Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Bukowski

The Artist," an ancient sage had once said, "is always sitting on the doorsteps of the rich.

Crystal Gayle

It used to be that Nashville would work to develop promising artists.

Danny Glover

Those titles, Executive Producer or actor, are unimportant. I always try to approach my role as an artist. The first thing you want to do, that you attempt to do as an artist, is to have some sort of input into the material that you are working on. That is how my process begins; I say to myself: "I want to do this kind of work or I want to do that kind of work."

Daniel Ek

There are half a billion people that listen to music online and the vast majority are doing so illegally. But if we bring those people over to the legal side and Spotify, what is going to happen is we are going to double the music industry and that will lead to more artists creating great new music.

Daryl Hannah

They[ Lana and Andy Wachowski]are true artists. They really are trying to say something and trying to create something original, and there aren't that many people who do that.

Darren Criss

I just hope I can continue to do work that matters to me, I’m not interested in being any kind of superstar or anything I’m not. I’m just a dude who got lucky and an artist who cares about the work that I do.

David Lloyd

I just sit at the drawing board most of the time. I am used to talking to people. I love going to conventions, getting feedback and talking to people. Some artists don't. Some artists sit at their drawing board because their personality actually dictates that.

David Lynch

An artist makes a painting, and nobody bugs him or her about it. It's just you and your painting. To me, that's the way it should be with film as well.

David Lynch

Stories always have held conflicts and contrasts, highs and lows, life and death situations. And there can be much suffering in stories, but now we say the artist doesn’t have to suffer to show suffering. You just have to understand the human condition, understand the suffering.

Jason Gibson

We decided to go in another direction at quarterback. He's (Leak) a big, strong kid and he's got a big-time arm.

Olga Pomar

We don't think the residents of Cramer Hill should be forced out of their homes and that their homes should be taken by eminent domain. They had already selected the developer and decided on the proposal they would use before they had objectively evaluated the neighborhood and heard from the public.

Nancy Allen

Since it happened in our area, and it?s the Oxford Lions, we thought we?d step up. We decided last Thursday at our meeting. We wanted to get it out and do it quick.

Sanath Jayasuriya

I thought about it long and hard and decided that's it. It's a very emotional moment, but I guess every good thing has to come to an end.

Jakaya Kikwete

We promise to respect people of all creeds: those who are Christians, Muslims as well as those who have decided not to follow any religion.

Ed Rendell

I think national issues play into gubernatorial races less than, obviously, in Senate and Congressional races. Much less. They tend to be more decided by personality, leadership qualities and by state or local issues. They still have some effect, no question about it, but not as much as Senate and Congressional races.

Horacio Gutierrez

Transparency is vitally important in what can be a very opaque process in Brussels. We've decided to open this up so people can understand the issues.

Paul Scott

While we have some promising signs, we need to see the proposal still. We're pleased that Mills has decided to step away from direct involvement of the project.

Ted Forrest

We wanted to have a little tea party here at people's advocate. We didn't have any tea, so we decided we'd throw the governor overboard.

Billy Blanks

I had full rides to Nebraska, West Virginia, Marshall, Youngstown State and Pitt, ... But I struggled with my grades and couldn't play Division I.

Henry Hyde

We think it would be helpful to hear from the president and we'd like to participate in any fair examination of him,

Doug Smith

The logistics of moving to and from the fair is a big deal. It's a huge undertaking.

Steve Cavezza

All of the guys in my fraternity are my brothers. You want to give everyone a fair shot. It's very hard to those seniors that might not get a chance.

Prince Harry

It's fair to say that if his squadron goes to Iraq, he will probably go with it.

Melvin Maddocks

A man's work is his dilemma: his job is his bondage, but it also gives him a fair share of his identity and keeps him from being a bystander in somebody else's world.

Bill Elliott

A lot of this sounds like we're talking in circles, but we have to get through phase one, ... There's nothing that's not fair game when we get to phase two.

Rajesh Jain

This is a fair listing keeping in mind the Reliance pedigree. It is a strong option for investors in the telecom space.

Rob Brzezinski

It's not on Zygi. He's been apprised of everything going on in this organization. He hired people to run the business, and he would do anything to make us successful. This is a business/football decision. It's not fair to tag it on Zygi. If it was anybody's decision, it was mine.

Charles Moore

It's only fair the next person comes in with a fresh start, not having to worry about any kind of leftover disciplinary issues.

As we were driving, we saw a sign that said ""Watch for Rocks."" Marta said it should read ""Watch for Pretty Rocks."" I told her she should write in her suggestion to the highway department, but she started saying it was a joke - just to get out of writing a simple letter! And I thought I was lazy!

Charles Peabody

It's a really high price and not many people are willing to pay that, so I think Lehman is the more obvious,

Anna Netrebko

As a soprano who sings 'Lucia di Lammermoor,' I have the high notes and the trills. No problems there. But going into the low registers is lots of work.

Mark Cuban

As I would learn later in life, money makes you extremely handsome.

David Christian

...from schools to universities to research institutes, we teach about origins in disconnected fragments. We seem incapable of offering a unified account of how things came to be the way they are.

Dave Attell

For me, Molly Hatchet is high school. It makes me feel like I have hair and a future.

Alice Hoffman

Any institution becomes a community - whether it's a high school or a boarding school or a publishing company or a small town where everybody knows certain things about people.

Andy Partridge

Brain gets bent, heart gets broken You can't jump off once the pages turn School is out but never over That's the only lesson you can learn

Cillian Murphy

Every Irish person of my generation and earlier, we were raised Catholic and we'd have to learn it in school, we'd to learn the catechism by rote.

Alfie Allen

There wasn't a lot of discipline in my life, and I hated it being imposed on me at school.

Alfie Kohn

In some suburban schools, the curriculum is chock-full of rigorous A.P. courses and the parking lot glitters with pricey SUVs, but one doesn't have to look hard to find students who are starving themselves, cutting themselves, or medicating themselves, as well students who are taking out their frustrations on those who sit lower on the social food chain.

Alfie Kohn

When we do things that are controlling, whether intentional or not, we are not going to get those long-term outcomes.

Alfie Kohn

Punishments and rewards are two sides of the same coin and that coin doesn't buy you much.