Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carol Kane

People who are interested in the arts and theater are such a minority.

Carol P. Christ

In Old Europe and Ancient Crete, women were respected for their roles in the discovery of agriculture and for inventing the arts of weaving and pottery making.

Carlos Fuentes

Art gives life to what history killed. Art gives voice to what history denied, silenced, or persecuted. Art brings truth to the lies of history.

Carlos Fuentes

I live through risk. Without risk there is no art. You should always be on the edge of a cliff about to fall down and break your neck.

Carlos Castaneda

A path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you . . . Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself alone, one question . . . Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't it is of no use.

Carlos Castaneda

Only a warrior can survive the path of knowledge because the art of the warrior is to balance the pain of being a man with the wonder of being a man.

Carl Andre

I was one of the first post-studio artists. I used to do my works in the streets. I used to find them in the streets, and I used to leave them in the streets.

Carl Andre

I think it was Henry Moore who was asked where he got his ideas for his sculptures, and he said something like, "I continue to do as an adult the things I did as a child." I think that's what art is about.

Carl Andre

Lenin thought abstract art was a conspiracy by the bourgeois to demoralize the proletariat. Yeah, socialist realism!

Kara Walker

The promise of any artwork is that it can hold us - viewer and maker - in a conflicted or contestable space, without real-world injury or loss.

JR

Even when I do really big pieces, I do them strips by strips - so you have to paste, you have to involve people. It's a whole process. And I like that. For me, that's where the artwork is.

Frank Holmes

So here comes the allegorical artwork via Van Dyke's metaphorical lyrics,

Joey Skaggs

So I began doing confrontational, iconoclastic performances, bringing my artwork into the public arena, like the Easter Sunday Crucifixion in 1966, which started when I dragged a 200-pound ten-foot-tall sculpture depicting a decayed figure on a cross into Tompkins Square Park on the Lower East Side.

Raine Maida

We're being not overprotective but special, and careful, about it because it is special. We don't want it to get lost in the shuffle of the Christmas (rush). We want everything to be right, whether it's the artwork or the title. We're quite precious about it, but I think that's good.

Kathy Emerson

One of the reasons we do this is to show people that even if you collect salt and pepper shakers or if you're an 8 year old collecting dogs, people do collect and we hope that they end up learning to collect artwork if they are not already doing such a thing. It makes them feel a part of the gallery.

Nic Pizzolatto

There are websites of 'True Detective' artwork out there now, and it's beautiful. And I don't want to take that away from anybody. I know what it means to me. But I don't want to take away anyone's interpretation of the show.

Robert Rodriguez

Frank is such a great visual storyteller, that if you study his artwork you see that his Sin City books are already the best movies never seen on the big screen.

Peter Max

I have 17 full-time archivists working for me who put away in books all the diversity of artwork I do, from drawing to etching to monotypes to prints to lithographs.

Cyril Beuzit

We've seen there's demand for longer-dated securities. The auction will go quite well today.

Maria Miller

We usually don't do it that way. If he's trading goods and services and intangibles and things that have an auction value, then we just estimate when it's not pure money.

Tom Cook

We use that money very judiciously, and it's always difficult at auctions because you never know where the prices will go.

Kage Baker

Let's say you need a perfectly obedient servant who never gets tired, never needs to be paid, and is virtually indestructible. If you're in a galaxy a long time ago and far, far away, you'll just fly off to the local droid auction and pick up one of those shiny gold models with lovely manners.

Gerald Lucas

Whether that's bad news for the upcoming auctions depends on whether you take a cup-half-empty or cup-half-full perspective.

Mayor Mazzarella

We would try to block the auction if they try to sell the license. It's city policy that we do that. The license is for the business that you give it to.

Gary Goddard

The regular city auction works very well on particular items, like the bicycles, ... compared to some computer items, some computer stuff that may be of more interest in other areas.

Britney Spears

Since bidding for my jewel-encrusted bra in the eBay charity auction has exceeded our original expectations, I'm concerned that some of you may be confusing this bra for something that it's not.

Craig King

Mr. McKenzie has an incredible track record in developing the Lake Fork area, and this auction will enable him to sell a substantial portion of his inventory in a single day. With 28 sites selling absolute, it's a rare opportunity for some people to obtain a site for their lake home at a great price.

Greg Biffle

When your name gets put in a sentence with Jeff Gordon, that's a bid deal. I have a lot of respect for Jeff Gordon.

Pitt elder

The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail, its roof may shake; the wind may blow through it; the storm may enter, the rain may enter -- but the King of England cannot enter; all his force dares not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement!

