Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jake Wien

During my time in New York I was interested in what was going on in the arts culture music, galleries, auction houses that's where I learned as much as I did about art history. It was the vortex of the art world and a fabulous place to get up to speed and develop one's eye.

Jeffrey Zeldman

Thanks to budget shortfalls and format wars, our traditional media, literature, and arts are perishing faster than ever before. Nothing conceived by the human mind, except Heaven and nuclear winter, is eternal.

Earl Blumenauer

The same way we were talking about the arts being part of the infrastructure,

Naomi Grabel

I've spent 15 years in arts marketing and arts management in the US and the Sydney Opera House really is the pinnacle.

Jet Li

I've said more than once that this will be my last martial arts film.

Craig Newmark

I started a simple list of what I thought were cool events, arts and technology stuff.

Robert Raines

I soon see the day where the symphony and the opera company will be doing a full opera with a full symphony orchestra in the new Performing Arts Centre,

Jon Favreau

I used to be in arts and stuff. But I never was encouraged to...I was...aimed toward the sciences.

Cheryl Ferguson

This is a wonderful way to help children understand that the arts are all inter-related. This artwork has evolved from the music they have heard played, how they thought and felt during that music.

Glenn Greenwald

'Terrorism' itself is not an objective term or legitimate object of study, but was conceived of as a highly politicized instrument and has been used that way ever since.

Virgil Thomson

Falsely conceived and rather clumsily executed crooked folklore and halfway opera.

Georg Simmel

For this reason, strangers are not really conceived as individuals, but as strangers of a particular type: the element of distance is no less general in regard to them than the element of nearness.

Bob Uecker

The MRI scan looked like I had swallowed a cantaloupe. It was an abdominal aortic aneurysm. I was shocked because, except for the back pain, I felt good.

Moira Kelly

Now I listen to all kinds of music except rap, which all sounds the same to me.

William Goldman

Sonny, true love is the greatest thing, in the world -- except for a nice MLT -- mutton, lettuce and tomato sandwich, where the mutton is lean and the tomato is ripe.

Dennis McAlpine

Tell me where the good news was. I haven't seen anything that's good except video game sales.

George Bernard Shaw

The roulette table pays nobody except him who keeps it. Nevertheless, a passion for gaming is common, though a passion for keeping roulette wheels is unknown.

Tom Flores

It was the way of life. We didn't think about it much, except that it got lonely sometimes in the hotel room. The one thing we had was a home base, and we had great players who knew how to win. We didn't let it become a distraction of being nomads.

Gil Morgan

I started fast. I played well all the way around, except for the last three holes.

Gil Morgan

I started fast and played well all the way around, except for the last three holes,

Chris Martin

I send my love to Liam. We're not in a fight with everyone - except George Bush.

Tony Russa

See, that's the kind of question that will end the session faster than a pause. You got something else you want to ask? That thing was over the day after, wasn't it? There was nothing that happened.

Duane Akina

I've watched Ginn a lot, and I'm not sure I've seen a faster player in pads. We're going to be looking for him a lot, because if he finds a crease, he's gone.

Ruth Messinger

I've never seen a faster movement in my life.

Wang Jianlin

China's movie industry is growing a lot faster than that of the U.S.

Deb Mandeville

She has an outside chance, but she has to go faster than she's ever gone before.

Nicholas Garganas

My feeling is that euro-area growth will pick up at a faster pace.

Shigenori Okazaki

That was a very big mistake. He should have kept everyone guessing. Now he seems to be losing influence much faster than we would have thought.

Russell Sciandra

That would work a lot faster than the lawsuit.

Andre Agassi

It felt good, it was pain free. I've just got to run faster now, that's all.

Jacques Rogge

We are still in the preliminary phases of the general outlook of the torch relay but the route is not yet defined. The practical circumstances of the torch relay and the whole format is still under discussion.

Justin Kirk

I think the reality-show format is brilliant, has endless possibilities. It's documentary! But unfortunately, it's rarely executed well. So it becomes just a scripted show, but without actors.

