Famous Quotes & Sayings

Italo Calvino

I will revolutionise art and the world. Hurrah!

Richard P. Feynman

Until I began to learn to draw, I was never much interested in looking at art.

Richard Lamm

We've got a duty to die and get out of the way with all of our machines and artificial hearts and everything else like that and let the other society, our kids, build a reasonable life.

Robert Wilson

Most artists don't understand what they do, and I don't think we have to. Other people do that better - they understand what I do better than I do!

Robert Wilson

When we look back at the Mayans or ancient Egypt, we look at their art.

Robert Wilson

By giving the leadership to the private sector in a capitalistic society, we're going to measure the value of art by how many products we can sell.

Ron Wood

I've got an article where my mum says that I used to run home from school to watch the Stones on TV. Right from when I was at college I wanted to be in that band.

Mallory Ortberg

The most successful Subway customers, of course, are the ones who can't keep their hands off their sandwich. Join your artist in the sandwich assembling process. That sneeze guard is a suggestion. That sneeze guard is trying to intimidate you into staying on the customer's side of the partition.

Malcolm Mclaren

Stealing things is a glorious occupations, particularly in the art world.

Katharine Barondeau

Missouri?s economy has consistently improved since Governor Blunt took office. The growth in new jobs over the past year is good news for Missouri families and our state economy.

Kate Grenville

Words are a pretty blunt instrument. There's always going to be slippage between the words and the infinite complexities of a thought. As a writer, I find that frustrating, but as a social animal, I wouldn't have it any other way.

Tracy McMillan

I'm a blunt person, not mean-spirited. I come from a place of love, but I'm interested in being real.

David Harsanyi

Simplification of the tax code would not only unlock dormant economic potential, but, in the process, it would blunt the preferred weapon of social engineers, who reward favored industries, punish success and distort economic incentives.

Honeysuckle Weeks

I think Emily Blunt is definitely our finest young female English export. She has an uncanny grace.

Robert Kirshner

We don't know much about bursts so there is a risk this is misleading. It is a blunt tool to measure a delicate effect.

Pink

Sometimes I wish I was poetic and subtle. I write very bold and blunt and tell it like it is.

Feist

When I did '1,2,3,4' on 'Sesame Street' they'd rewritten the song and made it about counting. At first, I balked. I was like, 'Counting to four? That's where we're going with this?' Then they sent me appearances by other people like James Blunt doing 'You're Beautiful' as 'My Triangle.'

Sheryl Sandberg

Women are not making it to the top of any profession in the world. But when I say, 'The blunt truth is that men run the world,' people say, 'Really?' That, to me, is the problem.

Alexandra Adornetto

Sometimes it's better to stop trying to make sense of things. Life isn't clear cut, there are always gray areas.

George Perkins

We're not cutting back to save the world, ... I'm going to need to figure out how to get along.

SJ Morrison

We're not cutting any services; what we're doing is redistributing services.

Larry Ceisler

Look, when your opponent is cutting their own throat, you don't get in the way.

John Challenger

Several telecom deals have yet to be finalized, but once they are we can expect to see more fallout, especially since many of these deals were made with the sole purpose of cutting costs,

Beth Jones

Several departments have increased demand for services, and how do you meet those demands if you're cutting staff?

John Challenger

October and November were the second- and third-heaviest months of the year for layoffs, ... We returned to the levels of job cutting we saw in 2001, which was the heaviest year we've ever tracked.

Gary Larson

No one knows what the public school system is going to look like in 10 or 20Êyears, but we know it's moving toward being more innovative, more cutting edge or more designed to meeting the needs of individual students.

Gary Larson

No one knows what the public school system is going to look like in 10 or 20 years, but we know it's moving toward being more innovative, more cutting edge or more designed to meeting the needs of individual students.

Ralph Johnson

(Manhattan) is on the edge of very explosive growth.

Roger Simon

So far the hunters have taken 3,000 to 4,000 seals. That's not ridiculously slow, but it's not fast either. It's the lower edge of the norm.

Dean Eberling

Morgan Stanley has a leg up because they've been there and done that. The Lombard acquisition was really a perfect edge for them in that it gave them a nice window into the world of online trading.

Tre Smith

I feel like I'm right on the edge of playing a lot. I'm the guy right there if they ever need me.

John Beilein

I wish they listened to me that attentively in some of our meetings because our guys were on the edge of their seat.

Steve Smith

I look for every edge I can get. I'll do anything not to be a failure.

John Davis

I have a friend that works at a gas station so I just get him to phone me when it's going up, so I can get the inside edge on it.

Andrew Patterson

I have an edge for selfishness to win, no matter what game it is. But this one, the way things have gone, I want to finish with a bang.

Bill Bryson

. . . I happened upon a path that vanished into a wood on the edge of town.

Michael Long

Macquarie is stalling for time. There's always the opportunity to raise the offer later on.

Angel Guzman

Let's see what happens. Everything is on standby. It's about showing them we are ready -- no matter if it's now, later this season or next year.

Mats Sundin

Milestones you look back on later in your career,

Tad Hutcheson

Maybe we can make it work later on.

James Corden

No one could have predicted on day one of rehearsals, that a year and a half later we would have shot a film and all be living in New York. It was surreal.

