Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ben Nicholson

Realism' has been abandoned in the search for reality: the 'principal objective' of abstract art is precisely this reality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

We should comfort ourselves with the masterpieces of art as with exalted personages-stand quietly before them and wait till they speak to us.

Mary Lambert

Yes, I would loved to have just sustained myself through my art, but less than one in a billion musicians gets that life. So rather than being like, 'I'm an exception!', like a moron, I thought I'd get a real job.

Charles Bukowski

escape from the black widow spider is a miracle as great as art. what a web she can weave slowly drawing you to her she'll embrace you then when she's satisfied she'll kill you still in her embrace and suck the blood from you.

Charles Bukowski

A woman must be nursed into subsistence by love, where a man can become stronger by being hated." - from 'Cows in Art Class

Charles Bukowski

The Artist," an ancient sage had once said, "is always sitting on the doorsteps of the rich.

Charles Bukowski

Bullfighting can be an art Boxing can be an art Loving can be an art Opening a can of sardines can be an art

Charles Bukowski

To me Art (poetry) is a continuous and continuing process and that when a man fails to write good poetry he fails to live fully or well.

Charles Bukowski

Art is its own excuse, and it's either Art or it's something else. It's either a poem or a piece of cheese.

Jack Malvey

The statement will not tell the final story. I believe the Fed finale really is data dependent.

Patti Davis

I speak for many others when I say that none of us believe a cure is just around the corner. We believe it's around a very wide bend.

Azizah Ismail

I sometimes think about Mahatma Gandhi: when he was arrested...the movement continued. That is what I think I'm seeing now. And I believe that the reform movement is in the hearts of the people.

Chris Rich

I sincerely believe that this is the last chance to keep this island community, older than the nation itself, from slipping away into history.

Gisele Bundchen

I've been waiting, like, a quarter of century to be a quarter of a century, can you believe it?

Moira Kelly

I've been told before, and I tend to believe it, I'm not like most actresses out there.

Ron Miller

I've come up there and have seen her scrubbing the floors. She's such a dynamic person, it's hard to believe she's that age.

Tammy Baldwin

I've decided to run for the U.S. Senate because I believe Wisconsin families need a senator who will work hard to deliver results for the middle class - a leader with the courage to do what's right, no matter how tough the odds or how powerful the special interests we have to fight.

Mark DeAugustino

I've been holding the reins, and when I (let go), I do believe they're going to go after it. I think they'll really respond, and when they respond, the sky's the limit.

Thad Schultz

We hope to have at least 50 kids, somewhere between 50 and 75. The people calling are very excited, very positive about what we did last year.

Scott Walker

Certainly political capital-slash-celebrity attention, whatever you want to call it, certainly is part of the reason why I've been reaching out to CEOs. There's a lot of folks who probably would have taken a call from me before but are even more inclined now and are interested in what we're doing because of all the attention.

Paul Nunes

So long as there is a chance that a customer will call you with a problem, you don't really know what the profit is on that particular machine.

I hate it when people say somebody has a ""speech impediment"", even if he does, because it could hurt his feelings. So instead, I call it a ""speech improvement"", and I go up to the guy and say, ""Hey, Bob, I like your speech improvement."" I think this makes him feel better.

Friedrich Muller

That fetter wise people call strong which drags down, yields, but is difficult to undo; after having cut this at last, people leave the world, free from cares, and leaving desires and pleasures behind.

Cynthia Lennon

Julian would call and Yoko or one of her people would say John was sleeping,

Marie Osmond

You just need to be honest with how you're feeling. But, a lot of women are afraid of it because they think, 'Oh, they are going to take my baby away. They're gonna call me incompetent. I'm going to lose my job. I've got to be tough, it's a man's world.'

If I ever opened a trampoline store, I don't think I'd call it Trampo-Land, because you might think it was a store for tramps, which is not the impression we are trying to convey with our store. On the other hand, we would not prohibit tramps from browsing, or testing the trampolines, unless a tramp's gyrations seemed to be getting out of control.

Lastings Milledge

I thought about it every day. It got crazy at the trade deadline, thinking of all the possibilities where I could have gone. But nothing's done until they call you and say, 'You're traded.' I feel like I'm here, and as of now, I'm going to stay until they make a decision.

Nick Zito

Sometimes running a rabbit works, sometimes it backfires. People have been using rabbits for hundreds of years. The rabbit has to be a good horse because they might not necessarily be able to do the job.

Billy Wagner

Sometimes it's good to just be thrown into the fire, Did he even know it?

Mark Johnson

Sometimes it's good being the underdogs. We don't mind that role.

Don Baylor

Sometimes it's a real good thing. But once you get it out, the next day it has to be over. Over. If it's not, if it festers, then you can't repair it.

Karen McCabe

Rubin and Doherty play really well together and have done some good things this year. They started to shadow Danielle in the second period and Jessi played even better.

Andy McDonald

Ryan did a good job getting it started. I thought we had really good puck movement on that, and it wound up not being a pretty goal, but we'll take it.

Holly Ismail

Samantha is such an unselfish player. That's what makes a good player great ù making everyone around her better.

O. Singh

I've played pretty good for the last two years. I'm just trying to win tournaments, plodding along, and here I am.

Andrew Brunette

I've played on teams where there were more (injuries). But I don't know if it was so many key players and players that were having good years.