Famous Quotes & Sayings

Keith Haring

I think you have to control the materials to an extent, but it's important to let the materials have a kind of power for themselves; like the natural power of gravity, if you are painting on a wall, it makes the paint trickle and it drips; there is no reason to fight that.

Keith Haring

People were more interested in the phenomena than the art itself. This, combined with the growing interest in collecting art as an investment and the resultant boom in the art market, made it a difficult time for a young artist to remain sincere without becoming cynical.

Joe Henderson

I was joking but he took responded seriously: 'I would know, and I couldn't live with myself knowing that I'd only run 97 miles or whatever.'

Adrian Belew

King Crimson will soon be touring parts of Europe.

Ken Mehlman

Kerry's political attacks are not supported by reality, which shows rising employment and higher wages, and his policies -- higher taxes, increased regulation and bigger government -- would move America backward.

Amy Walter

Kerry's focus and his message has really been middle class, middle America, 'I'm standing up for the little guy' and middle class investors respond to that, but that raises the question of how do you go back and talk to the business community after that.

Colleen Atwood

Knowing who the actors were as you were designing them helped, with Catherine's beauty and Renee's frailty, they directed me visually just by who they were.

Judith Krantz

Knowing what I do now, I certainly wouldn't decide to write a first novel because I wouldn't have anything like the necessary life experience.

Carol Foreman

Kids are healthier these days... more kids are in school around the world, and partly that's because Australians have been willing to invest in aid.

Darlene McIntosh

He didn't hit her, but he destroyed everything she had. I don't know if she even realized it was abuse, because it wasn't physical. It was mental. People don't think of that as being abused.

Lee Mendelson

We thought we had destroyed Peanuts . It just didn't work. And the network didn't like it. It was too slow; we had used kids' voices and that jazz music.

Samir Mathur

I think that most people gave up on the idea that information was destroyed once the idea of string theory rose to prominence in 1995. It's just that nobody has been able to prove that the information survives before now.

Karl Turner

I will never get over this. This has just about destroyed me.

Noam Chomsky

If you destroyed half the pharmaceutical production in the United States, we'd think it's a pretty serious problem. In fact, we'd probably go to war.

Joe Miller

I'm happy with our effort. We got destroyed at their place. They're a hot team right now.

Joe Shuster

I'm a perfectionist, and I think the fact that the drawings had been turned down made me want to tear them up. I simply destroyed them.

Richard Engel

The Israeli military believes it has destroyed all of Hamas's tunnels, or at least all the ones it knew about.

Alice Walker

This is a wonderful planet, and it is being completely destroyed by people who have too much money and power and no empathy.

Stanley Williams

The only thing that I was doing was destroying my own kind,

Sean Penn

I love stories about people who are smart enough to know that what they're doing is destroying them, but that knowing that doesn't help them.

Shaun Alexander

I'm not saying it's right or wrong, but if you just set one goal -- 'We're destroying everyone and winning the Super Bowl' -- then that's just it. It's win or lose.

Roy Barnes

This is not about destroying heritage, ... This is about being united as one people.

John Buchanan

It still remains not a very wise, or safe, or even sane policy to try to liberate a village by destroying it,

Charles Mathis

The sand and the dirt is destroying the church.

Erik Brynjolfsson

Technology has always been destroying jobs, and it has always been creating jobs.

Christopher Hickey

And we want to solve this in a more precise way where we don't end up destroying the city.

Hanna Rosin

We've heard that the hookup culture is destroying us. We've heard that it's saving us. We've heard that it's racist. We've agonized over which one of these is true.

Harry Browne

Job was tested, and he proved himself. Because of that he was rewarded greatly, and I think the same opportunity exists for those people suffering so sorely now.

Jennifer Connelly

I think it's a different type of horror film than has existed before,

Thomas Piketty

When you are an entrepreneur, you have founded your own firm, it is so easy to find that you exist - you are the main shareholder of your company; it is very easy to look at the stock market position of your company to know how rich you are.

Monica Johnson

As a child of God, our whole reason for existing is to give God praise. What a testimony to give in a difficult situation.

John Springer

Here is an existing structure we can use, ... There are several advantages. Its centrally located, a good height, there are not a lot of trees in the way and its good topography (without many hills in the area).

Jim Rogers

with more money than knew existed in the world.

Cheryl Love

We thrive and exist in many ways from the generosity and support of the community.

Seth Palansky

We are following the same format, the same protocol that exists for games shown on ESPN.

Andrew Burns

It is only fair that we listen to the wide range of views that exist in Edinburgh.

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.

Jalal Talabani

I think the majority (of all Iraqis) will vote yes,

Alex Jones

The majority of world stock markets are now owned by the Arabs.

