Jazz is not the format where I want to stay, but it really is a starting point for me.
~By Justin Guarini ~
Be good to yourself. Listen to your body, to your heart. We're very hard on ourselves, and we're always feeling like we're not doing enough. It's a terribly hard job.
~By Marcia Wallace ~
Basically I started to jot notes, lots of faxes back and forth to my writer, we faxed ideas throughout the whole first draft, and started all over again.
~By Bruce Boxleitner ~
The last thing on my mind was to be an actor, but I had a crush on a cute girl in the drama department, so the best thing for me to do was audition, help out, do carpentry, whatever it took to get me on that project.
~By John Ratzenberger ~
There's an awful temptation to just keep on researching. There comes a point where you just have to stop, and start writing.
~By David McCullough ~
To-night I am going to take a party to the headquarters of the fire department, where I have a cinch on the captain, a very nice fellow, who is unusually grateful for something I wrote about him and his men. They are going to do the Still Alarm act for me.
~By Richard H. Davis ~
Our people went out every single night trying to stop crime before it happened, trying to take people off the street that they believed were involved in crime. That made us a very aggressive, proactive police department.
~By Daryl Gates ~
What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the color of a particular human suffering.
~By Harold Bloom ~
Poems in a way are spells against death. They are milestones, to see where you were then from where you are now. To perpetuate your feelings, to establish them. If you have in any way touched the central heart of mankind's feelings, you'll survive.
~By Richard Eberhart ~
When I first started I was always known as The Girl on the Sitcom with the Funny Voice.
~By Julie Benz ~
The heart of our relationship, this natural environment that has blessed us really all along the west coast of North America, on both sides of the border we've realized that this incredible natural wealth comes with a price.
~By Dan Miller ~
I have a private press. I'm a book artist. I publish books of other authors and artists. I do the illustrating. I set the type. I print it myself on my press. I do everything but bind it.
~By Gloria Stuart ~
Demand no more out of your partner than what you are willing to give yourself.
~By Martha Quinn ~
There was a teacher who recognized that I was interested in cartooning and he was great.
~By Jonathan Shapiro ~
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
~By Winston Churchill ~
I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.
~By Jules Verne ~
When I tried to play something and screwed up, I'd hear some other note that would come into play. Then I started trying different things to find the beauty in it.
~By Dimebag Darrell ~
I just love making a fool out of myself. I made my living as a clown at kids' parties for about three years.
~By Hugh Jackman ~
My forte is playing drunks down the ages. When my agent rings me about a role, I don't ask what the part is, but what century it's in.
~By Johnny Vegas ~
How much will you give for the lives of your childrens children, which is yourself? How much are people willing to give up for air, earth, water, animals, and the coming generations? I think the answer to that is pretty clear.
~By Lynette Fromme ~
Faith crosses every border and touches every heart in every nation.
~By George W. Bush ~
No, no, I never despair, because George Bush is not running the universe. He may be running the United States, he may be running the military, he may be running even the world, but he is not running the universe, he is not running the human heart.
~By Martin Sheen ~
Consequently it will often happen there will be a desire of particular objects, in cases where they cannot be obtained without manifest injury to others.
~By Joseph Butler ~
Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.
~By Heraclitus ~
If they do something like that, maybe a Freddy Krueger fan, a girl, a really sick goth girl starts killing kids herself and Freddy has to put a stop to it, or they have to fight it out.
~By Robert Englund ~
Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
~By Al Franken ~
I got a series with the WB next year. We start shooting in July. It's going to be called Safe Harbor, and it's an hour show. It's a Spelling show and will follow 7th Heaven.
~By Gregory Harrison ~
We like to think of film and music as art, but actually art is something that is not restricted.
~By Ahmed Best ~
The Bush administration doesn't particularly like public participation. It makes them look bad.
~By Ted Hughes ~
Discipline is simply the art of making the soldiers fear their officers more than the enemy.
~By Claude Adrien Helvetius ~
If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.
~By Dolly Parton ~
When you're on top and you lead the parade, everyone's there throwing lilies and lilac water on your head. But when those parades have gone by and there's a storm in your heart, there are very few people that are going to sit there and listen to you bemoan life.
