Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dan Colen

As opposed to putting too much confidence in myself, or in an image or a scene or a set of brushes, I really want to allow the oil paint to perform, to show me the things that it wants to do, beyond my imagination.

Abraham Nunez

The thing about that is, I don't want the ball to hit him. If the throw wasn't going to beat him, I didn't want to allow the ball to ricochet off him and get away and score a run. I was trying to prevent that.

Pat Terrell

I've never been at a university where a student government wouldn't allow me to speak at one of their meetings.

Jonathan Levine

I've been a huge fan of Hal Ashby forever. And I think that the distinctive thing about 'Coming Home' is the love story, and how - kind of emotionally real it is, and how these two characters allow each other to see their - kind of vulnerabilities. And it's great because it's a love story that's not really that cheesy, either.

Nick Cave

I've always been interested in both areas. For a long time, they were on a parallel plane, and I didn't dedicate myself to one or the other any less or any more. And then I just reached a revelation that it wasn't just about dance, it wasn't about fine art. It was about these two forces that were important to me, finding a medium that would allow me to investigate both.

Eddie Huang

I wanted to inspire people not to work under a bamboo ceiling. Whatever you are - yellow, black, white, brown - you don't have to allow your skin to define who you are or how you operate your business. There's not one face to anything.

Ben Nicholson

The music videos allow us to do whatever we want, but the budgets are always really tiny. The commercials have real dollars behind them.

Jianguo Liu

A few decades would allow that to happen, we don't know how many.

Anne Brown

A federal ban would allow us to fine companies that violate it and to work with Customs to stop lead-containing imported candles at the docks.

Laura Bush

As China reforms its economy, its leaders are finding that once the door to freedom is opened even a crack, it cannot be closed,

Joseph P. Bradley

As marriage and the family institution constitute the foundation and chief cornerstone of civil society, it is of the greatest moment that the marriage-tie should never be dissolved save for the most urgent reason. I cannot assent, however, to the doctrine that it should never be dissolved at all.

Alaa Makki

People cannot walk 10 or 12km, but the election commission isn't putting in more polling stations.

Karen Best

The symptoms teachers are experiencing are real; these teachers are ill. The BUT dismisses that nonsense because I don't understand how cancer, asthma, rhinitis or conjunctivitis falls into that category. We understand that it is a phenomenon, but it cannot be attributed to what is happening at Louis Lynch School.

Max Weber

One cannot prescribe to anyone whether he should follow an ethic of absolute ends or an ethic of responsibility.

Gerhard Schroeder

One cannot make the Serbian people suffer for their president, ... One cannot leave them without power in winter or without heat.

Gioacchino Rossini

One cannot judge 'Lohengrin' from a first hearing, and I certainly do not intend to hear it a second time.

John Challenger

One cannot dismiss the emotional response to September 11, which has led to a renewed 'life is too short' mentality,' ... Before September 11, many younger would-be entrepreneurs might have postponed their dreams until they were older, had more experience, etc. Now, we are seeing this younger generation proceed with their dreams, throwing caution to the wind.

Andrew Patel

One cannot discount the obvious -- Padilla has no information to provide.

Henry Ellis

The sun and the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.

Ryan Madson

Stuff started happening pretty quick, and I wasn't thinking out there like I should have been. I was just out there throwing.

William Stafford

So, the world happens twice --once what we see it as;second it legends itselfdeep, the way it is.

Mike Trewick

Sometimes I feel like we play a little scared. I think we play not to lose rather than play to win sometimes. That always happens when we start pressing a little too much.

Frank Beamer

These are all unusual things that can happen in a ballgame,

Kobe Bryant

It was very disappointing so I just try not to think about it too much. I just let it go. Everything happens for a reason, and this for whatever reason is the time for me to be on the team.

E. O. Wilson

I've been doing this for 28 years, and I've seen it happen maybe three times.

Jessi Colter

I've been circling. The recording had to happen at the right time and the right place.

Bob Mackey

It would never happen in my program. It's not what you do to an opponent. I was thoroughly disgusted.

Barbara Sher

Find out what you love. Do it because you love it. Stick with it. Start now.

Scott Westerfeld

Warning stickers on books would be a nightmare.

Chuck Eddy

Critics should stick to their convictions.

Zoe McLellan

I dream in numbers, and I like to look up the meaning of numbers, and numbers stick out to me.

Jayme Wilson

We know it?s going to be a challenge. We?re going to try to stick to what we do and give them a game.

Thomas S. Monson

Stick to a task 'til it sticks to you. . .for beginners are many, but finishers few.

Tina St. John

Holy Moses on a pogo stick!!

Steffi Graf

I am a person who sticks to her word.

Stephen Covey

When we pick up one end of the stick, we pick up the other.