A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks,but mostly sits.
Woodrow Wilson
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.
Leo Rosten
A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.
Caskie Stinnett
A fool and his money are soon elected.
Will Rogers
A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.
Frank Lloyd Wright
A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss,but in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman
A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.
Leonard Bernstein
A liberal is a man who is willing to spend somebody else's money.
Carter Glass
A politician will do anything to keep his job - even become a patriot.
William Randolph
A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.
Albert Pike
After much prayerful consideration, I feel that I must say I have climbed my last political mountain.
George C. Wallace
All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.
Harry S. Truman
Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
John Quincy Adams
America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.
Warren G. Harding
An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.
Arnold H. Glasow
And after I make a lot of money, I'll be able to afford running for office.
Christy Romano
Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
Gore Vidal
Apparently, democracy is a place where numerous elections're held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
Gore Vidal
He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.
Winston Churchill
Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
Milton Friedman
Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against.
W. C. Fields
I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.
William Gilbert
I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.
Margaret Thatcher
I can't let important policy decisions hinge on the fact that an election is coming up every 90 days.
Gerhard Schroeder
I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible.
Dan Quayle
I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
Will Rogers
I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.
Arthur C. Clarke
I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
Thomas Jefferson
I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.
Edward Koch
I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.
A. N. Wilson
I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business.
Sydney Pollack
I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.
Gary Hart
I was a woman in a man's world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats. I talked differently. This may have made me a bit like an ink blot.
Jeane Kirkpatrick
I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
Barry Goldwater
I've been to war, it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious.
Oliver Stone
If a politician murders his mom, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide.
Meg Greenfield
Thursday, 17 February 2011
Poetry Quotes
A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.
Robert Frost
A poem can have an impact, but you can't expect an audience to understand all the nuances.
Douglas Dunn
A poem conveys not a message so much as the provenance of a message, an advent of sense.
Thomas Harrison
A poem is never finished,it's only abandoned.
Paul Valery
A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
E. M. Forster
A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties.
Anne Stevenson
A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
Oscar Wilde
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
W. H. Auden
A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.
Wallace Stevens
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
Salman Rushdie
A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
Jean Cocteau
All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
Oscar Wilde
Always be a poet, even in prose.
Charles Baudelaire
Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.
Charles Baudelaire
Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
Jean Cocteau
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
Alfred de Musset
Each word bears its weight, therefore you have to read my poems quite slowly.
Anne Stevenson
Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
A. E. Housman
Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is a painting speaks.
Plutarch
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
Novalis
Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a -dash- of the dictionary.
Khalil Gibran
Poetry is a mirror makes beautiful that which is distorted.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.
William Hazlitt
Poetry is an echo which asking a shadow to dance.
Carl Sandburg
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.
Charles Simic
Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well,then poetry is just the ash.
Leonard Cohen
Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.
Rita Dove
Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
Plato
Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.
T. S. Eliot
Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.
Paul Engle
Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.
Dennis Gabor
Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.
Marianne Moore
Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
Samuel Johnson
Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.
Carl Sandburg
Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.
Salvatore Quasimodo
Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
Edgar Allan Poe
Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
Carl Sandburg
Poetry is thoughts that breath, and words that burn.
Thomas Gray
Robert Frost
A poem can have an impact, but you can't expect an audience to understand all the nuances.
Douglas Dunn
A poem conveys not a message so much as the provenance of a message, an advent of sense.
Thomas Harrison
A poem is never finished,it's only abandoned.
Paul Valery
A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
E. M. Forster
A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties.
Anne Stevenson
A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
Oscar Wilde
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
W. H. Auden
A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.
Wallace Stevens
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
Salman Rushdie
A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
Jean Cocteau
All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
Oscar Wilde
Always be a poet, even in prose.
Charles Baudelaire
Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.
Charles Baudelaire
Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
Jean Cocteau
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
Alfred de Musset
Each word bears its weight, therefore you have to read my poems quite slowly.
Anne Stevenson
Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
A. E. Housman
Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is a painting speaks.
Plutarch
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
Novalis
Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a -dash- of the dictionary.
Khalil Gibran
Poetry is a mirror makes beautiful that which is distorted.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.
William Hazlitt
Poetry is an echo which asking a shadow to dance.
Carl Sandburg
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.
Charles Simic
Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well,then poetry is just the ash.
