Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

We went our several ways," said Lady Dedlock, "and had little in common even before we agreed to differ. It is to be regretted, I suppose, but it could not be helped.

Alan Watts

Zen is a way of liberation, concerned not with discovering what is good or bad or advantageous, but what is.

Alan Moore

You see, there's the way things seemed and then there's the way things were and one is so often the total reverse of the other.

Alan J. Pakula

Some actors come to the set ready to do their parts a certain way.

Alan Jay Lerner

An Englishmans way of speaking absolutely classifies him.

Alain Prost

When I test I never go right to the limit. Only because when you are below the limit you can go at the same speed all day, and that's the only way you can be absolutely sure about what you are testing.

Al Michaels

I've always felt that I'm in a spontaneous business and if you script something, if you plan something, it will sound that way.

Al Ries

Branding is simply a more efficient way to sell things.

Al Ries

The best way to make news is to announce a new category, not a new product.

Nigel Barker

Designers simply can't afford to make dresses in 10 sizes for a sample.

Francesca Zambello

Working with Placido Domingo, we have coined the term 'American Ring,' and the designers and I are using American history, mythology, iconography and landscape to set the operas.

Kym Whitley

I am a different kind of celebrity; I don't have the big, giant house, the fancy cars, and all the designer stuff. I am just a girl from Cleveland.

D. James

The production designer is responsible for everything you see on the screen, except the actor.

Laura Mvula

Topshop is one of my favourite shops, and I love shoes by Giuseppe Zanotti. There's a graduate fashion designer called Kate Falcus who makes me beautiful commissioned pieces - one of my favourites was the white Glastonbury dress she made me with the puffy skirt.

Oleg Cassini

A designer is like a doctor for a woman. He has a specific job, and if he is doing it well, he will have the gratitude of the woman for the rest of his life.

Elaine Sciolino

The Italian Renaissance extends beyond food, of course. Just about every major Italian furniture designer now has a shop in Paris, and Le Bon Marche recently opened an outlet for Santa Maria Novella perfumes, elixirs and soaps from Florence on its ground floor.

Dave Morris

When I mention that I'm a game designer as well as a writer, someone will nod and say, 'Ah, that's what we like about your script. The videogame feel.'

Eric Berg

The only future for designers in Paris is to sell to a big group or to work for one,

Ben Whishaw

I would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I'm still fascinated by those things.

Pierre Bonnard

I should like to present myself to the young painters of the year 2000 with the wings of a butterfly.

Gail Carson Levine

I didn't want to be a writer. First I wanted to act, and then I wanted to be a painter like my big sister.

Jordan Bridges

I have a theory that most people disagree with. I really feel that acting for film and acting for the stage are two different crafts. I think that they share things in common. But I liken it to a painter switching over to photography.

G. H. Hardy

A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.

Fred Gwynne

When I was a teenager, I wanted to be a portrait painter. As I got to be older, I realized that as a portrait painter I wouldn't be able to support a goldfish.

Matthew Macfadyen

The lovely thing about being an actor is being anonymous, it's never having to explain yourself. And that's what I find interesting about actors or painters I admire. I don't want to know about their lives.

Christian Marclay

I have never been much of a painter.

Hugo Chavez

I painted. I wanted to be a painter. I sang.