Mark Tobey Quotes

I have many ideas for lights. I will paint only lights at night. on the twinkling city-lights

Mark Tobey

• Night
• City

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• When I was 8 or 9, I started using bulletin board systems, which was the precursor to the Internet, where you'd dial into... a shared system and shared computers. I've had an email address since the late '80s, when I was 8 or 9 years old, and then I got on the Internet in '93 when it was first starting out.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • Internet
  • Old
  • Computers

• I started to work in television for three or four years, in 1954. There was one channel of television, black and white. But it could be entertaining and educational. During the evening they showed important plays, opera or Shakespeare's tragedies.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Work
  • Important
  • Black

• My family and I had to overcome a lot to get where we are today.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Family
  • Today
  • Overcome

• I'm interested not just in projects that I'll be starring in, but producing film and TV that's really quality and great for adults; and when I say 'great for adults,' it doesn't mean without humor, because I'm also interested in doing comedy.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Great
  • Comedy
  • Quality

• I'm a realist and I always have been. Quality training is what I do now; before it was a combination of both quality and quantity. Now I'm not trying to be a world-class athlete, I don't need to train at that level. It's about being fit, fit for life.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Life
  • World
  • Trying

• I feel like I'm the luckiest person alive. I'm always waiting for that phone call: 'Hello. We've just realized you're really a no-talent hillbilly. We've made a horrible mistake and we'd like you to leave now.'

  

  Lance Burton
  • Always
  • Mistake
  • Waiting

• What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Change
  • Person
  • Awareness

• I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • More
  • U.S.
  • Stones

• If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing what you can to keep telling your stories; you don't stay on the one. Keep moving forward and doing what you can to tell whatever story you can tell, be it via writing, be it via filming it.

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • Writing
  • Moving
  • Moving Forward

• Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

  

  Zhuangzi
  • Happiness
  • Absence
  • Striving

• I really, really love Daniel Craig as Bond.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Love
  • Really
  • Bond

• Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • History
  • Evil
  • Justice

• We are all Julian Assange. Serious reporters discuss classified information every day - go to any Washington or New York dinner party where real journalists are present, and you will hear discussion of leaked or classified information. That is journalists' job in a free society.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Real
  • Job
  • Society

• Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Believe
  • Family
  • Strong

• Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • World
  • May
  • Fear

• I grew up in the era of Britney Spears, where artists had songs written for them, and you got up and sang them. That's how I always thought it was.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Up
  • You
  • Thought

• The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Will
  • Comfort
  • Survive

• You can't come into this world without becoming its victim.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • World
  • You
  • Without

• Casey Affleck is someone I want to work with again. We almost had him on 'Pete's Dragon,' but his scheduling issues didn't work out.

  

  David Lowery Camper Van Beethoven
  • Work

• A page with a poem on it is less attractive than a page with a poem on it and some tea stains.

  

  Anne Carson
  • Tea
  • Page
  • Poem

• My culinary wardrobe is the same as my biking wardrobe, just no shoes.

  

  Lela Rose
  • Shoes

• When blithe to argument I come, Though armed with facts, and merry, May Providence protect me from The fool as adversary, Whose mind to him a kingdom is Where reason lacks dominion, Who calls conviction prejudice And prejudice opinion.

  

  Phyllis McGinley
  • Mind
  • May
  • Opinion

• Look, have whatever in your collection at home, but everybody needs a little Friday night. And really, that is Chic.

  

  Bernard Edwards Chic
  • Home
  • Night
  • Friday

• I have many ideas for lights. I will paint only lights at night. on the twinkling city-lights

  

  Mark Tobey
  • Night
  • City