Bill Viola Quotes
A lot of what making art is, is just being open, and empty. And putting yourself in the right place for things to, literally, come together.
Bill Viola
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A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Never speak to an invalid from behind, nor from the door, nor from any distance from him, nor when he is doing anything. The official politeness of servants in these things is so grateful to invalids, that many prefer, without knowing why, having none but servants about them.
Florence Nightingale
When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat down and wrote 1,700 pages of sheer psychotherapy drivel. It was first person, and there would be pages about wet socks and cold feet.
Karl Marlantes
Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
Mahatma Gandhi
Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.
Tanya Tucker
It would be spiteful to put a Jellyfish in a trifle.
Karl Pilkington
Like baseball, food will never go out of style; we will always need to eat and we will always find it entertaining. I think of food TV this way - all the fun and none of the calories.
Gail Simmons
The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people.
C. L. R. James
Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
Ralph Marston
I don't have a telephone. If I had a lot of money, I wouldn't have one.
Sam Crawford
When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.
Ingrid Newkirk
I was a huge fan of video games; I wanted to write something, and I saw the tools at my fingertips to upload a video to my audience, and that's why I'm here today. I think that freedom and the lack of gatekeepers, combined with people's passion, is what really the true spirit of Internet geekdom is about.
Felicia Day
The thing about literature is that, yes, there are kind of tides of fashion, you know; people come in and out of fashion; writers who are very celebrated fall into, you know, people you know stop reading them, and then it comes back again.
Salman Rushdie
I'd say, if you want to be an artist, start with your art; start with making great music and it will, hopefully, eventually cut through all of the nonsense that is out there.
Queen Latifah
I don't care whether the technology is invented by our employees. I want to bring everybody's innovations into our ecosystem together.
Masayoshi Son
I really love all my fans and would never want anything wrong happening to them.
Rithvik Dhanjani
I have been standing on the side of life, watching it float by. I want to swim in the river. I want to feel the current. -Loving Frank
Nancy Horan
A lot of what making art is, is just being open, and empty. And putting yourself in the right place for things to, literally, come together.
Bill Viola
