Famous Quotes & Sayings

Willem de Kooning

Even an abstract form has to have a likeness.

Wassily Kandinsky

The more abstract is form, the more clear and direct its appeal.

Chris Peterson

Restoring the canyon is no longer an abstract notion now that people can actually experience its beauty.

Richard Shelton

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

Russell Smith

Calls for the simplification of abstract or allusive art have always come from governments suspicious of artists themselves. This is why totalitarian regimes have always legislated some form of realism.

Brittany Howard

I'm just really impressed by oil paintings - I don't see how people do it! That's the style I like: classic oil paintings. Abstract art just isn't my thing.

John Van Hamersveld

In 1971, I put together the 'Johnny Face' drawing as a concept, with the words as part of an image in a circle. Combining my abstract drawing with the headline 'Crazy World Ain't It' created an emblem and became a button.

Bruce Lahn

In another 10,000 or 20,000 years, I think the human brain may acquire a form that is quite different than the human brain today. Not necessarily in its shape, which may remain relatively the same. But the function may be different. It may be, on average, a little smarter. Or it may acquire certain skills that in its current form it isn't well-equipped to handle -- advanced cognitive abilities such as abstract reasoning. We don't really know for sure how -- but we are still evolving.

Damon Galgut

I'm fascinated by how much has changed from one generation to another. There are young people growing up now for whom apartheid is just a distant memory and the idea of military service is an abstract notion.

John Cridland

It could have the perverse effect of throttling private sector investment, thereby damaging the UK economy - putting the very pension schemes the regulator is trying to protect under even more pressure.

Usman Hamid

He has no damaging reputation involving human rights.

Ryan Smith

Pigs are probably one of the most damaging invasive species.

Jim Awad

The hurricane was much less damaging than was feared and therefore oil is declining. That takes the pressure off the economy, so we're getting a knee-jerk reaction.

David Gergen

You can slice and dice this thing any way you want, but I still think it's politically damaging for the administration.

Saddam Hussein

At the same time things went wrong, damaging the reputation and credibility of the United Nations.

Pat Conroy

I told my kids when they were little, 'Look, kids, your mother and I are screwing you up somehow. We don't understand how, or we wouldn't do it. But we're parents. So somehow we're damaging you, and I want you to know that early. So just ignore me when I go to that part of my parenting.'

Doug Larson

The fact that the independent panel wasn't given the document shows how damaging this really was. It shows the department knew about this long before the problems arose publicly.

Bill Frist

If accurate, such an egregious disclosure could have long-term and far-reaching damaging and dangerous consequences, and will imperil our efforts to protect the American people and our homeland from terrorist attacks,

Stephen Campbell

Kentucky has a rich history, and we want to do our small part to preserve it for future generations.

Christopher Shays

Katrina taught us the hard lesson that, as we prepare for future emergencies, it's important we include in our plans ways to protect our pet owners and their pets.

Joe Battista

I think in the end, in the future this team is going to make things happen.

Douglas Coupland

It also allows you to look as though you're not particularly from the present, future or past, either.

George P. Shultz

I've always tried to live in the future and think about things and how to make things better. If you have great-grandchildren around, and their pictures are looking at you, well, that's the future.

Samantha Bond

I lost a girlfriend when I was in my 30s. She was 46. It all sounds so trite, but I put a Post-it on my dressing-room wall. It said, 'The past is history. The future is a mystery. This moment is a gift, which is why it's called the present.'

Thomas Piketty

I don't pretend that I can predict the future value of the growth rate or rate of return.

Q'orianka Kilcher

Instead of locking people up and throwing away the key, it's important to invest in them and show them another way - show them what they can do, instead of telling them what they can't do. Because by investing in youth, we're investing into the future of this great nation of the United States of America.

Ron Holt

We're not worried about the size meeting the needs now and well into the future.

Ken Hill

Mistakes can be good things, because it is an unexpected thing.

Charles Warren

I was like, 'Wow,' something's going on here, ... Something good is about to happen.

Ramon Hernandez

I was looking for a fastball. I got it on the good part of the bat. It went where no one could get it.

