Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chuck Klosterman

I got to Spin because I put my phone number in the front of Fargo Rock City and one of the people who called me was David Byrne.

Ben Nicholson

Realism' has been abandoned in the search for reality: the 'principal objective' of abstract art is precisely this reality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

We should comfort ourselves with the masterpieces of art as with exalted personages-stand quietly before them and wait till they speak to us.

Mary Lambert

Yes, I would loved to have just sustained myself through my art, but less than one in a billion musicians gets that life. So rather than being like, 'I'm an exception!', like a moron, I thought I'd get a real job.

Charles Bukowski

escape from the black widow spider is a miracle as great as art. what a web she can weave slowly drawing you to her she'll embrace you then when she's satisfied she'll kill you still in her embrace and suck the blood from you.

Charles Bukowski

A woman must be nursed into subsistence by love, where a man can become stronger by being hated." - from 'Cows in Art Class

Charles Bukowski

The Artist," an ancient sage had once said, "is always sitting on the doorsteps of the rich.

Charles Bukowski

Bullfighting can be an art Boxing can be an art Loving can be an art Opening a can of sardines can be an art

Charles Bukowski

To me Art (poetry) is a continuous and continuing process and that when a man fails to write good poetry he fails to live fully or well.

Charles Bukowski

Art is its own excuse, and it's either Art or it's something else. It's either a poem or a piece of cheese.

Charles Bukowski

The Artist," an ancient sage had once said, "is always sitting on the doorsteps of the rich.

Crystal Gayle

It used to be that Nashville would work to develop promising artists.

Danny Glover

Those titles, Executive Producer or actor, are unimportant. I always try to approach my role as an artist. The first thing you want to do, that you attempt to do as an artist, is to have some sort of input into the material that you are working on. That is how my process begins; I say to myself: "I want to do this kind of work or I want to do that kind of work."

Darren Criss

I just hope I can continue to do work that matters to me, I’m not interested in being any kind of superstar or anything I’m not. I’m just a dude who got lucky and an artist who cares about the work that I do.

David Lloyd

I just sit at the drawing board most of the time. I am used to talking to people. I love going to conventions, getting feedback and talking to people. Some artists don't. Some artists sit at their drawing board because their personality actually dictates that.

David Lynch

An artist makes a painting, and nobody bugs him or her about it. It's just you and your painting. To me, that's the way it should be with film as well.

David Lynch

Stories always have held conflicts and contrasts, highs and lows, life and death situations. And there can be much suffering in stories, but now we say the artist doesn’t have to suffer to show suffering. You just have to understand the human condition, understand the suffering.

Curtis Jackson

When I fell in love with hip-hop, there was a terminology at the time called "battling." All that was just battling with other artists, but after Tupac and those incidents when it spilled into the street and turned into a negative situation, battling turned into a beef. A whole new dynamic.

Curtis Jackson

I'm not trying to save the world. As a musician and artist, it just ain't me.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

This was life! Ah, how he loved it! Civilization held nothing like this in its narrow and circumscribed sphere, hemmed in by restrictions and conventionalities. Even clothes were a hindrance and a nuisance. At last he was free. He had not realized what a prisoner he had been.

Edward Said

To say that we're going to end countries or eradicate terrorism, and that it's a long war over many years, with many different instruments, suggests a much more complex and drawn-out conflict for which, I think, most Americans aren't prepared.

Bernie Sanders

I know media is not necessarily focused on these things. But what a campaign is about is not Hillary Clinton, it's not Donald Trump. It is the people of this country, people who are working longer hours for lower wages, people who do not have health care or are underinsured.

Rebecca Martin

We felt that we disappointed students. We tried to reach out to the country demographic, and it did not work out.

Eid Kabalu

We expected that he would win the bout. We join the Filipino people not only in the country but those overseas as well in celebrating his victory.

Tywon Lawson

We're usually one of the top 10 teams in the country each year. So naturally that No. 1 spot is something we hope to get each year. But the main thing is to just win games. Not to lose. We don't want to lose.

Chris Witty

You go back to your country and then a few months later, nobody remembers your name. Sometimes, it's hard.

