Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Morris Hunt

You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.

Robert Rauschenberg

A canvas is never empty.

Robert Rauschenberg

An empty canvas is full.

Vincent Van Gogh

Just slap something on it when you see a blank canvas staring at you with a sort of imbecility.

Wassily Kandinsky

An empty canvas is a living wonder — far lovelier than certain pictures.

Steven Spielberg

INTO THE WEST takes place during one of the single most dramatic periods in American history. We're painting this on a huge canvas in order to tell a story that explores the Gold Rush, the transcontinental railroad, the wild west and the Indian wars leading to the tragedy at Wounded Knee. These are all facets of the American and Native American experience. It's the story about opportunity and the clash of cultures and the eventual overwhelming of one nation's way of life over another.

Morag Joss

I have patches of insomnia, and I'm fascinated by the otherness of the world at night. The stillness. Daytime preoccupations fall away, standards change, thoughts change. It's a canvas for reinvention, I think.

Carly Simon

You know when you take the paint off an old canvas and you discover that something's been painted underneath it? That's what I feel like - that part of the old is coming through the new.

Pablo Picasso

While I am working I am not conscious of what I am putting on the canvas.

Kapil Sibal

It's very important for the scientific community to remember that yes they should make profits but they have to share knowledge. Sometimes there is a clash between societal interests and proprietary interests and the world scientific community has to remember that.

John McCloskey

It's going to be the clash of societies." ()

Richard Morris

It really is a clash of titans. And, there's a very sexy score.

Atharva Veda

Unity can only come when there is better co-ordination and mutual understanding in the society; when there is no friction of thoughts and clash of ideologies. We should therefore follow the ideals established by the scholars and engage ourselves in virtuous deeds.

Ratu Tavanavanua

As long as it does not clash with the Pacific league, we should be all right with it.

John Fitzgerald

We shall need compromises in the days ahead, to be sure. But these will be, or should be, compromises of issues, not principles. We can compromise our political positions, but not ourselves. We can resolve the clash of interests without conceding our ideals. And even the necessity for the right kind of compromise does not eliminate the need for those idealists and reformers who keep our compromises moving ahead, who prevent all political situations from meeting the description supplied by Shaw: ""smirched with compromise, rotted with opportunism, mildewed by expedience, stretched out of shape with wirepulling and putrefied with permeation.""Compromise need not mean cowardice. ...

H. Hunt

Wit is the clash and reconcilement of incongruities, the meeting of extremes around a corner

Ken Auletta

The press was doing its job, and in doing its job, they saw this clash between what they were witnessing with their own eyes and what officials were telling them,

John Dyer

My work all stems from my enjoyment of the medium. I also have a passion for colour, strong colours, clashing colours, all colours.

Edward Hirsch

There are still many tribal cultures where poetry and song, there is just one word for them. There are other cultures with literacy where poetry and song are distinguished. But poetry always remembers that it has its origins in music.

Gregory Benford

Invoking nature with its implied supremacy ignores that many cultures have fundamentally differing ideas of even what nature is, much less how it should work.

Neil Payne

In other parts of the world being mindful of other cultures can give you the upper hand and help you clinch that deal.

David Hillery

By joining a group that is specific to one thing, you're kind of isolating yourself in a way, ... It's important to learn about other cultures than your own.

Tang Jiaxuan

It's not a confrontation between different nations, different cultures or different religions, ... We recommend dialogue between civilizations, coexistence and cooperation.

Jan Balkenende

The Netherlands is a nation where people ought to want to meet one another, where cultures meet each other,

John Borden

It's difficult to hire up real fast because we want people who are trained and knowledgeable about the cultures we're working with.

Carlos Santana

It's time for people to realize that we are all mixed up inside. That is why there is so much diversity on my records. I can relate to so many cultures and I want that to be reflected in my music.

Hugh Winebrenner

They are two very different cultures that hold very different political contests. It's little wonder they would often come to different conclusions,

Robert Webb

I was in the play 'Fat Pig in the West End,' which is a comedy but has dramatic moments.

David Halliday

It had a dramatic effect in the commodities market.

Spencer Waller

I was a little surprised at the tone. It was stark, dramatic and unequivocal.

Jessica Lowndes

I have enough drama in my career, and then always playing dramatic roles and storylines... I like to lead a very low profile.

