Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Bukowski

the way to create art is to burn and destroy ordinary concepts and to substitute them with new truths that run down from the top of the head and out of the heart

Andy Goldsworthy

I have worked with this red all over the world - in Japan, California, France, Britain, Australia - a vein running round the earth. It has taught me about the flow, energy and life that connects one place with another.

Andy Goldsworthy

I've laid down in dried up streambeds, leaving a shadow. And then, five minutes later, it's flash flooded, and where I once laid is now running water, which would've washed me away, you know? There's that power and danger often in places that look so calm and pastoral to begin with.

Andrew Marvell

Thus, though we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run

Andrew Mason

I didn't realize how hard it was to run a small business.

Andrew Marvell

Let us roll all our strength, and all Our sweetness, up into one ball: And tear our pleasures with rough strife, Through the iron gates of life. Thus, though we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run.

Amy Pascal

You can't run a company simply by the numbers. So if you're going to bet on someone, you bet on someone you want to be in business with for a long time.

Amy Pascal

I run a business. People want to work for less money, I pay them less money. ... Women shouldn’t be so grateful. Know what you’re worth. Walk away.

Amy Klobuchar

For me, one of my earliest memories of politics where I thought that I could do anything was when Walter Mondale of Minnesota picked Geraldine Ferraro as his running mate. I literally remember what she wore - the red dress, the white pearls. And I saw that, and I thought anything is possible.

Art Buchwald

A bad liver is to a Frenchman what a nervous breakdown is to an American. Everyone has had one and everyone wants to talk about it.

Eckhart Tolle

If peace is really what you want, then you will choose peace.

Duncan Sheik

I feel fortunate about being able to make the music I want to make and getting away with it

Douglas Horton

We may not always get what we want, but surely we will get what we deserve.

Douglas Hofstadter

I would like to understand things better, but I don’t want to understand them perfectly.

Douglas Coupland

Life always kills you in the end, but first it prevents you from getting what you want.

Douglas Coupland

If you want to get close to somebody, you have to tell him or her something intimate about yourself. They'll tell you something intimate in return, and if you keep this going, maybe you'll end up in love.

Douglas Coupland

Anyway, I want to remember that love can happen. Because there is life after not having a life. I never expected love to happen. What was I expecting from life, then?

Douglas Coupland

So where do you start when you want to start your life again?

John Noble

I was a very lucky actor.

Mariah Carey

I'm really fortunate. I'm really happy, and I'm really really lucky to be where I am.

Margaret Thatcher

We only need to be lucky once. You need to be lucky every time.

Peter Morgan

Sometimes you are lucky enough to get offered things and there is no rhyme or reason.

Peter Lynch

If you're lucky enough to have been rewarded in life to the degree that I have, there comes a point at which you have to decide whether to become a slave to your net worth by devoting the rest of your life to increasing it or to let what you've accumulated begin to serve you.

Monica Bellucci

I'm a lucky person because I've been loved a lot. I have a great family.

Terry Goodkind

Once lucky, twice confident, and thrice dead.

Lewis Thomas

Things are bound to begin happening if you've got your wits about you. You create the lucky accidents.

Simon Beaufoy

I'm very lucky. I actually like screenwriting. I rarely feel a sense of doom going to my desk.