Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward Gibbon

Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking,unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.

Liane Balaban

Anything we can do to encourage our young people to celebrate the arts and believe in a career in the arts is wonderful for Canada and for Canadian youth.

Mark Helprin

The arts community is generally dominated by liberals because if you are concerned mainly with painting or sculpture, you don't have time to study how the world works. And if you have no understanding of economics, strategy, history and politics, then naturally you would be a liberal.

Heather Watts

Arts education is a big part of building a 21st century creative mind, and I think that we have let way too many kids lose their way by not drawing in their young minds with music, dance, painting and the other various ways we can express those things we do not have words for.

Heather Watts

I believe strongly in the power of arts education to engage and empower young people.

Lisa Papademetriou

I graduated from my Master of Fine Arts program for writing for children and young adults at Vermont College of Fine Arts. Of course, for a master's program, you have to do a ton of reading. I would get up, usually around 5:30, to do my reading; otherwise, I would fall behind.

Carl Maria von Weber

What love is to man, music is to the arts and to mankind. Music is love itself - it is the purest, most ethereal language of passion, showing in a thousand ways all possible changes of color and feeling; and though true in only a single instance, it yet can be understood by thousands of men - who all feel differently.

Tom Callos

Yes, a black belt should be able to execute precise, effective, beautiful, and technically proficient martial arts techniques, whatever the style. But just as importantly, a black belt should be able to execute precise and beautiful ideas, equal to or better than their physical techniques. A black belt should have an attitude equal in its brilliance to his or her physical skills.

Jessica Clark

Work out really hard and be confident because bodies are beautiful, sensual and natural. I've also trained in Wushu, a form of martial arts - it's very beautiful and flowy, and it's predominantly used in fight scenes in movies, which is how it was introduced to me, and I just love it.

Alan Mollohan

Violent crime rates fell steadily from 1993 to 2002, and this nearly coincides with the establishment of the community policing program known as the COPS program under the Clinton administration.

Alan Autry

Nothing is more devastating to a community than out-of-control crime.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

I contend that whatever does not raise the moral standard of the church or community has been a revival from God.

Alan Autry

We want them to be productive in the community,

Carmen Garcia

We want to support our community even though we are not illegal, but we come from an immigrant community.

Jim Knight

We want to show our kids that we love them, we care, and we want to get involved in their lives. One thing we want everyone to remember is this is not a JFK or high school problem. This is a community problem.

David Allen

It was helpful to be able to call a lawyer...it turns out, that not only did they help me, but they really helped the whole community...

Dave Gahan

I have to feel the audience. I enjoy that feeling of community.

David Korten

The current system is organized around financial values over life values. We need to shift that locus of power down to the community level because the financial markets recognize only money and thereby only financial values.

Louise Bourgeois

Even though what I do does enter the market, it doesn't interest me. I am exclusively concerned with the formal qualities of my work. It is about the need and the right to self-expression.

Linda Johnson

The people who voted yes understood the issue, and that is really what we are concerned about. I think it speaks for itself.

Bill Nygren

The people who own Internet stocks are taking on a very high level of risk. Myself and most of the other managers at the conference are concerned about people who own and trade those stocks not understanding the risks they're taking.

Subodh Kumar

We are seeing a pullback on stocks because many investors are concerned with the outlook for interest rates and with the economy at the start of 2006. The rebound in oil in the past couple of days is also hurting some stocks, especially the ones related to consumer spending, such as retailers.

Gerald Lucas

There are some fears about inflation but people are even more concerned about what's happening in the corporate credit market.

Matt Durgin

We're not going to make an issue of it. We're more concerned who we're playing, not where we're playing.

Donald Trump

We have a special site, a special location. We have a neighborhood that at first was concerned but now has embraced us for the most part.

Todd Jaeger

We have some chain-link fences that are kind of high in back of the high school and we're concerned about kids getting hurt, so it's kind of a double-edged sword there.

Charlie Haden

I just see myself as a human being that's concerned about life.

Tim Marcum

We knew they had a good pass rush going in, but they completely dominated us up front. That was just a good, old-fashioned butt-kicking and we supplied the butt.

