I start to feel like I can't maintain the facade any longer, that I may just start to show through. And I wish I knew what was wrong. Maybe something about how stupid my whole life is.
~By Elizabeth Wurtzel ~
Once you start to look into the guts of climate change you find that just about every scientific institution in the world is conducting research on the issue.
~By Peter Garrett ~
I'm not trying to overcome my father or fill his shoes or reach any kind of level that he did. We're talking about a Mozart of rock music.
~By Sean Lennon ~
Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasures of the mind, as harrowing and planting those of the earth.
~By Margaret Fuller ~
What troubles me is the Internet and the electronic technology revolution. Shyness is fueled in part by so many people spending huge amounts of time alone, isolated on e-mail, in chat rooms, which reduces their face-to-face contact with other people.
~By Philip Zimbardo ~
We tend to talk, Democrats, as a party, in legislative terms.
~By Charles Schumer ~
The way of a man's heart will be foreshadowed by what goodness lies in him - coming from above, and from around; but a way foreshadowed is not a way made.
~By Donald G. Mitchell ~
Our state is in crisis. Our people are hurting. Now is the time when we all must resist the traditional, selfish call to protect your own turf at the cost of our state. It is time to leave the corner, join the sacrifice, come to the center of the room and be part of the solution.
~By Chris Christie ~
The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life.
~By Ralph Ellison ~
Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
~By Abraham Lincoln ~
I don't drink, I don't smoke and I don't party.
~By Stephanie Mills ~
I started walking at night with my sister in law which has been amazing. It really does something for you. It just kind of clears the mind, it just makes you feel better, things start to tighten a little bit.
~By Ashley Scott ~
I believe in advertisement and media completely. My art and my personal life are based in it. I think that the art world would probably be a tremendous reservoir for everybody involved in advertising.
~By Jeff Koons ~
I told my wife the truth. I told her I was seeing a psychiatrist. Then she told me the truth: that she was seeing a psychiatrist, two plumbers, and a bartender.
~By Rodney Dangerfield ~
The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.
~By Winston Churchill ~
The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for you, so when you start trying to count them on one hand, you don't need any fingers.
~By Larry Flynt ~
It's funny how it usually works out that I end up dying. It sort of works out, because by the time I die, I'm usually tired of working on that particular movie, so I look forward to it.
~By Owen Wilson ~
I didn't have any real art training, but when I was about twelve nad thirteen, another boy and I went to a sign painter's house every Friday night and took lessons.
~By Rube Goldberg ~
Now it is human nature to want to eat to ones fill when hungry, to want to warm up when cold, to want to rest when tired. These all are a part of people's emotional nature.
~By Xun Zi ~
In the end, we are part of this region, and we are affected by its developments. What we may do or not do in the future depends on the nature of what happens here in the region.
~By Hassan Nasrallah ~
I have always been intrigued with singing and I actually started my career in musical comedies.
~By Janine Turner ~
A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.
~By Louis Nizer ~
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 ~
It is reassuring for people to feel they have a boss, someone who knows the answers and has charted the course.
~By George Cukor ~
People are always the start for me... animals, when I can get into their heads, gods, supernatural beings, immortals, the dead... these are all people to me.
~By Tanith Lee ~
Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
~By Honore de Balzac ~
The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
~By Pythagoras ~
My use of language is part and parcel of my message.
~By Theo Van Gogh ~
From a personal point of view I want some medals because that is what you aim for when you start out playing.
~By Jamie Redknapp ~
The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
~By David Herbert Lawrence ~
In my view the structure of the whole atom was that of an individual, with all its parts interconnected, and the emission of a spectral line appeared to me to be the result of the coherence and co-operation of several electric quanta.
~By Johannes Stark ~
The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
Governors of both political parties face a stark choice between unpopular tax increases and drastic cuts in Medicaid, education, public safety and other essential services.
~By Bill Delahunt ~
EA SPORTS has a strong partnership with adidas and through this relationship they approached adidas about using some of their top players from around the world.
