Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dan Colen

As opposed to putting too much confidence in myself, or in an image or a scene or a set of brushes, I really want to allow the oil paint to perform, to show me the things that it wants to do, beyond my imagination.

John Fair

Sales move too fast for us to allow that.

Brian Meehan

They allowed it to be physical, and that's just the way it is.

Celso Amorim

This is an opportunity, we cannot allow this to be another Seattle, another Cancun,

Richard Hulbert

That's when we talked to the mine managers. They were very generous, and will allow for us to dig here for two or three years.

Mike Babcock

That's what the new (salary-cap) system is all about, isn't it? It makes everyone the same. The teams that play the best will win. The bottom line is how do you handle it, and compete, and how do you allow your game to come out. That's the challenge for everyone.

Charles Givens

That's what's plagued us. We constantly go on a run to pull within striking range and for some unknown reason we go through a series of making turnovers and allow the team to take off.

Ken Stern

That's where you'll get the inside dirt of a community. Are they too militant? Do they not allow you to put a wreath on the door?

Chris Larsen

That's just a huge spread. We think if you allow people to participate directly, it's a more efficient marketplace. People can make a better return on their deposits, which then become the source of credit to others.

Matthew Wagner

Our current thinking is around our IT distribution channel and direct. However, that's not to say we're ruling out deep partnerships with operators, which are key to making these products work, and we may collaborate on innovative approaches that leverage our respective strengths.

Pete Dunn

You need your pitchers to go out there and get three outs and give us a chance to win in the bottom of the ninth. We had a terrible mental approach today out there on the mound. Just terrible.

Christopher Traulsen

You really have to be careful with taking the rear view approach with tech. If you pile on to what's been working, you could be in for a big shock.

Mike Gatti

You need to be flexible in how you approach different groups. If a lot of your customers are younger, e-mail, text messaging or your website might be more effective; with older people, direct mail may work best.

Ken Goldberg

Our robots are signing up for online learning. After decades of attempts to program robots to perform complex tasks like flying helicopters or surgical suturing, the new approach is based on observing and recording the motions of human experts as they perform these feats.

Peter Skinner

The prudential management approach to risk is where the world is going. Collateral is just simply on the way out as a chief rule, and a chief tool, of regulation.

Frank Flores

There are different tastes, so there are different ways to approach this.

Bill Gates

Computation has become a tool for all the sciences, ... We need an approach that scales from the smallest supercomputer up to the largest.

Jean Nidetch

Compulsive eating is an emotional problem, and we use an emotional approach to its solution.

Samuel L. Jackson

I look at myself as an audience member. I still love movies, and I still go and sit in the back of the big dark room with everybody else, and I want the same thrill.

Rani Mukerji

Every actor is alive because of his/her fans. I'm glad that my fans love me so much. I have an immense responsibility towards them. That's why I'm careful while signing a film. What is also important is to judge whether I would like to watch the film as an audience or not.

Ryan Gosling

I've lost perspective on what I'm doing. I think it's good for me to take a break and reassess why I'm doing it and how I'm doing it. And I think this is probably a good way to learn about that. I need a break from myself as much as I imagine the audience does.

E. O. Wilson

I get love from the audiences, I love that love they give me, you know the standing ovations. Makes you feel good, makes you feel good.

Paul Villadolid

Being on CMT gives us the freedom to acknowledge that, because our audience is by and large not a cynical audience.

Martin Scorsese

His films became increasingly fascinating to me because of the editing style, a very crisp, clear style of editing that kind of points the audience toward where to look in a scene.

Scott McKenzie

His feeling was you want to be the guy replacing the guy who replaced Howard. Because no matter who the first guy is, Howard's audience is going to hate him.

Lesley Douglas

Chris Evans is a brilliant radio talent who has already scored a hit with his weekend show. I know he will give the audience a great new show for weekdays.

Charles Cross

Choosing Raymond for their debut show was like a Broadway production opening in the Catskills it was a chance to try things out on an audience perceived as not very discerning or sophisticated.

