Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ad Reinhardt

I was drafted in '45 and I was a sailor for a year. They didn't know what to do with me so they made a sort of photographer out of me.

Howard Finster

And since they wasn't able to turn my art over, I sort of just switched off to Phyllis Kind, she's really my agent. She has a gallery in Chicago.

Howard Finster

So all I have to do is just when that Holy Spirit says to do something, I know that's supposed to be done, regardless to anything else.

Robert Rauschenberg

And if I see in the superficial subconscious relationships that I'm familiar with, cliches of association, I change the picture.

Norman Rockwell

It was a pretty rough neighborhood where I grew up The really tough places were over around Third Avenue where it ran into the Harlem River, but we weren't far away.

Max Cannon

We're going to have the same demographic spread of nutcases and the same spread of everybody in between.

Conrad Hall

My first semester, I got a D in creative writing.

Conrad Hall

I realize that every picture isn't a work of art.

Conrad Hall

There is a kind of beauty in imperfection.

Fritz Elmendorf

The larger banks are seeing a lot of market share in this area, but the larger credit unions and the ones being run by ex-bankers are setting up arrangements where a non-member can finance a car right at the dealership just by signing up to be a member.

Napoleon Bonaparte

It is my wish that my ashes may repose on the banks of the Seine, in the midst of the French people, whom I have loved so well.

Patrick Burns

The real question is to what extent are the banks going to gouge customers for the few extraneous features that are left.

Michael Kidwell

There are a lot of odds and ends people like to buy when they move into a new home. Banks might see you as a credit risk if you have ten cards, all of which you could max out.

Ping Chew

The government has to decide what their role is. Are they going to be shareholders of the banks or are they going to be regulators? It is quite difficult to be both.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

Forget about banks that are too big to fail; the focus should be on cities, municipalities and countries that are too big to fail.

E. Joseph Cossman

Drive-in banks were established so most of the cars today could see their real owners.

Elizabeth Warren

Wall Street banks have the right to express their views to lawmakers and regulators through lobbying, but the law is clear: If they want to influence lawmakers, they must disclose their lobbying expenditures.

Rasheed Wallace

As long as we got the win. We gotta deal with that other (stuff) every night. But we fought through it and got the W.

Brian Baker

After going through what he went through last year, nothing is that big a deal to him. I think now he respects that it's important to win a tennis match, but it's really a small part of his life.

Andrew Larson

Some people make the connection, some don't. It's not something I would ever make a big deal about,

Dave Scott

Right now we're just trying to deal with the needs of the kids.

David Wright

It would have been a fantastic technology if we could have gotten a deal. It would have been just a huge deal for Iowa.

Laura Bush

I understand that a lot of people don't want change, but this is a good deal that makes fiscal sense,

Mark Jackson

Think about what you deal with in the NFL. You get one first-round draft pick per year, but at USC you get about six or seven.

Mark Jackson

Think about what you deal with in the NFL, ... You get one first-round draft pick per year, but at USC you get about six or seven.

Gary Ross

Things like this, we take seriously and we deal with.

John Bennett

He needs to feel like he can still drive, and I think it's pretty important to him not to be dependent on someone to drive him around all the time.

Jim Paine

I?m not totally dependent on the BlackBerry. I still do heavy e-mail work at night from a laptop.

Anika Noni Rose

I always dreamed of being a voice in a Disney movie, and even in those dreams, I never once dreamed of being a princess. I just wanted to be a voice.

Tony Kaye

I'd love to have done 'John Carter.' I'd love to work for the Disney Corporation.

Margaret Thatcher

Fear is not the basis for foreign policy.

Soichiro Monji

Foreigners are selling and it seems that Japanese investors are also getting rid of stocks because they are worried about selling by foreigners.

Bob Doll

Without question, foreign stock markets are doing better than the U.S. market.

Bill Plympton

I think each film I do has less and less dialogue. It really helps a lot for foreign sales, because when I go to Europe, there's very little problem with communication. All the gags are visual. The music they can understand, and it helps communicate a lot better.

Jose Vivas

The way I see it, God gave us life for some reason and took away life from others for some other reason. It's a mystery. Only God knows why.

Laura Wade

I'm not very good at sticking at things if I can't be successful at them. I gave up on sport a long time ago.

Daryl Patton

We're a pressure team. We're going to give up some big plays at time but overall ... we gave up some big plays but the kids responded usually with something positive right after that.

Caitlyn Jenner

'Esquire Magazine' just gave me 'Father of the Year'. I'll put it right up there with my gold medal. I survived; that's why they gave it to me.

Ethel Andrus

What I spent, is gone; what I kept, I lost;/ but what I gave away will be mine forever.

Bill Clinton

You gave me the ride of my life, and I've tried to give as good as I got.

Dave Joppie

Nobody quit and nobody gave up. They all played right to the end. They are all much better players for having to go through that.

Public Enemy

CBGB always gave musicians a platform to say important things, ... It's time we did something to save one of New York's great institutions.

Marcus Samuelsson

My father was a big influence - it was very important to him that we traveled, and he gave me my strong work ethic.

