Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Cusack

Our parents more or less just kind of wanted us to pursue our passions. Whatever they would have been, they would have helped light the fire. They are very liberal, artistic people, but they didn't force us into acting. They let us find our own ways.

Keith Davis

Parks was a man of perhaps unparalleled artistic talent.

Susan Baker

Paul Kellogg has been a beloved and visionary leader of City Opera and we will miss him deeply. During the past ten years we have been fortunate to have had the benefit not only of his extraordinary artistic sensibility, his wise counsel and his inspirational leadership, but also of his impeccable human values, warmth and charm. That said, we cannot help but understand that he wishes to have more personal time after many years of service to the arts and we salute and thank him for his formidable accomplishments and significant contributions both to City Opera and to opera in general. Paul Kellogg's vision for City Opera has charted our course for the coming years. We are grateful beyond measure and will miss him profoundly.

Stephanie Szostak

People in fashion treat it as a business... I guess Hollywood is a business, too, but you talk about story: you talk about a more artistic world than in fashion.

Robert Forster

People often ask me would I swap the artistic reputation of a top 20 hit but I wouldn't and that comes down to how we feel about the music. Even in the early days when we formed in Brisbane we were always shocked after playing a gig that people we had never met before would come up to us and congratulate us on the songs and in a sense we've kept that naive sort of innocence about us.

Eric Greene

Overall I am pleased. All things considered I think it went very well and from an artistic standpoint I'm very proud of what we've been able to do. The goal next year is to provide the same quality and save a little money.

Christopher Moore

Our artists are very good technicians. They have sensibility and artistic balance. But quite often they lack in creation. I have one artist here in my studio in New York. She's a good painter, but she has problems of creating her own stuff, of inventing. She can copy from a postcard, but when she has to do other things she has a tough time. She knows it. Not everybody can do great things.

John Updike

Our artistic heroes tend to be those self-exercisers, like Picasso, and Nabokov, and Wallace Stevens, who rather defiantly kept playing past dark.

Don Robinson

The artistic talent in this country is phenomenal and this is an exciting time to be a designer. We and our partners look forward to seeing the best work that the Bahamian art community, both here and abroad, will have to offer.

Gerald Cox

Real quick, what had been a close game turned into a huge blowout. When you have a kid that can shoot it like Brent can, you're going to let him keep shooting it.

Dave Taylor

Our reports on him as far back as juniors were always positive and favorable. He's definitely someone we've kept a close eye on over the years.

Alex Johnson

Our poll tells us that we should take a close look at the potential impact of some popular technology on hearing health.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Patience with family members and others who are close to us is vital for us to have happy homes.

Rob Sumner

Part of it is that we don't score a lot, so we had better be good in one-goal games. We're confident and comfortable playing in close games.

Jason Stevenson

Our lightweights did a good job tonight. They all went out with fire in their eyes. The matches were all close and Tait was fighting hard down to the very end.

Brian Hukel

Our legs seemed to leave us. Our effort, our legs -- I'm not sure -- but we failed to close out on some guys. They've got a lot of guys that can knock it down. If you don't close out, they're going to make shots and he made some big ones.

Judy Pardonnet

Our legal staff looked into it very closely and carefully, and the train platforms are definitely covered.

Judy Pardonnet

Our lawyers took a really close look at this. It was ruled LaSalle Street is covered, and smoking is prohibited.

Tony Shaver

Part of (the improvement) is understanding shot selection. We've defined shot selection as much as we can for the players and the team. They understand that and now they are playing with more freedom.

David Novak

Jewish status is defined by the divine election of Israel and his descendants. One does not become a Jew by one's own volition.

Joe Wilcox

Lifestyle is changing, with greater emphasis on context. It used to be that location defined work and home life. That no longer applies. Even people that work in an office sometimes take work at home.

Bruce Cockburn

I think if I really put my mind to it I probably did think I would be, but under what conditions, ... I expect to be doing this until I drop or become incapacitated. I don't make any more defined plans than that.

Cindy Hockenberry

It all comes down to whether you're defined as a trader or an investor. There's so much misinformation out there on the distinction, because the IRS hasn't really issued definitive guidelines on it.

Samuel Wilson

Moreover, environmental health at the local level has become narrowly focused, very much defined around regulations and the attendant regulatory debates.

