Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ben Vereen

As far as working with Chita Rivera, all I can say is it's a dream come true. Her artistry and discipline and dedication is a joy to be around.

Stewart Cink

Augusta was always a place where you could have a lot of fun and you could demonstrate an artistic talent for strategy around the golf course. Now it's not.

Mark Joseph

Ralph is not only a man of accomplishment, but a man of integrity. Those of us who knew and loved Bob are confident that Ralph is just the kind of artist that he hoped would one day take the stage.

Steve Swallow

Producing is a great deal more stressful than playing for me, and for this reason I've been doing less of it lately. But it's a service I like to perform. I certainly see producing as a service to the artist who's asked for help. What the producer does is entirely a response to what the artist needs. It can be very gratifying work. The trick is to do as little as possible, only what the artist can't or won't do for himself.

E. B. White

People can spend $3000 on an artist whose work isn't worth the material it's painted on, and there's no CV, no certificate of authenticity, no guarantees the work is original,

Jim Lee

People ask me, 'What happened in your life that might have pushed you as an artist to get to where you are today?' I always felt a little on the outside. And as such, you're always observing things. So, I'd be kind of re-creating these things in my mind, and I think drawing it was a way to deal with that.

Emma Goldman

Oscar Wilde defines a perfect personality as ""one who develops under perfect conditions, who is not wounded, maimed, or in danger."" A perfect personality, then, is only possible in a state of society where man is free to choose the mode of work, the conditions of work, and the freedom to work. One to whom the making of a table, the building of a house, or the tilling of the soil, is what the painting is to the artist and the discovery to the scientist -- the result of inspiration, of intense longing, and deep interest in work as a creative force.

Vincent Van Gogh

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

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.

Jess Blackburn

As far as their marketing goes, that's marketing. We continue to have a very solid relationship with Intel and nothing has changed in that respect. We probably are their largest customer; we shipped 10 million systems in the fourth quarter. I don't think any supplier is going to ignore a customer that is building that many systems and using that many of their parts in them.

Robert Moeller

The building was put up for sale, ... and I had a thought that maybe we ought to consider trying to buy it. And then a couple of other people expressed the same thought to me.

Marta Howell

The building that has been the museum's home since 1938 was never designed for that purpose. It was originally a cavernous convention center and hockey rink that despite the outstanding efforts of museum staff and volunteers over the years, has been a difficult space in which to produce exhibits.

Dick Hoyt

The buildings were shaking, I think, when we came down that street. The crowds just picked us up and carried us.

Anik Fournier

The buildings of the Third Reich had a very strong neo-classic design. They were supposed to last for a long time.

Jill Williams

The buildings of the museum are Spanish-Colonial revival style.

Tom Wilson

The building name itself is fairly sacred. We are, have been and plan on staying the Palace of Auburn Hills.

Brian Clarke

The building just swayed one way and just kept going yards, yards further,

Charles Gargano

The building itself, except for the first 150 to 200 vertical feet, will be the same.

Marin Cilic

Probably around 14, when I was finishing primary school. I'm coming from a pretty small city in Croatia, not too many options to train, not too many players. So I had to either choose to stay at home to do more school or move to Zagreb to the national training center. That was when I made decisions to do something better in tennis.

Gary Smith

The music we choose is very diverse. And that's deliberate. That's part of the message of the convention.

Greg Allen

Teams will always feel some sort of pressure. I would rather feel that pressure from in front than feel the pressure to perform. We like having a target on our backs. That way you choose to prove if you are good enough.

Nathaniel Bronner

Sometimes there is no easy way out, but there is always an easier way out and a harder way out. Choose wisely.

Peggy Neumann

Pregnancy is something that we should consider long and hard. If we choose to get pregnant, it is a decision that I encourage people to look forward to and to enjoy.

Michael Sullivan

Pushing kids to read at a higher level is actually counterproductive, ... Let them choose whatever they want to read.

Lynnlea Holdman

(Pupils) get to choose any person from history and it can be someone who is living or has passed.

S. Hughes

Realistically, I've only been skating for five years. I know if I do choose to go for another Games, I'll physiologically still be in my prime as a female athlete. It's a matter of what I want to do.

