David Hockney Quotes

Yes, I did, I mean I painted er, in a kind of abstract expressionist way, because of course that was exciting.

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• I sail, run dogs, ride horses, play professional poker and tell stories about the stuff I've been through. And I'm still a romantic; I still want Bambi to make it out of the fire.

  

  Gary Paulsen
  • Fire
  • Professional
  • Romantic

• Morality covers our conduct, not what goes on inside our heads.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Morality
  • Inside
  • Conduct

• I've got pretty good knowledge about pass rushing. But I know I have a lot to work on.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Good
  • Work
  • Pretty

• It took me years to learn that sentences in fiction must do much more than stand around and look pretty.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Pretty
  • Me
  • Learn

• I was very pleased, obviously, to have outsold great writers. But I'm not insane - I do realise that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • People
  • Great
  • Popular

• And hey-the psychiatrist in the show is Italian also. So people are going to focus on what they want to focus on. There's not much you can do about that.

  

  Edie Falco
  • People
  • Want
  • Focus

• China's energy is very much focused on coal, and the economy is very focused on heavy industry, which is carbon intensive, so restructuring won't be easy.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Energy
  • Easy
  • Economy

• It takes a tough, stand-up governor to stand up to the president of the United States - speaking out against the president, speaking out against his policies and, more than that, having actual policies that will help expand health care while... Trump is trying to diminish it for Illinois families.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Help

• I love my job, and I'm a lucky girl. I thoroughly enjoy going to work.

  

  Lara Pulver
  • Job
  • Girl
  • Enjoy

• The first step in solving a problem is to recognize that it does exist.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Problem
  • Step
  • First Step

• There's the assumption being made by the national security advisers to the Obama administration that the North Korean leadership is not suicidal, that they know they will be obliterated if they attacked the United States. But I would point that everything in South Korea and Japan is well within range of what they might want to do.

  

  Oliver North
  • Want
  • Leadership
  • Security

• I saw A Hard Day's Night 12 or 13 times.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Night
  • Day
  • Hard

• The way I see it, if people truly love my music, they will support me in some way down the road.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Music
  • Way

• Up until the 1960s, women would meet designers in their private ateliers, and together they would build a relationship and a wardrobe. Then, all of a sudden, designers disappeared into their own private bubble, and there was no communication.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Up
  • Women
  • Together

• I work in Britain, where women are allowed to look their age.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Work
  • Women
  • Age

• As women, we all have certain weaknesses. I know one who can't resist pretty shoes but has nothing suitable to wear with them. Others adore frilly lingerie but never have any money to buy outer clothing.

  

  Edith Head
  • Women
  • Money
  • Pretty

• As we are, so we associate. The good, by affinity, seek the good; the vile, by affinity, the vile. Thus of their own volition, souls proceed into Heaven, into Hell.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Good
  • Heaven
  • Hell

• Anything looks good if you've got the body of a Victoria's Secret model and the porelessly smooth skin-tone of a piece of glass.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • Good
  • Body
  • Model

• Delivering advice assumes that our cognitive apparatus rather than our emotional machinery exerts some meaningful control over our actions.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Control
  • Emotional
  • Advice

• Well, it's wonderful to be identified strongly with my work.

  

  Ben Kingsley
  • Work

• A woman who occupies the same realm of thought with man, who can explore with him the depths of science, comprehend the steps of progress through the long past and prophesy those of the momentous future, must ever be surprised and aggravated with his assumptions of leadership and superiority, a superiority she never concedes, an authority she utterly repudiates.

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Woman
  • Leadership
  • Authority

• It's a unique, romantic sound, and people love to hear it. It takes people back to an older America and a simpler, more elegant time. It's a sound I really love, and I find that once people get a chance to hear it live, in all its glory, that they love it, too.

  

  Johnny Crawford
  • People
  • Time
  • Chance

• I think it's interesting that people like Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi said that the Tea Party was dead and they weren't influential and yet they're still talking about the Tea Party.

  

  Katie Pavlich
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Interesting

• Yes, I did, I mean I painted er, in a kind of abstract expressionist way, because of course that was exciting.

  

  David Hockney