Mark Rothko Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
All religions have been made by men.
-
The actual, original 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,' I have vague memories of because I was pretty small, but I loved, loved, loved it. I have only those weird, visceral little-kid memories: I remember the extreme flat, two dimensional green that was their skin or the weird pizza with no sauce - it was just like yellow, drippy cheese.
-
I learned a lot from not having success, and realizing when you do have success, how hard it is to maintain it, and what you have to do to maintain it.
-
Anytime that I've felt uninspired, I don't force myself to sit down and write. I only do it when I feel the impulse.
-
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
-
I rode horses since I was a kid.
-
It is difficult. You've got a lot of things outside the field. But you need to learn and understand things you can do.
-
Fashion is unique. It's a leveler, not a divider.
-
No matter how senior you get in an organization, no matter how well you're perceived to be doing, your job is never done.
-
If I don't train enough, of course I'm nervous.
-
I have no advice for anyone on how to live.
-
As anyone knows who has ever had to set up a military encampment or build a village from the ground up, occupations pose staggering logistical problems.
-
I think it's very important to have a sense of balance in covering the war, but you don't have to be morally neutral about terrorism.
-
I definitely I prefer to sing in the car. I don't sing in the shower, maybe its because that's the one time I don't need to talk to anyone so I should just shut up, otherwise I'm just, you know, jibber jabber.
-
I sincerely believe that if Bush and Cheney recognized the full humanity of other people's mothers around the world, they wouldn't commit the crimes they commit.
-
My idol is Bea Arthur. I really tried to follow her example. She is one of my comedy 'she-roes.'
-
If we could, we'd change a lot of things. But the only thing that's going to really change things is money and time. And time might just make it worse, too.
-
The feeling of being interested can act as a kind of neurological signal, directing us to fruitful areas of inquiry.
-
Even though it doesn't look like it, I run. On a treadmill. And I bounce around to all the songs on my iPod - the Pixies, Wagner, Richard and Linda Thompson, even books on tape. Just not self-help ones.
-
The worst beauty advice that I have ever taken has been from people who have told me that sunscreen isn't necessary. Not true!
-
I come from a family of actors. My grandfather was like a Laurence Olivier with the Comedie Francaise. Since I was four I went every week to the Comedie Francaise. My aunt and grandmother were there, but my grandfather was a big star.
-
The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn't really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: he wasn't going to compose Beethoven's Fifth.
-
As soon as we see our dreams betrayed we realize that the intensest joys of our life have nothing to do with reality, and we are consumed with regret for the time when they glowed within us. And in this succession of hopes and regrets our life slips by.
-
p. 168
