Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edmond Goncourt

a new system of decoration, and . . . a poetic fantasy in the creation of the art object.

John Niven

A novel, of course, is a fully self-contained work of art. You pick it up off the shelf, open it, and there it is - a whole universe waiting for you to enter. A screenplay is just a blueprint for making a movie. Until the movie is actually filmed, the script really means nothing.

David Rakoff

A secondhand wardrobe hand clothes doesn't make one an artist. Neither do a hair-trigger temper, melancholic nature, propensity for tears, hating your parents, or HIV. I hate to say it - none of these make one an artist. They can help, but just as being gay doesn't make one witty... the only thing that makes one an artist is making art.

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.

Dead Prez

As artists we have a responsibility to organize and ensure that funds we raise for this cause are disseminated in a timely, fair and orderly fashion,

Keith Anderson

As a new artist you're just hoping people notice you any way possible just so you can get your music to them, ... Then you just hope they dig the music.

Clive James

As a work of art it has the same status as a long conversation between two not very bright drunks.

Robert Stromberg

As a director, the biggest job is to discern the imperfections in emotional tone and then view it in the global picture of what you're trying to do, if that makes sense. It's a rhythm, like music is a rhythm or composition and art is a rhythm. Dialogue is a rhythm as well.

Tim Riley

As an East Coast artist who paid his dues performing in the clubs of New York City, Redman's inspired rhymes bring the gritty realism of the city to life in our game. His bold lyrics and hard-edged funk beats capture the vibes of the city, from Washington Heights to Harlem and all the way down to Battery Park.

Richard Ford

There's a lot to be said for doing what you're not supposed to do, and the rewards of doing what you're supposed to do are more subtle and take longer to become apparent, which maybe makes it less attractive. But your life is the blueprint you make after the building is built.

Jarrod Kerr

A rate hike is now 50-50 in May and fully priced by June.

Ahmad Fawzi

So now we have a road map. It's an important first step toward the establishment of a fully representative, broader-based, gender-sensitive, multi-ethnic government down the line.

Jennifer Granholm

Sometimes leadership is planting trees under whose shade you'll never sit. It may not happen fully till after I'm gone. But I know that the steps we're taking are the right steps.

Chris McGill

Right now we have a supply picture that is fully utilized, even with record wells drilled, record rigs,

Susan Thomson

These are all fully-licensed and fully registered brokers,

Linda Dobbs

This is a really important opportunity for us. It's something we've talked about and had on our wish list for years. It's also a wonderful opportunity for our students to be able to perform on a fully functioning stage rather than a recital hall stage. It's important in their pre-professional training. We're all thrilled.

Anne McBride

This is an ongoing investigation, and we are fully cooperating.

Peter Coleman

This is still a significant injury, but one that with rehabilitation Troy will be able to fully recover from.

Zhao Yu

The U.S. side is fully responsible for this collision.

Art Alexakis

As a songwriter, I do kind of look at 'Santa Monica' as a thing outside of itself, because it isn't just my song. This is a song a lot of people tell me is a part of their high school or college years. That means a lot to me.

Joshua Leonard

The big studio movies are spending more and more money, which means they have to open in more theatres in order to re-coup their investment.

Rodney Lovell

A 'work around' simply means your system doesn't work.

Elizabeth Warren

Raising the minimum wage means we have workers paying more in to support the Social Security system.

Christian Lacroix

Ready-to-wear -- that means 'ready to wear'. Some people are doing couture during ready-to-wear (fashion week), others are putting up performances, we just come here with our little flowers.

Nick Harkaway

Prize lists are out, and you're not on them? Nature of the world - means nothing. Prizes are a lottery.

James St. James

People come. They go. Dying is the same as rehab or moving back to Missouri. It just means I won't be seeing them again.

Louis Armstrong

Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans?

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

A prejudice is a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.

Sue Leibold

A new world opens up for parents because a new world has opened up for their teens.

Thomas Levet

A win is a win but playing in the Open is something else.

Steven Bell

As long as they keep shoving this down our throats... they'll never be greeted with open arms.

David Wu

Dell is going to open down significantly tomorrow, more than 10 percent,

Dan Shechtman

The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.

