Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles de Lint

The best artists know what to leave out. They know how much of the support should show through as the pigment is applied, what details aren't necessary.

Charles de Lint

The best artists know what to leave out.

Alan Price

We had a missionary zeal about blues music, and I felt, particularly, that Mickie Most was attempting to homogenize, sweeten, and make it accessible for the mass market. Which is understandable if you're the producer, but aggravating if you're the artist.

Alan Moore

If the audience knew what they wanted then they wouldn't be the audience, they would be the artist.

Alan Bean

But I found that being an artist and doing accurate work is very difficult.

Alan Alda

As an artist, as an actor, as a writer, you have to use what's personal to you. You have to be personal about your work; otherwise, it doesn't ring true.

Akon

Whatever obstacle comes your way, you gotta be prepared to jump over it! And I think that's what separates the legends from the regular artists. It's all in how you manage that success, and how you deal with the controversy when it actually comes.

Akira Kurosawa

The role of the artist is to not look away.

Chris Blackwell

I never liked the whole thing about pictures with the artists. You look back at an Elvis Presley record, and you don't see any producer credits, because the audience is not supposed to know about the producer credit.

Annette Brightwell

We let the mayor pick out the (paint) colors and the carpet.

David Spooner

There are many different colors solid and mottled and dotted from white to tan to purple to red.

David Spooner

There are many different colors -- solid and mottled and dotted from white to tan to purple to red.

Billy Joel

Shades of grey wherever I goThe more I find out the less that I knowBlack and white is how it should beBut shades of grey are the colors I see.

Ronald Harwood

When he talks about his past, it is as if he is talking about someone else. He never emotionalizes it. He never colors it. It's just: That's what happened. In 'Oliver Twist,' it's much more concealed, but I think it is entirely autobiographical, because of what happens to a little boy, and how he does come through.

Ronald Harwood

When he talks about his past, it is as if he is talking about someone else, ... He never emotionalizes it. He never colors it. It's just: That's what happened. In 'Oliver Twist,' it's much more concealed, but I think it is entirely autobiographical, because of what happens to a little boy, and how he does come through.

Marty Turco

I actually like the red. I don't mind the colors at all.

Mike Stoops

I think we showed our true colors today. As the game wore on, we played more confidently, and played up to the end.

Chad Morgenthaler

Some of them are hard to find now. The specific colors are the main thing.

Elizabeth Warren

The Postal Service is huge - employing more than a half million people - and its history is long and complicated.

Kim Petersen

The people working in these port operations, regardless of who owns them, will be exclusively American ... the same employees working for P&O.

Jane Austen

The pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Masaaki Kanno

We are seeing a series of good indicators pointing to solid recovery: improving production, improving exports, improving employment and improving spending.

Cathy Mann

Where they're getting those details, we don't know. We did have three employees killed ... not four that they're reporting.

Nathan Fillion

I would love to be employed for the rest of my life... But what I would want to do is things that would frighten me, things that would scare me. I've never done that before; can I do that, can I show them that I can do it?

John Waller

When you take out the lands that are encumbered or don't have servicing, you come down to an 11.8-year supply of employment lands,

David Hume

The great subverter of Pyrrhonism or the excessive principles of scepticism is action, and employment, and the occupations of common life.

Benjamin Franklin

Lose no time; be always employed in something useful.

George Washington

Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters.

Dolly Parton

God is in everything I do and all my work glorifies Him.

John Boyne

People try to glorify war, particularly those who aren't actually fighting in them. People tend to make heroes of those who are fighting in them.

Albert Pujols

Whatever happens at the end of the day, as long as I glorify His name, that's what it's all about.

Jonathan Byrd

For me, I play golf to glorify God. And I'll keep working hard at it as long as I can.

Gerry Adams

War... some people glamorise war and glorify war. It's not nice, from whatever point of view you come from.

Danny Goldberg

The song does not glorify John Walker Lindh.

James Garner

I've been on the wrong end of violence, and I've done violence myself... I refuse to glorify violence in my movie and television roles.

Patrick Sullivan

pushing, like they're trying to make more national pride and glorify the country.

Bob Richardson

We can no longer tolerate handling prisoners in public hallways and restrooms for safety and security reasons,

Kevin Quinn

She's handling the pressure of the big meets really well this season.

Randolph Bourne

Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing.

William Poole

From what I know of that situation, markets are handling it very well,

Dan Edwards

We're pleased she is safe and that the police are handling this situation.

Peter Jackson

We take as much inspiration from what he's doing and how he's handling it as he takes from the club.

Jim Haslett

I got a nice e-mail from Tom Coughlin . 'Thinking of you.' How about that? He said he thought I was doing a nice job handling things. I'll tell you what I wrote him back.

