A New York audience generally likes decorative paintings, and decorative paintings go with the couch. If you change the couch, you change the painting. And when you're coming up, and the paintings aren't first-class decoration, you're at a disadvantage for publicity and sales.
We are still living with the consequences of that today in popular Reformed thinking from the likes of John Piper, R. C. Sproul, and Tim Keller.
I don't know if Yves St Laurent likes my work but Pierre Bergé does.
A healthy mind always likes to adore others, elevate them. An unhealthy mind likes to pull everything down.
Woody's [Allen] very relaxed with the cast and likes them to do their thing and is not an over-director type. Somehow it works.
For my birthday my husband learned to cook and is cooking one day a week for me. But he only likes to do fancy dishes. So we end up with weird, obscure things in the refrigerator.
I am so anti-people's opinions when I'm making a record, but when it's finished and I put it out there, I hope somebody likes it.
No one likes to admit that in the end we all die by inches, gradually losing all the defining visual characteristics that make us us
I know I'm 25 now, but there's still that little lad inside me who likes his dad there to see him.
I'm a frotteur, someone who likes to rub words in his hand, to turn them around and feel them, to wonder if that really is the best word possible.
The rest of the world really likes our stuff pretty well. It's just we buy so damn much of what they produce.
I'm not someone who likes having a master plan for everything, but I do believe in a vision for your life.
Children never grow tired; their likes and dislikes are constant; let them laugh at something once and they laugh always; do what you will, they are sure to say, 'Do it again!
He likes to flirt with all the boys in the class.
In general, great companies prefer to grow organically, as Wall Street likes to say. That is, from the inside out, by finding new markets or by taking market share from their competitors.
You try to figure out the two things that I use as the philosophy to do a golf course. The first is that most people are really interested in something being aesthetically pleasing and good to the eye. The second is that a good golfer likes good golf shots.
Everybody likes a roller coaster ride.
To know what one knows is frightening to live what one lives is soothing and though everybody likes to be frightened what they really have to have is soothing.
As wonderful as it is, not everyone likes magic. Try to only share your magic with people who enjoy it.
Beyonce gave us direction, and she had like four or five studios going at one time, but then she only sings what she likes. "Back Up" was one of those records.