Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Hockney

Well you can't teach the poetry, but you can teach the craft.

Geoffrey Chaucer

The life so short, the crafts so long to learn.

Ben Nighthorse Campbell

You have to talk to the stone, and it has to talk to you.

Demetri Martin

Glitter is the herpes of craft supplies.

Brooke Shields

I took my work seriously, but not as a craft. More as a life.

Allen Ginsberg

First thought, best thought.

Donald Barthelme

The writer is one who, emnbarking upon a task, does not know what to do.

Constantin Stanislavski

Who am I? What will I be? Why am I here? Where am I going?

John Ridley

There are any number of very hard working people in Hollywood who deserve recognition. Mostly its the artisans and crafts persons - the 'below the line' workers - whose only reward is to be pejoratively labeled 'below the line' workers. I say get them all on the next thing smoking to Vegas for an all expense paid weekend of whatever.

Jodi Picoult

I think the reason these readers come back to me is because I represent their points of view. It may not be my point of view, but that's OK. Everyone still deserves to have their say.

Joseph Smith

When I have proved that I am right, and get all the world subdued under me, I think I shall deserve something.

Coleman Stipanovich

We're not disputing the fact that (executives) deserve to make a lot of money. Just make it performance based, so everyone is benefiting, not just them. It's all about increasing shareholder value.

Ron Simmons

Madison Township has a large geographical area, and the people there, are mostly farmers, mostly rural community. For that reason, we don't have high population numbers. Our school is the smallest; still, those kids deserve to have their own school.

Dwight Yorke

Let's party tonight. The Mariners didn't deserve to lose - but it's all about taking your chances.

Pat Cleland

Let 'em enjoy it. They deserve it. I'm so happy for our community. I'm so happy for the kids.

Tim Williams

We did not deserve to be treated like this after all the work we did,

Sen. Lundby

We deserve to stand up and say we made a mistake. We have an obligation to fix that mistake.

Peter Smith

We deserve to be in the Grand Final.

Frederic Bastiat

It's always tempting to do good at someone else's expense

Nick Clements

We did get our last paychecks, and I did receive part of the travel expenses that are owed to me. I am waiting to see if they are going to reimburse me for the rest of my travel expenses.

Reg Alcock

The reality is, every single expense that was incurred was within the policy of the Mint, was vetted by their senior financial officer and was approved.

James Farrell

Shopping is a pleasurable experience for many people; there's actually a hormonal release that makes us feel good. For some, shopping is a vacation, ... And the mall operators know that and spare little expense in market research to get them inside to shop.

Russell Walters

When you start motivating people to work faster, you've got to keep safety in there because you can work faster at the expense of safety.

Richard Vespucci

We would question the necessity of an expense like that.

Alan Kopit

Three to six months' worth of savings for living expenses is the minimum every household should have, no matter its income. Any less can leave people vulnerable to serious financial woes if they hit unexpected difficulties, like a job loss or medical problem. It's a good habit for all working people to put away a reasonable portion of their take-home pay into some form of liquid savings.

Lori Lucas

Retiree medical expenses are the big wild card. Most people will probably spend a lot more on medical expenses when they retire.

Malessa Wing

Batteries. All their little things take batteries. That seems to be a big expense right now.

David Riesman

There is evidence that young men in the big law firms, although they still work harder than most of their clients, do not glory in putting in night work and weekend hours as they once did.

David Hockney

Every good artist I know, I always think works hard, we're working all the time.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I try to work hard. I'm really proud of what I get to do as a living. I still pinch myself. But I also know it's a craft, and I can get better at it and learn every time I do it. So I try to work hard no matter what the task is.

Derek Fisher

You have to work hard at things.

Derek Jeter

It doesn't take talent to work hard.

Derek Jeter

I think it comes easy to work hard. I was always taught, don't short-change yourself. Keep working to get better.

Derek Jeter

I love it when people doubt me. It makes me work harder to prove them wrong.

Dee Dee Ramone

It's very hard to tour.

Deepika Padukone

I don't think you need any kind of backing here in the industry. I think what you achieve in your life is the result of your own talent and hard work.

David Hockney

Well, in Bradford I could say I was brought up in Bradford and Hollywood

Douglas Booth

For me, if Shakespeare was around today, he'd be writing screenplays - a big Hollywood movie.

Doug Hall

Let's just say Hollywood is very different, a world in itself.

Paris Hilton

Las Vegas is hot, Planet Hollywood is hot and I wanted to be part of the newest, hottest resort in Las Vegas.

Jamie Lee Curtis

Hollywood is the backdrop of my family, and I know that the movie business is incredibly cruel as you get older.

John McNaughton

We set out to make a movie that let people think for themselves. Hollywood spends a lot of time and money trying to prevent that, but that's not the way I like to tell a story.

Ricky Gervais

Hollywood is responsible for some of the greatest and worst movies of all time!

