Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ann Rice

And I knew my vision of the garden of savage beauty had been a true vision. There was meaning in the world, yes, and laws, and inevitability, but they had only to do with the aesthetic and in this Savage Garden, these innocent ones belonged in the vampire's arms. A thousand other things can be said about the world, but only aesthetic principles can be verified, and these things alone remain the same.

Dan Collins

This is a deliberation that has to do with aesthetic values and it has to do with property values, ... The board must carefully monitor all proposed building projects, whether they are modular or traditional stick-built.

Gary Warner

It's true we're not going to reduce the volume of traffic, but we can create an aesthetic identity along the road. We hope to beautify it and make it safer for pedestrians.

Vladimir Nabokov

For me, a work of fiction exists only insofar as it affords me what I shall bluntly call aesthetic bliss, that is a sense of being somehow, somewhere, connected with other states of being where art (curiosity, tenderness, kindness, ecstasy) is the norm.

Shannon Michelle

They are doing so much building around here, and we do interior design and custom furniture. There are a lot more architecture and design firms, and a little bit more clean-lined furniture stores, so we thought that our aesthetic would work well here.

John Vanco

There's a large overlap between Larry's aesthetic and our programmingan awareness of the past, both the Waverly's and the neighborhood's. It feels personal and, on some level, homemade.

Jay Farrar

There's an immediacy and a starkness that's there. I think a lot of Leadbelly's arrangements and his use of the 12-string guitar were atypical, especially the 12-string, which showed his individuality. I guess he approached it that way because the 12-string was louder. Leadbelly and the punk rock aesthetic - maybe there are some similarities there.

Paul Rand

Graphic Design, which fulfills aesthetic needs, complies with the laws of form and exigencies of two-dimensional space; which speaks in semiotics, sans-serifs, and geometrics; which abstracts, transforms, translates, rotates, dilates, repeats, mirrors, groups, and regroups, is not good design if it is irrelevant.

Steven Soderbergh

Reality shows are all the rage on TV at the moment ... but that's not reality, it's just another aesthetic form of fiction.

David Hockney

Loads of people, particularly artists, hate pretty pictures. Now I've never met anyone who didn't like a pretty face.

Adam Rita

We're interested, but he wants more than we want to pay, that's the bottom line. That's the beauty of the salary management system. You just stop when you run out of money.

William Shakespeare

Beauty within itself should not be wasted.

Martina McBride

I have girls who are concerned about how they look compared to models or what have you. It's my responsibility to teach them that beauty is more than superficial.

Marguerite Gardiner

Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.

Marisa Miller

My first trimester I was so exhausted. I could sleep 10 hours, then wake up, look in the mirror and still have eyes like a hound dog! I felt like the life was sucked out of me, no matter how much sleep I got. It was obvious that my body was really busy doing something else and 'beauty sleep' didn't exist anymore!

Nigel Barker

I have a book out called 'The Beauty Equation' and it discusses how off track we have gone in considering beauty.

William Shakespeare

What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.

Bertrand Russell

No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?

Rita Ora

There are bigger queens of the selfie, but I'm up there.

Kent Partridge

We're in bigger markets now than when we first started, but the right ownership group and the right venue are more important than population size. The NBA hasn't put a timetable on going to 30 (development league) teams yet. We're always on the lookout for markets that make sense and we try to fish out and see if there are any interested groups.

Martin Seligman

Psychology is much bigger than just medicine, or fixing unhealthy things. It's about education, work, marriage - it's even about sports. What I want to do is see psychologists working to help people build strengths in all these domains.

Leslie Bibb

I do have body-image issues, just like everyone else. I mean, I wish I had bigger boobs. And I hate my butt. I want an onion butt - you know, a butt that'll bring tears to your eyes?

Michael Franti

I hope I inspire people to dream bigger than what they are living, but a dream within their reach.

Travis Bradberry

When you take on more than the norm, your boss can't help but think that you're capable of a bigger role. This includes showing that you're willing to take risks by making innovative suggestions.

Vern Lorsung

We have to get started cleaning up some of these lakes. Every year we let go by, it's a bigger hole we're digging.

Garrick Phillips

We have a special deal in our community, and with the kids. Unfortunately, it's about wins and losses sometimes. But overall it's a lot bigger than that.

Tom McKillop

We have no strategic need to be bigger -- none at all. So there is no reason to engage in major M&A activity.

Charles Caleb Colton

Discretion has been termed the better part of valour, and it is more certain, that diffidence is the better part of knowledge.

Alan Moore

For whatever the future holds, one thing is certain... It just won't be the same.

Lisa Cholodenko

I feel like I've been observed as an individual more than a gay person, or as a filmmaker with a certain point of view rather than a lesbian filmmaker with a gay point of view.

Michael Specter

If there is anything more frightening than the threat of global nuclear war, it is the certainty that humans not only stand on the verge of producing new life forms but may soon be able to tinker with them as if they were vintage convertibles or bonsai trees.

Pete Nichols

We are providing Guidant shareholders with certainty of completion, significant upside potential and substantially more value today than the Johnson & Johnson transaction. By any objective measure, our offer is clearly superior to Johnson & Johnson.

Marc Short

There are communities that have not been as proactive as say, San Francisco and Oakland in having a mutual plan in how to respond or how to prevent certain attacks.

Richard Hell

There are characters in it that do deliberately go as far as they can in certain kind of taboo areas,

Mike Johnson

There are certain types of situations when it is more likely.

Rae Tyson

There are certain types of crashes where SUVs may provide you with some type of protection but you have to look at the overall safety record.

