Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ken Hill

Music is an art form too. Sometimes other forms of art can be inspiring to the musician.

David Smith

I was interested in the nuts and bolts of its chemistry, the thermodynamics. I learned to blow glass in an artistic vacuum.

Saudi Arabia

King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz has chosen Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz as Crown prince in accordance with Article 5 of the basic system of government,

Lewis Sharp

Kent and Vicki Logan have ensured a strong future for modern and contemporary art at the Denver Art Museum.

Jason James

Knowing that my wish list was pretty lofty and already busy working on other projects, I wrote Johnny Repeat in distinct chapters so high-caliber artists could contribute without having to make a 100-page commitment. I'm calling it 'cosmic noir.' I can't wait for everyone to see it!

Eric Kandel

I would not necessarily say that scientists and artists need to collaborate with one another, but it would be helpful for them to talk to one another to, perhaps, give rise to specific ideas that may or may not be carried out together.

The Bride

I would sooner destroy a stained glass window as an artist like yourself. However, since I can't have you following me either.

Susan Vreeland

I write about art out of gratitude to painters for the joy and spiritual uplift they have given me. Painters interpret for us the visual glories of God and, in this way, bring us closer to Him.

Christine Harris

I think it's a great idea. I think we have a lot to show off in this community. We have more high-quality performing arts per capita than many of our sister cities.

Arthur Hogan

I think that's on the heels of the latest tropical storm going through the Caribbean that may have an impact on supply.

Richard Kaplan

I have connected with the Caribbean community, but I would like to think that I've connected with all other communities in this city.

Roger Brathwaite

I guess it would be safe to say there would be no Test matches in the Caribbean next year.

Michael W. Smith

If you can go deep the whole Caribbean is poorly known. Going deeper is a world of surprises.

Jane Green

I have only ever been to Antigua to hop over to other Caribbean islands. The airport had always seemed perfectly lovely, but I'm a quiet sort of holiday girl, and Antigua always seemed big.

Miguel Tejada

The Caribbean Series is just a prelude of what's to come.

Lixion Avila

They kept telling me you have to have patience, ... Systems in the Caribbean in October take a long time to develop.

C. C. H. Pounder

I've got a general callout with the Caribbean world in which I'm interested in helping in any way to get their well-written good stories out to the rest of the world. I am really interested in helping those stories get to a completion and public viewing.

Ralph Taylor

For a small indigenous Caribbean chain to get to the level where it can win those management contracts, we have to start somewhere.

Barbara Castle

I think we're going to get a lot of unrest showing itself in all sorts of demonstrations, and you never quite know what would come out of it.

Chris Byrne

I think this will really help. Look at what Target has done in establishing itself as a resource for consumers. Toys R Us is struggling to become a destination for toys so it makes perfect sense.

Dave Thomas

It is important to us that it had proven itself in the FRC market.

Rob McClure

I was a bit of a goofball. I was always silly. I think that lends itself to being an actor.

Joseph Campbell

If you realize what the real problem is - losing yourself - you realize that this itself is the ultimate trial.

Michael Leunig

If you know anything about ducks, you know a baby duck will imprint itself on you. It misses its mother.

Terry Teachout

Instrumental music is nonverbal and thus radically ambiguous. It doesn't lend itself to what might be called content-oriented analysis, though plenty of intellectuals have tried to analyze it in precisely that way.

John Lewandowski

In our mind, we said, 'Let the legal process work itself out,' and that's until the sentencing stage.

John Thornton

I know the perception is that we're struggling and Pittsburgh is peaking. That's where the underdog role comes from. But I don't think this team sees itself as an underdog.

Edmund White

I was always ambitious - not to make money: to be published.

Pat McDonald

I think it probably should just be torn down. It's probably going to take a lot of money to rebuild.

Chris Beatty

He'll be making a lot more money than that senator.

Grant Heslov

When I write, I make decent money doing it, but I don't wake up dreaming about writing.

Shaquille O'Neal

I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money.

Simon Reuben

If you can't make 40% on your money in Russia, you're a fool.

Silvio Santos

I'm a TV man, not a money man.

Stanley Tucci

I'm not interested in wasting money on a project.

Shuji Nakamura

There are still people in Japan who think money is something evil.

Sarah Pinborough

I wrote my first five horror novels while I was teaching.

