Famous Quotes & Sayings

Iman Iman

I wanted to do something other than just sign books, ... I thought that by doing makeovers I could make this more of an interactive thing. So I have makeup artists there and I do a little Q and A. I just want to make myself available. I want them to feel that I will treat them as well as I would any celebrity. Some people may not think it is my forte, but I am actually very approachable -- unlike my photographs.

Bruce Armstrong

We have invited four artists to participate, ... We have given them a site walk-through and a general overview of the project, of what we are building, so they have a visual understanding of the setting and the backdrop.

Lynne Salisbury

We have about 45 artists in the show this year. They usually each show two pieces.

Miranda Lambert

I feel like I am one of those artists that, thank god, can sing live.

Gore Verbinski

My respect for artists is very high. I think to get the most out of them, you have to liberate them. I think part of liberating them is saying, 'Come up with something brilliant, new, and fresh. Stop thinking based on what has been beat into you by executives or publishers in terms of what's going to work and what's not. Don't react, just act.'

Q-Tip

The song, 'Life is Better,' is about hip-hop. It's about my love for hip-hop. And, you know, I go through all the artists from the beginning to the end, you know. And, well, not to the end, but since the beginning to now, you know.

James Cromwell

I think the obligation of an artist is to make a difference in the world. That is what matters most to me. I think that artists are the leaders of the world because they do not have a connection to the industrial complex, the day-to-day short-term survival that most people are involved with.

David Nathan

I think the fact that they didn't attain the level of success of solo artists probably has something to do with it as well. They may have had some impact, but none are around today. They weren't able to sustain it.

Rascal Flatts

To get all the country music artists in one place at one time (means) you also can get autographs and pictures if you want. It's awesome, because all the artists and all the fans are right there together, which never happens otherwise during the year.

Phil Klay

People should be able to tell stories that are important to them to try and understand what they mean. I don't think you figure anything out on your own. Certainly not war stories.

G. H. Hardy

Anything we can do to help impart knowledge of our Constitution is important. If we spent a day recognizing, say, presidents or particular people, this certainly is the one thing we share in common - our Constitution. It's the thread that holds us all together.

Rodrigo Rato

oil prices have become certainly a threat to the world economy.

Tom Stoppard

Quite early on, and certainly since I started writing, I found that philosophical questions occupied me more than any other kind. I hadn't really thought of them as being philosophical questions, but one rapidly comes to an understanding that philosophy's only really about two questions: 'What is true?' and 'What is good?'

Marc Berman

Pulling a stunt like this (which is certainly not a first) shows a lack of respect for the audience.

Brad Rubin

The salaried workers are certainly going to be touched by this. By how much, it's difficult to say.

Jerry Colangelo

I've spoken with Shawn some time ago and he certainly indicated he wanted to be a part of this thing. He's the kind of individual and player who personifies what you want to represent you.

John Buckingham

These companies have tremendous financial ratings, and certainly their dividend is secure. These are slow, stodgy stocks that are going to reward you.

John Barth

These commodity costs are still something we're wrestling with, but it also gives us opportunities to have different discussions with our customers than certainly we could have had a year ago. We're in a very good position to continue to invest in that business.

Abby Cohen

Opportunities are likely to present themselves, especially given a 6- to 12-month time horizon.

Jennifer Pahlka

Now, a lot of people have given up on government. And if you're one of those people, I would ask that you reconsider, because things are changing. Politics is not changing; government is changing.

Jack Kozuchowski

I've spent half my life here. And they've always given me a lot of space to do what I thought I needed to do. It's been a labor of love.

Hal Capps

You never know what we are going to run. We feel like we have six tailbacks that can get the job done on any given night.

Tom Watson

I guess I have never been much of a complainer. You just take what is given you, and don't complain about what you can't affect.

David Brodsky

Everything (entitled to the defense) is not given to us,

Peter Weir

With more time I like to see the actors find something of their own places, so I can get their own ideas before I put mine in. Given they have a better idea more often enough.

Mark Rylance

This situation has given them an opportunity to really set themselves up.

Andrew Friedman

We think that we're going to become intimately involved with the arbitration process given the nature of how young our roster is. The intent of the hearing is to solve differences that can't be resolved through negotiations. It's not ideal for the team or the player, but sometimes it's necessary.

Manuel Miranda

These counsels are people who are not only people of high intellect, they have forgone much higher paying jobs to work in public service.

Michael Butler

The stakes are much higher than they used to be.

Eric Maskin

Specifically, in the software industry, progress is highly sequential: progress is typically made through a large number of small steps, each building on the previous ones.

Fadel Gheit

Oil prices, ... are probably going to go over $26, which will mark the highest level outside the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990.

Matt Rosoff

Some versions of the product are priced higher than they need to be.

Shawnee Smith

So much of life is just talk. At the end of the day, you're just serving the higher thing.

Alan Greene

Pound for pound, they get higher concentrations of pesticides than adults do.

Fadel Gheit

These stocks are not reflecting $50 or $60 oil. They are probably reflecting $40 oil. But this is not realistic. The fundamentals support a higher price.

Peter Mueller

The short end was pricing in too many rate hikes from the ECB. Yields are high enough, and I see more potential for recovery in the short end than the long end.

Tony Dungy

I think that is probably how he'll be judged in the short run.

John Gallagher

Do you want performance level one or performance level two,

Dwayne Slay

The talent level is rising around here. It's going to be a surprise next year.

Eric Hecox

The most significant thing I've seen has been the level of participation.

Landon Donovan

Ten years ago, the level was nowhere near what it is today. We have an obligation to do that and most people take that seriously.

Mario Caminiti

Sometimes we just play to the level of the opposition. We can play better.

