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No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.
‐‐ Edgar Degas -
No art that is not in the end understood by the People can live or ever did live a single generation.
‐‐ Frank Norris -
No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.
‐‐ Martha Graham -
No artist is well served in thinking what will happen to their works. The best one can hope is that they'll enter the mainstream, and people will pull bits and pieces from them.
‐‐ Twyla Tharp -
No, as an artist, you have to be free to explore all the corners of your heart. There are no boundaries.
‐‐ Dierks Bentley -
No, as it turns out, I really like being congratulated on my weight loss. I like it so much, it's tragic.
‐‐ Carrie Fisher -
No astrophysicist would deny the possibility of life. I think we're not creative enough to imagine what life would be like on another planet. Show me a dead alien. Better yet, show me a live one!
‐‐ Neil deGrasse Tyson -
No athlete ever ends his or her career the way you want to. We all want to play forever. But it doesn't work that way. Accepting the end gracefully is part of being a professional athlete.
‐‐ Alex Rodriguez -
No attempt at ethical or social seduction can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.
‐‐ Aneurin Bevan -
No attribute of God is more dreadful to sinners than His holiness.
‐‐ Matthew Henry -
No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies.
‐‐ Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton -
No author has created with less emphasis such pathetic characters as Chekhov has.
‐‐ Vladimir Nabokov -
No authoritarian leader cedes power easily or turns it over to bodies he cannot control.
‐‐ Stephen Kinzer -
No authority is higher than reality.
‐‐ Peter Nivio Zarlenga -
No babies for me until I'm in my 30s! I'm focused on my career right now. I can't even take care of my dog.
‐‐ Chanel Iman -
No baby boomer has a completely original idea, but after 13 years on 'Today' and another 11 on 'Dateline,' almost 30 years total at NBC, I felt the urge to find out what was 'behind the camera.' I had the feeling there was 'something more,' though 'more' might be less.
‐‐ Jane Pauley -
No bad man can be a good poet.
‐‐ Boris Pasternak -
No band is special, no player royalty.
‐‐ Krist Novoselic -
No band on 21st-century radio has mined pre-grunge hair-metal's sleaze like L.A.'s Buckcherry. So it makes poetic sense that they'd spend their sixth album tallying all seven deadly sins.
‐‐ Chuck Eddy -
No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball.
‐‐ Casey Stengel -
No baseness or cruelty of treason so deep or so tragic shall enter our human world, but that loyal love shall be able in due time to oppose to just that deed of treason its fitting deed of atonement.
‐‐ Josiah Royce -
No battle is worth fighting except the last one.
‐‐ Enoch Powell -
No battle plan survives contact with the enemy.
‐‐ Colin Powell -
No beast has ever conquered the earth; and the natural world has never been conquered by muscular force.
‐‐ Liberty Hyde Bailey -
No, because I don't want to hear what's hot and feel I have to copy it. I'll just make up my own thing.
‐‐ Missy Elliott -
No, because I think I have a reason to believe in myself and I think I'm also pretty confident about who I am and what I'm doing and it might be because I'm still at the top too.
‐‐ Martina Hingis -
No, because I've never really changed my style that much.
‐‐ Carly Simon -
No, because I was always nervous about being onstage.
‐‐ Carly Simon -
No, because retiring is stopping. If I wanted to stop, I would have stopped.
‐‐ Thierry Henry -
No. Better research needed. Fire your research person. No fishnet stockings. Never. Not in this band.
‐‐ Gene Simmons -
No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.
‐‐ Oscar Wilde -
No biographical subject is ever on hold with the orthodontist. If there's a dry spell, it's your job to curtail or eliminate it.
‐‐ Stacy Schiff -
No bird has ever uttered note That was not in some first bird's throat; Since Eden's freshness and man's fall No rose has been original.
‐‐ Thomas Bailey Aldrich -
No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does.
‐‐ Anita Brookner -
No blessing goes uncontested. It will take a long time to get your dream.
‐‐ Miranda Hart -
No blessing lasts forever.
‐‐ Plautus -
No blessing, no good, can follow in the path trodden by slavery.
‐‐ Dorothea Dix -
No body can be healthful without exercise, neither natural body nor politic, and certainly, to a kingdom or estate, a just and honourable war is the true exercise.
‐‐ Francis Bacon -
'No Bones' has some reverb that I kick around.
‐‐ J Mascis -
No book includes the entire world. It's limited. And so it doesn't seem like an aesthetic compromise to have to do that. There's so much other material to write about.
‐‐ Paul Auster -
No book of mine is complete without a dog.
‐‐ Peter Temple -
No book that is written for an external purpose is going to be a passionately felt book for the writer or the reader. I don't see the point in doing that.
‐‐ Elizabeth Kostova -
No books ever go into my laboratory. The thing I am to do and the way are revealed to me the moment I am inspired to create something new. Without God to draw aside the curtain, I would be helpless. Only alone can I draw close enough to God to discover His secrets.
‐‐ George Washington Carver -
No border that touches Israel is always secure.
‐‐ Chuck Hagel -
No Botox. I don't think I will go there. I don't want to say never, because who knows? Maybe in 10 years I will.
‐‐ Heidi Klum -
No boxer in the history of boxing has had Parkinson's. There's no injury in my brain that suggests that the illness came from boxing.
‐‐ Muhammad Ali -
No branch of the law is of more importance to the counsellor, the statesman, or the citizen, than a thorough acquaintance with the Constitution and laws of the Federal Government, as they are administered and as they affect the rights of the people.
‐‐ Samuel Freeman Miller -
No breed of cats in its proper condition can by any stretch of the imagination be thought of as even slightly ungraceful - a record against which must be pitted the depressing spectacle of impossibly flattened bulldogs, grotesquely elongated dachshunds, hideously shapeless and shaggy Airedales, and the like.
‐‐ H. P. Lovecraft -
No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails.
‐‐ John Mortimer
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