Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Smith

I was interested in the nuts and bolts of its chemistry, the thermodynamics. I learned to blow glass in an artistic vacuum.

Roger Bart

I always enjoyed participating in artistic endeavors, and I remember in high school participating in chorus, drama and singing madrigals, mainly because they were an easy A. I loved being in plays and musicals too, but you didn't really get credit for those.

Rose Rosetree

Gwen has a very complicated, artistic temperament. It's intense, but she's OK with it. She's learned to let it fuel her artistic life.

Tatiana Maslany

I was on the improv team in high school, and after I graduated, I joined an improv company that had been established 10 years prior to me getting there. They did longform improv, and I fell in love with it. It's acting, character creation, collaborative, artistic expression and comedy - and it's scary. It was a big rush.

Joseph Volpe

Her vote of confidence in our past achievements and our future artistic goals is simply the best holiday gift any of us could ask for.

Joe Nichols

The people who are competing business-wise out there want what other successful labels and artists have. I don't want what they have; I want my own path, my own sound, my own identity. Record labels care nothing about identity or artistic freedom, they want good business.

Peter Gelb

What I'm not interested in is having directors here who are anti-story tellers, and that's how I would group a lot of directors who subject audiences in Europe to unpleasant artistic experiences.

Curtis Jones

What I'm making music for now is more similar to what I was doing in the beginning. In those days it was all about doing music so when people heard it in a club it would take their minds of their worries. I got more artistic but now I've gone back to basics.

Mary Noone

I think we have a really strong artistic showing here in the valley. And I think everybody is wanting to reconnect with the open treasures (the land) we have left.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

You don't need a foreign policy expert to tell you empty threats and hollow promises don't work. Ask any parent of a rebellious teenager. If you don't make good on the threats, you're asking for worse behavior next time.

Kathleen Hanna

I especially don't want men coming up to me and asking if sexism still exists. It's like, I'm seriously gonna barf a McDonald's salad on the next person to do that.

Bryan Mattison

I was like, 'Well, why not? This is what you do. This is your job.' So when I asked him for help, he sat down and helped me.

Matthew Perry

I was like: I'm going to ask Julia Roberts out but I'm going to be very nervous about it. Then she said yes, I got even more nervous.

Mark Turgeon

I was just asking our guys to get it close and put the pressure on them.

Chris Osgood

I was just asking him how he was, and I said I was ready and he didn't have to push it if he was injured, and that was it, really.

Roger Tamraz

I was introduced to the president, ... He asked me what I did in life, and I explained my project.

Diego Della Valle

I was looking for a name with an old English sound, very easy to pronounce in every language and easy to remember. At the beginning I used J. P. Tod's, but then in 1999 it was shortened since too many people were asking who was Mr. J. P. Tod's.

Whitney Dosty

I was in New York for a dance program, and I decided to give (volleyball) a try. My mom called the coach and asked her if I could play.

Keke Palmer

I don't wish for anything. Wishing for a million dollars feels greedy. I just wish for the best for me.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

Krispy Kreme claims the 'batter is the best part.' Same with an Obama speech. It's all about what's on the outside, not what's inside.

Ken Hill

Writing a song is much like being an author. Yes, we all have tools to write (everyone has a brain I hope!), but that doesn't all of a sudden make us best selling authors.

Katherine Paterson

The best thing about being a writer is it gives you readers who understand your deepest feelings and fears.

Larry Hughes

I was just dealing with it, playing through it, but I knew something was wrong. This was the best time to do it. If it was later in the year, I would've kept playing.

Tim Reitz

I was always a theater buff. One of the best things is to have your own character to craft and design.

Bob Stoops

Kirk and Dan are great friends of mine. I do my best to watch the game and not root for either one.

Evgeni Nabokov

Kipper is a confident guy right now back there and, defensively, they're one of the best teams in the league. Their identity is they're not going to score four or five goals, they're going to score two or three, but it's going to be enough to win.

Archibald Hill

Kindliness and sympathy, fellowship and understanding, are always good, but best when they come from a distant corner of the world.