Tim Moe

Six different kids got goals so that's a positive and I thought overall we dominated play.

Sean Casey

We have played well here. It's good for us. We've had a lot of years where they've dominated us here.

Allen Rossi

(Leonard) pitched great. He had his usual stuff. He dominated and kept them off the scoreboard.

Alan J. Heeger

Polymer synthesis in the 1950s was dominated by Karl Ziegler and Giulio Natta, whose discoveries of polymerization catalysts were of great importance for the development of the modem 'plastics' industry.

Tom Lister, Jr.

I love the shot put because you win or lose by yourself. Either I get exposed, or I dominate. I always dominated because I trained to dominate.

Steve Adlard

We played a great first half and dominated play and possession and frustrated them in everything they tried to. I don't think they got into flow of game. Obviously with no shots on goal it gives indication.

John Adshead

We probably dominated for 70 minutes out of 90 tonight.

Scott Skiles

We pretty much got dominated all over the place. It was a full-on rout. We've been an unpredictable group, there's no question about that. We've had an up-and-down year in regard to our focus. Some nights we look great and some nights we don't. Tonight was unfortunately a don't.

Brent Neiser

The perception is that it is more generous than it is. Grants are generally only for those that are completely wiped out or uninsured.

Leander Paes

If I have a reason to do something, and I have enough passion, I generally succeed.

Rick Glancey

When you think of the military that's generally what you think of, green style uniforms and green style armory.

Richard Armitage

Yes, and it's generally on. And I won't tell you what it's on,

Jim Harrison

We're generally opposed. We feel there is already a high return rate.

James Sinegal

If you hire good people, give them good jobs, and pay them good wages, generally something good is going to happen.

Keira Knightley

What's nice about playing somebody real is that generally there's more information about them, so a lot of the questions that you'd otherwise have to make up the answers to are already there.

Isabella Rossellini

Every time you work, it's a new film, and generally when you work with auteurs, people that write and direct their films, there's always an originality.

Isabella Rossellini

It's nice to go and be a guest on a television sitcom. It pays well; it's easy because generally it's a supporting role, so you go, you do two or three things, you're in touch with people there. They're widely popular, so they're seen by many people.

David McCullough

History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.

David McCullough

No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read.

C. Wright Mills

History is the shank of the social sciences.

Cesare Pavese

For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.

Cary Grant

Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.

E. Hicks

When you think about it, history is made to be broken. That's the way we look at it.

Kurt Vonnegut

History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.

Kurt Vonnegut

History! Read it and weep!

Edward Gibbon

But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.

Ben Shapiro

Liberals in Hollywood can't stand when Americans resonate to conservatives on television.

Alex Pareene

'Political junkies' and liberals will watch MSNBC, and angry, old right-wingers will watch Fox.

Clint Eastwood

Liberals are not always so liberal with people who disapprove - disapprove of their point of view.

Jonathan Haidt

The big breakthrough for me was, once I stopped disliking conservatives and could actually see what they were right about, they showed me a lot of things that liberals were wrong about. But at the same time, I think there are some things that liberals are right about that conservatives have trouble seeing.

Robert G. Allen

We're mainly providing a place to sleep, shower and use restrooms.

Martin Chalfie

Mainly I study the sense of touch and what the molecules are that transduce touch. And I use mutants in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans to look at that problem.

Willie Nelson

Mainly because I'd already been paid on it . . . and paid pretty good.

Sanyo President

We have high-end range refrigerators which are mainly meant for the urban areas.

Jamie Bamber

When I'm living in L.A., I'm mainly a jeans, vintage T-shirt and Nike high-tops guy.

Miuccia Prada

Lengths are mainly around the knee, but, in the evening, it is really short. So it's mixed up in that way.

Sylvia Hatchell

She's a winner. She took that shot mainly because she's a winner.

Bobby Short

I was very young at the time, and I mainly appreciated their vocal qualities, even though I was already living as they did - as black performers in a white world.

Viswanathan Anand

I personally prefer long-distance walking, but we are talking about pre-tournament preparation. During a tournament I make do with walking, mainly to concentrate before a game.