Joanna Trollope

I don't always set stories in villages, more often in towns. But always in smallish communities because the characters' actions are more visible there, and the dramatic tension is heightened.

Kimi Raikkonen

I am hoping to have a less dramatic race this year.

Richard D. Zanuck

Portnoy's Complaint' was very far out there, and movies have always worked when you have either a funny situation between two or more people or a very dramatic situation. There's not that much difference.

Wayne White

Exposing something that's painful or raw or not so pleasant. That seems to be the dramatic motor of documentaries, exposure.

Sally Ride

The most anxious time was during launch, just because that is so dramatic.

Charles Kennedy

Whatever the eventual judgment, the political implications of Hutton are already clear. A devastating indictment of Labour in power - and of our political system itself.

Ben Kersten

I will eventually have to have an operation.

Robert Englund

I didn't make good money on 'Nightmare' until part three. I eventually got some nice merchandising checks.

Kiki Vandeweghe

I'd like to think that it will eventually pass.

Mika Brzezinski

I did something a lot of people will have to do in this economy if they want to eventually land their dream job. I turned down an offer to take a high-paying position in another field because it wouldn't fulfill me.

Troy Powell

He missed some shots in the first half, but in the second half, I told him and everybody else to keep shooting and eventually they would start to drop. I guess he took it to heart because they started to drop, and we were looking for him. He kept making all of the plays for us.

Andy Kennedy

Recruiting is like shaving - you had better do it every day, or you will eventually end up looking like a bum.

Jess Walter

In seventh grade, with some vague sense that I wanted to be a writer, I crouched in the junior high school library stacks to see where my novels would eventually be filed. It was right after someone named Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. So I grabbed a Vonnegut book, 'Breakfast of Champions' and immediately fell in love.

Chamberlain Oguchi

I really didn't get discouraged at all. Shooters keep shooting. I knew eventually they were going to fall. We're never going to give up, we're just going to keep fighting. We knew the pressure was getting to them a little bit. We did a good job of keeping a foot on their throat.

George Felos

There were a lot of facets of my life that were just on the back burner.

Daryl Hall

I've been watching RFD-TV for a few years. As a person who lives mostly in the country, I appreciate a network that shows the many facets of rural life.

Scott Roy

We got a pretty solid pitching performance from our guys, so I was pleased with all facets of the game.

John Tortorella

We tried to win it. So we'll take the point and go from there. In all facets of our game, I was pleased.

Matt Adams

We haven't been able to put together all facets (hitting, pitching and defense) of the game yet. One game we'll play poor defensively and hit well. The next game maybe we won't be hitting but our pitchers will pick us up. It will come.

Jorge Gallent

We need a go-to guy and he's trying his best, not only in offense, but in other facets of his game.

Marisa Berenson

When I get in front of a camera all my fears and my inhibitions just go away. As a model, I feel that I am acting, too, playing different parts and showing different facets of myself.

Fred Funk

I don't want to rest on my laurels. I still feel like I'm learning a lot about the golf game and the swing. There are so many different little facets of golf that there is always something to learn.

Lee Smith

he was a great person..and, uh..he had a heart of gold...he never met an enemy.

Jerry Colangelo

He wants to win a gold medal. He said that very clearly. He said if asked, he would be honored.

Laura Skaer

Gold prices have people snooping around where they haven't snooped for a while. No question, there's an increase and interest in exploration.

Joe Ismail

Gold is not quite ready yet to move in the upward bias.

Wang Jian

Gold has never been sold at such a high price in Beijing.

John Bliss

Golden Valley is a very tough team and they always play us very tough. We're going to have to step it up.

Turkish Proverbs

Gold does not rust on the ground, and rocks don't get soaked in the rain.

Tony Benshoof

He's a very good slider. He's the best. He'll win the gold for sure.

Thomas Morgenstern

It is a dream. Two gold medals within two days.

Chris Coste

Kirby was the first name on everyone's list. That smile and that magnetic personality. He was a huge role model for so many people in that area. He was a huge influence in the way that I hit.

Bud Keene

Kelly really pushed the limits of women's riding by going huge and super technical.

Doc Scheppler

Just returning to the team was a huge lift for us.

Ben Howland

Josh Shipp was huge tonight. I mean, having not played 13 weeks, for him to do what he did tonight was just miraculous.

Brian Fanelli

I think it's a huge accomplishment for her.