Jerry Johns

There will be those people who choose to ignore the law.

Javier Solana

Once these conditions are fulfilled, the European Union will stand ready to continue to support the Palestinian economic development and democratic state building.

Jeff Choate

Depending upon the conditions and the situation in the game, I think that's a reasonable expectation. I think these guys would rather go out there than play the field position game with a punt.

George Morris

These conditions are life-threatening and dangerous to the horses and the riders.

Bill Green

It was a horrible time. Dirt drifted up and covered barbed-wire fences. Conditions were much worse than they are today because we have learned a lot about soil conservation in 70 years.

Ryler DeHeart

The seeding and conditions don't matter. We're going to go in there and dominate.

Kofi Annan

When economic conditions are difficult, people tend to be less generous and protect themselves; the question of solidarity doesn't mean much to them at that time.

Stuart Miller

Even the currently cooling housing conditions will give us an opportunity to perform well into 2007. We've already seen some recovery in the traffic patterns in our major markets.

Mike Gimbel

Every single one of those conditions is preventable, but many kids are just not getting the message.

Joe Tucker

As the conditions are now, if we had a repeat of Hurricane Beulah, we'd have disastrous flooding in the Valley. We really need funds to make improvements.

Mike Daly

After working with Tierney for nearly three years as our PR partner, we were not surprised by their strong strategic and creative expertise.

Todd Bertuzzi

I've always felt unbelievable on the big ice. You get a lot more space and a lot more opportunity to be creative and do things out there.

Ron Vos

The music industry isn't spending a lot of money (on promotion) lately. Things are tightening up, but that just means we have to be more creative -- which I love.

Brad Baughan

Spencer looks solid. He's going to be a very strong weapon. We have creative players going laterally and we were really missing someone like him who can play in the middle.

Malorie Blackman

Teenagers are some of the most passionate, dynamic and creative people I know. Yet, too often, this creative spark is left to flicker precariously and sometimes fade entirely.

Seth Green

I've worked on some really fun movies with some really creative and fun people and this is the most talented ... group I've ever worked with. We just had such a great time. The stuff you see in the movie is 30 percent of what happened. I wish that we had been filming it all the time because it was so much fun,

Peter Liguori

I very much enjoy the creative banter with Steven,

Michael Montalto

The shoes don't make themselves. You have to be creative to make sure the shoe will fit properly afterwards.

Kate Walsh

These days, knitting and crocheting clothing, accessories and home decor items is as much a sanity saver or a social outlet as they are a creative effort.

William Cullen Bryant

Deep in the brightness of the skiesThe thronging years in glory rise.And, as they fleet,Drop strength and riches at thy feet.

Peter Schultz

Deep Impact lived up to its name and more. But there are undoubtedly more surprises to be pulled out of the treasure trove of data.

Ariel Sharon

deepening its involvement in incitement, violence and terror.

Greg Sims

Deep down, we knew we were better than that. For the kids that have been in the program, this wasn't acceptable.

Lance Wilson

Deep down, that feeling is there. But you have to be ready for every game. If you want to run the table, every night is the same challenge.

Venus Williams

Deep down I'm disappointed I'm not able to be ranked higher,

Judy McGrath

Colette's experience demonstrates her deep understanding of the complexities of a global business. I know she'll be an outstanding leader in our company, and I am extremely pleased to have her join our team.

Terry Teachout

A play is not a play until it's performed, and unless it's a one-person play that is acted, directed and designed by the author, many other people will be deeply involved in the complicated process that leads to its performance.

Thomas a Kempis

An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.

Bruce Arena

What defines where you can rate yourself is the World Cup. You have to show what you are about at the World Cup. Hopefully we will get to show what we can do.

Clare Balding

Sport develops your brain. It helps your learning. It's not an add-on at the end of the day.

Paul Tagliabue

We had good support from the Players Association recognizing that it develops players, ... I think NFL Europe is an important piece of our international development. They had a very successful year this year and last year.

Peter Klein

Sugar in fruit only develops on the trees. Fruit never gets sweeter after it's picked,

David Bishop

It's very important as digital develops to keep the (retail) relationship together. Wal-Mart has a very big DVD business, and anything they do on the digital side they need to do with an eye toward their DVD business, and we need to be there with them .

