Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gregory Pritchard

Mahler's first symphony is not a typical symphony in that it's not abstract music; it does conjure up images of nature and images of heroism.

Harry Reid

No one suggests that John Roberts was motivated by bigotry or animosity toward minorities or women, ... But these memos lead one to question whether he truly appreciated the history of the civil rights struggle. He wrote about discrimination as an abstract concept, not as a flesh and blood reality for countless of his fellow citizens.

Twyla Tharp

I'm not satisfied sitting in just the world of abstract work.

Robert Summers

Frary executed tremendous abstract paintings. Frary contributed significantly to mid-century modernist art in Texas.

Newt Gingrich

For so many Americans, what goes on here in Washington often seems abstract and remote, unrelated to their daily concerns,

Aaron Huey

I wanted to be a painter, somewhere between Abstract Expressionism and Pop.

Gayle Green

If we're going to teach it to all kids -- kids who might not naturally be abstract learners -- we need a variety of teaching methods.

Ad Reinhardt

I got out of Columbia and then into the American Abstract Artist group, which had almost all the abstract artists in the coutry in it, about 40 or 50.

Malcolm Gladwell

I'm a lot more interested in people than I used to be. I used to be most interested in abstract ideas, and people were an afterthought, but that's changed a bit.

Robert Wilson

Most artists don't understand what they do, and I don't think we have to. Other people do that better - they understand what I do better than I do!

Mallory Ortberg

The most successful Subway customers, of course, are the ones who can't keep their hands off their sandwich. Join your artist in the sandwich assembling process. That sneeze guard is a suggestion. That sneeze guard is trying to intimidate you into staying on the customer's side of the partition.

Fraser Seitel

like any cultural institution, stands for artistic freedom.

Chris Ross

Madonna's a pretty mainstream artist ... I'd expect a bigger alternative kind of artist. It's kind of interesting.

Les Garland

Let's let the music be the star again. Let the artist be the star again.

Natalie Cole

Las Vegas has the type of audience - and they haven't changed since my father's days - they're still boring and bored. And there's only that handful of artists that they really enjoy and know how to respond to.

Maurice Jarre

Lean was a director always compromised with his work, but not only in directing, but also in the other technical and artistic aspects.

Dolly Parton

Many of the artists and musicians were already committed to family gatherings or other concert appearances, ... All of us involved want to put on the best show possible, so we decided to reschedule.

Norman Jewison

Many of our graduates have gained national and international recognition for their creative excellence. We welcome the support of the Ontario government in giving our local artists a chance to make a huge difference both here and abroad.

Richard P. Feynman

Trying to understand the way nature works involves a most terrible test of human reasoning ability. It involves subtle trickery, beautiful tightropes of logic on which one has to walk in order not to make a mistake in predicting what will happen. The quantum mechanical and the relativity ideas are examples of this.

Albert Schweitzer

Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.

Sue Kanoho

Like all of you, I'm feeling the numbness of this terrible tragedy that befell our beautiful island and its wonderful people.

Nathaniel Emmons

Make no display of your talents or attainments; for every one will clearly see, admire, and acknowledge them, so long as you cover them with the beautiful veil of modesty

Sam Worthington

Making films is my hobby. It relaxes me; it is my life, and it's one of the best jobs in the world. I go to work and solve problems, fight robots, kill aliens, and kiss beautiful women. I'm a very lucky man.

Saparmurat Niyazov

Let the life of every Turkmen be as beautiful as our melons,

Humphrey Bogart

Louis, I think this is the start of a beautiful friendship.

David Barber

Lots of things made it special. It was the most current of the hotels, and it boasted 100 baths, some private and some shared. It was very sumptuous. The furniture was lavish; there were beautiful imported carpets; beautiful draperies and blinds; telephones; electricity; and all the latest innovations.

Robert Marshall

Look what a beautiful mechanism that is. It's obviously designed to do what it does. It must have been made that way.

Italo Calvino

In 'Cosmicomics,' I came close to science fiction - I was inspired by cosmological subjects and the workings of the universe and invented a character who was a sort of witness to everything that was happening inside the solar system.

Isabella Rossellini

I grew up in Italy, and our country is a country of great agriculture and food produce. It wasn't like I was urban and only knew about high-heeled shoes and purses and never knew where my eggs came from.

