Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ken Hill

Music is an art form too. Sometimes other forms of art can be inspiring to the musician.

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.

Susan Vreeland

I write about art out of gratitude to painters for the joy and spiritual uplift they have given me. Painters interpret for us the visual glories of God and, in this way, bring us closer to Him.

Dennis Conner

It basically was an art before. We're just starting to scratch it into a science.

Adoniram Judson

I take leave of Prome and her towering god, Shwa Lan-dau, at whose base I have been laboring with the kindest intentions for the last three months and a half. Too firmly founded art thou to be overthrown at present; but the children of those who now plaster thee with gold will yet pull thee down, nor leave one brick upon another.

John Minton

I actually started college as an art major, so I do have a semi-developed visual sense. I just don't have the chops to do it myself anymore. But with Matt, I only have to give him a general concept or whatever, and he takes it over the moon. Whatever he winds up with is always better than I could even dream.

John Allen

He is very concerned about how his art was misinterpreted. He's a great kid and it's obviously a mistake.

Stephen Jones

Kid books can get cute and a-d-o-r-a-b-l-e. Garfield says cute rots the intellect. Don't forget the name of the cat! You pick up cats the wrong way and they stop being adorable...they become Scratch.

James Patterson

Kids say the No. 1 reason they don't read more is that they can't find books they like. Freedom of choice is a key to getting them motivated and excited.

Spike Jonze

Kids are so fiercely opinionated, that if they love the Harry Potter books and they go see the movie, they'll be the first to say, 'That was wrong! They didn't get that right!' They're storytellers themselves. They're critics. They're going to have the critical opinion.

Jan Nash

Just look at the shelves of any bookstore in any airport, and you see how much people love crime and mysteries, how much they love solving puzzles.

Mark Patton

It is a great thing for him to have read so many books. You just don't usually hear that about a first-grader.

Mark Foley

We track library books better than we do sexual predators.

Ray Manchuk

We're optimistic that the new Harry Potter will bring more foot traffic to stores and perhaps become a catalyst to drive sales of other books as well.

Hilaire Belloc

When I am dead, I hope it is said, 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read'.

Chip Kidd

What you must remember about hardcover books is that they are like tattoos. Once you get one, it's never really going to go away.

Daniel Toole

I would stress that the $US805 million ($A1.08 billion) is enough to cope, to meet the minimum requirements of these children. It's not luxury and it is also not emergencies that happen after today.

Daniel Toole

I would stress that the $805 million is enough to cope, to meet the minimum requirements of these children. It's not luxury and it is also not emergencies that happen after today.

Diana Yates

What would have happened to Citigroup under a weaker operating environment?

Wim Kok

It chokes me up, ... This is the most terrible thing that could happen to people.

Russ Knocke

It didn't happen at the same time at all the different places.

Tim Camacho

It didn't happen and everything happens for a reason. These guys, I think, pulled if off for her. She's up there watching.

Jay Wright

I thought West Virginia was just great. It's the Big East. You knew it was going to come some time where someone was going to play a better game. We've just got to make sure it doesn't happen again.

Brian Belski

I think the market is taking a step back and assessing what's really going to happen with the stimulus package.

Rich Teglia

I think their physical size and strength wore us down. It just didn't happen for us today.

Amy Lee

I really do listen to all types of music, not only rock, but everything from good pop music - which is usually older pop music - to RB and indie rock. I love indie rock more than a lot of the commercial stuff that you'd expect.

Andrew Bird

What's cool about indie rock is that one band can do effectively the same thing as another band, and one band nails it, and the other one doesn't. I like that elusiveness.

Michael Azerrad

Now that the generation that grew up on '80s indie-rock has attained influential positions in the culture, that music is the new yardstick. And that will shift yet again some day.

Bob Hill

Here's what I really remember about Mike. On Thanksgiving he had us all over in Milan. We all had Thanksgiving at his apartment. It was just a neat day.

Charles Warren

They're like a pet more than anything. I like them because they're neat looking, they're oddities.

Dennis Lehane

The world does not have tidy endings. The world does not have neat connections. It is not filled with epiphanies that work perfectly at the moment that you need them.

Stewart O'Nan

The story is always in service to the characters, and is only as long or short, or neat or ragged as it needs to be.

Nick Reid

To go out on top with a big win like this, it just hasn't sunk in yet. We've come a long way. It's pretty neat to be part of the foundation.

F. Stone

There are probably more (now) than there were 100 years ago. It's kind of neat that they've come back. (Decades ago) they were very, very rare -- anywhere.

Gregory Wasson

I'll compliment on the spot. I want a clean, neat drugstore. I'll check the restrooms and closets.