Andrew Lloyd Webber

Because her voice is, it's like the muscles and it develops all the time. That was the fantastic thing for us.

Rahim Wardak

We have to investigate further and see how the situation develops in the future, but we do have reports that there are more suicide bombers,

Bob Stevenson

We're waiting to see what develops out of the committee.

Frank Crane

Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us manhood or womanhood fiber.

Stephen Hawking

We think that life develops spontaneously on Earth, so it must be possible for life to develop on suitable planets elsewhere in the universe. But we don't know the probability that a planet develops life.

Clark Bunting

This is not an infomercial. These are straight-up documentaries that Discovery would do anyway.

Archimedes

Eureka! (I have found it!)

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

The very discovery of the New world was the by-product of a dietary quest.

Jane Hirshfield

A poem's essential discovery can happen at a single sitting. The cascade of discoveries in an essay, or even finding a question worth exploring in one, seems to need roughly the time it takes to plant and harvest a crop of bush beans.

Bryant H. McGill

Every symbol, word, concept, discipline and field is only a temporary rest stop on the highway of discovery.

Jared Diamond

Recent discoveries about apes suggest, however, that a gorilla or common chimp stands at least as good a chance being murdered as the average human.

Barry Goldwater

To my mind the single essential element on which all discoveries will be dependent is human freedom.

Alan Winter

We've got 200 years' worth of scientific discovery and equipment locked away in the basement. All those items - around 6,000 objects - will be put on display.

Patrick White

In fact I enjoyed every minute of my life at King's, especially the discovery of French and German literature.

Bruce Allen

The situation is he's a free agent. He has had interest, he said, from other teams.....Warren is testing the market.

Matt Sundeen

The three most restrictive states are Connecticut, New Jersey and New York which prohibit the use of hand-help phones while driving. So in those states, you can use a hands free device, but you just can't use the hand held phone.

Mark Few

The theme seems to be going toward thug ball. We should be shooting 60 free throws per game.

Adlai E. Stevenson

A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.

Adlai Stevenson

A free society is a place where it's safe to be unpopular

Carl Mattei

After a game like that, to think we were one rebound away and we couldn't get it. I told the kids it comes down to free throws and rebounding.

Mahmud Abbas

after nearly 40 years of occupation, still do not live as free people in their own land.

Atharva Veda

Stress upon the importance of virtuous living free from any kind of sinful tendencies.

Kevin Adams

Once you get into it, it's really interesting and you can see how much you free up officers.

Ayn Rand

It stands to reason that if sacrifices are being given, somebody is collecting sacrifices.

Ayn Rand

The man who produces while others dispose of his product is a slave.

Ayn Rand

Political freedom cannot exist without economic freedom; a free mind and a free market are corollaries.

Ayn Rand

Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).

Kate Bush

The freedom you feel when you're actually in control of your own music is fantastic.

Alan Keyes

Freedom is first of all a responsibility before the God from whom we come.

Alan Dean Foster

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

Clarence Day

It is fair to judge peoples by the rights they will sacrifice most for.

Brad Thor

Freedom of speech includes the freedom to offend people.

Kerry Greenwood

As a child, I would demand that visitors to our house tell me a story. I was intensely interested in everything - still am.

Michael Schiavo

We're an intensely private family. I'm a very private person.

David Maroney

Months may go by when we don't have much contact, and it seems we aren't as intensely involved with the district. Just because it's quiet doesn't mean we're not doing anything.

Mike Kundick

She is probably as intense in the room as you want. She practices right with them.

Evelyn Waugh

Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.

Fiona Apple

For me, the best times are always going to be the most intense, the ones with the highest highs and the lowest lows.

Cesar Cuevas

He's way more intense before playing Danny. He's more aggressive.

Darren McCarty

He's an intense guy. When we step on the ice, we know one way to play.

Jeff Carter

That doesn't surprise me. He plays a pretty intense game.

Michael Armstrong

are not in the consumer's interest and should be denied.

Elouise Cobell

The senator is from Montana, but has never taken an interest in it.

