David Hockney Quotes

In one gallery they actually had a notice which said 'No Sketching.' How obnoxious! I said, 'How do you think these things got on the walls if there was no sketching?'

David Hockney

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• I think country needs to have a sporting culture. I think if sports were taken as curriculum in school and are encouraged in right way like government of Maharashtra and Haryana have done given Marks for Sports and encouraging them with good jobs.

  

  Gagan Narang
  • Good
  • Country
  • School

• At the Bangalore air show, we got a contract from Boeing for supplying structural components, and we are already supplying jet engine components to Rolls Royce. Both these are titanium-based, not steel components.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Air
  • Show
  • Steel

• There is more to life than increasing its speed.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Life
  • More
  • Speed

• I guess just a lively imagination is the best effort an actor can have.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Best
  • Imagination
  • Effort

• I hate mules. I hate the noise when someone walks with mules. Clomp, clomp, clomp. I think it's very not chic. I don't even like a flip-flop. I don't like this noise.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Think
  • Hate
  • Noise

• The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • Life
  • Men
  • Poet

• I can't even imagine life without music!

  

  Manika
  • Life
  • Music
  • Imagine

• I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Live
  • Past
  • Earth

• I love involving actors at all levels - and they have to know that I want to hear their contributions, with dialogue, with story suggestions, with script changes, whatever.

  

  Lasse Hallstrom
  • Know
  • Story
  • Actors

• The value of small business contracting is indisputable. These firms bring healthy competition to the federal market to drive down prices. They are our nation's innovators and job creators, and securing a federal contract helps them grow and offers more benefit to the economy.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Business
  • Job
  • Small

• You want your partner to objectify you.

  

  Patricia Arquette
  • Want
  • You
  • Partner

• I want to play a variety of different characters in different genres of film.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Different
  • Want
  • Play

• Remember, life itself is a mission. While we are on the go, we need to stop between steps to re-focus on the Word and the Will of God. While we are on the go, I mean, while we are on the mission, we need to sometimes stop at intervals to assess our progress and prepare ourselves for the challenges ahead.

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • Life
  • God
  • Remember

• Since I am first of all a character writer, that character's emotions are as vivid to me as my own. I always begin with an emotion after I have established a character in my mind. I feel what they feel. I guess that is why it comes across so strongly.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Mind
  • Character
  • Feel

• My favorite Oscar story was a year my brother had been nominated, my whole family went.

  

  Beau Bridges
  • Family
  • Brother
  • Year

• The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • Government
  • Democracy
  • Paris

• A lot of us lead relatively sedentary lifestyles, so you have to motivate yourself and force yourself to go to the gym and do active things. The folks that have figured it out, found that thing that they love and made it a big part of their lives, it's easy for them to stay in shape.

  

  Randy Couture
  • Love
  • Yourself
  • Easy

• Thus lynch law held sway in the far West until civilization spread into the Territories and the orderly processes of law took its place. The emergency no longer existing, lynching gradually disappeared from the West.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • Law
  • Place
  • Civilization

• I don't think of myself as a fast reader. I just read a lot. When someone else might think, 'I might do the dishes,' I don't. But then the dishes multiply.

  

  Elizabeth Strout

• They say I'm a conservative, but I consider myself I true liberal.

  

  Walt Disney
  • True

• I can't imagine how many first performances I've done, perhaps 500. Some of them have been very good, and some of course very bad.

  

  Esa-Pekka Salonen
  • Imagine
  • Courses
  • Performances

• I'm trying my best with what I want to do, which is modelling. I think I'm on my own career path, and I don't really care what other people have to say about me being in the spotlight of my sisters. I'm just doing my own thing.

  

  Kendall Jenner
  • People
  • Trying
  • Career

• Is it going to be the people of Kentucky who decides who their senator's going to be, or is it going to be Mitch McConnell saying, 'This is my protege Trey; this is who your next senator's going to be.'?

  

  Matt Bevin
  • People

• In one gallery they actually had a notice which said 'No Sketching.' How obnoxious! I said, 'How do you think these things got on the walls if there was no sketching?'

  

  David Hockney