Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Jonathan Brown

Whenever the occasion arose, he rose to the occasion.

Alan Sugar

I'm an Englishman. What more can I say?

Rachel Ward

When I wanted to be an actress, I never wanted really to be the kind of actress I became.

Sanjay Kumar

I'm equally comfortable in getting out there and taking a stand when I have to take a stand.

Sanjay Kumar

It didn't make a lot of sense for us to be doing Lotus Notes implementations.

Thomas Gray

He gave to misery (all he had) a tear.

Samuel Richardson

Those who will bear much, shall have much to bear.

Samuel Richardson

A man may keep a woman, but not his estate.

Samuel Richardson

A husband's mother and his wife had generally better be visitors than inmates.

Rachel Ward

When I wanted to be an actress, I never wanted really to be the kind of actress I became.

Tilda Swinton

Nic's Charlie is something very particular. You can't really put them together. It's a phantasm.

Tilda Swinton

I wasn't around when Nic was playing Donald. I was around with Charlie.

Tilda Swinton

I knew Spike Jonze would do something really interesting with it.

Tilda Swinton

It may be unfair of me but I do feel I know it.

Saffron Burrows

Ultimately, I just approached her as a young woman who's pretty screwed up, and I started reading Sylvia Plath and Virginia Woolf.

Kim Cattrall

Since doing the show I've been so busy that I've not really had time to mope.

Kristin Scott Thomas

I was happy, I wasn't beaten, and I lacked nothing. But it wasn't what people expect - it was very much sort of pinching and scraping. I don't know how my mother did it.

Dinah Sheridan

While making Genevieve, I learned there could be a lot more to a film than just acting in it.

Carol Shields

The recounting of a life is a cheat...even our own stories are obscenely distorted...

Carlos Fuentes

Writing is a struggle against silence.

Carlos Castaneda

What is a truthful life? A life lived with deliberateness, a good, strong life.

Carlos Castaneda

I'm never angry at anybody! No human being can do anything important enough for that. You get angry at people when you feel that their acts are important. I don't feel that way any longer.

Carlos Castaneda

Burn your bridges every 2 years.

Carlos Castaneda

One ,must have something to die for in order to have something to live for

Carlos Castaneda

For me the world is weird because it is stupendous, awesome, mysterious, unfathomable; my interest has been to convince you that you must assume responsibility for being here, in this marvelous world, in this marvelous desert, in this marvelous time. I want to convince you that you must learn to make every act count, since you are going to be here for only a short while, in fact, too short for witnessing all the marvels of it.

C. S. Lewis

Bridge-players tell me that there must be some money on the game 'or else people won't take it seriously'. Apparently it's like that. Your bid - for God or no God, for a good God or the Cosmic Sadist, for eternal life or nonentity - will not be serious if nothing much is staked on it. And you will never discover how serious it was until the stakes are raised horribly high, until you find that you are playing not for counters or for sixpences but for every penny you have in the world.

Agnes de Mille

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Bill Gates

I didn't completed my University Education

Bill Gates

I didn't even complete my University Education

Ben Barnes

I actually went to university.

Derek Bok

Fewer than half of all university professors publish as much as one article per year.

Vince Young

We're not going to be scared. We're going to be pumped. Nervousness is not a part of the University of Texas.

Lars Mikkelsen

I was in the military, and then I went to university to study biology.

Ryan Lynch

I think this will show the university that we are a responsible community.

Earlon McWhorter

We're willing to look in the mirror, see what we see and do what we have to do to make this university better.

Adolf Hitler

For I must not measure the speech of a statesman to his people by the impression which it leaves in a university professor, but by the effect it exerts on the people. And this alone gives the standard for the speaker's genius.