Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ben Vereen

As far as working with Chita Rivera, all I can say is it's a dream come true. Her artistry and discipline and dedication is a joy to be around.

Stewart Cink

Augusta was always a place where you could have a lot of fun and you could demonstrate an artistic talent for strategy around the golf course. Now it's not.

Mark Joseph

Ralph is not only a man of accomplishment, but a man of integrity. Those of us who knew and loved Bob are confident that Ralph is just the kind of artist that he hoped would one day take the stage.

Steve Swallow

Producing is a great deal more stressful than playing for me, and for this reason I've been doing less of it lately. But it's a service I like to perform. I certainly see producing as a service to the artist who's asked for help. What the producer does is entirely a response to what the artist needs. It can be very gratifying work. The trick is to do as little as possible, only what the artist can't or won't do for himself.

E. B. White

People can spend $3000 on an artist whose work isn't worth the material it's painted on, and there's no CV, no certificate of authenticity, no guarantees the work is original,

Jim Lee

People ask me, 'What happened in your life that might have pushed you as an artist to get to where you are today?' I always felt a little on the outside. And as such, you're always observing things. So, I'd be kind of re-creating these things in my mind, and I think drawing it was a way to deal with that.

Emma Goldman

Oscar Wilde defines a perfect personality as ""one who develops under perfect conditions, who is not wounded, maimed, or in danger."" A perfect personality, then, is only possible in a state of society where man is free to choose the mode of work, the conditions of work, and the freedom to work. One to whom the making of a table, the building of a house, or the tilling of the soil, is what the painting is to the artist and the discovery to the scientist -- the result of inspiration, of intense longing, and deep interest in work as a creative force.

Vincent Van Gogh

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Edith Wharton

. . . an unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences.

John Hawkes

As an actor, you don't often get a chance to know exactly the impact of what the audience is seeing, even though you can ask where the frame is. A move that feels tiny can be huge, and vice versa.

H. Hunt

As a striker you automatically follow everything in because you don't know if it's going to come off the bar, the post or the goalkeeper. That would normally have been my reaction but I just thought it was going to bounce into the roof of the net. I was convinced. People ask me why I didn't just knock it in but I thought it was a goal. It was an automatic reaction.

Soichi Noguchi

As a rookie astronaut, I could not ask for more. We had three spacewalks, two bonus extension days in space and one great crew.

Soichi Noguchi

As a rookie astronaut, I could not ask for more, ... We had three spacewalks, two bonus extension days in space and one great crew.

Zoran Djindjic

As a U.N. member state, we are obliged to fully cooperate with The Hague tribunal and have asked all state bodies for full cooperation.

Bob Margolis

As a councilman, they asked me to intervene and I did. My job is to protect the neighborhood.

Patricia Sullivan

As a female it never crossed my mind to feel uncomfortable around Professor Schaffer. I would often stay after class to ask personal questions,

Dave Foreman

As a musician I guess the only thing I would ask from a listener is to put the CD in, close your eyes and forget about all the peripherals. I guess that's a dream that may not happen in my lifetime, but I listen to music from all sorts of people and I think there is an open-minded individual who will be able to listen to music of all types.

Andy Kopplin

The burden of suggesting good ideas, you get asked to contribute to the implementation.

Chris Avery

BA is entering what we feel will be a tense six months for industrial relations as the pension fund deficit and the three-year wage deal come up for negotiation with the unions.

M. Wolfe

As of what we know, the better deal is Hilton. It's going to go up.

Rasheed Wallace

As long as we got the win. We gotta deal with that other (stuff) every night. But we fought through it and got the W.

Tom Freston

As per a part of the deal the director (Steven Spielberg) would produce...not necessarily direct four-five films for us.

Tate Casey

That was a big deal to us. It was his way of sending us a message that we were taking everything for granted. This is the University of Florida. It's a privilege to be here and a privilege to play football here. Some guys might have lost sight of that, but he has that instilled into everyone now.

Holly Veloso

That was a big deal for her, a big jump.

Richard Fisher

really a great deal of intolerance for their being stuck in the water and their inability to change.

E. Hurley

Privacy issues are very difficult to deal with. If government intervention comes into play, it will be ineffective at best.

Craig Cook

People think they need to be at a ski-in/ski-out resort, but the reality is it's not such a big deal to jump on a shuttle.

Alberto Giacometti

I've been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand.

Scott Adams

One of the reasons why you like to do your own drawings is, your style changes over time. And there's something about that that keeps it fresh to the viewer.

Thomas Jefferson

The time to guard against corruption and tyranny is before they shall have gotten hold of us. It is better to keep the wolf out of the fold, than to trust to drawing his teeth and talons after he shall have entered.

Robert Henri

A Curve does not exist in its full power until contrasted with a straight line.

Seth MacFarlane

I still do a lot of drawing on a daily basis.

Elizabeth Kenny

One of the puppets is a drawing on my thumb. That is Handsome Percy.

Daren Causey

I have always been interested in drawing as long as I can remember.

Henry Moore

I sometimes draw just for its own enjoyment.

