Acquaintace Quotes & Sayings

Being an artist:
And this susceptibility of theirs is doubly unfortunate , I thought, returning again to my original enquiry into what state of mind is propitious for creative work, because the mind of an artist, in order to achieve to the prodigious effort of freeing whole and entire the work that is in him, must be incandescent, like Shakespeare's mind, I conjectured, looking at the book which lay open at Antony and Cleopatra. There must be no obstacle in it, no foreign matter unconsumed. — Virginia Woolf

Thich Nhat Hanh is one of the greatest teachers of our time. He reaches from the heights of insight down to the deepest places of the absolutely ordinary. — Robert Thurman

I don't want to know I'm getting older. Then I'll start to think about getting checkups and insurance. I don't want that. — Akon

Just because an individual in his 30s hasn't found true love and, yes, there are opportunities to date but it also forces you to be more particular. In so many ways, you become more adamant about finding that right person and not allowing yourself to open up to just anybody. — Jeff Garcia

For every thousand hacking at the leaves of evil, there is one striking at the root - Thoreau — Stephen Covey

You and I won't lose each other, I will always find you again. No matter how well you hide. I'm unstoppable. — Stephenie Meyer

I don't mind your showing me your legs. They're very swell legs and it's a pleasure to make their acquaintace. I don't mind if you don't like my manners. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter nights. — Raymond Chandler

My version of lip-synching is singing full-out with the track. — Megan Hilty

I tell you this true story just to prove that I can. That my frailty has not yet reached a point at which I can no longer tell a true story. — Joan Didion

I get letters from kids, teenagers and young girls who just want to be Mac. I've had quite a few people actually say that they're going to become a Marine or a JAG lawyer because of me ... the character. I think that's pretty cool! — Catherine Bell

I think that headband and that brylcreem and that gel on his hair will do him no good should we get it on. — Ricky Hatton

When you travel as secretary, one problem you have is that the press comes with you and wants an immediate result because it justifies their trip. And sometimes the best result is that you don't try to get a result but try to get an understanding for the next time you go to them. — Henry A. Kissinger