John Copeland

We are going to make a pretty strong bid to defend our New England title.

Shannon Bennett

We did not get a bid we could accept.

Murli Deora

We are making all efforts, including using our personal contacts, to get U.S. multinationals to bid for our exploration blocks ... so far they have stayed away, but I am sure this time things will be different.

William Mattison

Where the dealers are making a market with a wide spread, but have in their possession an order to buy stocks at a higher price than they're bid, or for a lower price than they're offering, they want the investors and the institutions to see those better bids and offers.

Rob Enderle

When you've got multiple players going after a property, like anything, you get increased competition and people tend to bid higher.

Thierry Breton

This process creates an impression that the bid may have been launched hurriedly.

Dominic Guida

We're still looking for donations of items for the auction. We're particularly interested in items that are related to athletics. Anything that people would want to own and bid on.

Luc Robitaille

What the Sharks did, it shocked the heck out of me. We've always been rivals, but I think they know how much I love this game, and how much I've given to it.

Justin Murphy

We have pursued her with that and given her more and more time to come up to code.

Tom Penders

We've shown a lot of resiliency. I've been real happy with this team because we haven't given up on the season.

Tom Watson

I guess I have never been much of a complainer. You just take what is given you, and don't complain about what you can't affect.

Shaun Sipos

That's what people want to watch - somebody telling a story. So if you go in and tell a story that makes sense to them, that touches them, then they're going to watch; then they'll tell a friend and that type of thing. In terms of how many people are watching in a given week, it's more the advertiser's job, not mine.

Troian Bellisario

It's a very wonderful yet difficult thing to be given a lot of really good opportunities and the world is at your fingertips.

Tony Hawk

When I landed the first 900 at the XGames, it was just - it was a personal achievement. It was something that I have strived for for years and years and years, and in a lot of ways had given up on it. But I just didn't think of the resonance that would have.

Brian Dawkins

Respect is not given, it is earned.

Tom Daschle

very curious, given this has been under way now for this long.

Don Showalter

We set the pace by our shooting in the first half. With a team like West Liberty, who wants a win, you can't let them hang around.

Eddie Campbell

We could hang around for ten years and nobody would care enough to identify us. Therein lies the horror.

Eric Bristow

I knew I didn't want to be stuck in Stoke Newington for the rest of my life, hanging about with idiots. That wasn't for me. I wanted to go out and have a look around.

Charles Baudelaire

The taste for pleasure attaches us to the present. The concern with our salvation leaves us hanging on the future.

Mark Sanders

We started this for the kids. We wanted to try to get it going, give the kids something to do. Even the high school kids hang out here on the weekend now.

Yao Ming

We still need to look forward. The way Miami will miss Shaq (O'Neal), they'll still need to play. Well, the league is not waiting for us or for Tracy to come back. We've got to hang in there. We can do better than that.

Reggie Bush

We're in state of shock. It's tough, but at the same time we have nothing to hang our heads about.

E. O. Wilson

We're in a small market and we have worked really hard to keep this thing going. All I want is enough so I can hang onto the canoe.

Brian Molko

When every day became a hangover and when you look at yourself in the mirror and go 'I don't like how you're coming across to people.' and when every day just started to feel the same. After the 50th shag, it doesn't mean so much anymore.

Ted Sim

We have never had a Midget tournament here. The highest we've had is Bantam. And it's the first national-bound hockey tournament we've had here.

John Connaughton

The people who pay the highest income tax are also the most mobile. They simply leave North Carolina.

Eddie McGuire

We still remain the highest live television talk show. (Andrew) Denton and Rove (McManus) and all the rest of it get the Logies and we get the ratings,

Keri Hilson

Even at my biggest, I want to be writing for other artists. Even at my peak - the highest I can be as an artist - I always want to be keeping my creative juices flowing, keeping money in the bank, putting my intellectual property out there.

Tom Shannon

With this process improvement, ProFlu-1 is now sufficiently streamlined that it can be effectively used in the highest throughput labs, ... In the first week after release, we have shipped ProFlu-1 to several of the largest and most prestigious US labs.

Marty Turco

When it comes down to it, the opportunity to win here is at its highest level. That's what I was looking for.

Richard Nugent

We're going to start doing this more regularly, ... I could be mistaken, but that's got to be one of the all-time highs. I'm pretty sure it's the highest we've ever had.

Bob Mulholland

Look who has the highest percentage. Neither of them.

Robert Toombs

The principles and policy of these Presidents were marked by the most enlarged and comprehensive statesmanship, promoting the highest interests of the Republic.