Bruce Campbell

If you go to Hollywood, you've already sold out.

Charlotte Church

Mum, have I sung at the Hollywood Bowl?

John Abraham

I don't have a problem being labeled a sex symbol, though I personally don't feel very sexy about myself.

Jaime Camil

The projects I have done on television, they're sitcoms, situational comedies. The problem is, maybe because they go on every day, Monday through Friday, one-hour format, maybe that's why they're labeled as a telenovela. But technically speaking, they're sitcoms because they're situational comedies.

Cam Newton

But yet I don't think I should be labeled just a black quarterback, because it's bigger things in this sport that need to be accomplished.

David Joyce

I like to think of myself as my own guy. I don't want to be labeled as a Tea Party guy, but I'm not necessarily against their agenda.

Ezra Taft Benson

Truth is truth, whether labeled 'science' or 'religion.'

Caroline Thompson

I would be happy to be labeled as a writer of offbeat stories. I don't know how to do anything else.

Brendan Morrison

When you're labeled as an offensive team and you don't do it, it's a little frustrating, but you just have to stay with it. It's one game, but it's a step in the right direction.

Anton Corbijn

In England, I'm already labeled a rock photographer, which is a little insulting, because I'm not a rock photographer at all.

Isabella Rossellini

The first time I went to Hollywood, I was 25 years old. My background was mostly Italian.

Sigmar Polke

Light is a metaphoric thing. There is green light and red light. Then there is black light, which is mostly danger.

Andrew Ramirez

We were treated very well, and we're doing good, ... We're healthy. As you can see, we're very happy. Mostly happy.

Dario Fo

I am interested, too, in satirical theater, in the grotesque, or even in tragedy at times, but I am mostly comfortable with comedy.

Scott Westerfeld

Ninety percent of the research comes first. I mostly blunder around reading stuff and talking to smart people until an idea batters or oozes its way through to my narrative brain.

Charlie Siem

I'm always on duty, so I tend to wear suits. I've got double-breasted and single-breasted, mostly dark blues and grays. I'm obsessed with them, and I always have been.

Matt McGorry

I have a background in erotic dancing, but that's mostly just - it's not professional, it's just amateur.

Oren Peli

The thing that scares me is a place like the Amazon - which is the size of the continental U.S. and mostly unexplored and has a different ecosystem, there are so many things in there that can kill you.

Nathan Lane

Relationships, for me, have been elusive. And I would say mostly it's been my fault. I was always more concentrated on my career. And yes, you do question people's motives. Is it just because I'm him - I'm Nathan Lane?

Arthur Ransome

When a thing's done, it's done, and if it's not done right, do it differently next time.

Denis Leary

No woman can be completely happy at any one moment in time. They're always anticipating the next thing to argue or complain about.

Dee Dee Ramone

I'm really lucky I'm still around. Everybody expected me to die next... But it was always someone else instead of me.

Diana Gabaldon

I'll scream!" "Likely. If not before, certainly during. I expect they'll hear ye at the next farm; you've got good lungs.

Al Capp

My work is being destroyed almost as soon as it is printed. One day it is being read; the next day someone's wrapping fish in it.

Al Goldstein

Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed into oblivion.

Charles Babbage

The economy of human time is the next advantage of machinery in manufactures.

Alanis Morissette

When I'm really, really angry, if I'm privileged enough to be next to someone who can hold my anger, I'll definitely take them up on holding the bucket.

LeeAnn Palo

Let them do it next year. They've got a lot of time left.

David Walliams

There's a sort of magic and music to comedy. Some words, some numbers even, are funnier than others. A Caramac bar, for instance, is funnier than a Milky Way.

David Hilbert

One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it

David Hilbert

However unapproachable these problems may seem to us and however helpless we stand before them, we have, nevertheless, the firm conviction that their solution must follow by a finite number of purely logical processes.

Benedict Cumberbatch

The number of people my age, younger now, a whole generation younger, who are fiercely bright, over-educated, under-employed and who are politicised and purposeless really upsets me. It's soul-destroying.

Barry Bostwick

I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.

Derek Fisher

I'm not chasing money, so I'm not looking at just trying to stretch out a deal artificially just to have a certain number.

Deb Caletti

The world was large, so large. Bigger than it had been before. Family, too, a bigger word. That felt like a good thing. An essential thing. There was power in numbers.

Deb Caletti

So I forcibly shove aside my prickles of pissed-off, which is easier than it sounds when millions of little sequined caffeine dancers are doing their big Broadway number on your internal stage. (Page 173)

Alan Dershowitz

If torture is going to be administered as a last resort in the ticking-bomb case, to save enormous numbers of lives, it ought to be done openly, with accountability, with approval by the president of the United States or by a Supreme Court justice.

Kevin Brownlow

To me, film is a religion. I don't expect to get paid to make it, but I do expect total dedication.