Michael Davis

Super Millionaire' will take the format to a whole new level.

Mark Zuckerberg

We just think that there are all these different ways that people want to share, and that compressing them all into a single blue app is not the right format of the future.

Mohammad Khan

We will have to see what kind of format it should have,

David Bowie

These are all personal crises, I'm sure, that I manifest in a song format and project into physical situations. You make little stories up about how you feel. It's as simple as that.

Gotthold Lessing

A single thankful thought towards heaven is the most perfect of all prayers.

Clinton Portis

Southeast Jerome in Heaven. I'm here in heaven with all my friends.

Herb Caen

One day if I do go to heaven... I'll look around and say, 'It ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco.'

Leslie Howard

Terrible lot of nonsense... heaven help me if I ever read the book.

Bhagavad Gita

The unsuccessful yogi is reborn, after attaining heaven and living there for many years, in the house of the pure and prosperous.

Ben Nicholson

You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth, and ultimately that is what architecture is a vision of: Heaven on earth, at it's best.

Al Franken

I don't know what happens to you after you die. I'm not banking on there being, like, a heaven.

Baltasar Gracian

The heaven of the envied is hell for the envious.

Desiderius Erasmus

It's the generally accepted privilege of theologians to stretch the heavens, that is the Scriptures, like tanners with a hide.

John Galsworthy

As for the law--it catered for a human nature of which it took a naturally low view.

Tom Mann

Property can be replaced ! Human life, never.

Edward Hirsch

Once your poems are completed, you send them into the world. You don't write for a coterie of other writers - you write for other human beings.

Arthur Conan Doyle

I fear that if the matter is beyond humanity, it is certainly beyond me.

Auguste Comte

Humanity is always made up of more dead than living.

Arthur Miller

Today, [theatre's] more likely to be consciously not aimed at the public, but at a more sophisticated or educated public. . . . The result is that some of the sheer humanity has leaked out of the enterprise.

Jim Fowler

I don't want to save a creek for the creek's sake, but what's in it for human beings.

Anton Chekhov

What must human beings be, to destroy what they can never create?

Dean Koontz

The most identifying trait of humanity is our abilty to be inhumane to one another.

Ban Ki-moon

Nuclear disarmament is the only sane path to a safer world.

Donald Rumsfeld

After he saw what happened to Saddam Hussein, he ( Gaddafi ) did not want to be Saddam Hussein. He gave up his nuclear program.

Andrei Sakharov

In 1947 I defended my thesis on nuclear physics, and in 1948 I was included in a group of research scientists whose task was to develop nuclear weapons.

Susan Rice

We are safer if there are not nuclear arsenals around the planet that can be utilized, stolen, sold to terrorists and others who would do harm.

Tom Harkin

There is no such thing as a pro-nuclear environmentalist.

Fareed Zakaria

In the 1990s, we were certain that Saddam Hussein had a nuclear arsenal. In fact, his factories could barely make soap.

Franz Liszt

It is impossible to imagine a more complete fusion with nature than that of the Gypsy.

Haley Barbour

like there'd been a nuclear weapon set off.

Christopher Dodd

There was plenty of evidence that Saddam had nuclear weapons, by the way. That is not in dispute. There is plenty of evidence of that.

Stephen Evans

Thanksgiving is nothing but a toast to genocide.

Luiz Scolari

Thanks for everything and we will see you at the World Cup.

Ayn Rand

Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday...The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production.

Miley Cyrus

God wants my life to be about being successful and being happy and blessing other people and being blessed.

Abraham Maslow

(Some people) have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder, and even ecstasy.

Corey Feldman

There are many ways of giving thanks. Eating turkeys doesn't have to be one of them.

Alicia Silverstone

It's so simple to create a delicious holiday meal without animal cruelty. I promise no one will miss the turkey!

Ann Voskamp

Eucharisteo—thanksgiving—always precedes the miracle.

Ann Voskamp

Gratitude's not a natural posture. The prince of darkness is ultimately a spoiled ingrate, and I've spent most of my life as kin to the fist-shaker.