Mark Rothko Quotes

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• The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Best
  • Lying
  • Liar

• My attitude is govern as if you've run your last race. That's not to say I've run my last race, but govern with a liberation and a freedom; change your mind frame to operate that way.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Mind
  • Freedom
  • Change

• All my books are optimistic!

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Books
  • Optimistic

• It is not the first duty of the novelist to provide blueprints for insurrection, or uplifting tales of successful resistance for the benefit of the opposition. The naming of what is there is what is important.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Important
  • Successful
  • First

• Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Why
  • She
  • Bad

• As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Great
  • God
  • Child

• I've been in many auditions thinking, 'God, do I have to take my shirt off?'

  

  Sam Heughan
  • God
  • Thinking
  • Take

• I've never done this level of physical preparation for something. Particularly for 'Rogue One' where I was training every day and doing kung fu rehearsals on a daily basis. But that's part of the reason I wanted to do it, because it was very different from what I've done before.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Different
  • Done
  • Day

• With the Internet and social media being a huge part of today's culture, I think it's super important to promote staying smart online.

  

  G. Hannelius
  • Important
  • Today
  • Culture

• Varieties of angels, like varieties of love, are many.

  

  Aberjhani
  • Love
  • Angels
  • Many

• It was fun while it lasted, but it never seemed real to me. I could not believe I was in Van Halen.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • Believe
  • Real
  • Fun

• Genius: the superhuman in man.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Man
  • Genius
  • Superhuman

• There are perks to being the partner of a professional athlete - we were invited into beautiful homes, enjoyed stunning sponsor cars, got special treatment at restaurants, and attended many exquisite functions.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • Beautiful
  • Professional
  • Athlete

• (On airplane etiquette) Although reclining your seat is technically your right, just like free speech if you exercise it to your limits everyone around you will think you're an asshole. 18

  

  Ze Frank
  • Free
  • Exercise
  • Airplane

• Peggy chose her words to be true, and therefore beautiful, and therefore good.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Good
  • True
  • Beautiful

• Despite the hundreds of attempts, police terror and the concentration camps have proved to be more or less impossible subjects for the artist; since what happened in them was beyond the imagination, it was therefore also beyond art and all those human values on which art is traditionally based.

  

  Al Alvarez
  • Art
  • Imagination
  • Police

• You ask particularly after my health. I suppose that I have not many months to live; but, of course, I know nothing about it. I may add that I am enjoying existence as much as ever, and regret nothing.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Live
  • May
  • Health

• Shadow is the diminution alike of light and of darkness, and stands between darkness and light.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Light
  • Shadow

• Neo-Darwinists ask us to believe in things not seen. We’re not supposed to have an established religion in America, but we do, and it’s called Darwinism.

  

  Ben Stein
  • Believe
  • America

• Remember you love writing. It wouldn’t be worth it if you didn’t. If the love fades, do what you need to and get it back.

  

  Alison Louise Kennedy
  • Writing
  • Remember

• I started back to the house, and in the drive I met Jeeves. He was at the wheel of Stiffy's car. Beside him, looking like a Scotch elder rebuking sin, was the dog Bartholomew.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • House
  • Car
  • Dog

• There are two kinds of cloning right now. One is therapeutic cloning which is for coming up with cures for life threatening, really, really awful diseases. Then there is reproductive cloning, which is to make a human being out of your DNA and a donor egg.

  

  Mary Tyler Moore
  • Life
  • Up

• I have always gotten a thrill, a kick, from learning new things.

  

  Cynthia Kenyon
  • Learning

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