Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Chloe Grace Moretz

If I'm talking to a photographer, I'm talking to a stylist, I'm talking to a makeup artist, we're kind of creating and collaborating and making something that is artwork and is special and is different.

Chogyam Trungpa

The artist has tremendous power to change the world.

Louise Leakey

Every species becomes extinct; at some point, we will go extinct. The question is, as Homo sapiens, are we going to be able to adapt to the change that we're actually part of? We're causing such dramatic changes to the planet, so yes, you do stop and think, 'I wonder where we're headed.'

Gary Owens

The potential of getting hit from behind is always there. And at night, it becomes so much more difficult to judge the situation.

Rig Veda

The person blessed with a pure mind is noble and he inevitably becomes great and liberates himself from the darkness of ignorance.

E. O. Wilson

Untended property becomes fair game for people out for fun or plunder and even for people who ordinarily would not dream of doing such things and who probably consider themselves law- abiding,

Sean McAlinden

Where there's not sales growth in the market at all everything is market share, everything is price and it becomes particularly vicious. There's no rising tides to lift any boats in this market.

Debbie Ford

When you treat yourself with the kindness and high regard that you would give to one of your spiritual heroes, your body becomes the epicenter of quiet joy rather than a battlefield for the ego.

Reed Kroloff

When you think that the population of metropolitan New Orleans before Katrina was 485,000 and it's now 150,000, so two-thirds of the city is gone. The question of how to rebuild becomes very difficult.

Nick Park

Success brings with it pressure to conform. I always thought that success would lead to freedom, but the opposite is true: more people get involved, and committees make decisions, and it becomes a fight to stay free.

Richard Geist

Whenever you get a traumatic event happening in society, you tend to see certain reactions to it, such as irritability, depression, confused thinking and sleep problems, ... In that context, rational decision-making becomes very difficult. People tend to begin to let their thought processes be guided by their anxieties.

Darin Green

We still missed bunch of little lay-ups inside and that's about the third game in a row we've done that. If we can start putting those together, I think our game will be complete.

Fred Goss

Where I come from and where Nick comes from, there are a lot of divorces. People are giving it a second go-around on a bunch of different levels.

Carlos Castaneda

Sorcerers are convinced that all of us are a bunch of nincompoops. We can never relinquish our crummy control voluntarily, thus we have to be tricked

Howie Dickenman

We have no stars on this team, just a bunch of workers.

Bud Grant

We have no leadership. They rule by a herd. Nobody is in charge. ... It reminds me of a bunch of cows.

Dennis Lyxzen

We want people to leave the show thinking, 'Man, those socialists are a sexy bunch and they can dance, too'.

Roy Williams

We were a pretty confident bunch beforehand. I think I'm confident. I hope it's not over the edge of cockiness, but I told them I felt like we were the only team in this country that could come in here and win this game.

Michael Morpurgo

Something I learn every time I stand in front of a bunch of children, I learn never, never to underestimate them or patronise them.

Little Richard

I've never gotten money from most of those records. And I made those records: In the studio, they'd just give me a bunch of words, I'd make up a song! The rhythm and everything. 'Good Golly Miss Molly'! And I didn't get a dime for it.

Gretchen Rubin

I love taxonomies, categories, ways of dividing people into groups.

Narendra Modi

I'm not in favour of dividing Hindus and Sikhs. I'm not in favour of dividing Hindus and Christians. All the citizens, all the voters, are my countrymen.

Robin Morgan

Women born and raised on this fragile planet have more uniting us than dividing us - and it's the job of feminists to help us realise that.

Susan Glaspell

We all have a fight - some an easy one, and some a big one, and if you have formed the idea that there is a kind of dividing line in the world, and that on the one side is the good, and on the other side the bad, why, all I can say is that you have a wrong notion of things.

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

My interests span biology, though sometimes I feel like an anachronism, somebody from the Victorian era when there weren't so many boundaries dividing the sciences.

Brian Becker

Because of the Kinder Decision, we have to take local tax efforts into consideration when dividing the state funding,

Joseph Addison

Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.

Andrew Sullivan

Well, in the past, the size of government was one of the more fundamental dividing lines between Right and Left. The Right was supposed to represent the small government philosophy - limited spending, low taxes. Obviously, things have shifted.

Russell Banks

So the same cultural and political issues that divided us in 1968 are still dividing us.

Akshay Kumar

I have never believed in being part of any one group or camp.

David Shields

In my own little way, I feel like I'm part of a group of writers who care deeply about pushing the essay forward.

Tom Bradley

The personality of this group is it's a hardworking, blue-collar defense. It's as hard a working group that I've been around.

Madeline Albright

We are seeing a shift from well-organized, local groups supported by state sponsors to more far-flung and loosely structured webs of terror,

Karen Bradley

We are a group of medical professionals, but this is not medicine. Just because it is a procedure we do does not mean it is right.

Alan Hoffman

There are some groups of stocks that always key off of one another. The solid names are the solid areas.

Mike McCarthy

We stopped the picket line because I was having a hard time getting a regular group of guys there,

Darl Keller

We still miss Todd, especially. He had something the kids really listened to. This year's group (of seniors), they're working hard at that but they're just not quite there yet, not with as many young kids as we have now. Aaron's really helping in that regard.

Don Helling

We started off a little up and down. But then things started to come together. This group is really team oriented and they knew what they needed to do.

