Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ren Ng

We have seen amazing, creative and interactive pictures from camera owners, and I'm looking forward to the Lytro camera being available in Australia.

Catherine Gleason

We want people to be aware of this period in our country's history. As generations move away from the WPA era, people forget this wonderful program and the beautiful art that came out of it. We want to give visitors a sense of the history and understanding of this tremendous program put in place to create these amazing pieces of visual artwork.

Jane Krakowski

The fact that I even get in Broadway shows is, to me, still amazing, but then to win a Tony was just incredible.

Steve Fiser

The fact he didn't come out until his sophomore year makes this a really amazing win. Daniel is the hardest working kid I have ever had since becoming the coach here. I can promise you he is in the best shape of anyone in the building and that showed tonight.

Matt Damon

The real Brothers Grimm were scholars; they were these amazing heroes in Germany who discovered this folklore and shone a light on it, and made Germans proud of their heritage,

Ann Nocenti

There are a lot of Chinese comics, but the Chinese comics tend to be more historical and conservative. Japanese culture, just the comics are amazing. They're like films: very few words; they move so much in these books with hundreds of pages.

Lindsay Williams

When I didn't make the team to go to state that year and I was watching the race from the woods and it was just amazing and I thought I want to be fast, I want to be competitive, I want to hopefully win it, so then I trained all summer and won it next year and that was cool.

Carl Hagelin

When I'm in the city, I like to go to different events and get introduced to different people. That's what New York is all about. There is great diversity, and there are people from all over the world who have done amazing things. That's my favorite thing to do: meet new people.

Darby Stanchfield

When I met Oprah, the first thing I thought was, 'She is the most amazing hugger ever.'

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've never been a representational artist at all. Most artists have been representational. That's when you discover yourself.

Carl Andre

Isn't it wonderful to be an artist whose works have mostly been lost?

Carl Andre

It is futile for an artist to try to create an environment because you have an environment around you all the time. Any living organism has an environment.

Mike Dowell

We have a sportswriter's award that we'd like you to give to one artist for one piece of art. It doesn't have to be a category winner or best of show winner, anything you like. You pick it.

Sangram Majumdar

When you see a show like this, I think it will make you care a lot more about art. It might make someone go start painting, inspire them to learn about an artist or start buying art.

Jose Gonzalez

When your hair is rising, that's when you know it's a good song - that's happened to me with some artists and some songs, John Lennon songs or when Nina Simone sings. It's great to make those moments yourself.

Agnes de Mille

Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how... The artists never entirely knows.

Agnes de Mille

Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.

Hal Stratton

We want to see a revised standard that narrows that opening and makes it more difficult for kids to get their fingers caught.

Dan Monson

We have to get some shots to go in. We haven't shot 40 percent yet in five league games. That's pretty difficult to weather.

Brenda Frese

We wanted to try to turn them into a jump-shooting team as much as possible. And we also wanted them to have to take difficult shots.

Barry Russell

We have played two really good teams who had something on the line. It was very difficult to win in San Angelo and (the Odessa High) game was very much like a playoff game for them.

Mike Dement

We have a young team this year and we're playing a difficult schedule. So I would say that I'm probably drawing from it even now, the things you have to do with a young team and how you have to handle them. That was an experience with that very young Duke team. As seniors, they made that first Final Four and the rest is history from there.

Sophia Young

The fact that she has multiple moves makes her difficult to guard. She used her up-and-under quite a bit. We fell for her fakes a lot.

Arthur Henderson

The real difficulty is to make sure that such treaty obligations will be observed.

Jose Contreras

When I'm in the zone, it's difficult for players to hit me. That's what I've been working on -- getting in the zone.

Sharon Salzberg

It is sometimes difficult to view compassion and loving kindness as the strengths they are.

Rachel Sklar

What's more important to 'SNL': comedy or buzz? To the writers, players and guest hosts, it's probably the former; to Lorne Michaels and the suits at NBC, it's ultimately probably the latter.

Sean Faris

Working with Michael Chiklis is a lesson in professionalism and staying focused. That's what Chiklis brings all day long.

LaVerne Knox

Phillip's done that all year. He has stepped up when Michael hasn't been in there.

Michael Cohen

I am Stephen Michael Cohen and I'm the person who is on that warrant,

John Salley

I'm a Michael Jordan fan just like everyone else. I just don't think he's the greatest player ever.

Sven Eriksson

From what I know about Michael Owen, he would never say things like that. It's not his style.

Jeff Overton

I don't even know what to think yet. Michael Putnam and I waited all summer to turn pro to play in this. Man, it was worth it.

Autre Ne Veut

My first super-worn-out tapes were Michael Jackson's 'Bad' and the soundtrack to 'Dirty Dancing.' The soundtrack to 'Dirty Dancing' is actually really phenomenal.

Joshua Malina

You can never entirely rest comfortably with Michael Black or Michael Paynes.

David R. Brower

The Peninsula is what we have and there is no more where it came from.

Chinua Achebe

A pen on paper is the ideal way for me. I am not really very comfortable with machines; I never learned to type very well.

Muriel Rukeyser

In our period, they say there is free speech. They say there is no penalty for poets, There is no penalty for writing poems. They say this. This is the penalty.

Eric Epstein

We've all got to play by the same rules, and I think the senator wants to tilt the playing field. And I think what he did (with respect to Penn State) is what's wrong with Harrisburg.

Camille Claudel

I am scared; I don't know what is going to happen to me. What was the point of working so hard and of being talented, to be rewarded like this? Never a penny, tormented all my life. It is horrible; one cannot imagine it.

Stu Barnes

Work ethic, turnovers, penalties ... that sums it up.

Bill Ayers

Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon,

Dana Gioia

We are not as we were. Death has been our pentecost.

Claire Messud

I was funny -- ha-ha, not peculiar. It was a modest currency, like pennies: pedestrian, somewhat laborious, but a currency nonetheless. I was funny, in public, most often at my own expense.

Kathryn Harrison

I wrote 'The Kiss' 12 hours a day for six months.

Kent Haruf

I write in a journal first, briefly. Then read something I've read many times before, for about half an hour, then rework what I wrote the day before.

Kent Haruf

Writing is the hardest thing I know, but it was the only thing I wanted to do. I wrote for 20 years and published nothing before my first book.

Alan Furst

I wrote out little mysteries in longhand, and my mother typed them out on an old Remington.

Ed Emberley

I don't know how old I was when I started writing books. But, I was born in 1931, and I wrote my first book in 1961.

Gail Carson Levine

I wrote as a kid, but I never wanted to be a writer, particularly. I had been drawing and painting for years and loved that.

Alice Walker

My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig.

Natalie Babbitt

My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too.

William Gibson

In 1981, I was a futurist - or at least I was a guy who put on a futurist hat occasionally - and I wrote about the 21st century.