Jake Goebbert

(The state tournament) is a different level of basketball. We need to come out a little harder.

Simon Greul

I see now that I can play at this level and I can play with these guys. I'm playing my game, I'm playing well.

Conor McGregor

To do anything to a high level it has to be total obsession.

Patrick Ho

At some point, you have to have a level of absorption.

Jim Tracy

A very wonderful note, I might add. A very professionally done thing.

Adelaide Anne Procter

No star is ever lost we once have seen, we always may be what we might have been.

Peter Beattie

The money might be better off used for things like law-and- order initiatives, schools and hospitals,

Pat Davis

The technician will see if the AC system is an old one or in need of repair. A suggestion might then be made to upgrade to a more energy-efficient system.

John Butler

See, I might have screwed the whole thing up in Buffalo,

Don Haskins

I spent 18 months, off and on, with the script writer. I might as well have not spent one second with him.

Gordon Strachan

You might as well scrap offside now if you are not going to rule that offside.

Bret Harte

If, of all words of tongue and pen, The saddest are, It might have been,' More sad are these we daily see: 'It is, but hadn't ought to be!'

Pat Olmi

We might go over there and watch 'em. We can sit back and rest a little bit.

Brian Simmons

The thing about it is nobody is out there freelancing. Everybody's playing within the parameters of what we are doing.

Mickey Rourke

Once you've been somebody, really, you have a career and you're a nobody anymore, and you're getting older, you're living what's called a state of shame.

Jane Walsh

The work (Ryerson) did was really groundbreaking. Nobody else had really done that before.

Lucky Wurtz

You give him a one-game season and there's nobody better.

Jack Pitney

There's plenty of time to criticize. I think two years from now, nobody is going to remember what these people said.

Andrew Albert

Nobody seems to be talking about security. It's a non-issue at the moment. I'm shocked.

Ed Emmett

Nobody wants the congestion to end more than the shippers.

Marion Hammer

Nobody wants state parks to be open, no one thinks state parks should be open for hunting.

John Zeoli

Nobody thought we could do anything this season without Keith Brumbaugh. They all thought the program was going to go downhill.

N. T. Wright

The gospel is not itself about you are this sort of a person and this can happen to you. That's the result of the gospel rather than the gospel itself.

John Wooden

Be more concerned with what you can do for others than what others can do for you. You’ll be surprised at the results.

Zhang Lijun

If the contaminated water had been supplied to households, the result would have been unimaginable.

Herbert Simon

Human beings know a lot of things, some of which are true, and apply them. When we like the results, we call it wisdom.

Antoine Lavoisier

In performing experiments, it is necessary... that they be simplified as much as possible, and that every circumstance that could complicate the results should be completely removed.

Glen Taylor

I think Sam is a closer, which is what we could have used right now. Sam could do that. The results are Sam is probably having a better year than Marko is having.

Horace Greeley

Duty and to-day are ours; results and futurity belong to God.

John Street

I don't think he had an idea that all of this would result from it,

Robert Toth

Truth in my love for the subject will produce superior results.

Clarice Lispector

And even sadness was also something for rich people, for people who could afford it, for people who didn't have anything better to do. Sadness was a luxury.

Charles Bukowski

I felt like crying but nothing came out. it was just a sort of sad sickness, sick sad, when you can't feel any worse. I think you know it. I think everybody knows it now and then. but I think I have known it pretty often, too often.

Alexander McQueen

There is something sinister, something quite biographical about what I do - but that part is for me. It's my personal business. I think there is a lot of romance, melancholy. There's a sadness to it, but there's romance in sadness. I suppose I am a very melancholy person.

Kevin Sorbo

I love what movies and television and all that kind of stuff has done to me through the years. I love that it can bring up all these different emotions in me - whether it's anger or happiness or sadness...whatever it may be.

Madonna Ciccone

I made a vow that I would never need another person ever. Turned my heart into a cage, a victim of a kind of rage.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

The sadness of the world has different ways of getting to people, but it seems to succeed almost every time.

Lorrie Moore

Every arrangement in life carried with it the sadness, the sentimental shadow, of its not being something else, but only itself.

Evelyn Waugh

That was the change in her from ten years ago; that, indeed, was her reward, this haunting, magical sadness which spoke straight to the heart and struck silence; it was the completion of her beauty.

Chris Weitz

I often make movies that involve depression or deep holes of sadness, although there are also these other great things in 'New Moon,' like this epic set-piece at the end of the film in Italy.

Mark Davies

I've been a Diamondback for a long time, ... It'll be a shock to not say I'm part of the D-Backs.

Kenneth Darby

Brodie kind of shocked me today. All I could do was just smile.

Alfred Hitchcock

I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.

Serena Williams

I'm playing to around 30% of my potential - you'd be shocked at what I could do.

Astro Teller

When you attack a problem as though it were solvable, even though you don't know how to solve it, you will be shocked with what you come up with. It's 100 times more worth it. It's never 100 times harder.

Bobby Bowden

I was shocked that he wasn't first team All-ACC. It made so sense.

I. Stone

Honestly, it's kind of a fog. We were in shock for a while.

Leonard Orr

That was a tremendous relief, ... This tragedy was a shock to our students and staff.

Justin Gatlin

I was probably in the most shock I have ever been in my life. I was speechless.

Rita Mae Brown

Don't hope more than you're willing to work.

Nikki Sixx

Friends tell each other what nobody else is willing to tell you.

Steve Kroft

I think you've got be willing as an interviewer to ask the dumb question every now and then.

Loretta Lynch

It's the choices that you make and the things that you're willing to accept and not accept that define who you are.