Carmen Ejogo

Growing up in London, with a hippie mom, I don't know that I'm most people's definition of what a black person is. I'm mixed, yes, but in the world I'm defined as black before I'm defined white. I've never been called white.

Richard Lazarus

John is conservative in his political beliefs. He is somebody, though, who has not defined his life driven by his politics or driven by his ideology.

Lee Evans

I'm a lot more confident, ... I think more so this year, my role is defined and I know what they expect of me.

Bob Brown

That's the kind of style of runner Joe is. He is the epitome of the fullback in the I-formation.

Bob Brown

That's the kind of style of runner Joe is, ... He is the epitome of the fullback in the I-formation.

Gil Cates

Jon is the epitome of a perfect host - smart, engaging, irreverent and funny.

Mike Trapasso

He's been the epitome of a team guy.

John Dunlap

Glen was the epitome of the servant leader that Southeastern is all about. He's always willing to help anybody, anywhere, any time. That was his legacy.

Donna Nicholson

She's the epitome of a point guard already. That doesn't happen often (with a sophomore). She was groomed for this position.

Gary Bauer

She was the epitome of the stealth strategy, the idea of nominating somebody that doesn't have a record,

Kim Elizabeth

I am the epitome of a walking contradiction for various reasons, only one of which being that I feel my existence is of heaven and hell.

S. Walker

We are the epitome of what it means to fight on.

Richard Midgley

Regardless of whether we won or lost last Saturday, there would've been a lot of pressure going into this week.

Jackie Williams

Recovery is a miracle. It lasts for a life time.

Sam Burns

Recessions usually last about a year. That would place the end around March or April.

John Buchanan

Our record over the last while has been pretty well exemplary, with just the odd incident.

Samuel Johnson

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

Roger Short

Part of the time we do go around in pairs, but these pairs don't last a lifetime.

Jay Bly

Our line play versus the run is going to be a key. We're going to have to play disciplined on defense. No matter what offense someone plays, if you get whipped up front, you're not going to win. We saw that when we looked at last year's tape, but we've made some adjustments.

Lee Salem

Our only regret is that it didn't last longer. That was Bill's decision.

Patrick Stewart

Our last words were, 'Be safe. I love you,' ... He said, 'I will.'

Yuri Andropov

peace for ourselves and for all the people of the planet.

Rick Daniels

We've tended to be passive and reactive when it comes to recruiting companies. We've got to start being active and make ourselves stand out.

John Brady

We never really got ourselves into a rhythm on offense. It seemed like to me we were always struggling offensively to get something accomplished.

Martin Parr

The ability for us to laugh at ourselves is Britain's saving grace.

Dennis Golden

That was frustrating, but there's nothing we can do about that. We just had to pick ourselves up and go right back at them.

Stephen Colbert

You shouldn't listen to us at all if you're looking for information. We don't take ourselves seriously on any level; we're just comedians.

Kate Beckinsale

There's such a pressure on women that we put on ourselves and everyone else puts on us to look unrealistic and everything, but you just can't compare yourself to people in magazines.

Charles Pierce

I would say we have probably transformed ourselves from a small to a medium-sized institution.

Justin Doellman

Basically, it's our defense. In the past two games, we weren't ourselves out there.

Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

Other women see all the women I play as separate people. Men say, She always plays tough, willful types; strong women who are also vulnerable.

Wayne Gretzky

We've talked about this for it seems like months. When the team plays disciplined, plays smart and plays the way that they need to play to be successful, we have some success.

F. Stone

The annuals, the yearbooks, brochures and programs of old plays and musicals...that all tells the story about what they did.

Ed Swanson

That was huge. The kid's got guts. She can be 0-for-6 from 3, and she's going to shoot that seventh shot the way she shot that first shot. She plays with confidence.

Greg Graham

That was a tough one. We made all the plays down the stretch. We got big stops, we just ran out of time.

Kip Rhoten

That's what he can do when he wants to. When he plays like he did tonight, we're tough.

Joe Gibbs

I think it was one of the prettiest plays I've ever seen,

Nicklas Lidstrom

I think we can make it tougher on him out there, make him skate a little more. He's going to make plays out there. We can get on him quicker, not give him that time with the puck.

Rod Smith

I tell all the young guys, when it's all done, it's about performance. When you get the chance, you have to make some plays . . . that's just the way it is.

