Edgar Degas Quotes

Il faut avoir une haute idée, non pas de ce qu'on fait, mais de ce qu'on pourra faire un jour; sans quoi ce n'est pas la peine de travailler.

Edgar Degas

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• Of course, my faith has a lot to do with being able to be public without being a public nuisance.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • Faith
  • Being
  • Without

• I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Done
  • Universe
  • Leadership

• I also think it's very important to consider how the food will feel to the person eating it.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • Important
  • Think
  • Food

• A bad hair day for me is when it gets flat and greasy.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Bad
  • Day
  • Hair

• I hear daily from Hoosier veterans who are forced to wait months on end for their disability claims to be processed. Unfortunately, this is typical.

  

  Jackie Walorski
  • End
  • Daily
  • Disability

• Too much negotiating and not enough work on the court – that's what happened to me during the lockout. Too much talking and not enough training. I couldn't put in my usual offseason work routine. I think that all caught up to me, with my Achilles problems.

  

  Patrick Ewing
  • Work
  • Think
  • Training

• When I board an airplane these days, all the middle-aged men are dressed like me - when I was an 8-year-old. They're in shorts and T-shirts. And it's not just on airplanes. It's in business offices, teachers' lounges, and churches.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Men
  • Business
  • Me

• You cannot bring about prosperity without discouraging thrift.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • You
  • Without
  • Prosperity

• I'm a part of a program called Toyota's Engines of Change Program. The message is that anyone can make a difference in their community or for whatever cause they feel strongly about. Everyone can be an Engine of Change.

  

  Aaron Peirsol
  • Change
  • Community

• I think it was 37 years that I did music.

  

  Barbara Mandrell
  • Music
  • Think
  • Years

• I believe whoever has the most energy wins. You need energy to win at your relationship, win in your career, win as a parent, win at being your highest potential self.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Believe
  • Career
  • Energy

• When I say that I am going to do an American film, I didn't want to suddenly go off into a completely different world that which bears no relation to the style of filmmaking that I'm used to.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • American
  • Style
  • Film

• Muslims are ordinary members of the working public, just like you.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • You
  • Like
  • Working

• I'm interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Truth
  • Like
  • Yes

• I've danced my whole life. Martial arts is just fun for me, it's all choreographed a bit like dance. I have done Muay Thai and Wushu, which is cool because it's very fluid dance. I also do Tricking. It's kind of like Taekwondo with the big kicks and flips and showier aspects of martial arts.

  

  Caity Lotz
  • Life
  • Done
  • Fun

• I have been married for 58 years to the same woman. Our secret? Separate bathrooms.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Woman
  • Same
  • Married

• The Obama administration, like those before it, promotes a disturbingly narrow interpretation of the Fourth Amendment, misapplying the facts of old analog cases to a radically different digital world.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • World
  • Different
  • Like

• A good song is a good song, and if I'm lucky enough to write it, well....! I get more kick out of writing than I do singing. I reckon I've written a thousand songs and had over 300 published.

  

  Hank Williams
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Song

• Shun those studies in which the work that results dies with the worker.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Work

• The scar of fire, the dint of steel,Are easier than Love's wounds to heal.

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Fire

• I am pleased to see that many of the world's leaders have publicly recognized that the crisis in the Middle East was deliberately incited by terrorist organizations.

  

  Alcee Hastings
  • World

• For the most part, yeah, I'm happy with my body, but there are days when I'm like, 'Ugh! Really? Why is it so hard to fit into my jeans?' That's when I say to myself, 'I look this way because I'm supposed to. If we all looked the same, we'd be boring.'

  

  Jennifer Love Hewitt
  • Why
  • Happy

• Emotion will always win over coolness and cleverness. It's when a scene works emotionally and it's cool and clever, then it's great. That's what you want.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Great
  • Want
  • Cool

• Il faut avoir une haute idée, non pas de ce qu'on fait, mais de ce qu'on pourra faire un jour; sans quoi ce n'est pas la peine de travailler.

  

  Edgar Degas