Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ann Rice

And I knew my vision of the garden of savage beauty had been a true vision. There was meaning in the world, yes, and laws, and inevitability, but they had only to do with the aesthetic and in this Savage Garden, these innocent ones belonged in the vampire's arms. A thousand other things can be said about the world, but only aesthetic principles can be verified, and these things alone remain the same.

Dan Collins

This is a deliberation that has to do with aesthetic values and it has to do with property values, ... The board must carefully monitor all proposed building projects, whether they are modular or traditional stick-built.

Gary Warner

It's true we're not going to reduce the volume of traffic, but we can create an aesthetic identity along the road. We hope to beautify it and make it safer for pedestrians.

Vladimir Nabokov

For me, a work of fiction exists only insofar as it affords me what I shall bluntly call aesthetic bliss, that is a sense of being somehow, somewhere, connected with other states of being where art (curiosity, tenderness, kindness, ecstasy) is the norm.

Shannon Michelle

They are doing so much building around here, and we do interior design and custom furniture. There are a lot more architecture and design firms, and a little bit more clean-lined furniture stores, so we thought that our aesthetic would work well here.

John Vanco

There's a large overlap between Larry's aesthetic and our programmingan awareness of the past, both the Waverly's and the neighborhood's. It feels personal and, on some level, homemade.

Jay Farrar

There's an immediacy and a starkness that's there. I think a lot of Leadbelly's arrangements and his use of the 12-string guitar were atypical, especially the 12-string, which showed his individuality. I guess he approached it that way because the 12-string was louder. Leadbelly and the punk rock aesthetic - maybe there are some similarities there.

Paul Rand

Graphic Design, which fulfills aesthetic needs, complies with the laws of form and exigencies of two-dimensional space; which speaks in semiotics, sans-serifs, and geometrics; which abstracts, transforms, translates, rotates, dilates, repeats, mirrors, groups, and regroups, is not good design if it is irrelevant.

Steven Soderbergh

Reality shows are all the rage on TV at the moment ... but that's not reality, it's just another aesthetic form of fiction.

Nick Offerman

I'm enjoying the opportunity that 'Parks And Recreation' affords me to exploit my own soapbox agenda, which is to try to encourage people to make things with their hands.

Richard Hayne

There is no question that there is a capability that the Internet affords us to get a closer look at the customer and to be closer to the customer.

Nick Brown

This delay affords us the opportunity to expand testing, market participant training and practice, and system tuning.

Jim Tracy

This affords him a couple of days to get some things sorted out, because we know offensively he is much, much better than what we have seen to this point.

Tim Salmon

All we can do is play ball. Every time we go out on the field, we do what we do in America - live in the freedom that our country affords us.

Albert Schweitzer

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality, namely that good consists in maintaining, assisting, and enhancing life, and that to destroy, to harm, or to hinder life is evil

Theodor Mommsen

The Phoenicians are entitled to be commemorated in history by the side of the Hellenic and Latin nations; but their case affords a fresh proof, and perhaps the strongest proof of all, that the development of national energies in antiquity was of a one-sided character.

Ryan Holmes

Entrepreneurs, by disposition, are built to think big. When a role no longer affords those opportunities, it might be best to leave it in capable hands and move on.

Michael A. Stackpole

Digital-Original just shifts the R&D costs for publishing to the authors and affords us the chance to write the stories we want to write and the stories our patrons want to read.

Charles Dickens

There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.

Charles Dickens

Be natural my children. For the writer that is natural has fulfilled all the rules of art.

Charles Caleb Colton

Eloquence is the language of nature, and cannot be learned in the schools; but rhetoric is the creature of art, which he who feels least will most excel in.

Charles Dickens

Mrs Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her clenliness more umcomfortable and unacceptable than dirt itself. Cleanliness is next to godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

We all draw a little and compose a little, and none of us have any idea of time or money.

