Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Cusack

Our parents more or less just kind of wanted us to pursue our passions. Whatever they would have been, they would have helped light the fire. They are very liberal, artistic people, but they didn't force us into acting. They let us find our own ways.

Keith Davis

Parks was a man of perhaps unparalleled artistic talent.

Susan Baker

Paul Kellogg has been a beloved and visionary leader of City Opera and we will miss him deeply. During the past ten years we have been fortunate to have had the benefit not only of his extraordinary artistic sensibility, his wise counsel and his inspirational leadership, but also of his impeccable human values, warmth and charm. That said, we cannot help but understand that he wishes to have more personal time after many years of service to the arts and we salute and thank him for his formidable accomplishments and significant contributions both to City Opera and to opera in general. Paul Kellogg's vision for City Opera has charted our course for the coming years. We are grateful beyond measure and will miss him profoundly.

Stephanie Szostak

People in fashion treat it as a business... I guess Hollywood is a business, too, but you talk about story: you talk about a more artistic world than in fashion.

Robert Forster

People often ask me would I swap the artistic reputation of a top 20 hit but I wouldn't and that comes down to how we feel about the music. Even in the early days when we formed in Brisbane we were always shocked after playing a gig that people we had never met before would come up to us and congratulate us on the songs and in a sense we've kept that naive sort of innocence about us.

Eric Greene

Overall I am pleased. All things considered I think it went very well and from an artistic standpoint I'm very proud of what we've been able to do. The goal next year is to provide the same quality and save a little money.

Christopher Moore

Our artists are very good technicians. They have sensibility and artistic balance. But quite often they lack in creation. I have one artist here in my studio in New York. She's a good painter, but she has problems of creating her own stuff, of inventing. She can copy from a postcard, but when she has to do other things she has a tough time. She knows it. Not everybody can do great things.

John Updike

Our artistic heroes tend to be those self-exercisers, like Picasso, and Nabokov, and Wallace Stevens, who rather defiantly kept playing past dark.

Don Robinson

The artistic talent in this country is phenomenal and this is an exciting time to be a designer. We and our partners look forward to seeing the best work that the Bahamian art community, both here and abroad, will have to offer.

Yo-Yo Ma

Our (nation's) cultural strength has always been derived from our diversity of understanding and experience.

Koichiro Matsuura

Managing water is as much cultural as technical, reflecting how peoples and communities relate themselves to nature.

John Bolton

Management reform is not a one-night stand. Management reform is forever. What we really need is a cultural revolution in terms of reform at the United Nations,

Akira Kurosawa

Japan does not understand very well that one of its proudest cultural achievements is in film,

Donald Harrison

Jazz is cultural music in New Orleans. It's part of the fabric of everyday life, and everybody knows the music. It's always going to be a part of it.

Jane Fonda

The '60s may be idealized in the movie from a cultural point of view, but the decade was all about discord and a big generational split that was very painful.

Bob Dixon

I think that was a contribution to the community, an enlightening cultural exchange,

Jay Chism

It is important that a good sales staff know which product works on what pest. It is also important for retailers to know when to recommend good cultural practices. Not every problem in the home landscape can be cured from a pesticide bottle.

Sam Brownback

I think the next president needs to lead on cultural issues and experience, particularly on foreign policy.

Billy Bob Thornton

I always say if you're going to do a movie about Charles de Gaulle get a Frenchman, you know. I'm not French. And yeah, sure I could get with a dialect coach and work for six months trying to talk like a Frenchman. But there's some French actors. Just get one of them, you know.

Archie Panjabi

I had a dialect coach to get an American accent, and then another dialect coach to come off it a bit. There is something deep and mysterious in the voice when it isn't too high-pitched American.

Andrew Scott

I had a really fantastic dialect coach that I worked very well with, and I was constantly surprised by the different intonations that the Russian dialect has.

John McWhorter

Black English is something which - it's a natural system in itself. And even though it is a dialect of English, it can be very difficult for people who don't speak it, or who haven't been raised in it, to understand when it's running by quickly, spoken in particular by young men colloquially to each other. So that really is an issue.

Henry Sweet

The London dialect as it is spoken in educated circles.

Callan McAuliffe

I guess I'd always mocked the American accent. I didn't consider it a respectable dialect, but I was told that it was.

Martin Henderson

The accent got lost somewhere along the way. I'm a little embarrassed about it. When I arrived in LA I assumed I'd be able to put on the American accent. It proved difficult so I had six months working with a dialect coach and it's become a habit.

