Today I start a diary; it is against my usual habbits, but out of a clearly felt need.
~By Robert Musil ~
Gospel artists are messengers; they are vessels of a message.
~By Boris Kodjoe ~
Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.
~By Voltaire ~
But I tend to think of the expressive part of me as rather tedious - never curious or responsive, but blind and self-serving.
~By Mark Strand ~
For example, some stars put out large amounts of energy in the infrared part of the spectrum, so that this can produce a different relative magnitude rating than using light energy from the middle of the spectrum.
~By Charles Francis Richter ~
Unity is the most important thing on the road to stamping out terror. You need global rules of law and order, and they have to be enforced. Start with that principle.
~By Chris Matthews ~
I feel a lot more comfortable being me these days. I'm constantly told that my work is good. A lot of fans and a lot of other artists say my songs and albums mean a lot to them. Isn't that what's important?
~By Lucinda Williams ~
And luckily, therefore the good old days return. The traditional art of driving counts again, and it is all about good tactics, skills and reflexes instead of simple power.
~By Jacky Ickx ~
Part of the advantage, and part of the result of trying to be a producer and director, are the practical things, you find. It's so advantageous to go to a place that you already have a feel for, a literal and spiritual familiarity.
~By Campbell Scott ~
Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony.
~By Guillaume Apollinaire ~
Man can now fly in the air like a bird, swim under the ocean like a fish, he can burrow into the ground like a mole. Now if only he could walk the earth like a man, this would be paradise.
~By Tommy Douglas ~
Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, and the only means of making concrete the purpose of its varied quickness and stillness.
~By Mark Rothko ~
Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, yet you will find nothing anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here.
~By Ramakrishna ~
I'd love to have another film to go on to. I'm in the mood to work. But I have to be patient, you know, to find that particular kind of project. Occasionally I'll write one myself if I can summon up the energy.
~By Peter Weir ~
Well I started studying to help me with these commercial auditions and I just loved it.
~By Sela Ward ~
I confess it is beyond our power to awaken the heart, but ordinarily this way does good.
~By Thomas Hooker ~
There's a sense of spontaneity, and no emphasis on jokes in this show. People generally talk the way they talk in life if you were in this particular situation.
~By Larry David ~
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
~By Jim Ryun ~
Oh, I started out young. They handed me a cotton sack when I was about 8 years old. Give me a little small one, tell me to fill it up. I never did like the farm but I was out there with my grandmother, didn't want to get away from around her too far.
~By Muddy Waters ~
You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart.
~By J. D. Salinger ~
Well Bill Martin and Mike Schiff were the creators and they knew we had to do a family show. Everybody came at it from the angle of having been a kid and a teenager.
~By Donal Logue ~
The heart of a human being is no different from the soul of heaven and earth. In your practice always keep in your thoughts the interaction of heaven and earth, water and fire, yin and yang.
~By Morihei Ueshiba ~
Here you do have forests, where pigs could be raised by letting them root about in the forests for a good part of the year. Therefore, you have a different attitude toward them compared with what continues to exist in the Middle East.
~By Marvin Harris ~
This one, even though it called for San Francisco, I think they wanted to initially shoot part of the film up here, you know get the exteriors and then go back to L.A. We really fought to get it up here and I think Paramount was really pleased.
~By Philip Kaufman ~
There is a very well-defined procedure that allows the Vatican to raise issues with a particular theologian about something that does not appear in conformity with the Catholic faith. It is not always easy to make this determination.
~By Godfried Danneels ~
A celebrity name is never enough for an intelligent mass market... truly successful businesses are born of passion and heartfelt interest.
~By Elle Macpherson ~
The right of the people to a substantive part in the government of the Church is recognized and sanctioned by the apostles in almost every conceivable way.
~By Charles Hodge ~
In the Federal Government, electronic records are as indispensable as their paper counterparts for documenting citizens' rights, the actions for which officials are accountable, and the nation's history.
~By Allen Weinstein ~
What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning.
~By Barbara de Angelis ~
Abstention means you stayed at home or went to the beach. By casting a blank vote, you're saying you have a political conscience but you don't agree with any of the existing parties.
~By Jose Saramago ~
We are Americans. We - we - we are - we are doctors. We are investment bankers. We are taxi drivers. We are store keepers. We are lawyers. We are - we are part of the fabric of America. And the way that America today treats its Muslims is being watched by over a billion Muslims worldwide.
~By Feisal Abdul Rauf ~
If American schooling is inadequate now, just imagine how much more obsolete it will be when today's kindergarten students graduate from high school in just 12 years.