Susan Phillips

He was just wound as tight as a clock. He was under tremendous pressure, but obviously handling it, and not just handling it, doing well.

Don Imus

He didn't shoot Harry on purpose, but you're handling this horribly and you're just trying to spin me.

Robert Taggart

We know who the shooter is, ... It would be better for him to turn himself in before we have to find him.

Kevin Hallinan

The person knew where he was sitting and positioned himself perfectly.

Leander Paes

Director of any film is very important, and an actor has to leave himself in his hands to mould.

Mark Ruffalo

What makes Hulk afraid? It's himself. It's a version of himself that's weak. It's a version of himself that's vulnerable. It's a child inside of him.

Robert Walzel

When you think of Mozart's piano concertos, you think of them as masterpieces. He invested so much in them, since he wrote these for himself to play.

Brene Brown

To me, a leader is someone who holds her- or himself accountable for finding potential in people and processes. And so what I think is really important is sustainability.

Jonathan Meyers

Tom runs a very tight ship. You do not turn up late and you don't muck around - he's strict with himself and everyone he works with.

Dick Cheney

Tom Ridge is not a candidate, because he took himself out, ... Wolf Blitzer Reports.

Granth Sahib

O Nanak, the Lord Himself is the Appraiser, who distinguishes the counterfeit from the genuine.

Alan Alda

I've never tried to manipulate my image.

Brian Trehearne

The poetry was the man, the man was the poetry.

Benjamin Netanyahu

I'm not naturally manipulative.

David Hume

What would become of history, had we not a dependence on the veracity of the historian, according to the experience, what we have had of mankind?

Arne Glimcher

I've been told I'm a good midcareer manager.

Edward Everett

Ever the characteristic manners of cowardice.

Ed Koch

Whenever I leave Manhattan, I get the bends!

Edward Kennedy

Shamefully we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management, U.S. management.

Benjamin Franklin

Mankind naturally and generally love to be flatter'd.

William Wordsworth

Where the statue stood/ Of Newton with his prism and silent face,/ The marble index of a mind for ever/ Voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone.

Emile Galle

Do glassmakers not have the ability to knead their own agates, marbles and rock crystals?

Susan Bennett

We have tourists who actually take pictures of the marble sidewalk. There are not many of them left.

William Butler Yeats

See how the sacred old flamingoes come,Painting with shadow all the marble steps:Aged and wise, they seek their wonted perchesWithin the temple, devious walking, madeTo wander by their melancholy minds.

Budd Schulberg

I ran the newspaper, at Dartmouth, and there was a marble quarry strike about 40 miles away,

Horace

Brighter than Parian marble.

Melina Mercouri

There are no such things as the Elgin Marbles.

Chris Colfer

I'm really not good blackmail material.

Bob Newhart

You never know when you'll come upon something and it's going to be fodder for new material.

Aaron Copland

I don't compose. I assemble materials.

Chuck Ewings

That was probably because of materials. After the hurricane, materials went up.

Don Brownlee

But the study of these materials will go on for decades.

Peter Diamandis

We're not seeing any breakthroughs in physics or materials science here,

Brunello Cucinelli

I come from a farming culture, where we valued raw materials above all.

Jim Adams

We're already working on getting prices on materials for the building.

Dan Modzelewski

We're using materials that are very tough and very strong to withstand the weather.

Cesare Pavese

Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.

Terry Pendleton

I think their thoughts and my thoughts are on the same page.

Milan Mandaric

My thoughts are now and always will be with George,

Don Cooper

My thoughts are here, and I want to be here, ... I want to win this now, here. That's my only focus.

Daniel Day-Lewis

Well, we all have murderous thoughts throughout the day, if not the week.

Charles Godfrey Leland

Thought is the measure of life.

Ken Sawyer

My first thoughts were we need a new arena.

Karen Rafalowitz

There are a lot of thoughts right now on what we can do. There's just not as much manpower.

Grant Wistrom

We all have a lot of thoughts about it. We'll keep it to ourselves. We'll wait until we play Phoenix.

John Crowe Ransom

Their free verse was no form at all, yet it made history.

Greg Romano

I had no idea that there are 2,350 verses on this subject.

Patrick Kavanagh

I dabbled in verse and it became my life

Joss Whedon

There's a lot of anger in the Twitter-verse, as I've discovered. But there's a lot of love.

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.

Kevin Hassett

I think it's the only way it works politically,

Irwin Cohen

I think this works for New York City.

Romesh Gunesekera

Sri Lanka is a part of my background: it's not where I live, but it's what I want to explore. And I find it works very well to explore through fiction.

Shane McAnally

When something works on a huge level, everybody does it.

Sienna Guillory

I think that, with homoeopathy, if you get the right mix, it works 20 times quicker than conventional medicine.

Val McDermid

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