Leonard Cohen
Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.
Rita Dove
Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.
Plato
Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.
T. S. Eliot
Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.
Paul Engle
Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.
Dennis Gabor
Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.
Marianne Moore
Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
Samuel Johnson
Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.
Carl Sandburg
Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.
Salvatore Quasimodo
Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
Edgar Allan Poe
Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
Carl Sandburg
Poetry is thoughts that breath, and words that burn.
Thomas Gray
Peace Quotes
A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.
William Shakespeare
A people free to choose always choose peace.
Ronald Reagan
An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
Mohandas Gandhi
Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.
Swami Sivananda
Even peace may be purchased at very high a price.
Benjamin Franklin
Every goal, every action, every thought, every feeling one experiences, whether it be consciously or unconsciously known,it is an attempt to increase one's level of peace of mind.
Sydney Madwed
For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual.
Irving Babbitt
He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.
Benjamin Franklin
I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace.
Muhammad Ali
I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet.
Isabel Allende
I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war.
Georges Clemenceau
I dream of an Africa which in peace with itself.
Nelson Mandela
I happen to dig being able to use whatever mystique I have to further the idea of peace.
Garrett Morris
I think it's naive to pray for world peace if we're not going to change the form in which we live.
Godfrey Reggio
I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
I'm concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet.
Joan Jett
If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.
Napoleon Bonaparte
If we have no peace, it's because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
Mother Teresa
If you want to make peace with ur enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.
Nelson Mandela
Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.
John Lennon
Peace's not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.
George Bernard Shaw
Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.
Friedrich Schiller
Peace is the first thing the angels sing.
John Keble
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
Maria Schell
People usually make war when they say they love peace.
David Herbert Lawrence
Power to the peaceful!
Michael Franti
The business of peace requires more than showing up with paint brushes, foodstuffs and an oil pipeline or two.
Tony Snow
The Dove, on silver pinions, winged her peaceful way.
James Montgomery
The forces driving mankind toward unity and peace are deep-seated and powerful. They are material and natural, as well as moral and intellectual.
Arthur Henderson
The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.
Carlos Santana
The only important thing I have to say is that my dad never fought against his country.
Zinedine Zidane
The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.
Dag Hammarskjold
The quest for peace begins in the home, in the school and in the workplace.
Silvia Cartwright
The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.
Peace Pilgrim
This enemy of peace in the world today is unlike any we have seen in the past, and our military is learning from, and building on, previous successes while carrying peace and freedom into the future.
Mark Kennedy
Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.
William Hazlitt
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John F. Kennedy
To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life - bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.
Peace Pilgrim
War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.
H. L. Mencken
William Shakespeare
A people free to choose always choose peace.
Ronald Reagan
An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
Mohandas Gandhi
Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.
Swami Sivananda
Even peace may be purchased at very high a price.
Benjamin Franklin
Every goal, every action, every thought, every feeling one experiences, whether it be consciously or unconsciously known,it is an attempt to increase one's level of peace of mind.
Sydney Madwed
For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual.
Irving Babbitt
He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.
Benjamin Franklin
I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace.
Muhammad Ali
I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet.
Isabel Allende
I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war.
Georges Clemenceau
I dream of an Africa which in peace with itself.
Nelson Mandela
I happen to dig being able to use whatever mystique I have to further the idea of peace.
Garrett Morris
I think it's naive to pray for world peace if we're not going to change the form in which we live.
Godfrey Reggio
I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
I'm concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet.
Joan Jett
If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.
Napoleon Bonaparte
If we have no peace, it's because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
Mother Teresa
If you want to make peace with ur enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.
Nelson Mandela
Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.
John Lennon
Peace's not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.
George Bernard Shaw
Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.
Friedrich Schiller
Peace is the first thing the angels sing.
John Keble
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
Maria Schell
People usually make war when they say they love peace.
David Herbert Lawrence
Power to the peaceful!
Michael Franti
The business of peace requires more than showing up with paint brushes, foodstuffs and an oil pipeline or two.
Tony Snow
The Dove, on silver pinions, winged her peaceful way.
James Montgomery
The forces driving mankind toward unity and peace are deep-seated and powerful. They are material and natural, as well as moral and intellectual.
Arthur Henderson
The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.
Carlos Santana
The only important thing I have to say is that my dad never fought against his country.
