Famous Quotes & Sayings

Keith Haring

I think you have to control the materials to an extent, but it's important to let the materials have a kind of power for themselves; like the natural power of gravity, if you are painting on a wall, it makes the paint trickle and it drips; there is no reason to fight that.

Keith Haring

People were more interested in the phenomena than the art itself. This, combined with the growing interest in collecting art as an investment and the resultant boom in the art market, made it a difficult time for a young artist to remain sincere without becoming cynical.

Joe Henderson

I was joking but he took responded seriously: 'I would know, and I couldn't live with myself knowing that I'd only run 97 miles or whatever.'

Arthur Godfrey

I was in one of the touristy country bars downtown, and I asked a guy onstage who was playing for tips to play a Hank Williams song.

Adrian Belew

King Crimson will soon be touring parts of Europe.

Ken Mehlman

Kerry's political attacks are not supported by reality, which shows rising employment and higher wages, and his policies -- higher taxes, increased regulation and bigger government -- would move America backward.

Amy Walter

Kerry's focus and his message has really been middle class, middle America, 'I'm standing up for the little guy' and middle class investors respond to that, but that raises the question of how do you go back and talk to the business community after that.

Talcott Parsons

Knowledge is held to be an entirely quantitative affair. The one important thing is to have observed what had not been observed before.

Colleen Atwood

Knowing who the actors were as you were designing them helped, with Catherine's beauty and Renee's frailty, they directed me visually just by who they were.

Steve Lee

Just like Coke and Pepsi, Ford and Chevy, Intel and AMD, the OS wars are getting much more fierce.

Rick Riordan

Behold!" Percy shouted. "The god's chosen beverage. Tremble before the horror of Diet Coke!

Roger Ebert

I remember when a Coke came in a six-ounce bottle, and delicious it was. Now it comes in sizes so big that I question how the human bladder can deal with the intake.

Zach Braff

The problem with doing commercials is that the only thing good enough for me to sell is myself, and I stopped doing that once I kicked my coke habit.

Rick Riordan

He just raised the dead with coke and cheeseburgers

Ramon Ang

In the Philippines, Coke is having problems. Coca-Cola is charging a 21 percent premium and the low priced cola, which I don't have to name, is charging very much lower, so that is the problem.

R. Halloran

The Coke Foundation is completely separated. Nobody is suggesting that would change. To think they would coordinate it is just not true.

Raymond Loewy

The Coke bottle is a masterpiece of scientific, functional planning. In simpler terms, I would describe the bottle as well thought out, logical, sparing of material and pleasant to look at.

Manny Goldman

Daft is truly a long-term Coke employee with a stellar track record. There is a good relationship and high regard there with the board, otherwise he wouldn't have become chairman.

Dan Hedges

He did a very good job of making a complex story very understandable for the jury.

Katori Hall

I feel a responsibility to continue creating complex roles for black women, especially young black women.

Sarah MacLean

Gone are the days when heroes are emotionally locked away from the world until the end of the book, and thank goodness for that. Modern romance heroes are more complex than ever.

Chris Sisko

It comes down to the complex interplay of these larger-scale systems.

Randy Charles

It is a complex set of issues in publishing, where you often have three levels?authors, imprint and corporate parent?juggling what to emphasize when and for what purpose.

Larry Ellison

I think the applications space will be diverse and complex five years from now,

John Sculley

I think that the health care industry is so complex that it doesn't necessarily start with a single killer app. You go back to the early days of the personal computer - when I joined the industry, we really didn't know what the killer app was going to be.

Sen Simpson

We took just 117 days to conduct a complex financial process that typically takes nine months.

Paul Singer

Today, even small entities that trade complex instruments or are granted sufficient leverage can threaten the global financial system.

Loren Thompson

What you're seeing in these recent remarks is just the tip of the iceberg in terms of how widely disliked Rumsfeld is.

Douglas Carter Beane

I went into Xanadu going, 'I really dislike this movie - let me try to make it something wonderful,' but with 'The Band Wagon,' I really revere this movie. It's really a beautiful movie musical. And, yet, because I'm a writer and look at it that way, I see that there are faults in it.

Graham Watson

Human rights are indivisible. Freedom and security are not alternatives, they go hand-in-hand ... Much as the public may dislike it, suspected terrorists have rights.

Holger Schmieding

I dislike the VAT hike tremendously, I don't think it's necessary.

Jennifer Morrison

I dislike the online catalog; it's just easier to grab a printed schedule and look at it.

Eli Manning

I played at LSU stadium a few times, and things were rowdy and fans were yelling things. In the SEC, the quarterback is going to get harassed in those big stadiums. But I don't know if I've ever played in a place where a team had reason to dislike me.

David Carr

I haven't been here my whole life, but I've been here long enough to learn that people don't like the Titans here, ... And I'm starting to get a taste of dislike for them, too.

