Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Duffy

What you're seeing right now with Katrina mirrors a lot of what the government does not do for families of Guard and Reserve soldiers: Throwing money at abstract concepts they love to do that but they really don't know how many of these families are suffering,

Willem de Kooning

Even an abstract form has to have a likeness.

Wassily Kandinsky

The more abstract is form, the more clear and direct its appeal.

Chris Peterson

Restoring the canyon is no longer an abstract notion now that people can actually experience its beauty.

Richard Shelton

Our language is polarized. Concrete words are usually the language of poets. Abstract words are usually the language of politicians.

Russell Smith

Calls for the simplification of abstract or allusive art have always come from governments suspicious of artists themselves. This is why totalitarian regimes have always legislated some form of realism.

Jack Straw

I really don't think it would be wise to speculate in an abstract way about the circumstances in which it might be on the agenda.

Brittany Howard

I'm just really impressed by oil paintings - I don't see how people do it! That's the style I like: classic oil paintings. Abstract art just isn't my thing.

John Van Hamersveld

In 1971, I put together the 'Johnny Face' drawing as a concept, with the words as part of an image in a circle. Combining my abstract drawing with the headline 'Crazy World Ain't It' created an emblem and became a button.

Ayman Nour

There is no chaos. There is no probability, zero, for a coup.

Maxwell Gaylard

I am confident that they (the government) are moving forward but we shouldn't expect too much too soon. There's been chaos and fighting for much more than 15 years and you can't fix that in a short time.

Virginia Woolf

Only longing can fill with more of itself.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

History is much more the product of chaos than of conspiracy

William Dunbar

Timor mortis conturbat me. The fear of death disturbs me.

Norton Juster

Freedom is not a license for chaos,

Chip Walker

Not only do parents provide the safe harbor teenagers need in an era of increasing violence and chaos, but evidence suggests this generation is more comfortable and trusting in authority.

Gary Lamar

They create chaos, but it's a controlled chaos. That's a comfortable environment for them. All three love chaos.

Vance Walberg

It looks like chaos. Sometimes it turns into chaos.

Christopher McQuarrie

Knowledge is death in my experience. The more I know about film, the harder it is to create freely.

Kurt Barnard

Kmart's earnings were lower than a year ago, and the reason why they were lower is because there is a lot of money being invested in infrastructure. But it's going to pay huge dividends in the future, ... Kmart is finally very excellently positioned to turn around and create a very strong place in the sun.

Stephen Pagliuca

Jobs have to be created on the ground, one at a time. This requires detailed plans and specific policies.

James Collins

I suspect they'll probably get a kick out of the illusions that can be created to give them a more total immersion experience as part of virtual reality,

Ted Manning

I think it's a great concept. It's something unique to the market and something that hasn't been done before. I think they've created a niche people are going to understand.

Michael Cohen

I think it's a giant waste of money. I don't see a huge (environmental) downside to it, but the science still doesn't show whether it actually works. If they can create another 1.1 million acre-feet of water, that's a huge amount. I wish them luck.

Craig Mattox

It can create a major headache. You can have six or eight people with the same ticket trying to sit in the same seat. At last year's SEC Championship football game, I confiscated around 70-75 counterfeit tickets. I had about 30 with the same seat location.

Samuel Berger

He used the most vicious form of nationalism to try to create an ethnic empire in the heart of Europe. He wanted a greater Serbia, and he wound up with a lesser Serbia.

Billy Donovan

He created and made some things happen. He made some very timely 3point shots when they were trying to make a run.

Sharon Stone

I've never thought of myself as a great beauty -- just a great magician.

Robbie Tobeck

I think we have a lot of pride, and I think we work well together. There's no magic here. It's never really talked about, and if it is talked about, it's only in passing.

Anton LaVey

Magic is never totally scientifically explainable, but science has always been, at one time or another, considered magic.

Bill Jackson

He was the magic that got people there in record-setting time. It is very much his accomplishment.

Richelle Mead

Besides, I could hardly complain to the administration that I was being forced to learn magic.

Richelle Mead

Is it possible to specialize in more than one element?" She laughed and shook her head. "No. Too much power. No one could handle all that magic, not without losing her mind." Oh. Great.

Ric Ocasek

Oh oh it's magic, when I'm with you, oh oh it's magic, you know it's true, got a hold on you.

Robert James Waller

Analysis destroys wholes. Some things, magic things, are meant to stay whole. If you look at their pieces, they go away.

Wendelin Van Draanen

Turn down a chance to feel magic for fear of a little dirt?

Joe Hession

He just wasn't interested. He waited for his teammates and practiced his putting. He's always trying to get better.

Todd France

He is ready to go practice as soon as things get wrapped up.

Peter Elander

I think (the Canadians') forwards are better than their defense. They don't have to practice much defense.

Daisuke Takahashi

I was disappointed that I couldn't do the triple axel. I had trouble doing it in practice and overcompensated in today's program.

Gil Haskell

We've been watching him for two weeks. We've watched all the film we can watch. We've practiced a lot. We'll be fine. We'll just see how it goes.

Shay Murphy

I was just going up there relaxed, do what I practice so much. So I was pretty confident.

Confucius

He does not preach what he practices till he has practiced what he preaches.

Robert E. Lee

You have only always to do what is right. It will become easier by practice, and you enjoy in the midst of your trials the pleasure of an approving conscience.

Richard Dawkins

[Alternative medicine is defined as] that set of practices that cannot be tested, refuse to be tested or consistently fail tests.

W. H. Auden

What we have not named as a symbol escapes our notice.

Philippe Starck

Everything I do is a symbol. Everything, has a meaning.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.

Mahatma Gandhi

The Charkha is an outward symbol of truth and nonviolence.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

All things are symbols.

Diane von Furstenberg

For me, traveling and living are the same. How you travel is a symbol of your life.

Alfred Korzybski

Who rules our symbols, rules us.

Horace Engdahl

He did not say many words. He was very happy.

Toba Beta

I do not say words, which you want to hear. The words just told me, to write them down.

Eric Byrnes

It's not even close. I can't get that many words in that quickly.

Rick DiPietro

It's frustrating as a goalie. I can't even put it to words right now.

Jules Verne

I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word 'love' frightens me.

Nikki Giovanni

Don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What you do thunders above your head so loudly, I cannot hear the words you speak.

Scott Lynch

Quit being so hard on yourself. We are what we are; we love what we love. We don't need to justify it to anyone... not even to ourselves.

Marcus Aurelius

The noblest kind of retribution is not to become like your enemy.