We are drawn to artists who tell us that art is difficult to do and takes a spiritual effort, because we are still puritan enough to respect a strenuous spiritual effort.
In the end, nature is inexorable: it has no reason to hurry and, sooner or later, it takes what belongs to it. Unconsciously and inflexibly obedient to its own laws, it doesn't know art, just as it doesn't know freedom, just as it doesn't know goodness.
A Kiss concert experience is like sex or anything else that's done with more that one person. It's the give and take that makes it so great. When the audience takes it to the next level, we can kick it up another notch.
Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.
It takes 10 kilograms of grain to produce one kilogram of beef, 15 liters of water to get one kilogram of beef, and those cows produce a lot of methane. Why not get rid of the cows?
The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. If they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies.
I think journalism is useful training for a writer in the way it takes the preciousness out of the pragmatic side of the craft.
It takes 15,000 casualties to train a major general.
Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.
The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart.
It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.
There's a terrible price to pay for stress in your life - it really takes a hit on your heart.
Since I started acting, I always or often find work takes precedence with me. And that is not necessarily a great rule for life.
All he wants to do is practice and that's all he does, all day long. That's what it takes if you want to change the face of music. You've gotta be committed to it.
I wish I could write about shows outside New York. I often feel like the last person to know anything, because I almost never get to leave town, and when I do, I tend to go for three days max. Seeing between 30 and 40 shows a week in 100 or so galleries and museums takes up nearly all my time.
It always takes longer than you expect, even if you take Hofstadter's Law into account.
It takes about three times as long to explain to someone why you won't give them an autograph as it does to actually give them an autograph.
Directing Marilyn Monroe was like directing Lassie. You needed fourteen takes to get each one of them right.
I still care about human behavior and the art that it takes to write a good piece and to get a cast together who cares enough to put 150 percent of their talent into a project.
Cooking allows you to have travels, adventures and journeys without going anywhere. The running joke between my partner and me is that I'm not really concerned about how long it takes, or how much I destroy the kitchen, because I just have such a good time doing it.
Life throws some curveballs at you and you go where it takes you.
I grew up on film sets but more around the process of making films. I saw a lot of the editing process and the writing process, which takes years. That really affected me growing up, that side of it.
It takes four months to ship food aid and 40 percent of the cost is in the shipping. People cannot eat shipping costs. We have had people die when there are surpluses in the markets.
My talk show takes place in bed, in Italy.
All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are.
The American electorate are getting disgusted with weaklings who blow where the wind takes them while frittering away our precious lifeblood and borrowing money from our new owners, the Chinese.
It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams.
I like a lot of takes. I just go on until the actors get it right.
I will always do stand-up, even if my acting career takes off. Stand-up is my life.
This revolution, the information revoultion, is a revolution of free energy as well, but of another kind: free intellectual energy. It's very crude today, yet our Macintosh computer takes less power than a 100-watt bulb to run it and it can save you hours a day. What will it be able to do ten or 20 years from now, or 50 years from now?
The customer is a remarkably selfish person: He takes the relationship to where the execution is in his favor.
Usually a poem takes shape accoustically - a line or a pair of lines will repeat itself in my ear.
When I go, if there's a tombstone it will say, She doesn't give in. She doesn't give up. And she never takes no for an answer.
I'm convinced that the man who has learned to meditate upon the Lord will be able to run on his feet and walk in his spirit. Although he may be hurried by his vocation, that's not the issue. The issue is how fast his spirit is going. To slow it down takes a period of time.
I find it just simply takes me right back to those times, and I really can't take it, I don't want to, I mean, why should I face up to it? What good does it do me? I know it happened, and that's it.
While it is true that Frank had a great sense of humor, he was also very serious about composing music. In reality there are only a handful of skilled players who can play his most complex pieces. It takes a lot of patience to learn and requires a fantastic memory.