Mark Rothko Quotes
This would be a distortion of their meaning, since the pictures are intimate and intense, and are the opposite of what is decorative; and have been painted in a scale of normal living rather than an institutional scale.
Quotes to Explore
-
A woman who demands further gun control legislation is like a chicken who roots for Colonel Sanders.
-
I am here because I think it was a terrible sin of the west to allow those years of war.
-
Once you're in a room like '30 Rock,' it's a creative setting, so you write more even after you go home, just because you're still in that mode of coming up with jokes. So the job wasn't sapping standup jokes, but it was sapping stand up time and energy, and I wouldn't be able to travel as much.
-
There are so many different sub-societies inside of Syria.
-
Africa is the future.
-
I don't second-guess our playcalling or wanting to throw it. Honestly, we've got terrific guys. We know how to matchup. We know how to get open. That part of our game is so intact.
-
I have been learning English on the road since I started when I was 15, so it is a slow process but making some progress. Now I think I am much more comfortable with my English. However, it is difficult, still, when I speak about something that is not tennis.
-
Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.
-
I went to boarding school, and what that teaches you is to cope emotionally at a young age and to suppress a lot of emotion. Being in the army is, in a way, similar.
-
It's time to re-think charity. It's time to give charity the big-league freedoms we really give to business. The fight for these freedoms must be our new cause, because without them, all of our causes are ultimately lost.
-
Luxury lives in the finer details. It's a cloth napkin at a dinner table. It's a mint on your pillow before bed.
-
Hair excited me. As the old ways - backcombing, rollers and rigidity - went out of the window, I started to feel the possibilities in front of my eyes.
-
These are issues we've been grappling with since the Constitution was written: how you hold your government to account for its words and deeds. It's all about power and the abuse of power.
-
A liar often smiles subtly while telling a lie; it's an unconscious expression of his delight in getting away with a whopper.
-
Um, I have an enormous faith in God. I have an enormous support system that also has that same belief.
-
I don't have secrets in my life. Everything is out there.
-
It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory.
-
It is better that a guilty man should not be brought to trial than that he should be acquitted.
-
My ancestors wandered lost in the wilderness for forty years because even in biblical times, men would not stop to ask for directions.
-
To attain something desired is to discover how vain it is; and…though we live all our lives in expectation of better things, we often at the same time long regretfully for what is past. The present, on the other hand, is regarded as something quite temporary and serving only as the road to our goal. That is why most men discover when they look back on their life that they have the whole time been living ad interim, and are surprised to see that which they let go by so unregarded and unenjoyed was precisely their life, was precisely in expectation of which they lived.
-
I don't think we're wasting people in space.
-
Talking money is crass; so I'm not going to tell you what I made last year.
-
If that's true and the rate stays like that for another 40 years, there's a good probability that somebody who is active in the credit economy for that period of time might be a victim. But that's not a given.
-
This would be a distortion of their meaning, since the pictures are intimate and intense, and are the opposite of what is decorative; and have been painted in a scale of normal living rather than an institutional scale.