Wendy Cukier

The thing that I'm the most interested in ... are the demographics shifts and the differences between the sort of 15- to 24-year-olds who are going to be the workers of tomorrow and the boomers.

Melissa McCarthy

I've never been interested in playing the boring ingenue. I always wonder: Who's her weird friend? I like the oddballs.

Dave Kraft

I've always been interested in politics but couldn't get involved before because of my career.

David Lagercrantz

I've always been interested in people who think out of their time, and I have this passion, actually, for science. I'm just so enormously interested in how, when you think of these revolutionary ideas, other people get threatened, especially if you are different.

Julie Furbacher

I've always been interested in dogs. I just do it out of love for them.

Tony Richardson

I've always been more interested in the kitchen-sink elements,

Brian Griese

I've always had a lot of respect for Rod, and if they have interest in me, I would love to go up there and see what the interest is.

Scottie Somers

A wise man once told Me that an overnight success takes 10 years. But I may not have 10 Years. I might have to settle for a naptime success.

Claiborne Pell

The secret is to always let the other man have your way.

Henrik Ibsen

The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone.

Mary McDowell

The test of man is how well he is able to feel about what he thinks. The test of a woman is how well she is able to think about what she feels.

Kym Whitley

I've always wanted to be a man for a day.

Capucine

I used to think I needed a man to define myself. Not any more.

Thomas Kempis

Adversities do not make a man frail. They show what sort of man he is.

Lithuanian Proverb

A dunb man won't know any better, and a smart man won't say anything about it!

Jerry Lewis

the most selfish man you will ever meet in your life.

Paul Kemp

That's what modeling does, it makes something real before it happens.

John Sebastian

You're seeing it go down to more moderate homes.

Ashwin Sanghi

Everyone talks about moderation. How about some moderation in moderation?

Mike Dargani

We wanted to do modern Japanese. We wanted to tweak things, to play with ingredients.

Alain Vigneault

We were ready, but nothing transpired. For us, we're just in reaction mode a lot of the time.

Vilhjalmur Stefansson

False modesty is better than none.

Sean Astin

My diet is always terrible, unfortunately. I don't know moderation.

Mason Cooley

A modest demeanor arouses thoughts of seduction.

Robert Mintz

He was a model of contrition on the stand.

Tobey Maguire

It definitely deserved an Oscar, but not a Golden Globe.

Ang Lee

In a year when the Oscars have such an independent spirit, I really treasure this encouragement.

Philippe Falardeau

I don't like ostentatious galas and stuff like that, but if you get to the Oscars, you'd better get used to it and you'd better enjoy it.

Oscar Campos

(We will do) whatever we have to do. One thing is what Oscar (Arias) thinks today and another thing is what he's going to have to think tomorrow.

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.

Brian Johnson

Painting is so much more than the materials.

Blaise Pascal

Eloquence is the painting of thought ...

Alfred Sisley

The animation of the canvas is one of the hardest problems of painting.

Robert Henri

There are forms that can only be seen when you are near a painting, others only appear when you are far away.

Tom Wolfe

Frankly, these days, without a theory to go with it, I can't see a painting.

Steve Martin

It was easier to sell a painting that was not for sale.

Steve Coogan

I like the transience of Klimt paintings.

Ned Yost

It would have had to been a perfect feed. Reyes is very fast.

Zhang Yuanyuan

This is not a perfect world. If we have problems, we have to find ways to solve them without stopping trade.

Chris Santella

The weather is perfect now for playing a round or two.

Frank Deford

That's what makes them so perfect -- they were two different sides of the same coin,

Archie Manning

You can't be 100% perfect, but try to evaluate things and do what's right. If you just make every effort to do the right thing, you'll come out ok. It comes down to priorities and making good decisions.

Ben Okri

The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell.

Jane Fonda

All my life I had believed that unless I was perfect I would not be loved.

Jane Fonda

We're not meant to be perfect. It took me a long time to learn that.

Catherine Keener

Most times when people pitch you as being perfect for a part... they don't look at you as an actor who can transform. A lot of people are so literal.

Madhavan Nair

ISRO has made all security arrangements and put on red alert. We are taking all possible steps.

