Famous Quotes & Sayings

Willem de Kooning

Even an abstract form has to have a likeness.

Wassily Kandinsky

The more abstract is form, the more clear and direct its appeal.

Richard Shelton

Our language is polarized. Concrete words are usually the language of poets. Abstract words are usually the language of politicians.

Brittany Howard

I'm just really impressed by oil paintings - I don't see how people do it! That's the style I like: classic oil paintings. Abstract art just isn't my thing.

Damon Galgut

I'm fascinated by how much has changed from one generation to another. There are young people growing up now for whom apartheid is just a distant memory and the idea of military service is an abstract notion.

Lynsey Addario

The truth is, the difference between a studio photographer and a photojournalist is the same as the difference between a political cartoonist and an abstract painter; the only thing the two have in common is the blank page. The jobs entail different talents and different desires.

Jacquelyn Singer

The courses I took were very rigorous and demanding, teaching me how to draw from real life. I started to get bored with that mode of expression as I found it to be too repetitive. I was looking to push myself to do something different and abstract art seemed to be the perfect outlet for that.

Michael Graf

Everybody is for peace. Nobody says they're against it. But we really wanted to take this abstract idea and put a human face to it, and let people know the idea of peaceful resolution isn't just something that needs to happen on the far side of the globe. It's something that needs to happen here too.

H. Hunt

It's like communism, in an abstract manner. No matter how many gold medals these Temecula boys give each other, in my opinion, they're afraid of the quality of my wine.

Floyd Reese

Kevin has been extremely durable just year after year. Kevin is one of those guys who understands what winning is and knows how to win and can help everybody along that way.

Bill Parcells

Kick would be a term of endearment, really. It wouldn't be kick with the idea of hurting them, just kind of move them along a little faster. ... Some are happy to be here, you know?

Mitch Layne

Kelsey had been further along on her quilt than anyone else.

Lesley Garrett

Just walking along Shaftesbury Avenue gave me such a buzz - it still does - and communicating with an audience through music is still the biggest thrill in the world.

John C. McGinley

Kanan is a big road through the Santa Monica Mountains. Between mid-March and mid-April, when you get over to the western side of the mountains, it's populated by Spanish broom - this beautiful, yellow, flowering weed that smells the way I imagine it smells along the Yellow Brick Road.

Charles Schumer

Just when you think our campaign system couldn't possibly get any worse, along comes the discovery of this new loophole, ... Section 527 is the largest, most disturbing, pernicious loophole in a system rife with backdoor ways to influence government.

Rick Rubin

He is one of the few people who can get on a stage in an arena in front of any audience anywhere in the world and and play original songs for hours (that) everyone would be familiar with and sing along to. The list of people whose music has this power could be counted on one hand, tops.

Hasim Rahman

He knows when he fights me, along with the whipping comes a little trash-talking. I know one thing he won't be faking it November 12th.

Jason Dean

He jumped right in and helped us. Of course, we were doing everything; traffic patrol and trying to keep a high presence in the area when the power was out, he, along with all the men and women of the department did a real good job and I'm pleased with everybody. Being the new guy I thought he handled himself very well during the hurricane because there was a lot of hours worked and not a lot of sleep.

John Burdett

I think it is immensely difficult to get the U.S. interested in non-U.S. topics. I don't think this is because the average American reader is disinterested, but more because of publishers playing it safe: if a thriller based in L.A. is a sure winner, why spend money plugging one based in Paris - or Bangkok?

Pat Riley

He'd average 20 points a game if he was put in that role every night and I'll be damned if I'm not going to try to put him in that role - now. You forget a little bit about how good he can be if he gets good opportunities.

Andy Roddick

He kind of wrapped some presents for me and handed it over. I was average in most regards, but a win is a win. I feel like I'm on the verge of playing well.

Seth Shostak

Charles Darwin sailed around the world for two years on the 'Beagle,' and he had quite a bit of interest in things like the iguanas of the Galapagos, even though they were primitive compared to your average Englishman.

Chubby Checker

Here I am the best batting average in the music industry and I'm a bye word in the industry. I really am. Compared to Rod Stewart, I mean, Rod Stewart big deal. I mean, I know he's good and everything, but I played a show two years ago and I had to star under Eddie Money.

