Famous Quotes & Sayings

E. M. Forster

Roger Fry is painting me. It is too like me at present, but he is confident he will be able to alter that. Post-Impressionism is at present confined to my lower lip... and to my chin.

Jamie Wyeth

I'm an odd portrait painter in that I'm not just interested in human faces. I consider almost all of my paintings to be portraits.

Paul Cezanne

I am not altogether displeased with the shirt-front.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One is never satisfied with the portrait of a person that one knows.

Oriana Fallaci

Listen: if I am a painter and I do your portrait, have I or haven't I the right to paint you as I want?

Otto Dix

You know, if one paints someone's portrait, one should not know him if possible.

Plotinus

It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me. Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?

Carroll Shelby

There is never enough horsepower......just not enough traction.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali

The failure of the United Nations - My failure is maybe, in retrospective, that I was not enough aggressive with the members of the Security Council.

Augusten Burroughs

There's not enough of me left over.

Eleanor Roosevelt

There is not human being from whom we cannot learn something if we are interested enough to dig deep.

Edward Abbey

The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already.

Adele

There will be no new music until it's good enough and until I'm ready.

Alex Steffen

It's not just enough to survive. We've got to make something better than what we've got.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

We didn't love freedom enough.

Louis C. K.

I spend enough time onscreen looking hangdog and depressed.

Ian Shepherdson

Our view is that home sales will slide through the summer, dragging housing starts down into the fall. But this is still no more than a forecast; mortgage applications are still very strong.

Douglas Altabef

I think there is a lot of nervousness that we'll have a repeat of last time. No one wants to see this drag on like it did in 2000.

Bill Vaughan

Only if the dragon and the eagle turn their sights from each other and make room for each other in the world they share, can they reach new and brighter horizons.

Jason Giambi

I think it's pretty pathetic they want to drag my father into this. I've moved on. I mean that's just sad that someone would try and do that to sell a book.

Jason Giambi

I think it's pretty pathetic that they tried to drag my father into it.

Bob Dylan

I wish that for just one time / you could stand inside my shoes / and just for that one moment / I could be you. / Yes, I wish that for just one time / You could stand inside my shoes / You'd know what a drag it is / to see you.

Peter Carroll

I was told the work would take six months but I always expected it would drag on longer than that.

Russell Tovey

I'm slightly obsessed with drag queens and performers. Their quips and their one-liners, their style, their singing... I find it fascinating. And thoroughly entertaining. I'd love to play one.

Melissa McCarthy

I didn't really know how to write jokes, so I just told weird, long stories about being tall and beautiful and wealthy in New York. I'd tell them very seriously, but I kind of looked like a drag queen at the time with big wigs and crazy 12-inch platform heels.