Quotes of: Demanding Keyword

The overall physical demand that Iraq has is pretty amazing. It's 130 degrees, and the soldiers are carrying about 100 pounds of extra gear. It's a pretty rigorous schedule and routine for them.

Joe Nichols

I have to say that I reject somewhat the distinction between something called art and something called public art. I think all art demands and desires to be seen.

Antony Gormley

Unless the work of art has wholly exhausted its maker's attention, it fails. This is why works of great significance are demanding and why they are infinitely rewarding.

Guy Davenport

In opera, as with any performing art, to be in great demand and to command high fees you must be good of course, but you must also be famous. The two are different things.

Luciano Pavarotti

In our instinctive rebellion against pain, we are children again, and demand an active will to wreak our vengeance on.

Adam Bede

But Calvin is no kind and loving god! He's one of the old gods! He demands sacrifice!

The Authoritative Calvin And Hobbes

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Vicki Baum

What is a genius? A person who demands little to nothing from others, but is often found extremely difficult to have around.

Killosophy

A Sufi is alive to the value of time, and is given, every moment, to what that moment demands.

Sufi Thought and Action

She headed for a wide flat rock on the creek's bank, her posture still demanding 'no trespassing' but no longer 'trespassers will be shot.

Secrets

Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue.

Social Theory and Social Structure

Every time you come to the limit of what is demanded of you, you are faced with the same problem-to be yourself!

Tropic of Capricorn

Aggression like this demanded slinging the first punch in a bar brawl, firing rounds at a range, or setting a car on fire.

Poisoned Apple

They don't like the thought of someone else making demands on the person whom they see as belonging entirely to them.

Picture Perfect

Above her like this, he was a warrior god, hot and hard, demanding complete submission.

Pleasure Satellite

According lecture, entire effort United States to incite desire, inflict want, inspire demand.

Pygmy

The heart was a tyrant, like a child demanding ice cream instead of broccoli and throwing a fit to get its way.

Tumbledown

GRAPESHOT, n. An argument which the future is preparing in answer to the demands of American Socialism.

The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

In view of this and other things, I demand forgiveness for being so obviously impressed with my own parents.

West with the Night

As regards this country, in which protection has always to some extent existed, it is the best customer that England ever had, and our demands upon her grow most steadily and regularly under protection.

Henry Charles Carey

I always think a successful television series is the best job because it gives you community, it doesn't demand temporary insanity the way movies do, and you can be almost a normal person.

James L. Brooks