Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nate Lowman

Architecture is a discourse; everything is a discourse. Fashion discourse is actually a micro-discourse, because it's centered around the body. It is the most rapidly developing form of discourse.

Louis Kahn

Architecture struck me between the eye and the eyeball.

Marjane Satrapi

A real love story has to finish bad. That is what I think.

Kevin Hart

A reputation as a hard worker is a good reputation to have.

Jacques Barzun

Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form - or else it is not art.

Rod Taylor

Art doesn't feed me or fill the void when I am not working. If I haven't worked for six months, I can't paint.

Jeff Koons

Art has this ability to allow you to connect back through history in the same way that biology does. I'm always looking for source material.

Robert Delaunay

Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint.

George Edward Woodberry

Art is expression; what is expressed is often the vision of a subtle and powerful soul, and also his experience with his vision; and however vivid and skilful he may be in the means of expression, yet it is frequently found that the master-spell in his work is something felt to be indefinable and inexpressible.

Linda Ronstadt

Art is for healing ourselves, and everybody needs their own personal art to heal up their problems.

Iris Murdoch

Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

Abigail Washburn

As a child, I went to peace and ERA marches on the back of my mom and grandmother. Through them I learned that I wanted to find a way to make the world a more kind, compassionate place.

Tanith Lee

As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.

Rick Larsen

As a co-chair of the State's 2010 Olympics Task Force, I am working to make sure our border crossings are ready to handle the risks and benefits the Games will bring.

Naveen Jain

As a father, I believe that involving children in sports at a young age is generally, a wise proposition. I believe that healthy competition is... well... healthy; that sporting events foster a spirit of teamwork that far surpasses the events themselves; and that active participation keeps children moving and is good for their self-esteem.

Gail Carriger

As a field archeologist, one usually has to specialize in a particular part of the world or specific culture, whereas if one is a materials specialist, one can jump around to different areas. So I've had experience on excavations all over the place.

Bill Owens

As a governor, I am naturally inclined to focus on the domestic side of protecting the United States.

Melissa Bean

As a member of the House Committee on Small Business and because of my own experience as a small business owner, I am appreciative of the impact these small businesses have on our local economies.

Jim Ramstad

As American taxpayers know too well, the tax code is incredibly complex and compliance is all to expensive.

Kim Weston

As an artist you have to have a certain amount of arrogance.

Raf Simons

As an industrial designer, you design the thing by yourself, and then it goes away from you, whereas fashion is in constant relation to the body and to psychology. It makes it more complicated, and it makes it more challenging.

George Cukor

As a professional, it pains me to watch a movie that is botched and amateurish. I prefer directors who have control of both their craft and their ideas.

Jane Green

As a teenager, you are still entirely wrapped up in yourself.

Andrew O'Hagan

As a writer I care about America, and care about its carelessness.

Iain Banks

As a writer, you get to play, you get alter time, you get to come up with the smart lines and the clever comebacks you wish you'd thought of.

Bear Grylls

As a young boy, scouting gave me a confidence and camaraderie that is hard to find in modern life.

George Muller

A servant of God has but one Master. It ill becomes the servant to seek to be rich, and great, and honored in that world where his Lord was poor, and mean, and despised.

Sylvester McCoy

As far as I'm concerned, an audience is an audience. Whether it's an audience in Hull or the National Theatre, that's who you play to. It's not money - it's good to get some, but that's not why I do it. You do it because you have to, to tell a story.

Sela Ward

As for ABC you can't take it personally. We had three good years.

Moshe Sharett

As for the future, we are equally determined to explore all possibilities of getting rid, once and for all, of the huge Arab minority which originally threatened us.

Matthew Rhys

As for waxing, I've never waxed in my life and I never would. I'm extremely Welsh, so I draw the line at removing body hair.

Scott Weiland

As horrible as jail was, there were some first-rate guys in there.

Doug Collins

As I look back on the day I signed my professional contract in 1973, I've never gone to sleep wondering if I could pay the bills or take care of my family. That's what basketball has done for me. It's given me the greatest of thrills from high school to college to the Olympics to coaching to broadcasting.

Philippe Petit

As I'm studying magic, juggling is mentioned repeatedly as a great way to acquire dexterity and coordination. Now, I had long admired how fast and fluidly jugglers make objects fly. So that's it. I'm 14; I'm becoming a juggler.

Gerrit Smith

As this is the first time I have had the floor, it may be well for me now to confess, that I am in the habit of freely imputing errors to my fellow-men.

Ellen Ochoa

Astronauts are very professional and when they're preparing for launch, they prepare for it as the most serious endeavor of our lives.

Len Goodman

As you get older, things conk out. It's a bit like a car. As long as it's something the mechanics can fix, you can chug on for a few more thousand miles.

Andrew Wyeth

At 18 I began painting steadily fulltime and at age 20 had my first New York show at the Macbeth Gallery.

Irrfan Khan

It's always an inner wish of every actor to reach out to maximum audiences.

Jon Huntsman, Jr.

It's a tribal state, and it always will be. Whether we like it or not, whenever we withdraw from Afghanistan, whether it's now or years from now, we'll have an incendiary situation. Should we stay and play traffic cop? I don't think that serves our strategic interests.

Gina Carano

It's a very big deal to me to remain the same person because I know all of this is going to be gone one day and I'm just going to have myself.

Sissy Spacek

It's a whole other way of working when you work in films: You know exactly the arc of your character.

Luis Fortuno

I think there is a lot of fat in the government.

Jim Bakker

I think - there's always going to be a percentage of people who maybe aren't as good as others

Paul Keating

I think the rise of China is one of the great events of all economic and human history, and I think this will be overwhelmingly a positive thing for the region and the world.

Rocco Buttiglione

I think the State shouldn't poke its nose into the sexual relations of consenting adults.

Steve Garvey

I think three-to-five years ahead minimum. I have a short-term plan, a five-year plan and a decade plan.

Ruth Rendell

I think to be driven to want to kill must be such a terrible burden.

Graham Moore

I think we all feel like weirdos for different reasons.

Lucy Walker

I think we have become oversaturated with tired fictional narratives.