Zinedine Zidane
The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.
Dag Hammarskjold
The quest for peace begins in the home, in the school and in the workplace.
Silvia Cartwright
The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.
Peace Pilgrim
This enemy of peace in the world today is unlike any we have seen in the past, and our military is learning from, and building on, previous successes while carrying peace and freedom into the future.
Mark Kennedy
Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.
William Hazlitt
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John F. Kennedy
To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life - bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.
Peace Pilgrim
War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.
H. L. Mencken
Music Quotes
After silence, that which considered nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
Aldous Huxley
Good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
Jean Cocteau
All music is beautiful.
Billy Strayhorn
Any good music must be innovation.
Les Baxter
But when you get music and words together, that can be a very powerful thing.
Bryan Ferry
Classical music is that kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.
Kin Hubbard
Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism.
Howard Dietz
All over the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music.
Isaac Stern
For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness.
Reba McEntire
I have Van Gogh's ear for music.
Billy Wilder
Hell is full of musical amateurs.
George Bernard Shaw
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 don't care much about music. What I like is sounds.
Dizzy Gillespie
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
Elvis Presley
I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.
Billy Joel
I wake up in the morning, I do a little stretching exercises, pick up the horn and play.
Herb Alpert
I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water.
Ray Charles
I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs.
Gary Cherone
I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.
B. B. King
If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.
Gustav Mahler
Music is love in search of a word.
Sidney Lanier
Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
Jean Paul
Music is my religion.
Jimi Hendrix
Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.
Thomas Fuller
Music is something that always lifts my spirits and makes me happy, and when I make music I always hope it will have the same effect on whoever listens to it.
Aaron Carter
Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
W. H. Auden
Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
Plato
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
Leo Tolstoy
Music is the soul of language.
Max Heindel
Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together.
Edgar Winter
Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
Thomas Carlyle
Music should be your escape.
Missy Elliot
Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
Maya Angelou
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Berthold Auerbach
Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved,is the teacher of perfect disorder.
John Ruskin
Music, in performance, a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.
Frank Zappa
Music's not like becoming a doctor, which can walk into a community and find people who need him.
Charlie Byrd
Music's staying power is a function of how timeless the lyrics, song and production are.
Gary Wright
My father used to sing to me in my mother's womb. I think I can name about any tune in two beats.
Yancy Butler
Aldous Huxley
Good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
Jean Cocteau
All music is beautiful.
Billy Strayhorn
Any good music must be innovation.
Les Baxter
But when you get music and words together, that can be a very powerful thing.
Bryan Ferry
Classical music is that kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.
Kin Hubbard
Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism.
Howard Dietz
All over the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music.
Isaac Stern
For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness.
Reba McEntire
I have Van Gogh's ear for music.
Billy Wilder
Hell is full of musical amateurs.
George Bernard Shaw
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 don't care much about music. What I like is sounds.
Dizzy Gillespie
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
Elvis Presley
I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.
Billy Joel
I wake up in the morning, I do a little stretching exercises, pick up the horn and play.
Herb Alpert
I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water.
Ray Charles
I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs.
Gary Cherone
I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.
B. B. King
If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.
Gustav Mahler
Music is love in search of a word.
Sidney Lanier
Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
Jean Paul
Music is my religion.
Jimi Hendrix
Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.
Thomas Fuller
Music is something that always lifts my spirits and makes me happy, and when I make music I always hope it will have the same effect on whoever listens to it.
Aaron Carter
Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
W. H. Auden
Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
Plato
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
Leo Tolstoy
Music is the soul of language.
Max Heindel
Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together.
Edgar Winter
Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
Thomas Carlyle
Music should be your escape.
Missy Elliot
Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
Maya Angelou
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Berthold Auerbach
Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved,is the teacher of perfect disorder.
John Ruskin
Music, in performance, a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.
Frank Zappa
Music's not like becoming a doctor, which can walk into a community and find people who need him.
Charlie Byrd
Music's staying power is a function of how timeless the lyrics, song and production are.
Gary Wright
My father used to sing to me in my mother's womb. I think I can name about any tune in two beats.
Yancy Butler
Movies Quotes
A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.
Stanley Kubrick
A film is but a petrified fountain of thought.
Jean Cocteau
A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
Orson Welles
A good film is when the price of the dinner and the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
Alfred Hitchcock
A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end... but not necessarily in that order.