Jim Ferraro

Her lower scoring average is a compliment to the rest of the team. I see it that way and I know she does, too.

Bill Gleason

God really has cursed the sports fans of Chicago. It defies the law of averages when you think about it: 1908 and 1917. God didn't want it to happen. But if the White Sox ever win again, they'll probably set off a hydrogen bomb.

Dave Maguire

He's got over 800 now. so if he continues his average of more than 20 points a game, he could do it. He's a great shooter that really has a quick shot. He has the green light to shoot whenever he thinks he can make it.

Philip Klotzbach

Historical records and the law of averages indicate the probability of seeing two consecutive years like 2004 and 2005 is very low.

Martin Jacques

Just six years into the 21st century, one can say this is not shaping up to be anything like an American century. Rather, the U.S. seems much more likely to be faced with a very different kind of future: how to manage its own imperial decline.

Arthur Jr.

Journalists should not have to face the prospect of imprisonment for doing nothing more than aggressively seeking to report on the government's actions.

Rusty Hand

It actually was an important match. My senior year, probably the last time I'll face him unless I get him at districts, so yeah, it was an important match to me. I tried hard, but I didn't have the mental game today.

Dan Coughlin

He was a great boss. He liked to put a smile on the face of the sports page.

Kent Johnson

He leads a lot by example. (But) at times, he doesn't mind getting in somebody's face or saying what needs to be said.

Grant Achatz

Whenever people are faced with any sort of adversity... they tend to gravitate toward things that make them comfortable, and things that they feel are important.

Olivia Mellan

have it in your face all the time.

Antonio Tarver

I think it's a slap in the face to all the people that have pumped him up and glorified him over the years,

John Foley

It could be really difficult, ... My job was to make it trendy. It was to make it hip, to take the face of Nixon and turn it into a salable commodity.

Jimmy Conrad

I was like, well, there goes my chance.

Roy Sommer

Kaspar took a selfish penalty. He goes after the referee -- what's he going to do? They scored twice because of that.

Ken Davis

Keeping it tuned up and keeping it well maintained it goes a long way.

Brett Lebda

Just throw it at the net sometimes and it goes in.

Julius Peppers

Jordan (Carstens) has played and Kindal (Moorehead) has played, so we feel good about those guys. You have to go to be ready when someone goes down.

Robert Gottlieb

Jodi Melnick is hotly self-absorbed. Her onstage musicians are much too loud, and like so many narcissistic performers, she goes on much too long: She's interested in herself; why wouldn't we be?

Dana Martell

It can't just be something that goes on for one year and just stops. It has to keep going.

Bob Stern

It always raises questions when someone goes from one side to the other. One of the questions that comes up is, where is his loyalty?

Lorenzo Bundy

He just goes with the flow, wherever the water takes him. He knows he's going to play in the leagues. He knows he's a big leaguer waiting to happen.

Bill Rogers

I think their whole search has a pall over it because of illegal actions.

Jerry Owens

I think it's real sad because these people are really saying it's OK to be illegal aliens. What Americans are saying is 'Yes, come here. But come here legally.' And I think that's the big problem.

H. Hart

It is illegal for them to sell an item that they know can be used to ingest or inhale an illegal substance.

Will Adams

Right now we wink and we nod and we give many of the same services and privileges to illegal aliens.

Mariano Puerta

I have not taken any illegal substances as reported. I was suspended two years ago and would never do anything like that again.

Bill Butler

They know the victims are vulnerable; they are illegal immigrants

George Freeman

As long as it's newsworthy, truthful and the newspaper did nothing illegal to obtain the information, then it's OK to publish.

Hilary Clinton

I've been subject to quite a lot of illegal leaking,

Don Blair

This is anti-Bluffton and anti-community, ... nothing illegal about it, and nothing we can do to prevent it.

Angela Cummings

I always do diamonds, ... ... but I don't do large stones. I try to use non-traditional shapes.

Anthony Marra

Grozny's been largely rebuilt. But at the same time, I think the war is very much being waged inside its survivors.

