All Quotes

A page is turning for me. I won't be candidate in legislative elections, nor in any elections to come.
‐‐ Nicolas Sarkozy

A page of my journal is like a cake of portable soup. A little may be diffused into a considerable portion.
‐‐ James Boswell

A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.
‐‐ Jack Kerouac

A painstaking course in qualitative and quantitative analysis by John Wing gave me an appreciation of the need for, and beauty of, accurate measurement.
‐‐ Paul D. Boyer

A painter, a sculptor, a writer, they can express freely. They don't affect society as a whole. We build buildings that have a purpose, that stay there for hundreds of years or decades.
‐‐ Moshe Safdie

A painter may be looking at the world in a way which is very different from everyone else. If he's a craftsman, he can get other people to see the world through his eyes, and so he enlarges our vision, perception, and there's great value in that.
‐‐ Edward de Bono

A painter must think of everything he sees as being there entirely for his own use and pleasure.
‐‐ Lucian Freud

A painter once told me that I'm like the Khajuraho, which you see once but which remains with you forever. I thought that was exquisite.
‐‐ Vidya Balan

A painter's tastes must grow out of what so obsesses him in life that he never has to ask himself what it is suitable for him to do in art.
‐‐ Lucian Freud

A painter tries to convey to us a picture of the world as he sees it; an ophthalmologist tries to enable us to see the world as it really is. The logotherapist's role consists of widening and broadening the visual field of the patient so that the whole spectrum of potential meaning becomes conscious and visible to him.
‐‐ Viktor E. Frankl

A painting doesn't have to have a real usability other than you looking at it. Obviously, a car, an engine, or battery has to fit people's needs.
‐‐ Henrik Fisker

A painting has a lot of advantages over other forms of communication. Unlike a movie, you don't have to put it into a machine and turn it on. It's just there every day. It's not limited by the element of time. It's a constant part of the home.
‐‐ Thomas Kinkade

A painting has to be beautiful. Even in its grotesqueness.
‐‐ John Mellencamp

A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.
‐‐ Edmond de Goncourt

A painting is a symbol for the universe. Inside it, each piece relates to the other. Each piece is only answerable to the rest of that little world. So, probably in the total universe, there is that kind of total harmony, but we get only little tastes of it.
‐‐ Corita Kent

A painting is finished when the subject comes back, when what has caused the painting to be made comes back as an object.
‐‐ Howard Hodgkin

A painting is like a man. If you can live without it, then there isn't much point in having it.
‐‐ Lila Acheson Wallace

A painting means as much to you as a string of pearls to an ape.
‐‐ Paul Scofield

A painting of a person can be descriptive, but for me it's about all the things that make up a picture - the feelings, the brushstrokes - more than describing somebody. People latch on to the personalities when they talk about my work and forget the other parts.
‐‐ Elizabeth Peyton

A painting probably is the most shocking increase in value, from what it costs to make to what you sell it for.
‐‐ Damien Hirst

A painting should be tough; it should have muscle, but I have to find some tenderness in it, too. There has to be that dynamic.
‐‐ Gary Hume

A painting that doesn't shock isn't worth painting.
‐‐ Marcel Duchamp

A painting that is well composed is half finished.
‐‐ Pierre Bonnard

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.
‐‐ Friedrich Nietzsche

A Palestinian state will never be created by terror.
‐‐ Elliott Abrams

A palindrome is a word or pattern that instead of developing in different directions it folds in on itself so that the beginning and end mirror each other, that they are the same.
‐‐ Todd Solondz

A pandemic influenza would mean widespread infection essentially throughout every region of the world.
‐‐ Anthony Fauci

A paparazzo once jumped out of a car and started running backward with me. I slowed down out of courtesy because she started drifting into the street. I reached out my hand and moved her back so she didn't get hit by a bus.
‐‐ Sean Astin

A paradigm shift, where, in addition to physical inputs for farming, a focused emphasis placed on knowledge inputs can be a promising way forward. This knowledge-based approach will bring immense returns, particularly in rain fed and dry land farming areas.
‐‐ Pratibha Patil

A paranoiac like a poet, is born, not made.
‐‐ Luis Bunuel

A parent being called to the school because their child had misbehaved was as serious as a parent being called to the police station because their child had robbed a bank.
‐‐ Martin Lewis Perl

A parent can seem very kind and gentle, but as any child knows, as soon as that parent gets stressed, they can suddenly turn and get a bit angry.
‐‐ Michael Sheen

A parentologist is a person who writes a book about parenting that is very clear about answers to, 'How am I supposed to raise my child?' Some of these well-intentioned people may be a bit too sure-footed on the sometimes slippery slope of parenting.
‐‐ Clyde Edgerton

A parking lot attendant who's a guy makes a lot more money than a child-care attendant who's a woman.
‐‐ Gloria Steinem

A part of being an actress that is sort of frustrating is that the writers get to tell you about your character.
‐‐ Annabeth Gish

A part of being in the army is you never really leave a man behind.
‐‐ Geoff Stults

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
‐‐ Joseph Joubert

A part of me feels like I was an animal in my past life that wasn't treated very nicely.
‐‐ Leona Lewis

A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.
‐‐ Brian Eno

A part of me is a liberal New Yorker involved in politics and certain attitudes about movies. I kind of lost my indie credibility over 'Mr. and Mrs. Smith.' I know I haven't lost it. I just have to go make an independent movie. I just have to do it. Just for me.
‐‐ Doug Liman

A part of me is always envious of people who live in the present and are sustained by a sense of spontaneity. Even dogs have that capacity: they're always wanting to participate in something, and I don't often have that element in me.
‐‐ Peter Shaffer

A part of me is missing when I can't ski, but I've learned there's more to define me and make me happy, like stand-up paddling and Jet Skiing - things I'd never done before. Or being with people I love and just enjoying life.
‐‐ Lindsey Vonn

A part of me isn't like those women who love being pregnant. I love my baby, and I miss that feeling of being attached to him when he's kicking, but I was so ready to not be pregnant.
‐‐ Hilary Duff

A part of me looks at life from a dismal perspective, not unlike Woody Allen and Larry David. But I don't want to look at life like that. It's bad enough that I have to think it. What works for me is writing against that view. There is God, there is love, there is greatness, there is a plan, and there is beauty.
‐‐ Corbin Bernsen

A part of me understands why a mother is equally proud of all her children, but that little boy inside me just wants my mom to say, out loud but even just to me, 'I'm a little bit prouder of you.'
‐‐ Lukas Forchhammer

A part of me wants to sort of try and sound cool and feed this myth that I'm some sort of glamorous lothario, but I was raised by women - my mother and her mother and my aunts - and as a result, most of my friends have always been women.
‐‐ Moby

A part of my kind of design and inspiration ethos is that I carry around a leather notebook and I sketch in it, doodle in it, write notes in it, and I put pictures in it.
‐‐ John Varvatos

A part of sexuality may go to research, and a much larger part must lead to aesthetic creation. The art of the future will, because of the very opportunities and materials it will have at its command, need an infinitely stronger formative impulse than it does now.
‐‐ John Desmond Bernal

A part of the placidity of the South comes from the sense of well-being that follows the heart-and-body-warming consumption of breads fresh from the oven. We serve cold baker's bread to our enemies, trusting that they will never impose on our hospitality again.
‐‐ Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

A particular piece of music attaches itself to the piece I'm writing, and there is nothing else I can listen to. Every day I return to the same space to write, the music providing both the walls and the pictures on the walls.
‐‐ Aleksandar Hemon