Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jonathan Miller

People can't draw now and don't feel it's necessary. Art students don't seem to want to draw.

Sigmar Polke

People expect things from art that are horrible for us who make it! They put the things we make in these restrictive places called 'museums,' then don't want to hear another word from us.

Peter Gabriel

People go on and on about the copyright issue, and that is central to what is going on now. Someone sent me an article from the Register this morning about this person named Fisher who has proposed an extra $6 per month on every broadband user's bill that would supply enough revenue to pay all the money that is earned from records and films.

Jake Wien

During my time in New York I was interested in what was going on in the arts culture music, galleries, auction houses that's where I learned as much as I did about art history. It was the vortex of the art world and a fabulous place to get up to speed and develop one's eye.

Eric Liu

The summer of 1991, I took $2,000 of my savings and a desktop program, and I asked my friends to write 800 words about something they cared about. I got eight or nine articles and put them together. It was no frills, black and white, no graphics. I printed them out and just dumped piles around D.C.

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.

Iman Iman

I wanted to do something other than just sign books, ... I thought that by doing makeovers I could make this more of an interactive thing. So I have makeup artists there and I do a little Q and A. I just want to make myself available. I want them to feel that I will treat them as well as I would any celebrity. Some people may not think it is my forte, but I am actually very approachable -- unlike my photographs.

Bob Clark

The mural would've been part of the overall design of an individual building. The concept behind the art program was to give artists jobs, too.

Richard Klein

After 40,000 years ago, the art is unquestionable,

Ed Clark

Back in high school, I really wanted to be a diesel mechanic. I was building pools and it was still working with my hands. I was installing the (reinforcement) bars, shaping the pools and then they'd bring the cement in. It was great. . . . Then I had my accident.

Carli Smith

As of now, it's still in the park and they're just trying to put it in a cage and bring it to another location.

James Hitchcock

Once we got to know who he (Nelson) really was, ... he was able to really bring out some extraordinary ideas.

Wayne Thomas

The theme will speak to the complete change God can bring in a person. Where you truly experience grace, you can never grow tired of singing about it.

John Enos

The old township hall was much too small. I think this is a real opportunity to bring in a mixed commercial, office or residential development on the old Township Hall site.

Joe Ridout

The most shocking thing about this is the reforms we were looking for were so modest. They were nothing more than bringing cell phone companies in line with the standards that consumers expect in their other commercial interactions.

Bobby Carpenter

Seeing a lot of teams go to the 3-4, I think helps me. Looking around, it's tough to find a whole lot of guys who have the size and weight to play outside linebacker in the 3-4. You have to be a bigger, physical guy with good speed. That's something that's kind of a (rare) commodity in today's game. I think that's something I can bring to the table.

Craig Bandoroff

Quality is very strong?as strong as I've seen it really. The ones they want bring a premium; the ones they don't want do not. It's very selective.

Peter Spina

Pullbacks are expected to bring in willing buyers.

Emily Hall

As a group, the funds have shown that you can do about as well in a screened universe as in a non-screened universe. But that doesn't mean all socially screened funds are good.

David Hale

Back when I gave that speech in March, some of my hedge fund friends thought it would be a big issue by the third quarter. But here we are, it's July, and it just hasn't seemed to register.

Edward Meir

Commodities seem to be a rather popular alternative (to bonds, equities and the dollar) for funds searching for a trend.

Ian McDonald

Funding can never replace the value lost from trade and the euro190 million does not really offset that, offset what we would lose.

James Bennett

I think we ought to make it a first-class facility. If it takes more than $50-million, we will have to make sure we find the funds to make it right. It's pretty important to get it right.

Angus MacMillan

There are no signs that funds have lost appetite. As long as you have a list of problems, funds will keep piling in.

Pete Stark

That money is being put into a fund that can be used for defense,

Chen Hong

This is a fund product of high risk and high return.

David Snow

It is safe to say that an Internet-focused fund launched in 1999 registered a poor performance, because a lot of these firms made investments at peak valuation.

Kirby Moses

Ten of our 14 wrestlers scored points which helped us today. There were 15 teams and we didn't know what to expect. We were the smallest school there.

Danielle Jackson

Ryan has really stepped up and takes some of the pressure away from the rest of us. She's going to help a lot.

Daniel Burns

It was unbelievable, ... but I knew it was helping us.

Paul Tagliabue

The state of Texas, and San Antonio, are helping shelter hurricane victims. That is the most important mission right now.

Bruce Cunningham

This is special for him. He tried to stay with Shawn and that helped him stay focused.

Charles R. Swindoll

It helps me if I remember that God is in charge of my day - not I.

Elie Wiesel

Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.

Howard Dean

At this point, my position is pretty delicate, ... If I come out in the newspaper (with my opinion), it may not end up helping New Hampshire's position.

James Wolfensohn

At this moment the world is willing to help at the highest level,

Caroll Spinney

I've learned to say, 'I'm a friend of Big Bird. He even taught me how to sound like him.'

