Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shakespeare

The art of our necessities is strange That can make vile things precious.

William Shakespeare

What man art thou that, thus bescreened in night, So stumblest on my counsel? *Who are you? Why do you hide in the darkness and listen to my private thoughts?*

William Shakespeare

Now let it work. Mischief, thou art afoot. Take thou what course thou wilt.

William Shakespeare

Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?

William Shakespeare

Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief That thou, her maid, art far more fair than she. . . .

Nobu Matsuhisa

Chefs are artists, and I couldn't be happy with my art if I was forced to use cheap ingredients.

Nobu Matsuhisa

Making sushi is an art, and experience is everything.

Jasper Johns

I was raised in South Carolina; I wasn't aware of any art in South Carolina. There was a minor museum in Charleston, which had nothing of interest in it. It showed local artists, paintings of birds.

William Shakespeare

Dissembling harlot, thou art false in all!

Dana Gioia

Through Great American Voices, the NEA is building bridges between the military and arts community, ... This tour gives singers a chance to perform for new audiences and brings great music in live performance to military families.

William Wordsworth

Thrice welcome, darling of the Spring!Even yet thou art to meNo bird, but an invisible thing,A voice, a mystery. . . .

Throughout the ages, artists have always spoken up about what is going on in society, and that's what's happening now.

Yes, Bounty is still a b mobile artiste but his contract expires at the end of May coming, but they normally renew it every year.

We require the artist to be present at all times. When you walk into the booth, you can talk to the creator of the work.

With the Mongolian horse warfare, I did a lot of research into the Mongol art of war.

David Ellefson

Waking Up Dead does a great job of portraying the irony of stardom's illusive promise of money, fame and power only to have it boomerang back and cut so many artists to shreds.

Don Bluth

We'd love to do Space Ace 3D. It has a lot of potential. But, it is really up to the publishers.

Don Bluth

There's about 260 rooms in the new castle which you go through, but it's all about the game play.

Don Bluth

It's whatever sells; it's the business of it.

Don Bluth

We're waiting for the pendulum to swing back again, which I am absolutely confident it will.

Don Cheadle

We're trying to do what Miles Davis would have wanted us to do, which is approach it as artists with his life as the canvas.

DJ Jazzy Jeff

As a producer, youre pretty much creating a body of work that an artist has to stand behind.

DJ Jazzy Jeff

I asked her for Adidas and she bought me Zips.

Diane Wakoski

High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this.

Diane Wakoski

Poetry is the art of saying what you mean but disguising it.

Diane Setterfield

Art, its completeness, its formedness, its finishedness, had no power to console. Words on the other hand, were a lifeline. They left their hushed rhythm behind, a counter to the slow in and out of Emmeline's breathing.

Diane Setterfield

And sometimes then he sat with us for an hour or so, sharing our limbo, listening while I read. Books from any shelf, opened at any page, in which I would start and finish anywhere, mid-sentence sometimes. Wuthering Heights ran into Emma, which gave way to The Eustace Diamonds, which faded into Hard Times, which ceded to The Woman in White. Fragments. It didn't matter. Art, its completeness, its formedness, its finishedness, had no power to console. Words, on the other hand, were a lifeline.

Dianna Agron

I think if I hadn't had the dance background, it would have been much harder as a kid to be like, 'I'm going to be an actress.' But you're involved with one area of the arts and other things interest you. It feels like an easier move.

Diane von Furstenberg

I have always been a nomad and I have mastered the art of packing! I always say: pack lightly, live lightly.

Diane von Furstenberg

There's design, and there's art. Good design is total harmony. There's no better designer than nature - if you look at a branch or a leaf, it's perfect. It's all function. Art is different. It's about emotion. It's about suffering and beauty - but mostly suffering!

David Brooks

Recovering from suffering is not like recovering from a disease. Many people don’t come out healed; they come out different. They crash through the logic of individual utility and behave paradoxically. Instead of recoiling from the sorts of loving commitments that almost always involve suffering, they throw themselves more deeply into them. Even while experiencing the worst and most lacerating consequences, some people double down on vulnerability. They hurl themselves deeper and gratefully into their art, loved ones and commitments.

David Amram

We met with the poet Frank O'Hara, who was a link between Upper and Lower Bohemia, and who worked at the Museum of Modern Art, where we had hoped to do the readings.

David Amram

Lawrence Ferlinghetti had a tremendous education as an artist and also an enormous knowledge of literarture.