol

Some people think 'Lord of War' is a political film,

Daniel Petrocelli

Some people think it's a waste of time to go to trial here.

Liam Hemsworth

Southern people remind me a lot of Australia.

Jim Anderson

So we're trying to let people know that we will automatically enroll them in Part D and there is no premium at all,

Susan Murray

So we're telling people they should know what they're paying.

Mark Rylance

So there's a lot of people tied into believing that the traditional response to the authorship question. In terms of actors, some people get very angry about it.

E. O. Wilson

so that the will of the people can be upheld.

J. J. Johnson

Once you go out and start making plays, they don't say that anymore, ... You just have to play and show people what you can do.