Charles Spurgeon

Beware, I pray thee, of presuming that thou art saved. If thy heart be renewed, if thou shalt hate the things that thou didst once love, and love the things that thou didst once hate; if thou hast really repented; if there be a thorough change of mind in thee; if thou be born again, then hast thou reason to rejoice: but if there be no vital change, no inward godliness; if there be no love to God, no prayer, no work of the Holy Spirit, then thy saying "I am saved" is but thine own assertion, and it may delude, but it will not deliver thee.

Charles Spurgeon

Alas, if our children lose the crown of life, it will be but a small consolation that they have won the laurels of literature or art.

Charles Spurgeon

Come boldly, 'O believer, for despite the whisperings of Satan and the doubtings of thine own heart, thou art greatly beloved.

Alanis Morissette

I firmly believe that the only reason why I'm on this planet, the only reason why I live, breathe, and exist is, that it's my duty to be as honest as possible in my art.

Fred Engh

We want them to have clear information about this subject, and resources to call on.

Steve McDonald

We want them to call us. It takes a collaborative effort with our partners.

Chris Bohjalian

The honest answer is more complex. On some level I was sent. Or inspired. Or called. But my calling, such as it was, wasn't a single booming invitation from above (really, is it ever?)...

Caren Scoropanos

We always have Latin teachers calling about it, but we can't draw any conclusions.

Marianne Moore

I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.

Gordon Smith

The person was known. People were identifying him from inside of the store shortly after the call came in.

Drew Altman

The point is that when they talk about quality of health care, patients mean something entirely different than experts do. They're not talking about numbers or outcomes but about their own human experience, which is a combination of cost, paperwork and what I'll call the hassle factor, the impersonal nature of the care.

David Rosenberg

The only reason I'm calling for a rate hike is because that's what they told us they are going to do.

Jack Germond

Unsurprisingly, the poll-takers don't talk a lot in public about the ignorance of the electorate on political and public policy matters. And the politicians are not going to disclose the, let's say, limited body of knowledge in their constituencies. You don't get elected calling your voters airheads.

David Perry

The power of Facebook is not only in the vast size of the connected audience, but also in the quality of the social ties and interactions that occur within the network. The Facebook social graph fuels our mantra 'Try it for free', 'Share it if you like it', 'Buy it if you love it.'

Allen Staggers

What they will determine is what needs to be connected electrically that does the most customers the most good.

Jim Ramo

We're seeing, not only a crossroads in consumer demand, but the ... problem of getting the internet connected to the TV is starting to get solved.

Daniel Borochoff

Americans do feel very connected to a wide- scale disaster like this, and they're inspired to do something.

Peter Falk

They know there's a gap, and if they're interested in finding out more about why they aren't more connected with their parents, they should see the movie,

Peter Farrell

They put this Darth Vader mask on his face, it was like some Rube Goldberg thing glued to this guy. It covered his face like a toilet seat. It was connected to a machine that I swear you could run a swimming pool on, and it sounded like a freight train.

Taran Adarsh

It's not just Salman who will suffer. Producers connected with him will be hurt.

Michael Unzueta

It's too early for us to tell whether this one is connected to any previous tunnel.

Amanda Lenhart

It's the digital equivalent of the corkboard on the door. It's the idea that you're constantly connected even if you're not at your computer.

Nina Jacobson

When you read a book, you create that tonal bandwidth. You set a tone for yourself, as you're reading it, in which everything exists within the world of your imagination.

Lydia Leonard

I've met more than one person in their early 20s who has never heard of Jackie Onassis, though most girls have because she exists as a fashion icon.

Larry James

Absolutely, with the growth we experienced last year, Lithia Toyota recognized the opportunity that exists here in Odessa.

Joseph Biden

This has become the greatest propaganda tool that exists for recruiting of terrorists around the world, and it is unnecessary to be in that position, ... This Week.

Bhagwan Rajneesh

It is true that nothing exists without a thought first, but the idea that thought comes from form is backwards.