~By Janet Napolitano ~
Whatever we are waiting for - peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abundance - it will surely come to us, but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart.
~By Sarah Ban Breathnach ~
Part of my heritage being Korean, it's going to be interesting going to Korea and answering these questions dealing with North and South Korea.
~By Rick Yune ~
In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.
~By Michel de Montaigne ~
Suffering is part of the divine idea.
~By Henry Ward Beecher ~
From a scientific perspective there is some indication that a nuclear war could deplete the earth's ozone layer or, less likely, could bring on a new Ice Age - but there is no suggestion that either the created order or mankind would be destroyed in the process.
~By Herman Kahn ~
We regard it as a certainty that the earth, enclosed between poles, is bounded by a spherical surface.
~By Nicolaus Copernicus ~
If you do this, you're going to have some heartaches from it. You're going to have people yelling at you or maybe screaming at you or criticizing you, but I think it's the best way to sell a superior chicken.
~By Frank Perdue ~
In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.
~By Rabindranath Tagore ~
The great city can teach something that no university by itself can altogether impart: a vivid sense of the largeness of human brotherhood, a vivid sense of man's increasing obligation to man; a vivid sense of our absolute dependence on one another.
~By Seth Low ~
Well, maybe so, although I don't think I am particularly gifted in languages. In fact, oddly enough, it may have something to do with my being slow at languages.
~By Robert Fitzgerald ~
And, obviously as a, as one who likes to travel around myself a lot, I think the Earth is a beautiful place. And, I'm looking forward to some new perspectives.
~By Duane G. Carey ~
The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.
~By E. M. Forster ~
Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce.
~By John F. Kennedy ~
Whoever happens to give birth to mischievous children lives always with unending grief in his spirit and heart.
~By Hesiod ~
It's taken folk a while to come around, hasn't it? Even the boys in the band weren't too sure about the whole art thing. They just wanted me to concentrate on the music. But they respect it now.
~By Ron Wood ~
But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form.
~By Larry Niven ~
Marvin Gaye is one of my favorite revolutionaries. He spoke from his heart, his mind. That's what I want to do.
~By Erykah Badu ~
If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it.
~By Joseph Addison ~
When my writing really started to take off was when I made a decision that I would write only what I wanted to write, and if 10 people wanted to hear it, that's fine.
~By David Friedman ~
The wish to lead out one's lover must be a tribal feeling; the wish to be seen as loved is part of one's self-respect.
~By Elizabeth Bowen ~
The silent film has a lot of meanings. The first part of the film is comic. It represents the burlesque feel of those silent films. But I think that the second part of the film is full of tenderness and emotion.
~By Pedro Almodovar ~
You start chasing a ball and your brain immediately commands your body to 'Run forward, bend, scoop up the ball, peg it to the infield,' then your body says, 'Who me?'
~By Joe DiMaggio ~
Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.
~By Lytton Strachey ~
An individual, in promoting his own interest, may injure the public interest; a nation, in promoting the general welfare, may check the interest of a part of its members.
~By Friedrich List ~
When life is victorious, there is birth; when it is thwarted, there is death. A warrior is always engaged in a life-and-death struggle for Peace.
~By Morihei Ueshiba ~
It's part of a cycle of stories I'm writing where I deconstruct classic science fiction.
~By Cory Doctorow ~
I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage that was for six years wonderfully productive of poetry and then ended in tragedy.
~By Anne Stevenson ~
He showed in the last interview, as on the later portions of the chart, a genuine fondness for the rabbit.
~By Mary C. Jones ~
Art is something that opens up and enhances your emotions and that's what I like to think I'm doing.
~By Nile Rodgers ~
The best party is but a kind of conspiracy against the rest of the nation.
~By Lord Halifax ~
The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class-it is the cause of human kind, the very birthright of humanity.
~By Anna Julia Cooper ~
Chet loved artists. He did. But he was caught up in the system. He had two hats. He had to have 'em because he did two things: he was an artist, and he was an executive.
~By Waylon Jennings ~
A love of classical music is only partially a natural response to hearing the works performed, it also must come about by a decision to listen carefully, to pay close attention, a decision inevitably motivated by the cultural and social prestige of the art.
~By Charles Rosen ~
Arafat's departure has created an awesome opportunity.
~By Joe Biden ~
Art's development should be dialectical and not metaphysical.
~By Robert Smithson ~
The reflection of the world is blues, that's where that part of the music is at. Then you got this other kind of music that's tryin' to come around.