Mike Szabo

He just stepped up and made a play. That was a huge play.

Robert Russell

There are such huge, huge issues out there, that to get sidetracked (on this topic) ... to me, it's just tragic, frustrating, hopeless.

James Abbott

There are six people in the race. There are jumps, turns and rollers and some huge jumps.

Sven Eriksson

He seems like a different player and very mature in his way of playing. He's a huge talent and has been doing very well for us

Buddha

He is able who thinks he is able.

Ron Edmonds

Pittman is tough. She's an outstanding player. I'll vote for her as an Indiana All-Star.

Dee Brown

I'm just looking at Indiana on Sunday. You just have to worry about yourself. You have to win and see what happens.

Jamie Bell

Indiana Jones is very much an old-world kind of hero. He doesn't really have any kind of superpower or rely on any kind of technology to help him out of things.

Steve Alford

Indiana went about it a little different in how they did their search. I never got a phone call. I was never contacted.

Mitch Daniels

In many ways, I think it's time for Indiana to lead,

Melissa Leo

I mean, the unfair treatment of women and black people and Indians and other groups, that's real. Mistreatment of other people because 'I'm better than you are' is such a sad part of the world.

Jodi Howell

I know she went here, but she was an Indiana coach. After we met with her, it eased all my worries. She got me motivated. I was ready to go practice.

Jim Thome

The Indians are going in a way they want to go and I respect that, ... I've loved that organization and I still will.

Frank Kimmel

He was a grizzly, old veteran, just a real hard-nosed racer, ... He would run all day long, and then all of a sudden with 20 (laps) to go, you would look up and he would be leading the race.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

Leading by example is the most powerful advice you can give to anybody.

Robert Creeley

O love, where are you leading me now?

Kurt Ebenhoch

Our on-time performance was at its lowest point in the weeks leading up to the strike,

Ross Rubin

In the weeks leading up to the Super Bowl, there's a lot of promotions.

Robert Lane

I plan on leading this team to victory.

Robert Jobson

Camilla is well and truly in the fold. She has taken a leading position in the monarchy and is effectively going to be queen one day.

Adnan Akant

In a sense, the U.S. is no longer leading the scenario.

John Clayton

If somebody new was to come in, it might open it up. Of the leading candidates, three are with the league and the other (top candidate) is Rich McKay -- and they all share the same approach.

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.

Kathy Griffin

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Mack Strong

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

Tom Arnold

I swear on my life that is true.

Mike Summers

It can't be any better. Life has been such a blessing.

Peter Fincham

I actually like being employed, even though my circumstances in life may be different now.

John Street

He just went to a place where he thought he would be able to be peaceful. It never occurred to me that he was on the verge of taking his own life or doing anything destructive of his life.

Tom Bass

He lived life to the fullest. It was just a little too short.

Graham Elliot

Weight is something I've battled all my life.

Robert Patterson

Here, we tell the story: why the people came here, what they did when they got here, going back to the Native Americans and coming all the way forward.

R. Robinson

I didn't know much about my Native American ancestry, but as I got older I became more interested in it.

Will Rogers

My forefathers didn't come over on the Mayflower, but they met the boat.

Rick Yancey

I'm not encouraged by the silence. I can think of no benign reason for it. I'm afraid we may expect something closer to Christopher Columbus's arrival in the Americas than a scene from Close Encounters, and we all know how that turned out for the Native Americans.

Yancy Butler

Yancy is actually a Native-American name, but I'm Irish. Go figure.

Peter Stoessel

I like to say this show represents works by Native American artists, not Native American art.

John Walker Lindh

I haven't spoken English with native speakers in several months. I've been speaking Arabic.

Nate Parker

It's therapy. [people] say true healing requires honest confrontation, and that can be seen on a macro scale with America and the things that have been swept under the rug, whether it be with the native Americans or slavery, or whatever holocaust that's happened on this soil.

John Baldacci

The realization of a sustainable economic development strategy for Maine's Native American communities has always been a priority and a critical element of my administration's overall economic development strategy.

Chris Murray

He didn't really get a shot. They didn't give him much opportunity in the pre-season.

Conroy Hines

He is probably our go-to receiver right now. He's making plays. He doesn't do it right all the time, but when he has an opportunity to make a catch, he'll do it.