Kathleen Sebelius

If your voices are not heard, you can be sure that many others will be - in particular those who are paid to present a point of view, and often do it most effectively.

Maurice Williams

Whenever you see your quarterback on the ground, especially rolling around in pain, it's not good. We get paid to protect him. That's what we want to do and when we don't, our week is long.

Robert Reich

What someone is paid has little or no relationship to what their work is worth to society.

John Schwartz

Legally, this is referred to as an increase. There's no two ways about it on the ballot. However, if you look at the preamble, it says this proposal would reauthorize the levy. That tells taxpayers this is something they have paid before.

Christopher Plourd

She paid it all off, but somebody never picked up on that.

John Hopkins

If a student has already paid tuition for his or her university, that's it, we don't take any money,

Andy Irons

On my waves I just did as many turns as I could and it paid off.

Mark Chmura

I didn't do it to grandstand. I'm being paid to render an opinion. That's essentially what I did.

David Walton

Teasing was big in my family, and there is a wonderful way to tease and make people feel more loved.

David Walliams

Social satire has been around since people have been around.

David Roberts

People say 'Why do you make pots?' Because I'm compelled to - life isn't right without it.

David Rockefeller

When you have a lot of resources, the most important thing is to have had good parents and to have been brought up by people who gave one the proper values.

David Hyde Pierce

People can be a hoot on the set, but if they're not good to work with, that tires very quickly.

David Icke

I am not an anti-Semite! I have a great respect for the Jewish people.

David Icke

And why do we, who say we oppose tyranny and demand freedom of speech, allow people to go to prison and be vilified, and magazines to be closed down on the spot, for suggesting another version of history.

David Icke

Dogmas take endless forms, and when you can persuade different people to hold opposing dogmas, the manipulation of conflict and control through "divide and rule" becomes easy. It is happening today in the same way - more so, in fact - as it has throughout human history.

David Icke

We talk about people being narrow-minded when they have a limited sense of possibility. Well, that's exactly what they are. They are narrow-frequencied, if you like. When we talk about people awakening, it's awakening to a greater range of possibilities, of awareness and frequencies.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I've been broody since I was 12, but I can't just get anyone pregnant. It has got to be the right person.

Al Goldstein

The true success is the person who invented himself.

Chris Elliott

I'm not a competitive person.

Jamie Redknapp

I am a positive person and do not allow things to get on top of me.

Cesar Chavez

You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read.

Susan B. Anthony

The only question left to be settled now is: Are women persons?

Bob Ehrlich

I'm a competitive person.

Cass McCombs

You can't just explain a joke. Either it isn't funny, or the person just totally missed the punchline.

Alan Sugar

I like to be a very fair person.

Derek Jeter

You know what I want to do? Wake up one weekend and not have to go anywhere and do nothing.

Dennis Miller

In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every computer that that computer has ever linked up to.

Denise Van Outen

At weekends, I've been going on long but steady-paced four-and-a-half-hour bike rides.

Billy Boyd

The club thing is a world people can associate with, letting your hair down at the weekend.

Jason Blum

I think there's a limit. People want to be scared, but not every weekend, maybe every third weekend.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I was also going to give a graduation speech in Arizona this weekend. But with my accent, I was afraid they would try to deport me.

Celia Rivenbark

To the newcomer to the south, hearing that a coworker plans a weekend visit to 'mama and them's' (the correct plural possessive, don'tchaknow), might make him think that mama has been left alone either throught an act of scoundreldom involving the town's resident hoochie-mama (an altogether different kind of mama) or Daddy's untimely demise.

Ricky Gervais

Hotel bars are pretty good. No one bothers me there. Restaurants are safe. People are quite respectful when you're eating. But what I never do now is go to a busy bar on the weekend, or after 8 o'clock at night. That's the danger zone. Also being trapped. Never go on the Metro, or a bus.

Bruce Campbell

The happy medium is television. And if you find a good suitor, you can do it for years. With movies, you roll the dice. If people don't show that weekend, you're doomed. TV allows you to percolate a little bit, and it gives you a chance for people to find it.

Abu Bakr

When you seek advice, do not withhold any facts from the person whose advice you seek.

Warren Zevon

I remember certain lines and whose they are.

Cynthia Morgan

Workers making more than $100,000 in yearly salary,

A. Scott Berg

I am a compulsive worker. But I'm also a compulsive relaxer.

Paul Lopez

Every workers should be honored, every worker should be respected.

Ted Strickland

Barack Obama is betting on the American worker.

Kevin Nealon

Workers insist that they are not disgruntled. They are very gruntled.

Gregory Benford

They will do anything for the worker, except become one.

Dean Fryer

In effect, it shuts them down. They're not permitting workers to be employed.

Daryl Hall

I never felt entitled to anything. I'm the hardest worker I know.