Brett Ratner

I'm a laugher and a lover of comedy.

Dave Attell

I'm a stand-up comic. Anything else I do besides that is a plus, but stand-up comedy is what I do, it's what I've been doing and it's what I'm going to keep doing.

Albert Brooks

I, sort of, got into comedy accidentally, and it got bigger than I wanted it to.

Andre Braugher

I just like the joyous aspect of playing comedy.

Tom Hiddleston

I am desperate to do a comedy now.

Fred Armisen

I started comedy in like 1998.

Monty Python

Honesty, simplicity and truth are the secret to his comedy,

Jane Levy

Honestly, it's hard to learn about comedy from comedians. Comedy is not something that you necessarily learn or can imitate. You're funny or you're not, and you hope what you're doing is funny.

James Brewer

He's the most successful American comedy playwright ever. And this is such a damned good funny play - and this time of year you need as many laughs as you can get.

Davy Cowie

This project has just grown and grown. First the land and then the house. There's never a dull moment, we're always learning something new.

Mike Fontenot

We plan on networking at these shows as much as possible. People can't hear our music if we're not out there playing it. Plus, we'd like to think we have surprises waiting... never a dull moment with us.

Irma S. Rombauer

Soybeans really need an uplift, being on the dull side, but, like dull people, respond readily to the right contacts.

Abe Badmus

He?d see us tense, like he used to be. He just emphasized us to go have fun and enjoy the moment.

Michael Ramsey

I want to emphasize that there has been no interference with the trial and there won't be whatsoever.

Kazimierz Krzowski

There is a low possibility that people are still trapped under there. The parts of the structure that are not lying on the ground are a threat.

Al Hanna

Scott was very well-qualified for this position. We feel like he will just hit the ground running.

John Conway

Ground zero is Charlotte. With all the garages, all the drivers, it's, like, natural.

Michael Vick

Oh, I was scared, man, because my knee hit the ground so hard, ... I was just holding it, hoping that it wasn't as serious as I thought. I was just thankful that it wasn't serious.

Kelly Overton

Being a mom kind of grounded me in a way. Your body takes on a whole new meaning.

Christopher Borick

As someone now that is trying to please a number of constituents, it's rather tricky ground for Senator Santorum to navigate,

Donald Brownlee

For all the ideas and theories that people might have, we have some real ground truth.

Jesse Diaz

I told her, 'I'll ground you.' I didn't know it was slang for flow.

John Moody

It popped out of the ground because of the water pressure.

T. S. Eliot

Culture is the one thing that we cannot deliberately aim at. It is the product of a variety of more or less harmonious activities, each pursued for its own sake.

Niklaus Wirth

I have never designed a language for its own sake.

Lara Pulver

It didn't bother me in the slightest and I'm someone who's never done that sort of thing before on stage or screen. It was just a device for her; it wasn't nudity for nudity's sake.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

The Sabbath is not for the sake of the weekdays; the weekdays are for the sake of Sabbath. It is not an interlude but the climax of living.

Barbara Kingsolver

The truth needs so little rehearsal.

Baruch Spinoza

Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.

Bertrand Russell

In the higher walks of politics the same sort of thing occurs. The statesman who has gradually concentrated all power within himself ... may have had anything but a public motive... The phrases which are customary on the platform and in the Party Press have gradually come to him to seem to express truths, and he mistakes the rhetoric of partisanship for a genuine analysis of motives... He retires from the world after the world has retired from him.

Bob Dylan

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

Boris Pasternak

In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.

Blaise Pascal

It is not our task to secure the triumph of truth, but merely to fight on its behalf.

Aristophanes

The truth is forced upon us, very quickly, by a foe.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Truth must be told-and things must change! If words are not about real things and do not cause things to happen, what is the good of them?

Conrad Aiken

The truth--a hideous spectacle!

Mary Pierce

I think it is possible. Whether it happens, I don't know.

Nick Cave

Everything that's said against me offends me, whether it's true or not.