Greg Brenneman

I pass on any opportunity I see that I can't add value on.

Dusty Baker

He's going to play now because we're out of outfielders. This is an opportunity to salvage the season.

Dusty Baker

He's going to play now because we're out of outfielders, ... This is an opportunity to salvage the season.

John Campbell

I think it's an opportunity to have some new blood,

Laurence Geller

Las Palmas may have a better use than being solely a Marriott hotel. There is a lot of residential opportunity there.

Gary Davis

We feel it was a real opportunity to demonstrate that the power is back for the WWE. We have the opportunity to have a strong one-two punch.

Jake Plummer

We thought we would get an opportunity (to make big plays),

Edwin Whipple

Knowledge, like religion, must be ''experienced'' in order to be known.

Murray Walker

You have to say what comes into your head, and sometimes the wrong words come, in the wrong order or I'd make prophecies which immediately turned out to be wrong.

Bobby Hernandez

He refused several orders to get out of the street, and he was arrested.

Dave Foreman

He's just got to be consistent. In order to pitch in the big leagues, you've got to be consistent.

Plaxico Burress

We've got to get things in order off the field, too.

Richard Dawkins

Our brains have evolved to help us survive within the orders of magnitude of size and speed which our bodies operate at. We never evolved to navigate in the world of atoms.

Richard Dawkins

I great difficulty having any respect for a religion that has so little confidence in the truth of its beliefs that it feels reduced to using threats in order to propagate those beliefs.

Richard Dawkins

It is quite true that many scientists, many physicists, maintain that the physical constants, the half dozen or so numbers that physicists have to simply assume in order to derive the rest of their understanding ... have to be assumed. You can't provide a rationale for why those numbers are there. Physicists have calculated that if any of these numbers was a little bit different, the universe as we know it wouldn't exist.

Richard Whately

To follow imperfect, uncertain, or corrupted traditions, in order to avoid erring in our own judgment, is but to exchange one danger for another.

Kim Bauer

The paintings were all over the place, on the walls, hanging.

Susan Kuretsky

The paintings tend to be reproduced more often.

William Paul

The painting put all of the pieces together and proved it was real.

William S. Burroughs

You see, should I stand in front of a landscape and paint it, I'm completely ignoring the factor of time. While I am painting it, it's changing, clouds are changing, all sorts of things. So there's the myth there of someone creating in a timeless vacuum.

Robert Delaunay

Nature engenders the science of painting

Robert Delaunay

Painting is by nature a luminous language.

Robert Motherwell

I have been continuously aware that in painting, I am always dealing with... a relational structure. Which in turn makes permission 'to be abstract' no problem at all.

Robert Rauschenberg

Basically painting is total idiocy.

Robert Rauschenberg

Very quickly a painting is turned into a facsimile of itself when one becomes so familiar with with it that one recognizes it without looking at it.

Richard Petty

Never put a question mark where God puts a Period

Travis Barker

I don't like traveling, period. I like being at places and I like going places, but I don't like forms of transportation.

Ritchie Blackmore

When something is not good, it's bad. Period

Mike Breen

I know if we're going to go any further, we need to play three periods of hockey.

Jonny Greenwood

But over a period of time It's the melodic things that are in my head all day.

Robert Rodriguez

This is one of those periods of time where you can have two different styles at an intersection. This year could be a crossroads.

Dan Hicks

There've been periods where I had to convince the audience or win them over.

Pat Robertson

Never place a comma where God has placed a period. God has spoken!

Asghar Farhadi

I gained a great deal from the period during which I worked in theater and I value those things a great deal.

James Nesbitt

I don't know a single person who doesn't regret the things that they did to hurt their parents, or the things they didn't say to them.

Michael R. Bloomberg

had to work every single day of his life.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Nothing worth doing can be accomplished in a single lifetime.

Ursula K. Le Guin

We have been civilized for a thousand millennia. We have histories of hundreds of those millennia. We have tried everything. Anarchism, in all its forms, with the rest. But I have not tried it. They say there is nothing new under any sun. But if each life is not new, each single life, then why are we born?

Wiz Khalifa

Being single doesn't necessarily mean you're available. Sometimes you have to put up a sign that says "Do Not Disturb" on your heart.

Wes Moore

Life's impermanence, I realized, is what makes every single day so precious. It's what shapes our time here. It's what makes it so important than not a single moment be wasted.

