In some parts of Ireland the sleep which knows no waking is always followed by a wake which knows no sleeping.
~By Mary Wilson Little ~
The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.
~By Michelangelo ~
I think we can find a formula that would be to everyone's satisfaction, which would make it possible for Croatia to take some more steps and for Europe to accept us into its midst, and for the talks to start.
~By Stjepan Mesic ~
Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.
~By Ovid ~
My father is an actor, so he brought me into his agency when I was young. It wasn't something I wanted to do until high school, when I started taking theater and really liked it. Then an agent found me and wanted me to come out to Los Angeles and give it a shot. I gave myself six months, but it only took me like a week to get a job.
~By Jensen Ackles ~
Once you put human life in human hands, you have started on a slippery slope that knows no boundaries.
~By Leon Kass ~
I do write long, long character notes - family background, history, details of appearance - much more than will ever appear in the novel. I think this is what lifts a book from that early calculated, artificial stage.
~By Anne Tyler ~
Oppression does not make for hearts as big as all outdoors. Oppression makes us big and small. Expressive and silenced. Deep and dead.
~By Cherrie Moraga ~
I'd love to do a musical. I've been known to have a good step or two. I'm half Samoan, you know, and part of our culture is singing and dancing daily.
~By Dwayne Johnson ~
Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.
~By Tryon Edwards ~
You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country.
~By Robert Frost ~
My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art.
~By Jimi Hendrix ~
Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting.
~By William Arthur Ward ~
I have a brother who's a psychologist. He says three-quarters of the world are born feeling that they will be affected by the world; one quarter are born knowing that they will affect the world.
~By Kathleen Turner ~
There may be a great fire in our hearts, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.
~By Vincent Van Gogh ~
The recent fascination, I think, reflects the shift in approach by law enforcement officials to embrace technology as wholeheartedly as the rest of the world.
~By Jeffery Deaver ~
I started practicing Yoga at about 18. I had a friend who was doing it and was incredibly disciplined and meditated all the time.
~By Christy Turlington ~
As often happens during a war, some parts of the country prospered, notwithstanding the constant loss.
~By Albert Bushnell Hart ~
Common participation in the Eucharist can only be a final outcome of ecumenic dialogue, not the starting point.
~By Karl Lehmann ~
I'm a reasonably articulate individual.
~By Amanda Marshall ~
Cease to be a drudge, seek to be an artist.
~By Mary McLeod Bethune ~
The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art.
~By Thomas Aquinas ~
That's what I miss out of all this synthesized music - it starts to lose dynamics.
~By Glenn Frey ~
That's the great paradox of living on this earth, that in the midst of great pain you can have great joy as well. If we didn't have those things we'd just be numb.
~By Kathy Mattea ~
Now, I do come from a part of the country where the people say that the only thing in the middle of the road is a yellow line or roadkill.
~By Blanche Lincoln ~
Joe Torre would tell you to make sure you can hit the ball on the outside part of the plate.
~By Dale Murphy ~
Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?
~By Harold Pinter ~
The whole publicity machine is a very weird one. It's kind of a necessary part of what we do here, but this helps me keep grounded.
~By Wendie Malick ~
For my part, I make this pledge to all of you: The politics of division, of pitting east against west, urban versus rural, region against region, and people against people will have no place in my Administration.
~By Edward G. Rendell ~
I loved getting to do Promised Land with him. I mean, he's really there for you. We did one very emotional scene in the church. He's just a wonderful acting partner. You feel very safe with him.
~By Delta Burke ~
As the director of an opera, it is my responsibility to unify the style of the particular performance, but one can certainly approach the piece from different points of view. That's what makes it interesting and keeps it alive.
~By Sarah Caldwell ~
The awful thing, as a kid reading, was that you came to the end of the story, and that was it. I mean, it would be heartbreaking that there was no more of it.
~By Robert Creeley ~
The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
Being an artist doesn't mean that you're a good artist. That was the bargain I first made with myself: I'd say, I'm an artist, but I'm not really very good.
