Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aml Ameen

It's a funny thing: my name in Arabic means hope, so I suppose I have to live by that principle. Hope is desire, feeling, and investing in a projection of something that doesn't yet exist. At its best, you witness its alchemy in your life, turning something that was once in the mind into reality. At its worst, it's delusion.

Kathryn Harrison

We know the seductive alchemy of art. To transform private anguish into a narrative of truth, if not beauty; to make sense where there was none; to bring order out of chaos - these are the promises art makes.

Carl Jung

Grounded in the natural philosophy of the Middle Ages, alchemy formed a bridge: on the one hand into the past, to Gnosticism, and on the other into the future, to the modern psychology of the unconscious.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Actors are exposed in a way that nobody else can understand. They are subject to the likes and dislikes of people their entire life, no matter how successful they are. At the same time, in order to be liked, you have to not be yourself. So it's a very complicated human exercise - an alchemy that I have never understood.

Mitchell Ribitwer

The family desired that the matter be resolved without a trial. There's been enough trauma, misery and anguish already.

Ken Reed

It was the toughest decision I've ever made. It took a lot of thought, anguish and tears.

Bible Bible

We have heard the fame thereof: our hands wax feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, and pain, as of a woman in travail.

Dag Hammarskjold

Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Dan Hanrahan

At this moment, all of us share the pain and anguish of this terrible event. We are devastated.

Laura Bush

made extraordinary efforts to make sure that the children who have been upset by this hurricane are able to find some comfort and some solace in the midst of their anguish by being able to go to a school.

Dan Glickman

Nobody was happy with the meeting, ... Nobody's coming out of there with anything in their hearts except that the president has extreme anguish about this and is going to work to ensure that his life is going to be lived in a way that this is not repeated, ever.

Auday Arabo

I have a message for the cowards. There is no place you can hide. There is no place safe for you. The loss and anguish you caused this community will never be forgotten.

Celia Johnson

I found a face of anguish greeting me.

Ken Hill

Music is an art form too. Sometimes other forms of art can be inspiring to the musician.

David Smith

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

Jason James

Knowing that my wish list was pretty lofty and already busy working on other projects, I wrote Johnny Repeat in distinct chapters so high-caliber artists could contribute without having to make a 100-page commitment. I'm calling it 'cosmic noir.' I can't wait for everyone to see it!

The Bride

I would sooner destroy a stained glass window as an artist like yourself. However, since I can't have you following me either.

Susan Vreeland

I write about art out of gratitude to painters for the joy and spiritual uplift they have given me. Painters interpret for us the visual glories of God and, in this way, bring us closer to Him.

Dennis Conner

It basically was an art before. We're just starting to scratch it into a science.

Adoniram Judson

I take leave of Prome and her towering god, Shwa Lan-dau, at whose base I have been laboring with the kindest intentions for the last three months and a half. Too firmly founded art thou to be overthrown at present; but the children of those who now plaster thee with gold will yet pull thee down, nor leave one brick upon another.

John Minton

I actually started college as an art major, so I do have a semi-developed visual sense. I just don't have the chops to do it myself anymore. But with Matt, I only have to give him a general concept or whatever, and he takes it over the moon. Whatever he winds up with is always better than I could even dream.

John Allen

He is very concerned about how his art was misinterpreted. He's a great kid and it's obviously a mistake.

Katrina Kaif

For me, physical beauty is never the reason for attraction to anyone.

Susan Ross

Having to choose between goodness and beauty is a false dichotomy.

Patrick Biancone

He's a beauty. He has everything, just a lovely animal. The mother was great and we're taking a shot.

Miuccia Prada

I am always researching new ideas on beauty and femininity and the way it is perceived in contemporary culture.

Russell Crowe

Perhaps it is good to have a beautiful mind, but an even greater gift is to discover a beautiful heart.

Raymond Chandler

It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window.

Woody Allen

Umlaut snaps around and we cut to a blond apparition in her early twenties, clearly descended from Olympus by way of Hugh Hefner's mansion.

