Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yann Martel

Words aren't very good at describing complicated, strange visual things. You can try, and the reader will have some sort of image in their mind, but words aren't good at that.

Robert Fripp

You have to find a way of recognizing and describing the quality inherent in the music. If you fail to do that, then the piece itself is compromised.

Yehuda Amichai

Every intelligent person, whether he's an artist or not - a mathematician, a doctor, a scientist - possesses a poetic way of seeing and describing the world.

Eleanor Catton

My second novel, 'The Luminaries,' is set in the New Zealand gold rushes of the 1860s, though it's not really a historical novel in the conventional sense. So far, I've been describing it as 'an astrological murder mystery.'

Mary Matalin

I have been describing him as Cheney's Cheney. He does for the vice president what the vice president does for the president.

Les Claypool

I have a very difficult time describing my music.

Gabrielle Zevin

I think you can do a lot, like describing people with their physical characteristics, things like that, but to me, I've always found it to be a much more informative question to ask somebody what they read.

Elizabeth Peyton

A painting of a person can be descriptive, but for me it's about all the things that make up a picture - the feelings, the brushstrokes - more than describing somebody. People latch on to the personalities when they talk about my work and forget the other parts.

Lewis Carroll

When you are describing A shape, or sound, or tint; Don't state the matter plainly, But put it in a hint; And learn to look at all things With a sort of mental squint

Glenn Ford

He was very commanding, and you had to know what you were doing to work for Mr. Rogers. I learned how to ride very quickly with him as my riding teacher.

William Shatner

With three kids, it was always very, very tight, and it was always a scramble for what was my next job. So I learned never to go into debt because I don't want those monthly payments to preoccupy my thoughts.

William Allan

Father, in spite of all this spending of money in learning Latin, I will be a painter.

Eric Lamoureux

The over-riding question is, what will we learn from Katrina?

Bruce Weber

I like to start out each day from the beginning. I'm always learning things.

Brittany Howard

A song like 'Heartbreaker,' it's a song about learning - it's not necessarily a song about heartbreak. It's more than that. We write those songs to relive how we got over something.

Brian Kernighan

Every language teaches you something, so learning a language is never wasted, especially if it's different in more than just syntactic trivia.

Brad Grey

I learned no detail was too small. It was all about the details.

Bonnie Bassler

I want to make a drug. I want the science to be more than imaginary, where I think, 'We're learning these fundamental principles, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.' I think we are doing that, but I want to do something really practical. I want to actually, in my lifetime, help people.

William Lashner

I write novels with a lawyer as the hero, no matter how oxymoronic that might sound.

Dennis Franchione

The only ranking that really matters to us is how we feel about this class, and we feel like we have another good, solid class.

Adrian Moss

The past means nothing. It really doesn't matter until you get out there and play.

Simon Cowell

The past is the past, no matter how successful it's been. For me, it's only tomorrow that's interesting.

Nick Jonas

The one mentality I've always tried to have is that no matter what stage in your career that you are in as a musician or a performer or a songwriter or whatever, there's always more to learn.

C. S. Lewis

Everything except God has some natural superior; everything except unformed matter has some natural inferior.

Cecelia Ahern

Stop and take your time to notice things and make those things you notice matter.

Bill Bryson

In three minutes, 98 percent of all the matter there is or will ever be has been produced. We have a universe

Bertrand Russell

Orthodoxy is the grave of intelligence, no matter what orthodoxy it may be.

Bud Black

That was the nerves of his first major-league start. Everything speeded up on him. The next time, he realized, 'That's not me. That's not who I am.' It was a whole different mentality from the minute he got to the ballpark. He warmed up better, he was focused, he was concentrated.

Mariano Rivera

We can't just go there and play around. We have to go there with the mentality that we have to win.

John Brady

We just didn't think he was mentally as sharp as we needed him to be.

Mark Mowers

We wanted to make sure mentally we were ready and weren't still thinking about the Phoenix sun.

Olli Jokinen

We have to mentally ready to play every night, and tonight we weren't.

Peter Thomson

The difference between winning and losing is always a mental one.

Buck Showalter

You don't do what he has done over a long period of time and not have some mental toughness.

Adewale Ogunleye

You just don't want to go into that bye week having to use it to get healthy. You want to use it to get better and mentally prepared.

Mewelde Moore

You just can't do that. We just can't have those mental mistakes.

Evel Knievel

I can't keep track of my hospital time. It all sort of blurs together.

Rosamund Pike

Looking back, I just think I was a really average sort of girl.

Peter Cardillo

We'll probably see some sort of a pullback.

John Byrd

We're waiting to see what happens. It's still sort of experimental.

Penn Badgley

You know, as an only child, you're kind of in a bubble, and there are all sorts of things about my childhood that I still can't really place.

Pablo Schreiber

I got nominated for a Tony in my Broadway debut, which was fascinating and thrilling and sort of unbelievable all at the same time.

Peter Jackson

'Bad Taste' was - it was, in many respects, my sort of, my, I guess, my single-minded desire to want to break into the film industry when New Zealand didn't really have a film industry to break into.

Jay Frank

We have one person in custody. They are still trying to sort things out.

Glen Mathison

I think it would be irresponsible to speculate at all that this was some sort of attack.

Barack Obama

Nobody wants to put the creditworthiness of the United States in jeopardy. Nobody wants to see the United States default. So we've got to seize this moment, and we have to seize it soon.

Ron Greene

That way we can teach her what's right, not what's mandated by the state of California.

Mark Bowman

We have wrestled better, but everyone is very tough in the state tournament.

Rodney Stark

Wherever you've got a state church, you have empty churches.

Drew DiPippo

We're still trying to get better and we want to make the state tournament.

Tommy Bowden

You like to see the state be a success.

Andrew Fastow

I think many of the statements in there are false.

Daniel Breaker

Juilliard's mission statement is learn about the classics so you can use that as a springboard to anything that comes your way.

Tom Murphy

I think this is a wonderful statement of values, really,