James Rosenquist Quotes

When I started out, I wanted to paint the Sistine Chapel. But I didn't have the content.

James Rosenquist

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• We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • People
  • Hurt
  • Fight

• There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Marriage
  • Hidden
  • Sword

• I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • World
  • Thought
  • Enough

• The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity.

  

  Hans Urs von Balthasar
  • Passion
  • First
  • Unity

• The day I became a hero, my dream was realised. Everything else is a bonus.

  

  Vijay Sethupathi
  • Dream
  • Day
  • Hero

• I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.

  

  B. B. King
  • Music
  • Black
  • Said

• As straight Americans we have two choices: we can choose to sit back and enjoy our rights as we have them, or we can realize that it is actually not freedom at all when our friends, family, neighbors, and colleagues do not share these basic rights.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Freedom

• The Black Keys is just a band that wants to get on stage and rock it.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Black
  • Band
  • Rock

• There's no experience like on-the-job training.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Job
  • Experience
  • Like

• I'm sure that people who elected me, some of them thought I was gay, some of them thought I wasn't gay, and most of them didn't care.

  

  Ed Koch
  • People
  • Care
  • Thought

• I'm coming to this world not to work. I want to come to this world to enjoy my life. I don't want to die in my office. I want to die on the beaches.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Life
  • World
  • Work

• Dad was a retired chemist who, in his 60s, fathered and fed me and my two sisters while Mum worked as a secretary. He made us curries, Chinese meals and strange concoctions. He was often unsuccessful.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Me
  • Dad
  • Chinese

• I enjoy watching Fear Factor, Newlyweds and American Idol as far as reality TV shows go.

  

  Natalie Gulbis
  • American
  • Reality
  • Fear

• Texas really is the greatest state in the greatest nation. Texans - and women all over the country - deserve leaders that care, that listen, and that work to protect their interests.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Work
  • Women
  • Country

• As President Franklin Delano Roosevelt learned when he tried to pack the Supreme Court, the three branches of government are coequal for a reason. Neither the executive branch or the legislative branch should use the third branch to a pursue a partisan agenda.

  

  Dan Pfeiffer
  • Government
  • Reason
  • Three

• Ammu had an elaborate Calcutta wedding. Later, looking back on the day, Ammu realized that the slightest feverish glitter in her bridegroom's eyes had not been love, or even excitement at the prospect of carnal bliss, but approximately eight large pegs of whiskey. Straight. Neat.

  

  Arundhati Roy
  • Eyes
  • Wedding
  • Whiskey

• I'd love to do something a little different than 'Ted.'

  

  Jay Harrington
  • Different

• One of my big regrets is that Facebook hasn't had a major chance to shape the mobile operating system ecosystem.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg

• Sometimes you do what you like, and other times you do... what the other person likes. That is part of being in a healthy relationship.

  

  John Rampton
  • Relationship

• The word 'improv' always makes me feel a little anxious because I always feel like we'll have to pull props out of a bag and find 800 different ways to talk about a stick, the way you do in theater school.

  

  Jonathan Groff
  • Different
  • School

• But I remember more dearly autumn afternoons in bottoms that lay intensely silent under old great trees

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Great
  • Remember
  • Tree

• Daily absorption in the physical actualities of nature is life as I need it to be: it means I am connected to such large things - sky, sea, hill, the vagaries of weather, the undeniable needs of animals - that I can disappear as a subject of interest, I can exist without self-consciousness. The city is a challenge for me, however thrilling a few days prove, for its insatiable overstimulation and the rarity of quiet. The city makes people bigger than they need to be.

  

  Tilda Swinton
  • People
  • Mean
  • Animal

• There is something I want-something I have come to get, and she fell deeper and deeper without knowing quite what it was, with her eyes closed.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Eye
  • Deeper

• When I started out, I wanted to paint the Sistine Chapel. But I didn't have the content.

  

  James Rosenquist