Famous Quotes & Sayings

Agnes Smedley

To die would have been beautiful. But I belong to those who do not die for the sake of beauty.

Agnes Martin

What I say is that we're capable of a transcendent response, and I think it makes us happy. And I do think beauty produces a transcendent response.

Charlie Chaplin

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.

Charlie Chaplin

Beauty is an omnipresence of death and loveliness, a smiling sadness that we discern in nature and all things, a mystic communion that the poet feels.

Charles Dudley Warner

There is no beauty like that which was spoiled by an accident; no accomplishments and graces are so to be envied as those that circumstances rudely hindered the development of.

Charles Caleb Colton

That is true beauty which has not only a substance, but a spirit; a beauty that we must intimately know, justly to appreciate.

Toba Beta

When I feel the beauty in words, I am sensing the logic of heart.

Sugar Ray Leonard

I watched Muhammad Ali, how when he would speak, how it was such a thing of beauty. It sounded so wonderful. And I wanted to be like him.

Theodore Bikel

I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sing about the beauty of the work I wasn't doing.

Mike Pence

We have no higher stewardship, no higher calling than to come onto this floor and into this chamber and make the tough decisions.

David Houghton

Whenever you get that sort of wetland component, you get a lot of productivity, ... People in the North Country would call that bugs.

John Heimlich

When your second-highest cost plummets, that's huge. I call it the saving grace of the fourth quarter after the (federal assistance). But we're not quite as sanguine that we can count on that this year.

Saul Klein

When you're visiting the page of an enterprise software vendor and you want to call their support number, that phone number will be highlighted and you'll instantly be connected.

Gary Condit

When folks start calling my dad a murderer or suggesting my mom and dad had something to do with the disappearance, that's too much, too far, unfair and it's wrong,

Jason Mraz

We want people to see us live before we continue on and call ourselves recording artists.

Nancy Verderber

We want people to realize that while we are a national organization and our roots are in the community. We do raise a lot of money but we are also something patients can call on when they need something.

Curtis Green

We want her to know we love her, we miss her and we want her to come home. Please call someone.

Ryan Metcalf

We were trying to find a new shoe place and we were calling all these places. They told us they were going to call us and we never got a phone call back. There was always some problem that kept getting in the way.

Carol Roth

Eighty to 90 percent of success in a company has nothing to do with business at all - it's all personal.

Robert Watson

We want to reinforce the fact that we're a global company.

Mark Hurd

We have to grow our company, invest and deal with competitive forces at the same time we need to be efficient on the cost side,

David Brown

We have no plans to make any significant changes. ... The mill won't close. We understand the importance of the company to the Longview community. We would expect a significant portion of management would stay in place.

Ben Hatfield

We have no interest in getting into finger-pointing of what went on a year ago. This is a mine that operated for some significant time before my company was involved with it.

Vijay Mallya

We have registered a company in the name of Kingfisher International in the US. We will be flying to India and other international destinations, provided we get all necessary approvals at the right time.

James Falvey

The Exxon-Mobil deal has definitely raised the bar. It's going to be hard to compete with a company that size.

Michael Armstrong

We set out to transform this company from a point-to-point long-distance company. The results today are strong. They need to be better, and they will be. But it's now time to recognize the value creation phase of our strategy.

Thayer David

Dan Curtis, our producer, has the idea that people like to see a stock company of actors.

Dana Reeve

I look to him as the ultimate example of defying the odds.

Hailee Steinfeld

The rivalry between the Montague and the Capulet kids seems very modern to me. Juliet is a free spirit, full of untapped love and passion. I think a lot of girls can relate to her. And it's very relevant in terms of kids defying their parents.

Gwendoline Christie

I love a challenge. And I love defying limitation, gender stereotypes, and people's expectations of me as an actress.

Steve Pearson

The story of 2005 was the dollar defying an overwhelmingly bearish consensus. The dollar has little to fear from a slowdown in U.S. consumption growth as this will eventually lead to an improved external trade position.