~By Sylvester Stallone ~
People need to access Skype wirelessly, no matter where they are, and what happens is that we'll be taking advantage of the rollout of Internet everywhere - WiFi and WiMax in particular.
~By Niklas Zennstrom ~
Tony Blair faced a massive defection from his own party ranks during voting around the intervention in Iraq. For our present purpose, the point is not that he survived the defection, but that he had to face it.
~By Stockwell Day ~
The artist writes, paints, sings or dances the burden of some idea or feeling off his mind.
~By Max Nordau ~
I think once we started directing separately - we each have different kinds of interests now, and the kinds of movies we want to do. I wouldn't hold your breath for that one.
~By David Zucker ~
High rank and soft manners may not always belong to a true heart.
~By Anthony Trollope ~
The things that I've done that have totally been remembered, they've always started with the same kind of engine, they've always started with someone saying 'I have to make this film - I'm going to make this film whatever the odds'.
~By Jenny Agutter ~
There the wild animals wandered and fed as though they were in a pasture that stretched much farther than a man could see, and there were no settlers. Only Indians lived there.
~By Laura Ingalls Wilder ~
A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.
~By Nelson Mandela ~
Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
By the time we got to MGM, and Lions Gate the movie was done there was nothing else to say. It was done. Just as at Universal, it was art by committee.
~By Rob Zombie ~
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 ~
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age.
~By Thomas Bailey Aldrich ~
You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.
~By Oswald Chambers ~
Well, you don't get to do things that other children get to do, having friends and slumber parties and buddies. There were none of that for me. I didn't have friends when I was little. My brothers were my friends.
~By Michael Jackson ~
Things have changed a great deal since the days of Mr. Mayer. The studios no longer control, as they did in those days, artists or directors or producers, as the case may be.
~By Lew Wasserman ~
When it comes to two of the big social earthquakes in the last fifty years - which are the gay movement and the women's movement - I think there is a direct line from Kinsey to those.
~By Bill Condon ~
I think that the failures of Enron and WorldCom and other companies are partially failures of investors to recognize companies that are selling for a thousand times nothing, but chances are they may be worth only that.
~By Arthur Levitt ~
More than anything else, let me be clear - we need to be willing to fight for freedom, and free markets, and traditional moral values. That's what the American people want to see this movement and this party return to.
~By Mike Pence ~
The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going to tell me she is a dead lump?
~By David Herbert Lawrence ~
Organizations like the ACLU fought and won the good fight back in the 1960's, but it's clear that nowadays they've run out of useful things to do since they now spend most of their time defending the scum of the Earth from getting what they rightly deserve.
~By Craig Bruce ~
From 1941 to 1945 we won a war by enlisting the whole-hearted support of all our people and all our resources.
~By James Forrestal ~
And then, when I started to school, I found out I couldn't talk.
~By Mel Tillis ~
To a smart girl men are no problem - they're the answer.
~By Zsa Zsa Gabor ~
There's a call to adventure. It's something in the inner psyche of humanity, particularly males.
~By Gary Gygax ~
When I first started to write, I was aware of being queer, but I didn't write about it. Queer poems would probably not have been accepted by the editors I sent them to.
~By Thom Gunn ~
If we don't have an informed electorate we don't have a democracy. So I don't care how people get the information, as long as they get it. I'm just doing it my particular way and I feel lucky I can do it the way I want to do it.
~By Jim Lehrer ~
I think it's pretentious to create art just for the sake of stroking the artists ego.
~By Lou Reed ~
There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.
~By Jean-Paul Sartre ~
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
~By Abraham Maslow ~
That Bears quarterback is no good. He's washed up. He's 30.
~By Donny Most ~
The trap is that you then just start doing stuff about Hollywood, which I don't really want to do.
~By Josh Schwartz ~
Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.
~By William Osler ~
No part of the world can be truly understood without a knowledge of its garment of vegetation, for this determines not only the nature of the animal inhabitants but also the occupations of the majority of human beings.
~By Ellsworth Huntington ~
Once you get into entertaining a quarter of a million people, it's a very weird place to be.
~By Joe Cocker ~
Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness.
~By Bryant H. McGill ~
To be here recovers from a state of soul, from a state of mind. I have the memory of the heart. I know what I received. I must have the will to give back to others.
