Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Rauschenberg

A canvas is never empty.

Tom Yawkey

Some men like to go in for polo, for example, and spend thousands of dollars on ponies. Some go nuts for paintings, and give half a million for a hunk of canvas in a fancy frame. But my passion is baseball.

Anne Stevenson

I don't like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas, as it were.

Matthew Lawrence

I'll take anything and slap it on a canvas.

Kurt Koeppen

Nick performed on a canvas in the sky.

Helen Mirren

hoping something would leap magically from the canvas into me. 'Who are you? Where are you?' I'd shout over and over.

James Rosenquist

I decided to make pictures of fragments, images that would spill off the canvas instead of recede into it like a medicine cabinet. I wanted to find images that were in a 'nether-nether-land': things that were a little out of style but hadn't reached the point of nostalgia.

Stephen Gaghan

I could have concentrated on George Clooney's character. I could have had him in every scene and told the entire story from his point of view. That certainly would have made my life a lot easier over the last several years. But the canvas was too large. These days, if you make a movie about East and West and turn it into a simple piece of disposable entertainment, that seems to me criminal.

Stephen Gaghan

I could have concentrated on George Clooney's character, ... I could have had him in every scene and told the entire story from his point of view. That certainly would have made my life a lot easier over the last several years. But the canvas was too large. These days, if you make a movie about East and West and turn it into a simple piece of disposable entertainment, that seems to me criminal.

Suzy Merchant

Kent can be extremely explosive. I was certainly frustrated. They just gave it to us.

Lloyd Carr

I think it is certainly one of the better defensive teams in the country.

Stephen Hess

It certainly has some effect on his immediate domestic agenda. He has no money for anything but Katrina.

Aaron Boone

It certainly doesn't impact me much this year. You never know what's going to happen down the road, but I wouldn't expect it to have much effect on me this year. If it does, then I'm not doing my job, anyway.

Art Hogan

It certainly doesn't hurt, ... It always helps to hear her say that she's still confident but it's 12 months out.

Dennis Ruedinger

It certainly doesn't get old. As you progress through a season, you grow closer and closer to the guys on the team. Each season is its own entity. Watching your team grow and get better, that never gets old.

Stephen Black

It certainly doesn't get any harder, ... I think Townsville in Townsville is probably the big game.

Lee Mercer

It certainly dispels stereotypes about who needs food, like the conventional stereotype being homeless people. It is actually a lot of working families.

Ed Renwick

It certainly didn't look like there was any mass movement out of Houston to Lake Charles to vote.

Chris Toumazou

We can replace the big monitors in hospitals with intelligent, disposable plasters that you throw away after wearing for a couple of days.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

Go ahead, weathercasters and reporters: Tell Americans precisely what we don't want to hear: namely, that our self-indulgent, carbon-heavy, gluttonous and disposable lifestyle is precisely what is churning up the angry response from the skies and seas.

Joe Sinagra

Homeowners have seen their property taxes increase, but yet will still vote strictly because of party affiliation, even if it means less disposable income in their pocket.

Warren Farrell

Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable. Disposable in war; disposable in work. We need warriors and volunteer firefighters, so we label these men heroes.

Derek Blasberg

I know it's not particularly tech-savvy of me to suggest a camera that doesn't have a touchscreen, but I think when it comes to candid shots of nights out with friends, there's nothing better than a disposable camera.

Christopher McQuarrie

I think it's a lot easier to tell a war story about two sides of a conflict with one another as opposed to one side in conflict with itself.

Megan Ronhovde

It is a lot of thinking and every game we make some minor adjustments. You go man-to-man it's a little more simplistic. I think it's been a little easier for the younger girls.

Pepper Schwartz

I think what it speaks to is that romance has its practical and even Machiavellian and manipulative nature. People look out for their own welfare, and they'll do things that make it easier for them.

David Healy

It goes to the 'equality of sacrifice' principle embraced by the union. It may make it easier for GM to get concessions from the rank and file.

Ross McKenzie

It has been easier to play under the same system we used in college. I have felt really comfortable working here with someone who is familiar.

Brenda Wickwire

I think that we played well and as a team. We had some good play from the back and they made it easier for the hitters and the setters.

Henrik Lundqvist

When they shoot form the middle they have so many options, it can hit someone. It's easier when we let them shoot from the sides. There's more time to see the puck easier. We talked about it to pressure harder and pressure at the right times and I think that's the key right now.

