Mark Rothko Quotes

I am dealing not with the particular anecdote, but rather with the Spirit of Myth, which is generic to all myths at all times.

Mark Rothko

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• Dance and I are synonymous, and nobody can take away dance from my life. Also, I cannot look at dance in an inert way; it's my passion, and I get keen on being part of any show or film that has dance!

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • Life
  • Passion
  • Dance

• I cried like a baby. When no one could see me or hear me. Not because I feared what cancer would do, but because I didn't want the disease. I wanted my life to be normal, which it could no longer be.

  

  Yuvraj Singh
  • Life
  • Baby
  • My Life

• I want to make it clear that I honestly answered every question put to me during the so-called Iran-Contra hearings. But if they didn't ask me about something, I wasn't about to reveal things that would put other people in jeopardy.

  

  Oliver North
  • People
  • Want
  • Question

• I'm not a religious person, and I'm not too interested in being a part of a religion, but I do like having some sort of communal gathering, and having some sense of peoples.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Like
  • Religious
  • Religion

• Philosophy can only be approached with the most concrete comprehension.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • Philosophy
  • Only
  • Concrete

• Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don't draft people; it's not jury duty.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Political
  • Run

• I'm my own worst critic and I think everyone in the band is a perfectionist.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Think
  • Band
  • Worst

• India has progressed to a stage where a divorcee status hardly matters. What matters is that you raise a positive, independent, well-behaved and intelligent child.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Positive
  • Child
  • Independent

• I read a lot on the subject and had many conversations, and I have come to the conclusion that the Catholic Church is a force for evil.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Church
  • Evil
  • Catholic

• Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.

  

  Hannah More
  • Men
  • Children
  • Evil

• To ask if I am mischievous is the understatement of all time.

  

  Malcolm Gets
  • Mischievous
  • Understatement

• I didn't get nervous when I ran, but I get nervous watching other people now. I root for anybody with a USA on their chest.

  Gail Devers
  • People
  • Now
  • Nervous

• Critics do their job, and I take their criticism seriously.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Job
  • Criticism
  • Seriously

• If someone looks genuinely interested and asks me a deeply personal question, I'll give the answer. I'm too open.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Question
  • Interested
  • Answer

• You go to something like the Golden Globes, and it's the most glamorous place you could ever be, but then you go home and you're still like, 'Urgh, this dress is too tight, I wanna take off these shoes and put on my pyjamas.' At the end of the night all the glamour goes away and you're just a human.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Home
  • Night
  • End

• All laws which can be broken without any injury to another, are counted but a laughing-stock, and are so far from bridling the desires and lusts of men, that on the contrary they stimulate them.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Men
  • Broken
  • Stock

• Empathize with stupidity and you’re halfway to thinking like an idiot.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Thinking

• What’s true is that everyone is uncomfortable with expressing anger and being critical. Anger and criticism generates rejection. And everyone hates rejection.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • True
  • Criticism
  • Rejection

• There was a film that really affected me, 'La Strada' by Fellini, where Anthony Quinn and Giulietta Masina travel around on his little motorcycle thing.

  

  Kris Kristofferson
  • Travel
  • Motorcycle

• First love is alright, as far as it goes. Last love – that’s the one I’m interested in.

  

  David Howell Evans U2
  • Interested
  • First Love
  • Last Love

• The tribute that is due to the talents, the rectitude, and the patriotism which adorn the characters selected to devise and adopt them. In these honorable qualifications, I behold the surest pledges, that as on one side, no local prejudices, or attachments; no seperate views, nor party animosities, will misdirect the comprehensive and equal eye which ought to watch over this great assemblage of communities and interests: so, on another, that the foundations of our National policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principles of private morality...

  

  George Washington
  • Character
  • Community
  • Party

• It is said that many children who live in the central provinces, away from the ocean, have a great longing to see it. I who had never been away from the monotonous country surrounding us looked forward eagerly to seeing the mountains.

  

  Pierre Loti
  • Great
  • Live
  • Country

• I feel like I've been blessed with the ability to do what I do and I guess, I ultimately want to be remembered for being an out-and-out racer; just driving at the seat of my pants and doing it the right way and winning for the right reasons. The right values.

  

  Lewis Hamilton
  • Winning
  • Blessed
  • Driving

• I am dealing not with the particular anecdote, but rather with the Spirit of Myth, which is generic to all myths at all times.

  

  Mark Rothko