Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Wright

Blues, spirituals, and folk tales recounted from mouth to mouth . . . all these formed the channels through which the racial wisdom flowed.

Ben Gill

No one can pretend that simply re-opening our export channels will undo all the damage which has been done.

Li Datong

I'm very angry. We'll be going through regular channels to appeal.

Chen Shui-bian

This is the right way to open normalized communication channels to normalize relations.

Oscar Wilde

In its primary aspect, a painting has no more spiritual message than an exquisite fragment of Venetian glass. The channels by which all noble and imaginative work in painting should touch the soul are not those of the truths of lives.

Hideo Kojima

In Japan, there are storm channels on either side of the main roads. There were so many times when I'd fall into these ditches because I was lost in stories as I was walking along. It's still dangerous for me to drive. I've driven into the gate outside my house numerous times.

David Zaslav

We're lucky in that channels like Science, Animal Planet and Discovery are essentially universal in terms of their appeal. If you wake up in Moscow and put on the Science channel, it doesn't feel like an American channel, it feels like their channel.

Howard Jacobs

XM Satellite Radio offers an extraordinary variety of music for all kinds of tastes, and we're very pleased that United Airlines' customers will have the opportunity to sample the exclusive, commercial-free music channels that have helped make XM the nation's leading satellite radio company.

Ariel Garten

Under the deluge of minute-to-minute text conversations, emails, relentless exchange of media channels and passwords and apps and reminders and tweets and tags, we lose sight of what all this fuss is supposed to be about in the first place: ourselves.

Larry Sabato

The sixth year of a two-term president's administration is typically an opportunity for voters to send a message. It's not going to be a pretty message for Bush, if his popularity stays this low.

Christine Berg

The take-home message is to never start smoking, and if you do smoke, to quit.

Michael Gartenberg

The survey reinforces Microsoft's message to enterprises that Windows is a safe bet.

Mason Tvert

The whole thing on 4/20 is actually something we're against. I don't really see how smoking marijuana in public does anything positive. It sends the wrong message about the work that we (SAFER) are doing.

Frank Billingsley

This is one more reason to be downtown, in buildings, parks and public areas. It also sends a message that this is a progressive community.

Adam Ereli

The United States ... reiterates this message in the strongest possible terms.

Mitch McConnell

That's not the message we want to send." ()

Damien Newton

You're sending a message about what the state's transportation priorities are.

Adalius Thomas

Brian, this message is for you: Go work out. Stop playing racquetball and run some half-gassers.

Jane Goodall

And I thought how sad it was that, for all our sophisticated intellect, for all our noble aspirations, our aggressive behavior was not just similar in many ways to that of the chimpanzees - it was even worse. Worse because human beings have the potential to rise above their baser instincts, whereas chimpanzees probably do not.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Better not be at all than not be noble.

Alexander Pope

While I live, no rich or noble knave shall walk the world in credit to his grave.

Alice Cary

For he who is honest is noble, Whatever his fortunes or birth.

Sophocles

It's impossible to speak what it is not noble to do.

Paul Weller

Being a musician is a noble profession.

Fernando Pessoa

It is noble to be shy, illustrious not to know how to act, great not to have a gift for living.

George Eliot

In high vengeance there is noble scorn.

George Herbert

A noble plant suites not with a stubborne ground.

Bob Murray

People stop and say 'Why are you painting on a building?'

Jonathan Simon

I wanted a painting that shows a more simpler time.

Brian Johnson

Painting is so much more than the materials.

Blaise Pascal

Eloquence is the painting of thought ...

Alfred Sisley

The animation of the canvas is one of the hardest problems of painting.

Robert Henri

There are forms that can only be seen when you are near a painting, others only appear when you are far away.

Tom Wolfe

Frankly, these days, without a theory to go with it, I can't see a painting.

Steve Martin

It was easier to sell a painting that was not for sale.

Steve Coogan

I like the transience of Klimt paintings.

Rumi

You transform all those who are touched by You.

Oscar Wilde

It is only the sacred things that are worth touching

David Zuniga

I wondered what could I do to make a hands-on film that could actually touch people.

Chris Hillman

You don't ever want to touch that money,

Stacey Hallahan

You'll be touching it or combing it, and it'll come out in pieces.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Touching your cap to the Squire may be damn bad for the Squire, but it's damn good for you.

J. K. Rowling

Sirius — it’s me . . . it’s Peter . . . your friend . . . you wouldn’t . . .” Black kicked out and Pettigrew recoiled. “There’s enough filth on my robes without you touching them,” said Black.

Louis Walsh

I couldn't make it because I've got a touch of the flu.

Walter Benjamin

All disgust is originally disgust at touching.

Kristin Baker

I've matured. I think I work better with the team.

James Marsh

I've always worked very efficiently on small budgets, both in documentaries and in features.

Amanda Hale

I've come to realise I work so much better when I'm going by instinct.

Luis Castillo

This is terrible. Very disappointing. I've got to get back out there. There's so many things I have to work on.

Bryson Sumlin

That's not in the playbook, ... That's just excitement. Everything worked as clockwork.

Boris Yeltsin

I understand that it's hard for everyone, but one cannot give in to emotions... we'll have to draw lessons from the current crisis and now we'll have to work on overcoming it.

Auguste Rodin

Where shall we begin? There is no beginning. Start where you arrive. Stop before what entices you. And work! You will enter little by little into the entirety. Method will be born in proportion to your interest.

Jane Fonda

The harder you work out, the more you should stretch.

Kent McCord

Some of the greatest writers in our industry can't get work.