Odeya Rush

I went to a dialect coach and she told me that I had five problems; two were my Israeli accent and three were my New Jersey accent. I don't even want to know what I sounded like back then!

Emily Carr

I sat staring, staring, staring - half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect.

Jerry Falwell

I think he is genuinely a state's righter -- and so am I.

John Lloyd

Jokes are a lot about meaning. I think if we understand what jokes mean and why they work, we'd understand everything else. Genuinely I do.

Scott Archer

He was genuinely nice. (The movie) is an honor. It's something you thought would never happen.

Lynn Coady

There are people out there who genuinely love literature, who genuinely love to read and read widely, who will never like, or even necessarily get, my books. That was a hard one to swallow, to not feel slighted by.

Joey Avila

Last year we had a lot of egos. We had some issues. We don't have that this year. This team genuinely likes each other.

Eric Fellner

It is rare that you read scripts that genuinely move you and make you feel that, regardless of the commercial possibilities, you have to make the film.

Simon Van Booy

The most frustrating part of trying to direct everything is not that it alienates you from people who genuinely want to help, but that it's actually impossible.

Camille Paglia

No genuinely avant-garde artist should ever be on the government dole.

Chris Hayes

It is genuinely shocking to me that I'm on a television show.

Mark Oaten

Real opposition and principled opposition is about making a stand on this key issue of holding suspects without charge.

Clyde Guinn

Part of being a long-term holder is don't do anything you don't want to live with for a long time. The first tenet of that is don't overpay.

Kevin Payne

People have to look at the mistakes that keep being made, and we've got to hold ourselves accountable.

James Howell

Some hold translations not unlike to be / The wrong side of a Turkish tapestry.

Tony Blair

Our response to this should not be to run away and hide...but on the contrary--to hold firm,

Brent Guy

I'm hoping this week is going to hold up. We had about everything last year.

Dallas Green

Im Holding onto What i Hope Will Keep You by My side

David McFarren

Well as soon as it hit, everyone was a little nervous because Katrina was going right though New Orleans. All the phones are down, can't get a hold of him.

Zygi Wilf

I will hold everyone who is involved responsible for their own actions.

Josh Henderson

Original 'Dallas' fans, please come back, because it's the same show 20 years later - same drama.

Bob Reid

Planning for retirement is not something we can put off until a later date. The time to plan is now.

Judy Meyer

Just a week or two later he passed on.

Cameron Wade

It has a potential threat to property later this afternoon.

Jake Plummer

Later in the season, you don't remember how they came, you only remember it's a win.

John Wright

Later in life, you have a different perspective of what sex is all about.

Larry Beinfest

I'd like to think that we're talented but inexperienced. We'll see how that ultimately translates into wins and losses later in the season.

Brad Butler

I don't know. We'll wait and see one day when I run for office. That's one of my plans later on in life.

Ken Bacon

He (Cohen) did have tentative plans to go in June, and he has postponed any trip until some later date.

Anna Kournikova

Surfing people haven't learned anything from the I Love You virus,

H. Hart

Some of us have learned to listen when Richard A. Clarke has something to say.

Jason Lane

I think this team learned how to win.

Lauren Hutton

I was making $50 a week as a house model at Christian Dior for nine months before I learned that photographic models made $50 an hour!

Stephen Bull

It is amazing, I have learned a lot.

John Gibbons

It has been a long year but I look back at it more with a sense of satisfaction and optimism. I think we've learned a lot and we're ready to move forward.

Publilius Syrus

It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well

Harry Campbell

I went from summer school to merit roll. I learned that the more you do in school, the better you will be in life.

J. Hoover

It doesn't matter. What the referees call, they call. I've learned not to worry about that.

Phil Magney

People just want to track their loved ones. It?s as simple as that.

Luis Diaz

People here are paying thousands to get their loved ones killed.

Debbie Dool

People loved her. She had a million friends.

Julianne Moore

Susan Smith is psychotic. Brenda Martin has been ravaged by grief. She's self-punishing. She's loved in the community.

Karen Brown

Kristi loved this project. I'm very mindful of that spirit.

Jim Higgins

That was Harold. Even to the end, he loved to talk about fishing.

Michael Long

That was one of the most memorable times at North Greenville, I loved that.

Gary Richardson

It is horrible. But he was doing what he loved to do and I have to remember that.

Jason Aldean

I went and took it to the label, and they loved it, so we put it on the record.