Famous Quotes & Sayings

Betty Smith

You won't die, Francie. You were born to lick this rotten life.

Cilla Black

If I'm in a rotten mood, I stay in and watch television.

William Shakespeare

A rotten case abides no handling.

Ron Kittle

This was one of the rotten things that happened.

Donald O'Connor

It's so wonderful... if your whole day is rotten, once they start the music, it seems to melt away.

David Attenborough

Since when has Finland been a rotten place to live in?

Karl Marx

There must be something rotten in the very core of a social system which increases its wealth without diminishing its misery

Nicholas Culpeper

For God's sake build not your faith upon Tradition, 'tis as rotten as a rotten Post.

Jenny Holzer

I wanted to be an abstract painter, but I was rotten at it.

Laughlin McDonald

The court took a standard that was intelligible, easy to apply and turned it into something that is subjective, abstract and impressionistic.

Theodor Svedberg

The investigations which have seemingly been the most purely abstract have often formed the foundation of the most important changes or improvements in the conditions of human life.

Lev Vygotsky

The most significant moment in the course of intellectual development, which gives birth to the purely human forms of practical and abstract intelligence, occurs when speech and practical activity, two previously completely independent lines of development, converge.

Louise Bourgeois

I know that when I finish a drawing, my anxiety level decreases. The realistic drawings are a way of pinning down an idea. I don't want to loose it. With the abstract drawings, when I'm feeling loose, I can slip into the unconscious.

Vicky Rideout

The positive side of that is that TV shows and movies can really help people see the connection between what might be an abstract Washington policy issue and real people's lives, even though it's fictional real people,

Lucien Smith

People understand what art is supposed to look like, and so it's easy to make something that looks like art but isn't - especially in an abstract form.

Berthold Auerbach

Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.

Kenneth L. Pike

When I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle; I conform to the nature of God.

Twyla Tharp

I'm not satisfied sitting in just the world of abstract work.

Ben Whishaw

I would have loved to have been a painter or a sculptor. I'm still fascinated by those things.

Jordan Bridges

I have a theory that most people disagree with. I really feel that acting for film and acting for the stage are two different crafts. I think that they share things in common. But I liken it to a painter switching over to photography.

Gail Carson Levine

I didn't want to be a writer. First I wanted to act, and then I wanted to be a painter like my big sister.

Pierre Bonnard

I should like to present myself to the young painters of the year 2000 with the wings of a butterfly.

G. H. Hardy

A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.

Fred Gwynne

When I was a teenager, I wanted to be a portrait painter. As I got to be older, I realized that as a portrait painter I wouldn't be able to support a goldfish.

Jamie Wyeth

Being a painter is the only profession where you have to stand there with all your shortcomings on the wall.

Paul Cezanne

The painter unfolds that which has not been seen.

Max Cannon

I wanted to be a painter.