Zsa Zsa Gabor

When I'm alone, I can sleep crossways in bed without an argument.

Vince Lombardi

Leaders are made, they are not born

Ethan Russell

If there is one you had to single out, it would be Lennon.

Dave Calloway

He does so many things, the big rebound, the right pass. He just does what it takes to win.

Amy Robach

Having cancer is one thing; looking like you have cancer is another thing. It's a disease that already takes so much.

Spike Jonze

If you focus your energy on the camera, it takes away from the time you have to focus on the performances.

Lykke Li

Being on tour really takes a toll, so you have to find ways to stay healthy.

Josh Gad

If you can have heart as well as the comedy, it takes you a lot further. I think that that's what we were trying to do with 'Gigi.'

Lazarus Sims

I just want to win. I don't really try to do too much. But when it comes down to time to win, then we're going to do what it takes to win.

Kevin Bacon

I like directing. It takes a lot out of you, but I'd like to do it again-I just have to find a story I want to tell.

Z. Sheppard

I'm getting better. It takes a little time, but I'm getting better.

Ben Johnson

I'm going to do whatever it takes to be a better ballplayer.

Richelle Mead

..Sage is convinced one extraneous calorie will make her go from super skinny to just regular skinny. Tragedy.

Reinhold Niebuhr

The history of mankind is a perennial tragedy; for the highest ideals which the individual may project are ideals which he can never realize in social and collective terms.

William Manchester

It was his [Gen. Douglas MacArthur's] relationship with the administration In Washington which became poisoned by his egomania. Link upon link the bond between events on the battlefield and his own ruin was forged, and, as is essential in genuine tragedy, the gods used the victim himself to forge the links.

William McDonough

Modern culture appears to have adopted a strategy of tragedy. If we come here and say, I didn't intend to cause global warning, it's not part of my plan, then we realize it's part of our defacto plan because it's the thing that's happening because we have no other plan.

Virginia Woolf

Tragedies come in the hungry hours.

Saul Alinsky

Human beings do not like to look squarely into the face of tragedy. Gloom is unpopular.

Robin Roberts

The tragedy is not so much the experience that you're having. The tragedy is that we don't take the time to understand the meaning and purpose behind what we're going through.

Robin Morgan

every actor knows that tragedy, being linear and inevitable, is taxing - but comedy, which depends on the element of surprise, is the hardest act of all.

Willard Scott

It's simply a tragedy that anyone today goes blind from glaucoma, when it's so unnecessary.

Heinz Guderian

It is decisive to completely destroy Warsaw.

Friedrich St. Florian

I remember saying that wars must not be glorified, but wars must be remembered.

Harry Dean Stanton

But I'm not imaginative. I couldn't look into the future, like Star Wars or Robots or anything like that.

Karl Liebknecht

In the present imperialistic milieu there can be no wars of national self-defense.

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.

Mahatma Gandhi

The socialistic conception of the West was born in an environment reeking with violence.

Mahatma Gandhi

The West has yet to discover anything so hygienic as the Indian toothstick.

Luther Allison

In the States, it takes you a lifetime just to get from Chicago's South Side to the West Side.

Eric Lefkofsky

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

Octavio Paz

Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.

Noam Chomsky

The West Bank is essentially imprisoned.

Tim Sims

He was just wild enough to keep them off balance.

Alison Swank

Their counterparts in the wild are out in the weather, too.

James Schuyler

A nothing day full of wild beauty .... Little fish stream by, a river in water.

Colin Angle

It's wildly impractical to do so in any real sense.

Juno Temple

I had this wild imagination. I was never me. All my childhood photos, I'm in fancy dress, playing a Russian refuge or Marvelous Mad Madam Mim.

Katherine Mansfield

The mind I love must have wild places.

John Roberts

So far, it has been a pretty wild ride.

Lars Ulrich

The music business, or what`s left of it, is obviously a very - it`s like a wild west now.

Rachel Carson

Like the resource it seeks to protect, wildlife conservation must be dynamic, changing as conditions change, seeking always to become more effective.

Tucker Carlson

Canadians are so easily wounded.

Christiaan Rudolf de Wet

The condition of the wounded touched my heart deeply.

Nora Roberts

The wounded recognized the wounded.

Lykke Li

After you've been wounded a few times, it's hard to let somebody get that deep again.