Andrei Kostin

We plan to offer a significant number of the shares to members of the public. Interest exists there. The shares will be sold this year and next.

Neil Sheehan

Any contamination that exists is at low levels. It does not pose a threat to the public or workers at the site.

George Carl

A distressing gap exists between the public's expectations for retirement and the reality.

Teju Cole

Punitive murder by the police and by vigilantes has existed in all societies at some point, and probably still exists in most.

Chad Harbach

Fiction and nonfiction, for me, involve very different processes.

Phil Klay

Writing fiction was a way to take the ideas that troubled me or confused me and put them under pressure.

Nikolay Sevastiyanov

We're starting to look at the moon as a source of fuel. Maybe it's science fiction right now, but we need to start moving in that direction.

Dennis Lehane

Don't get me wrong, I love literary fiction. It's faux literary fiction I can't stand.

Denise Mina

Crime fiction is the fiction of social history. Societies get the crimes they deserve.

Ben Browder

Farscape is not what you call hard science fiction.

Bill Gates

I don't generally read a lot of fiction.

Frederik Pohl

A lot of science fiction is science-based, and it comes about because people notice something interesting about science and work it into a story.

Philip Dick

Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful.

Stacy Schiff

Insofar as there is an anxiety of influence for a biographer, it may be that each new book is undertaken in reaction to the previous book.

Donald Hall

now i have time to do stuff, and do stuff i shall do!

Voltaire

say, "Believe as I do, or I shall assassinate you

Bible Bible

Quicken me after thy lovingkindness; so shall I keep the testimony of thy mouth.

Brian Ballard

There will be some voter-friendly, or shall we say patronizing, legislation. We'll see some trash, but most of it will be pretty good.

Sessue Hayakawa

I shall ask to see whether they want me in dress clothes or in Japanese.

Joyce Banda

I shall always be proud of what I've done, regardless of what you journalists or anybody can say.

George Whitefield

At the day of judgment we shall all meet again.

Kofi Annan

We shall see, ... They want to end this.

Bible Bible

And thou shalt sanctify them, that they may be most holy: whatsoever toucheth them shall be holy.

Carol Moseley Braun

I was very productive as a senator for my state.

Mark Warner

A lot of states wanted to help, but there was no place to turn.

Eddie Rodriguez

It's not right. The United States is nothing without immigrants. The United States is nothing without Mexicans.

Mike McCurry

there will be steps that the United States will take." ()

Abdallah Baali

The views of the United States are very important ... We will take them into account.

Sen. Saslaw

This is probably one of the most gun-happy states in America.

Bob Lynch

The United States will still tout the strong-dollar policy.

Alan Dershowitz

It simply cannot be disputed that for decades the Palestinian leadership was more interested in there not being a Jewish state than in there being a Palestinian state.

The Bravery

the only town in the United States of that name!

Alan Watts

Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity, and that wherever it is so applied it lends an unmistakable quality to the work.

Al Kaline

You've got to get good habits of working hard so that when that play comes up during the regular season that you're able to complete it and do it the right way.

Dean Acheson

I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe holding public office.

David Riesman

Though top executives may work as hard as ever-in part perhaps because, being trained in an earlier day, they can hardly help doing so-their subordinates are somewhat less work-minded.

David Riesman

The closest thing we have to the traditional ideology of the leisure class is a group of artists and intellectuals who regard their work as play and their play as work.

David Duval

I've just been working hard, trying to get some good stuff to come out.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

When your vision is powerful enough, everything else falls into place: how you live your life, your workouts, what friends you choose to hang out with, how you eat, what you do for fun. Vision is purpose, and when your purpose is clear, so are your life choices. Vision creates faith and faith creates willpower. With faith, there is no anxiety, no doubt - just absolute confidence.

Ben Whishaw

I've gone on workout regimes, but I seem to have a system that is very resistant to changing.

Arnold Palmer

I never met a winner who had a work ethic. Not somebody who says I have so much talent that naturally I won.