Carl Pohlad

Kirby's too good a guy to have something like this (stroke) happen.

Buck Showalter

Kenny was effective. They've seen Kenny so much. They hit some good pitches for hits. He bent, but he didn't break.

Kevin Towers

Khalil is an exciting, popular player. We think he's going to have a real good year, offensively and defensively.

John Crumbley

(Key West) had a tough week this week, but (starting pitcher Daniel) Foltz pitched a good game. It was good to be in this type of pressure situation.

Herb Cytyrn

Jake is a very good skier and I wouldn't be surprised if he made it to sectionals.

Bill Walsh

I would say that we made a lot of good trades, but that may have been the best.

Katherine Paterson

I'm a great believer in research. I have to know about a place before I write a story that is set in that place.

Darius Miles

Kevin had a great game. We have some smaller guards out there so he was able to do a lot more things. He had it going and was on fire.

B. B. King

Kevin did a great job tonight. He gutted it out there at the end for us. It was a great team win.

James Patterson

Kids don't read as much as you'd like them to, just in terms of seeing the world from different perspectives. I mean, that's the great thing about books, still. Here's television, here are the movies, and it's pretty limited in terms of the perspectives.

Mary Carskadon

Kids are too sleepy to learn well. They're too sleepy to be happy. And they're at great risk for such things as traffic accidents.

Alan Trammel

I wouldn't say it was one of his greatest performances, but he pitched well enough to win.

Jim Schmitz

Jake Wade did just such a great job throwing strikes, going right at them. He pitched six quality innings. It was just nice to see him come out like that.

Alden Ehrenreich

I would say that it's mainly about the director. It's a hard quality to find, but I always know whether I want to do something or not. The character is important to me, as is getting to work with people that I feel like I can learn from and make a great movie with.

Michael Santos

John always had his heart in this village. Sometimes he thought he was the village. He was a great ambassador. He put Brewster on the map on several occasions.

Amber Bowman

I would say this is a turning-point in our season we want to come in this weekend and show them we're a different team and that we've improved a lot since the last time we played them.

Tim Moe

I think we've improved more than they have. Warroad has a lot of juniors and seniors but our young kids have picked it up.

Russ Biundo

He has improved remarkably. Still, we have a long way to go.

Sandrine Krul

Right now she's our most improved player. She's so athletic.

Sara Baker

Our music was a lot better and visual improved as well. We did better than this morning.

Phil Garner

Their pitching is much improved over last year,

Kiki Vandeweghe

It's well deserved. He's just improved by leaps and bounds. I'm really, really happy... He really works to make his team better.

Robert Broadfoot

It really hasn't improved much in 20 years.

Lini Reading

They're going to be excited. They are a much improved team.

Joseph Castelo

It should not strengthen the position of those with a preconceived notion about terrorists.

Greg Stein

The notion of packaged products is really going to go away.

Ray Allen

It seems the referees take these preconceived notions about what he's going to do. It's ridiculous some of the calls.

Michelle Branch

People have this notion of me being this sweet, nice girl, but I'm kind of a pervert.

Chris Eigeman

I had a very misguided notion of what 'network notes' were. I thought they were well-meant suggestions, perhaps urgently meant, but just suggestions nonetheless. And actually, they're demands. You have to do them, or you will not be paid.

Donna Brazile

I'm not about waiting anymore. I'm off the privilege notion now; I'm on to fairness.

Loren Thompson

We ought to get off this notion that we're going to be deploying it, because we're not.

Ha-Joon Chang

I think this notion that public enterprises do not work and therefore nationalization will be a disaster, I mean, it's not supported by evidence.

Gary Peters

I take very seriously the notion that you have to get out in your community; you have to talk to people, but, more importantly, you have to listen to people.

Jake Delhomme

I thought because we had never run it out of that formation at all -- I just thought it was the perfect call.

Craig Carpenter

We took our CEO, who is not a technologist, through the new setup wizard with no problem. It was the perfect test case.

Mel Kiper

I think that makes a lot of sense. For the type of scheme they play, he would be perfect for what they need.

and City

I will never be the woman with the perfect hair, who can wear white and not spill on it.

