Berthe Morisot Quotes
It seems to me a painting she is working on like the one I gave Manet 'The Harbour at Lorient' could perhaps sell, and that is all I care about.
Quotes to Explore
-
I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.
-
There are people who think I should be using the position of secretary of state simply to weigh the scales on the side of my own party. I just don't accept that, and it would not be proper.
-
I only saw one English-speaking person all the way across Siberia.
-
I am happy with all the films I've done. I have not become the victim of an image. I have managed to do different roles, and I am proud of that.
-
My views naturally have mellowed. Most of the critics have been more or less nice to me.
-
I will tell you with 100 percent confidence, Jon Jones is not deep in my head. The fact he actually thinks that, it makes me smile every day.
-
The thing, when you're down two sets to love, is to stay calm, even though it's hard, because people are freaking out, people are worried for you.
-
It's important to have masculine energy around your child.
-
One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.
-
Everybody has a story... and a scream.
-
I remember being shocked when I discovered some of my school pals didn't have books in their homes. I thought it was like not having oxygen, or hot water.
-
The constitution is itself the product of the freedom struggle.
-
I don't particularly like L.A.
-
I was drawing a mandolin, and I made the sound hole very small, which made the mandolin look gigantic. I saw that making the details small made the form monumental. So in my figures, the eyes, the mouth are all small, and the exterior form is huge.
-
Many people see technology as the problem behind the so-called digital divide. Others see it as the solution. Technology is neither. It must operate in conjunction with business, economic, political and social system.
-
So, it looks like we rebuild the village and blow it apart a few more times.
-
I remember once giving my dad some drawings and writings and said, 'If you could just give these to the publisher, that would be great.' And I was about five!
-
Just so people know, the Silverlake Conservatory of Music is not at all about celebrity or fame or being a star. It's an academic music school.
-
I think it is the easiest mentality for a human being to be either colonized or to colonize. The structure of either the slave or the master seems to be the simplest and the most relaxing one to slip into. Either you are a slave, and you don't have to think for yourself, or you're a master, and you don't have to work for yourself.
-
We are not saving lives. We are selling dreams.
-
When I was a kid, my dream was to be a farmer and marry Charlie Brown. I wanted to rescue him and make him happy. Besides, he was always lusting after 'the little redhead girl'.
-
I admire those women who really knew who they were and didn't apologize for it. Katharine Hepburn? She was ahead of her time.
-
My own approach to literary problems is very like the one Dr. Johnson's blind housekeeper used when she poured tea-she put her finger inside the cup.
-
It seems to me a painting she is working on like the one I gave Manet 'The Harbour at Lorient' could perhaps sell, and that is all I care about.
