Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Rauschenberg

Oracle was I had started it I guess two and a half years ago, maybe even longer than that, closer to three.

Robert Rauschenberg

But I found a lot of artists at the Cedar Bar were difficult for me to talk to.

Robert Rauschenberg

I did a twenty foot print and John Cage is involved in that because he was the only person I knew in New York who had a car and who would be willing to do this.

Robert Rauschenberg

I think maybe chance works better in a situation like music because music exists over a period of time, and you don't maintain constantly the you can't refer back from one area to another area.

Robert Gottlieb

The first time the Kirov ballet was seen in America was on Sept. 11, 1961. The ballet was 'Swan Lake.' The ballerina was Inna Zubkovskaya. The place was the old Met, on what must have been one of the hottest nights of the year, and there was no air-conditioning.

Every day you must arise and say to your heart, I have suffered enough and now I must live because the light of the sun must not be wasted, it must not be lost without an eye to appreciate it.

Only the knife knows what goes on in the heart of a pumpkin.

Paul Vixie

It's as if our electric grid didn't even have fences around it. This is disgraceful what we do, and what we don't do, to protect the Internet.

Paul Hornung

Never get married in the morning - you never know who you might meet that night.

Paul Desmond

I was overlooked long before anyone knew who I was.

I would like to say that no man ever was given finer cooperation than that given me by President Truman.

But I felt that most of us in the world today gave priority to our personal interests.

However, from the very beginning of the program, we made it perfectly clear that we would be out of Europe in four years; that whatever was to be accomplished had to be accomplished in that period of time.

At the time it seriously troubled me, but in drafting me as Marshall Plan Administrator, President Truman did as great a favor for me as one man can do for another. It opened my eyes to many things of which I was totally unaware and it was the beginning of my real education.

The full potential of labor can be utilized only if there is mobility in labor.

Yes, Jean Monnet was the father of the concept of a United States of Europe and his efforts more than those of any other single man helped change the thinking of European leaders.

The Europeans had made two promises to the United States if Marshall Plan help was forthcoming. The first promise was maximum self-help on the part of every country; and second, maximum mutual aid.

If there was to be a new Europe, there not only had to be a common market, but also great mobility in labor.

Paul Goldberger

It fills one with a sense of architectural possibility.

Penelope Spheeris

Rabid fans were literally jumping into the camera.

Paul Reiser

But I really felt that, something about the lights going down, and the sense of community. I saw this movie at one festival, and there were 1700 people.

Paul Singer

America is a place where the freedom to be who you are shouldn't be a barrier to your ability to get a job and provide for your family.

Olga Kurylenko

When you grow up without it, you want to have it. It's funny, in America some people say, 'Why do you want to make money so much?' And I say, 'Well, I guess you didn't starve as a kid.'

Octavio Paz

The presence and the present of America are a future; our continent is, by its nature, the land which does not exist on its own, but as something which is created and invented.

Paul Waner

If a pitcher sees you fiddling with the bat, he'll stall until your arms are tired before you even get a chance to hit.

Paul Waner

Let the pitcher move first, then, as he draws his arm back, you draw the bat back and you are ready.

Picabo Street

There are times everyone needs to be together for me and we all just work together; making sure that my energy is good and right when I go do what I'm going to do. That means the family needs to spend time together.

Picabo Street

We weren't built to fly. We can do it, but we shouldn't be surprised if it feels a little unnatural.

Picabo Street

I have my gold forever and no one can ever take it away from me.

Picabo Street

That fat speed that I love, that sensation, that's what I want.

Patricia Ireland

They plan to ride into the White House on the Sweet Talk Express. Well, think again. Bush and Cheney are not compassionate conservatives. They are ruthless reactionaries.

Patricia Highsmith

I hope it will be set in California. In a way, I made a mistake, because a New Jersey policeman can't operate that way in New York. But in California, he can move between different counties.

Gertrude Stein

Everyone gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.