Jean-Luc Godard
The wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.
Samuel Goldwyn
Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.
Mary Pickford
Am I a romantic? I've seen 'Wuthering Heights' ten times. I'm a romantic.
Johnny Depp
And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble.
Douglas Sirk
Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.
Martin Scorsese
Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.
Jean-Luc Godard
Citizen Kane is perhaps the one American talking picture that seems as fresh now as the day it opened. It may seem even fresher.
Pauline Kael
Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.
Federico Fellini
Every great film should seem new every time u see it.
Roger Ebert
Every single art form is involved in film, in a way.
Sydney Pollack
Everybody's a film-maker nowadays.
John Milius
Everyone told me to pass on Speed because it was a 'bus movie.'
Sandra Bullock
Everything makes me nervous - except making films.
Elizabeth Taylor
Film lovers are sick people.
Francois Truffaut
Movies are not scripts - movies are films; they're not books, they're not the theatre.
Nicolas Roeg
Movies are something people see all over the world because there is a certain need for it.
Wim Wenders
Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.
Walt Disney
Nobody makes movies bad on purpose.
Roland Emmerich
Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.
Billy Wilder
So, where's the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?
Christina Aguilera
Sometimes in movies, I still have to be the hero, but it's not all that important to me anymore.
Dennis Quaid
The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
Alfred Hitchcock
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
Will Rogers
The movies we admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.
Mary Schmich
The secret to film is that it is an illusion.
George Lucas
There's an electrical thing about movies.
Oliver Stone
There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that is education.
Will Rogers
This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country.
Clint Eastwood
We are the movies and the movies are us.
David Ansen
When you make a film u usually make a film about an idea.
Sydney Pollack
Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?
Samuel Goldwyn
You can map your life through ur favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same.
Mary Schmich
You know what ur problem is, it's that u haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in movies.
Steve Martin
You read a script and its based on 'Reservoir Dogs' and 'Pulp Fiction', and it goes right in the bin.
Tim Roth
Stanley Kubrick
A film is but a petrified fountain of thought.
Jean Cocteau
A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
Orson Welles
A good film is when the price of the dinner and the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
Alfred Hitchcock
A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end... but not necessarily in that order.
Jean-Luc Godard
The wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.
Samuel Goldwyn
Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.
Mary Pickford
Am I a romantic? I've seen 'Wuthering Heights' ten times. I'm a romantic.
Johnny Depp
And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble.
Douglas Sirk
Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.
Martin Scorsese
Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.
Jean-Luc Godard
Citizen Kane is perhaps the one American talking picture that seems as fresh now as the day it opened. It may seem even fresher.
Pauline Kael
Even if I set out to make a film about a fillet of sole, it would be about me.
Federico Fellini
Every great film should seem new every time u see it.
Roger Ebert
Every single art form is involved in film, in a way.
Sydney Pollack
Everybody's a film-maker nowadays.
John Milius
Everyone told me to pass on Speed because it was a 'bus movie.'
Sandra Bullock
Everything makes me nervous - except making films.
Elizabeth Taylor
Film lovers are sick people.
Francois Truffaut
Movies are not scripts - movies are films; they're not books, they're not the theatre.
Nicolas Roeg
Movies are something people see all over the world because there is a certain need for it.
Wim Wenders
Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.
Walt Disney
Nobody makes movies bad on purpose.
Roland Emmerich
Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.
Billy Wilder
So, where's the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?
Christina Aguilera
Sometimes in movies, I still have to be the hero, but it's not all that important to me anymore.
Dennis Quaid
The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
Alfred Hitchcock
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
Will Rogers
The movies we admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them.
Mary Schmich
The secret to film is that it is an illusion.
George Lucas
There's an electrical thing about movies.
Oliver Stone
There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that is education.
Will Rogers
This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country.
Clint Eastwood
We are the movies and the movies are us.
David Ansen
When you make a film u usually make a film about an idea.
Sydney Pollack
Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?
Samuel Goldwyn
You can map your life through ur favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same.
Mary Schmich
You know what ur problem is, it's that u haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in movies.
Steve Martin
You read a script and its based on 'Reservoir Dogs' and 'Pulp Fiction', and it goes right in the bin.
Tim Roth
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