David Hockney Quotes

I'm always excited by the unlikely, never by ordinary things.

David Hockney

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• When you see Major League Baseball putting academies in other countries, obviously that throws up a red flag. You wonder why they ain't going up in our neighborhood. Bottom line, what I see, I talk about... I see it over and over. If anybody can show me I'm wrong, then show me.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Up
  • Why
  • Wonder

• It's fascinating to see actors who do voiceovers every day.

  

  Karine Vanasse
  • Day
  • See
  • Everyday

• My favorite thing about being an actor is that I get to be so many different people in one lifetime. You sort of get to be all of these different characters.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • People
  • Different
  • You

• I decide intuitively what I want to do. When directors like Imtiaz Ali, Ayan Mukerji, Anurag Basu and Anurag Kashyap, who have stories to tell, come to me, why would I not be a part of it?

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Why
  • Want
  • Me

• We had to go all through the night thinking that our baby was dead. When God showed him to us, he wasn't dead, he was sucking his thumb. God had him safe and sound. He is a miracle. He is so healthy, so perfect, and God has really, really blessed us.

  

  Barbara Mandrell
  • God
  • Thinking
  • Night

• I opened up every can of worms I could. I got to the place where I would peel back one layer, and then another layer, and the stuff that would come up underneath was so inspiring, it made me want to write about it.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Want
  • Write
  • Place

• While in the Florida legislature, I strongly opposed the Stand Your Ground law because I believed it would provide defenses to people who had created the scenarios they sought protection from. Or it would leave juries without the proper rules of engagement that ought govern predictable human interactions.

  

  Dan Gelber
  • People
  • Law
  • Rules

• I argue in this paper that we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth.

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • Life
  • Earth
  • Change

• The Small Business Lending Fund was cleverly named by its authors last Congress. Since its implementation, however, it would appear a more appropriate name would be the Bailed Out Bank Refinancing Fund.

  

  Ed Royce
  • Business
  • Small
  • Name

• Math proficiency is the gateway to a number of incredible careers that students may never have considered.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • May
  • Never
  • Students

• It's such a crass idea - you're either in love or out of love.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Love
  • Idea
  • Crass

• I was raised in a very happy nest by very happy people, and I like to think that those are enough ingredients to make me succeed at Dior.

  

  Raf Simons
  • People
  • Happy
  • Think

• I would definitely like to start working with more people over age 7.

  

  Beck Bennett
  • People
  • Age
  • Start

• Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Just lie down.

  

  Natalie Goldberg
  • Important
  • Earth
  • Stress

• I'm hesitant to ever take on the crest of the veteran. So I don't know who I am to warn the younger writer about the perils to come. I think maybe the most dangerous influence is to think you have all the answers and should be giving counsel.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Influence
  • Writer
  • Dangerous

• In my mother's belly, I remember not liking the tempi my father played the Beethoven Sonatas in.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Remember
  • Mother
  • Father

• Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Good
  • Great
  • Literature

• Economic support from the rest of the Arab states to the fledgling Palestinian Authority in the West Bank is virtually non-existent.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Support
  • Rest
  • Economic

• I began to understand that 'America' in reality belonged to the whole world and not just to Americans. The idea of America had already been invented by the philosophers, the vagabonds, the dispersed of this earth, long before the Spanish ships got there. Those whom we call Americans have only rented it for a time. If they behave badly, we can discover another 'America'. The contract can be canceled at any time.

  

  Sergio Leone
  • World
  • Long
  • America

• There never was a social change in America without angry people at the heart.

  

  Keith Miller
  • People
  • Heart
  • America

• We wish to recall here the spirit of tolerance shown by Our Lord Jesus Christ when He gave forgiveness to all including those that crucified Him.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Wish
  • Jesus
  • Forgiveness

• There is a perverse mood of the mind which is rather soothed than irritated by misconstruction; and in quarters where we can never be rightly known, we take pleasure, I think, in being consummately ignored. What honest man on being casually taken for a housebreaker does not feel rather tickled than vexed at the mistake?

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Mind
  • Mood
  • Perverse

• I'd go to conference after conference and it would essentially be the talking points. Either pro or con. It's amazing how polarized the tech conversation is. There's also this neurological fixation, the incessant wondering what the Internet's doing to our brain: "Does it make us stupid, does it make us distracted?" And then the other guys say, "No, it's making us smarter than ever, and better than ever, and more connected." And it's like, where is the economic and social context? Why is that rarely considered?

  

  Astra Taylor
  • Guy
  • Brain
  • Wonder

• I'm always excited by the unlikely, never by ordinary things.

  

  David Hockney