Lord Byron

In general I do not draw well with literary men / not that I dislike them but I never know what to say to them after I have praised their last publication.

Hal Holbrook

And I'm a very irascible, bullheaded Scot who takes an instant dislike to her.

Charles Clarke

I think it is a shocking state of affairs. The concern, possibly anger, that people will feel is entirely understandable.

Gwyn Hacche

It can't be entirely ruled out, but it looks unlikely to me.

Michael Hurst

Hannah is playing a lead role in this piece. The story is told entirely through her. That's a huge journey for her.

George Pierce Baker

No drama, however great, is entirely independent of the stage on which it is given.

Antonio Tarver

His words to me were: 'I wrote the script with you in mind.' I am truly excited about the possibility of playing Mason Dixon, and we're getting ready to work an entirely different stage, baby.

Tony Blair

I think it's entirely reasonable to talk about the possibility of withdrawal of troops next year but it's got to be always conditioned by the fact that we withdraw when the job is done,

Carol Raulston

I think it's entirely appropriate that they take stock of where we are right now.

Delia Ephron

It consists entirely of people who are not related by blood, many of whom can't stand each other.

Jim Silver

There is no comparison. 'Star Wars' is on an entirely different level.

Giuliana Sgrena

These people don't want foreigners here, nobody should come to Iraq at this time. Not even journalists. Nobody.

Olivier Martinez

I'll always be a foreigner.

Pearl S. Buck

A foreigner is a friend I have yet to meet.

Mark Twain

They spell it Vinci and pronounce it Vinchy; foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.

Norihiro Fujito

It is understandable that foreigners want to take profits for now.

Mahathir Mohamad

Foreigners who once colonized us, who have done nothing to help us, these foreigners have no good intentions,

Hideo Mizutani

Foreigners have, thus far, made a lot of money by investing in Japanese stocks which were relatively cheap.

Soichiro Monji

Foreigners are selling and it seems that Japanese investors are also getting rid of stocks because they are worried about selling by foreigners.

George Bernard Shaw

German and Spanish are accessible to foreigners: English is not accessible even to Englishmen.

Ann Cooper

Journalists say your government has pressured printing houses not to print many independent newspapers.

Sondhi Limthongkul

He is very arrogant, insulting other people and running the government as a one-man show. He is worse than a tyrant.

Sean McCormack

has talked about the need for reform in Uzbekistan. Very basically, the Uzbekistan government needs to trust its people." ()

George William Norris

Great wealth took possession of the government. It was reflected in Mr. Harding's selection of a cabinet.

Najib Razak

We can transform the government and the economy, as well as democracy, in Malaysia.

P. J. O'Rourke

Guns are the ultimate bulwark against government misbehavior.

Umar Juoro

He runs things day by day. You can't run government like that.

Wazhma Mojaddidi

He said what he said because he thought he was telling the government what they wanted to hear.

Brian Wice

He's got to open it himself; the government can't kick it in.

Mark Kimmitt

I suspect that most Iraqi people were as horrified,

Richard Perle

There is no doubt that, with the exception of a very small number of people close to a vicious regime, the people of Iraq have been liberated and they understand that they've been liberated.

Richard Ben-Veniste

Were there contacts over time between Iraq and al-Qaeda? Yes, there were efforts made to communicate. We found no evidence of collaboration in any effort to mount any kind of operation against the United States' interests.

Richard Ben-Veniste

No connection between Iraq and the 9/11 catastrophe.

Traian Basescu

Romania will continue to fulfil its obligations in Afghanistan and Iraq.

William Kristol

Iraq's always been very secular.

Richard Gere

If the United States marches into Iraq without the backing of the United Nations, that will be done entirely without the backing of the American people.

Robert Byrd

Mission accomplished? The mission in Iraq, as laid out by President Bush and Vice President Cheney, has failed.

Robert Byrd

The money the president wants to borrow for Iraq will come directly out of the American taxpayer wallets in the form of Medicare and Social Security receipts. That's your money

Kellan Lutz

I love the idea of marriage. I definitely want marriage and little Kellans running around.

Keke Palmer

I love competing. I love a challenge. I love going in and showing people what I can do, proving to them that I can get this part, that I can give you what you want.

Edward Furlong

I was like, man, I love this. This is what I want to do for the rest of my life.

Susan Hill

Kindness is a sort of love without being love.

The Archives

know how to show you that they love you.

Farley Flex

Just the energypeople love you man, that's straight up.

Jen Kirkman

I actually like, love, and respect myself, and I try not to take anything too seriously.

Dick Schaap

I also love the controversy of it. Even if I didn't think he should be up that high, I like the controversy it created.

Grady Sizemore

I always feel like that. That's what I love about the game. There's always pressure in baseball.

