Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carol Kane

People who are interested in the arts and theater are such a minority.

Carol P. Christ

In Old Europe and Ancient Crete, women were respected for their roles in the discovery of agriculture and for inventing the arts of weaving and pottery making.

Carlos Fuentes

Art gives life to what history killed. Art gives voice to what history denied, silenced, or persecuted. Art brings truth to the lies of history.

Carlos Fuentes

I live through risk. Without risk there is no art. You should always be on the edge of a cliff about to fall down and break your neck.

Carlos Castaneda

A path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you . . . Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself alone, one question . . . Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't it is of no use.

Carlos Castaneda

Only a warrior can survive the path of knowledge because the art of the warrior is to balance the pain of being a man with the wonder of being a man.

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 think it was Henry Moore who was asked where he got his ideas for his sculptures, and he said something like, "I continue to do as an adult the things I did as a child." I think that's what art is about.

Carl Andre

Lenin thought abstract art was a conspiracy by the bourgeois to demoralize the proletariat. Yeah, socialist realism!

Charles Dickens

This is the even-handed dealing of the world!" he said. "There is noth-ing on which it is so hard as poverty; and there is nothing it professes tocondemn with such severity as the pursuit of wealth!

Carlos Slim

Poverty isn’t solved with donations.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

One of the things that struck me when I came to the U.S. was discovering American poverty.

Charles Lamb

Rags, which are the reproach of poverty, are the beggar's robes, and graceful insignia of his profession, his tenure, his full dress, the suit in which he is expected to show himself in public.

Charles Lamb

We were happier when we were poorer, but we were also younger.

Charles Lamb

In the indications of female poverty there can be no disguise. No woman dresses below herself from caprice.

Charles Baudelaire

As a remedy against all ills - poverty, sickness, and melancholy - only one thing is absolutely necessary: a liking for work

Brad Pitt

By the time this concert ends this evening, 30,000 Africans will have died because of extreme poverty. By this time tomorrow evening, another 30,000. This does not make sense.

Juvenal

It is unmistakable madness to live in poverty only to die rich.

Ellen Forney

'Marbles' really took so much and such a thorough effort from me that I was so happy to tie that up and have it feel satisfying.

Sathya Baba

Whenever you undertake to do something, do it thoroughly or not at all.

Eckhard Pfeiffer

I am a very thorough person.

Tasnim Aslam

We have conducted thorough investigations in this affair.

William Shakespeare

Over hill, over dale,Thorough bush, thorough brier,Over park, over pale,Thorough flood, thorough fire,I do wander everywhere.

Daniel Radcliffe

My friends have always called me 'Mr. Thorough,' in that when I get into something, I become obsessed with it.

Daniel Radcliffe

I am a frighteningly thorough person.

Nicolas Malebranche

I beg of you always to dwell upon the necessity of a thorough understanding of principles, in order to stop the vivacity of his mind, and please do not forget to meditate upon the subject of our discussion.

John Ortberg

I need an inspiration that is grounded in reality while thoroughly transcendent.