Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.
My skull, my eyes, my nose three times, my jaw, my shoulder, my chest, two fingers, a knee, everything from the top of my head to the bottom of my feet. Listing what body parts he has broken
Jackie Chan
I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.
Alexis de Tocqueville
Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.
I was born and brought up in Liverpool with my clever little sister Jemma, who is 14 and wants to be a vet. My mum Jane is an administrator and my dad Peter is a taxi driver.
Jennifer Ellison
To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never. In a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common. This is to be my symphony.
William Henry Channing
Money isn't a major motivating force in my life. Nor is my profession. There are other things that I care more about than being an actor.
Kevin Costner
Passion holds up the bottom of the universe and genius paints up its roof.
Chao Chang
Lack of discipline leads to frustration and self-loathing.
Marie Chapian
Anybody who has gone through a life-changing experience will tell you there is a different understanding of what is real and what is important, and when you are going through different moments, you can reflect and go, 'I have been through worse.'
Delta Goodrem
Be ready when opportunity comes. Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.
Roy D. Chapin Jr.
All I was doing was trying to get home from work.
Rosa Parks
Charlie Chaplin's genius was in comedy. He has no sense of humor, particularly about himself.
Lita Grey Chaplin
If your dream is a big dream, and if you want your life to work on the high level that you say you do, there's no way around doing the work it takes to get you there.
Joyce Chapman
If you're still hanging onto a dead dream of yesterday, laying flowers on its grave by the hour, you cannot be planting the seeds for a new dream to grow today.
A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion.
Robert Chapman
My dad was kind of a pool shark and had a Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin thing going on. I've always been fascinated by the fifties because of him. There was a hip, cool, anything-goes atmosphere back then, but looking good was still a priority.
Dylan McDermott
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
Hermann Hesse
Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.
Mark Twain
We have lost that which has made us great over the generations, and that is the sense of individual and personal responsibility that we can come up, we can pursue our dreams and our aspirations and we won't be blocked by government regulation, by the inability to get a loan as a small business to make our dreams come true.
Jon Huntsman, Jr.
Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow is too lazy to form an opinion.
Will Rogers
I lost my mother, who suffered from Alzheimer's disease, and we had to relocate my dad after 58 years in the family home. That was tough.
Doug Davidson
A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.
I came to the conclusion that in order to end racial barriers, I needed to run for the office of the president and put forth an agenda of social justice and world peace. In addition, I concluded that someone needed to run and challenge the liberal orthodoxy.
Jesse Jackson
Pain is such an uncomfortable feeling that even a tiny amount of it is enough to ruin every enjoyment.
Now, I learned soon enough, that among the three, two don't trust the third one - the third one is the government. Both industry and unions feel the government is a talking organization and a spending organization.
Shimon Peres
When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do -- well, that's Memoirs.
I asked my daughter when she was 16, What's the buzz on the street with the kids? She's going, to be honest, Dad, most of my friends aren't into Kiss. But they've all been told that it's the greatest show on Earth.
Ace Frehley
I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.
Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?
Marcus Tullius Cicero
No party is as bad as its leaders.
If you're married, and you have a wife, and you really love your wife, is it good enough to only say to your wife 'I love her' the day you get married? Or should you tell her every single day when you wake up and every opportunity? And that's how I feel about my relationship with Jesus Christ is that it is the most important thing in my life.
Tim Tebow
Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.
I feel so thankful that I'm able to be a part of something that I love to wake up and run to work every day.
Alexander Wang
Politics is not worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space.
For both faith and want of faith have destroyed men alike.
Hesiod
The more you read and observe about this politics thing, the more you've got to admit that each party's worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.
The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.
My mom was onstage when she was pregnant with me.
Zosia Mamet
This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.
I wanted to write and direct movies and not be forced to adapt them from a bestselling book.
Francis Ford Coppola
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