Used Quotes - Page 13

• I was one of Them: the Strange Ones. The Funny People. The Odd Tribes of autograph collectors and photographers. The Ones who waited through long days and nights, who used other people's dreams for their lives.

  Ray Bradbury

  Dream, Night, Long

  5 Copy quote

• Your life is the one place you have to spend yourself fully--wild, generous, drastic--in an unrationed profligacy of self ... And in that split second when you understand that you finally are about to die-to uncreate the world no time to do it over no more chances--that instant when you realize your conscious existence is truly flaring nova, won't you want to have used up all-all-the splendor that you are?

  Robin Morgan

  Self, World, Splits

  7 Copy quote

• We used to have actresses trying to become stars; now we have stars trying to become actresses.

  Laurence Olivier

  Stars, Trying, Actresses

  9 Copy quote

• I have heard that Tiberius used to say that that man was ridiculous, who after sixth years, appealed to a physician.

  Plutarch

  Men, Years, Medicine

  7 Copy quote

• My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying . . . one must ruthlessly suppress everything that is not concerned with the subject. If, in the first chapter, you say there is a gun hanging on the wall, you should make quite sure that it is going to be used further on in the story.

  Anton Chekhov

  Wall, Lying, Gun

  9 Copy quote

• I want to paint men and women with that something of the external which the halo used to symbolize, and which we now seek to give by the actual radiance and vibrancy of our colorings.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Men, Giving, Halos

  7 Copy quote

• Mama had an appreciation of the language. She taught me a love of words, of how they should be used and how they can fill a creative soul with a passion and lead to a life's work.

  Lewis Grizzard

  Appreciation, Passion, Creative

  Lewis Grizzard (1991). “Don't Forget to Call Your Mama--: I Wish I Could Call Mine”

  144 Copy quote

  Show source

• My father used to brag that I wasn't a ham, I was the whole pig.

  Jim Carrey

  Father, Pigs, Ham

  Commencement Speech at Maharishi University of Management, www.mum.edu. May 24, 2014.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Following the Romanian tradition, garlic is used in excess to keep the vampires away.

  Calvin Trillin

  Vampire, Excess, Garlic

  9 Copy quote

• I removed the window [tattoo] because, while I used to spend all my time looking out through windows wishing to be outside, I now live there all the time.

  Angelina Jolie

  Tattoo, Wish, Window

  4 Copy quote

• Language and culture cannot be separated. Language is vital to understanding our unique cultural perspectives. Language is a tool that is used to explore and experience our cultures and the perspectives that are embedded in our cultures.

  Buffy Sainte-Marie

  Unique, Perspective, Understanding

  22 Copy quote

• This is deeply disturbing. Congress provided loans to help businesses hurt by the Sept. 11 attacks, not to be used as an accounting gimmick to cover up this administration's failure to provide for small businesses.

  John F. Kerry

  Hurt, Administration, Gimmicks

  8 Copy quote

• The infinite possibilities. That's what used to do my nut in.

  Damien Hirst

  Nuts, Infinite, Possibility

  4 Copy quote

• Peasants have believed in dowsing, and scientists used to believe that dowsing was only a belief of peasants. Now there are so many scientists who believe in dowsing that the suspicion comes to me that it may only be a myth after all.

  Charles Fort

  Believe, May, Belief

  Charles Fort (1941). “The Complete Books of Charles Fort”, p.1048, Courier Corporation

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• Rather than employing it as a supplement to active, conscious seeing, they used the medium as a substitute, paying less attention to the world than they had done previously, taking it on faith that photography automatically assured them possession of it.

  Alain de Botton

  Photography, Attention, Done

  8 Copy quote

• Professors will lecture with more inspiration if they occasionally alternate the classroom with the beach: authors will write better when, as Macaulay used to do, they write for two hours, then pitch quoits, and then go back to their writing. But certainly more than the mere mechanical alternation is involved.

  Rollo May

  Beach, Inspiration, Writing

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.66, W. W. Norton & Company

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The music was more than music - at least what we are used to hearing. The music was feeling itself. The sound connected instantly with something deep and joyous.

  Louise Erdrich

  Music, Feelings, Sound

  4 Copy quote

• Violence begets violence by whomever used. War is a dirty business and entails the use of degrading means, whoever wages it.

  A. J. Muste

  Peace, War, Dirty

  13 Copy quote

• On the whole, the modern palette is the same as the one used by the artists of Pompeii... I mean it has not been enriched. The ancients used earths, ochres, and ivory-black - you can do anything with that palette.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Mean, Artist, Ivory

  22 Copy quote

• Realistic, naturalistic art had dissembled the medium, using art to conceal art; Modernism used art to call attention to art.

  Clement Greenberg

  Art, Attention, Realistic

  Clement Greenberg, John O'Brian (1995). “The Collected Essays and Criticism, Volume 4: Modernism with a Vengeance, 1957-1969”, p.86, University of Chicago Press

  23 Copy quote

  Show source

• There is something about nature out of control that touches a primal terror. We are used to believing that we're the masters of our domain, and that God has given us this earth to rule over. We need this illusion like a good night-light.

  Robert R. McCammon

  Good Night, Nature, Believe

  Robert R. McCammon (1998). “Two Classic Volumes from Robert R. McCammon”, Beyond Words/Atria Books

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Verification and diplomacy, used in conjunction, can be effective,.

  Mohamed ElBaradei

  Conjunctions, Diplomacy, Verification

  4 Copy quote

• You can't talk about peace nor agreement while terror is used as the main argument.

  Alberto Fujimori

  Agreement, Argument, Terror

  "Fujimori breaks silence and urges release of hostages". www.cnn.com. December 22, 1996.

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• No I don't get scared when returning kicks or worry about getting hurt. I have been doing this since childhood so I am used to it.

  Dante Hall

  Hurt, Worry, Childhood

  7 Copy quote

• One of the weaknesses of much abstract painting is the attempt to substitute the inventions of the intellect for a pristine imaginative conception. The inner life of a human being is a vast and varied realm and does not concern itself alone with stimulating arrangements of color, form and design. The term 'life' as used in art is something not to be held in contempt, for it applies all of its existence, and the province of art is to react to it and not to shun it. Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again be great.

  Edward Hopper

  Art, Color, Design

  6 Copy quote