Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Walker

I believe that the making of art is primarily for the benefit of the artist. If what the artist has created communicates messages and feelings to others, then it is because of the universality of the human experience that is speaking through the work of art.

David Walker

Karate is for life, not points.

David Rockefeller

I think of art as the highest level of creativity. To me, it is one of the greatest sources of enjoyment.

David Rockefeller

The role of a museum of modern art is to make a good selection and identify what we believe to be the coming movements, and that requires taste.

David Horowitz

In Washington, of course, evading responsibility is an art form, so it is not always easy to tell who's responsible for which mess.

David Horowitz

Cuba's poverty is caused by the crackpot Marxist doctrines imposed by its sociopathic ruler and promoted by half the liberal arts professors on American faculties.

David Hilbert

The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality

David Hockney

I have always believed that art should be a deep pleasure...ther e is always, everywhere, an enormous amount of suffering. But I believe my duty as an artist is to overcome and alleviate the sterility of despair...New ways of seeing mean new ways of feeling... I do believe that painting can change the world.

David Hockney

Any artist will tell you he's really only interested in the stuff he's doing now. He will, always. It's true, and it should be like that.

David Icke

Authority ought to be there only to serve its particular community by removing restrictions on freedom of expression and action under my golden rule of 'Do what you like so long as you don't impose it on others'. Authority's role should be in protecting the unwilling from the will of another. After that, they should push off and leave us alone.

David Hume

Uncommon expressions are a disfigurement rather than an embellishment of discourse.

Ben van Berkel

I never show the back of my tongue. That is a Dutch expression.

Charles Kingsley

If I am ever obscure in my expressions, do not fancy that therefore I am deep. If I were really deep, all the world would understand, though they might not appreciate. The perfectly popular style is the perfectly scientific one. To me an obscurity is a reason for suspecting a fallacy.

Charles Darwin

The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient.

Alanis Morissette

Profanity is merely an expression of one's emotions

Bill Haley

We're gonna rock around the clock.

Bill Hicks

See we just had a misunderstanding. I thought we lived in the U.S. of A., the United States of America. But actually we live in the U.S. of A., the United States of Advertising. Freedom of expression is guaranteed? If you've got the money!

Mother Teresa

Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.

David Drake

Nothing’s boring if it’s in your soul…

David Brainerd

I cared not where or how I lived, or what hardships I went through, so I could but gain souls to Christ

David Brooks

We are all fundamentally equal souls, and if you make a zillion dollars, you're not any better than anybody else spiritually. You're still an equal soul.

Audre Lorde

Every woman I have ever known has made a lasting impression on my soul.

Arthur Rimbaud

O seasons, O castles, What soul is without flaws? All its lore is known to me, Felicity, it enchants us all.

Arthur Rimbaud

I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.

Arthur Rimbaud

But the problem is to make the soul into a monster

Antonio Tabucchi

A l'intérieur de ce corps vivait l'âme d'une intellectuelle et poète dont personne n'avait le soupçon. Within this body lived the soul of an intellectual and poet, which nobody had suspected.

Antonin Artaud

I do not like detached creation. Neither can I conceive of the mind as detached from itself. Each of my works, each diagram of myself, each glacial flowering of my inmost soul dribbles over me.