Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dick Gregory

Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.

Todd Barry

There are commercials that are funny, but you might forget the product. A standard commercial might hammer that point home better.

Lea DeLaria

I can't discriminate? Oh, that's ripe, coming from a straight white man. What's the matter, baby doesn't feel like he belongs? Well why don't you try a place that was set up just for you? Like the world!

James Thurber

Early to rise and early to bed makes a man healthy, wealthy, and dead.

James Thurber

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

George Burns

You've got to be honest; if you can fake that, you've got it made.

George Burns

The most important thing in acting is honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

George Burns

I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.

Keenen Ivory Wayans

I throw it all in there, Kung Fu, blaxploitation, horror.

Robert Crumb

We were always drawing comics as kids. My brother Charles made me draw comics. I was very much under his domination. He was actually a much stronger artistic visionary than I was.

Edmund Wilson

The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations -- like that of artistic imagination.

Edward Carey

Every new writing project, every new artistic project, needs to be protected so it can grow on its own before it begins to creep out into the world.

Eric Whitacre

The virtual choir would never replace live music or a real choir, but the same sort of focus and intent and esprit de corps is evident in both, and at the end of the day it seems to me a genuine artistic expression.

Eric Kandel

My parents genuinely loved Vienna, and in later years I learned from them why the city exerted a powerful hold on them and other Jews. My parents loved the dialect of Vienna, its cultural sophistication, and artistic values.

Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

When you tell people you're a playwright, their eyes sort of glaze over. But when you say you write the 'Fantastic Four' or 'Spider-Man,' they perk up. It's a touchstone that has gained more credibility as artistic expression.

Guy Laliberte

I'm an artistic person and a creator. I'm not a scientific. I'm not an engineer.

Brian Molko

I was always a bit of a loose cannon, then again I was always the artistic one: bit of a social misfit. I probably still am.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.

Carlos Fuentes

The possibility of being as free with the camera as we are with the pen is a fantastic prospect for the creative life of the 21st century.

Tad Hutcheson

We have to get creative about juggling planes.

Agnes de Mille

The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.

Lynn Coady

The creative process taps into our deepest subconscious, and we are each of us sex-crazed - products of a shame-based Judeo-Christian culture that has irrevocably warped us all to varying degrees.

Source Unknown

The creative person is usually rebellious. He or she is the survivor of a trauma called education.

Alice Walker

The creative mind is not a mind full of stuff.

Julian Callow

The creative imperative seems to be directed at getting around government regulations.

Z. Sheppard

There are a lot of creative types looking for the next big thing. Well, these days, environment is it.

Malcolm-Jamal Warner

When I'm not working, I'm on the road with my band. Or I'm performing in poetry houses doing spoken work. So I've got another passion and another outlet that allows me to be creatively fulfilled and not sitting at home pulling my hair out waiting for the right role to come along.

Mike Rush

When you say goodbye to so many great volunteers, it's always hard, but it's good to know there's always a new generation of leaders emerging.

Liz Ellis

The real beneficiaries will be the next generation of netballers and other professional sportswomen.

Susan B. Anthony

Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.

Rob Pike

The process of software development doesn't feel any better than it did a generation ago.

Bible Bible

Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.

Bible Bible

Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away, till all be fulfilled.

Bible Bible

Verily I say unto you, that this generation shall not pass, till all these things be done.

Diane Watson

Social Security is a program that should be strengthened and preserved for future generations.

Dave Chappelle

My generation is under-entertained.

Carre Otis

Eating disorders, body dysmorphia and a general dissatisfaction with one's life and body seems to ail too many young people.

Carol Roth

Most people end up owning a business by accident. Therefore, they don't usually have a thought process and a strategic plan in place.

Carol Kane

I don't feel that I have any great grasp of technique that I should pass along to people.

Carol Kane

That's when the great stuff happens, when you're not checking yourself all the time, being critical of yourself and what other people are doing.

Carol Leifer

They're all sources of material. What I love about what I do, the more you talk about your life, there are so many people who have similar experiences.

Carol Shields

I'm concerned about the unknowability of other people.

Carol Moseley Braun

All I really want to be is boring. When people talk about me, I'd like them to say, Carol's basically a short Bill Bradley. Or, Carol's kind of like Al Gore in a skirt.

Carol Moseley Braun

My parents were always philosophizing about how to bring about change. To me, people who didn't try to make the world a better place were strange.

Carlos Beltran

I don't want to be hiding from people. It would be difficult to be recognized everywhere, so that I couldn't do things ordinary people do.

Kara Walker

I am performing this role of the artist and this role of the 'negress' coming into a white-box institution. It's kind of a self-appointed role: the self-designated negress.

Al Pacino

I was never very happy with performing; it didn't turn me on much.

David Tudor

I persist in performing.

Big Bank Hank

I'm from the Bronx, so I am looking forward to performing before my homies. I'll keep it live in the house.

Barry Sternlicht

You can learn everything that there is to know about the industry or the player from the company that is performing better or worse.

Drummond Money-Coutts

I would like to do things like I did in Tanzania, going somewhere and exploring a theme and investigating as well as performing for those people.

Tamara Tunie

I missed singing. I missed performing in a nightclub.

Seinabo Sey

Performing didn't feel comfortable until I was about 17. I loved to sing, but I always said I would never perform because I was too scared.

Laura Marano

When you are performing in theater, you feel so connected to your audience. It's exhilarating!

Alan Lomax

Folk Music is the map of singing.

Bryn Terfel

I started singing because I come from Wales

Jamie Lynn Spears

I'll probably do a lot of acting first, then go to singing, but I am going to definitely sing someday. So when I do start singing, buy my album!

Janis Joplin

I started out to be a person on the street, just like everybody else. I didn't start out to be a singer. But I got sort of swept up in this singing thing, and after I got involved in it it got really important to me if I was good or not.

Janis Joplin

I can't talk about my singing; I'm inside it. How can you describe something you're inside of?

Janet Jackson

If I wasn't singing, I'd probably be, probably an accountant.

Chris Brown

I started when I was about 11, singing.

Charlotte Church

It was quite strange, because it's quite different from singing, although it's quite natural because you're used to performing or acting on stage.

Edmund Spenser

So Orpheus did for his owne bride, So I unto my selfe alone will sing, The woods shall to me answer and my Eccho ring.