George William Norris

No nation ought to keep a navy larger than is necessary to do police duty.

Seth Shostak

In 1908, there was a persuasive demonstration of the power of high-speed, low-mass asteroids in rural Siberia. The Tunguska impactor iced millions of pine trees and about a zillion mosquitoes - and was no larger than an office building.

Bob Lewis

Having this large a turnout made it a very special day for the series,

John Thompson

It is a little larger than we've ever done, but as we prepare for the jail, it's just something we need to do.

Malcolm Glazer

There is no acquisition that is too large for Zapata to consider,

Karen Chupka

With more than 300 mobile electronics exhibitors, the International CES is the world's largest showcase for in-car technologies.

Bob Wright

There aren't that many growing, independent Web sites that have picked up a large audience. Pretty soon, there won't be any left.

Anthony Warrens

It is only in recent years that many of the potential immunological problems, such as transplant rejection, have been solved, meaning the process of transplanting organs from one species into another could soon be a reality,

Devon Williams

The pageant has meaning in the community. I also get to showcase my talent, and spread the word on who I am and what I do.

Richard Jenkins

Life is too god damn short and you can't waste a minute of it.

Richelle Mead

Adrian's face was the picture of perfect politeness and restraint, meaning something disastrous was about to happen.

Umberto Eco

That is a real attitude - to see everything as being meaningful, even the less important things, to prove something, even the greater problems of life.

Reza Aslan

The religiously observant is lumped in with the nominal Muslim, the nominal Muslim is lumped in with the non-Muslim and the radical. If we want to make sense of this mess and stop pushing Muslims into the arms of the extremist, we need to make meaningful distinctions between the religion of Islam that a billion Muslims follow and see as a guidance as a peaceful righteous moral life and the puritanical Islam of a minority which so captures the media's attention.

William S. Burroughs

Intelligence and war are games, perhaps the only meaningful games left. If any player becomes too proficient, the game is threatened with termination.

William Kristol

Yuppies don't have loyalty. They have useful relationships and meaningful encounters.

Woody Allen

The meaning of life is that nobody knows the meaning of life.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Moods are complicated and very much a part of who we are. People would be very boring without them.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

H. Hart

I would try to put more people on the road without doing any more hiring.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Jeff Palmer

Just watching the news, seeing what those people are going through, touches me,

MC Hammer

I think it is a shock to people to find out that MC Hammer is a super geek.

Stephen Graham

I adore my job. I think I'm one of the luckiest people out there. I've worked hard, but I get to mess about every day - that's how I see it.

H. Hunt

He used to laugh. He'd get people to do it and not tell them what was going to happen.

Graham Elliot

I do take pity on some of the people that have to work with me.

Sam Wyche

I was in serious cabin-fever trouble being out of football,

Paul Busse

It can be taken as seriously as you want or as whimsically as you want.

Debra Brown

Had he been in the vehicle, he would have been seriously injured.

George Williams

He's got serious speed. He still has a lot of development to work on. I think he can get down in the 46's.

Robert Hall

He's a threat to society, he's a menace. We have a very serious situation here.

Michael Ballack

I am in serious negotiations with Chelsea. Nothing is signed yet, but I know what I want.

Cal Cochran

If you're serious about it, you have to put in your time. Do more than just show up for the all-star game.

Roberta Baskin

If you want to be serious about it, there has to be some enforcement mechanism.

Brian Billick

I'm told that it's not serious and it's typical.

Robert Reischauer

This has to be viewed with some skepticism,

Alan Trammel

He's a keeper. We'll be watching him for years.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

I was kind of amused, and shocked. At first I was watching it with my children. Then I said 'Children, OUT!

Andy Robinson

It has been killing me watching from the stands, I want to get back into the action,

Turner Gill

I'll be watching right up front. Won't everybody?

Gavin Henson

I'll probably be watching it at home, with Charlotte.

Brian Urlacher

If I was someone, I'd do the same to us after watching that film.

Madonna Madonna

I had the same thing when we were watching Live 8,

Rhett Miller

We'd probably be watching 'Dora the Explorer' or something.

Hugh Johnson

We're all watching the same stuff. Like sheep.