Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Rose Rosetree

Gwen has a very complicated, artistic temperament. It's intense, but she's OK with it. She's learned to let it fuel her artistic life.

Graham Elliot

I'm inspired by artists who use a limited palette, like painter Piet Mondrian, and the White Stripes, two musicians who create an incredible sound. Our food is starting to go back to a 'less is more' style.

Gore Verbinski

My respect for artists is very high. I think to get the most out of them, you have to liberate them. I think part of liberating them is saying, 'Come up with something brilliant, new, and fresh. Stop thinking based on what has been beat into you by executives or publishers in terms of what's going to work and what's not. Don't react, just act.'

Q-Tip

The song, 'Life is Better,' is about hip-hop. It's about my love for hip-hop. And, you know, I go through all the artists from the beginning to the end, you know. And, well, not to the end, but since the beginning to now, you know.

Mary Lambert

Going from someone playing 15-people venues to performing at the Grammys, it was this giant leap and sort of showed me it was possible with what I wanted to do and the kind of music I wanted to write and artist I want to be to impact a lot of people.

E. O. Wilson

He's got strong programs. He's got a lot of the basics and he could come through. The material and artistry are there. He's a player (for an Olympic medal), for sure.

Atharva Veda

HOLD all your property and wealth in trust for the Lord who gave them to you; even your family you must treat as a sacred trust, as persons given to you by the Lord to love, foster and guide. Thus, you must elevate your attachment into worship and make it an instrument for spiritual progress.

Ben Karlin

It's funny to us -- we have no attachment to the couch. The couch is so incongruous with the show. One thing that's been made really clear over the last few years is that it's not a talk show. We don't know what it is. It's a thing unto itself.

Jeff Lengyel

Or you can e-mail a compressed version of the image as an attachment for quick viewing, but keep the high-resolution version on the camera.

Atharva Veda

THE selfishness fouling your love is veiling divinity from your vision. What is the reason for the selfishness which is veiling divinity from us? It is simply our attachment to the body; It is the weakness of our mind and our enslavement to our senses.

Adam Mansbach

Novels are pirated all the time, but it's hard to imagine that you're at work and you open up the attachment that your brother sent you and it's the new Phillip Roth novel.

Bodhidharma

The essence of the Way is detachment. And the goal of those who practice is freedom from appearances.

Edgar Allan Poe

All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.

Dave Pelzer

I had an attachment disorder.

Jacques Chirac

Tonight, France has reaffirmed its attachment to values of the Republic.

Tom Inman

All things being equal, I'm glad we won by two points in overtime rather than 32. I'm disturbed we lost a 16-point lead.

Mary Mulrenan

As a police department, we're disturbed and concerned. It's a horrific finding.

Michael Grant

We were disturbed the president moved too slowly, that FEMA looked too disorganized.

Ann Cooper

We're disturbed to see the number of jailed journalists rise, and we're particularly troubled that the list of worst abusers now includes Ethiopia and the United States.

B. F. Skinner

We're disturbed by that. You want to go out and respect the opponent and respond to that. We didn't take it as a challenge. We just went with the flow. Quite honestly, the game's over. We have to get ready for league play.

Joan Miles

We're very disturbed by this incident and are exploring what we can do to ensure that this won't happen again.

Elliot Mintz

The timing of this is macabre. (Ono) thinks it's outrageous. ... It sends out a message to other disturbed people that killing is a way to fame.

Dave Johnston

It disturbed the water and made it muddy, ... But it has less turbidity than what a typical rainstorm would cause.

Mary Pipher

The fullness of life comes from an identity built on giving and on joy.

Carl Jung

Meaninglessnes s inhibits fullness of life and is therefore the equivalent to illness. Meaning makes a great many things endurable--perh aps everything.

Gottfried Leibniz

And as every state of a simple substance is a natural consequence of its preceding state, so that the present state of it is big with the future.

Leo Strauss

I cannot know anything of which there is and can be only one.

Arthur Schopenhauer

We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves to be like other people.

Peter Elander

I think (the Canadians') forwards are better than their defense. They don't have to practice much defense.

Robert Neelly Bellah

It's clear all the way through history that practices are primary and beliefs are secondary.

Samuel Butler

In practice it is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is sometimes extremely difficult to find this out.

Sally Ride

Even though NASA tries to simulate launch, and we practice in simulators, it's not the same - it's not even close to the same.

Will Rogers

Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation.

Twyla Tharp

Perfect practice makes perfect.

Trofim Lysenko

Agricultural practice served Darwin as the material basis for the elaboration of his theory of Evolution, which explained the natural causation of the adaptation we see in the structure of the organic world. That was a great advance in the knowledge of living nature.

Wilhelm Keitel

A field marshal who issued orders to the armed forces but had no idea of the results they would have in practice.

Walter Lippmann

Whether or not birth control is eugenic, hygienic, and economic, it is the most revolutionary practice in the history of sexual morals.

Nafisa Joseph

Most important was to remain focused and always have presence of mind.

Tagg Romney

You just couldn't be in George Romney's presence without some of his goodness and integrity wearing off on you.

Jeffrey Montgomery

We just thought it would be important to have a presence right here ... a place to relax a little bit, warm up and find out what's going on around town.

Andrew Speller

Certainly, this is going to strengthen their presence in the specialty pharmacy marketplace.

Javier Sambrano

Our presence has really been more about monitoring the students for safety than anything else.

Leslie Sloane

Yes, she has been released and she is doing better.

Bob Johnson

For someone who has been convicted, served his time and is now released and rehabilitated, they have a right to work as well.

Alan Rusbridger

We're overjoyed that Rory has been released safe and sound.