John Salmons

I was looking in their huddle, they were laughing, joking, they knew they were going to come out with the win. There's just that confidence of been there, done that. They know how to win games. They're not worried.

Andre Gide

Know thyself! A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever observes himself arrests his own development. A caterpillar who wanted to know itself well would never become a butterfly.

Scott Verplank

I would sure think he would take confidence that he's been right up around the lead all year.

Mike Waters

I wrestled really well and I feel great because this is my first sectional title. I have a lot of confidence going into district.

Jason Varitek

Keith was the single reason we have a championship in this city. I have a ton of confidence in him.

Wes Suan

Keith has developed a lot of confidence in his technique. When he does make a mistake, he learns from it and bounces back.

Kathleen Camilli

Keep in mind, consumer confidence is tied to your job.

Kiran Karnik

Just making regulations for IPR is not enough. Its enforcement and conviction are also important to win the confidence of global companies.

Dave Schmidt

Josh and Lucas, these last couple weeks started to wrestle like they started this season. This was huge because it's a big confidence booster going into state.

Stephen Campbell

Kentucky has a rich history, and we want to do our small part to preserve it for future generations.

Carl Hiaasen

Kids feel so strongly about what's going on today and what's happening to the world, and that's very inspiring. I feel more hopeful than ever before about the future.

Jake Johnson

I would want to go to the future, 25 years in the future, and see if the Cubs ever win a World Series.

Christopher Shays

Katrina taught us the hard lesson that, as we prepare for future emergencies, it's important we include in our plans ways to protect our pet owners and their pets.

Joe Battista

I think in the end, in the future this team is going to make things happen.

Douglas Coupland

It also allows you to look as though you're not particularly from the present, future or past, either.

Charles Gargano

He is the governor and he thinks it's important for the future, whether he's here or not,

George P. Shultz

I've always tried to live in the future and think about things and how to make things better. If you have great-grandchildren around, and their pictures are looking at you, well, that's the future.

Samantha Bond

I lost a girlfriend when I was in my 30s. She was 46. It all sounds so trite, but I put a Post-it on my dressing-room wall. It said, 'The past is history. The future is a mystery. This moment is a gift, which is why it's called the present.'

William Butler Yeats

I think it better that at times like theseWe poets keep our mouths shut, for in truthWe have no gift to set a statesman right;He's had enough of meddling who can pleaseA young girl in the indolence of her youthOr an old man upon a winter's night.

Keith Greene

This was a gift from the ex-president Teddy Roosevelt.

Tambra Flint

He's a gift from God. He's spared for a reason, and I'm really grateful.

Laurie Fisher

He's a tremendously gifted player with a phenomenal understanding of the game.

Dan Rohn

He's a very, very talented young man. He has a lot of gifts others don't have.

Donald DeMayo

He's been giving gifts to students for 40 years.

Francis Donald

Humility is the river through which all other gifts of grace flow.

Shere Nagarwalla

I'd always had a strong urge to set up my own gift business, but I didn't want to open a retail operation until I'd experimented with it.

David Jones

He has a gift that he can't help but share.

Joby Scroggs

I talked to them a long time in the locker room afterwards, looked several in the eye. It was a heartfelt thing - hopefully they've set some goals they truly want to accomplish.

Louis Saha

It can be a player's poor shape. It can be injuries. The number of matches played. The number of goals scored.

Robbie Earl

I take great pride in showing that I'm able to step up in key times. My role is to score goals and put up numbers.

Glen Murray

He was a big offensive threat for us, and to lose him when you're having trouble scoring goals, it's going to hurt the team. To top it off, losing to a team that we're chasing, it's not good.

Dustin Boyd

He's a good goalie but if you get some goals on him, he'll kind of shut it down.

Chris Schultz

He scored two real nice goals and set up two nice ones as our captain.

Ken Beck

I think their goals are set a little higher. They are going to be pretty competitive.

Brian Harman

I think you have to set your goals high. If I go out there and say I just want to make the cut, that's all I'll ever do. If I go out there and try to make a top 10 or try to win, I might do a little better than that.

Marian Gaborik

We've got to try to find more ugly goals out there.