Phil Goff

It is not within the power of the president to remove the prime minister other than on the vote of a majority of the house,

Robert Ringer

A lynch mob is [unlimited] Majority Rule stripped of its fancy trappings and its facade of respectability.

Samuel Johnson

The majority of a society is the true definition of the public.

Warren Buffett

In the great majority of cases we simply do not know enough about the industry or company to come to sensible judgments-in that situation we pass.

Walt Kelly

Some is more equal than others, as is well known. It ain't that your majority is outnumbered, you're just out-surrounded.

Walter Lippmann

The justification of majority rule in politics is not to be found in its ethical superiority.

Yann Arthus-Bertrand

The fact is that seven per cent of the global population emits 50 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions, and the proportions are the same for the use of energy and raw materials, meat, wood, etc. Simply put, an infinitesimal minority consumes the most and imposes damage on the overwhelming majority, while asking it to change.

Lena Headey

Really, I still just think of myself as a Northerner, ultimately. It's in my DNA. I'll always have those Northern qualities. We can be mischievous. We can be bold.

Rob Collins

If there's a better player in Northern California, I haven't seen him.

Brent Walston

Everyone here at North Johnston wishes him well at his new job.

Ben Graham

This is kind of the cornerstone of our expansion. It's the first one of its kind in North America.

Condoleezza Rice

The northwest is very different from what I could have imagined.

John Stephens

It took us seven years to saturate Northern California.

Mohamed ElBaradei

The U.S. engages with North Korea, so I don't see why they can't engage with Iran.

Carlos Alberto

They will come for a victory and they will come to play football, not volleyball like Northern Ireland.

Julie Regan

It makes sense to have someone from that program stationed at the office because we have so many projects on the North Shore.

Keira Knightley

I find more interesting roles for women in period pieces. I do personally like watching period films; I think you can really get lost in the fantasy of them.

David Horowitz

I wouldn't be persuaded to be here if it wasn't for 20 years of being on campuses and seeing this.

Nastassja Kinski

Just now, I've been working all the time and I don't have much of a personal life.

Jerry Brookings

I actually had a little R&B group, and Tito performed with me once.

Kofi Annan

Guatemala is going through the most promising period of its recent history,

Graham Taylor

Shearer could be at 100 per cent fitness, but not peak fitness.

Walter Salles

There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present.

Dale Decker

There are SMA pavements that have been down for 10 years, and there's no rutting. It's performing well when done properly.

Scott McCallum

What you don't read about, it's never a story of the 98 percent who are doing things right and view this as a public service and want it to work.

Seth Shostak

The planets and moons of our solar system are blatantly visible because they reflect sunlight. Without the nearby Sun, these planets would be cryptic and dark on the sky.

Tricia Helfer

We only have this one planet; we got to figure out how to live on it without destroying it.

River Phoenix

Although I can't stop all cruelty to living creatures on the planet, I can be kinder to every living creature in my life.

Jonathan Schwartz

I want to see most of the planet online.

Randall Munroe

The universe is probably littered with one-planet graves

Edward James Olmos

Chiapas is probably the main concern I have right now for the planet.

Barry Commoner

Nothing can survive on the planet unless it is a cooperative part of larger global life.

Holly Holm

There's no single person on this planet that's worth more than the other. Know your worth. Be confident in yourself.

Bill Walton

Greg Ostertag is one of the top centers on this planet!

Russ Jones

Our rates only go up once a year, and that's in June.

John Seabrook

In the nineteen-eighties, rates of obesity started to rise sharply in the U.S. and around the world. By the nineteen-nineties, obesity reached epidemic proportions.

Michael Stipe

The future's ours, and you don't even rate a footnote now

Richard Bernstein

At the rate it's going right now, profitability will accelerate, but at a very, very slow pace, ... much slower than what's implied by valuation in the market.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

I've always held that early marriage is a sure indication of second-rate goods that had to be sold in a hurry." - Martin Harris

Jamie Rappaport

An astonishing success rate of more than 99 percent.

Scott Berry

And as rates go higher, that should go higher, too.

Mark Kantrowitz

It's a no-brainer at this point. You want to consolidate before rates rise,

Robert Brusca

It's a surprise -- we thought the unemployment rate would be edging up.

Chris Servheen

There are so many species that need help,

Lynn Margulis

The fewer species there are and the fewer species we know about, the fewer questions we even know to ask.

Bill Nye

What happens to other species also happens to us.

Jasmine Guy

We are a complex species to observe

Barry Schuler

Living in your genome is the history of our species.

Bill Bryson

99.99 percent of all species that have ever lived are no longer with us.

Michael Crichton

We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is just a self-congratulatory delusion.