Scott Brown

Rarely have elected leaders been so intent on defying the public will.

John Winters

By engaging in this illegal protest they are sanctioning an illegal strike that is undermining the rule of law by openly defying our province's highest legal authority, the B.C. Supreme Court.

Mark McKinnon

This president has a real pattern of defying conventional wisdom.

Jack Straw

In respect to Iraq, Saddam is defying every one of us, ... He questions our resolve and is gambling we will lose nerve rather than enforce our will.

Fidel Castro

also means defying the powerful forces inside and outside our country.

Alexander Ovechkin

We have nine games more, we have to try to win five or six. We don't have any pressure right now and we're enjoying ourselves.

Kelly Gilmore

Whenever you have an evergreen property like Superman, retailers will enjoy enormous successbecause recognition is so high.

Ron Orlosky

We want people to enjoy life. Jess is probably looking down from heaven and smiling.

Gail Kautz

We were always very ambitious. We enjoy working hard. We had a lot of fun -- we're not done yet.

Charles Caleb Colton

He that sympathizes in all the happiness of others, perhaps himself enjoys the safest happiness.

Bruce Moore

The process interests me. Trying different media, seeking out things to paint, going different places. I just enjoy the whole process. I find it very relaxing.

Joel Parkinson

When I enjoy my surfing, I get good results, and I've always had fun in South Africa.

David Sanborn

When I was 17 or 18 and it was time to figure out what to do with my life, I realized that I didn't enjoy anything as much as I enjoyed playing music. I felt that I had no choice: that I had to become a musician.

Jack Horner

The people in Rudyard are very, very friendly, and I think they very much enjoy having us there and we just have a generally good time there.

Jane Siberry

Harmony is when the sum is greater than the parts. A happy exaggeration.

Arianna Huffington

We all have this place in us, a place of strength, harmony and wisdom, but most of the time we don't live there How can we course-correct faster? How can we encourage each other to live in that place more?

John Baker

Pop used to be as safe as it could be. Today it's radical to hear harmony and melodies.

Bashar al-Assad

Israeli interests are not necessarily in harmony with the American interests.

Henry David Thoreau

Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody

Bernie Worrell

If a person would study-not extensively, just hands-on, real instruments, and study a little harmony and theory, you could take it even further.

Ashley Monroe

I feel like it's the most unnatural thing for two humans, especially of the opposite sex, to live in harmony under one roof. You realize how different men and women are.

Rig Veda

Harmony prevails if people of similar nature meet.

Kathleen Noone

I surf out of Harmony on a big wave. It's all Tabitha's fault.

Carlos Beltran

I'm a family man. I just love being around my family.

C. S. Lewis

You ask whether I have ever been in love: fool as I am, I am not such a fool as that. But if one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business. But though I have no personal experience of the things they call love, I have what is better - the experience of Sappho, of Euripides, of Catallus, of Shakespeare, of Spenser, of Austen, of Bronte, of anyone else I have read.

C. S. Lewis

Last year, when he had been staying with the Pevensies, he had managed to hear them all talking of Narnia and he loved teasing them about it. He thought of course that they were making it all up; and as he was far too stupid to make anything up himself, he did not approve of that.

C. S. Lewis

It is, of course, quite true that God will not love you any less, or have less use for you, if you happen to have been born with a very second-rate brain.

C. S. Lewis

It is no disparagement to the garden to say it will not fence and weed itself, nor prune its own fruit trees, nor roll and cut its own lawns...It will remain a garden only if someone does all these things to it...If you want to see the difference between [the garden's] contribution and the gardener's, put the commonest weed it grows side by side with his hoes rakes, shears, and a packet of weed killer; you have put beauty, energy, and fecundity beside dead, steril things. Just so, our 'decency and common sense' show grey and deathlike beside the geniality of love.

Agnes Smedley

Yet it is awful to love a person who is a torture to you. And a fascinating person who loves you and won't hear of anything but your loving him and living right by his side through all eternity!

