Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dave Ramsey

You have the clean canvas of a whole week before you. Paint well.

Kurt Koeppen

Nick performed on a canvas in the sky.

Dwayne Hickman

The print on canvas is the closest to the original work. I personally sign them as well.

Anne Stevenson

I don't like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas, as it were.

Linda Lavin

Once you have the pattern of life of this person, the choreography, so to speak, you have the canvas that you present eight times a week, not without feeling underneath it, but it's not as churning as the discovery process was.

Tom Yawkey

Some men like to go in for polo, for example, and spend thousands of dollars on ponies. Some go nuts for paintings, and give half a million for a hunk of canvas in a fancy frame. But my passion is baseball.

Henry David Thoreau

This world is but a canvas to our imaginations.

Elie Wiesel

Writing is not like painting where you add. It is not what you put on the canvas that the reader sees. Writing is more like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain.

Geoff Johns

The ocean is 90% unexplored. It's a great canvas to paint Aquaman stories across, just like Green Lantern has space. It's more organic, which makes it different and interesting. It's alien, but it's terrestrial.

Bill Rancic

I'd wear flip-flops and jeans. I guess that's not cool.

Barry Eichengreen

More than the Big Mac, Coca Cola, or Levi's 501 jeans, the dollar is surely the United States' signature export.

Carine Roitfeld

Even though jeans suit me, I never wear jeans.

Cameron Diaz

I'm like every other woman: a closet full of clothes, but nothing to wear: So I wear jeans.

Carson Kressley

I was into Barbie and designer jeans.

Blake Michael

I usually always start with the jeans, which is weird because most guys, I would say, start with a shirt and build around the shirt. I always start with the jeans and I have so many jeans. I have an entire rack of just jeans.

Brooke Shields

If my jeans could talk, would I be embarrassed?

Trinny Woodall

Many women are pear-shaped and tend to wear jeans that are too loose. They need to focus on what jeans will re-proportion their body.

Laura McDowell

So many different things are in this year. The overall look and feel is a little more modest than in years past. We're not seeing bellies. The jeans are back to a normal height. On boys, we're seeing lots of layering.

Chris Colfer

I'm really not good blackmail material.

Bob Newhart

You never know when you'll come upon something and it's going to be fodder for new material.

Danny Walker

Until there's a research question, the material is preserved better in the cave.

Kenneth Fisher

I can find only one bull market, in 1935, that didn't have some material indigestion within its first 12 months.

John Grisham

We have the crime of the century every six months. So for people like me who enjoy, you know, taking these stories and writing about them, the material is endless.

Edward Abbey

The very poor are strictly materialistic. It takes money to be a mystic.

Aaron Copland

I don't compose. I assemble materials.

Janis Joplin

Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz.

Francis Bacon

When he wrote a letter, he would put that which was most material in the postscript, as if it had been a by-matter

Alan Bean

I found I have to stay painting.

David Milne

Anything is good painting material once you get to know it.

Edward Hopper

Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.

David Hockney

Photoshop came out of painting, and now it's going back to painting.

Ben Whishaw

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

Beatrice Lillie

In my experience, anyone can paint if he doesn't have to.

Barnett Newman

I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.

Edgar Degas

For those who don't know what they are doing, painting is easy. For those who do know what they are doing, painting is difficult.

Edouard Manet

There is only one true thing: instantly paint what you see. When you've got it, you've got it. When you haven't, you begin again. All the rest is humbug.

David Hockney

You always need a bit of low-tech.You always need a pair of scissors, it seems to me. You can do better things.... The high-tech, somehow, you do have to combine it with low-tech things.

Diana Wynne Jones

In addition, Master Twinkle seems convinced that someone is denying him a pair of stripey trousers.

Daniel Handler

They looked at each other like a pair of parentheses.

Carol Shields

Eventually, everything gets stuck between a pair of parentheses or buried in the bottom of a trunk.

Bridget Moynahan

There's nothing like a good pair of heels.

Ruta Gedmintas

I can't quite warrant spending a month's rent on a pair of trousers!

Jon Gruden

I wouldn't probably give up a pair of nine-and-a-half turf shoes for me,

Boomer Walker

I think if we come out and play well tomorrow, we should be able to pick up a pair of wins.

Brendan Fehr

I do have a lucky pair of underwear.

Charlie Daniels

I can't wait to get off the bus and... go on stage and entertain people. That's my thing, that's what I love. I love doing it... I thank God I can make a living doing it.

Charlie Chaplin

The people are applauding you because none of them understands you and applauding me because everybody understands me.

Charlie Chaplin

The building is a special place because of its architecture; But it's people who make it special by participating in it.

Charlie Chaplin

I am for people. I can't help it.

Charlie Chaplin

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

Charlie Chaplin

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone

Charles Wagner

If there are people at once rich and content, be assured that they are content because they know how to be so, not because they are rich

Charles W. Pickering

The public airwaves provide a chance to affirm we want to be a good, decent people; a good, decent nation.

Charles Sumner

The slave power dares anything, and it can be conquered only by the united masses of the people. From Congress to the people, I appeal.

Gila Reinstein

We want them to feel very welcome and to be as acclimated as soon as possible.

Ryan Callahan

We know we have to win at least one here (in London) and we would like to do it sooner than later.

Joe Papin

We started out really quick, using our speed. As soon as they scored the first goal, we went a little flat.

Michael Faraday

Why, sir, there is every possibility that you will soon be able to tax it! (to PM William Gladstone, on the usefulness of electricity)

Jon Daniels

We'd like to get him up here as soon as possible.

David Montgomery

We'd like to do it as soon as possible.

Sadhu Johnston

We're monitoring the equipment. As soon as that's done and the weather breaks, we'll be up there.

Aristophanes

Calonice: My dear Lysistrata, just what is this matter you've summoned us women to consider.What's up? Something big? Lysistrata: Very big. Calonice: (interested) Is it stout too? Lysistrata: (smiling) Yes, indeed -- both big and stout. Calonice: What? And the women still haven't come? Lysistrata: It's not what you suppose; they'd come soon enough for that.

Jim Loehr

She's going to come out when she's ready, probably sooner than later, and set the world on fire,

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

The 21st-century curator works in a supremely globalised reality.

Andy Reid

We'll see what's out there. We've evaluated a lot of players. We'll see how it all works out here.

Cy Coleman

We're doing a workshop over the first two weeks of December, I believe, with Graciella Daniele directing it.

Kevin Hassett

I think it's the only way it works politically,

Irwin Cohen

I think this works for New York City.

Romesh Gunesekera

Sri Lanka is a part of my background: it's not where I live, but it's what I want to explore. And I find it works very well to explore through fiction.

Shane McAnally

When something works on a huge level, everybody does it.

Sienna Guillory

I think that, with homoeopathy, if you get the right mix, it works 20 times quicker than conventional medicine.

Val McDermid

Walking by water frees your creativity. I don't know how it works - there's something about it that's liberating.