Artisanship And Artifact Quotes & Sayings

Smoking cigarettes is as intimate as we can become with fire without immediate excruciation. — Tom Robbins

Could we have avoided the tragedy of Hiroshima? Could we have started the atomic age with clean hands? No one knows. No one can find out. — Edward Teller

Reading a newspaper is like reading someone's letters, as opposed to a biography or a history. The writer really does not know what will happen. A novelist needs to feel what that is like. — A.S. Byatt

TV is what sells your product. — Sheryl Swoopes

Nothing is more tragic - or more common - than mental inertia. — Napoleon Hill

1. Jealousy is a destructive emotion, particularly for those who harbor it; and 2. Envy is a natural feeling that can be positive if it's used for motivation. — David Mezzapelle

I was very shy and I was very introverted as a kid, but whenever I set foot on stage, I kind of opened up, and I think a lot of kids need an outlet to express their creativity. And a lot of kids are scared to do that if there's not a safe environment for that. — Jeremy Jordan

You're really spread out now, you've got stuff all over the WORLD! You've got stuff at home, stuff in storage, stuff in Honolulu, stuff in Maui, stuff in your pockets ... supply lines are getting longer and harder to maintain. — George Carlin

Once we were on the set, we each did different kinds of work. I was doing more the technical stuff, the framing and the camera work, and she was working more with the actors. Marjane [Satrapi] and I don't stop speaking once we're on the set. We continue to talk. We define what our roles are going to be on set, because to have a snake with two heads is silly. — Vincent Paronnaud

Inflation is probably the most important single factor in that vicious circle wherein one kind of government action makes more and more government control necessary. For this reason all those who wish to stop the drift toward increasing government control should concentrate their effort on monetary policy. — Friedrich August Von Hayek

I don't have the energy or the mental security to get involved with all that. I think it's a good idea to be able to disappear into the story, so that the first thing the audience sees isn't you, but the part. — Jeremy Northam

It's getting the right person that's the challenge. — Bob Schieffer

I went to a urologist - he told me I could go at any time. — Jay London

I simply felt alone, one leaf sitting miles away from a giant, communal pile. — Dan Wells