Michelangelo Quotes

Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.

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• Man's idea of God, and a God's collusion, is an essential part of the equation to wage war.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • God
  • War
  • Man

• I was desperate to go back to New York and when 9/11 happened, I feared moving to the bulls-eye and that was very hard because I have a lot of family there and I really had to question what I didn't like about this community.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Family
  • Community
  • Question

• Never charge a player and, above all, no pointing your finger or yelling.

  Ford Frick
  • Player
  • Never
  • Charge

• I made all their videos, apart from the last two, so if you ever see an Abba video on TV then it's my stuff.

  

  Lasse Hallstrom
  • You
  • Made
  • Last

• I've met Dick Syron. I like the guy. He's a man's man kind of character, a real charmer, the kind of guy you'd want to have a beer with, as well as being an economist of considerable repute.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Real
  • Character
  • Guy

• More people work at Walmart than anywhere else in the United States, but you wouldn't know that from our literature. I'm trying to get at the reality of this country by portraying the lives of many of my friends who I left behind in Pittsburgh.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • People
  • Work
  • Country

• I'm looking forward to the 'Twilight Zone' from Jordan Peele... if anyone's gonna reboot the 'Twilight Zone,' then there's the man to do it.

  

  Charlie Brooker
  • Twilight

• I like either skinny jeans or the ripped, casual, super-sloppy boyfriend jeans. A lot of ripped jeans. They are so early 2000, but they are so cute, I love them. I love surfer jeans, too!

  

  Ariana Grande
  • Like
  • Cute
  • Boyfriend

• What literature can and should do is change the people who teach the people who don't read the books.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • People
  • Book
  • Change

• One should not be too severe on English novels; they are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Novels
  • Relaxation
  • Severe

• I speak and speak, [...] but the listener retains only the words he is expecting. [...] It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.

  

  Marco Polo
  • Words
  • Story
  • Listener

• We've been taught to believe that actions speak louder than words. But I think words speak pretty loud all of our lives; we carry these words in our head.

  

  Marlo Thomas
  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • Pretty

• The values my mother taught me were like, if you're going to do something, don't half-ass it. I remember her literally saying that to me. Like the first time I ever heard the term half-ass was coming from my mother's lips. I was probably 8 or 9. If you're going to do something, go ahead and throw 115 percent at it, and if you get 100 percent back, well, there you go - you're perfect.

  

  Justin Timberlake NSYNC
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Mother

• I've grown to love California: It's the dream of every English musician to come here and work in the sunshine. To walk up Sunset Boulevard, knowing you're going to make music - that's it.

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • Up
  • Work
  • Music

• you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Moving
  • Away

• Not caring for their lives' is it? Why, what in the world is there that we should care for if it's not our lives, the only gift the Lord never offers us a second time.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Care
  • Gift
  • The Lord

• David Bowie's my favorite musician. I love him above all, but I'm really into rap a lot right now.

  

  Ethan Suplee
  • Rap
  • I Love
  • Musician

• Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.

  

  Michelangelo
  • Discover
  • Sculptor
  • Block Of Stone