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.

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.

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.

Gitesh Pandya

I think this shows a growing divide between the expensive Hollywood films, which make a lot of money, and the artistic lower budget films which are made more from quality.

John Updike

Our artistic heroes tend to be those self-exercisers, like Picasso, and Nabokov, and Wallace Stevens, who rather defiantly kept playing past dark.

Keith Davis

Parks was a man of perhaps unparalleled artistic talent.

Andrea Seigel

If there is one thing for which the 'Real Housewives' franchise deserves artistic recognition, it is the patient and immaculate building of a villain.

Henry Lee

If we want to go global, the focus has to be on the quality. It's a trial-and-error process whose end-result is an artistic creation of refined quality. Each item, no matter whether it's for collection or personal use, has to be perfect.

Michael Schroeder

I wouldn't be buying. When we were getting yields close to 4.50, I thought they were pretty attractive.

Richard Barnes

Jackson was the worst. That should have closed it. That should have thrown the whole thing out.

Gary Anderson

Ken is the closest thing I had to a brother.

Vince Young

Just like those other guys, you've got to start somewhere. They are close to me, and I know they won't hurt me. And they are intelligent. I have the last say-so on everything, but they know what I want and the things I'm trying to accomplish.

Lee Terry

Just pick you out a tree to stand under. I usually stay here pretty close to the truck. They don't seem to mind that.

Sarah Krycinski

Jordan gave it all he had. It was good time for him, close to a personal record.

Chris Simms

Joey and I have a very close relationship; we talk about routes like that all the time. When we come up to the line of scrimmage in that situation, we have two routes in mind.

Brian Cashman

Joe has a great deal of trust in him. Joe has worked close with Ron for a number of years, and he's been talking to him for three years about replacing Mel when Mel decided to retire. This is the man he wanted.

Frank Castillo

J.P. got a pretty good look but it just didn't drop. The games in this district are so close that it comes down to making plays and making free throws.

Samuel Wilson

Moreover, environmental health at the local level has become narrowly focused, very much defined around regulations and the attendant regulatory debates.

Paul Hewitt

This is a 401(k)-styled defined contribution plan, ... It has performed very, very well.

Ryan Ford

A shoulder pad on T-shirts, in sweaters, in shirts, in jackets, in everything. It's not a huge overwhelming pad, but it's a very defined shoulder.

Curtis Hanson

defined by the outward differences in the appearances, we tried to extend this duality to the two geographic worlds in which the story takes place.

Mika

Some people make records that are defined by their sexuality, but mine really are not.

Dave Freer

Science, properly understood, should merely be defined as the knowledge man can gain from observing the natural world.

Scott Peters

The San Diego region in many ways is defined by our relationship with the ocean. It's our front yard and a beautiful playground for families and visitors. It should be clean, safe, and inviting.

Patrick Wilson

You're defined by your older brothers' or sisters' music.

Bruce Lee

Nothingness cannot be defined; the softest thing cannot be snapped.

S. Walker

We are the epitome of what it means to fight on.

Kim Elizabeth

I am the epitome of a walking contradiction for various reasons, only one of which being that I feel my existence is of heaven and hell.

Bill Parcells

I was kind of thinking back to Seattle last year, ... We kind of talked about that. We're just fortunate, really.

Joe Edgens

Kelley is going to be right up to the last minute before it's done.

Dave Kaplan

(Jocelyn) bounced back from a rough outing last time. Very nicely done. She's going to get another start, and we're going to keep working with her.

Bobbie Davis

I think I said to the players last year that they had one day to celebrate. And then they had to start concentrating and thinking about this year.

Jack Parker

He couldn't make a pass or shoot a puck. If this wasn't his senior year, if he was a junior, we probably wouldn't have played him this weekend. I didn't want to miss what could have been, at any moment, his last game.

Jim Knight

There are so many things that we try before we ever go to court. It's the last step, and we don't like to do it, but there needs to be consequences.

Justin Gray

I think (the fans) are going to talk about it all the time just because they know probably what we could've done with the team from last year. But that's last year.

Peter Currie

It is fundamentally different from the last time we restated, primarily because the scope is a lot narrower.

Marthen Manu

Last night one person was rescued, the rest have been picked up today.

Chris Moller

In the meantime, we have important competitions to run so there is no point shooting ourselves in the foot.

Randy Carlyle

It wasn't pretty, but we'll take the outcome. We put ourselves in position to win it.

Bob Spencer

We pride ourselves in being a well-rounded, blue-collar group.

Andi Anderson

We usually redeem ourselves in the second half. We just had to play more steady and we had a lot of turnovers.

Gerry Adams

strenuous efforts, taken initiatives and stretched ourselves and our constituency to the limit.

