Famous Quotes & Sayings

Keith Haring

I think you have to control the materials to an extent, but it's important to let the materials have a kind of power for themselves; like the natural power of gravity, if you are painting on a wall, it makes the paint trickle and it drips; there is no reason to fight that.

Keith Haring

People were more interested in the phenomena than the art itself. This, combined with the growing interest in collecting art as an investment and the resultant boom in the art market, made it a difficult time for a young artist to remain sincere without becoming cynical.

Carl Barks

I always felt myself to be an unlucky person like Donald, who is a victim of so many circumstances. But there isn't a person in the United States who couldn't identify with him. He is everything, he is everybody; he makes the same mistakes that we all make.

Greg Ginn

You have to keep the business side together as well as the creative side. We have constantly surprised people and stayed with bands until they have grown on people.

Ad Reinhardt

I was drafted in '45 and I was a sailor for a year. They didn't know what to do with me so they made a sort of photographer out of me.

Georgia O'Keeffe

To create one's own world in any of the arts takes courage.

Faith Ringgold

I think actually it's been a benefit to me that my work has been in quilt form, that I decided to quilt my paintings, which is what I do.

Faith Ringgold

I think about what I'm trying to say and recognize the fact that people may see what I see or may hear what I'm saying or may not.

Maxfield Parrish

I don't know what people find or like in me, I'm hopelessly commonplace! Current appreciation of my work is a bit highbrow, I've always considered myself a popular artist.

Katherine Paterson

I'm a great believer in research. I have to know about a place before I write a story that is set in that place.

Darius Miles

Kevin had a great game. We have some smaller guards out there so he was able to do a lot more things. He had it going and was on fire.

B. B. King

Kevin did a great job tonight. He gutted it out there at the end for us. It was a great team win.

James Patterson

Kids don't read as much as you'd like them to, just in terms of seeing the world from different perspectives. I mean, that's the great thing about books, still. Here's television, here are the movies, and it's pretty limited in terms of the perspectives.

Mary Carskadon

Kids are too sleepy to learn well. They're too sleepy to be happy. And they're at great risk for such things as traffic accidents.

Alan Trammel

I wouldn't say it was one of his greatest performances, but he pitched well enough to win.

Jim Schmitz

Jake Wade did just such a great job throwing strikes, going right at them. He pitched six quality innings. It was just nice to see him come out like that.

Alden Ehrenreich

I would say that it's mainly about the director. It's a hard quality to find, but I always know whether I want to do something or not. The character is important to me, as is getting to work with people that I feel like I can learn from and make a great movie with.

Chuck D.

Joey wrestled a great tournament, and we don't want him to get lost in the shuffle. He was solid all weekend.

Edmund White

I was always ambitious - not to make money: to be published.

Pat McDonald

I think it probably should just be torn down. It's probably going to take a lot of money to rebuild.

Chris Beatty

He'll be making a lot more money than that senator.

Grant Heslov

When I write, I make decent money doing it, but I don't wake up dreaming about writing.

Shaquille O'Neal

I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money.

Simon Reuben

If you can't make 40% on your money in Russia, you're a fool.

Silvio Santos

I'm a TV man, not a money man.

Stanley Tucci

I'm not interested in wasting money on a project.

Shuji Nakamura

There are still people in Japan who think money is something evil.

Monica Crowley

Just when you think you've heard it all from Team Obama, the next day brings another jaw-dropper.

Meredith Ostrom

John Casablancas was saying, 'You will be the next Claudia Schiffer!' But I said, 'Actually, I have to go to college.'

Stephen Colbert

All I can do is today and tomorrow and have some idea of what we're doing next week. That's all I can worry about.

Erin Dethloff

Having a season-best performance before the Big 12 (conference meet) is really huge. We are just going to keep practicing next week.

Nick Price

He's a little older than me and out of respect he should be the next one to be asked,

Ted Ligety

I think it's kind of stupid to make him do it if he isn't going to be in the next run.

Carl Poston

It could be (today), it could be next week. It's all up to him.

Ken Warwick

When they go to school the next day, it's become the show to watch, and if they haven't seen it, they've got a problem.

Elliott Sadler

I actually am pretty pumped up for the next nine races.

Richard Wilbur

Odd that a thing is most itself when likened

Rick Riordan

Americans are an odd bunch, but they grow on you.

Yoko Ono

The odds of not meeting in this life are so great that every meeting is like a miracle. It's a wonder that we don't make love to every single person we meet.

William Petersen

Sure, I always chose rebels to identify with - I still do - but to me a rebel isn't so much someone who breaks the law as someone who goes against the odds.

Evander Holyfield

Odds are just the people opinion. Respect your own opinion.

Lewis Black

I'm not a great joke writer, which is odd for a comic to say, but I'm not.

Raza Jaffrey

There isn't really a theatre culture in L.A., which is odd when there are so many brilliant actors there.

Tyler Cowen

Sports is remarkably cognitive. I think it's underrated just how smart it is. Actually, if I had more time, I would spend more time with sports. Watching it, reading about it, I think it's oddly underrated.

Rev. Barham

And then he hitched his trousers up, as is, I'm told, their use, / - It's very odd that Sailor-men should wear those things so loose.

Douglas Roberts

He was being beaten. He paid a price for this.

Joe Gibbs

I think as much as anything it's their character. They keep fighting, and it's paid off for us.

Marvan Atapattu

He's been doing a lot of work on his fielding and tonight it paid off in a final.

Russ Adams

He doesn't talk as much as (Hudson) did. But it's all really the same techniques we're using. It's all about repetition and getting to know each other. We're out there every day before and after practice getting our work in and the work has paid off.

Zig Ziglar

When you do more than you're paid for eventually you'll be paid for more than you do.

Mary Bennett

I paid $400 for these seats and they are no good.

Kent Nelson

I paid 10K ($10,000) in May and you said, 'Don't worry about the rotation.' And I waited for two months.

Evan Goldberg

I expect to get paid if I do something.

Ron Nadicksbernd

There were times when I couldn't do anything, and when I did, I paid for it.