Mark Stevens Quotes

One of the best things about paintings is their silence - which prompts reflection and random reverie.

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• I think wine is such a big universe that it's kind of like food - it's intimidating to a lot of people, myself included.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • People
  • Food
  • Universe

• Our mission is to help founders and anyone or anything that helps founders helps us with our mission.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • Help
  • Mission
  • Founders

• That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they write happy endings.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Happy
  • Feel
  • Guilty

• I never thought I'd be in a position where people would be talking about my sexuality and saying how good I look in underwear.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • People
  • Good
  • Thought

• I'd love to have a 19th Century Russian book club where all the members had to act like the pretentious minor noblemen they were reading about.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Club

• I'd realize it's not worth our time to worry. You do your best, and God will put the right people in your path.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • People
  • Time
  • God

• When I remember my life in Russia it is in totally dark colours.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • Life
  • Remember
  • Dark

• It's important to be active in the causes that are important to you... That's how we make changes in this world.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • World
  • Important
  • Changes

• If we'd beaten 'em, I wouldn't be going out.

  

  Bear Bryant
  • Going
  • Out
  • Beaten

• Having created a business that is a success, when you are in a nepotistic situation, people who don't do anything themselves, well, it is easy for them to say it's never good enough.

  

  Vikram Chatwal
  • People
  • Good
  • Business

• People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • People
  • Fun
  • Have Fun

• At the end of the day, Wonder Woman is a peace seeker. But when fight arrives, she can fight. She's a warrior, and she enjoys the adrenaline of the fight.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • She
  • Peace
  • Day

• I think top scientists need to be compensated at a different scale in society. Somebody with experience will tell you that true scientists are not motivated by money - they are motivated by the quest itself. That is true. But I think an additional recognition will not hurt.

  

  Yuri Milner
  • Different
  • Money
  • Experience

• Tahini is fantastically versatile, its deep, nutty flavour a harmonious match with roasted vegetables, grilled oily fish or barbecued meat.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Deep
  • Fish
  • Meat

• Normally, if you do a television show, it's 25 episodes. Your year is kind of shot, you know what I mean?

  

  Tate Donovan
  • You
  • Know
  • Year

• Informed opponents of Obama's healthcare initiative have expressed dismay at the low level of discourse.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Health care
  • Initiative
  • Low

• I've been around a long time, and when I was at the top of the hill, I was very ahead of my time! Evidence of that is that my music is still current today - you know, rappers sample it all the time. So, rather than compromise my artistic integrity, I concentrated on movies.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Time
  • Music
  • Long

• I don't have anything against my mom, but my family has no emotional connection to each other.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Family
  • Mom
  • Emotional

• At the end of the day, the one commonality that both Hindi cinema and Hollywood share is that they are full of talented and inspirational people. Outside of this, there are many differences, from the scheduling and rehearsal to promotion and directing techniques.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • People
  • Day
  • inspirational

• Oh, love is timid in its birth!Watching her lightest look or stir,As he but look'd and breathed with her.Gay words were passing, but he leantIn silence; yet, one quick glance sent,-His secret is no more his own,When has woman her power not known?

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Power
  • Words
  • Gay

• John Prine in particular... just the chord changes combined with the words. He definitely can make you cry a little bit. Just a little bit.

  

  Kurt Vile
  • Words

• My dream had become my reality: my old life was a discarded husk.

  

  Leslie Poles Hartley
  • Life
  • Dream
  • Reality

• One of the ideals Margaret Thatcher grew up with was self-denial and postponement of gratification, and yet she went about to create a greedy, short-term society. It is a paradox.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • Term
  • Paradox
  • Gratification

• One of the best things about paintings is their silence - which prompts reflection and random reverie.

  

  Mark Stevens
  • Silence
  • Reflection
  • Random