Carmen Bambach

A showdown of the two greatest rivals of the Renaissance.

Mark Mohl

Osage had a very tough week with three quality opponents. We are disappointed we didn't win all three, but the kids had great effort.

John Tavares

Any player in the NHL would be a great comparison, but when you name a guy like Sidney Crosby . . . but I don't know if I'll be able to do things he's done in the league because we're different types of players,

David Phillips

Are we no longer the Great White North? It's incredible.

Jane Austen

One has no great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

Tom Coughlin

No way were we going to lose at home on this date, for this great city, ... There was no way.

Mr Howard

Now it was always ridiculous and it's done great harm to a product and it's done great harm to the consumer,

Robert Davis

Now I'm worried. That worries me a great deal.

Randy Jackson

No matter how great your pitcher is, things are going to happen and you're going to have to back her up.

Michael Davis

The money has just been piling up and isn't being allocated.

Howard Rogers

The money can then be used only for road resurfacing,

Ross Perot

Once you pay the bills, money is the most overrated thing in the world

Joan Laporta

Samuel is not for sale, not even for all the money in the world.

Jack Ablin

You needed to be a meteorologist to make money in this market.

Burt Reynolds

Money doesn't buy happiness. It buys great hookers - but not happiness.

Laurence Peter

The only problems money can solve are money problems

Anton Chekhov

It's easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy.

Dan Aykroyd

Can't get around the old minimum wage, Mortimer.

Joni Pitkanen

Now I know how he wants me to play. This is a big year for me. I want to step up to the next level.

Barbara Kingsolver

The last generation's worst fears became the next one's B-grade entertainment.

Susan B. Anthony

I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.

Anja Thiessen

We skipped classes, so we have to get back next week.

Clive James

A lot of my poems are about how ill I am and how I probably won't live beyond next week. I publish a poem and everyone says 'cluck cluck, how wonderful, how brave', but then embarrassingly I'm still here! You see the problem?

Alexander Calder

The next step in sculpture is motion.

Aldous Huxley

The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.

Aldous Huxley

Cleanliness is next to fordliness.

Aldous Huxley

The question of the next generation will not be one of how to liberate the masses, but rather, how to make them love their servitude.

George R. R. Martin

I don't ever want t' leave this cave, Jon Snow. Not ever

George Bernard Shaw

Everybody who does not live in a prostitute's bed and on a diet of cocaine snow is called an ascetic nowadays.

Bethenny Frankel

In life, no two days are the same for me. It's like a snowflake.

Leonard Maltin

If you're willing to go along for this farcical ride, you'll find 'Dead Snow 2' to be one terrific zombie movie.

A. A. Milne

In a very little time they got to the corner of the field by the side of the pine wood where Eeyore's house wasn't any longer. 'There!' said Eeyore. 'Not a stick of it left! Of course, I've still got all this snow to do what I like with. One mustn't complain.

Charles Howard

Once we started doing those three things, we got going.

Andrew Walpole

There would not be any replacements for Vaughan as we have already got three newcomers.

Sinead O'Connor

I've been married three times, really I should only have been married once.

Matsuo Basho

He who creates three to five haiku poems during a lifetime is a haiku poet. He who attains to completes ten is a master.

Sherry Stringfield

I had my electricity turned off three times because I never had time to pay my bills. It was a joke. I'm making a ton of money, and I'm walking around my apartment with flashlights.

Nikola Tesla

So we find that the three possible solutions of the great problem of increasing human energy are answered by the three words: food, peace, work.

Nicole Eggert

For all the concern about bodies and weight, 'Baywatch' has three huge catering trucks on the set at all times. One for entrees, one appetizers and one for junk food.

Neil Gaiman

Twitter is great and it's glorious and it's easy, but if somebody comes up with something kind of like Twitter tomorrow, that's better or smarter or more useful, in three weeks time, Twitter could more or less be history because that's how fast things go.

Marvin Minsky

There are three basic approaches to AI: Case-based, rule-based, and connectionist reasoning.

Daniel Handler

The moral of Snow White is never eat apples.

Doug E. Fresh

Scientology is not a White religion. It is not just for White people

Ta-Nehisi Coates

To prevent enabling oppression, we demand that black people be twice as good. To prevent verifying stereotypes, we pledge to never eat a slice a watermelon in front of white people.

Ronald Reagan

The White House is the leakiest place I've ever been in. (On special measures to ensure secrecy of plans to bomb Libya)

Sherman Alexie

I know a lot about being white - because I have to, I live in the white world. A white person doesn't live in the Indian world. I have to be white every day.

Matsuo Basho

Just washed, How chill The white leeks!

Patricia Hill Collins

That which commands admiration in the white woman only hastens the degradation of the female slave.

Patricia Briggs

Bran was stripping her futon down to the bare mattress when she entered her apartment. It was sort of like watching the president mowing the White House lawn or taking out the trash.

Pat Paulsen

Having a comic in the White House will assure stability in foreign relations. The world will continue to respond to foreign initiatives by saying, 'You must be joking.'