~By Jimi Hendrix ~
To cultivate an English accent is already a departure away from what you are.
~By Sean Connery ~
It is sobering to consider that when Mozart was my age he had already been dead for a year.
~By Tom Lehrer ~
Belize pledges it continued support to the aspirations of the 23 million people of Taiwan to be full participants in all organs and agencies of the international community.
~By Said Musa ~
It is my hope that the number of stem cell lines available for federally-funded research will be expanded so that the government can continue to participate in this vital research and provide hope to the millions of Americans with diseases that might be cured.
~By Dianne Feinstein ~
It would, of course, be hopeless to attempt to crowd into an international language all those local overtones of meaning which are so dear to the heart of the nationalist.
~By Edward Sapir ~
You know, gentlemen, that I do not owe any personal income tax. But nevertheless, I send a small check, now and then, to the Internal Revenue Service out of the kindness of my heart.
~By David Rockefeller ~
One must not believe any of those mythologies about oneself as an artist.
~By Anish Kapoor ~
In a great romance, each person basically plays a part that the other really likes.
~By Elizabeth Ashley ~
I knew it would happen. I knew I'd be No. 1. I'm a new artist; I don't know the rules. Nobody told me it wouldn't happen.
~By Erykah Badu ~
You could live in Winnipeg a thousand years and not meet Ringo, Paul McCartney, or Bob Dylan.
~By Burton Cummings ~
I'm particularly proud of my reluctance to share my dreams with anyone.
~By Todd Barry ~
At the time I belonged to the socialist party, and Hitler came to power.
~By Douglas Sirk ~
I strongly suggest that we play down basics like who influenced whom, and instead study the way the influence is transformed, in other words: how the artist made it his own.
~By Lukas Foss ~
Very often, if I know the orchestra doesn't know a piece or it's a new piece, I have main ideas about it. But then we start to play and I never talk about places where they played so beautiful and so clear in the beginning that there is nothing to say.
~By Kurt Masur ~
Some in my party threaten to send a message that they don't know a just war when they see it, and more broadly that they're not prepared to use our military strength to protect our security and the cause of freedom.
~By Joe Lieberman ~
America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
~By Carlisle Floyd ~
What you can't get out of, get into wholeheartedly.
~By Mignon McLaughlin ~
After that he turned to the question of invading England. Hitler said that during the previous year he could not afford to risk a possible failure; apart from that, he had not wished to provoke the British, as he hoped to arrange peace talks.
~By Kurt Student ~
I couldn't be happier about being a part of 'Hunger Games' and to play Katniss. I have a huge responsibility to the fans of this incredible book and I don't take it lightly. I will give everything I have to these movies and to this role to make it worthy of Suzanne Collins' masterpiece.
~By Jennifer Lawrence ~
We must start with the reality that corporations cannot guarantee anyone a lifetime job any more than corporations have a guarantee of immortality.
~By John W. Snow ~
Tomorrow I shall be sixty-nine, but I do not seem to care. I did not start the affair, and I have not been consulted about it at any step.
~By William Dean Howells ~
Freedom of expression - in particular, freedom of the press - guarantees popular participation in the decisions and actions of government, and popular participation is the essence of our democracy.
~By Corazon Aquino ~
Writing a play, you start with less, so more is demanded of you. It's as if you have to not only write a symphony, but invent the instruments as well.
~By David Ives ~
With a fresh start, I hope it'll work out good. I know the whole Fox story and how he came over here and had a great year for them. I'm hoping that's what it'll be - fresh start, new faces, new team, new city. I'm looking forward to getting out there.
~By Billy Koch ~
I came out singing, the doctor slapped me on the head, and I started singing.
~By Keith David ~
For the most part our grassroots members are serious, nice, tolerant people.
~By Francis Maude ~
Slavery discourages arts and manufactures.
~By George Mason ~
Where you have no religion, you are sure to have no government, for as religion disappears, anarchy takes place and fixes a compleat Hell on earth till religion returns.
~By Daniel Morgan ~
What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud.
~By Augustus Hare ~
Sons of Islam everywhere, the jihad is a duty - to establish the rule of Allah on earth and to liberate your countries and yourselves from America's domination and its Zionist allies, it is your battle - either victory or martyrdom.
~By Ahmed Yassin ~
Even in the Western world, one cannot argue that the ideal has been achieved given the existence of issues like the integration, participation and representation of Muslim citizens, and occasional but lingering anti-Semitism.
~By Recep Tayyip Erdogan ~
When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.
~By Susan Sarandon ~
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