Famous Quotes & Sayings

Grant Smith

If I painted him I would probably just paint like his eye -- completely just beet red because it had some many drugs in it or something. Or maybe just a zoom in on a forearm or something ... just where it looks like an abstract painting but it's just veins.

C. S. Lewis

Human intellect is incurably abstract.

Willem de Kooning

Even an abstract form has to have a likeness.

Richard Shelton

Our language is polarized. Concrete words are usually the language of poets. Abstract words are usually the language of politicians.

Lynsey Addario

The truth is, the difference between a studio photographer and a photojournalist is the same as the difference between a political cartoonist and an abstract painter; the only thing the two have in common is the blank page. The jobs entail different talents and different desires.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Relativity is inherently convergent, though convergent toward a plurality of centers of abstract truths.

Gary Graves

The difference from project to project is that departure point. In this case, it was really an abstract idea, an issue of citizenship, but it might be a Chekhov short story or a story from 'The Iliad.' You can really fit anything in there, but what's consistent is that the writer and the director are chosen, the actors are all present before the play begins.

Al Capp

Abstract art is a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Sally Singer

They're not collections based on an abstract definition of pretty, it's all what a sophisticated consumer would find charming.

James Callis

When I was at drama school in the U.K., I was there for two and a half years, and we did one week of television and film. It's right before you leave. It's like, 'We've taught you Chekhov and Shakespeare; you are likely to be in a washing-up soap-liquid commercial.'

Peter Capaldi

My parents didn't take me to the theatre to see Chekhov when I was growing up - we went to see 'Francie and Josie' once every five years.

Tom Stoppard

I think probably I've been influenced by Chekhov and Walt Disney, if you see what I mean.

Jessie Stricchiola

We've seen a consistent downward trend in responsiveness to submitted activity.

Steve Schultze

We thought we could do it in a couple of years, but it finally happened and it's real exciting for the kids, for the community, for the school, for our program. Our whole motto this year is 'Nothing but greatness.' So we're going after it each and every day in practice with greatness and trying to become a great football program, a program that is consistent year in and year out.

Alec Stewart

England have been consistent in the past where if someone has made themselves unavailable for some of the winter, then they have been made unavailable for the whole winter by the selectors.

Holly Brown

Devin stayed within herself and relied on her mechanics. She's been one of our most consistent hitters.

Chris Smith

You have to have that consistent effort ... to win the game, period.

Bill Bavasi

This was a pretty high priority for us in the off-season. The signing for us is terrific because there's so few real quality left or switch-hitters that can operate in the middle of the lineup and be as consistent as Raul. We wanted to lock him up.

Bill Tolpegin

We're going to be consistent with our pricing.

Chris Petersen

We talked last year about him taking the next step there, and that didn't happen for whatever reason where we wanted him to. Did he get better? He did. He got better on occasion, but he wasn't the consistent guy that we needed.

Justin Griffith

We ain't very big, but we're consistent in what we're trying to do, and we'll stay at it, ... If we get a 2-yard gain on a run, that's a plus for us, we're happy. Other teams, they get a 2-yard gain, they're hanging their heads. We're thinking, 'Hey, second-and-8, we can go on, we still have the ball.'

Keith Schwer

Since month-to-month variation is anticipated, the most recent information suggests only a modest departure from the strong upward trend.

Gary Schatsky

If you have a choice, pick a different departure date.

Ed Colligan

People underestimate the difference between a great product and just a product.

Joel Edgerton

People talk about the difference between working on stage and working on film. I think you could say that there are as many differences between working on low budget films and working on big budget films. You really are doing the same thing, but at the same time you're doing something vastly different as well.

Stephen Rand

After all the brinkmanship this is good news. It's good news because it will make a real difference to some of the world's poorest people.

Barry Schuler

We are all 99.9 percent genetically equal. It is one one-hundredth of one percent of genetic material that makes the difference between any one of us.

Brad Pitt

This is our last chance to make a difference. If you're like me, you don't want to have to ask yourself on the day after the election, what else could I have done?

Jane Goodall

Above all we must realize that each of us makes a difference with our life. Each of us impacts the world around us every single day. We have a choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place - or not to bother

James Weldon Johnson

When one has seen something of the world and human nature, one must conclude, after all, that between people in like stations of life there is very little difference the world over.

Jared Diamond

History followed different courses for different peoples because of differences among peoples' environments, not because of biological differences among peoples themselves

Barry Schuler

We are all 99.9 percent genetically equal. It is one one-hundredth of one percent of genetic material that makes the difference between any one of us.

Asia Argento

I've worked with very few directors who've asked of me what I asked of myself.

Boyd Holbrook

There are all kinds of directors I want to work with and all kinds of films that I want to do.

Kristen Stewart

There are things that directors know about me that people shouldn't know. But everyone's really different. I've worked with women who I've never wanted to tell anything about myself to, and I've worked with guys who have been pouring wells of emotion. So emotional availability is not a gender-specific thing.

Alan Cumming

It's really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves.

Kevin McDonald

He sort of gets comic moments. Not a lot of directors do.

Douglas Sirk

A director in Hollywood in my time couldn't do what he wanted to do.

Ray Walston

I have worked with some very great directors.

Stephen Chow

I like working as a director most.