~By Claudio Reyna ~
Great companies in the way they work, start with great leaders.
~By Steve Ballmer ~
It doesn't really seem any different anywhere. I'd say it seems like we're biggest in Australia. It's just that we've always been this underground band and for some reason in the last month has been starting to go overground.
~By Jon Crosby ~
Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt. That's morality, that's religion. That's art. That's life.
~By Phil Ochs ~
Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits.
~By Robert Smithson ~
The hardened mass of liquid stones had much stronger qualities than those which had simply torn. The skin remained a recognisable part of the molten stone.
~By Andy Goldsworthy ~
And by the same token, I appreciate math, because I can't do math. If I have to read a map or figure out the tip on a restaurant bill, I might start to tear up a little bit.
~By Thomas Wilson ~
It is a different world than when I was growing up, and you started to just kind of maintain at thirty-five and just hope you can hope it together. People are a lot more vital than I am and doing all kinds of things and leading really important movements.
~By Susan Sarandon ~
I don't like to say I have given my life to art. I prefer to say art has given me my life.
~By Frank Stella ~
Everything was going my way. I was happily marching into the history books. Then it all just fell apart.
~By George Michael ~
That was one of the things that interested me about the character. He doesn't want to be a hero, and has no real desire to save the earth or discover aliens. He's sniffing around looking to see what will fall in his lap.
~By Orlando Jones ~
I think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows.
~By Emily Carr ~
Having those extra dimensions and therefore many ways the string can vibrate in many different directions turns out to be the key to being able to describe all the particles that we see.
~By Edward Witten ~
That's how it is on this bitch of an earth.
~By Samuel Beckett ~
All artists are people of growth. It's like food, you take the good and leave the rest.
~By Andrew Jack ~
When I was 12 and started to take singing lessons from a woman, she told me that I would probably spend the rest of my life taking care of my voice.
~By Johnny Mathis ~
The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates.
~By David Foster Wallace ~
I haven't read a review of one of my films for the best part of 10 years.
~By Barry Sonnenfeld ~
Art is I; science is we.
~By Claude Bernard ~
Except for the occasional heart attack, I never felt better.
~By Dick Cheney ~
So I had a couple of years of playing trumpet. I really enjoyed it, but it was not the kind of instrument you could whip out at a party. Let's face it.
~By Jackson Browne ~
The ultimate aim of all science to penetrate the unknown. Do you realize we know less about the earth we live on than about the stars and the galaxies of outer space? The greatest mystery is right here, right under our feet.
~By Walter Reisch ~
The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable.
~By Edward Hopper ~
If I can tell you the story from beginning to end in five minutes, I'm ready to start writing. Then it's a constant spreading out of that five minutes.
~By Richard Price ~
If - you know, it seems to me that if we see Matt Cooper being carted off to jail today, a lot of people may find that, you know, a very upsetting thing.
~By Michael Isikoff ~
I end up writing about all kinds of things. I never make an attempt to write about anything in particular. I don't have a little list of topics to write about.
~By Tracy Chapman ~
I'm a God-fearing man who worships with my heart and with my life.
~By Willie Stargell ~
The fact that a person loves one particular person is what is important; the life lesson, whether you are homosexual or heterosexual, is that you not be promiscuous, and true to one person.
~By Loretta Devine ~
Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it.
~By Arthur Erickson ~
The artist is chosen by God to fulfill his commands and must never be overwhelmed by public opinion.
~By Albrecht Druer ~
Johnny Depp is so special that he is like a Martian. In fact, that's what I call him, Martian.
~By Penelope Cruz ~
In most recent times, as the West started being hostile to us, we deliberately declared a Look East policy.
~By Robert Mugabe ~
Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
~By Winston Churchill ~
I think up until the point when we started in the business, which was in the early '70s, most of the humor was political. The smart humor was political satire.
~By David Zucker ~
One of my primary objects is to form the tools so the tools themselves shall fashion the work and give to every part its just proportion.