William Wycherley

But methings wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it

William Wordsworth

The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this.

Reagan Silber

Kevin brings a level of expertise and credibility that perfectly matches the status and style of the destination we are creating here in Las Vegas.

Roy Williams

Kevin's our third guy right now, and he brings veteran leadership to this group. But we do make fun of him because he's so small. He looks like he's 5-7 out there next to us. But he does make plays.

Robert Stevens

Joanne is a highly capable and effective leader who brings vast experience to her new position. Her close working relationship with Tom Marsh over the past few years has provided superb preparation for her new role and I am confident of a seamless transition.

Angelos Anastasiou

I think it is bolstering management rather than bringing in someone who is going to say yes to a bid.

LaVar Arrington

I think it is a dead issue. I think that I'm so excited about being a Giant now, and being in this city and being able to bring what I'm going to bring to this organization ? that's what I'm focused on.

Cory Stillman

I think it all depends on the guys you have. Everybody went into it with an open mind and had a lot of fun doing it. I think it did bring us closer.

Carrie Davis

It brings us frighteningly close to a show me your papers society.

Stu Jackson

It brings to light the danger when a player enters the spectator stands. At that point, we lose control of the situation and anything could have happened.

Drew Martin

It brings the throwing group together, because we have to depend on each other. Everyone else coming out and working hard everyday inspires me. Being able to coach them helps me a lot and keeps me focused. It probably causes me to work harder.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

History is much more the product of chaos than of conspiracy

Norton Juster

Freedom is not a license for chaos,

Chip Walker

Not only do parents provide the safe harbor teenagers need in an era of increasing violence and chaos, but evidence suggests this generation is more comfortable and trusting in authority.

Gary Lamar

They create chaos, but it's a controlled chaos. That's a comfortable environment for them. All three love chaos.

Vance Walberg

It looks like chaos. Sometimes it turns into chaos.

James Stephens

Chaos is the first condition. Order is the first law. Continuity is the first reflection. Quietude is the first happiness.

Cassandra Clare

Ragnor [was] always happy to see chaos, but not be involved in it.

Moby

Personally I find the democratic chaos of the Internet fascinating, and for the most part really benign.

Patrick Ness

You can't say everything, so you don't say nothing.

Neil MacGregor

Objects let you tell a narrative that encompasses everybody. Texts don't.

Terry Tempest Williams

What other species now require of us is our attention. Otherwise, we are entering a narrative of disappearing intelligences.

Matthew Tobin Anderson

A lot of the drive to make narratives came from having to play by myself as a 5- or 6-year-old in the woods.

Djuna Barnes

I have a narrative, but you will be put to it to find it.

David Shields

I'm not interested in collage as the refuge of the composition-ally disabled. I'm interested in collage as (to be honest) an evolution beyond narrative.

Alan Moore

The comics medium has some unusual features that do make it very different, in that it's combining a verbal narrative with a visual one that allows for much richer possibilities of transmitting information.

Rick Atkinson

If Ive vividly laid out the narrative, the reader will come to his own conclusions.

Tim Vine

If you do weave one-liners into a story, you have to have an overall story as well, otherwise it doesn't really count as narrative.

Lance Armstrong

I tried to control the narrative.

Murray Walker

You have to say what comes into your head, and sometimes the wrong words come, in the wrong order or I'd make prophecies which immediately turned out to be wrong.

Dave Foreman

He's just got to be consistent. In order to pitch in the big leagues, you've got to be consistent.

Ronda Rousey

People say to me all the time, 'You have no fear.' I tell them, 'No, that's not true. I'm scared all the time. You have to have fear in order to have courage. I'm a courageous person because I'm a scared person.