Leon Askin

We wanted to bring the political situation in Austria on stage. Naturally we could not do that without pointing to Austrian's northern neighbor Germany.

Edmund Hillary

I think my first thought on reaching the summit- of course, I was very, very pleased to be there, naturally - but my first thought was one of a little bit of surprise. I was a little bit surprised that here I was, Ed Hillary, on top of Mt. Everest. After all, this is the ambition of most mountaineers.

Michael Redd

Oh, yeah, naturally it's going to be disappointing,

Starsmith

When I've worked with established artists, I've naturally been more restricted, but you still have to take risks and push yourself to do something different.

Chester Brown

It's not so much that I got that idea at some point, it came up naturally because of the improvisational nature of the story I was telling.

John Key

I always had a long-term view of going into politics, so I suppose I was always careful. I mean, I got offered all these rinky dink tax deals, but I always paid my taxes. I am naturally quite conservative.

William Shakespeare

Though I am not naturally honest, I am sometimes by chance.

Angela Merkel

We would naturally have wanted a better result,

Jeff Barker

People are naturally curious, they want to see what's going on.

Alan Bean

I found I have to stay painting.

David Milne

Anything is good painting material once you get to know it.

Edward Hopper

Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.

David Hockney

Photoshop came out of painting, and now it's going back to painting.

Barnett Newman

I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.

Edgar Degas

For those who don't know what they are doing, painting is easy. For those who do know what they are doing, painting is difficult.

Edouard Manet

I paint as I feel like painting; to hell with all their studies.

Bob Ross

Happy painting and God Bless, my friend.

Bill Watterson

Van Gogh would’ve sold more than one painting if he’d put tigers in them.

Alan Bradley

Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.

Camille Paglia

[Sarah] Palin is solidifying her status as a bona fide American cultural heroine.

Caspar Weinberger

We must recognize that personal freedoms diminish as the welfare state grows. The price of more and more public programs is less and less private freedom.

Charley Reese

Powers once assumed are never relinquished, just as bureaucracies, once created, never die.

Charles Krauthammer

Washington is the only place in the world where a gaffe is when a politician accidently speaks the truth.

Billy Joel

I'm a statistic in a system that a civil servant dominates.

Dean Acheson

The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull.

David Ricardo

Labour, like all other things which are purchased and sold... has its natural and its market price.

David Hume

Of all sciences there is none where first appearances are more deceitful than in politics.

Charles Spurgeon

The closet is the best study. The commentators are good instructors, but the Author Himself is far better.

Madeleine Albright

I spent my life studying communism and Soviet systems.

Bill Johnson

Bible study without Bible experience is pointless.

Joe Pannunzio

We're going to have a two-a-day, but it's going to be academic. We're going to study two times today.

Ava Gardner

Petting is the study of the anatomy in braille.

Eliphas Levi

Everything is possible to him who wills only what is true! Rest in Nature, study, know, then dare; dare to will, dare to act and be silent!

David Epstein

When we started studying it in 1998, frankly, it worked much better than we ever anticipated.

Maria Mitchell

Study as if you were going to live forever; live as if you were going to die tomorrow.

Prince

I have friends that are gay, and we study the Bible together.

Charles Dickens

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Charles Caleb Colton

To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing is permitted to take all; nor can it be satisfied until it has stolen the world from us, and us from the world. It constantly flies, yet overcomes all things by flight; and although it is the present ally, it will be the future conqueror of death.

Charles Caleb Colton

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do.

Alan Moore

As I come to understand Vietnam and what it implies about the human condition, I also realize that few humans will permit themselves such an understanding.

Chinua Achebe

If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.

David Shuster

There are a lot of folks at Fox News who bring a certain level of sophistication to their understanding of politics.

David Sedaris

This was the consequence of seeing too much and understanding the horrible truth: No one is safe. The world is not manageable.

David Sedaris

I'd always thought that I understood this, but lately I realize that what I call "understanding" is basically just fantasizing.

David Koechner

What helps you as an actor when it comes to roles is that deeper understanding of so many different fractions of humanity. Because oftentimes, even in comedy, there is conflict.

Carl Sagan

Understanding is a kind of ecstasy

Carl Sagan

The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos.