Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charlie Munger

Beta and modern portfolio theory and the like - none of it makes any sense to me.

Most people, if they can put together a portfolio of activities, find it's very interesting rather than going back to a full-time job.

Walter Salles

I come from Brazil, which is a Portuguese speaking part of the continent.

Alexander Smith

To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.

Anibal Cavaco Silva

After the accession to the euro zone, interest rates declined substantially in Portugal.

Norman Schwarzkopf

Carpet bombing tends to portray something that's totally indiscriminate, you know, en masse without regard to the target.

Don Cornelius

Blacks on prime-time TV are only portrayed as comedians - and often in no better a light than 'Amos & Andy.'

Alfred Stieglitz

To demand the portrait that will be a complete portrait of a person is as futile as to demand that a motion picture be condensed into a single still.

Jamaal Magloire

Portland has a lot of talent on their team. Their talent speaks more than their record.

Elizabeth Banks

Portion control is a real problem. My husband and I always split one appetizer and one entree. I'm sure waiters hate us.

Jamie Wyeth

Everything I paint is a portrait, whatever the subject.

Jamie Wyeth

I'm an odd portrait painter in that I'm not just interested in human faces. I consider almost all of my paintings to be portraits.

Jamie Wyeth

The danger, I find, is that you can become too formulaic, like some commissioned portrait painters who develop a methodology.

More than 54,000 jobs in the region are dependent upon the Port of Philadelphia alone.

Edward Hirsch

The Portuguese and Galician term 'saudade' suggests a profoundly bittersweet nostalgia.

Flula Borg

The hardest portion of English, I must say it: Idioms.

David Axelrod

I'm a kibitzer with a broad portfolio.

Anatole Broyard

The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait.

Chuck Close

Neurologically, I'm a quadriplegic, so virtually everything about my work has been driven by my learning disabilities, which are quite severe, and my lack of facial recognition, which I'm sure is what drove me to paint portraits in the first place.

Ambrose Bierce

PORTUGUESE, n.pl. A species of geese indigenous to Portugal. They are mostly without feathers and imperfectly edible, even when stuffed with garlic.

E. M. Forster

Roger Fry is painting me. It is too like me at present, but he is confident he will be able to alter that. Post-Impressionism is at present confined to my lower lip... and to my chin.

Dana Rohrabacher

And let us be frank, the security threats that emanate from our ports come from foreign cargo.

David Bonderman

A good default, like Portugal or Greece, would be very good for the private equity business.

Anthony Powell

Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going on.

It broadens our portfolio so there's something for everyone.

What we've investigated may be a very small portion of the problem.

It complements what we already have in our portfolio and makes it so we don't have to provide signatures to this technology.

I would also like the portraits to remain in Austria.

John Williams

We're hunkered down right now. The port is secure.

James Taylor

We're the only deep-water port in Skagit County. Somehow we don't want to tie it all up with restaurants.

The port is very much part of Port Tampa.

Shekhar Kapur

Film is drama. You've only two hours, so you lie by exclusion, and try to make up for it by portraying the environment.

We don't like the media. They're portraying him as a selfish person.