Horiuchi Artist Quotes & Sayings

I've always found it difficult to start with a definite idea, but if I start with a pond that's being drained because of a diesel fuel leak and a cow named Hortense and some blackbirds flying over and a woman in the distance waving, then I might get somewhere. — Bobbie Ann Mason

Sometimes writers of no talent at all can write great acting scenes. Sometimes the very best writers can't write scenes that come to life. — Anita Loos

An ideal society, properly so-called, can be none other than an actual, present, society taken at its truest and best. — Michael Oakeshott

I think that reality TV is so bad. It is a tool by the media to not make people think. — Naveen Andrews

Stop bragging about your lack of sweat and effort in achieving your goals. Start bragging about how hard you work, how patient you've become. — Karen Salmansohn

You can talk about results all you want, but they remain nothing more than ideas until you decide exactly how you're going to measure them. — Joseph Grenny

Her teeth were like a soccer crowd, crammed in. — Markus Zusak

A couple of months ago, I was down in Florida for the Food and Wine Festival. And this journalist grabbed me and said, 'How does it feel to be a TV guy? You're no longer in the restaurant business.' And I laughed. I asked him, 'How long do you think it takes me to do a season?' He said, 'Well, 200 days.' And I was like, '200 days? Try 20!' — Tom Colicchio

The satyr gave me a sympathetic glance. She was shorter than me by a foot, with large hazel eyes that matched her curly hair. I tried to keep my eyes away from her furry lower half, but it was difficult, especially when she smelled faintly like a petting zoo. — Julie Kagawa

I consider myself a casualty, one of the many casualties of the war on terror. — Alberto Gonzales

Wise or unwise, who doubts for a moment that contentment is the cause of happiness? Yet the inverse is true: we are contented because we are happy, and not happy because we are contented. Well-regulated minds may be satisfied with a small portion of happiness; none can be happy with a small portion of content. — Walter Savage Landor

If the world is a progressively realized community of interpretation, then either quadruplictity will drink procrastination or, provided that the nothing negates, boredom will ensue seldom more often than frequently. — Woody Allen

Occasionally, I make waffles for breakfast for any employee who wants to talk to me. I make them around 8 A.M. as an incentive for people to show up early. — David Ulevitch