Famous Quotes & Sayings

The FAA is now finding that the statutes as crafted don't fit. So now they have to be very liberal in their interpretations of the law in order to accommodate the emerging technologies.

I've been a radio reporter for ten years, and if I learned anything from my time at 'This American Life,' it's how to craft a narrative so that even if the ending is ambiguous, it is somehow satisfying.

Luke Bracey

I see similarities in the sports I played growing up in the sense of how I tackle a role when I get a job. A lot of effort goes in on an individual basis. There is a lot of time spent by yourself working on your craft and what you have to do. But, at the end of the day, you're there to serve the movie just like you would the rugby team.

Ben Nighthorse Campbell

You have to talk to the stone, and it has to talk to you.

Geoffrey Chaucer

The life so short, the crafts so long to learn.

Demetri Martin

Glitter is the herpes of craft supplies.

T'Keyah Crystal Keymah

I'm inspired every time I see a role I'd like to play, an actor turn in a well crafted performance, a story I'd like to tell, direct or produce.

David Hockney

Well you can't teach the poetry, but you can teach the craft.

Brooke Shields

I took my work seriously, but not as a craft. More as a life.

Julia Quinn

There are people who say they want to write novels. They think, 'I'll learn my craft on the romance novel.' If you don't love the genre, it's going to show, and it's not going to be a good book.

One of the damaged craft had to be towed to port. Seven sailors were wounded.

Elizabeth Warren

Because policymakers often rely on think tanks' research when crafting laws and regulations, it's critical to know whether these organizations are truly independent.

Jason Mitchell

I eat a lot. I'm a big sandwich dude. Turkey, mayonnaise, mustard, cheese, yes. I love craft services.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

I enjoy the challenge of trying to say things beautifully. The message is secondary in that sense. Obviously, I have something that I want to say that's very, very important to me - but the process of actually crafting it is essential.

Oswald Spengler

I maintain that today many an inventor, many a diplomat, many a financier is a sounder philosopher than all those who practice the dull craft of experimental psychology.

I didn't craft the authorization. I am responding to a lawful order.

America's legacy has been crafted by generations of hard-working men and women who moved to the United States from all over the globe to pursue their dreams.

Benjamin Percy

It's still incredibly hard. Not just honing my craft but kicking down doors, getting my work published. Early on, I could have wallpapered my house with all the rejection letters sent my way. I put thousands of hours and pages into four novels that never saw the light of day.

Hesiod

Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and the poor have a grudge against the poor, and the poet against the poet.

Shelley Berman

Few, very few, will ever be able to craft a joke as beautifully as Pat. He was able to just make it all happen. I don't think he was great at telling them, but he was sure great at putting them down.

Kathy Baker

But respect for their privacy and their craft keeps those names anonymous.

Annette Bening

I love the craft of acting, I love learning, I love everything that comes with the new project; the whole process is totally intoxicating to me.

Alan Arkin

I was terrified of being on stage, and I had to work very hard at a craft to get past that.

We all want to take credit for everything, but the good practical joker understands that his craft depends on autonomy.

We think that it is very easy to craft a carbon-trading system that doesn't work and is full of holes. It's very difficult to craft one that works.

Peter Abrahams

We've crafted a product that people are really going to relate to.

Hal Sparks

Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song. Until I heard 'Little Earthquakes' all my lyrics used really obvious analogies like rain for tears.

Hal Sparks

Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song.

We had 23 of them, ... each a craftsman and a leader, running independent but coordinated crews. The studio was not happy.

Eric Avery

I feel that Jane's is really a vibe and a time. It wasn't like we were the Beatles. We didn't have crafty pop songs where it sort of didn't matter who played them because they're just really great songs.

Eleanor Catton

I think that, in principle, a workshop is such a beautiful idea - an environment in which writers who are collectively apprenticed to the craft of writing can come together in order to collectively improve.

Lennie James

One of the things I learnt over the years is that there is a craft to writing, like there is a craft to acting. I hadn't done my apprenticeship as a writer. I did try to be a writer for hire but I'm not any good at it.

Lee Whitnum

I'm not handled. I'm not crafted by slick, high-priced consultants. I'm a real person, a genuine person, a struggling person in Connecticut.