Mike White

As a director or writer, you have to be so controlling.

Andrew Walpole

We are hopeful he will be fit for the first Test.

Bobby Robson

Jermaine Jenas is a fit lad. He gets from box to box in all of 90 minutes

Catherine Campbell

We wanted one place where Jamie could fit in with everyone else, where it wasn't as noticeable he was different.

Thomas Fuller

He who cures a disease may be the skillfullest, but he that prevents it is the safest physician.

Herman Edwards

We're going to try to fit him with a brace and see where he's at.

Greg Roy

The time down in Florida was more of a training time. This weekend will be an indication of where we are with our fitness and our readiness.

A. A. Milne

A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.

Thomas Jefferson

Exercise and application produce order in our affairs, health of body, cheerfulness of mind, and these make us precious to our friends

Nicki Minaj

Refuse to lose, Refuse to be defeated, Refuse to have regrets.

Roxane Gay

Definitely, there is a sense in my writing that people now know me in a personal way. And to an extent, that's true because I write about very personal things, and I use the personal often to contextualize some of these sociopolitical issues that we're dealing with. And to an extent, they're right. They know something about me.

Fred Harran

Anything that a pedophile can utilize to find the location of the child. These people are smart, just because they have issues doesn't mean they're stupid.

Charles Bass

There are things I want to get done, and If I can reconnect where I was before, working on the issues I'm interested in, that's exciting to me.

James Wolfensohn

The first thing that you need to deal with is the issue of equity and poverty.

Diane Duane

The issues of the choice between right and wrong has to be an ongoing concern for everybody, at every age. There is no magical point in a human life when anyone is or becomes immune to the second-by-second choice to do right instead of wrong.

Craig Kilborn

President Bush said John Kerry is on both sides of every issue. And Kerry replied, 'No, I'm not ... but there is some truth to that.'

David Nabarro

The real issue will be how the money is going to be managed and how we are going to coordinate.

Elbert Hubbard

God looked upon His work and saw that it was good. That is where the clergy take issue with him.

Sonya Boralv

We just learned of this issue and are looking into it.

Jim Tracy

A very wonderful note, I might add. A very professionally done thing.

Adelaide Anne Procter

No star is ever lost we once have seen, we always may be what we might have been.

Peter Beattie

The money might be better off used for things like law-and- order initiatives, schools and hospitals,

Pat Davis

The technician will see if the AC system is an old one or in need of repair. A suggestion might then be made to upgrade to a more energy-efficient system.

John Butler

See, I might have screwed the whole thing up in Buffalo,

Don Haskins

I spent 18 months, off and on, with the script writer. I might as well have not spent one second with him.

Gordon Strachan

You might as well scrap offside now if you are not going to rule that offside.

Bret Harte

If, of all words of tongue and pen, The saddest are, It might have been,' More sad are these we daily see: 'It is, but hadn't ought to be!'

Pat Olmi

We might go over there and watch 'em. We can sit back and rest a little bit.

Robin Oakley

were very much trying to present themselves as reluctant warriors. They were very much reacting to demonstrations of public opinion.

Ryan Evanochko

That was just the shot that presented itself. I tried to take my time and find an opening.

Doug Anderson

I think we need to put it in a referendum and present it to the people,

Warren Harding

America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration.

Shannon Davis

They put together a scholarship and presented it to me,

Carlo Ciampi

A project once seen as utopian has become reality,

Jim Soukup

The whole project should take about two weeks.

Jerry Smith

This is a project that is desperately needed,

Lou Duggan

This project would have never worked if it hadn't come from the youth in this town. They've come up with things we never would have thought of.

Roberta Williams

At the end of a project I get very weird, you know, in my head because I'm not doing it. It's like an addiction. I have to do it.

Stanley Tucci

And I love doing my own projects; that's what I've always wanted to do.

Evan Glodell

I hope I don't have to act in one of my own projects again.

David Bowers

One of the things that stands out about this project is how it was funded.

Jennifer Connelly

I'm so happy in the projects that I'm able to make, to be involved in projects like this. This isn't always where it was at for me, I started working when I was a kid. I'm just a different person now, I'm 30. I started working when I was 11 and it's a different ballgame.

David Lynch

There are only 24 hours in a day, and my top priority is working on my films, but I love short film experiments.

Andre Dubus

I love short stories because I believe they are the way we live. They are what our friends tell us, in their pain and joy, their passion and rage, their yearning and their cry against injustice.

Larry Wall

If you're going to define a shortcut, then make it the base [sic] darn shortcut you can.

Eknath Easwaran

I like to remind my friends frequently how short life is. This is the important message of death: not a day to waste, not a day to quarrel, not a day to brood upon yourself. This is not losing the joy of life; this is gaining the joy of life.

Mackenzie Astin

Life can only be understood backwards.

Tim Bedwell

We are short on the street, but they're in the pipeline.

John Dos Passos

If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

Meg Rosoff

The more you live, the better writer you are.

Brian K. Vaughan

There are probably writers who are much more visual than I am and some who are less. I like to think of myself as a happy medium.

Charlaine Harris

Well, you know, writers just suck up new experiences - we're just like the vacuum cleaners of newness.

John Irving

I sometimes think that what I do as a writer is make a kind of colouring book, where all the lines are there, and then you put in the colour.