Scott Jones

We're pleased to see that SDCA members have turned out in force thanks to nice weather and the proximity of the convention this year. Having our members participate in the policy-development process is key to setting the direction we want for NCBA.

Bob Schultz

This fits into the ICVA's strategy of going after the size of events that would fit into a single hotel with convention space. We would welcome the opportunity to work with the IMS on sales and marketing.

Gil Brandt

There were other places we could have done it, but (the RCA Dome and Indiana Convention Center) have always given us the dates.

Jim Mangia

There may be a brawl on the convention floor. It's a real possibility. That's what happens when you let the 'brown shirts' into your party.

John Jay Hooker

A short exposure to the convention convinced me that the Internet may save the Democracy in that it is a way for the people, for the citizens, to have some direct influence on the government.

Murray Kempton

A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

Rich Lowry

So that was a mistake? ...So Eleanor, you tonight are holding Governor Blanco accountable for trying to starve out evacuees last week from the Super Dome and the convention center? For the record, you're holding her accountable?

Chris Carter

Scientific whaling is only legal because the provisions in the international convention on the regulation of whaling are out of step with modern conservation approaches. New Zealand is working to remedy this.

Joan Claybrook

Right now, they're going to stop $50 meals, but they are still able to throw these elaborate convention parties that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars in honor of a congressman.

Karen Roberts

We're looking forward to having John Samples, a well-rounded candidate, represent the Democratic party in Precinct 4.

Lorenzo Meyer

This is a very positive turnaround for the political development of Mexico. Now, after all, we will be able -- late, very late -- to have a real democratic transition.

Tom Slater

They reflect the opinion of Democratic activists. But I don't think you can extrapolate from the results the thinking of the general public.

Larry Sabato

As far as others in his party are concerned, Simmons' district is highly competitive and in a strong Democratic year, it could easily be lost. ... These favors are done for Simmons simply to save the seat.

Iqbal Sacranie

Our democratic values need to be upheld, not undermined.

Jim Manley

A nominee more extreme than Judge Roberts would be unacceptable to the Democratic caucus, ... You could expect a major fight on the Senate floor.

James Phillips

A quick pullout would leave a vacuum that Iran would be all too happy to fill. The Iraqis who are supporting a democratic government would be completely demoralized. It could lead to a very quick unraveling of national cohesion.

Jalal Talabani

And the Iraqi people are liberated from the worst kind of dictatorship. Now they are enjoying their democratic rights, all kinds of freedoms, a free press.

Karen Ignagni

The subtext of the Democratic proposal is: If you have a problem, get a lawyer.

Brian Sanderoff

Americans are quite divided, but it seems as if they are looking for a solution that involves some sort of legal documentation.

Trip Adler

Entrepreneurship is about tackling big problems - often non-obvious problems - that will have a meaningful impact on the world, and this usually involves solving these problems in counterintuitive ways.

Kim Keelor

A planning study is under way that involves widening Duplex to a three-lane typical section.

Patrick Driessen

Successful self-development also involves taking more self-time to be quiet and think for oneself!

Mayor Giuliano

Is it a perfect project? Show me one that is. Is it expensive? You bet, but sometimes doing the right thing involves sacrifice.

Tom Hodgkinson

If your work is done on the phone, then surely you can set up some kind of wireless system. If your work involves reading or writing reports, then this too could be done outside.

Tibor Fischer

I'm not the most prolific writer in the world, and, sadly, writing a novel involves a lot of effort.

William Empson

. . . life involves maintaining oneself between contradictions that can't be solved by analysis.

Steve Hartman

He understands that because he's a Muslim and this involves terrorism a lot people presume he's guilty.

Chely Wright

I'm not a Democrat, I'm not a Republican-I'm an American, I'm a human.

Ann Coulter

There are a lot of bad republicans; there are no good democrats.

Andy Borowitz

To mark the hundredth anniversary of the Titanic, the Republicans have nominated Mitt Romney.

Donna Brazile

We were not republicans or democrats during Katrina. We truly were all Americans, and Trent Lott came through for me.

Jeb Bush

We have a wealth of talent in the Republican Party.

Thomas Jefferson

...We are all Federalists,and we are all Republicans.

Rush Limbaugh

The Republicans that want to get rid of [Donald] Trump are a minority.

Rush Limbaugh

Not getting rid of [Donald] Trump because there's a slew of Republican voters that don't want to get rid of Trump.

Rush Limbaugh

Republican voters are fed up with Democrats and Democrat policy.

Charles Caleb Colton

Modesty is the richest ornament of a woman ... the want of it is her greatest deformity.

Alan Ayckbourn

If you are flattering a woman, it pays to be a little more subtle. You don't have to bother with men, they believe any compliment automatically.

Chris Abani

Your anatomy is a mystery that nobody bothers explaining to us. Even when we think we have mastered one woman's body, every body is different.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Some people ask: "Why the word feminist? Why not just say you are a believer in human rights, or something like that?" Because that would be dishonest. Feminism is, of course, part of human rights in general-but to choose to use the vague expression human rights is to deny the specific and particular problem of gender. It would be a way of pretending that it was not women who have, for centuries, been excluded. It would be a way of denying that the problem of gender targets women.

Edith Stein

Woman naturally seeks to embrace that which is living, personal, and whole. To cherish, guard, protect, nourish and advance growth is her natural, maternal yearning.

Edith Sitwell

Most women dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous reincarnation, or hope to be one in the next.

Edith Sitwell

I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.

Edith Sitwell

I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of catfish.

Edith Wharton

Genius is of small use to a woman who does not know how to do her hair.