Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pablo Picasso

What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who has only his eyes if he is a painter, or his ears if he is a musician, or a lyre at every level of his heart if he is a poet, or, if he is merely a boxer, only his muscle? On the contrary, he is at the same time a political being, constantly alert to the heartrending, burning, or happy events in the world, molding himself in their likeness.

We suspect it is a terrorist act. We are high alert for tomorrow.

Ricardo Maduro

We are facing serious danger from the rain, ... We are staying on alert in nearly every part of the nation.

We may have not ever recovered this little baby if the Amber Alert system was not put into place, ... I'm overwhelmed with the fact that we're gonna be able to get this baby back.

We have to be in a situation that understands the importance of some of this evidence, ... There may be clues that alert the suspect that we know.

Dick Vermeil

I think we do ... as good as the best job in the National Football League of making sure players are aware of their vulnerability, their profile. There's no place to hide in Kansas City. Our fans know our players. (We tell players) to use common sense and to be aware of the problem areas. Stay out of the bad areas. Be alert for certain things.

He is a very alert and very good child, ... Jacob is well, he's healthy, he is unharmed. There does not appear to be any injuries to him and so he is still a good, healthy young man.

From the time that the company got its first unwarrantable failure, that put them on alert that those examinations weren't being conducted properly. Such unwarrantable failure is just intolerable, and that should be referred to the U.S. attorney for possible criminal prosecution.

I wouldn't necessarily have to get the ball, but just me being in there, I think teams would be more alert thinking I might get the ball.

If they'd been smart, they would have only used it to stop terrorist attacks from happening and not in prosecutions. Defense lawyers are obviously quite alert to the fact that they've got to go back and look at this: whether their defendants were charged based on evidence illegally obtained.

John Walters

We're trying to get out the word that the last 10 years of research have helped to alert us to the use of marijuana in particular is a very dangerous risk for the mental health of our young people.

Carl Honore

Sometimes it takes a wake-up call, doesn't it, to alert us to the fact that we're hurrying through our lives instead of actually living them; that we're living the fast life instead of the good life. And I think, for many people, that wake-up call takes the form of an illness.

Alan Furst

When I read period material - and it ain't on Google - I am always alert for that one incredible detail. I'll read a whole book and get three words out of it, but they'll be three really good words.

Charles Rangel

The President's policies in Iraq contributed to the slow response of federal troops who should have been on alert even before the hurricane struck.

Mark Boal

Film-makers are always going to be interested in making movies that plug into society around them. That's what a vibrant, artistically alert community should be doing. After all, it would be sad if we only made films about alien robots.

Peter Beard

I'm learning that human pressure on wildlife is becoming increasingly dangerous. You've got to be more alert because more animals have been pushed around, wounded, subjected to human harassment, ambushed, all kinds of stress. When they attack, it's totally predictable.

Jack Cole

When you kick in a door, all it does is alert them that someone is coming that they don't want to see,

Douglas Conant

When providing people with the direction and expected behaviors, you need to be alert to the fact that they will hold you accountable. People want to know if you are walking the talk. They will be watching your every move and you need to be one in the same... every minute of every day.

Sepp Blatter

The red alert is on for Germany's World Cup committee.

Frederica Mathewes-Green

The devil's main purpose is not to scare us, in a horror-movie way; when we're scared of him, we're alert to him, and that might undermine his plans. Instead, he wants to quietly, subtly lure us into stepping away from God.

We would ask the Interpol head office in Lyon, France to issue a red alert notice on Zhang Du. Once the notice is issued, it would circulate among the 186 Interpol offices. When he is found in their jurisdiction, and if allowed by their laws, they could arrest him or an information would be forwarded to the requesting party as to his presence thereat,

David Davis

This report reinforces our call for a clearly understandable and public system of alert and threat levels, like they have in America.

There has been the realization by criminals that, from time to time, persons mail bills and other payment remittances using residential mailboxes. They just hoist the red flag on the box. But while the red flag is an alert to the postman, it is, unfortunately, an alert to certain thieves.

Brian Eno

What I believe is that people have many modes in which they can be. When we live in cities, the one we are in most of the time is the alert mode. The 'take control of things' mode, the 'be careful, watch out' mode, the 'speed' mode - the 'Red Bull' mode, actually. There's nothing wrong with it. It's all part of what we are.

Greg Biffle

People are starting to feel the pressure. You've got to get into the chase. I think that's got people on alert of having to drive hard. Some guys are driving over the head. Some veterans, I think, are driving over their head a little bit.

P. J. O'Rourke

I think every high school student who was alert during the early '60s got very embittered by the slow progress and the violence surrounding the Civil Rights Movement.

My purpose in visiting with them (this week) was to alert them to the need.

Steve Allen

My mother always said he was a very nice, endearing man, unlike his portrayals in the movies (as a child-hating, scheming, mean-spirited person), which I think was a product of him trying to get a laugh, ... Dad always described him as tremendously alert and ambitious. He had a hard shell, but underneath he had some softness.

I was very disappointed in our slow start once again. We need to be alert and concentrate for 80 minutes. After saying that, we did play well enough to win and, if we keep improving, are going to be tough to beat.

Kofi Annan

It is essential that we remain alert to this hazard to avoid an increase in skin cancers, cataracts and other health threats,

I think that (the terror alert rumor) was most of this ... it's already rallying back.

I will alert them on this subject. We will alert the police.

Playing a team of UCLA's quality was great for us. We played some good soccer. We moved the ball really well, especially in the second half. Even in some tight spaces, we were able to create some rhythm and be threatening in the attack. They forced us to be alert on defense and to make some quick decisions. We gave up some soft chances and it cost us. But we found some things we can go back and work on.