Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward Hopper

Maybe I am not very human - what I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.

James Thurber

It is better to have loafed and lost, than never to have loafed at all.

Andrew Wyeth

One's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes.

Garth Brooks

Don't change a thing. That's one of the best gimmicks a band could ever come up with.

Gamaliel Bailey

The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself.

It's a terrible thing to say I know. I've only done what I wanted to do. It's a real luxury. I only made the pictures I wanted to make and lived in the places I've wanted to live. I'm very, very happy.

James Howard Kunstler

We have created thousands and thousands of places in America that aren't worth caring about, and when we have enough of them, we're going to have a country that's not worth defending.

Emma Goldman

If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution.

Cornel West

Black people have always been America's wilderness in search of a promised land.

Alex Chilton

It's been like a bad dream I never woke from.

Andy Williams

We teach about how to drive in school, but not how to manage finances.

Aaron Sorkin

There really isn't a story that you can't tell inside of it. It's very much a clearinghouse for anything that goes on in the world. So you're not at all limited.

Dashiell Hammett

Thanks for the information about what we call business.

The Peruvian economy, in macroeconomic terms, has performed very well in past years. It's been one of the top performers in Latin America with a very dynamic agricultural and mining, and now energy sector -- very oriented toward export-led growth and has attracted substantial foreign investment. So that's all been very positive.

Mignon McLaughlin

There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we count ourselves among them.

What kind of conversation are we having here? I think anybody reading this expects us to be having a very informal kind of exchange.

There is a crisis in boyhood in America today.

You have to be prepared for the unthinkable and, in this case, we were not prepared. Every community in America should use this as a wake-up call,

This year we're celebrating 21 years of Keeping America Beautiful through the Great American Cleanup.

Jane Mayer

Torture is illegal, both in the U.S. and abroad. So - and that is true for the Bush administration and for any other administration.

Chris Williams

We were worried he would not be able to come because of all the work he will have to do in America with the Oscars but we have got the wire he is coming. This is big news.

Those who professed this Art are supposed to have been either impostors or under the delusion created by impostors and mountebanks.

We are working closely with the Nigerian government to (distribute) these resources the best way possible... and America has provided protective equipment, laboratory equipment, supplies and technical assistance.

Gavin DeGraw

When people put that sort of pressure on you, you're worried that people won't want to receive you.

Bob DuPuy

This will be a tremendous opportunity to showcase one of the great cities in America and one of the great ballparks in Major League Baseball. And what better place to have our first World Baseball Classic finals than in a city and with a team that has such strong international roots and international outreach.