Quotes About Making A Statement

#1. Power is making a statement about who you are.

Christina Aguilera

#2. I don't work from drawings and colour sketches into a final painting. Painting, I think, today - the more immediate, the more direct - the greater the possibilities of making a direct - of making a statement.

Jackson Pollock

#3. Music knows no barrier of age or culture. It isn't about being politically correct or even making a statement. Music is what appeals to the ears and touches your soul.

A.R. Rahman

#4. Every religion lies. Every moral precept is a delusion. Even the stars are a mirage. The truth is darkness, and the only thing that matters is making a statement before one enters it. Cutting the skin of the world and leaving a scar. That's all history is, after all: scar tissue.

Stephen King

#5. The elder who is eliminating what time has done to the face, what life has done to the face, is making a statement for others to see: This is the way to be a good old person - it is to defeat this body that is doing things to you. Because you haven't changed. Your body's changing.

James Hillman

#6. When individuals get crowbars and start prying open doors to loot, they're not protesting. They're not making a statement. They're stealing. When they burn down a building, they're committing arson.

Barack Obama

#7. When you go through all your life processing and abusing your hair so it will look like the hair of another race of people then you are making a statement and the statement is clear

Assata Shakur

#8. I'm very happy with this new record. It's dealing with different aspects of love-it's me making a statement about people doing something with their lives. It is about caring for others.

Barry White

#9. It's making a statement about what life is, really. And I'm going to end the line with it.

Wayne Shorter

#10. There are people walking around the streets of Kansas City who are unemployed, while one of our largest employers is not only sending jobs aboard, but then turning around and making a statement about preserving jobs.

Emanuel Cleaver

#11. In Iran I think nobody loses their job because of making a statement that reflects their opinion. From this point of view, conditions in Iran are far better than in many other places in the world.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#12. I don't think any musician ever thinks about making a statement. I think everybody goes into music loving it.

Hugh Masekela

#13. I am trying to get right with God. I'm sort of making a statement about the excessiveness.

Lucinda Williams

#14. Caricatures are an important part of our culture of debate. They should defuse political spats through humor and irony. It is about making a strong statement but softening it with a wink. So Danes do not get too upset about caricatures. None of us is interested in insulting Muslims.

Anders Fogh Rasmussen

#15. Making art in America is sort of a political statement in and of itself. It's not the best environment for that sometimes.

Steve Earle

#16. I suppose he's making a real fashion statement, but this is high school. You're not supposed to be real. You're supposed to be enough like everyone else to get through and out into the waiting world.

Elizabeth Scott

#17. I don't really step out the house trying to make a fashion statement. I step out the house making sure I'm comfortable.

Asher Roth

#18. It's about making a choice to make your marriage a priority, to, kind of, put that at the top of the page, as your mission statement or something.

Liane Moriarty

#19. Apostles receive revelations from God, and consequently they are able to say 'This is what the Spirit is saying to the churches right now.' Making such a statement with credibility carries with it tremendous authority.

C. Wagner

#20. I am a professional actor, and I don't go about moralizing about what the character does. Otherwise, seriously, why be an actor? You're not making some kind of social statement. That's not what actors do.

Malcolm McDowell

#21. We have cultural expectations that everyone needs a dining room, yet they're only used three times a year. But if I put a bone handle on the door of an upper-end brick home, I'm making an outlandish statement.

Dan Phillips

#22. What I pray for is the spirit of humbleness, and, the spirit of me doing what God is asking me to do - not what I individually want to do. So, if I'm making a "politically incorrect" statement to the masses - this is what God put in me.

Warren Ballentine

#23. My statement is thus that we can only end this downfall of European intergovernmental decision-making by eliminating the intergovernmental operating system completely, in favor of a European Federation.

Leo Klinkers

#24. When you put gas in your car you are making a political statement, because you are supporting the empires that control and continue the destruction of some countries.