Lisa Peters

I couldn't make it easier for him. He did great though it forced him to grow up.

Christine Quinn

He has made coordination and negotiation much easier and more effective.

Liang Liang

He knows how to handle the subtle inner feelings in a Eastern way while retaining the American way of telling the story.

Patrick Franklin

What we have in East Texas today in regards to gay rights is the tyranny of the majority. It is up to us to stand up to that tyranny.

Prince Nayef

It is a fact ? unfortunately ? that there was (a plan) to target key installations in Eastern Province,

Steve Culp

Like, on the West Coast, they play a fast tempo. On the East Coast, they play a more physical, get-in-your-face style. In the Midwest there's a lot of screening action, and in the South there's a lot of running. This is going to be a great event, and I'm looking forward to it.

John Congemi

I want to try and make this place a destination for people to come and want to play. The renovation went so well. There should be a line out front to play the East Course.

Scott Foster

I was just hoping (she'd) find the back of the net. It was a great game and East was a very strong team so I was happy to see it in the back of the net.

Jimmy Tubbs

He might be pressing a little bit, but he has to keep working. We'll start the same lineup in East Carolina.

Will Durant

The fear of capitalism has compelled socialism to widen freedom, and the fear of socialism has compelled capitalism to increase equality. East is West and West is East, and soon the twain will meet.

William Howard Taft

My impression about the Panama Canal is that the great revolution it is going to introduce in the trade of the world is in the trade between the east and the west coast of the United States.

Patty Krueger

Knowing when you are done, knowing when you are through with the entire painting, is the hardest thing to learn.

Jerry Sullivan

His versatility and value to the offense can't be overstated. If he were healthy for the entire season, even as inconsistent as we were in the pass game, Arnaz would probably have been a 60- to 70-catch guy.

Delia Ephron

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

Patrick Moore

It hurts not having Lips in there. But the entire field goal team has got to get better.

Jared Esala

I think the entire team was very disappointed after our first dual. It's hard to win the tough matches when the same guys are winning week in and week out.

Kari Appler

I think the entire state of Maryland and D.C. within the next two years will be smoke-free.

Steve Hutchinson

I think the entire offense is really trying to take our game to the next level. Every position, every guy on the offense. I think we're starting to see it pay off on Sundays.

Harrison Ford

I was always very grateful I was never 'hot,'... In the entire length of my career, I haven't been the hottest, the No. 1, the most adored. I've always been somewhere down from the top, so I've never had to suffer being knocked off the top.

Chad Kison

We talked all week about how we needed to come out strong and focused. They did that, and they stayed that way throughout the entire game.

Ben Jonson

I am grieved that it should be said he is my brother, and take these courses. Well, as he brews, so shall he drink, for George again. Yet he shall hear on't, and tightly, too, an' I live, i'faith.

Will Wright

Instead of putting players in the role of Luke Skywalker, or Frodo Baggins, I'd rather put them in the role of George Lucas.

Max Minghella

It's surreal working with people you admire. I don't think it ever goes away, no matter how human people are; there's always that moment of 'Oh wow, that's still George Clooney!' But I find that the most talented people tend to be the nicest.

Gary Bauer

There is so much work to do with George and so little time to do it,

David Dwyer

Make sure you haven't told Uncle George he can invest at any given time at any given amount.

Kris Holden-Ried

I grew up reading a lot of fantasy/sci-fi. It was really all I read - anything from 'Dragonlance,' when I was 12, to 'The Wheel of Time' and Robert Jordan stuff, to George R.R. Martin, who did 'Game of Thrones.'

Gai Waterhouse

She won't be nominated for the George Main,

Eric Bentley

George the Third / Ought never to have occurred. / One can only wonder / At so grotesque a blunder.

Gary Payton

George said I needed to start giving him something special,

Bill Parcells

I was kind of thinking back to Seattle last year, ... We kind of talked about that. We're just fortunate, really.

Joe Edgens

Kelley is going to be right up to the last minute before it's done.

Dave Kaplan

(Jocelyn) bounced back from a rough outing last time. Very nicely done. She's going to get another start, and we're going to keep working with her.

Bobbie Davis

I think I said to the players last year that they had one day to celebrate. And then they had to start concentrating and thinking about this year.