Karl Eikenberry

When you're trying to put the pieces back together again, you need a lot of time and a lot of patience,

Alan Shepard

I must admit, maybe I am a piece of history after all.

Cary Elwes

Im something of a history buff. Its deliberate that a lot of my films have been period pieces.

Charlotte Moore

We started off with a lot of different things, pieces here and there,

Barbara Kruger

The so-called language of Barbara Kruger is vernacular language. Obviously, I pick through bits and pieces of it and figure out to some degree how to objectify my experience of the world, using pictures and words that construct and contain me.

Barbara Kruger

We are obliged to steal pieces of language, both visual and textual.

Calista Flockhart

I don't watch the show - only bits and pieces of all of them. The only one I sat through was the pilot.

S. Walker

We're starting to get some of the puzzle pieces together.

Charlie Munger

What's fascinating . . .is that you could now have a business that might have been selling for $10 billion where the business itself could probably not have borrowed even $100 million. But the owners of that business, because its public, could borrow many billions of dollars on their little pieces of paper- because they had these market valuations. But as a private business, the company itself couldn't borrow even 1/20th of what the individuals could borrow.

Catherine Deneuve

I like some of the early silent films because I love to watch how actors had to play then. What would interest me today is to do a silent film.

Bob Hope

With today's movies, if we took out all the bad language, we'd go back to silent films.

Elizabeth I

I observe and remain silent.

Edith Stein

Those who remain silent are responsible.

Deepak Chopra

Become aware of the silent witness that is observing the unfolding of all the external events of your life. This eternal presence is your true Self.

Alexis de Tocqueville

To remain silent is the most useful service that a mediocre speaker can render to the public good.

Benjamin Disraeli

Without tact you can learn nothing. Tact teaches you when to be silent. Inquirers who are always questioning never learn anything.

William Shakespeare

That truth should be silent I had almost forgot. (Enobarbus)

Abraham Lincoln

God is the silent partner in ALL great enterprises.

Harry Treadaway

I was used to getting changed in pub toilets before going on set. Then suddenly I had studios in L.A. advising me on my hair.

Bill Forsyth

The studio system reminds me of the stock market.

Ciaran Hinds

Most of the work that I have done for the American Hollywood things have not been in Hollywood. The studios are going out in Europe or around the place working.

Derek Bailey

Nowadays, I really like playing in studios.

James Gray

I was going to Studio 54 when I was 12 years old. It's true. It's crazy.

Moira Kelly

Money's not important to me. Movie star acknowledgement is not important to me. I don't want to be a big studio actress. I don't want to be in the limelight.

Carol Ierulli

I did not play sports, I was the studious one and I was always in the library.

B.o.B

I'd like to work with Bjork if I could get in the studio with her. We could probably travel to a different planet, you know what I'm saying?

Willie Aames

I never learned to study in studio school, so I had to teach myself to study.

Karen Minton

We'll see showers off and on throughout Saturday.

Tom Ross

Throughout the first week of grand-opening festivities, well over 100,000 visitors are expected,

Guru Nanak

Throughout the ages, know Him as the One.

Craig Venter

My genetic autobiography can be found throughout my body.

Gabrielle Giffords

While my speech is getting better every day, throughout my recovery, I have been able to sing to some extent.

Scott Skiles

We don't want to get into a fouling-type game, which has been our trend throughout the year.

Mike Shanahan

We've been evaluating throughout training camp, two-a-days, the off-season program, all the way through. We'll be fine.

Kelly Price

My weight has been one of the most challenging things that I've had to deal with throughout my career.

Mystikal

I guess I reinvented myself about 18 times throughout my career.

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

The 21st-century curator works in a supremely globalised reality.

Andy Reid

We'll see what's out there. We've evaluated a lot of players. We'll see how it all works out here.

Cy Coleman

We're doing a workshop over the first two weeks of December, I believe, with Graciella Daniele directing it.

Frank Thomas

If I'm in a cast, I can't do it. We'll see how it works out, but I'll be around.

Jim Hodges

My latest works are these things with light bulbs.

Christopher Nolan

When you play a videogame, you could be a completely different person than you are in the real world, certain aspects of the way your brain works can be leveraged for something you could never do in the real world.

Christopher Walken

As an actor, I'm rather hit and miss; I throw a lot out there, and some of it works and some of it doesn't.

Walead Beshty

My works look to how images are produced, but specially based upon how the material reacts.

Val McDermid

Walking by water frees your creativity. I don't know how it works - there's something about it that's liberating.