~By Eli Whitney ~
Yeah, it's more like playing what you think is appropriate for the moment. It's not about trying to force any particular style within the parameters - and the parameters we play in are pretty large!
~By Charlie Hunter ~
When Silence of the Lambs did well commercially it was more than anything. My partner Ed Saxon and I were just so relieved that finally we had made a movie that had made some money!
~By Jonathan Demme ~
Getting married and then having children just centered me and grounded my values. It was like a whole new world. It started happening in New York with a little play called Cruise Control, where I relaxed, and then I kept getting work in Hollywood till this series happened.
~By Patricia Richardson ~
To the extent that these advanced weapons or their components are treated as articles of commerce, perhaps for peaceful uses as in the Plowshare program, their cost would be well within the resources available to many large private organizations.
~By Herman Kahn ~
That is, a system starts with a group of interrelated propositions which involve reference to empirical observations within the logical framework of the propositions in question.
~By Talcott Parsons ~
I tried several times to get the song right. The tune and the chords that I started with, there really wasn't anywhere else it could go. I stopped fighting it and let it take me away.
~By Nik Kershaw ~
You know, we have a long history of covering different periods of this band's development with a live record... a sort of live thing that would be done for three or four records, and that was the intention with this particular package.
~By Alex Lifeson ~
I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.
~By Stephen Fry ~
I don't really consider myself to be an actor of any particular style. My aim with every role I undertake is to be truthful and honest in that particular portrayal. I don't have a particular methodology from any one school of thought or training.
~By Benjamin Bratt ~
The major parties could conduct live human sacrifices on their podiums during prime time, and I doubt that anybody would notice.
~By Dave Barry ~
The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
I wouldn't consciously pursue trying to make something for the charts. It's just not in my scope now. I'd rather stick needles in my eyes.
~By Sheena Easton ~
Quite a few operas are still being commissioned around the world, although nothing apart from audience popularity can ensure more than a few performances.
~By Bruce Beresford ~
It was always fun to skate with Paul Wylie and Paul Martini.
~By Nancy Kerrigan ~
Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right.
~By Jane Goodall ~
And we ask the American people to play an important part of our layered defense. We ask for cooperation, patience and a commitment to vigilance in the face of a determined enemy.
~By Janet Napolitano ~
Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started.
~By Ayn Rand ~
Kids are going to try drugs and alcohol; that's part of society.
~By Jamie Lee Curtis ~
In the 1970s, for all the Stevie Wonders, I'm sure there were five artists that were making forgettable music.
~By John Legend ~
I just want to be written about as a normal artist.
~By Robert Mapplethorpe ~
The cell, over the billions of years of her life, has covered the earth many times with her substance, found ways to control herself and her environment, and insure her survival.
~By Albert Claude ~
Your great country is wonderful at stealing pieces of history and using it for its own purposes, so there didn't seem to be anything particularly unusual about it but the English were incredibly exercised about it.
~By Michael Apted ~
I think they'd rather us follow our hearts and I hope that's what some people will understand.
~By Fred Durst ~
Managing bottom-up change is its own art.
~By Kevin Kelly ~
As I discovered, even the governor of a major state who holds pro-life views can be denied a hearing at his party's convention without the national media protesting it.
~By Robert Casey ~
Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
~By Charles Caleb Colton ~
Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
I always figured it was best if I write my songs, take them to my publisher and just lay back. There used to be so many things going on - getting to the artist, getting to the publishers - you know, politics. I just didn't want to get mixed up in all of that.
~By Otis Blackwell ~
I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.
~By Al McGuire ~
In some European theaters, it's still not uncommon to have a late start and three LONG intermissions, because people actually eat and drink and converse during the intermissions.
~By Joe Bob Briggs ~
My life was falling apart and then to come out and play and have my best ever - 40 wickets, 250 runs... But the only reason I could do that was because of the way I thought and I think I'm pretty strong mentally. I think I am anyway, pretty strong to get over whatever it is.
~By Shane Warne ~
CART is one of the safest racing series in the world.
~By Michael Andretti ~
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