Rachel Gibson

'Rescue Me' is the first book in a three-book series. Although, like all my series, the books are purposely written so that readers do not have to read them in order.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Prison is not a mere physical horror. It is using a pickaxe to no purpose that makes a prison.

Bertrand Russell

Bacon not only despised the syllogism, but undervalued mathematics, presumably as insufficiently experimental. He was virulently hostile to Aristotle , but he thought very highly of Democritus , Although he did not deny that the course of nature exemplifies a Divine purpose, he objected to any admixture of teleological explanation in the actual investigation of phenomena; everything, he held, should be explained as following necessarily from efficient causes .

Michelle Birdsong

That's the whole purpose of putting them on the line. Those have to be our rebounds.

Ian Bell

I was purposely trying to slow him down, to play at my pace, with me in my little bubble.

Mario Hernandez

It has served its purpose, and it's time to replace that.

Mark Dutro

I did that on purpose. We were down by two, and I didn't want to see Montrose win here on our track.

Richard Boucher

The purpose of these talks is to get started,

Tim Wulfemeyer

The purpose of new technology is to democratize the system a little bit.

Ryan Martin

I was just trying to keep my serves inbound. I wasn't really going for aces.

Jed Connelly

I think it's well served to be cautious.

John Greene

He wanted to serve his country, ... If that's what he had to do, that's what he had to do.

Andy Roddick

Had I rolled through that one 6-3, served it out, who knows?

David Ferrer

His serve is lethal, ... When it's on, it's really tough to contest.

Gore Vidal

For the record, I'm a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.

Lea Barrett

There is a need to place some students on the Mullins campus... and my recommendation is for Dr. Dow-Harris to serve as principal.

Steve Carter

If they can serve it from Sallisaw, and show they can serve it well, that's OK. But I would like to see a station there at some point, once it makes sense.

Tom Ridge

He is not one to parse. He has said he will serve out his term and that has not changed,

Carl Rakosi

I fell in love with social work, and that was my undoing as a poet.

Lawrence Krauss

That would give social structures more time to adapt.

Cesar Chavez

Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed.

Carroll Quigley

The basis of social relationships is reciprocity: if you cooperate with others, others will cooperate with you.

Bruce Braley

Increasing the minimum wagewill put billions annually into the Social Security trust fund.

Barbara Mikulski

Politics is social work with power.

Eduardo Paes

You cannot deal with a city if it's not socially integrated.

Le Corbusier

It is a question of building which is at the root of the social unrest of today: architecture or revolution.

Adolf Hitler

Basically National Socialism and Marxism are the same.

Carrie Coon

I didn't grow up knowing actors' names, and my parents weren't theater people.

Stephen Sachs

I think it's going to be visually stunning. It's going to be a very unique theater experience,

Didi Conn

I love working in the theater.

Robert Wilson

To me, what is important in the theater is that we don't want to make a conclusion. We don't want to make a statement, don't want to say what something is. We want to ask, 'What is it?'

Freddie Prinze, Jr.

I didn't see 'Star Wars' in theaters until George Lucas re-tweaked it.

Jim Zwerg

We were having a celebration for the integration of the movie theaters when we got word of the bus-burning.

Angela Lansbury

The theater is magical and addictive.

Jane Krakowski

That's why I love doing live theater more than anything: You get an immediate reaction, whether it's good or bad.

Austin Peck

Ever since I got on Days I've been doing theater.

Aminatta Forna

Most writers I know go for word counts, and I used to be a journalist, so I guess that's ingrained.

Claire Tomalin

Most writers can tell stories of how their books failed to be made into films.

Scott Adsit

'Monty Python' and 'The Simpsons' have ruined comedy for writers for the rest of our lives.

Robert Klein

In some articles written about me, writers have said I'm a link between the old and the new, and I think, in a certain sense, that's legitimate.

Brian K. Vaughan

There are probably writers who are much more visual than I am and some who are less. I like to think of myself as a happy medium.

Sara Sheridan

Scottish writers are particularly successful in the crime genre.

Alan Moore

I could never be the kind of writer who went to the set of the movie and fussed and fretted about, 'Oh, that dialogue's wrong,' or 'That character doesn't look like that.' That would be insufferable.

Charlaine Harris

Well, you know, writers just suck up new experiences - we're just like the vacuum cleaners of newness.

Hanya Yanagihara

I think that fiction writers can write about anyone. If you are writing a character, and the only thing they are to you is their otherness, then you haven't written a character.