Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Merton

We live on the brink of disaster because we do not know how to let life alone. We do not respect the living and fruitful contradictions and paradoxes of which true life is full.

Thomas Merton

The only thing to seek in contemplative prayer is God; and we seek Him successfully when we realize that we cannot find Him unless He shows Himself to us, and yet at the same time that He would not have inspired us to seek Him unless we had already found Him.

Thomas Hobbes

Wisdom, properly so called, is nothing else but this: the perfect knowledge of the truth in all matters whatsoever.

Thomas Friedman

Tap into people's dignity and they will do anything for you. Ignore it, and they won't lift a finger.

Thomas J. Watson

Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

Thomas Keneally

I thought I'd definitely be a writer, whatever I did.

Thomas Keneally

I must apologise because I know all writers have memories of being on the outer because it's the children on the side of the playground who become the dangerous writers.

Raymond Queneau

Happy nations have no history. History is the study of mankind's misfortune.

Victor Hugo

The greatest products of architecture are less the works of individuals than of society; rather the offspring of a nation's effort, than the inspired flash of a man of genius...

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.

Bobby Patrick

My home didn't lose a shingle, but it's got 6 feet (nearly 2 meters) of water in it.

Jacoby Shaddix

We were 6 feet under. A lot of people gave up on us, including fans and critics and show promoters and record labels.

Marsilio Ficino

What is odious but . . . people . . . who toast their feet on the register. . . .

O. J. Simpson

We had five feet of water. And now our house has a slant to it and it's not safe. So, we're going to rebuild.