Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bridget Riley

The eye can travel over the surface in a way parallel to the way it moves over nature. It should feel caressed and soothed, experience frictions and ruptures, glide and drift. One moment, there will be nothing to look at and the next second the canvas seems to refill, to be crowded with visual events.

Bridget Riley

It is important that the painting can be inhabited, so that the mind's eye, or the eye's mind, can move about it credibly.

Brigitte Bardot

Unfortunately, I am not like a snail or a turtle, and I can't take my houses with me when I move.

Brian Mulroney

I would go to them and I would explain this is the price of going forward. We're going to move ahead in all these other areas. We're moving ahead in tax reform and GST, we are moving ahead on trade, but this will not be done at the cost of the environment.

Brendan Gleeson

We're getting the blues about having to walk away from this whole thing. We enjoyed it a lot and it all felt good. We had a good experience on it. We thought we could do good work together. And it is unusual to get the next one, straight off the bed. John is funny. When he gets moving, he moves pretty quickly.

Everything that these folks are saying that they're trying to move away from, like comparison, perfectionism, judgement, and exhaustion as a status symbol - that all describes my life. It was more like a medical researcher studying a disease and figuring out he or she has it.

If we can’t stand up to the never good enough and who do you think you are? we can’t move forward.

Bruce Springsteen

Somebody who can reckon with the past, who can live with the past in the present, and move towards the future - that's fabulous.

Brian Selznick

But I'm a fairly mechanical worker - I tend not to think about themes so much as plot. I want to get the feeling right. If it's moving through tunnels, I ask myself, what is it like to move through tunnels?

Brian Tracy

If you move boldly in the direction of your goals, unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brian Tracy

Do something to move yourself toward your major goal every day.

Brian Tracy

The more clear your vision of health, happiness and prosperity, the faster you move toward it and the faster it moves toward you.

Brian Tracy

Get moving; the more ground you cover, the more people you see, the more successful you will be.

Brian Tracy

Every great move forward in your life begins with a leap of faith, a step into the unknown.

Brian Tracy

It's the risk takers that move the human race forward.

Brian Tracy

When you begin moving toward excellence, you will find very little competition. You're competing with only 20% of the population.

Brian Tracy

Think about your future possibilities and the fact that your potential is virtually unlimited. You can do what you want to do and go where you want to go. You can be the person you want to be. You can set large and small goals and make plans and move step-by-step, progressively toward their realization. There are no obstacles to what you can accomplish except the obstacles that you create in your mind.

Brian Bosworth

I'm moving to a point that I'm fed up with the N.C.A.A. dictation.

Brad Meltzer

I tend to do something for two years then move on to something new. Yoga, then biking, then weight lifting, then back to biking. The moment it feels like a rut, I switch and search for a new love. It's like having a midlife crisis, but without the new wife or cheesy BMW.

Brad Pitt

By nature, I keep moving, man. My theory is, be the shark. You've just got to keep moving. You can't stop.

Brad Falchuk

The East Coast, and certainly Boston, has a provincial quality to it that makes it harder to bust out and move up. Try to be too different and they'll pull you down.

Brad Dourif

I am good when there is something central about the character. There is always a human theme I attach myself to. I am really looking for something that is moving or enlightening or something with depth as an actor. I look for these kinds of roles.

Jane Hirshfield

Houses are fundamental metaphors for self, world, permeability, transition, interiority, exteriority, multiplicity, and the power to move from one state of being to another.

Jane Hirshfield

When I write, I don't know what is going to emerge. I begin in a condition of complete unknowing, an utter nakedness of concept or goal. A word appears, another word appears, an image. It is a moving into mystery.

Jane Hirshfield

I want to preserve a certain unknowing about my own poems - perhaps because unknowing is in itself a useful poetic thirst. To move the perimeter of saying outside my own boundaries is one reason I write.

Jan Peter Balkenende

Bitter experience has taught us how fundamental our values are and how great the mission they represent.

Jamie Dimon

Our investment bank looks like it does because its customers like our expansive network and want to do equity, debt, M&A, custody, move money, deposit money, et cetera.

Jamie Dimon

JPMorgan was already, for the most part. Our businesses at JPMorgan share the same cash-management systems. The commercial bank, the private bank, the retail bank, they all use the branches. The cash-management system moves the money around the world - for global corporations, and for you, the consumer, too.

James Williams

I think prices have been moving more on speculation than reality. But this is a market that has been driven by fear for two or three years.

Alanis Morissette

What influenced me was Tori Amos, who was unapologetic about expressing anger through music, and Sinead O'Connor. Those two in particular were really moving for me, and very inspiring, before I wrote 'Jagged Little Pill.'

Bobby Darin

I'm a singer who moves like a dancer.

Black Kettle

But we want peace, I would move all my people down this way. I could then keep them all quietly near camp.

Blair Underwood

All you can do is do the best you can and I did that. I had a great time. I made a product and I was not embarrassed by it at all so you do it and you move on.