Famous Quotes & Sayings

Denise Levertov

It is fatal to one's artistic life to talk about something this is in process.

Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

When you tell people you're a playwright, their eyes sort of glaze over. But when you say you write the 'Fantastic Four' or 'Spider-Man,' they perk up. It's a touchstone that has gained more credibility as artistic expression.

Guy Laliberte

I'm an artistic person and a creator. I'm not a scientific. I'm not an engineer.

Cass McCombs

When you're playing festivals, you only get a half-hour. It's like a meat market. You don't get to be artistic. You don't get to play music. It's called a showcase for a reason.

Robert Crumb

We were always drawing comics as kids. My brother Charles made me draw comics. I was very much under his domination. He was actually a much stronger artistic visionary than I was.

Tyler Cowen

In chess, computers show that what we call 'strategy' is reducible to tactics, ultimately. It only looks creative to us. They are still just glorified cash registers. This should make us feel uncomfortable, whether or not we think computers will ever be good composers of music or artistic painters.

P. J. O'Rourke

Woodstock had a tremendous impact on American artistic life.

Isaiah Berlin

There exists a great chasm between those, on one side, who relate everything to a single central vision... and, on the other side, those who pursue many ends, often unrelated and even contradictory... The first kind of intellectual and artistic personality belongs to the hedgehogs, the second to the foxes.

Sheri Miller

With the high percentage of Spanish speakers, we wanted these kids to have an artistic outlet, too.

M.I.A.

In India, you see the way they embrace color in the culture - it's very celebratory of the existence of color. There's no rule of what color belongs together or doesn't belong together. They're not precious about it. It's very full-on.

Peter Beutel

We can debate what percentage of the profits should be plowed back into the company and what percentage belongs to the shareholders. Not being a shareholder, I'd prefer to see them err in the direction of spending a larger portion on refineries and new (oil and gas) fields and infrastructure.

Stephen Jones

All of us understand the victims' plight. They are not the property of any side to this lawsuit. Their collective loss belongs to the country.

Vince Carter

It's just getting him to believe, getting him to realize he's definitely an offensive threat. He's starting to realize he definitely belongs in this league.

Oscar Wilde

A man who can dominate a London dinner table can dominate the world. The future belongs to the dandy. It is the exquisites who are going to rule.

Gregory Craig

They have all concluded that this 6-year-old boy belongs with his father, ... Any more delay would be unconscionable.

Liberty Bailey

This College of Agriculture was not established to serve or to magnify Cornell University. It belongs to the people of the State. The farmers of the State have secured it. Their influence has placed it here. They will keep it close to the ground. If there is any man standing on the land, unattached, uncontrolled, who feels that he has a disadvantages and a problem, this College of Agriculture stands for that man.

Elvis Costello

Then I recalled that Andersen belongs to the world,

Benjamin Agosto

This medal belongs to a lot of people who put in years and years of hard work and dedication. There were teams that came before us that were never able to break through, and we've always been inspired by them.

Dannel Malloy

We found that Central Americans and Hispanics are somewhat reluctant to send their children off to school as early as Anglo-Americans born in this country. There are some cultural differences.

Eric Land

With the rabid sports fan in Central Florida, it's the right emotional vein to tap to show their ... message.

Andy Griffith

At first I was supposed to be the funny central figure, ... But with that format the show might have lasted about four weeks. The way it worked out is, the other people say the funny lines and my character looks on as an observer.

Phil Condit

As we've grown, we have determined that our headquarters needs to be in a location central to all our operating units, customers and the financial community -- but separate from our existing operations,

Caitlin Sullivan

As with all administrative matters, there are always several interest groups pulling for different variations of change or, for maintaining the status quo. Students are a central part of this institutionalized dialogue, but we are definitely not the only source of information or opinion that the administration must integrate into its decisions.

Wes Junker

The most dangerous place for icing remains in the western and central part of the Carolinas.

Howie Dickenman

A Central Connecticut player would not have done that. I did not shake his hand. I shook everyone else's.

John Simon

It seems this has the potential to be a central artery.

Dennis Collins

A lot of our grapes go to the Central Valley. These producers can?t justify higher wine grape prices.

Robert Sheehan

What's lovely about what I do for a living is the vast chasm of variety that constantly just comes at you from all angles.

Jeffrey Sachs

For many parts of the world, the chasm that has to be crossed to get from where they were, whether it's a dictatorship, economic collapse, financial crisis or all of the above, to the other side, that is a working market economy and a functioning democracy, is extraordinarily difficult and requires help.

Reza Aslan

The more I started studying the historical Jesus, the man who lived 2,000 years ago... the more I started to realize that there was this chasm between the historical Jesus and the Jesus that I had been taught about in church.

David George

The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps

Ren Ng

Yes, we are a producer of cameras, but we understand that at the end of the day, you have to make photos in software. A lot of companies focus on the camera side, and a lot are on the software side. There's a chasm between the two.

Luis Restrepo

There is still a wide chasm between the ELN and us. Let there be no false expectations.

Khaled Hosseini

Economic chasm between people is something that is of interest to me. And something that I used to write about even as a child. It's something I've revisited a few times in my writings.

Martin O'Malley

I was motivated to go into public life because of the great chasm that exists between justice and injustice in our country. Nowhere is that divide greater than in America's cities.

American Proverbs

It doesn't work to leap a twenty-foot chasm in two ten-foot jumps.

Lydia Leonard

I've met more than one person in their early 20s who has never heard of Jackie Onassis, though most girls have because she exists as a fashion icon.

Larry James

Absolutely, with the growth we experienced last year, Lithia Toyota recognized the opportunity that exists here in Odessa.

Bhagwan Rajneesh

It is true that nothing exists without a thought first, but the idea that thought comes from form is backwards.

