Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yotam Ottolenghi

Dad likes my food, but he probably thinks it's too busy. He is a wonderful cook but only uses three ingredients. My mum rips out my articles and makes my recipes.

Werner Herzog

Film should be looked at straight on; it is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.

Warren Farrell

I'm a great supporter of women who take risks and don't make victimhood into an art. It's not good for women, and it's not good for men. Too many men put all their emotional eggs in one basket - a woman's basket.

William Quigley

Art should be witty, like a good Eddie Murphy movie, to make your life a little easier and better.

Will Shetterly

Country music, the music of the white rural working class, has often been mocked by elitists whose understanding of power and art was shaped at expensive private schools.

Will Shetterly

Is art influential? It can be - 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' rallied abolitionists, and 'The Jungle' provoked the demand for a safer food industry.

Will Sergeant

I guess some fans like art and get it, others are just into the music, don't really turn up and have an opinion. The fans that have shown interest are all with me all the way.

Will Champlin

Competition is all in numbers; it's a numbers game, but I looked at it like it's a passion, and it's art.

Walead Beshty

I was interested in making work that physically changed as it circulated through the art world.

Samuel Butler

Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are lost.

Samuel Butler

Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.

Samuel Butler

Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since.

Samuel Butler

There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

Christina Ricci

Everything, I think, about acting is based on imagination.

Alan Cohen

The cause of poverty is not scarcity. It is fear and small thinking.

Alan Cohen

The thoughts you think when you are happiest are the closest to the truth.

Alan Cohen

To think you know what is best for another person is an industrial-strength ego trip.

Alan Cohen

Whatever you think and talk about paves the runway for what you will create.

Ellen Key

Social motherliness has made women's struggle for liberty the loveliest synthesis of egoism and altruism.

Abigail Buren

There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who walk into a room and say, "There you are" and those who say, "Here I am

Al Alvarez

I think one of the interesting things about poker is that once you let your ego in, you're done for.

Alan Cohen

Anger is the ego's way of cloaking fear to make what is frail seem formidable.

Alan Cohen

If you have to have it, it's ego. If you have to not have it, it's ego. Hold life lightly and it will deliver what you need and release what you don't.

Alan Cohen

Only the ego resists egos. The spirit may notice egos, but sees beyond them and does not engage with them.

F. Sionil Jose

We are shallow because we are 'mayabang,' ego driven, and do not have the humility to understand that we are only human, much too human to mistake knowledge for wisdom.

Pierce Brosnan

You get tangled up in your own ego of how you're perceived. You can lose your way.

Ludwig von Mises

Society is only possible on these terms, that the individual finds therein a strengthening of his own ego and his own will.