Kiki Vandeweghe

for working with us to make this possible so quickly.

Sean McCormack

She raised (the case) in the strongest possible terms." ()

Pete Carroll

If I'm lucky, I can see 7-8 possible recruits at these meets.

Nick Harper

I was trying to get it as soon as possible and get to where there were no defenders, find a clearing, and score.

Asaf Shariv

We have to prepare for the worst possible scenario.

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.

Greg Aiello

This is not a result of any specific threat.

Ben Hatfield

We are very discouraged by the results of this test.

John Thorne

The result was very predictable: Nothing. They went back to the Braves.

Will Herring

What that was a result of, I don't know. But whatever it was, we're going to get it fixed.

Rafael Benitez

We will wait to see the result of the scan.

Peter Drucker

Leadership is all about getting results.

Peter Drucker

Results is all that separates one company from another.

N. T. Wright

The gospel is not itself about you are this sort of a person and this can happen to you. That's the result of the gospel rather than the gospel itself.

John Wooden

Be more concerned with what you can do for others than what others can do for you. You’ll be surprised at the results.

Ben Okri

I was going to be a scientist.

Arthur Koestler

Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity.

Tim Berners-Lee

Physicists analyze systems. Web scientists, however, can create the systems.

Harrison Ford

Nothing shocks me. I'm a scientist.

Alan Alda

I must have interviewed 600 or 700 scientists all around the world.

Alan Alda

I think it's important for scientists to speak in their own voices and not just be mediated by journalists or others speaking for them.

Fabiola Gianotti

We will have to be very vigilant that young female scientists have the same opportunities as their male colleagues.

Arthur Balfour

Society, dead or alive, can have no charm without intimacy and no intimacy without an interest in trifles.

Albert Einstein

Is it not a terrible thing to be forced by society to do things which all of us as individuals regard as abominable crimes?

Thomas Jefferson

A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society.

Robert Burns

Morality, thou deadly bane,Thy tens o' thousands thou has slain!

Richard Mitchell

You can shoot the tiger, or stay out of his way, but you cannot pronounce him a vegetarian.

Kin Hubbard

Very often the quiet fellow has said all he knows

Michel de Montaigne

We are nothing but ceremony; ceremony carries us away, and we leave the substance of things; we hang on to the branches and abandon the trunk and body.

George Bernard Shaw

Imprisonment, as it exists today, is a worse crime than any of those committed by its victims.

Roger Smith

By the turn of this century, we will live in a paperless society.

Mario Garcia

Automatically in the state of Arizona, if you're over 80,000 pounds, you get fined,

Don Stewart

Are we in violation of any state statutes?

Steve Kendall

The thought was the state was going to do something.

Mike McCurry

there will be steps that the United States will take." ()

Tiffany Fisher

It was very frustrating. (Heritage Christian) was better defensively than any of the teams we've played. They were a lot quicker. They were just better. That's why they're state champions.

Robert Hansen

The state is already telling us what to teach

Steve Mottinger

These are things the state wants you to forget.

Mark Johnson

This isn't about us wanting something now. This is about what we want our state to be 50 or 100 years from now. If we wait another 50 to 100 years, it'll be gone.

P. J. Harvey

That's what the controversy is all about, ... That the state wants to give it up.

Kristin Baker

I've matured. I think I work better with the team.

James Marsh

I've always worked very efficiently on small budgets, both in documentaries and in features.

Amanda Hale

I've come to realise I work so much better when I'm going by instinct.

Luis Castillo

This is terrible. Very disappointing. I've got to get back out there. There's so many things I have to work on.

Bryson Sumlin

That's not in the playbook, ... That's just excitement. Everything worked as clockwork.

Boris Yeltsin

I understand that it's hard for everyone, but one cannot give in to emotions... we'll have to draw lessons from the current crisis and now we'll have to work on overcoming it.

Auguste Rodin

Where shall we begin? There is no beginning. Start where you arrive. Stop before what entices you. And work! You will enter little by little into the entirety. Method will be born in proportion to your interest.

Jane Fonda

The harder you work out, the more you should stretch.

Kent McCord

Some of the greatest writers in our industry can't get work.