Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Czeslaw Milosz

We have become indifferent to content, and react, not even to form, but to technique, to technical efficiency itself.

Constantin Stanislavski

Who am I? What will I be? Why am I here? Where am I going?

Donald Barthelme

The writer is one who, emnbarking upon a task, does not know what to do.

David O. Russell

Just work on your craft hard - that's your only hope of doing anything worthwhile.

David Ogilvy

I can't stand callow amateurs who aren't sufficiently interested in the craft of advertising to assume the posture of students.

Damian Kulash

Actually, here is something I'm passionate about that, looking around me, seems like the world at large must not care about as much as I do: craft.

Amy Sedaris

I like crafts that are made out of necessity because they're a little naive - you made it because you needed it.

Amy Sedaris

A lot of crafters, they're shut-ins.

Lupita Nyong'o

I always envisioned working in film and in theater. Theater and film are not, they're not in any way substitutable. What I love about theater is so different from what I love about film, and I enjoy the craft of both.

Maya MacGuineas

To craft a full package of offsets, everything should be on the table.

He's a crafty pitcher who figures out ways to get outs.

Dave Tippett

He's a crafty, keen player. Crafty in the way he goes about it on the ice and keen on the way he picks up things and reads plays.

History teaches us that punitive measures, hastily crafted in reaction to short-term market fluctuations, will likely have unintended negative consequences.

Kelly Corrigan

It's funny, I'd rather be known as a writer who crafted a really nice piece about women's friendships over time. But that doesn't roll off the tongue like 'YouTube sensation.'

He does a good job drawing fouls. He's crafty like that.

I get my ideas from everywhere -- preschools, Web sites and craft books.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Our strategy, as we have navigated these market conditions, has been to use locally crafted strategies in a measured and orderly fashion to keep inventory levels very low while keeping our home-building machine working.

Mariska Hargitay

Meisner technique was different than anything I'd ever experienced. It's a really great way to be accountable to your craft and to yourself, but also it takes that kind of focus and dedication to learn anything.