Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carlos Ghosn

Being in a multicultural environment in childhood is going to give you intuition, reflexes and instincts. You may acquire basic responsiveness later on, but it's never going to be as spontaneous as when you have been bathing in this environment during childhood.

Carlos Fuentes

If the Soviet Union can give up the Brezhnev Doctrine for the Sinatra Doctrine, the United States can give up the James Monroe Doctrine for the Marilyn Monroe Doctrine: Let's all go to bed wearing the perfume we like best.

Carlos Castaneda

Crows are not always available to give warning.

Carlos Castaneda

To ask me to verify my life by giving you my statistics is like using science to validate sorcery. It robs the world of its magic and makes milestones out of us all.

Carl Andre

I had no place to put anything. I would give my sculpture away because I had no place to put it.

C. S. Lewis

and the whole forest would give itself up to jollification for weeks on end.

C. S. Lewis

Need-love says of a woman, "I cannot live without her"; Gift-love longs to give her happiness, comfort, protection...appreciative love gazes and holds its breath and is silent, rejoices that such a wonder should exist even if not for him, will not be wholly dejected by losing her, would rather have it so than never to have seen her at all.

Agnes Martin

To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like. Give up doing the things that you do not like to do. You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.

Agnes Repplier

Wit is a pleasure-giving thing, largely because it eludes reason; but in the apprehension of an absurdity through the working of the comic spirit there is a foundation of reason, and an impetus to human companionship.

Carlos Castaneda

Our senses perceive the way they do because a specific feature of our awareness forces them to do so...because we learn what to perceive.

Carlos Castaneda

You are like you are, because you tell yourself that you are that way.

Carlos Castaneda

Things don't change. You change your way of looking, that's all

Carlos Castaneda

Things don't change, only the way you look at them.

Carl Andre

A place is an area within an environment that has been altered in such a way to make the general environment more conspicuous.

Agnes de Mille

I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.

Agnes Martin

Fulfill your potential. That's the way to happiness.

Agnes Martin

Doing what you were born to do … That's the way to be happy.

Agnes Varda

Sometimes I say, If I had seen some masterpieces, maybe I wouldn't have dared start. I started very - not innocent, but naïve in a way.

Charles Caleb Colton

Some are cursed with the fullness of satiety; and how can they bear the ills of life when its very pleasures fatigue them?

Tom Hougaard

There is no doubt that the recent rally is fueled by a lot of short covering from bears thinking the New Orleans debacle would cause jitters on Wall Street.

Ricky Gervais

I fought a bear once. But it started crying, so I let it off.

Martin McHugh

We know we're getting nuisance bears in the check stations.

Lawrence Small

We know from 28 years of experience with giant pandas at the National Zoo that they are real crowd pleasers, ... There is just something about these black and white bears that fascinates children and adults.

David Tang

The image we have of a famous person often bears no relation to them.

John McWhorter

People think of black English as ungrammatical, but it bears the same relationship to standard English as contemporary Hebrew does to ancient Hebrew.

Kandyse McClure

I'd love a werebear. But I guess you need that seductive element of danger. And though bears can be dangerous, when you say werebear it just sounds kind of cuddly. Probably has a rainbow on his belly.

Jane Austen

Whatever bears affinity to cunning is despicable.