Antonia Thomas

I'd love to see a Nirvana biopic. I loved them when I was younger. I really like jazz music, so I'd like to see a Billie Holiday biopic - she was a fascinating woman.

John Woo

He will be spending the holidays with the troops.

Richard Baxter

Tomorrow is always the sluggard's working day; today is his holiday

Vinnie Jones

I'm lucky in that I travel a lot for work. I also manage several holidays a year. I'm not someone who sits in the sun or goes sightseeing, though. If I go away, it will be for fishing or something like that.

William James

What do believers in the Absolute mean by saving that their belief affords them comfort? They mean that since in the Absolute finite evil is ‘overruled’ already, we may, therefore, whenever we wish, treat the temporal as if it were potentially the eternal, be sure that we can trust its outcome, and, without sin, dismiss our fear and drop the worry of our finite responsibility. In short, they mean that we have a right ever and anon to take a moral holiday, to let the world wag in its own way, feeling that its issues are in better hands than ours and are none of our business.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Some holiday traditions are sacred. In our house one such tradition is the annual Christmas classic cinema celebration.

Ric Flair

We used to wrestle every night, 385 times a year. For ten years. 365 days. Never had any holidays off, ever. Holidays were always two-day venues. Two event venues. Afternoon and night.

Tucker Carlson

I was very disappointed, very disappointed when President [George W.] Bush proclaimed Kwanzaa as a national holiday. Prior to that, Bill Clinton did the same thing.

Vera Farmiga

Do I observe holy days and holidays? Yeah, the ritual is very important to me. It's part of being Ukrainian Catholic. So every holy day we're baking pierogis and not eating meat.

Brandon Roy

I was like, 'Does he just randomly walk around? They were like, 'Yeah, but not today, it's past his bedtime.

Billy Gillispie

I wouldn't put anything past this team right here.

Chemi Shalev

I think in the past week we have already reached new lows.

Rick Dinse

We are going to revisit those situations and those individuals we have contacted in the past,

Hannes Smarason

What we've said in the past is that we look at this as an investment. We didn't have any specific plans for making a bid, but there was just a lot of speculation out there.

Agost Benard

have tended to be slow, reactive, and incremental over the past year.

F. Schumacher

Going from two wheels to four, we've seen in the past that this can be done.

Willie Mitchell

I thought we've played pretty well the past two games, but we haven't been rewarded for it. We need to find a way to win these types of games.

Danton Cole

I thought we played well. We just couldn't get that second one past Martin. There are some things we can do better (Saturday) and we will.

Patrick Vieira

He is simply exceptional. He is always there at exceptional moments.

Ephrem Fernandez

I think that part of the solution will come simply with time, because time does heal.

Angelina Jolie

it is simply not going to be enough.

Jose Barroso

It is not satisfactory, it is simply not enough.

Becky Lourey

I don't just want to talk about goals. I know we can get there. We simply can't wait.

Lynsey Addario

In so many countries, Western journalists are viewed simply as dollar signs. We're ransom objects.

Gary Shaw

Calzaghe is not our focus. We simply don't need the fight,

Hideo Kojima

I have to have a creative role; otherwise, I simply wouldn't come into work.

Michael Dean

I have not talked with Terri in weeks. We were simply brainstorming.

Joseph Biden

Judge, if I look only at what you've said and written ... I would have to vote 'no,'

Steve Southerland

I think voters appreciate that I'm not sitting in the back row, waiting for my turn.

Jeff Denham

I don't know that you have the votes here today.

Rich Lowry

Bill Clinton was a liberal who could appeal to conservative-leaning Bubba voters.

Vivian Campbell

I don't know how anyone could vote Republican. It's so obvious that their only interest is keeping the rich rich.

Werner Herzog

I'm not a citizen of America, I cannot vote. But it is fascinating because there's a new kind of protagonist out there that we didn't expect. By the way, I'm not in any panic at all.

Washington Allston

Reputation is but a synonym of popularity: dependent on suffrage, to be increased or diminished at the will of the voters.

William Hague

I've always been opposed myself to prisoners having the vote.

William Hague

It is not my policy to hit voters during the election.