Famous Quotes & Sayings

Captain Beefheart

I don't think artists are made, I think they're born.

Captain Beefheart

The stars are matter, we're matter, but it doesn't matter.

Captain Beefheart

I'd never just want to do what everybody else did. I'd be contributing to the sameness of everything.

Faith Ringgold

I was pleased with the results but every time I look at both of those pictures, I feel a little bit of the pain I felt in trying to put it together.

Georgia O'Keeffe

I hate flowers. I only paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move.

Saul Steinberg

The artist is an educator of artists of the future who are able to understand and in the process of understanding perform unexpected - the best - evolutions.

Captain Beefheart

I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really frightening.

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.

Tristram Stuart

As human pastoralists discovered 8,000 years ago, raising animals can be an efficient way of harnessing otherwise unusable resources such as grass.

Archimedes

Eureka! (I have found it!)

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

The very discovery of the New world was the by-product of a dietary quest.

Thomas Friedman

John Kennedy led us on a journey to discover the moon. Obama needs to lead us on a journey to rediscover, rebuild and reinvent our own backyard.

Will Rogers

Wrigley was the first man to discover that American jaws must wag; so why not give them something to wag against.

Jeff Bezos

There'll always be serendipity involved in discovery.

Iris Apfel

I do have a dominant shopping gene but, unlike a reasonable person, I never plan for what I need each season. I enjoy the thrill of the hunt, the discovery and the endless search. In another creation I was, perhaps, a hunter/gatherer. After all these years, I’ve learned that it’s not the end result or finished product but the process I most enjoy. If my experimenting, searching and juxtaposing turns into an exciting outfit well, it’s just a big fat bonus!

Jim Fox

Her perspective led me into self-discovery. I got to see the other side.

Michael Smith

He had this zest to discover people and in discovering them, if they were in need, he tried to help them.

Tristram Stuart

As human pastoralists discovered 8,000 years ago, raising animals can be an efficient way of harnessing otherwise unusable resources such as grass.

Trent Reznor

I think the reason I was 23 before I ever wrote a song was that I was afraid of testing myself. What would I do if I discovered I didn't have anything to say?

Dick Armey

We discovered that Elvis had left the building,

Tom Page

We discovered it on March 29. She was gone when we found it.

Olivia Newton-John

In June 1992, I discovered a lump in my breast. A subsequent mammogram, ultrasound and a needle biopsy proved negative. But my instinct said it still didn't feel right, so I had a lumpectomy. I then got the news that it was cancer.

David Wade

Experience needs distance and what you write of at a distance tells not so much what you were like as what you have discovered since.

Dave Bowman

As of now, no response from the public or business.

Dan Stessel

Some (drivers) have opted to switch to public transportation, and we're working to welcome them to the system.

Alicia Munnell

With public employees, the day of reckoning is more in the distance.

Adam Smith

We want the public to be more engaged.

Robert Reich

Public employees should have the right to bargain for better wages and working conditions, just like all employees do.

Michelle Williams

When you're in a relationship with somebody who is also a public personality, then it doubles the attention from the media.

Glen Richardson

I am very pleased. This is a win for public schools.

Romesh Wadhwani

I don't want to take a company public and not have it do extremely well and fail the public shareholder.

Gary Peck

If I were the public officials, I would look at this ruling very carefully.

Stephen Jay Gould

I dreamed of becoming a scientist, in general, and a paleontologist, in particular, ever since the Tyrannosaurus skeleton awed and scared me.

Orlando Bloom

I wondered how they would top the Pirates and skeletons and moonlight, because that's a pretty cool concept.

Paul Klee

Like people, a picture has a skeleton, muscles and skin.

Angus King

Somebody said, 'You may be a committee chair.' I don't think so. I don't think anybody would want me that much.

Kathy Valentine

together we're trying to make a wish come true that somebody else wasn't going to let happen.

Mary Carillo

There's somebody to look at, and I think that really helped.

Peter Schmitz

Let's put somebody in there that wants to stay and will be successful.

Doug Adkins

Somebody is going to have to step in and take the load.

Chauncey Billups

Somebody is always going to come up big in the stretch. We never know who, but somebody will come up big.

Cristie Kerr

You just know when somebody is good. You can just tell.

Lofa Tatupu

He is somebody you really have to worry about and you have to know where he is at all times.

Don Robinson

I did talk to somebody one time who said he was Doug Wood.

Michael Gartenberg

It does what it's supposed to do, and it does it well.

Kenny Rogers

You want to do what you're supposed to do here. But it's a long year.

Francine Prose

I think of myself as someone with a kind of Tourette's. I cannot help saying the thing you're not supposed to say.

Kenny G

I don't go to clubs. I don't know what club mixes are supposed to sound like.