Richard K. Morgan

Evolutionary theory informs our understanding of some frankly inexcusable social behavior and renders it perfectly normal.

Richelle Mead

Takes a lot of tries before you hit perfection." He paused to reconsider that. "Well, except for my parents. They got it on the first try." (Adrian)

Richelle Mead

He was too perfect, despite being one of the most imperfect people I knew.

Richard Baxter

This life was not intended to be the place of our perfection, but the preparation for it.

Truman Capote

She had only one flaw. She was perfect, otherwise whe was perfect.

Steve Mansfield

We try to present users with what other users have found.

Doug Anderson

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

Jeff Bzdelik

I haven't even thought about it. This is my first time here, so I'm worried about the present.

Larry Spell

I really like what you're presenting to us here tonight.

Layne Higgs

Their match-up zone presented a lot of problems for us tonight. The zone took away Garrett's penetration.

Alessandra Ambrosio

My little girl, Anja, is really excited. We had a baby shower yesterday and she took the presents from everyone for me and was telling them, 'No, it's my baby.'

Ray Takeyh

They want to be able to present this as a fait accompli .

Gary Hanson

At the present time, I still don't think I will be a candidate, but I am not willing to rule it out,

Keith Henderson

Evidence-wise, we're going to present two different cases,

Granth Sahib

I am devoted, dedicated, a sacrifice to Your Name.

Max Cleland

He has not suffered. He has not sacrificed for his country, and he doesn't understand those who have.

Richard DeVos

You make up your mind before you start that sacrifice is part of the package.

William Robertson Smith

That the God-man died for his people, and that His death is their life, is an idea which was in some degree foreshadowed by the older mystical sacrifices.

William S. Burroughs

Look at these poisonous color maps where flesh trees grow from human sacrifices; listen to these sniggering half-heard words of tenderness and doom from lips spotted with decay

Sarah Ban Breathnach

self-sacrifice is one of a woman's seven deadly sins (along with self-abuse, self-loathing, self-deception, self-pity, self-serving, and self-immolation).

Veronica Roth

It's Not sacrifice if it's someone else's life you're giving away, it's just evil.

Samuel Johnson

Friendship may well deserve the sacrifice of pleasure, though not of conscience.

Sam Worthington

Patriots is quite simple; there's seven continents in the world, if you had to sacrifice one continent and make it six would you do it?

Robert Crais

If my vision was good enough, I'd be an astronaut.

Ryan O'Marra

I've never done it before. Sometimes it's tough. I don't have any peripheral vision.

Umberto Eco

The step between ecstatic vision and sinful frenzy is all too brief

Reid Hoffman

Be persistent, and hang on to your vision. And at the same time, be flexible.

Reid Hoffman

There's an ability to learn & adapt, an ability to constantly have a vision that's driving you, but to be taking input from all sources.

Viola Spolin

My vision is a world of accessible intuition.

William James

Smitten as we are with the vision of social righteousness, a God indifferent to everything but adulation, and full of partiality for his individual favorites, lacks an essential element of largeness.

Robert Nozick

It goes without saying that any persons may attempt to unite kindred spirits, but, whatever their hopes and longings, none have the right to impose their vision of unity upon the rest.

Will Smith

If you look at somebody like 50 Cent, ain't nobody telling 50 what to do and how to do what he does. He has a vision of who he wants to be, and he instructs everybody along those lines.

Joseph Pierce

Can I make the play, ... Am I willing to make the play?

Nathalie Sarraute

We're swallowed up only when we are willing for it to happen.

Nikki Sixx

Friends tell each other what nobody else is willing to tell you.

Rita Mae Brown

Don't hope more than you're willing to work.

Mike Tomlin

It's not about what you're capable of, It's about what you're willing to do.

John Piper

You ought to marry someone who’s willing to go anywhere for God. If they’re not, they're out.

Bill Crawford

Sometimes our ability to accept what we can't change is tied to our willingness to change what we can.

Steve Kroft

I think you've got be willing as an interviewer to ask the dumb question every now and then.

Loretta Lynch

It's the choices that you make and the things that you're willing to accept and not accept that define who you are.