Duane Campbell

Maybe later on in life I will run for the track championship, ... But right now, I just want to race.

Tom Stoppard

In Chekhov, everything blends into its opposite, just fractionally, and this is sort of unsettling. And that's why you end up 100 years later asking, 'Is that moment tragic or comic?'

Bob Moore

We won't have anything until later today. I don't think it's career-ending.

Dascha Polanco

I was raised in New York and then moved to Miami in my teenage years, returning to New York later on.

Elizabeth Edwards

You know, everybody knows some of what politicians say is malarkey, and having somebody there to call them on it is good. I'd be happy to do that any time and any place.

Eliot Spitzer

I don't like politicians who vacillate.

Douglas Alexander

Any politician in a democracy has to be mindful of public opinion.

Sunil Mittal

I wanted to prove that a son of a politician can be a successful businessman.

Farooq Abdullah

I should learn the language of a politician - give away as little and keep the rest to yourself. Not lie, I just want to be more guarded.

David Cross

There's the disingenuous duplicitousness, but you can apply that to every politician, really.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

A great politician has great charisma.

James Zogby

There's nothing more dangerous than a panicked politician.

Jasmine Guinness

I grew up in Ireland, so I do not have a lot of respect for most politicians.

Charles Spurgeon

God's thoughts of you are many, let not yours be few in return.

Eduard Shevardnadze

I don't plan to return. I have a lot of unresolved things to do.

Rick Perry

I can't say in strong enough terms that those who evacuated that they should not return at this time,

David Nicholls

She made you decent, and in return you made her so happy

Mike Leach

On that play, we had a return on, ... I thought (Douglas) did a tremendous job.

Laurence D. Fink

When you look at dividend returns on equities versus bond yields, to me it's a pretty easy decision to be heavily in equities.

Peter Jackson

'The Return Of The King' has a conclusion.

Peter Sis

I still have an accent. But when I return to Prague, I speak the language yet do not know what they are talking about.

William Shakespeare

Ready to go but never to return.

Edmund White

Most writers tend to get worse rather than better. I'm determined to be one that gets better.

Timothy Noah

Moderates tend more than ideologues to be other-directed types who respond to external pressure.

Emily Mortimer

I'm always drawn to the thing I think I can't possibly do, because I tend to be better when I think I can't possibly do something than I am when I'm pretty sure I can do something.

Chris Adrian

My natural tendency is to write about zombie bunnies, but one of my first writing teachers got incorporated into my writing superego, and I keep hearing his admonition to make things feel more real the weirder they get.

Anthony Hopkins

I tend to get bored quickly, which means I must be boring.

Idina Menzel

I tend to have a pattern of playing misunderstood characters.

Bryan Cogman

I tend to work in coffee shops. I need to get out of the house, and, well, I need the coffee.

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

All actors tend to be the same messed-up people.

Kat Edmonson

When I tend to belt, it kind of reminds me of like a more '60s girl doo-wop kind of belting.

Theresa Breslin

In addition to being a writer, I'm a librarian - professionally trained and everything.

Twyla Tharp

I find that dancers are only well trained in ballet these days.

Jeff Mullins

She actually trained like an old mare; she never did train like a 2-year-old, ... She's always done what we wanted her to.

Greg Wise

I'm a trained architect. Both my parents were architects.

Liang Chow

I think gymnastics trained me as a person, too. Without the lessons I learned in gymnastics, I would be crushed.

Steve Chizmar

Unless you are trained to use this data, it is really meaningless.

Tiffany Thornton

I trained in Texas at Nikki Pederson Talent Academy.

Atticus Ross

My wife is a classically trained piano player, and she also orchestrates.

Spencer Boldman

I was trained as a dramatic actor. I'm really excited to do some more dramatic stuff.

Source Unknown

One thing you can give and still keep is your word.

Toba Beta

I do not say words, which you want to hear. The words just told me, to write them down.

Charles Dickens

Can you suppose there's any harm in looking as cheerful and being as cheerful as our poor circumstances will permit?

Charles Dickens

Have I yet to learn that the hardest and best-borne trials are those which are never chronicled in any earthly record, and are suffered every day!

Charles Dickens

Trifles make the sum of life.

Charles Dickens

Everybody said so. Far be it from me to assert that what everybody says must be true. Everybody is, often, as likely to be wrong as right.

Charles Dickens

A word in earnest is as good as a speech.

Charles Dickens

Anything that makes a noise is satisfactory to a crowd.

Charles Dickens

Surprises, like misfortunes, seldom come alone.

Billy Joel

She can kill with a smile, She can wound with her eyes.

Gary Scelzi

I have chills. I've been wound up all week.

Aisha Tyler

Wounds turn into scars and scars make you tough.

Demi Moore

Don't let your wounds make you become someone you're not.

Martin Meehan

The psychological wounds can be much more destructive,

Dennis Quaid

I went out for the football team but, you know, I was too small. That's how I wound up in drama.

Erwin McManus

Love never comes without wounds; faith never comes without failure.

Paul Dergarabedian

Nothing salves the wound of controversy like money.

Sherman Alexie

Humor was an antiseptic that cleaned the deepest of personal wounds.