Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aaron Carter

I'm always studying my craft because I want to be the best at what I do.

Ben Nighthorse Campbell

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

John Ridley

There are any number of very hard working people in Hollywood who deserve recognition. Mostly its the artisans and crafts persons - the 'below the line' workers - whose only reward is to be pejoratively labeled 'below the line' workers. I say get them all on the next thing smoking to Vegas for an all expense paid weekend of whatever.

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.

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.

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

Czeslaw Milosz

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

Donald Barthelme

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

Constantin Stanislavski

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

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.

Allen Ginsberg

First thought, best thought.

Brooke Shields

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

David Hockney

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

Demetri Martin

Glitter is the herpes of craft supplies.

Geoffrey Chaucer

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

Jack Nicholson

I wanted to be the best actor possible. I worked very hard at the craft of it.

Jack Kerouac

No time for poetry but exactly what is.

Martin Luther

In a mouse we admire God's creation and craft work. The same may be said about flies.

Martin Rees

I hope that by 2050 the entire solar system will have been explored and mapped by flotillas of tiny robotic craft.

Ronald Reagan

Diplomacy, of course, is a subtle and nuanced craft, so much so that it's said that when the most wily diplomat of the nineteenth-century passed away, other diplomats asked, on reports of his death, "What do you suppose the old fox meant by that?

Sam Raimi

Rob [Tapert], myself and Bruce Campbell sat in hundreds of drive-insnot hundreds, but tens of drive-ins, watching these movies and learning how they were made, and we started to make our own in Super 8. And that’s really how we got into horror films. After a while we learned to really like them, and the craft that went into them.

Randall Jarrell

The novel is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it.

Robert Bringhurst

Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form.

Tom T. Hall

Songwriting is as much a craft as a talent.

Tom Stoppard

The hard part is getting to the top of page 1.

Tina Brown

In the end, Dan Rather's legend skewered him, CBS and the craft of journalism.

Steve Lacy

Make the drummer sound good.

Stanley Elkin

The furthest out is the only place to be.

Richard Stallman

Programming is not a science. Programming is a craft.

T. S. Eliot

Mediocre writers borrow; great writers steal.

Joss Whedon

If you're going to make a science fiction movie, then have a hover craft chase, for God's sake.