Famous Quotes & Sayings

Evan Bayh

I think I should hear what the man has to say before making up my mind, ... Whoever is chosen for this spot could be on our nation's highest court for 30 years perhaps, and deal with some of the most fundamental liberties that we have in this country. So I think it's important we take our time, ask the right questions, listen carefully to the answers and then reach a considered judgment.

Paul Heath

It answers who did it and possibly why they did it, and to that extent, there is closure.

Robert Vaughn

The world's philosophers and theologians searched for answers to the same mysteries.

Robert Reich

Education is not the only answer and it's certainly not the immediate solution. At best, it's a necessary, but not sufficient response to widening inequality.

Will Thomas

Does a bibliophile ever have enough room on his shelves? The answer is obvious: get more shelves.

Warren Buffett

Unless your answers are clearly better, copy the answers of your betters.

W. H. Auden

Thou shalt not answer questionnaires Or quizzes upon world affairs, Nor with compliance Take any test. Thou shalt not sit with statisticians nor commit A social science.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Our model of the cosmos must be as inexhaustible as the cosmos. A complexity that includes not only duration but creation, not only being but becoming, not only geometry but ethics. It is not the answer we are after, but only how to ask the question.

Robert M. Pirsig

every answer one finds leads to ten more questions. The more we learn the less we know.

George Crabbe

I paint the cot, As truth will paint it, and as bards will not.

Matthew Macfadyen

The lovely thing about being an actor is being anonymous, it's never having to explain yourself. And that's what I find interesting about actors or painters I admire. I don't want to know about their lives.

Henri Matisse

It has always bothered me that I don't paint like everyone else

Frank Mullins

At first I thought you paint only when inspired, ... I'd do nothing, then I'd paint 10 paintings in a week. Then I'd fret.

Cy Twombly

It's absurd to talk about paintings that you haven't finished.

Persis Khambatta

I also had this artist friend who'd paint butterflies and things like that on my head.

Ben Whishaw

I would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I'm still fascinated by those things.

Bill Watterson

Van Gogh would’ve sold more than one painting if he’d put tigers in them.

Edgar Degas

For those who don't know what they are doing, painting is easy. For those who do know what they are doing, painting is difficult.

Richelle Mead

Everyone wanted what she couldn't have.

Monica Denise Brown

My image is me. I talk for myself. I didn't become this person others wanted me to be.

Kate Morton

She hadn't wanted to be loved carefully, only well.

Leo Tolstoy

I did not myself know what I wanted: I feared life, desired to escape from it, yet still hoped something of it.

Lenny Kravitz

I knew what I wanted to do from the time I was 5.

Karen Kingsbury

I always knew I wanted to be a writer.

George Leigh Mallory

Because it's there. (when asked why he wanted to climb Everest)

Madeleine L'Engle

I wrote because I wanted to know what everything was about.

Katherine Center

It's always better to have what you have than to get what you wanted.