Andrei Kostin

We plan to offer a significant number of the shares to members of the public. Interest exists there. The shares will be sold this year and next.

Neil Sheehan

Any contamination that exists is at low levels. It does not pose a threat to the public or workers at the site.

George Carl

A distressing gap exists between the public's expectations for retirement and the reality.

Teju Cole

Punitive murder by the police and by vigilantes has existed in all societies at some point, and probably still exists in most.

Adauto Lima

This is positive. The tax structure that exists today in Brazil, even for local investors, is an aberration.

William Arbaugh

This problem exists whether you use WEP or not, but it is trivial to exploit if not using WEP,

Alan Bean

One of the great things about the universe is that it's fair.

Susan Gibson

We want to show people how they can look great for very little money.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Greatness depends on where you are coming from.

Edward Gibbon

[The] vain and transitory scenes of human greatness are unworthy of a serious thought.

Audrey Hepburn

My greatest victory has been to be able to live with myself, to accept my shortcomings. I'm a long way from the human being I'd liked to be, but I've decided I'm not so bad after all.

Athenaeus

Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness.

Arnold Palmer

Swing your swing. Not some idea of a swing. Not a swing you saw on TV. Not that swing you wish you had. No, swing your swing. Capable of greatness. Prized only by you. Perfect in it's imperfection. Swing your swing. I know, I did.

Willie Kemp

Wayne, he's a great player, but we're moving on. We're still going to be friends.

Denis Waitley

The seeds of greatness are ideas you learn from people who've been great in their service to others.

Thomas Middleditch

I'm undeniably very nerdy, but I'm trying to recognize and pursue more masculine pursuits.

America Ferrera

There's not really a choice about, am I going to pursue a typical career? Because I'm not the typical standard, so that's not even an option.

Jerry Yang

The time has come for me to pursue other interests outside of Yahoo.

Viggo Mortensen

I pursue the things I do because I'm interested in them.

Viktor E. Frankl

Happiness must ensue. It cannot be pursued

Sun Tzu

When he pretends to flee, do not pursue.

Bakul Dholakia

If we wish to rub shoulders with them, then we have to pursue a similar strategy.

George Washington

There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily

Dan Stephens

We'll aggressively pursue ... (the lawsuit) as was planned.

Alanis Morissette

Anything I do has to be directly related to my music. If it isn't, I don't really see a point to it.

John Winn

When you trace back so many incidences of weapons and violence, they do relate to bullying.

Chaka Khan

If we could just see how related we all are, how we're really all in the same place.

Rick Ford

A lot of it is related to safety.

Carl Edwards

It's a little different. There was a time not too long ago when I just wished I had something to do related to racing. Now there's so much to do.

Tina Ambani

There was a time when I could only relate to happy works. With time, my taste has evolved.

Kiesza

It wasn't until I wrote 'Hideaway' that I found the song I related to as an artist.

Anwar Robinson

Everything I do is music-related.

Lana Hall

You better not talk about anybody. Because they're going to be related to somebody.

Alan Bennett

Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.

Al Sharpton

We're not willing to give black leaders second chances because, in most cases, we're not willing to give them first chances.

Al Jourgensen

It certainly is gravy every day above ground right now, after kicking that heroin habit. I've been given a second chance in life, and I don't want to let a minute go by without enjoying it.

Al Jarreau

I really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.

Bertrand Russell

This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the second chance were offered me.

Nick Whaley

We were better in the second game, so it's disappointing that we didn't play more relaxed.

Chet Williamson

Publishers love to compartmentalize, and Second Chance was not an easy novel to define.

Charles Rangel

I am a firm believer that upon release, ex-offenders should be afforded a second chance to become productive citizens by providing rehabilitation and education that will help them join the workforce.

Dick Wilcox

When we did shoot it, we shot it well. We got a lot of second shots.

Charlie Munger

What's the best way to get a good spouse? The best single way is to deserve a good spouse because a good spouse is by definition not nuts.

Byron Katie

I discovered that when I believed my thoughts, I suffered, but that when I didn’t believe them, I didn’t suffer, and that this is true for every human being. Freedom is as simple as that. I found that suffering is optional. I found a joy within me that has never disappeared, not for a single moment.

Cesare Pavese

A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be.

Deepak Chopra

There is a restless kind of consumer shopping for partners, as if the "right one" can be found by totting up a potential mate's pluses and minuses until the number of pluses matches some mythical standards.

Bill Richardson

Raising a family is difficult enough. But it's even more difficult for single parents struggling to make ends meet. They don't need more obstacles. They need more opportunities.

Eric Schaeffer

There isn't a single scrubber in the state of Maryland.

Ashley Josephson

They're so long and lanky that they get touches on every single pass.

Steve Nash

They're going to single one out because it's on Kobe? To me that's a shame.

Brad Joyner

It was getting late, and No. 1 singles went very long.

Edward Hopper

I find in working always the disturbing intrusion of elements not a part of my most interested vision, and the inevitable obliteration and replacement of this vision by the work itself as it proceeds.

Edith Wharton

True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Create a vision of who you want to be, and then live into that picture as if it were already true.

Audre Lorde

The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid...

Carlos Castaneda

Learn to see, and then you'll know that there is no end to the new worlds of our vision.

Cher Wang

If you have a vision, no matter how difficult things are, everything just becomes a process.

Charles Lamb

We love to chew the cud of a foregone vision; to collect the scattered rays of a brighter phantasm, or act over again, with firmer nerves, the sadder nocturnal tragedies.

Charles Baudelaire

He who looks through an open window sees fewer things than he who looks through a closed window.

Bob Marley

Me can't tell you how me know Rastafari. It is pure vision.