Henry Moore

The construction of the human figure, its tremendous variety of balance, of size, of rhythm, all those things make the human form much more difficult to get right in a drawing than anything else.

Lee Humphrey

As a shooter you can tell when your shots are going good. Tonight I felt good, especially in the second half.

Brian Cashman

As of yesterday Carl felt he was 70 percent better from Friday.

Quin Snyder

As painful as this loss is and as much as you think, 'Hey, this is a game that we felt we had won,' we can't be living in yesterday. We've got to go forward.

Mark Olson

As our September FOMC (Federal Open Market Committee) meeting followed Hurricane Katrina by approximately three weeks and was held concurrently with the formation of Hurricane Rita, I felt that there was insufficient information as well as great uncertainty about how these forces would play out in the near term,

Tim Lewis

That was a big one for us because it gave us momentum. When the score was tied at halftime, I felt and the team felt that the next goal was going to be big.

Stephany Smith

That's where we felt the role model line had been drawn.

Alex Brink

Personally, I felt improved. I felt I was able to stretch the field a little more. There's been kind of a misconception of my play, that I can't throw downfield. That's about all we did in high school.

Ken Schrad

People told me that's the first time anyone's ever felt the need to scout us in years.

Major Applewhite

People don't understand I felt I had accomplished all I wanted as a player in football.

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.

Matthew Goode

I've thought about writing, but it hasn't happened yet. It's like schoolwork - you start doing your revisions two nights before you're compelled to turn it in.

Billy Flahive

I've never seen silver limit down. It hasn't happened since the 1980s.

Bryn Terfel

It was the worst thing that's ever happened to me in my very short time on this planet.

Mark Bellhorn

It was unfortunate what happened to me this year in Boston, ... I've just got to turn the page and start a new chapter. There's no hard feelings, but this is my team now.

James Welch

I used to object to being called an Indian writer, and would always say I was a writer who happened to be an Indian, and who happened to write about Indians.

Mark Nash

The worst thing that happened to Zephyrhills might have been us losing last week.

Steve Kerr

This ranks right up there, ... Right up there at the top with anything that happened with the Bulls.

John Green

Whenever you use historic models, the housing market is going to be underestimated, and I think this is what has happened here.

Johann G. Seume

People should always have something which they prefer to life.

Gwendoline Christie

People come up to me and say, 'You look so much better in real life.'

Cate Blanchett

People had always vaguely mentioned that when you have children, how part of your life would stop. But they don't say that some other extraordinary part of your life opens up.

John Ortberg

Opposition is an inevitable reality of pastoral life.

Paul Ballard

On this day we want to say thank you for an American hero, for one who would sacrifice his life so we could be free.

Stella Young

On the whole, my life is and has been wonderful.

Jack Brennan

No question it has been a challenging week. But it's a reminder to us all that life in the NFL doesn't get quieter when you have some success.

Joyce Banda

After President Mutharika was declared a winner, there was life after State House. For those Malawians that know me, I am an international public speaker. So I went back to my speaking engagements.

Stuart Townsend

Acting is great. You spend your whole life trying to get it right.

Jim Tracy

A very wonderful note, I might add. A very professionally done thing.

Adelaide Anne Procter

No star is ever lost we once have seen, we always may be what we might have been.

Peter Beattie

The money might be better off used for things like law-and- order initiatives, schools and hospitals,

Pat Davis

The technician will see if the AC system is an old one or in need of repair. A suggestion might then be made to upgrade to a more energy-efficient system.

John Butler

See, I might have screwed the whole thing up in Buffalo,

Eric Desjardins

I've tried to play with the composites, and I still might go to it eventually, ... But I'm used to the feel of the wooden sticks and I like them.

Don Haskins

I spent 18 months, off and on, with the script writer. I might as well have not spent one second with him.

William Poole

that one might reasonably regard as commercially significant.

Ben Dattner

You should be truthful, constructive and not personal, vindictive or petty. You might say, 'Here are some suggestions for the next person who has this job.

Tom Ridge

a very unfortunate characterization of the work that people are doing.

Jake Bugg

At school, people would say I should go on 'Britain's Got Talent,' but I would never have done that because it doesn't seem genuine; it doesn't feel natural.

Renae Dreier

A year from now, people will look back and say that was nerve-racking, but it was worth it.

Randy Falco

Back in 1975, we were making all the decisions about what people were going to watch.

Karla Reese

As people stop driving, we haven't been able to replace them as readily as we used to.

Michael Vick

As long as I can go out and make plays, people can say what they want to say,

Jake Barton

As long as your storytelling and emotional depth are intact, that's what people will focus on.

Ferdie Pacheco

As influential as I have been, do you think one of these people has ever called me? ... No.

Astro Teller

Really, having people who have different mental perspectives is what's important.

Gordon Richards

But that's not to say they're not here - they just got pushed over the sides,

Jake Eakin

I got up to try to stop him, and he just pushed me.

Steve Capps

He took over this project, pushed Jef out.

John Niven

If pushed to say what I like about Elizabeth, who, as I'm sure most of you know, overtook Queen Victoria this week to become our longest-serving monarch, it would be her uncomplaining, getting-on-with-it ethic.