Famous Quotes & Sayings

Susan Vreeland

When I was nine, my great grandfather, a landscape painter, taught me to mix colors. With his strong hand surrounding my small one, he guided the brush until a calla lily appeared as if by magic on a page of textured watercolor paper.

Andy Wood

We want to take the black cloak off this field. We believe the art stops once the brush leaves the canvas, we treat this like manufacturing.

Bob Ross

wash the brush, just beats the devil out of it

Ray Yeakley

We are averaging as many as 15 brush fires a week. We can't always determine the exact cause, but the biggest offender is people flicking cigarette butts out of their cars.

Edwin Edwards

People say I've had brushes with the law. That's not true. I've had brushes with overzealous prosecutors.

Lawrence Kasdan

You know, Stephen says, in the movies no one ever goes to the bathroom. They shave, they brush their teeth. He goes right at this sort of funny taboo we have about the bathroom, and he turned it into this nightmare, you know, your worst fear of what's in there.

Bobbi Brown

After I brush on my moisturizer, I'll dip the same brush into foundation and mix it with the lotion to make tinted moisturizer.

CeeLo Green

Ultimately, I'm a fan of music. I describe writing music sometimes as hieroglyphics, like, you know, excavating, gently brushing off these artifacts and discovering the song underneath it all. It seems as if it is already written in it.

James Jones

When he finished packing, he walked out on to the third-floor porch of the barracks brushing the dust from his hands, a very neat and deceptively slim young man in the summer khakis that were still early morning fresh.

Jim Ratcliffe

Unions can play a valuable role in large organisations where it is difficult to talk to a thousand people. They can negotiate annual pay awards with management, represent grievance cases, and explain and advise on complicated changes in employment or pension law.

Li Zhi

With the indexes edging up, retail investors will gradually return to trading. Institutions such as insurers, pensions and overseas banks will restore interest in the markets, partly thanks to low pricing and the country's economic boom.

Roger Toussaint

Were it not for the pension piece, we would not be out on strike. All it needs to do is take its pension proposal off the table.

Katsuya Okada

We want to stress the importance of pension and child-care issues ... The Koizumi government cannot achieve these reforms. We need a change in government,

Chinua Achebe

I'm very primitive; I write with a pen.

Chinua Achebe

A pen on paper is the ideal way for me. I am not really very comfortable with machines; I never learned to type very well.

Tom Kendall

We are seeing a lot of non-traditional investors in commodities, such as mutual funds and pension funds, becoming interested in commodities such as platinum because they want to diversify their portfolios.

Chris Harrington

We are aware of concerns related to the pension proposals, and currently in discussions with the Department of Energy regarding these issues, as well as possible alternatives we would be looking at.

Ben Stein

A corporation's responsibility is to the shareholders, not its retirees and employees. Companies are doing everything they can to get rid of pension plans and they will succeed.

Arthur Guiterman

The Deer don't dineWhen a Wolf's about,And the PorcupineSticks his quill-points out.

Steve Breen

I use a quill pen dipped in India ink. I also like Faber-Castell brush pens and Pigma Micron pens. And I work on Duo-Shade board.

Walter Murch

Take any writer you want in the 19th century: they wrote with quill pens, dipping a piece of goose feather in ink and writing. And yet we read those novels today, and if we're sensitive to them, we respond to them with an immediacy that is stronger than anything written today on a word processor.

Paul Di Filippo

Science offers no brief for the telekinetic powers of Darth Vader and hardly any greater justification for the faster-than-light travel that makes his empire possible. And yet what is 'Star Wars' if not pure quill SF?

Robert Snyder

Quill was militant but he often blustered and then settled at the last minute. Quill also was everywhere in city politics. Roger Toussaint has not been that kind of presence.

Daniel H. Hill

As the knight of the quill never ventured into the fight, and only snuffed the battle afar, he knew nothing accurately of battles, but managed to pick up a few real or supposed incidents from the wounded and from stragglers.

Sorin Cerin

The soul is the quill with which God wrote his Words of Genesis.

Christopher Plummer

I'm too old-fashioned to use a computer. I'm too old-fashioned to use a quill.

Twyla Tharp

Nobody worked harder than Mozart. By the time he was twenty-eight years old, his hands were deformed because of all the hours he had spent practicing, performing, and gripping a quill pen to compose. That's the missing element in the popular portrait of Mozart.

Erin Delaney

We've basically been playing a similar offense, we run the same offense. The purpose of the junior varsity is to work together. It's not about wins, it's about getting better.

Katie Montgomery

We've barely had enough to go five-on-five, but we're ready to be aggressive and do whatever it takes to win. We've beaten tough teams this season. We know how to double-team and help each other out. We just have to be focused and work hard.

William Daley

We've asked the lawyers to work overnight to draft some documents, and we'll be back in the morning.

David Snowden

We've always worked well within DoD guidelines and of course will continue to do so. We support the directive and all regulations that would protect military members from unscrupulous business practices.

David Mandelbrot

We've always worked directly with the owners of content to make that content available. In our experience, that has not slowed us down too much, and it has helped us to build strong relationships that have helped us in other parts of our business.

Anthony Dragona

We've always worked cooperatively with the department, and we're only asking for cost of living increases.

Frank Williams

We've always had the vision for developing Cross Bayou. It's a beautiful vision, but it's just a vision. It's going to take a whole lot of money, a whole lot of planning and a whole lot of work to get there.

Juli Inkster

We've always got a good field here, and the course and the facilities are great. We've all enjoyed the experience here. I think it's great that they're trying to work it out to stay.

Aleksey Igudesman

We've always dreamt of a TV series and working in film. When we first sat down to seriously write 'A Little Nightmare Music,' to write something for TV was our original inspiration. But all the stuff we were writing down is not going to work on stage. We had to rewrite it so it would work on the stage.