Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wesley Clark

We've seen a continuing build up of artillery in the western part of Kosovo so he can shell into Albania...he's hitting civilians,

Tom Aldredge

We very early on decided I'm not going to play Arthur Laurents ? I couldn't if I wanted to, ... I've been aware of the stature of this man for a long time, and to work with him now is, of course, a joy.

Calvin Coolidge

Politics is not an end, but a means. It is not a product, but a process. It is the art of government. Like other values it has its counterfeits. So much emphasis has been placed upon the false that the significance of the true has been obscured and politics has come to convey the meaning of crafty and cunning selfishness, instead of candid and sincere service.

Buster Keaton

They say pantomime's a lost art. It's never been a lost art and never will be, because it's too natural to do.

Burt Reynolds

The more the art dominated my life and my house, the more the house became a home.

Busta Rhymes

It's almost not safe to be an artist, the way everybody is randomly picking people to feud with.

Bryant H. McGill

You are the artist and the art.

Bryant H. McGill

The art of surrender is the art of getting out of the way of your own growth.

Bryant H. McGill

Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness.

Catherine Opie

There's a lesbian aesthetic, just as there's gay camp, but I don't know if there's such a thing as 'lesbian art.'

Carroll O'Connor

Talent can be developed, gift is God-given. But artists have both.

Carroll O'Connor

Even a true artist does not always produce art.

Carroll O'Connor

The reviewer is a singularly detested enemy because he is, unlike the hapless artist, invulnerable.

Carol Burnett

No matter what, when you major in theater arts whether you want to write or be a director or design scenery or whatever, when you are a freshman at UCLA then - I guess it's still the same way - you had to take an acting class.

Carl Van Vechten

One meets the cat in nearly all forms of art...curiously enough she is not a conspicuous figure in Roman or Greek art.

Carla Bley

One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded 'Sing Me Softly of the Blues' and 'Ad Infinitum'.

Carl von Clausewitz

Surprise becomes effective when we suddenly face the enemy at one point with far more troops than he expected. This type of numerical superiority is quite distinct from numerical superiority in general: it is the most powerful medium in the art of war.

Carl von Clausewitz

Just as some plants bear fruit only if they don't shoot up too high, so in practical arts the leaves and flowers of theory must be pruned and the plant kept close to its proper soil- experience.

Carl von Clausewitz

The art of war in its highest point of view is policy.

Carl von Clausewitz

In war everything is simple, but it's the simple things that are difficult.

Carl von Clausewitz

The world has a way of undermining complex plans. This is particularly true in fast moving environments. A fast moving environment can evolve more quickly than a complex plan can be adapted to it. By the time you have adapted, the target has changed.

Alan Lightman

In this world, artists are joyous. Unpredictability is the life of their paintings, their music, their novels. They delight in events not forecasted, happenings without explanation, retrospective.

Alan Lightman

I think people all over the institution recognize that different ways of understanding are valuable. Artists may think in a different way than biologists or chemists, but you can learn something from that. It is true that the arts at MIT don't have the same amount of funding or same status as the sciences or engineering.

Alan Dean Foster

There is nothing in art, in philosophy, or in politics to match the fervor of mutual cooperation among discordant bands of fanatics.

Alan Dean Foster

Living gives you a better understanding of life. I would hope that my characters have become deeper and more rounded personalities. Wider travels have given me considerably greater insight into how cultural differences affect not only people, but politics and art.

Alain Badiou

Art attests to what is inhuman in man.

Alain Badiou

The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.

Alain Badiou

Art is not ideology. It is completely impossible to explain art on the basis of the homological relation that it is supposed to maintain with the real of history. The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity. The aesthetic effect is certainly imaginary; but this imaginary is not the reflection of the real, since it is the real of this reflection.

Al Yankovic

Take down those naked pictures of Ernest Borgnine.

Al Yankovic

I dated Siamese twins, I slept with Big Foot, too. Get me on Sally Jesse, put me on Donahue.

Al Yankovic

I know I'm a million times as humble as thou art!

Al Yankovic

I have a long-standing history of respecting artists' wishes.

Al Yankovic

As much as people are griping about the Internet taking sales away from artists, it's been a huge promotional tool for me.