~By Jacky Ickx ~
There's never a dearth of reasons to shoot at the President.
~By Don Delillo ~
But I am sure also that from a political point of view, and from a social point of view the federal link, without infringing the sovereignty of any of the nations which might take part in such as association, could be beneficial.
~By Aristide Briand ~
I was so happy that it filmed in New York not only because it's an amazing city, but also because a lot of people across the world somehow started to think about New York as a dangerous place to be and envisioned it as some war zone after that happened.
~By Alicia Witt ~
The whole nuclear thing is a terrible mess and it's hard for me to understand why it is that we, the United States, seem to be the only ones that are really particularly concerned about it and prepared to do something.
~By Lawrence Eagleburger ~
Losing faith in your own singularity is the start of wisdom, I suppose; also the first announcement of death.
~By Peter Conrad ~
It seems to me that a mutually beneficial relationship between a man and woman requires the man to be dominant. A sensible woman will allow the man to think he is the most important partner.
~By Beryl Bainbridge ~
Most parts that can be played by one actor can equally well be played by another, but not this.
~By Kenneth More ~
Most of my friends from college became dental hygienists or went into retail, a lot went into sales. They all started getting married and having kids and buying homes and I was still living like a college student.
~By Patricia Heaton ~
The cynical part of the answer is that I expect to see a good deal more space opera, set far enough in the future as to be disconnected from contemporary issues.
~By John M. Ford ~
All artists are now free to express their own personality.
~By Maurice Denis ~
Western countries in particular can today no longer be separated from Muslim societies, because they have them within themselves. They are themselves internally globalized.
~By Ulrich Beck ~
I was participating in my own lynching, but the problem was I didn't know what I was being lynched for.
~By William Westmoreland ~
I am tapping into a place in you that is unexplored, and very dangerous, but I think essential to the creative life of an artist.
~By Brandon Boyd ~
Altman works in such an interesting way, letting things occur in the film even if he didn't particularly plan them.
~By Julie Christie ~
You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.
~By Pablo Picasso ~
I was a tomboy who liked to play rough just like my two older brothers. That's probably why I liked the athletic part of skating - especially the jumping!
~By Nancy Kerrigan ~
The educator and the public need to have an opportunity to discuss why certain art is important.
~By David Elliott ~
Nonetheless, the research budgets of the Department of Defense are under enormous stress-and they are extremely important because they support more than 40 percent of all federal funding for engineering schools across the country. So the threat was and is real.
~By Charles Vest ~
A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
~By Washington Irving ~
Music is an art form. It is a way to wordlessly communicate.
~By Ken Hill ~
The format's better because it gives us a much stronger hand to play when going to the North Koreans unified, with our allies and partners in the region, all of us saying the same thing: telling them their current course is unacceptable.
~By Mitchell Reiss ~
Irish people are educated not only about artistry but local history.
~By Fiona Shaw ~
People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
~By Bertolt Brecht ~
Actually the copies of characters is something I don't particularly like to talk about in articles but just for your information, most characters there's only one.
~By Jim Henson ~
Maybe by his second year in Hogwarts, Harry Potter will learn the trick to making a movie this good, but don't bet on it. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring is one of the best films of the year.
~By Joel Siegel ~
We may have to force people to get together in terms of picking a particular type of technology and starting to build to that technology, as opposed to everybody exercising their right to buy their own system, you know, at will.
~By Michael Chertoff ~
Art, after all, is traditionally displayed against vacancies: paintings on dun walls, sculptures in empty spaces, music in quiet halls.
~By John Hart ~
The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool.
~By Edwin Hubbel Chapin ~
Especially for my father it was a great change. He used to be a socialist and even a member of the socialist party. But then he became an orthodox Jew.
~By Leon Askin ~
Today we bury his remains in the earth as a seed of immortality. Our hearts are full of sadness, yet at the same time of joyful hope and profound gratitude.
~By Joseph Ratzinger ~
Oddly, when I started to make the record, I wasn't aware I was making a record. I just was sort of disgusted with the whole thing and sequestered myself in the basement and started playing the piano just for something to do.
~By Paul Westerberg ~
If you can do that - if you run, hit, run the bases, hit with power, field, throw and do all other things that are part of the game - then you're a good ballplayer.
~By Willie Mays ~
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