Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry Bolingbroke

The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.

David Souter

Under the Articles of Confederation, the national government had the power to issue commands to the several sovereign states, but it had no authority to govern individuals directly.

Cass McCombs

Thank God we don't know a lot about Shakespeare or Moses or Homer or Lautreamont. These are the best guys we got, and their art is powerful because they're mysterious.

Dasha Zhukova

I have had an interest in art since childhood. I loved to draw as a child and still do.

Dasha Zhukova

'Garage Magazine' has a strong track record of promoting diversity and racial and gender equality in the worlds of art and fashion and will continue in our mission to stir positive debate on these and other issues.

Marc Guggenheim

With comics, there's no budget. There's a budget in terms of you have to pay an artist and a colorist and all that, but you can do anything you want to do.

While I was doing my thesis, I got the job, ... I thought that was a good way to leave art school. It was a boost. Then it went away. I just forgot about it.

Frank Morgan

While in prison, we had an excellent pianist named Jimmy Bunn, who also recorded with Bird. Jimmy would play a small accordion, and he, Art and I would play all day, nothing but ballads.

With our new service, we will be able to satisfy music lovers' urges for all things music. In many ways, URGE will serve as a 'psychic concierge', introducing fans to new artists and helping them to develop a deeper connection to old favorites.

We'll work off the major arteries trying to get to as many people as we can.

Kris Allen

Well, when you're recording an album, artists have what they feel like is good music, and the label, they're trying to sell the album. So those two ideas clash sometimes, but in the end it always works out. When you put the two together, that's a good thing.

Tony Kushner

The work of artists is to find what's humanly possible - possibility's furthest reaches.

Sathya Baba

When the Giver of Grace is here, you run after persons who claim that they got this or the other article from Me or were blessed with this gift from Me.

John Baldessari

When I went to art school, I was just having fun. I realised that was the last chance I had, and then I would have to get a job.

Doug Aitken

We are engaging with so many art forms at once in the 21st century, but we're presented with them in a way that is so isolated.

Andrew Eldritch

Unfortunately, in the current litigious climate I'm one of the very many artists who receive tapes and chucks them straight in the bin.

Robert M. Parker, Jr.

When somebody wants to write an article attacking a scoring system or the influence of wine writers, who's right in the cross hairs? It's not Steve Tanzer, it's not Marvin Shanken, it's me. These other people, it's not like they don't have some influence, and I'm more than happy to share it.

Christopher Fowler

When Sir Arthur Conan Doyle conceived Sherlock Holmes, why didn't he give the famous consulting detective a few more quirks: a wooden leg, say, and an Oedipus complex? Well, Holmes didn't need many physical tics or personality disorders; the very concept of a consulting detective was still fresh and original in 1887.

Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness.

Frank Oz

I'm not an art director; I'm just not. I've always been somebody who has a sensibility that I hope is the same sensibility of others.

Chris Pine

I was never much of a musical theater guy, but I have so much more respect for the art form, the physical exertion of doing eight shows on Broadway a week, I cannot even fathom it.

Chris Pine

If you had no real training, if you hadn't spent years and years studying a martial art, how would you kill the bad guy?

Benjamin Jowett

Logic is neither a science nor an art, but a dodge.

Uzo Aduba

I was pursuing the arts with theater in school, and I was doing after-school activities, but not in any real movement towards a professional career.

Ursus Wehrli

What I do, basically, is look at things from different angles. That is what I do on stage comedically, and that is what I do in art. I was always fascinated by the structure of things, why things work this way and not that way. So I like to see how things behave if you change the point of view.

Marcus Samuelsson

Salad can get a bad rap. People think of bland and watery iceberg lettuce, but in fact, salads are an art form, from the simplest rendition to a colorful kitchen-sink approach.

My view is that the bitcoin is in its very early days, and it is an artificial currency. But whether it is creating new money, whether it is sustainable, whether it would survive - I have many questions about it.

Otto Loewi

Natural or artificial stimulation of nerves gives rise to a process of progressive excitation in them, leading to a response in the effector organ of the nerves concerned.

The role of a liberal arts college within a university is to be a genuine part of that university, giving and responding to the other parts.

Edward Hirsch

I grew up in a middle-class house without books, without art. No one around me wrote poetry or even read it.

Expertise and judgment in the art of lending for novel ventures must be reacquired.

Ellen Willis

What cultural revolutionaries do not seem to grasp is that, far from being a grass-roots art form that has been taken over by businessmen, rock itself comes from the commercial exploitation of the blues.

Ellen Willis

The artificial separation of politics and culture is nowhere more pronounced than in the discourse of foreign policy and international affairs.