Herb Trimpe

I had joined Marvel in 1967, after a year in Vietnam and three years as a student at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan. Stan Lee, then the editor-in-chief, hired me as a production assistant.

Mona Williams

We acknowledge we should have had better safeguards in place to make sure our (floor-cleaning) contractors hired only legal workers.

Kenneth Langone

Home Depot has never hired one human being for minimum wage, not one. We have always paid a premium over minimum wage.

Cynthia Lowery

We have hired some young people. If you hire somebody without experience, it's going to be lower.

Bradley Cooper

It's beyond my control who's going to cast me or how you're going to pigeonholed, so for me, it's just I want to keep doing different things because I want to get better, so hopefully I'll be hired to do them.

Kelli Williams

I'm convinced that I've been hired for jobs because I can cry on cue.

Jeffrey Robinson

There is a teacher I have hired and I don't know if he's with us on our team. I know the unions have their rules and something must be done about the unions.

Tony Fernandes

I look for people who have drive, who have ambition, who are humble. I've hired many people at very strange places.

Tim Maloney

Getting hired under 18 is somewhat of a privilege.

Charles Caleb Colton

Riches may enable us to confer favors, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.

Charles Caleb Colton

To cure us of our immoderate love of gain, we should seriously consider how many goods there are that money will not purchase, and these the best; and how many evils there are that money will not remedy, and these the worst.

Charles Caleb Colton

Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.

Charles Spurgeon

economy is half the battle of life; it is notso hard to earn money as to spend it well.

Alan Watts

So many people of wealth understand much more about making and saving money than about using and enjoying it. They fail to live because they are always preparing to live.

Alan Watts

The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.

Alan Paton

And money is not something to go mad about ... Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.

Alan Greenspan

As long as we issue fiat currency, I see no alternative to a legal tender law.

Alan Greenspan

Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth.

Robert Reich

What someone is paid has little or no relationship to what their work is worth to society.

Kevin Brownlow

To me, film is a religion. I don't expect to get paid to make it, but I do expect total dedication.

Kathleen Sebelius

If your voices are not heard, you can be sure that many others will be - in particular those who are paid to present a point of view, and often do it most effectively.

Maurice Williams

Whenever you see your quarterback on the ground, especially rolling around in pain, it's not good. We get paid to protect him. That's what we want to do and when we don't, our week is long.

Christopher Plourd

She paid it all off, but somebody never picked up on that.

Dave Ramsey

Work-get paid; don't work-don't get paid. Everybody is on commission

John Schwartz

Legally, this is referred to as an increase. There's no two ways about it on the ballot. However, if you look at the preamble, it says this proposal would reauthorize the levy. That tells taxpayers this is something they have paid before.

David Steinberg

I rewrote it and I took all your notes. Read it again, that kind of persistence paid off.

Lela Rochon

I'm glad that I ran track in high school. I think it paid off.

Susan George

What's immediately profitable is the only kind of logic that capitalism understands.

Keerti Melkote

We recently turned in our first profitable quarter.

Mark Constant

Merrill Lynch is still quite profitable in a very tough year.

Clive Beddoe

We'll be profitable in the third quarter. There's no question about that.

Prakash Karat

Disinvestment of shares in profitable public sector units is not the proper way to raise resources.

Jeff Wright

It's been better than we expected. We're profitable after only two months.

Nancy Bell

It's important to have documentation that it is going to be a profitable business,

Kevin Cox

They can test this marketplace, ... They don't have to sign a long-term lease. If they would take such a chance, they'd find it to be quite profitable and beneficial, as would the traveling public.

David Carey

It's a very profitable side of the business.

Tyler Oakley

You don't go to your 9 to 5 and share every story with your coworkers, and in the same way, not every YouTuber shares every story with their audience.

Taylor Hawkins

I don't like guitar solos that are like, 'Look at me, look at me!' I like guitar solos that are little songs within the songs.

Brandon Boyd

I've actually thought very little about solo work up until just very recently.

Jenny Lewis

Rilo Kiley was a rock band, so I wanted my solo records to feel different.

John Frusciante

I wanted all my solos to be something you could sing along with

Max McKeown

Strategy is not really a solo sport - even If you're the CEO.

Peter Coyote

The terrible thing about being an actor is that it's not a solo occupation.

Glen Hansard

And I've always loved playing solo.

Ian Brown

I've parked my solo thing in a lay-by and jumped in another vehicle and I'm in that now.

Lou Ferrigno

Now because he saved the day they're making another solo Hulk movie after the second Avengers comes out,

Benjamin Franklin

He that would fish, must venture his bait.

Bill Gurley

Venture capital is unscalable. Production equals the time each partner has.

Bill Cunningham

I don't think we want to venture into that, if this is what they're saying.

Charles Babbage

I am inclined to attach some importance to the new system of manufacturing; and venture to throw it out with the hope of its receiving a full discussion among those who are most interestedin the subject.

Albert Camus

Lucifer also has died with God, and from his ashes has arisen a spiteful demon who does not even understand the object of his venture.

Douglas Leone

The venture industry is both quite vibrant and quite competitive.

John Doerr

There's never been a better time than now to start or accelerate a greentech venture.

John Doerr

The great danger of dealing with venture capitalists is the 'slow maybe'.

Ehud Barak

I delivered lectures, and I was also a consultant for international companies in finance, both private equity and big venture capital funds.