Jim Knight

There are so many things that we try before we ever go to court. It's the last step, and we don't like to do it, but there needs to be consequences.

Justin Gray

I think (the fans) are going to talk about it all the time just because they know probably what we could've done with the team from last year. But that's last year.

Peter Currie

It is fundamentally different from the last time we restated, primarily because the scope is a lot narrower.

Marthen Manu

Last night one person was rescued, the rest have been picked up today.

David Price

Last night he painted the picture of the night he was going to have.

Kay Redfield Jamison

It is an odd thing, owing life to pills, one's own quirks and tenacities, and this unique, strange, and ultimately profound relationship called psychotherapy.

Mack Strong

Just things that I've never experienced in my life.

Tom Arnold

I swear on my life that is true.

Quentin Blake

You see, I don't draw from life at all, but I do look out of my window a lot.

William Ellery Channing

Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.

Chris Stapleton

I was born in Fayette County, over in Lexington, Kentucky, but I was raised most of my life in Paintsville.

Cate Blanchett

It is so interesting when you meet an actor in real life and they look completely different.

John Hawkes

I think that no matter how dark a person is, the more you learn about them, the more you understand about their life, the more you can sympathize with them or even root for them.

Carine Roitfeld

I think when I became a grandmother my life changed a lot, and I think I changed personally.

Charlie Batch

He's been able to put this together and make sure the right pieces are in place. And we were pieces of this team.

Troy Polamalu

I became a millionaire overnight by signing a piece of paper. I made more money in that one second than my entire family did in their lifetime.

Richard Gere

I do my work as an actor, but another part of my work goes to the piece as a whole. I can be fairly detached looking at my work and be brutal on myself.

Ryan Reynolds

If it weren’t so off-putting for my co-workers. I’d wear my flannel, one-piece 'Hannah Montana' pajamas, like, all the time!

Tyson Chandler

Probably the most dramatic pieces in my wardrobe would be capes.

Walt Disney

Disneyland is like a piece of clay: If there is something I don't like, I'm not stuck with it. I can reshape and revamp.

Sarah Dessen

So while it seemed like you were seeing everything, you really weren't. Just bits and pieces that looked like a whole.

Rod Serling

The writer's no different. When he's rejected, that paper is rejected, in a sense, a sizeable fragment of the writer is rejected as well. It's a piece of himself that's being turned down.

William Butler Yeats

Great literature has always been written in a like spirit, and is, indeed, the Forgiveness of Sin, and when we find it becoming the Accusation of Sin, as in George Eliot, who plucks her Tito in pieces with as much assurance as if he had been clockwork, literature has begun to change into something else.

Jeff Capell

Jamal can do that. He can score points in bunches.

Andrew Kohut

His ratings for being trustworthy, which were his strong point for all of his first term, have tumbled rather substantially this year.

Rich Baccellieri

I think (the point spread) would go to 3 before it went up to 4. But I think it's pretty solid at 3 1/2.

M. Thompson

I thought she was going to make a four- point difference. Turned out, it was five.

Steve Rucchin

I don't feel I've done much of anything through this point of the year.

Kobe Bryant

He has been solid for us all year. Now he's putting points on the board, which is very popular with the people.

Jeremy Miller

He has the right to go to trial, but it would be a moot point by the time he did, because his shares will be gone.

William Golding

For a small island, the place is remarkably diverse. Writers tend to see things from their own points of view, looking in one direction very much.

Tom Schatz

Our point is simple. These projects were wasteful before, and they only seem more wasteful because we have a real emergency,

Michael Chertoff

It is going to be about as ugly of a scene as I think you can imagine.

Omar Sharif

I see only defects because I'm not following the scene as it were. I'm not following the other person. It's like the best thing to clarify this is the theater.

Bret Easton Ellis

I've never written an autobiographical novel in my life. I've never touched upon my life. I've never written a single scene that I can say took place.

Brandy Norwood

It feels so great to be back on the scene.

Danny Simon

We just started the investigation, ... I wouldn't want to speculate if he was killed at the scene or somewhere else.

Deepak Chopra

The scene isn't one of perpetual death but of life circulating within itself.

Stellan Skarsgard

I love having 30 shots of every scene.

Randy Johnson

I listened to all types of music, and obviously when I got to Seattle I was very much aware of the music scene there.