Tom DeLay

some things that we've learned and when we do it again, we'll probably be better at it.

Jack Ma

When I was 12 years old, I got interested in learning English.

Mark Sanford

What I've come to learn is that (the Jasper port) would be a private (venture), ... If that's the case, I have no problem with it whatsoever.

Tim Farriss

You have to learn to pace yourself, in everything. Sure, there's a pub in every town. But you don't have to go to all of them, right? If you want to do this, you have to learn to keep steady.

William Shakespeare

And simple truth miscalled simplicity

Rita Mae Brown

Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.

Bradlee Pelt

I don't think it ticks him off anymore. I think Jake has learned to program critics, the media in general.

Mexican Proverb

One must learn how to lose before learning how to play.

Barbara Sher

Isolation is a dream killer.

Arthur Miller

I am bewildered by the death of love. And my responsibility for it.

Arthur Miller

I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been.

Ayn Rand

She smiled. She knew she was dying. But it did not matter any longer. She had known something which no human words could ever tell and she knew it now. She had been awaiting it and she felt it, as if it had been, as if she had lived it. Life had been, if only because she had known it could be, and she felt it now as a hymn without sound, deep under the little whole that dripped red drops into the snow, deeper than that from which the red drops came. A moment or an eternity- did it matter? Life, undefeated, existed and could exist. She smiled, her last smile, to so much that had been possible.

Michel de Montaigne

I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.

Blake Edwards

Look, there's nothing wrong with people being happy, but there's more to life than turning on and screwing to Ravel's Bolero.

Karl Lagerfeld

Music is part of the life of fashion, too.

Arundhati Roy

It is after all so easy to shatter a story. To break a chain of thought. To ruin a fragment of a dream being carried around carefully like a piece of porcelain. To let it be, to travel with it, as Velutha did, is much the harder thing to do.

Diana Ross

Do you know where you going to? Do you like the things that life is showing you? Where are you going to? Do you know?

Calvin Coolidge

There is new life in the soil for every man. There is healing in the trees for tired minds and for our overburdened spirits, there is strength in the hills, if only we will lift up our eyes. Remember that nature is your great restorer.

Dale Carnegie

Close your eyes. You might try saying. . . something like this: "The sun is shining overhead. The sky is blue and sparkling. Nature is calm and in control of the world-and I, as nature's child, am in tune with the Universe." Or-better still-pray!

E. B. White

"What's miraculous about a spider's web?" said Mrs. Arable. "I don't see why you say a web is a miracle--it's just a web." "Ever try to spin one?" asked Mr. Dorian.

E. B. White

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.

Anne Bronte

A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.

Robert Frost

For hard it is to keep from being King When it's in you and in the situation.

Thomas Starr King

Nature is hieroglyphic. Each prominent fact in it is like a type; its final use is to set up one letter of the infinite alphabet, and help us by its connections to read some statement or statute applicable to the conscious world.

Theodore Parker

Nature is God's Old Testament.

Theodore Parker

It seems strange that a butterfly's wing should be woven up so thin and gauzy in the monstrous loom of nature, and be so delicately tipped with fire from such a gross hand, and rainbowed all over in such a storm of thunderous elements. The marvel is that such great forces do such nice work.

Jon Jansen

People say this stuff like they just thought of it, ... Everyone thinks they're so clever. I'm like, 'Heard that two weeks ago. Where ya been?'

John Abraham

People talk about the money, but it had nothing to do with the money,

Pam Brown

People can sip tea and have a little tidbit to eat.

Ed Rollins

People don't view him as a Republican or Democrat, and he has the resources to run without having to worry about funding.

Brent Carpenter

People don't understand the law, and they get in a hurry.

John Waters

People don't understand how this water went, and people don't understand this bridge.

Matt Eastwood

People don't throw out technology for no reason.

Kevin Spacey

People don't tend to hassle me because when I've got a hat on, I look like a banker. I'm just a plain guy.

Jim Miller

People don't shop the way they used to. We had to throw in the towel.

Ted Nelson

The objective of hypertext research is to save the planet.

Jerry Pournelle

You see, I used to do a certain amount of market research by going to the local drugstore and seeing what the truck drivers would put up. Now it's all just copies from the latest best-seller list and damn little of anything else.

Hillary Clinton

Research shows the presence of women raises the standards of ethical behavior and lowers corruption.

Jennifer Connelly

I had a good time working with Russell Crowe, Ron Howard and Ed Harris. It was a great cast and Russell worked really hard, doing tons of research and questioning everything

Larry Richmond

I'd say it's a unique car. I've done a lot of research and don't really know much about them, but I think it's an interesting car.

Richard Mitchell

You can shoot the tiger, or stay out of his way, but you cannot pronounce him a vegetarian.

Jens Stoltenberg

Just as important as our society as a whole are our small communities: our neighborhoods, workplaces and schools.

Ernst Mayr

Life is simply the reification of the process of living.

James F. Cooper

These families, you know, are our upper crust, not upper ten thousand.

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.