Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bertrand Russell

Happiness, as is evident, depends partly upon external circumstances and partly upon oneself.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Let us resolve to be happy regardless of our circumstance.

Edward Gorey

More is happening out there than we are aware of. It is possibly due to some unknown direful circumstance.

Cameron Mackintosh

Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you.

Baldwin Spencer

We, too, must change as circumstances evolve.

Daniel Webster

Faith puts God between us and our circumstances.

Chuck Pagano

Circumstances don't make you, they reveal you .

Robert Baden-Powell

A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances.

Sylvia Ashton-Warner

It's just as possible to live to the full in a narrow corner as it is in bigness.

Ben Whishaw

I would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I'm still fascinated by those things.

Pierre Bonnard

I should like to present myself to the young painters of the year 2000 with the wings of a butterfly.

Jamie Wyeth

Being a painter is the only profession where you have to stand there with all your shortcomings on the wall.

Robert Henri

A GREAT PAINTER will know a great deal about how he did it, but still he will say, “How did I do it?

Spalding Gray

I see [my pen] as an extension of my musculature. It's like being a painter. It's the closest I can get to my breath.

Max Cannon

I wanted to be a painter.

Paul Cezanne

The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.

Jordan Bridges

I have a theory that most people disagree with. I really feel that acting for film and acting for the stage are two different crafts. I think that they share things in common. But I liken it to a painter switching over to photography.

Christian Marclay

I have never been much of a painter.

Edith Stein

There is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman.

Dirk Bogarde

So I'm in quite the wrong profession obviously.

Alexander Pope

Every professional was once an amateur.

Robert J. Shiller

Each profession has its own toolkit.

Mason Cooley

I must like my profession, since I can hardly distinguish myself from it.

George Papandreou

I never thought of politics as a profession.

Garson Kanin

Amateurs hope. Professional work.

P. T. Barnum

I am a showman by profession... and all the gilding shall make nothing else of me.

Campbell Scott

I learned, especially from my mother, to respect the profession and take it seriously, but not take yourself too seriously.