Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edmond Goncourt

a new system of decoration, and . . . a poetic fantasy in the creation of the art object.

John Niven

A novel, of course, is a fully self-contained work of art. You pick it up off the shelf, open it, and there it is - a whole universe waiting for you to enter. A screenplay is just a blueprint for making a movie. Until the movie is actually filmed, the script really means nothing.

David Rakoff

A secondhand wardrobe hand clothes doesn't make one an artist. Neither do a hair-trigger temper, melancholic nature, propensity for tears, hating your parents, or HIV. I hate to say it - none of these make one an artist. They can help, but just as being gay doesn't make one witty... the only thing that makes one an artist is making art.

Stephen Lam

As for legislation on Basic Law Article 23, we do not have a set timetable and we shall first conduct consultation of this matter.

Ben Vereen

As far as working with Chita Rivera, all I can say is it's a dream come true. Her artistry and discipline and dedication is a joy to be around.

Dead Prez

As artists we have a responsibility to organize and ensure that funds we raise for this cause are disseminated in a timely, fair and orderly fashion,

Keith Anderson

As a new artist you're just hoping people notice you any way possible just so you can get your music to them, ... Then you just hope they dig the music.

Clive James

As a work of art it has the same status as a long conversation between two not very bright drunks.

Robert Stromberg

As a director, the biggest job is to discern the imperfections in emotional tone and then view it in the global picture of what you're trying to do, if that makes sense. It's a rhythm, like music is a rhythm or composition and art is a rhythm. Dialogue is a rhythm as well.

Rita Ora

Anytime I go on Twitter, there's always the good but the bad as well.

Brian Billick

Any player you bring in, you have to be concerned about team chemistry. It's not necessarily the guy may or may not be a bad apple. It's just in terms of demeanor and work ethic. We have very good team chemistry. This team has been together for a while and has developed a certain camaraderie. You don't want to disrupt that.

Carlos Gonzalez

As far as I can recall, the least we'd had were 25 people in previous seasons. We've had bad sales, but never like this.

Randeep Hooda

As human beings, we are all flawed. And just like there is a good side, there is also a bad side waiting to find its way out.

Scooter Smith

A shot on net is never a bad thing, especially in this league and in this rink. You get some funny bounces here. We want to put as many pucks on net as we can and get to the front of the net and jam home rebounds.

Bill Richardson

As for Lee, he committed a crime, but he also was badly treated,

Stan Heath

As for a pure point guard, there is a picture of Ronald Steele in the dictionary. He can turn it on and turn it off, and he never turns it off at a bad time. He finds ways during the game to rest himself and when it's time at the end of the game to take it over, he's still got the gas in his tank.

Judith Miller

a serious violation of international law, a dangerous precedent. The United States has sent a very bad signal to the rest of the world.

Tiger Woods

As golfers, we rationalize everything. You hit a bad shot and think, 'I can make birdie from there.' That's how you're supposed to think. You should always try and look at the glass as half full. But any time your parents aren't doing well and their health isn't where it could be and you think it should be, it's always tough. Everyone has to deal with that at some point in time in their life and unfortunately, right now it's our time.

David Allison

Of our 20,000 university graduates each year, 60 percent have a degree in science, technology or business.

John Cullum

After serving in the Korean War, I actually started working towards a master's degree in finance.

Scott Siegel

The money's there to do the first six items, ... There's a high degree of likelihood we'll be able to do everything on the priority list. We'll find out six months from now.

Kevin Knox

Demand is off somewhat in the third quarter, but not nearly to the degree that it has been portrayed in the press. Europe has been a slow quarter for everybody, but I don't think there is a reason for panic that the industry is slowing down.

Henry Harris

The temperature reached as high as 2,500 degrees Kelvin during the tests. High temperatures mean high acceleration.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

Acquaintance is a degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor and obscure, and intimate when he is rich and famous.

Rebecca Kane

Sophomore year was a total 180 degrees from my freshman year. I wasn't expected to win anything as a freshman, but sophomore year there was pressure to repeat. I like that kind of pressure.

Dasha Zhukova

Russian women like to be feminine. Even if it's minus-10 degrees and snowing, a Russian woman will still be in her stilettos.

Aldous Huxley

Pure Spirit, one hundred degrees proof -- that's a drink that only the most hardened contemplation-guzzlers indulge in. Bodhisattvas dilute their Nirvana with equal parts of love and work.

Lee H. Hamilton

The status quo failed us. Reform is an urgent matter, and reform must not wait until the next attack.

Kurt Cobain

Things have never been so swell, i have never failed to fail

Walt Baker

The worst thing we can do is to start firing people because they failed to show up to work.

Timothy Roemer

We've had our first test, and we've failed miserably,

Dave Rice

One thing this team has never failed to show is resolve.

Chuck D.

He was in the school, too, and had failed the exam,

Mike McGlone

The market failed to see a smoking gun or anything too worrisome.

Thomas Doll

We failed to score the third goal and they played all-or-nothing. Maybe we were scared a goal would slip in there somehow.

Rod Thorn

As he pointed out, there's a history of things with him - not just the fight. But I think there will be a lot of teams that will have an interest in him at some level.

John G. D. Clark

As contemporary history reminds us we are human to the extent that we are able to chose between alternatives.

Janet Fitch

As an undergraduate, I had not studied literature - I was a history major.

Kathy Smith

As a historian, I'm very thrilled to be here because it is a moment in history for our city.

Joe Thomas

At university, I said to a girl, 'Before I met you all I could think about was history; now, all I can think about is you'. I thought that was the sort of thing you had to say.

Karen Wagner

That's where the history is, and that's where it should stay.

Anne Stevens

Norfolk has a wonderful history and reputation, but this is part of the total 'Way Forward' turnaround strategy.

M. Wolfe

Do you own your history, or does someone else own your history? ... There's the play that you're telling, and then there's the play that's underneath that.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

A page of history is worth a pound of logic.

Chuck D.

I think they realized the timing was all wrong.

Steven Lopez

Winning had become kind of automatic, but I realized in 2008 that at any moment that could be taken away from me.

John Magnie

We realized we really do better when when we're all together.

Courtney Lewis

We realized that we had to be the leaders.

Sam Hunt

I realized that I could try to sound like Waylon Jennings, or I could try to be like Waylon Jennings... but it's impossible to do both.

Joe Gibbs

I think we realized what was at stake,

David Baker

I think we all realized that we had really been replicating things that had already been happening. I don't know if we were smart enough to realize that we were in a cul-de-sac, but we were curious.

Michael Newdow

And as soon as I did the research, I realized the law seemed to be on my side and I filed the suit.

Bob Dylan

Some things are too terrible to be true.

Auberon Waugh

Better to go than sit around being a terrible old bore.

Anna Nicole Smith

It's very expensive to be me. It's terrible the things I have to do to be me.

Matt Smith

I am a terrible sleeper.

Laurie Simmons

Any work that is really great hovers between terrific and terrible.

Jerry Jones

It's just a terrible loss. I'd like to have something to blame, but I don't.

Gina Hern

There is a terrible indentation where the implant is misplaced.

Pat Barker

Being a writer is a poverty trap. I mean, it's a terrible profession.