Javier Bardem

#25. It is a visual temper tantrum. You are making an ineffective statement about this and that, a grotesque, self-defeating mockery of cultural standards of beauty, societal misogyny. It is a blow to your parents, at whom you are pissed.

Marya Hornbacher

#26. But they are practically brother and sister," ejaculated Marina, thinking as many stupid people do that "practically" works both ways - reducing the truth of a statement and making a truism sound like the truth.

Vladimir Nabokov

#27. I love the appropriateness of making a dogmatic statement. I support that, but that is a different level of the individual consciousness than was the source of our music.

Eyvind Kang

#28. For a while, I was only being sent fat-girl parts. Seriously? Sometimes I feel like I'm making some kind of radical statement because I'm a size 6.

Melanie Lynskey

#29. The loner may be respected, but he is always resented by his colleagues, for he seems to be passing a critical judgment on them, when he may be simply making a limiting statement about himself.

Sydney J. Harris

#30. Please don't fall into the trap of believing that I am terribly dogmatical about [the goto statement]. I have the uncomfortable feeling that others are making a religion out of it, as if the conceptual problems of programming could be solved by a single trick, by a simple form of coding discipline!

Edsger Dijkstra

#31. I already feel that I am making a political statement by sticking around in music, when I am doing it so differently to everyone else.

M.I.A.

#32. I wish I could be a better writer, but writing is so difficult. I get seduced by visual aesthetics. Because I just like making beautiful pictures, sometimes I wander away from making a clear statement.

Sally Mann

#33. To those of us who often procrastinate on the decision we feel intimidated by lack of education or any area of weakness. I relieve you with this statement: It is not how much you know that arms you with the tools of great decision making, but rather how much you ask. Ask questions.

T.D. Jakes

#34. I don't really like making too much of a statement with what I'm wearing.

Richard C. Armitage

#35. I'm making the statement that we should all live life and have a laugh. Nakedness is a thing where people take notice. If you do it in the right way, people laugh.

Mark Roberts

#36. I'm of the opinion that if you step on stage and you're not a straight white male, you're automatically making a political statement whether you know it or not.

W. Kamau Bell

#37. I just feel like with independent movies ... they're really free to do whatever they want. They're not afraid to make a statement about anything, and there's not a huge studio behind them making sure that everything is wholesome and politically correct and all that.

Emma Roberts

#38. I don't think it's necessary to shout if you have a good story. But I also don't think you should shy away from being bold in the statement that you're making.

Nancy Gibbs

#39. For a spilt second we stare at each other. I feel an off sense of relief in making that statement. My breath is broken, his face is still. I want to apologise but the words won't come.
Instead I turn round and keep running home.

Dawn O'Porter

#40. I see there is a lot of behaviour in men's fashion, which is systematic. It's a lot about all these kind of clothes that can be easily combined with each other, and it's less and less, I think, about making a fashion statement.

Raf Simons

#41. A lot of people want to not wear a tie when they go to a restaurant. They feel they don't have to wear a tie. I think it's kind of a statement they're making. I don't know what that statement is. I haven't quite figured that out yet.

Alec Baldwin

#42. Every time I rap about being a big girl in a small world, it's doing a couple things: it's empowering my self-awareness, my body image, and it's also making the statement that we are all bigger than this; we're a part of something bigger than this, and we should live in each moment knowing that.

Lizzo

#43. (The Song Remains The Same) is not a great film, but there's no point in making excuses. It's just a reasonably honest statement of where we were at that particular time. It's very difficult for me to watch it now, but I'd like to see it in a year's time just to see how it stands up.

Jimmy Page

#44. The attempt to divide art and politics is a bourgeois which says good poetry, art, cannot be political, but since everything is ... political, even an artist or work that claims not to have any politics is making a political statement by that act.

Amiri Baraka

#45. Everything you do is political, even if it's abstract. You're making a political statement even if it's unwittingly.

Eric Drooker