Jim Gabella

Right now we're not playing very well. We're not putting anything together offensively. We can do one of two things ? we can feel sorry for ourselves or we can come back out (today) and work.

Carla Gugino

What I've realized is that we're our own harshest critics. We give ourselves limitations. But I want to push through that wall, on a creative and personal level.

Tom Coburn

We find ourselves in significant difficulties as a nation,

Claude Julien

We're putting ourselves in that situation. Over 82 games, once in a while, you like to find ways to make it easier.

Katori Hall

I started writing because I got so frustrated that there weren't enough plays that had roles for young black women in them.

Hank Davidson

He shot 3-over on the back nine, and that was pretty good, too. The back is tough because it's long and it plays into the wind.

Scott Skiles

We took them down to the end. We had our opportunities. We just weren't able to make the big plays when they were necessary.

Rich Ingold

When he plays to his potential, we'll be all right.

Jerome Harrison

I think we were only getting three plays a quarter. I didn't realize it until the second quarter. I started getting cold, sweat drying off.

John McCallum

It's not every day that your sitting state senator takes on a run for Congress, and we need to see how that plays out.

Bob Stoops

It's still the Roy-back position until someone plays like him.

Clint Hurdle

It's still a long season. We'll see how it plays out.

Brian Townsend

It will be interesting to see how it plays out,

Richard Dawkins

We have to find our own purposes in life, which are not derived directly from our scientific history.

William S. Burroughs

The whole point is, I feel the machine should be eliminated. Now that it has served its purpose of alerting us to the dangers of machine control.

Richard Flanagan

The enslavement, humiliation, torture, and ultimate destruction of thousands upon thousands of human beings for a project for which there was ultimately no purpose is a horror that's very hard to imagine, far less understand.

Robert Mueller

So there is a foreign intelligence purpose for every one of our FISA warrants.

Sandra Bernhard

I'm not saying I'm some high priestess. I do things, I'm sure, that are damaging, but it's certainly not on purpose.

Samuel Johnson

Words too familiar, or too remote, defeat the purpose of a poet.

Samuel Johnson

These papers of the day have uses more adequate to the purposes of common life than more pompous and durable volumes.

Will Smith

Begin each day as if it were on purpose.

Warren Brown

The purpose of autonomous driving is to eliminate accidents.

Justine Henin-Hardenne

I had a lot of trouble with my serve in this tournament.

Francis Bacon

Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability.

Michael Brown

I serve totally at the will of the president.

Alex Gibney

But it still serves as a primer for everyone who's watching the trial.

Steve Carter

If they can serve it from Sallisaw, and show they can serve it well, that's OK. But I would like to see a station there at some point, once it makes sense.

Nancy Stern

We had a lot of reinforcing in the basement. It took several years to get it where we wanted it, but it serves us well.

Zig Ziglar

A smile is your greatest social asset.

George Ayittey

Socialism is always wrong.

James Cook

If everyone had to start up their own business, socialism would soon die.

Ellen Goodman

I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box.

Ben Rattray

I was always interested in social change but never actually did anything about it.

Martin Bormann

National Socialism and Christianity are irreconcilable.

Peter L. Berger

There is an intrinsic linkage between socialism and economic inefficiency.

Terence McKenna

We need a pharmacological intervention on anti-social behavior or we are not going to get hold of our dilemma.

Marcus Aurelius

The intelligence of the universe is social.

Lou Reed

Looking through the viewfinder for me is like being in a movie theater. That's what I like about it.

Geena Davis

I love theater. Just, it never spoke to me.

Elaine Vogel

For a long time, we were the only theater in town. And it may be the only theater in Nyack again.

Brian Baumgartner

I come from straight theater.

Jane Krakowski

That's why I love doing live theater more than anything: You get an immediate reaction, whether it's good or bad.

Elaine Vogel

This theater is actually always busy. There's so much going on here.

Robert Brustein

Theater going is a communal act, movie going a solitary one.

Estelle

I like time off because I also have a life outside of theater.

Fiona Shaw

Theater dates very quickly.

Meg Rosoff

The more you live, the better writer you are.

John Dos Passos

If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

Brian K. Vaughan

There are probably writers who are much more visual than I am and some who are less. I like to think of myself as a happy medium.

Charlaine Harris

Well, you know, writers just suck up new experiences - we're just like the vacuum cleaners of newness.

Sara Sheridan

Scottish writers are particularly successful in the crime genre.

Eleanor Catton

I think that writers of literary fiction would do well to read more books for children.

John Irving

I sometimes think that what I do as a writer is make a kind of colouring book, where all the lines are there, and then you put in the colour.