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.

Michael Allweiss

I think the industry would view this as a significant defeat. This allows us to explore, I think, what they've been able to prevent from being explored in the past. It's very meaningful.

Bob Scully

I thought that getting into finance would be a good way to explore many industries.

R. Robinson

We may explore the universe and find ourselves, or we may explore ourselves and find the universe. It matters not which of these paths we choose.

James Sensenbrenner

We have to be forward-looking in how we explore space,

Pat Metheny

I like to explore the full gamut of possibilities ... as many possibilities as possible. With David's saxophone in the mix we have a full palette to work from. With the four of us together on stage, watch out.

Robert Prestwood

In this case, there was nothing else we could come up with. We explored all options, including rebuilding. But most contractors we talked with didn't want to send people in there to work.

Jeff Smith

I hope it does happen, ... I think the explorer program is great by getting the kids involved with the police department. And public safety officers, they will be taking reports, and that's going to free up an officer to be patrolling.

Kim Fisher

The green truck ran the red light and hit the white explorer. Then, the explorer flipped.

Michael W. Smith

The atoll was poorly explored with only about 35 fish species known previously. Including the new species we found in total about 200 species of fish.

Stephen J. Cannell

I love 'Dexter.' The dark sense of humor is wonderful.

Shimon Samuels

He saw humor as a line of defense.

Mike Nichols

I think the main thing about comedy and humor is that it's impossible and always was impossible to define.

John Cornyn

I think you'll probably see not only his erudition, but his sense of humor.

Karen Leathem

I think it's sort of a trademark quality of New Orleans that people can usually find humor in the worst situations.

Greg Evans

Laugh at yourself once in a while; give yourself a break.

Kristan Higgins

Humor writing requires a rhythm and timing, as well as some kind of connection to the reader, and I think that's how I tap into it.

Diane Forden

He ... had a sense of humor that is subject to interpretation, on women's rights for example,

Woody Allen

At the trial Stubbs chose to act as his own lawyer, but a conflict over his fee led to ill feelings.

Charles Moore

I don't go there. It's why they give and how they give that is important, as opposed to how much they give.

Courtney Barnett

I'm self-deprecating - I spend a lot of time telling myself that things are OK, as opposed to having to tell myself to get over things.

Dan Rice

I'm not opposed to it. I just don't know that much about it.

Jim Arthaud

(The county) being 50 percent federally owned already, we're opposed. This is the third time it has come up now, and we opposed it every time.

Chris Burke

The style of play will be to our advantage. They'll have to make the adjustments to us, as opposed to vice versa these two games.

Kate Winslet

I think heartbreak is something that you learn to live with as opposed to learn to forget.

Don Otto

Well, if they weren't opposed to this, I'd be worried.

Paul Watson

There are quite a few disgruntled Greenpeacers who are opposed to its policy of non-cooperation.

Harlan Watson

The United States is opposed to any such discussions.

Dave Tuttle

Harland understands the technical side of 9-1-1 and how it's supposed to work.

Zydrunas Ilgauskas

I think it's going to be a little different for him because he's going to play the same team so many times. But we're going to see an even better side of him because he's going to be able to adjust.

George Clooney

I think it's important to be on the right side of history.

Roz Chast

I think when your parents die, it is kind of like a moving sidewalk: you're not just on the sideline and watching them go by. You know, you're going to the same place they are.

John Stevens

We're on the wrong side of being close.

Bill Ritter

We're on the Durango side of the litigation, not the Texas side.

Joe Mires

There is another whole side of her when she is playing.

Carl Jung

Mine. I'm on my side.

Leona Lewis

I dont hate L.A. There's a very beautiful side to it; it's scenic, and I can go horse riding.

Paul Davis

Keep writing that stuff ? I'll keep getting 27 points.

Jim Hogan

There is going to be a ton of stuff happening.

Jack Soden

We've been thinking about this stuff for so long, but now we can actually do it.

Allard Baird

We think he has the stuff to be a starter.

Mike Fitzpatrick

I think it's the weight of the swelling inventories. And the geopolitical stuff has cooled off a little bit, but it's just in the background.

Roderick Wilmont

I don't know what's going on. I'm here to play, that's all. I see the stuff on TV. I know as much as you all know.

H. Hart

He does stuff like that all the time.

Sandra Bullock

Stop being scared of the unknown, because anything I worried about didn't happen. Other stuff happened. The unknown, we can't do anything about,

Robin Trower

If all you've got is somebody else's stuff that you've lifted, nothing really deep, then it is going to thin out.

Wilhelm Ostwald

Nowadays, however, we recognize that simultaneously with the typical case of a chemical reaction a typical case of catalytic effect had been studied which constitutes a limiting case.

Roger Clemens

It was just another typical game. We play some nail-biters, ... But you know that going in.

Nicola Formichetti

I'm not a typical couturier, although I really respect them.

Margaret Cho

My life is anything but typical.

Shigeru Miyamoto

My days all follow much the same pattern. They are structured and typical.

Lady Gaga

I'm obsessively opposed to the typical.

Scott Gomez

It was a typical Scott Stevens win, I guess.

Bobby Robson

Don't ask me what a typical Brazilian is because I don't know what a typical Brazilian is. But Romario was a typical Brazilian.

Scott Norton

This year is not a typical year in any way,

Wislawa Szymborska

Something doesn't start at its usual time. Something doesn't happen as it should. Someone was always, always here, then suddenly disappeared and stubbornly stays disappeared.

Richard Shelley

Otherwise, everyone was wearing masks, gowns, gloves, and all of the usual precautions.

Liberty Hyde Bailey

Anyone who acquires more than the usual amount of knowledge concerning a subject is bound to leave it as his contribution to the knowledge of the world.

Nellie Bly

I was too impatient to work at the usual duties assigned women on newspapers.

Martin Amis

He awoke at six, as usual. He needed no alarm clock. He was already comprehensively alarmed.

E. T. A. Hoffmann

Let me ask you outright, gentle reader, if there have not been hours, indeed whole days and weeks of your life, during which all your usual activities were painfully repugnant, and everything you believed in and valued seemed foolish and worthless?

Richard Branson

Screwing business as usual fundamentally recognises that doing good is good for business.

Sebastian Coe

This is not going to be business as usual. This is business unusual

Martin Luther

Here again you confuse and mix everything up in your usual way.