Kari Lyles

Teachers said they were able to open up whole new discussions just by doing this project.

Al Johnson

I've never seen a project with this much open space and tree density.

Jody Van

The shelter will be open as long as they need it.

Michael Niemira

Is it enough to say this season could be more than OK? That's still an open question.

Lorna Kelly

Or you could go pick it up yourself. We don't want to be too lazy.

Danny Maciocia

Do you pick right now and worry about today or do you look a year down the line?

Anita McLane

Defensively, you can't pick out one person that has played well because they all are so good.

Rob Lowe

I've always been involved in politics, since I was 8 or 9 years old. I sold Kool-Aid for McGovern - I could always pick a winner.

Andrew Booth

After doing that it was pick your poison. We just tried to work the mismatches as much as possible.

Mark Twain

Once you put it down, you simply can't pick it up

Mike Grier

Roy kind of jumped their defenseman. I don't think the defenseman saw him. He was able to pick his pocket and he just threw it out to me. It was kind of just a bang-bang play.

Duce Staley

Right now things are starting to pick up for me.

Joe Armenia

Schools tell us if they want it or not and then we route it around to as many schools as we can. You pick us basically.

Bruce Vilanch

I've written about 15 screenplays and they all sold - they were all sold on pitches.

Joe Anderson

When you read something in script form, there are some subtleties that stand out with far greater gravitas than sometimes what you see on screen.

Bruce Campbell

You can't get a movie made without a script; it's the blueprint to your building.

Johnathan Frakes

To get that script as my first movie was just amazing.

Daniel Craig

Good scripts are hard to find.

Clive Anderson

I am going to have to stick to the script. If I muck around with the words it will defeat the object.

Liam Hemsworth

I read as many scripts as I can and just find stuff that I think is interesting, find stories that I think are worth telling.

Douglas Booth

More often than not, if you've got a good director and a good script you can't really go wrong.

Amber Heard

For the most part I pick movies based on the merit of the script, and the merit of the script only.

Angelina Jolie

This script was just so much smarter than usual and I'm just fascinated by human behavior.

Swami Vivekananda

All the powers in the universe are already ours.

Rabindranath Tagore

If I say that He is within me, the universe is ashamed; if I say that He is without me, it is falsehood.

Freeman Dyson

Almost everything about the universe is astounding.

Richard Dawkins

The universe doesn't owe you a sense of hope

Yoko Ono

The universe is a space bigger than all of us we are part of.

Lee Smolin

There is nothing outside the universe

Dogen

Nothing in the entire universe is hidden.

Al Golden

You never know it as well as you think until you have to be the teacher,

Ian Millward

And, until we get that right, we're not going to win games.

F. Stone

You have to give them you until you is what they want.

Brian Leonard

Right now it is only a scare. We won't know until after the fact.

Mark Ellis

I just feel good. I didn't think anything of it until (Mark) Kotsay said, 'If you get a chance, keep running.

Robert Harrison

I'll be here every year until I die.

Ozzie Guillen

If not then he'll have to wait until Monday.

Carol Davis

If I was the council, I wouldn't want to wait until July. It's been too long.

Rita Ora

I never knew how small L.A. was until I started to work here.

Kristin Baker

I've matured. I think I work better with the team.

James Marsh

I've always worked very efficiently on small budgets, both in documentaries and in features.

Amanda Hale

I've come to realise I work so much better when I'm going by instinct.

Luis Castillo

This is terrible. Very disappointing. I've got to get back out there. There's so many things I have to work on.

Bryson Sumlin

That's not in the playbook, ... That's just excitement. Everything worked as clockwork.

Boris Yeltsin

I understand that it's hard for everyone, but one cannot give in to emotions... we'll have to draw lessons from the current crisis and now we'll have to work on overcoming it.

Auguste Rodin

Where shall we begin? There is no beginning. Start where you arrive. Stop before what entices you. And work! You will enter little by little into the entirety. Method will be born in proportion to your interest.

Jane Fonda

The harder you work out, the more you should stretch.

Kent McCord

Some of the greatest writers in our industry can't get work.