Agnes Repplier

Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients ...

Agnes Repplier

It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.

Aaron Stanford

Actors, we like stories, we like storytelling, we love being a part of the story, and if you give us a story that's interesting then we'll want to do it.

Byron Katie

To exclude anything that appears in your universe is not love. Love joins with everything. It doesn't exclude the monster. It doesn't avoid the nightmare - it looks forward to it.

Charles Baudelaire

Life swarms with innocent monsters.

Bill Goldberg

Brock [Lesnar] is one hell of a wrestler, and he's a big monster.

Michael Schwartz

She is nowhere near the monster everyone has made her out to be.

Elizabeth Missing Sewell

... a woman who is not feminine is a monster in creation.

Denzel Washington

I'm a logic monster, if things don't make sense I gotta make sense of them.

Danilo Pinnock

Pops is playing like the monster he is. Nothing he's doing out there is surprising us because we see it every day.

Matthew Murphy

I was scared then - the monster was in my belly.

Butch Wynegar

I look for him to have a monster year.

Andre Previn

When you're working with music that is invariably better than you are, it's difficult to become swell-headed.

Agnes Obel

Even though music is something I travel around doing, it is also a very private thing. A sort of escapism.

Agnes Repplier

What strange impulse is it which induces otherwise truthful people to say they like music when they do not, and thus expose themselves to hours of boredom?

Charlie Byrd

And a musician has to learn to be frugal and to carefully manage financial affairs

Charlie Byrd

I had been to São Paulo the year before and became pretty well acquainted with the music of composer Antonio Carlos Jobim, I had already started playing that music, and the audience response had been pretty good because those songs are so melodic. I knew it would be something that would be appealing; I wasn't thinking that it would make the top of the pop charts or anything like that.

Charlie Byrd

Music's not like becoming a doctor, who can walk into a community and find people who need him.

Charlie Byrd

The guitar is a means of expressing music, When you get into the emotional side of it, then it's not the guitar that matters so much as the music itself. But the guitar is the vehicle I use. It's how I express myself. As for the emotional side, music takes up where language leaves off. To try and verbalize what music says, emotionally and spiritually, is futile. Let me put it this way, Louis Armstrong once said if you've got to ask, you'll never know.

Charlie Byrd

Usually, no one quite knew where Django Reinhardt was going to be, but I met his brother and about an hour later in walks Django with an entourage of friends. He always traveled with a large group-carried his own admirers with him, the most sinister-looking bunch of hoodlums you've ever seen. I walked up and offered to buy him a drink. That seemed to be the right thing to do... he was the first really brilliant solo guitarist I ever became aware of, I had records of his when I was 10 years old. It just blew my mind that anyone could play a guitar like that. Still does.

Charlie Byrd

A person should design the way he makes a living around how he wishes to make a life.

Agnetha Faltskog

When I was 15 I became a full-time singer in a band. At 18 I made my first record.

Marc Chandler

We've seen speculators try to get out of short yen positions, which were at record levels.

Ben King

We used to record with string sections, so it's like going back to that time.

Tom Odell

I tend to write and record things quite quickly. You can tamper with things for years, and it's artistic laziness sometimes.

David Sanborn

I just kinda like playing. I don't necessarily go on tour to promote my albums. I'm on the road all the time. The fact that I have a new record is out is a coincidence.

Bryan Ferry

Get down with your old Allman Bros. records!

Elton John

Well, I was making a record, and I had to choose a name, because they said, you know, you can't make a record under the name of Reg Dwight, because it's never going to - you know, it's not attractive enough.

Kid Rock

When I was making my first record there would be something that would come out that would inspire you, you know? You'd see someone on TV or on the radio.

Jane Austen

I am fond of history and am very well contented to take the false with the true. In the principal facts they have sources of intelligence in former histories and records, which may be as much depended on, I conclude, as anything that does not actually pass under ones own observation; and as for the little embellishments you speak of, they are embellishments, and I like them as such.