Famous Quotes & Sayings

Louise Bourgeois

I know that when I finish a drawing, my anxiety level decreases. The realistic drawings are a way of pinning down an idea. I don't want to loose it. With the abstract drawings, when I'm feeling loose, I can slip into the unconscious.

Vicky Rideout

The positive side of that is that TV shows and movies can really help people see the connection between what might be an abstract Washington policy issue and real people's lives, even though it's fictional real people,

Lucien Smith

People understand what art is supposed to look like, and so it's easy to make something that looks like art but isn't - especially in an abstract form.

John Van Hamersveld

With the Larry Bertlemann portrait, I started with a photograph that I could use for it. I built the drawing's identity to serve as a graphic identity. After a number of sketches, I went into my own abstract vernacular of drawn lines and shapes to create the composition for the poster design.

Al Capp

Abstract art is a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

Albert Camus

Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

James Loy

It's extremely important that we bring clarity to this question of 'who's in charge' long in advance of an actual crisis, or else the potential for chaos and delay on the scene will be very real if, God forbid, we are actually confronted by one of these nightmare scenarios. So this is not an abstract argument, ... While the Defense Department will have the legal responsibility to assist civil authorities, when requested, in the event of a serious crisis -- and indeed has resources, troops, and capabilities that no other agency can duplicate -- the new rubric outlined in the National Response Plan clearly identifies the secretary of Homeland Security as the guy at the top making judgments about how the federal government will respond.

Dan Colen

A lot of my work is about what's abstract and what's pictorial. Is it bubblegum, or is it an abstract painting using bubblegum? The energy comes from walking that line and watching things dip this way and that.

Walid Phares

Americans are not fighting nor being targeted by an abstract called terrorism, but a growing body of ideological concepts. They need to know what is it they are up against.

Eartha Kitt

I used to love it when I walked down the street and construction workers would whistle.

Nathaniel Rich

Criticism always seemed to me a lot like police work. You look for clues, fingerprints, motives. You need to construct an airtight case.

Edwin Land

Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.

Jon Carlisle

This is the ground-level work that will determine how the state designs the rail and constructs the project.

Maria Martinez

There's a need for a Mercado no matter who constructs it as long as it comes to the community.

Tim Hetherington

You can construct whatever story you want to. Documentaries are constructions, as is all journalism.

David Mitchell

It's true that stammerers can become more adept at sentence construction.

Robin Marantz Henig

As people construct a life narrative, researchers have found, they tend to remember more events from the teens and twenties than from any other time. It's called the 'reminiscence bump.'

Cherie Blair

People say that human rights is a Western construct foisted on others. But that's not true. Equality, dignity, respect and justice are as much an integral part of the Islamic tradition.

Jodie Bernstein

It's an old trick dressed up in new electronic garb and a sort of cyberspace jargon.

Dave Barry

There are no bad haircuts in cyberspace.

David Tang

In cyberspace, 95 per cent of what you read is hearsay.

Thomas P.M. Barnett

Is there anything about cyberspace that particularly screams Air Force? Not really. If cyber warfare is going to be as all-encompassing as it's made out to be by its vigorous proponents, then it will disseminate throughout the services even more than the drone phenomenon has.

Paul McNulty

Drug trafficking in cyberspace is just as harmful to public safety as drug trafficking on street corners.

Michael Kinsley

There is a deadening conformity in the culture of cyberspace in which we don't intend to participate.

James Gleick

Cyberspace, especially, draws us into the instant.

Charles Platt

As cyberspace matures into a totally immersive experience, I'm betting it will turn out to be fully odor-enabled.

John Ashcroft

The Internet is no longer a safe haven where drug dealers can hide, ... Our campuses, our neighborhoods, our communities are safer places for young women today because cyberspace just got more dangerous for drug traffickers.

Barnett Newman

From the very beginning I felt that I would do a series,

Matt Hasselbeck

We actually felt we had the momentum after that. It was good for our offense.

Stan Clark

We always felt we did the proper thing.