~By Paul Simon ~
Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of publicity.
~By Lauren Bacall ~
Art led the way for me to recover. He got out of prison before me and started traveling all over the world before I did. He showed me by example that it could be done, and I'll always love him for that.
~By Frank Morgan ~
Let's talk of a system that transforms all the social organisms into a work of art, in which the entire process of work is included... something in which the principle of production and consumption takes on a form of quality. It's a Gigantic project.
~By Joseph Beuys ~
We can't put up a protectionist dam on our own against the neo-liberal world market either. However, we can try, together with our European partners, to maintain the social character of Europe as much as possible.
~By Johan Huizinga ~
First I went to the Sorbonne to do my licence en lettres, but I also started to study law.
~By Claude Chabrol ~
It is essential to do everything possible to attract young people to opera so they can see that it is not some antiquated art form but a repository of the most glorious music and drama that man has created.
~By Bruce Beresford ~
It was really a very small company when I started and it changed very rapidly during those first periods.
~By Jack Kilby ~
Pollock said several times that he couldn't separate himself from his art. Not knowing much about modern art when I began to read about him, I was much more his persona - his struggles as a human being - that was interesting to me.
~By Ed Harris ~
I am proud to be in the Senate. I have always been proud to be a part of our political system. It is a remarkable privilege to participate in this system of ours.
~By Byron Dorgan ~
There's nothing tantric about my particular view on life.
~By Andrew Cohen ~
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.
~By Cyril Connolly ~
I always liked the magic of poetry but now I'm just starting to see behind the curtain of even the best poets, how they've used, tried and tested craft to create the illusion. Wonderful feeling of exhilaration to finally be there.
~By David Knopfler ~
I pick out young people and teach them in less time than it would take me to alter the methods of people from the boards, and I get actors who look the parts they have to fill.
~By D. W. Griffith ~
The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.
~By Barbara de Angelis ~
Authenticity is the alignment of head, mouth, heart, and feet - thinking, saying, feeling, and doing the same thing - consistently. This builds trust, and followers love leaders they can trust.
~By Lance Secretan ~
A man may not always be what he appears to be, but what he appears to be is always a significant part of what he is.
~By Willard Gaylin ~
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.
~By Christopher Morley ~
The Magna Carta is widely known to be one of the foundational documents for our Constitution. I can only imagine that a mention of that in a court decision would be forbidden by our friends on the right.
~By John Conyers ~
So the thing I realized rather gradually - I must say starting about 20 years ago now that we know about computers and things - there's a possibility of a more general basis for rules to describe nature.
~By Stephen Wolfram ~
Certainly the plagiarism, and dealing with the fallout of it, was the most difficult thing I've ever faced since I started writing.
~By Nora Roberts ~
The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.
~By Maya Angelou ~
They're not put on earth to be martyrs; they have to want to come out. It depends on your culture, where you work, where you live. Each person's circumstances are unique.
~By Billie Jean King ~
I started off at the high level, in the slick magazines, but they didn't use my name, they used house names. Anyway, then I went downhill to the pulps, then downhill further to the comics.
~By Mickey Spillane ~
The Bible looks like it started out as a game of Mad Libs.
~By Bill Maher ~
James Brown was one of the first artists who found four bars that he liked and played them the entire way through, and then he just added to it vocally.
~By Brian Austin Green ~
Jocelyn Bell joined the project as a graduate student in 1965, helping as a member of the construction team and then analysing the paper charts of the sky survey.
~By Antony Hewish ~
Racial history is therefore natural history and the mysticism of the soul at one and the same time; but the history of the religion of the blood, conversely, is the great world story of the rise and downfall of peoples, their heroes and thinkers, their inventors and artists.
~By Alfred Rosenberg ~
God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.
~By Izaak Walton ~
Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.
~By Camille Paglia ~
A mutual and satisfied sexual act is of great benefit to the average woman, the magnetism of it is health giving. When it is not desired on the part of the woman and she gives no response, it should not take place.
