Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charlie Chaplin

The cinema is little more than a fad. It's canned drama. What audiences really want to see is flesh and blood on the stage.

Charlie Chaplin

Sound has spoiled the most ancient of the world's arts, the art of pantomime, and has canceled out the great beauty that is silence.

Charlie Chaplin

I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.

Charlie Chaplin

There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books.

Charles de Gaulle

Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.

Charles de Lint

You don't have to be Michelangelo to teach basic art, just as you don't have to be Shakespeare to be able to teach the correct use of language.

Charles de Lint

It reminded me of that tongue-in-cheek quick history of art I'd overheard...Used to be people couldn't draw very well, then they could, and now they can't again.

Charles de Lint

From the first time he’d met her, he’d sensed an air of contradiction about her. She was very much a woman, but still retained a waiflike quality. She could be brash, and at times deliberately suggestive, yet she was painfully shy. She was incredibly easy to get along with, yet she had few friends. She was a talented artist in her own right, but so self-conscious about her work that she rarely completed a piece and preferred to work with other people’s art and ideas...

Charles de Lint

People want to know those details. They think it gives them greater insight into a piece of art, but when they approach a painting in such a manner, they are belittling both the artist’s work and their own ability to experience it. Each painting I do says everything I want to say on its subject and in terms of that painting, and not all the trivia in the world concerning my private life will give the viewer more insight into it than what hangs there before their eyes. Frankly, as far as I’m concerned, even titling a work is an unnecessary concession.

Mike Jacobs

We're in for a period of uncertainty as we wait for new ownership to emerge, I really don't feel unwanted. I think there's going to be quite a lot of interest.

Ed Miliband

A company is not accountable just to its owners, but to its workers and its customers.

Vince McMahon

So, I don't know why Bret would think that he should have some right to ownership or right to usage of videotape, which is no different than any actor who performs in any sitcom or television show.

Henry James

Most of the time they can get the loan, but it's not 100 percent. The owner usually has to come up with 35 to 40 percent of the money.

Dan Rooney

I would say we're partners with the players now. There's owners that would resist it now, but ... I really think that's the way it should be.

Brian Regan

The owner tends to source these things separately,

Bob Stevens

The owners were receptive to donating the River Queen to us if we can raise the money. If can't get pledges or make a significant impact, we'll back out.

Michael Hoffman

The owners have not been particularly forthcoming ,

Susan Chapman

He was so much more than the owner of Smarty Jones.

Ed Keon

When things seem very risky it often represents opportunity.

Jeremy Osborne

He represents that person or that thing that everyone is waiting for.

Frank Taylor

That was between Rick Hamlin, who represents La-Van, and the Treasury Department,

Twyla Tharp

My dancers expect me to deliver because my choreography represents their livelihood.

Jonathan Fox

No one represents their interests, here or in Mexico. They have to speak up and do it themselves.

Inder Singh

We view this as a particularly important win for Lucent as it represents its first large-scale IMS deployment with a US carrier.

Laura Smith

It represents me. My old room was from when I was 6 or 7. This room is more up-to-date.

Vincent Sollitto

This represents one of the more atypical inquiries we get.

Robert Clark

For myself, and a lot of other students, Gen. Powell represents what can be possible.

Bobby Flay

Nothing goes perfectly, especially when you're opening a restaurant.

Ed Nemec

I think we are a much better restaurant today than we were one year ago.

Jack Jackson

Going through a strip search on the way to a restaurant isn't going to do much for the experience.

Calvin Trillin

I don't cook. I don't know anything about food. I've never reviewed a restaurant.

John Fitzgibbons

We're starting to see something out of the restaurant sector now.

Amy Carlson

I'm a restaurant junkie.

Cynthia Davis

I'm a restaurant person, so I want the variety (of bistro row).

Rob Stevens

When I went to school, I didn't think I would have a restaurant so quickly, but I always wanted to get back downtown. Paine's is kind of a place for everyone.

Tim Hall

We'd have to look at the way our restaurant is configured as to whether we could serve or not.

Beverly Johnson

I don't like to cook, but I like to eat popcorn with butter and salt.

Rudyard Kipling

Oh, where are you going to, all you Big Steamers, / With England's own coal, up and down the salt seas?

Art Spiegelman

With any work worth its salt, you have to trust the author enough to take its measure. And if you apply too many preconceptions, you are not taking its measure.

David Johnson

We shouldn't be doing that. We should be on our own system. But what can you do? The wells got salt in them.

Dante Alighieri

Thou shall know by experience how salt the savor is of others' bread, and how sad a path it is to climb and descend another's stairs.

Curt Schilling

When you say you are a gamer and you are a celebrity or a former celebrity there's a grain of salt that everybody takes that with.

James Castle

Anyplace worth its salt has a 'parking problem'

Harry Reid

You see some of these big homes; they look OK, ... But they've been soaking in salt water for two weeks. They're gone. They'll tear them down.

Francine Rivers

Julia looked back at Hadassah on the bloodstained sand. A great emptiness opened within her as she looked at the still form. Gone, too, was the salt that had kept her from completely corruption.

Benjamin Franklin

Taxes on consumption, like those on capital or income, to be just, must be uniform.

Adam Smith

Masters are always and everywhere in a sort of tacit, but constant and uniform combination, not to raise the wages of labor.

Henry Mancini

If you want to make money in music, get into the band uniform business.

Jack L. Chalker

You can’t be a non-conformist if you don’t wear the proper uniform.

Lorrie Fair

Michael Jordan always wore his Carolina shorts under his Bulls' uniform.

George W. Bush

We live in freedom because every generation has produced patriots willing to serve a cause greater than themselves. Those who serve nowadays are taking their rightful place among the greatest generations that have worn our nation's uniform.

Eric Dickerson

Them sportswriters don't even know how to put uniforms on, most of 'em.

George Lopez

A Dodger uniform just doesn't look good with a cummerbund.

Pete Rose

Am I still in uniform? Then I ain't retired.