Edmund White

I didn't get anything published until I was thirty-three, and yet I'd written five novels and six or seven plays. The plays, I should point out, were dreadful.

William Golding

However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.

Wendell Berry

There is change by necessity or adaptation, and there is contrived change or novelty.

Brian Moore

Research is usually a policeman stopping a novel from progressing.

Jojo Moyes

Rejection is part of the process, so you can't let it crush you. My first three novels never made it into publication, but my fourth, 'Sheltering Rain,' was translated into 11 languages.

Rudolfo Anaya

In many respects, I think 'Bless Me, Ultima' is a novel about the indigenous.

Sarah Waters

I knew I'd always be a second-rate academic, and I thought, 'Well, I'd rather be a second-rate novelist or even a third-rate one'.

Eric Hoffer

To the old, the new is usually bad news.

Dennis Hastert

I've never run a plantation before. I'm not even sure what kind of association she's trying to make. If she's trying to be racist, I think that's unfortunate.

Robert Sullivan

Here's the data. This is not a political position, it's just scientific data.

Javier Solana

I want to underline that the political process is back on track ... the cease-fire is back on track.

William Wilberforce

If . . . a principle of true Religion [i.e., true Christianity] should . . . gain ground, there is no estimating the effects on public morals, and the consequent influence on our political welfare.

Michael Harrison

He isn't just a political talk show host, he's a showman,

Russell Brand

Total revolution of consciousness and our entire social, political and economic system is what interests me, but that's not on the ballot.

Rose Macaulay

The poet has to make a synthesis out of the moral life of our time, and this life is lived at this moment on a political plane.

William S. Burroughs

Political conflicts are merely surface manifestations. If conflicts arise you may be sure that certain powers intend to keep this conflict under operation since they hope to profit from the situation.

William S. Burroughs

All political organizations tend to function like a machine, to eliminate the unpredictable factor of affect - emotion.

Sarah Palin

I can see November from my house.

Richard J. Roberts

There is need for more science in politics and less politics in science.

Robin Wright

I don't know enough about politics. I am out of the loop.

Robert Cray

Tell me a boat full of lawyers just sank.

William Safire

Gridlock is great. My motto is, 'Don't just do something. Stand there.'

Richard M. Nixon

The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.

Tupac Shakur

Strugglin' and striving, that's how the dough come.

Tupac Shakur

Institutionalized, I live my life a product made to crumble.

Tupac Shakur

I'm on my knees begging, please come and save me.

Walter Cronkite

Everybody knows that there's a liberal, that there's a heavy liberal persuasion among correspondents.

Matt Stone

He wants a different standard for religions other than his own, and to me, that is where intolerance and bigotry begin.

Richard Dawkins

Science shares with religion the claim that it answers deep questions about origins, the nature of life, and the cosmos. But there the resemblance ends. Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not.

William James

Religions have approved themselves; they have ministered to sundry vital needs which they found reigning. When they violated other needs too strongly, or when other faiths came which served the same needs better, the first religions were supplanted.

William Cowper

Religion, if in heavenly truths attired, Needs only to be seen to be admired.

Robert Southey

Without religion the highest endowments of intellect can only render the possessor more dangerous if he be ill disposed; if well disposed, only more unhappy.

Sandra Day O'Connor

(W)e do not count heads before enforcing the First Amendment.

Neale Donald Walsch

Everywhere religion has gone it has created disunity.

Marcel Proust

Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.

Jorge Luis Borges

To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.

Scott Faieta

I talked with the contractor, who is still optimistic.

Mario Theissen

I talked to him (Ralf) on Friday, he was very positive, he wants to get back in the car.

Curtis Martin

I talked to him a lot. I showed him around. I showed him where he would probably want to live. I told him he could have my place if he wanted it. I told him I'd do whatever it took to get him here.

Ginalyn Ofamin

I talked to her yesterday, and she is doing better.

Tom Oswald

I talked to her about things like how to take notes. We weren't flirting, though. At the time, I didn't know she was going through a divorce.

William Farmer

I think it'll be ok; I think by the end of this year, we won't be talking about PeopleSoft at all.

Beth Combs

It can't be about wins and losses. We've talked about it's not where you start, it's where you finish.

Willie Randolph

He wants to be the best. We've talked a lot about his approach.

Kevin Garnett

He just talked to me briefly, and I could tell right away that we were going to get along.