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.

Gilbert Hernandez

Jaime is doing the Hispanics living in the United States and dealing with life that way, and I'm doing stories about back home, basically.

Nicholas Sparks

I write 2,000 words a day when I write. It sometimes takes three hours, it sometimes takes five hours.

Mark Rothko

I also hang the largest pictures so that they must be first encountered at close quarters, so that the first experience is to be within the picture.

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

I didn't want to wait around for some business entity to come around and give me money and tell me what to do. We just started releasing records as best we could.

Greg Ginn

We aren't as concerned about the live aspect as other labels. The best live bands are the easiest to record.

Greg Ginn

There aren't enough people who are scaring the kind of people who work at these record companies.

Anita Frazier

Kids 8 and under are still playing with toys quite a bit. Then we see a drop off at 9. Boys have gone to video games. Girls have gone to instant messaging, e-mailing and cell phones. The whole socialization aspect is big.

Walter Smith

I wouldn't say I was less concerned with the result than the performance. I think that, to make progress, you have to show that you can get results. That's why it's in my mind to try something different, to get the main striker better support from midfield. We want to create more chances without weakening the defensive aspect of the team.

Andrew Wylie

I would say that I have an aspect of my personality which is that I have no personality. That's why I work as an agent. I have the assumed personality of the people I represent. I am like a sponge.

Ben Smith

I think it's a good thing for them to keep up. It opens your eyes to different aspects of biology.

Roy Verley

He was a great business leader, but I think he'll be remembered most as someone who truly embodied the best aspects of the HP Way personally.

Alison Nordstrom

He consciously tried to preserve aspects of old Paris. For example, he didn't shoot the Eiffel Tower.

Tony Buzan

For all aspects of memory, keep yourself physically fit. My catchphrase is, 'Healthy mind, healthy body, healthy body, healthy mind.' Your memory needs oxygen as fuel, so why not feed it often?

Maggie Jones

There are so many positive aspects to a small-scale wind farm.

Martin Jol

There are so many aspects at a football club which support the playing side and it is important to have someone to focus on these at the club. He is highly rated in his field and I am delighted that he has chosen to come to us. I am looking forward to working with him and have told him that it is a great time to be joining this club.

Marnie Stern

I was listening to a lot of math rock-y type bands do lots of complex stuff and I couldn't figure out how they were doing it. Then I realized that sometimes they were finger tapping, so I started messing around doing it.

Randy Talley

I think it just shows the strength and depth of our music program. We've also had many bands that have performed, as well as orchestras. I think it's unusual a town the size of Odessa to have had so many groups invited to perform at this convention.

Terry Kratovil

Guys representing two bands came to his house one day. One came to the front door, another came to the back door. He went with the one that came to the front door.

Kelly Jones

I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. It reminds me of when we were just starting out because we would open for other bands in the beginning.

Mark Machnic

It changes depending on when bands are available.

Mike George

It cost a lot of money and for the quality of bands that we were getting, I didn't think it was worth the price.

Sam Hughes

I was doing bands from the 7th grade until eleventh grade, actually. From there, started teaching myself the other instruments.

Chris Malland

We took the wall down because we wanted to make it so people can sit down at the lunch counter up front and look at the bands in back.

Jonathan Witz

We've gone into hard rock this year, with bands that have number one hits out now. Historically, we have not hit the harder-edge rock with current artists. We've hit the rock with classical performers.

Keke Palmer

I don't wish for anything. Wishing for a million dollars feels greedy. I just wish for the best for me.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

Krispy Kreme claims the 'batter is the best part.' Same with an Obama speech. It's all about what's on the outside, not what's inside.

Katherine Paterson

The best thing about being a writer is it gives you readers who understand your deepest feelings and fears.

Larry Hughes

I was just dealing with it, playing through it, but I knew something was wrong. This was the best time to do it. If it was later in the year, I would've kept playing.

Evgeni Nabokov

Kipper is a confident guy right now back there and, defensively, they're one of the best teams in the league. Their identity is they're not going to score four or five goals, they're going to score two or three, but it's going to be enough to win.

Mike Gansey

Kevin is one of the best all-around players in the conference. He's obviously one of the best shooters and his inside play has improved this season. Kevin is a big part of our team.

Bill Schneider

Kerry's line is, 'If this is the best we can do, we're in trouble,'

Katharine DeBrecht

Know-it-all liberal celebrities are in our faces every day, telling people how to live, what to buy, and often how to vote. Children need to understand that just because these people show up on television doesn't mean they know what's best for the rest of America. In fact, it's usually quite the opposite!

Bryce Carter

Knowing someone has your back like that, to be there and do the best for you, it was a great opportunity.

William Faulkner

I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express . . . but since words are my talent, I must try to express clumsily in words what the pure must would have done better.

Chris Roland

I switched six years ago, thinking I'd only last a month or so, but it's just been the easiest thing.

Dana Brunetti

For any book, it's distilling all of the moments in the book that are either fan favorites or pivotal that you have to have in there, and how you tie that all up into a two hour movie is not the easiest job.

Bob Stoops

I think you're always looking for guys, especially in the offensive line, that are just tough, hard-working, fighting guys. That's what you look for. It's not always the easiest thing to find.

Shawn Purlee

We talked about trying to make the easiest path to the regional championship that we could. Nothing is going to be easy but we have put ourselves in a good position.

Darren Cioffi

I thought that would be the hardest part. It was actually the easiest part.

Mark Boal

Passage of time can be mind-numbing to figure out in a screenplay. It's the easiest thing to do in prose, not just by writing 'four years later', but you can shift time in a sentence or two.

Jim Edgar

In some ways, the campaign's going to, maybe, be the easiest part of this process. The next four years of governing is going to be extremely difficult. So far as aggravation, I figure all five years is going to be aggravation.

Jay Gibbons

I just wanted to give him something. It was the easiest thing I could do. I wanted him to have something of mine.