David Hockney Quotes

Laugh a lot. It clears the lungs.

David Hockney

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• It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • God
  • Happy
  • Happiness

• Debauchery is perhaps an act of despair in the face of infinity.

  

  Edmond de Goncourt
  • Face
  • Act
  • Infinity

• In my theater work, I've had much more three-dimensional, broader-stroke characters.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Work
  • More
  • Theater

• It's a scary thing going into the workforce with a $50,000 debt and you've been trained as a classical theatre actor. There's always a depression in the theatre.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Always
  • Theatre
  • Scary

• It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Great
  • Father
  • Sad

• He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • God
  • Light
  • Never

• You know, sometimes if you work – if you do a lot of takes and you work long hours, for me, at least, there is a delirium that starts kicking in on the fifteenth hour, and that can help. Below the just thirteenth hour is where I have a concern, because everybody's so tired.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Work
  • Help
  • Tired

• I think literary theory has not been terribly good for English studies in a while. It's not that theory isn't interesting, but it isn't about books, or the idiosyncrasies and complexities of putting language together.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Good
  • Together
  • Interesting

• I love the idea of metamorphosing and changing, the legalized insanity of acting.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • Acting
  • Idea
  • Changing

• I'm a very loyal person and I allowed myself to be defined as somebody who was doing Gordon's bidding. I should have fought back harder to define myself at an earlier stage.

  

  Ed Balls
  • Myself
  • Doing
  • Stage

• Then I heard another shot which hit him right in the head, over here, and his head practically opened up and a lot of blood and many more things came out.

  

  Abraham Zapruder
  • Up
  • Blood
  • More

• I may be crazy, but it keeps me from going insane.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • May
  • Me
  • Crazy

• From an early age I didn't buy into the value systems of working hard in a nine-to-five job. I thought creativity, friendship and loyalty and pushing the boundaries of what was acceptable was much more interesting.

  

  Adam Clayton U2
  • Job
  • Age
  • Interesting

• Many people do remember their births, but they deny it.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Remember
  • Many

• The freedom you feel when you're actually in control of your own music is fantastic.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Music
  • Freedom
  • Control

• Should we continue to spend billions to subsidize foreign military dictatorships, or should we concentrate on taking better care of the one we have right here at home?

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Home
  • Care
  • Military

• My very shy Punjabi father never taught me about the birds and bees. So shy was he that he may have thought he would get arrested for even talking about it.

  

  Karan Johar
  • May
  • Father
  • Thought

• If you are worried about the risk to your reputation, you don't launch a telecoms firm in an aggressive way.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Way
  • Risk
  • Reputation

• If everybody in our caucus had a 50/50 Democrat/Republican district, we'd have a lot different discussion. But if they have a 90 percent Democratic district, they don't ever talk to a Republican, they don't have to and they don't want to.

  

  Collin Peterson
  • Republican
  • Democratic
  • Discussion

• All new states are invested, more or less, by a class of noisy, second-rate men who are always in favor of rash and extreme measures, but Texas was absolutely overrun by such men.

  

  Sam Houston
  • Men
  • Texas
  • Class

• For the son of man shall come in the glory of His Father, with His angels; and then shall He reward every man according to his works.

  

  Alexander Balmain Bruce
  • Son
  • Glory
  • Reward

• A chief justice's authority is really quite limited, and the dynamic among all the justices is going to affect whether he can accomplish much or not. There is this convention of referring to the Taney Court, the Marshall Court, the Fuller Court, but a chief justice has the same vote that everyone else has.

  

  John Roberts
  • Justice

• The idea of a superior or inferior race is a myth that has been completely refuted by anthropological evidence.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Idea
  • Race
  • Evidence

• Laugh a lot. It clears the lungs.

  

  David Hockney