Mario Chalmers

I think that's good. A lot of people on the team now really didn't play on that team, so it's not on our minds right now. We're not even thinking about that game.

Curt Schilling

I don't go out there with the mindset that he did this, now I'm going to better him. This game's too hard.

Winston Churchill

Only changes in mindsets can extend the frontiers of the possible.

Mike Jarvis

I really think Omar, like so many of these kids, they already have an idea in their minds of when they're going to be ready. Regardless of what happens, that's what they're going to do.

Steve Tuen

The mindset has shifted from one of wild optimism to that of conservatism. The party is over and people are starting to sober up.

William Shakespeare

All things are ready, if our minds be so.

Mary Aronson

All that accumulation of negative stuff really sunk into the minds of people. And these are the people who serve on juries.

James Gottfurcht

These people have some sense in their minds of the steps they're going to take in life. Somewhere, they're programming.

John Mendoza

It's probably in many peoples' minds well overdue.

Ken Hill

Music is about textures as well as melody.

Ken Hill

Location is a very important aspect to songwriting.

Ken Hill

People don't have fun making music all the time.

Ken Hill

The more I do in my life, the more I can write music about new experiences.

Shamir

I was inspired to make music since I was 7 because my aunt is a songwriter.

Jake Brebes

I would say now we?re shooting toward putting the music out in a professional way.

Swae Lee

I write a lot of rhymes, but I don't really end up using them a lot of times, and I end up just freestyling. I like to write music, though, more than I like to freestyle, to be honest.

Andrew Lack

has got two revenue streams: one from our music and one from the sale of his iPods.

Graham Elliot

I played the guitar and thought that was what I was going to do as a career. I still record music that is played in my restaurants.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Moods are complicated and very much a part of who we are. People would be very boring without them.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

Carlisle Floyd

I was interested in what was really going on in Salem at that time, and I resolved to investigate this seemingly unorthodox treatment of the people and the period.

Travis Bradberry

Kindness is weak when you use it in a self-serving manner. Self-serving kindness is thin - people can see right through it when a kind leader has an agenda.

H. Hart

I would try to put more people on the road without doing any more hiring.

Sally Quinn

I would say I think it's about time. People have a tendency to think that entertaining in Washington politically and diplomatically is frivolous, but it is not. It is part of the work.

Karen Russell

I wrote 'Ava Wrestles the Alligator' when I was 22 or 23. These people and that world have been evolving in me for a while. It's such a shift not to be in that world.

Jason Robert Brown

I write about outsiders. I write about people who are outside and don't know quite how to get in because it's how I've always felt.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Steve Stockman

In Texas, conservative policies win over stabbing fellow Republicans in the back.

Jacques Chirac

What is at play here is respect for the law, but also the success of our policies of integration,

Michael McCaul

I think a lot of programs, policies have been put in place since 9/11, have prevented a 9/11-style attack. On the other hand, I think the threat has become greater, not lesser.

Susan Borelly

It is not the way we wanted to do this, but we don?t know how else to get these policies changed.

Ronald Reagan

Labor force needs and economic conditions are disregarded in our policies. Many aspects of our current policies and procedures are patently wrong. For example, legal immigration has almost no link to U.S. employment needs or economic conditions.

Shinzo Abe

I have no idea who first coined the word 'Abenomics.' It was not my original term for the set of anti-deflation, growth-promotion policies I am now pursuing.

Heinz Kramer

A lot remains to be done when it comes to Turkish policies towards minorities.

Terry Abbott

We are investigating whether HISD policies and procedures were violated in the way the search was conducted.

Edward Lazear

That probably is one of the policies we would like to avoid.

Mario Theissen

I think it could be possible but in the end it's a sport.

Greek proverb

It is not possible to step twice into the same river

Tim Hibbitts

It is likely? No. Is it possible or plausible? Yes.

Tomas Vokoun

I don't feel any pressure. I don't think this has got anything to do with pressure. Sometimes you just play really well, and then get in a slump. Now is the worst possible timing.

Robb Felton

I'd like to see them as soon as possible and get them out. I'm sure they're probably going crazy, they're not used to being in a kennel.

Richard P. Feynman

It is scientific only to say what is more likely and what less likely, and not to be proving all the time the possible and impossible.

Richard P. Feynman

So my antagonist said, "Is it impossible that there are flying saucers? Can you prove that it's impossible?" "No", I said, "I can't prove it's impossible. It's just very unlikely". At that he said, "You are very unscientific. If you can't prove it impossible then how can you say that it's unlikely?" But that is the way that is scientific. It is scientific only to say what is more likely and what less likely, and not to be proving all the time the possible and impossible.

Mark Streit

I never thought we could do that. But anything is possible in sports.

Bob Williams

If there was something someone wanted that we didn't have, we could usually get it for them in a day or two. We tried to make things as simple as possible for our customers. I think they appreciated that.