Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ad Reinhardt

I was drafted in '45 and I was a sailor for a year. They didn't know what to do with me so they made a sort of photographer out of me.

Howard Finster

And since they wasn't able to turn my art over, I sort of just switched off to Phyllis Kind, she's really my agent. She has a gallery in Chicago.

Henry Ossawa Tanner

Many of the artists who have represented Negro life have seen only the comic, ludicrous side of it, and have lacked sympathy with and appreciation for the warm big heart that dwells within such a rough exterior.

Henry Ossawa Tanner

I decided on the spot that I would be an artist, and I assure you, it was no ordinary artist I had in mind.

Bill Sienkiewicz

You're telling the story, creating the sets, doing the lighting, the designing, and establishing the pace.

Edward Hopper

Maybe I am not very human - what I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.

Andrew Wyeth

One's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes.

Pat Casey

This is the best conference in the nation from top to bottom without question. It is a great benchmark to have that we are not happy that we didn't sweep Arizona. That is the way we feel about ourselves. As a club, we thought we should have swept.

Chris Clarke

We really had to work her in and out. Michelle Dirks did a great job, got a few rebounds, hit her free throws, a few shots ... Our bench hadn't scored any points in the tournament so far and we challenged those kids today ... They're a huge reason we won this game.

Steven Wieting

Benchmark revisions could completely recast underlying data, in which case January forecasts won't be useful.

Mike Hall

I don't recall specifically what happened. We just got tangled up. I was so caught up in the moment and trying to win the game when it happened. ... There was a lot of commotion and when I saw their coach out on the court, I walked over to our bench so I wouldn't get caught up in the middle of anything.

Dwayne Jones

I think our team has a lot of good scorers, so I'm not going to try to come off the bench and score 20 points.

Mike Barnett

It can have the same effect on the bench as a player taking it end to end on a scoring rush,

Bobby Cox

He meant everything to us. He was one of our biggest contributors here for 3 1/2 years, I can honestly say that. Still can play defense, come off the bench and hit the best pitcher in baseball. Makes no difference to him.

Ken Stewart

If Kathy had a council with stronger councillors on it she may have been able to do a better job of it, ... Kathy's got the interests of our community at heart, she just needs more bench strength.

Jarrid Rodriguez

If I wrestle in college it will be as a heavyweight and I'll have to bulk up a whole lot more. In a way, it sucks, but it wouldn't bother me. I'll be able to chow down instead of cutting weight constantly. I've weighed as much as 250 pounds and that's when I maxed out on the bench press at 485 pounds. So I guess being at heavyweight would be all right.

Ricky Davis

You saw it right here on the stand, ... Right in front of you.

B. R. Hayden

We have a rule for that, but I don't have it in front of me,

Phil Cline

There's really only one way out and one way in. Once he's inside and by that front door, he's got them cornered.

Jorge Posada

There's nothing he could do. I'm right in front of the plate.

John Swiatek

We were learning what we were doing while we were doing it! We put a front office staff together, and we put a marketing plan together, and we just went for it.

Steve Watkins

Making the team is not in the front of my mind at all. I just wanted to come in here and show them what I can do.

Robbie Coltrane

Ninety percent of people's nightmares is standing in front of 1,000 people. Did you know that? And having to speak. You would have thought it would have been a madman tying you up and taking your eyes out.

Bill Wilson

(My grandmother) used to tell me how pretty it was with a lake out in front of it. So it kind of stimulated my interest in taking part in this and doing something with it.

Lindsey Jacobellis

Getting out in front first and staying in front usually works.

Richard Gordon

Of the 300 houses in the area, only three are left that are not covered.

Grover Norquist

I've been in the White House more in the last two weeks than I was in the last two years.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed there.

C. S. Lewis

Imagine yourself as a living house.

Coco Chanel

It's not houses I love, it's the life I live in them.

Donald Trump

So in our shared mission to make America great again, I support and endorse our Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan.

Adam Sandler

I've always had lots of friends and my house was the house they all hung out at.

Amy Poehler

Prince Harry this week toured the Jersey Shore with New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. It was the first meeting between the Prince, of the House of Windsor, and the Governor, of the House of Pancake.

Douglas Adams

Ford looked at him severely. And no sneaky knocking down Mr Dent's house whilst he's away, alright?" he said. The mere thought," growled Mr Prosser, "hadn't even begun to speculate," he continued, settling himself back, "about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.

Jeffrey Sachs

Russia increasingly lived on short-term borrowing. Now, this was an extraordinary merry-go-round.

Jan Jones

He was young and naive. We lived in a different world in 1993.

Andrew Marvell

Had it lived long, it would have been / Lilies without, roses within.

John Kraft

They were the first people that lived here in your town.

Sherwin B. Nuland

The dignity we seek in dying must be found in the dignity with which we have lived our lives.

Arthur Schopenhauer

It takes place, by and large, with the same sort of necessity as a tree brings forth fruit, and demands of the world no more than a soil on which the individual can flourish.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

A storm breaks trees. It only bends grass.

Douglas Wilson

How is it possible to live like a machine and bear fruit like a tree?

Ronald Reagan

Trees cause pollution.

John Muir

The Big Tree is Nature's forest masterpiece, and so far as I know, the greatest of living things.

John Muir

I have enjoyed the trees & scenery of KY exceedingly. How shall I ever tell of the miles & miles of beauty that have been flowing into me in such measure?

John Muir

God cannot save them from fools.

John Steinbeck

No one has ever successfully painted or photographed a redwood tree. The feeling they produce is not transferable. From them comes silence and awe

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Nothing is less promising than precocity. A young thistle is more like a future tree than is a young oak.