Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rebecca Merblum

The one thing that is most difficult to communicate about what we do is what our lives are like. What does it mean to be an artist?

Charles Pyle

School divisions know that memos are the primary means we communicate with them.

Baruch Spinoza

In the state of nature, wrong-doing is impossible; or, if anyone does wrong, it is to himself, not to another. For no one by the law of nature is bound to please another, unless he chooses, nor to hold anything to be good or evil, but what he himself, according to his own temperament, pronounces to be so; and, to speak generally, nothing is forbidden by the law of nature, except what is beyond everyone's power.

Arthur Miller

If you complain of people being shot down in the streets, of the absence of communication or social responsibility, of the rise of everyday violence which people have become accustomed to, and the dehumanization of feelings, then the ultimate development on an organized social level is the concentration camp... The concentration camp is the final expression of human separateness and its ultimate consequence. It is organized abandonment.

Benjamin Banneker

Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.

Brenda Ueland

everyone who is human has something to express. Try not expressing yourself for twenty-four hours and see what happens. You will nearly burst. You will want to write a long letter, or draw a picture, or sing, or make a dress or a garden.

Jane Goodall

The chimpanzees taught me a lot about nonverbal communication. The big difference between them and us is that they don't have spoken language. Everything else is almost the same: Kissing, embracing, swaggering, shaking the fist.

Benjamin Disraeli

Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.

Alan Lightman

I've taken a philosophical position on e-mail. Although I think it's a wonderful communication technology, and it has a lot of good uses, it is abused quite a lot.

Ben Vereen

As far as working with Chita Rivera, all I can say is it's a dream come true. Her artistry and discipline and dedication is a joy to be around.

Stewart Cink

Augusta was always a place where you could have a lot of fun and you could demonstrate an artistic talent for strategy around the golf course. Now it's not.

Mark Joseph

Ralph is not only a man of accomplishment, but a man of integrity. Those of us who knew and loved Bob are confident that Ralph is just the kind of artist that he hoped would one day take the stage.

Vincent Van Gogh

The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

Ruth Draper

Aren't the artists brave to go out and paint a sea as rough as that? I don't see how he kept his canvas dry.

Pavlos Flourentzos

The style of the decoration is unique, not so much from an artistic point of view, but for the subject and the colors used.

Marc Shmuger

I've never come close to seeing an artist working at this level.

Roz Chast

I've always wanted to learn how to hook rugs. A wonderful artist named Leslie Giuliani taught me how. The nice thing is you can change it as you go along.

Shane Filan

I've been a solo artist for a year now, and I think I should start thinking about the future now. Every spare time I get, I want to be in the studio and work on music for 2015. It's a lot of work.

Jane Welsh Carlyle

A positive engagement to marry a certain person at a certain time, at all haps and hazards, I have always considered the most ridiculous thing on earth.

Brendon Burchard

It's that engagement of learning that makes us feel alive.

Timothy Correa

Brotherhood is not only the engagement of serving one another; it is the purpose of bettering one another.

Andrew Greeley

Everyone takes surveys. Whoever makes a statement about human behavior has engaged in a survey of some sort.

Seth Godin

A dialogue leads to connection, which leads to trust which leads to engagement

Max Beerbohm

Death cancels all engagements.

Mark Strand

I tend to like poems that engage me - that is to say, which do not bore me.

Nicole Kidman

I wouldn't want to be married to me, but luckily Tom Cruise does.

John Key

I have more engagement with New Zealand than people might think. Unlike the impression I have of the American president, who sits in the Oval Office and people come to them.