Famous Quotes & Sayings

Keith Haring

I think you have to control the materials to an extent, but it's important to let the materials have a kind of power for themselves; like the natural power of gravity, if you are painting on a wall, it makes the paint trickle and it drips; there is no reason to fight that.

Keith Haring

People were more interested in the phenomena than the art itself. This, combined with the growing interest in collecting art as an investment and the resultant boom in the art market, made it a difficult time for a young artist to remain sincere without becoming cynical.

Carl Barks

I always felt myself to be an unlucky person like Donald, who is a victim of so many circumstances. But there isn't a person in the United States who couldn't identify with him. He is everything, he is everybody; he makes the same mistakes that we all make.

Greg Ginn

You have to keep the business side together as well as the creative side. We have constantly surprised people and stayed with bands until they have grown on people.

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.

Georgia O'Keeffe

To create one's own world in any of the arts takes courage.

Faith Ringgold

I think actually it's been a benefit to me that my work has been in quilt form, that I decided to quilt my paintings, which is what I do.

Faith Ringgold

I think about what I'm trying to say and recognize the fact that people may see what I see or may hear what I'm saying or may not.

Marc Davis

Later, my father died up in Marysville. So, my mother and I got in the car and came down to Hollywood.

Justin Brouse

I was in the backfield and I came out on the wheel. And Corey Martin just lobbed it up to me.

Alex Cintron

I was in shock. I was happy, though. (Arizona) didn't have the confidence in myself. They were looking to trade me and I came here to Chicago. It is going to be good for me.

Anna Maxwell Martin

I was always a show girl. My parents were wonderful. There wasn't a lot going on where we lived, but they ferried me to classes and competitions all over the place. When I was 12, I came to London as a finalist in a singing competition and I was completely wide-eyed.

Robin Ross

Kevin is one of those success stories. Things hadn't worked out other places, he came here and now he's doing well academically and he's on track football wise. Those kinds of things are why you coach.

Melissa Arms

Kim couldn't have done that routine better. She had a great week at practice and came in very confident.

Natalie Peters

Kling has a good arm. She just came up and did what she does every day in practice.

Don Thornton

Just mentioning that cameras are up there deters people.

Dan Orlovsky

Joey's still our guy, but if it came down to where I needed to go in, I have full confidence that I'm a good enough player to get a win, ... My role right now is to make sure my teammates and my coaches have confidence that if something happens to Joey, I'm good enough.

John Calipari

Joey is looking good. After being released (Thursday) morning, he came by the Finch Center for a couple of minutes and said he was ready to start working out again.

John Linder

I have seen the times when the grassroots has moved the Congress. We listen way more often to our constituents than the lobbyists. And the grassroots are going to have to do it.

Cindy Sheehan

I kind of see their point that this was a grassroots thing that grew into a monster.

Tracey Anders

It will take a grassroots effort. The more small groups we can meet with, the better off we'll be.

Ed Perlmutter

They are the heart and soul of their communities. It's grassroots politics at its best.

Mark Rodgers

There's a heavy, heavy grassroots component. It's happening on a nationwide basis.

Steve Levy

We want to make this a grassroots effort.

William Greene

We're a grassroots organization. We're not funded by big donors. If we're sending 2 to 3 million e-mails a week, paying a penny per e-mail will price us out.

Kevin Breslin

I think that the groups do get things done around here.

David Sedaris

Underneath my window, there were huge groups of people running in the streets. They tried to overturn a car. So the woman opened her window and tried to throw water on them. So then they threw rocks up and tried to smash her windows. It was very exciting.

Richelle Mead

I stared. "Canadian Satanists? You're sending me to a group of Canadian Satanists?

Reinhold Niebuhr

As racial, economic and national groups, they take for themselves, whatever their power can command.

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

How can you hope to build up a nation by fragmenting its politics into opposing camps? Whatever one group builds, the other will endeavour to destroy.

John Oliver

The British press are a group of unremitting scumbags. And sometimes they use that scumbaggery to good ends, and often not.

Edward Steichen

If it were possible for any one person or group of persons to go through a photographic finishing plant's work at the end of a day, you could probably pull out the most extraordinary photographic exhibition we've ever seen. On almost any subject. The trouble is to find the things.

Edward Burns

I feel Irish-Americans are the forgotten minority group. Nobody else is making films about them.

Henri Poincare

All of mathematics is a tale about groups.

Oscar Gonzalez

I would think the probability of a move (on interest rates) would be somewhere around the 40 percent range.

John Kessel

Kafka is not interested in documenting the manners and mores of any particular place; he is not interested in probing the psyche of individual characters.

Len Lichtenfeld

I suspect that there will be a significant interest in getting better tests into the mainstream.

Scott Shapiro

I think it's 18 teams that have shown interest.

George Burley

It can have a snowball effect. With the national side doing well there is more interest in the game, which is great.

Lisa Presley

Having kids was the smartest thing I've ever done. They're little sponges who come into the world with a clean, shiny slate and such pureness. I'm interested in having more kids.

Ron Hilliard

He should have a big year. He's been rated by Dennis McCarty as one of the top linemen in the state. Michigan State, Penn State and Rutgers are very interested in Dan.

Dick Miller

I think it's going to go very well. She's an outstanding talent and a lot of interest has been shown.

Robert Baker

I thought we were interested in saving time.

William Gibson

I took Punk to be the detonation of some slow-fused projectile buried deep in society's flank a decade earlier, and I took it to be, somehow, a sign.

Robert Quine

By many peoples' standards, my playing is very primitive but by punk standards, I'm a virtuoso.

Henry Rollins

When someone asks you, 'What's punk?' my reply is, 'If you have to ask, you're never going to know.'

Marc Jacobs

Grunge is a hippied romantic version of punk.

Billie Joe Armstrong

Punk will never be dead to me. It's my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.

Anna Sui

When punk really started to happen, it was a reaction against the disco craze of the time.

Michelle Shocked

Punk is just as much a form of folk music as anything is!

John Rzeznik

Punk's not dead, it's just at K-Mart.

Melissa McCarthy

I was never sullen. I was a terrible punk - I was still so chatty.

Michael Chertoff

It is going to be about as ugly of a scene as I think you can imagine.

William Friedkin

I have to see the whole scene in my head before I go out and do it. Which I do. I will envision the entire scene before I shoot it.

William Golding

You have the older generation like Iris Murdoch and Angus Wilson who are not as old as Graham Greene, but still are coming on. I dare say anyone who knew the scene better than I know it could fill it in with a very satisfactory supply of novels.

Omar Sharif

I see only defects because I'm not following the scene as it were. I'm not following the other person. It's like the best thing to clarify this is the theater.

Claire Forlani

When you work with Sir Anthony there are days when he will do a lot of takes if he's really enjoying a scene.

Bret Easton Ellis

I've never written an autobiographical novel in my life. I've never touched upon my life. I've never written a single scene that I can say took place.

Brandy Norwood

It feels so great to be back on the scene.

Debra Winger

I will walk out on a scene if it's all lit and ready to go but it's not happening.

Shanley Caswell

I try not to think about any of the production side of things. If you do, you tend to get unfocused and distracted. I just try to think about the character and the scene and what I'm doing.