Richard P. Feynman

Quarks came in a number of varieties - in fact, at first, only three were needed to explain all the hundreds of particles and the different kinds of quarks - they are called u-type, d-type, s-type.

Robert Mueller

If you look at the 19 hijackers who came to the United States in Sept. 11 to commit those acts, if you'd looked at them before they got onto a plane, you could probably say the same thing. There were various levels of expertise, various levels of competence.

Mamie Van Doren

I came to Hollywood determined to follow in Jean Harlow's footsteps, but I was determined not to die young. My hope was to endure. And endure I have.

Mamata Banerjee

We are from the very middle class family. We have not come from the English medium school. We came from our regional languages school.

R. Robinson

Man, I came back (Thursday) and must've spent an hour and a half looking for it. But no luck.

Roger Friedman

Like all these great legends of R&B, when disco came in, it really impacted their careers.

Kibwe Trim

Life is progressive and I knew my career was about to end. I came to the United States when I was 17 and didn't know much about basketball. Sacred Heart helped me to grow up and now that my career is over I just have to take it in stride and keep going.

Robert Teeter

The President has not created any Ford constituency, unique from that of any Republican President. The one exception to this is that he does show unique strength with young voters for a Republican.

Marco Brambilla

Just doing a project because it's an opportunity won't create meaning. As an artist, I need something to communicate.

Herb Perone

Life insurance was created to be an instant estate in the event of the premature death of the breadwinner.

Lao Tzu

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Bill Bixby

Luck has created much of what I have today, but at the same time, I haven't sat still.

Mark Mahaney

Major lockups always create turbulence in shares. Usually we see a trade-off going into lockups.

Mark Mahaney

Major lockups always create turbulence in shares, ... Usually we see a trade-off going into lockups.

Jeff Greene

Let's not forget we created that ideal middle class by destroying all of our industrial competitors during World War II.

Guru Nanak

Let him exert himself to the utmost in order to increase his property in a righteous manner, and let him zealously give food to all created beings.

Corin Tucker

I feel really privileged that I've been able to be an activist and a musician for over 20 years now, and I've always been able to say whatever I want. I think that's something we Americans really take for granted, but it's a big deal, and it's not something most people in the world are able to do.

Eddie Vedder

Worship the music, not the musicians.

Derek Bailey

I'd like trios and quartets actually, but I like duos because a lot of musicians who I like playing with like playing duos.

Tunde Adebimpe

My father was a psychiatrist and a social worker but he was a very talented painter and musician and writer on the side.

Buddy Rich

A great musician is just a thief who doesn't get caught

Buddy Guy

Blues musicians don't retire. They drop.

Carlos Santana

I can show you that I have played with just about every jazz musician, every African musician, every blues musician. It's not like I'm cashing in on a false concept. This is what I do.

Dick Dale

I don't claim to be a musician, I didn't go to Julliard.

Bing Crosby

[Louis Armstrong] was the only musician who ever lived, who can't be replaced by someone.

Debbie DeCarlo

I find myself searching faces, but they all look the same.

Corey Thacker

We've done a lot of soul searching throughout the year. We had to find out who we really were as a team.

Chris Grinde

To go zone was just kind of searching to see. We were searching for something to be a little better.

Louis Agassiz

I have no time to make money, I am searching for the truth

J. M. Roberts

They were here. After a while of their searching around and taking pictures, they took the kids.

Sidney Lanier

Music is love searching for a word.

Francois Lelord

Making comparisons can spoil your happiness.

Francois Lelord

Happiness often comes when least expected.

Pema Chodron

Searching for happiness prevents us from ever finding it.

John Kearns

Many things done tonight come from the theme of renewal.

Alan Ball

Obviously death is a theme I'm fascinated by.

Meg Browne

Just like a pendulum, ... the current-account theme is back in the market.

Deepak Chopra

The basic theme of the kapha metabolic type is relaxed.

Moby

I did a cover of the James Bond theme, and I felt like such a fraud, because the original is so good.

Michael Heizer

This theme of bigness — all painters and sculptors have dealt with it ever since.

Mason Cooley

The theme of my autobiography could only be repetition.

Eve Arnold

Themes recur again and again in my work.

John O'Hara

They say great themes make great novels