Shirley Manson

We always felt like we've never specifically fitted in with anyone; there's never been a movement surrounding what we're doing.

Lisa Gansky

I've felt a little culpable that we entrepreneurs often invent businesses just to drive people to buy more things.

M. Night Shyamalan

'The Exorcist' is the scariest movie ever made. It just felt dead-on real, like you were watching the existence of the devil.

Ledawn Gibson

We started off kind of sluggish. I felt like we could've come out better to play, but after we made some adjustments we were able to get things going.

Petr Sykora

We have to finish the season on a good note. It doesn't matter what the outcome of the game is, but we have to feel good about ourselves. I don't think we felt like that tonight. We have a lot of guys who are injured so we need to get healthy and ready.

Michelle Williams

It felt as if things were literally slipping through my fingers. Things were just streaming away from me. I lost my sense of humor. I'm still looking for that.

David Strathairn

There are biographies, I looked at a lot of photographs of him, I heard his voice over and over and over again. You get in there and get to know the man by all of those pieces of information.

David Parry

We stopped for some plays that weren't worthy of being looked at.

Herb Trimpe

When I looked at the other artists when I first started at Marvel, I was surrounded by giants. It was very intimidating.

Marian Seldes

I've never been obsessed by how I looked. In fact, I would rather have looked more ordinary so I could play more parts more truthfully.

Daryl Hall

When I was a kid, I always looked up to people like B.B. King and Ray Charles.

Troy Dolan

When I was a freshman, I didn't wrestle as well here as I thought I could. I looked up at the stands and saw lots of people.

Terry Trippler

United just looked in the rearview mirror, and they do not want to go back from where they came.

Dave Bautista

Yes, I am physical but never go looking for fights. I have been in my share of them but never looked for them.

Aaron Williams

At first, I thought he'd be a pushover, but he's tough. He's not like he looks. Right from the first, it looked like he could shoot. He looks like (former NBA standout) Steve Kerr to me.

Dan DeRose

We're going to try and be physical with the guards.

Bill Self

We're still playing better physically than we are mentally.

Jackie Bledsoe

We'll see what we'll do. We would rather run it first, of course, but we may have to throw it. They're pretty physical up front.

Mark Stoops

We are getting better and more physical and more explosive. That's what we have talked about doing since we got here.

Allie Woods

They are a rough team. They are physical and fast. But I think we can keep up with them.

Olli Ahvenniemi

I tried to play physical with him and keep him off the ball.

Joe Coleman

This is the most physical staff I've had in seven years.

Denny Brauer

This is a very physical sport and it's a sport where you've really got to be in shape.

Kelly Greenberg

They're a very physical team, especially on the inside, and I don't think of our forwards as very physical, so that will be a challenge. They're also a very hard-working team and they play very well at home. We're going to have to play hard, we're going to have to play smart and we're going to have to make some shots.

Charles Simonyi

Basically, most good science in space flight has to do with the behavior of the human body in space. That is where we are lacking info, and where info can only be obtained by flying in space.

Charles Stross

I'd like to be proven wrong on the difficulty of handling the medical side-effects of long term exposure to deep space (both microgravity induced illnesses and radiation damage).

Charles Spurgeon

Our misery is that we thirst so little for these sublime things, and so much for the mocking trifles of time and space.

Alan Watts

As the fish doesn't know water, people are ignorant of space. Consciousness is concerned only with changing and varying details; it ignores constants-especially constant backgrounds. Thus only very exceptional people are aware of what is basic to everything.

Akon

I always try to give my own albums space in between so I have time to create a new sound and give time for people to miss me. You have to come out fresh and reinvent yourself.

Chogyam Trungpa

You can't feel the earth if you can't feel the space.

Chogyam Trungpa

The challenge of warriorship is to step out of the cocoon, to step out into space, by being brave and at the same time gentle

Chinua Achebe

The people you see in Nigeria today have always lived as neighbors in the same space for as long as we can remember. So it's a matter of settling down, lowering the rhetoric, the level of hostility in the rhetoric is too high.

Chick Corea

You've got to create the space, then fill it.