All Quotes

Any artist always has misgivings about calling himself an artist.
‐‐ Bill Budge

Any 'artist' makes a living by expressing what others can't - because they're unaware of their feelings, they're too afraid to express those feelings, or they lack the skills to communicate and be understood.
‐‐ Chuck Palahniuk

Any artist manages his own business along with his manager. Every band should.
‐‐ Art Alexakis

Any artist picks and chooses what they want to paint or write about or say. Photographers are the same.
‐‐ Richard Avedon

Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.
‐‐ Saul Bellow

Any artist that is even surviving right now is a dark horse because things change pretty fast. You're a superstar one day and wake up the next day and you're anonymous. To be successful in any way is beating the odds right now, I think.
‐‐ Chad Kroeger

Any artist that's involved in their work is inevitably going to have a focus in what they do.
‐‐ Jock Sturges

Any artist, the work you do, if it's a painting or if it's a performance, you hope it translates to a common denominator with the people that they see something in their own life in there. Or they see something in somebody else's life. That's what's fun about sharing art.
‐‐ Matthew McConaughey

Any artist, when he goes in to record, should have the feeling that any song he records can be a hit. This may sound egotistical, but it makes sense.
‐‐ Ray Charles

Any artist who aligns themselves with a politician is making a category error because what politicians do is not on a human scale, it is on a geopolitical scale.
‐‐ Zadie Smith

Any artist who goes to Las Vegas is an idiot as far as I am concerned. Whoever goes to Las Vegas can stay in Las Vegas.
‐‐ Chuck Close

Any artist who sticks around in the public awareness for more than 20 years usually has something unique to say.
‐‐ Marilyn Minter

Any aspirational job is tough because everyone wants to do it.
‐‐ Katherine Kelly

Any astronaut can tell you you've got to do everything you can to learn about your life support system and then do everything you can to take care of it.
‐‐ Sylvia Earle

Any astrophysicist does not feel small looking up at the universe; we feel large.
‐‐ Neil deGrasse Tyson

Any athlete has massive reserves in their body and their emotional landscape.
‐‐ Edoardo Ponti

Any atrocity that's committed against one person affects us all, and we are becoming more of one society, of a global society, so something that happens in the Middle East or something that happens in Africa, something that happens in Asia, affects all of us.
‐‐ Don Lemon

Any attempt to dilute my support for Sen. Obama will not succeed.
‐‐ Jesse Jackson

Any attempt to list the ten best science fiction novels is doomed to failure.
‐‐ Ann Leckie

Any attempt to single out Islam would be a violation of the Constitution.
‐‐ Chris Gibson

Any attempts at humor immediately after September 11th were deemed tasteless.
‐‐ Allen Klein

Any attorney general who is not an activist is not doing his or her job.
‐‐ Eric Holder

Any audience that gets a laugh out of me gets it while I'm facing them.
‐‐ Ethel Merman

Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.
‐‐ Rebecca West

Any author of fiction will tell you that characters don't need to be told what to do.
‐‐ Alexander McCall Smith

Any bailout of a private company is a bad decision by our federal government. Private companies have the right to succeed, but they also should have the right to fail.
‐‐ Matt Salmon

Any ballplayer that don't sign autographs for little kids ain't an American. He's a communist.
‐‐ Rogers Hornsby

Any band on their first couple records is just trying to keep up with their inspiration.
‐‐ Josh Homme

Any band that calls themselves 'The Killers' is gonna be dangerous.
‐‐ Dave Keuning

Any band that is out there chasing it is doing more destruction to music then someone who is out there playing what they truly feel.
‐‐ Bret Michaels

Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.
‐‐ Sam Levenson

Any beings advanced enough to traverse interstellar distances are at least a thousand years beyond our technical level. Spending gobs of time examining our missiles is equivalent to sending the Air Force back to the Middle Ages and insisting they examine the chain mail factories.
‐‐ Seth Shostak

Any big televised event that starts at the crack of dawn is worth getting up for. I've done it all my life: big boxing matches, royal weddings, even TV-A.M.'s inaugural episode was enjoyed in pyjamas in my house.
‐‐ Sharon Horgan

Any biographer must of necessity become a pilgrim a peripatetic, obsessed literary pilgrim, a traveler with four eyes.
‐‐ Leon Edel

Any body of men who believe in hell will persecute whenever they have the power.
‐‐ Joseph McCabe

Any body type is beautiful. It's all about loving what you got and rocking it.
‐‐ Meghan Trainor

Any book is a self-help guide if you can take something from it.
‐‐ Kevin Smith

Any book that can help you survive the slings and arrows of adolescence is a book to love for life; 'The Catcher in the Rye' did just that, and I still do love it.
‐‐ Libba Bray

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
‐‐ Maya Angelou

Any bull market covers a multitude of sins, so there may be all sorts of problems with the current system that we won't see until the bear market comes.
‐‐ Ron Chernow

Any business either grows or dies. You've just got to keep growing.
‐‐ Christoffel Wiese

Any business owner can tell you that if their company isn't performing profitably and up to standards, one of two things will happen: either you make changes to improve its efficiency, or a competitor will drive you out of business. Market forces have a way of cutting to the chase rather quickly.
‐‐ J. B. Pritzker

Any business that is looking for new customers needs to understand the Internet and how to market their goods or services through it.
‐‐ Eric Lefkofsky

Any business that is trying to sell something should be willing to spend a couple dollars for a stock photo to not have ads in it and not distract the user from using the product they're trying to sell.
‐‐ Jon Oringer

Any business today that embraces the status quo as an operating principle is going to be on a death march.
‐‐ Howard Schultz

Any captain can only do his best for the team and for cricket. When you are winning, you are a hero. Lose, and the backslappers fade away.
‐‐ Richie Benaud

Any car designer always dreams about designing their own car - if they say they don't, they're lying... For me, it was never about starting my own company just to make another car.
‐‐ Henrik Fisker

Any cartoon that can be liked by a committee is really not worth drawing; in fact, must not be drawn at all! Better to become a stockbroker.
‐‐ Michael Leunig

Any celebration meal to which guests are invited, be they family or friends, should be an occasion for generous hospitality.
‐‐ Julian Baggini

Any celebrity that goes on Twitter and spouts off, as if we should care what they say, is opening himself or herself up to ridicule by anyone else.
‐‐ Joshua Malina