Mick Jagger

I haven't had the time to plan returning to the scene because I haven't left it.

Bob Curran

He did shoot around with us. He seems to be fine.

Tony Oller

Let's be honest, Netflix has stepped up its game up. It seems to have a lot more of an assortment of stuff.

Hans Blix

I think it seems ... they are making an effort.

Yogi Berra

It's pretty far, but it doesn't seem like it.

Elizabeth Blackburn

In humans, the thing is that as we mature, our telomeres slowly wear down. So the question has always been: 'Did that matter?' Well, more and more, it seems like it matters.

Steven Scalet

I'm not anticipating a problem. It seems like everyone's cooperating. It'll be made to work out one way or the other.

Robert Brown

Ah, did you once see Shelley plain, / And did he stop and speak to you / And did he speak to you again? / How strange it seems and new!

Mark Teixeira

The unfortunate thing is that I've been here three years and it seems like that at the end of three years, we're right where we started.

Oscar Sanchez

Webb seems to be up to its usual games.

Reinhard Selten

I did several types of work about several investigations of application of game theory to international relations.

John Allen

I had talked to several other guys, but (Jones) was, in my opinion, a better candidate.

Rob Hartman

It's been several years since we've had this widespread of flooding, and we're not done.

Dan Smith

They're always tough. Several years ago everyone used us as a measuring stick. Now everyone uses them as the measuring stick.

Scott Kim

What I always want is to have several little 'aha' moments where your brain is very happy.

Paul Sadorf

We should do well in several of them.

Alex Knott

Those are several times more than the average. It shows you that this is going to be a very costly election.

Rob Kardashian

I won state cross-country competitions several times during high school.

Toks Olagundoye

I've several times had jobs that I thought were going to be my big break, and it didn't pan out.

Richard P. Feynman

Just as a poet often has license from the rules of grammar and pronunciation, we should like to ask for 'physicists' license from the rules of mathematics in order to express what we wish to say in as simple a manner as possible.

Richard Dawkins

Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.

Richard Dawkins

A God capable of continuously monitoring and controlling the individual status of every particle in the universe cannot be simple. His existence is going to need a mammoth explanation in its own right.

Rick Riordan

Frank held up the Chinese handcuffs. “Keep it simple.

William Morris

Free men must live simple lives and have simple pleasures.

William J. Clinton

The simple fact is that we must not-and we will not-surrender our borders to those who wish to exploit our history of compassion and justice.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

Old ladies photographed by CBS who announced that they would die of malnutrition if Reagan's bill were passed could probably have saved themselves their impending penury by the simple device of applying to the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists for scale every time they were featured by Dan Rather or whoever.

Rebecca Stead

Well, it's simple to love someone," she said. "But it's hard to know when you need to say it out loud.

Richard Russo

One of the odd things about middle age, he concluded, was the strange decisions a man discovers he's made by not really making them, like allowing friends to drift away through simple neglect.

Dudley Etheridge

He kind of turned it around for us.

Wayne Gretzky

A lot of times, I can turn and pass without even looking.

Brian Anderson

I have to go out there and turn some heads.

Dan Hinote

I made the hit, turned around and it was chaos. I still don't know what happened.

Roberto Hernandez

You can turn around and walk away with that one.

Tamra Strano

Once I turned in the packet, I didn't have another thought about it.

John Boland

It's NBC's turn to lag for a bit.

Meg Mallon

It turns out I've had this for a very long time,

Steve Olson

It turned out to be the right project.

Samuel P. Huntington

In 1920, the West ruled huge amounts of the world.

Whittaker Chambers

The satellite revolt was not sparked from the West. It was sparked by Communism itself.

Zhang Yimou

Ang Lee was educated in the West and his English is good.

Eric Lefkofsky

The West coast money and the East coast money, in an ever-increasing manner, is finding its way to Chicago.

Leona Lewis

I've had tonsilitis and I'm not sure if I can sing on Saturday [whilst out on the town in the West End]

Ramakrishna

If you want to go east, don't go west.

Jung Chang

I no longer have the terrible nightmares that I used to have. Mao had just died in 1976, and China began to open up. For the first time scholarships to go to the West to study were awarded on academic merit.

Garry Kasparov

The West can't come up with anything to deal with Moscow, except appeasement.

Markie Workman

They're a lot better than what we play on the Western Slope.