Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jil Sander

If you cut a painter's hands off, he'd still feel the urge to pick up a brush.

Jil Sander

We look our best in subdued colors, sophisticated cuts, and a general air of sleek understatement.

Jhonen Vasquez

Whether in a suit or in a loincloth people are ignorant little thorns cutting into one another. They seem incapable of advancing beyond the violent tendencies which at one time were necessary for survival.

Grover Norquist

I don't think Republicans will be fooled into taking this necessary spending and using it to oppose pro-growth tax cuts, using this tragedy and those deaths for his own political desires.

Grover Norquist

Well, certainly the Democrats have been arguing to raise the capital gains tax on all Americans. Obama says he wants to do that. That would slow down economic growth. It's not necessarily helpful to the economy. Every time we've cut the capital gains tax, the economy has grown. Whenever we raise the capital gains tax, it's been damaged.

Grover Norquist

Every time you cut programs, you take away a person who has a vested interest in high taxes and you put him on the tax rolls and make him a taxpayer. A farmer on subsidies is part welfare bum, whereas a free-market farmer is a small businessman with a gun.

Grover Norquist

My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.

Goran Ivanisevic

If I can't serve on grass, I can maybe help cut the grass, paint the lines and serve some strawberries.

Haley Barbour

I have a record as governor. I have a record of cutting spending. And I talked yesterday not only about we ought to cut spending, I talked about how we've cut spending in Mississippi and how if you did the same things in the federal government, you would save tens of billions of dollars a year.

Gregory Benford

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Hope Partlow

My parents were in the studio when we cut 'Let Me Try' and every time I sang it they started crying, ... I finally had to ask them to leave because I couldn't sing it while they were crying.

Ignacy Jan Paderewski

The genius is the man who has genuine and deep human relations with others, who does not cut himself off in the search for originality, but who realizes the value of artistic tradition.

Iain Duncan Smith

Can there not be a limit to the fact that really you need to cut your cloth in accordance with what capabilities and finances you have?

Iain Banks

I deliberately keep myself apart from a lot of stuff; I don't Tweet, I don't do Facebook, I don't blog, and that's largely because I spend my working life staring at a screen and hitting a keyboard, I am trying to cut down on that, not increase it.

Hugo Chavez

No part of the human community can live entirely on its own planet, with its own laws of motion and cut off from the rest of humanity.

Horace

What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.

Horace

Ridicule often cuts the knot, where severity fails.

George R. R. Martin

I heard of a man who had a razor made of Valyrian steel. He cut his head off trying to shave.

George Carlin

Think of how strange we'd look if all the cuts, burns, scrapes, bruises, scratches, bumps, gashes, and scabs we ever had suddenly reappeared on our bodies at the same time.

Gene Tunney

The man who has allowed his body to deteriorate cuts a pitiful figure - chest collapsed, stomach protruding.

Gene Tierney

I was not cut out to be a rebel.

Frank Stella

A sculpture is just a painting cut out and stood up somewhere.

Faye Dunaway

It's interesting as one grows older to keep in touch with the cutting edge.

Fay Wray

When the picture was finished, they took me into the sound room and then I screamed more for about five minutes just steady screaming, and then they'd cut that in and add it.

Ezra Pound

Rhythm is form cut into time.

Francis Ford Coppola

I realized I probably wouldn't make another film that cuts through commercial and creative things like 'Godfather' or 'Apocalypse.'

Francis Bacon

Nor is mine a trumpet which summons and excites men to cut each other to pieces with mutual contradictions, or to quarrel and fight with one another; but rather to make peace between themselves, and turning with united forces against the Nature of Things

Francis Bacon

Nor do apophthegms only serve for ornament and delight, but also for action and civil use, as being the edge-tools of speech which cut and penetrate the knots of business and affairs: for occasions have their revolutions, and what has once been advantageously used may be so again, either as an old thing or a new one.

Buck Showalter

If he goes five innings and he's just cutting them up, we'd probably let him go longer.

Tanya Tucker

If I have any spare time, I do enjoy riding cutting horses, or just everyday things mostly. Shopping with my kids or going to Disney World.

I'd start by cutting Congressional salaries in half and limiting House and Senate sessions to 60 days a year. Congressional service should be just that - service, not a career.

I am pleased to see that LaPorte is on the cutting edge.

Jerry Saltz

When the purse strings tighten up at museums, the institutions usually cut back and cancel shows. That's exactly the wrong reaction. In fact, now is a good time for them to loosen up - a chance to breathe and experiment a little - and go for the juicy solution lurking in their own basements.