Richard M. Nixon

Sharp increases in the minimum wage rate are also inflationary. Frequently workers paid more than the minimum gauge their wages relative to it. This is especially true of those workers who are paid by the hour. An increase in the minimum therefore increases their demands for higher wages in order to maintain their place in the structure of wages. And when the increase is as sharp as it is in H.R. 7935, the result is sure to be a fresh surge of inflation. Once again, prudence dictates a more gradual increase in the wage rate, so that the economy can more easily absorb the impact.

Rian Johnson

The fanboy community can smell in an instant, like smelling fear, when something was tailor-made in order to reach them as a demographic.

Richard Ford

Finally I do like best of all stories whose necessity is in the implied recognition that someplace out there there exists an urgency-a chaos-, an insanity, a misrule of some dire sort which can end life as we know it but for the fact that this very story is written, this order found, this style determined, the worst averted, and we are beneficiaries of that order by being readers

Richard Gere

In a way, one gets stability from being able to order the rational mind.

Rich Lowry

John Kerry couldn't even order a Philly cheesesteak properly.

Roald Amundsen

Victory awaits him who has everything in order - luck, people call it.

Mark Delegal

What they say in public and what they say in private are so different.

Joe Wurzelbacher

Private unions, such as the UAW, is a choice between employees and employers. If that is what they want, then who am I to say you can't have it?

Greg Evans

Whenever you see a successful person you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them.

Moe Ammar

The private sector can turn it around a lot quicker.

Fred Carter

I think there's been even more state championships won by the private schools using (former) public school student-athletes,

Joel Kotkin

My theory is Americans are villagers, basically. We want the private space, the single-family house. But we want also the public space.

Tom Watkins

We need more entrepreneurs in private and public life,

Lynndie England

I was used by Private Graner, ... I didn't realize it at the time.

Lynndie England

I was used by Private Graner. I didn't realise it at the time.

Benjamin Franklin

Promises may get thee Friends, but Nonperformance will turn them into Enemies.

David Clohessy

So much for their promises to be more transparent.

Kenneth Roth

These promises of proper treatment are unenforceable. Any suspect who reveals mistreatment risks being sent back to the torture chamber.

John Sparkman

We can't make promises that we can give you assistance.

Thomas Aquinas

The splendor of a soul in grace is so seductive that it surpasses the beauty of all created things.

Bertolt Brecht

Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.

Bernhard Schlink

But then she was not awkward, she was slow-flowing, graceful, seductive - a seductiveness that had nothing to do with breast and hips and legs, but was an invitation to forget the world in the recesses of the body

Donatella Versace

You can be too boring, but you can never be too seductive.

Talib Kweli

It’s very seductive to focus on what you don’t like as opposed to celebrating all that it is that you do.

Mason Cooley

Melancholy is as seductive as Ecstasy.

Mason Cooley

With age, comfort becomes more seductive than beauty.

Jewel

Life is seductive, yet so few allow themselves to be seduced.

Gertrude Himmelfarb

Nothing is as seductive as the assurance of success.

Karl Marx

All history is nothing but a continuous transformation of human nature.

Brennan Manning

The gospel will persuade no one unless it has so convicted us that we are transformed by it.

Susan Sontag

The only transformation that interests me is a total transformation - however minute

Condoleezza Rice

We're in the middle of the transformation of a society that has handled its politics through repression to a society that will handle its politics through democratic institutions.

A. Hodge

No one truth is rightly held till it is clearly conceived and stated, and no single truth is adequately comprehended till it is viewed in harmonious relations to all the other truths of the system of which Christ is the centre

Richard Russo

I can be glib and truthful all at once.

Robert De Niro

There is only one way to gain access to the truth and that is to not expect anything.

Vera Farmiga

Honesty is not synonymous with truth.

Robert Ringer

People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true.

Robert Redford

What is it with you people? You think not getting caught in a lie is the same thing as telling the truth?

Sara Gruen

With a secret like that, at some point the secret itself becomes irrelevant. The fact that you kept it does not.

Samuel Johnson

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.

Samuel Johnson

Truth, such as is necessary to the reputation of life, is always found where it is honestly sought.