~By Margaret Sanger ~
Radical Chic, after all, is only radical in Style; in its heart it is part of Society and its traditions.
~By Tom Wolfe ~
Espionage, for the most part, involves finding a person who knows something or has something that you can induce them secretly to give to you. That almost always involves a betrayal of trust.
~By Aldrich Ames ~
Jackie Gleason said that comedy is the most exacting form of dramatic art, because it has an instant critic: laughter.
~By Chuck Jones ~
I play piano and guitar and I do write my own stuff so to a certain extent I know what I want to do in regards to music. But I'm still finding out what kind of music is my favourite kind to listen to, never mind do myself so I've got a lot of time to find out myself and develop myself as an artist.
~By Richard Fleeshman ~
We started out as far to the left as we could.
~By Marguerite Moreau ~
In other times, I could stand here and give this kind of exposition on the beliefs of the Democratic Party and that would be enough. But today that is not enough. People want more.
~By Barbara Jordan ~
There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
~By Washington Irving ~
It was something I was more interested in myself. When I went to see my sister dance at ballet, I was really into costumes and the arts, and my family was also supportive of whatever me and my sister wanted to do. I would say I pushed myself the most to be into design.
~By Christian Siriano ~
Well, they are critics of the Bush administration generally on the human rights record of the administration, and in particular, they are very, very critical of this use of science.
~By Jane Mayer ~
I started at Pillsbury as a manager in one of their analysis functions, then worked my way up the corporate ladder to become vice president. Moving to Burger King was an important moment in my career.
~By Herman Cain ~
To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
Our goal is to leverage what is already out in the field in terms of partners, but then hire in project management capability and a bit of technical capability.
~By Kevin Rollins ~
I started by looking at what others had done before me. You see, over the years there have been attempts by many different people to reconstruct the chariot.
~By Kit Williams ~
Art, in the first place, has to connect with yourself.
~By Andrew Brown ~
I suppose that Heartland, Unknown Soldier and Pride and Joy represent not a quieter side but more of a serious side to my work, something I've been getting into recently.
~By Garth Ennis ~
I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.
~By William Jennings Bryan ~
When we too are armed and trained, we can convince men that we have hands, feet, and a heart like yours;.
~By Veronica Franco ~
To say that you now trust the Russian military command and control system because some Russian general told you from the bottom of his heart that's the case, strikes me as most unrealistic.
~By William Odom ~
Although China and United States are competitors, China and the United States are indeed partners in trade.
~By Zhu Rongji ~
It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.
~By Theodor Adorno ~
President Bush spent last night calling world leaders to support the war with Iraq and it is sad when the most powerful man on earth is yelling, 'I know you're there, pick up, pick up.
~By Craig Kilborn ~
No departure from the truth of nature shall be discovered by the closest scrutiny.
~By Henry Peach Robinson ~
I think that being a producer is business and being an actor is art.
~By Vincent D'Onofrio ~
Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you'll be left without bread and without views.
~By Nikolai Gogol ~
No 27-year-old has the experience to run a company that does a quarter of a billion dollars a year in sales.
~By Calvin Klein ~
God owns heaven but He craves the earth.
~By Anne Sexton ~
Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.
~By Lillian Hellman ~
The Earth is the cradle of humanity, but mankind cannot stay in the cradle forever.
~By Konstantin Tsiolkovsky ~
So in the dark we hide the heart that bleeds, And wait, and tend our agonizing seeds.
~By Countee Cullen ~
Preparing to fight wild fires is only part of the solution, we must be more pro-active and prevent the fires before they start, or reduce their intensity by removing forest waste and fuel build up.
~By Rick Renzi ~
Every man should follow the bent of his nature in art and letters, always provided that he does not offend against the rules of morality and good taste.
~By Thomas Edward Brown ~
Easy mind, light heart. A mind that is too easy hides a heart that is too heavy.
~By Franz Schubert ~
To give a body and a perfect form to one's thought, this - and only this - is to be an artist.
~By Jacques-Louis David ~
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