Robert Kiyosaki

If you can ask a young man to give his life for his country, you can lead people.

Yukio Hatoyama

Far more than 70 percent of the people in this country ... want the Mori government to step down just as quickly as possible.

Endy Chavez

Every year you will see more players from Venezuela. It is the number one sport. Some people are starting to play soccer, but the whole country loves baseball. Kids are playing it everywhere.

Bobby Valentine

Koga put him in the No. 1 spot last year, and he got hot after that. I thought I'd follow suit.

Andre Malraux

An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.

Woody Allen

Some actors like the total freedom Woody gives them, but I like to have some parameters, some structure.

Lisa Bluder

I'm just thankful for the free-throw line because we stepped up and made the free throws. Good teams make their free throws and we're getting to the free-throw line so much more this year than we have in the past.

John Gotti

I'm OK, It would be the first free lawyer I've ever spoken with.

Mike Gansey

I missed two free throws then shook it off and made four.

Cliff Martinez

I'm free to make music - I'm sitting on about 40 or 45 new songs that I can't wait to put out.

Dennis Rodman

I'm sorry I didn't put on a good show, but it wasn't for me to put on a good show. I don't shoot free throws, but I knew I would get the rebounds when we needed them.

Sean Mallon

I never had a free throw shot to end a game before.

Camille Little

In big games, we'll need those free throws, so that's what we've been working on.

Don Stewart

We should have the hearings wrapped up in time to get a vote out of the full Senate in time for the (court's) October term.

Larry Harrison

I think sometimes we rely too much on Kenny alone. We play a much better game when we play a full game, relying on our shooting and contesting other teams shots.

Zydrunas Ilgauskas

That's back when I had a full head of hair.

Lonnie Johnson

I wasn't surprised. I knew they were full of speed and had great athletes.

Jack Evans

We need to provide a guarantee in this legislation that the funding will be there for the full modernization of our public schools.

Sreeram Iyer

We have our hands full as of now, as Standard Chartered is doing well, growing organically, and making acquisitions.

Ron Jones

We have our full offensive line back from the start of the season.

John Payne

(Long) told us he was running for full term when we typed it in.

Mark Davis

Matthew is taking a full part in training.

Daniel Kraft

In the future we might not prescribe drugs all the time - we might prescribe apps.

Wendelin Wiedeking

In the future the fundamental idea is to stand on three legs, which means if one product is up maybe the other is down,

Dick Hill

Higher oil prices are all we'll look at in the future. No way is this going to be like 1982 or 1987, where the market collapses and we'll be back to $1 for a gallon of heating oil.

Donald Driver

I'm hoping that Brett comes back for another year. I hope Mike comes back. No one knows what the future holds right now. What we did today is we started a new year. We wanted to make sure we started 2006 off on a good note. We'll see what happens.

Bryce Swafford

I'll bask in it a little bit. Twenty-four hours at most. Then I'll go back to looking over our future opponents, seeing if we can get an edge.

Astro Teller

If we want to help Google become something meaningfully different in the future, then that's more likely to happen if we focus on the physical world instead.

Rick Smith

I hope that it really helps other people in the future. Wish it would've been there sooner. But I hope it is able to help people who are in the (same) position as me and my neighbors.

Derrek Lee

I heard that they would talk in the spring, but that's about it. I think my future is here. I like it here. I want to win here. I see myself being here, but a lot of it is out of my control. If it works out, great, but it's out of my control.

John Petrashek

I have to live three years in the future.

Will Oldham

Too much emphasis is put on American roots music when people try and place me. You know, I grew up listening to punk.

Charles Caleb Colton

Those who have resources within themselves, who can dare to live alone, want friends the least, but, at the same time, best know how to prize them the most. But no company is far preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.

Max Azria

I'm very visionary, very big picture.

Will Smith

If you look at somebody like 50 Cent, ain't nobody telling 50 what to do and how to do what he does. He has a vision of who he wants to be, and he instructs everybody along those lines.

Karel Reisz

I'm now beginning to feel that the pessimistic vision is not for the movies.