James Turrell Quotes

Sometimes I'm kind of cranky coming to see something. I saw the Mona Lisa when it was in L.A., saw it for 13 seconds and had to move on.

James Turrell

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• I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Live
  • Like
  • Audience

• We assume in our daily lives that the world is both safe and sane. Otherwise, we could not carry on.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • World
  • Daily
  • Safe

• I've been terrified of the water, and yet it seems I'm forced to go into in on every movie that I make.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Movie
  • Water
  • Seems

• I'm attracted to stories that excite my imagination, stories that, as I'm reading the script, I feel it, I can see it, I can hear the characters. I'm attracted to characters that are real, that tap into something inside me that I haven't explored yet.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Me
  • Reading
  • Imagination

• However, while the Nazi barbarians and their collaborators threatened the entire world, I could not accept his philosophy and, after several earlier attempts, was finally accepted into the Canadian Infantry Corps during the last year of World War II.

  

  Walter Kohn
  • World
  • War
  • Philosophy

• I have a problem with cleaning. It's my release. I get up at 6 A.M. and clean and hoover and mop everything. Then I feel better.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Up
  • Problem
  • Better

• The way I perceive an album to sound and the way I put out mixtapes are two different energies. There's a different focus; there's a different sound.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Different
  • Way
  • Focus

• I hate being asked how I met my husband and very personal questions like that. I don't like that. People are too nosey. Intelligent questions I like, but sometimes people ask such silly, dopey ones.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • People
  • Hate
  • Husband

• I have yet to see one completely unspoiled star, except for Lassie.

  

  Edith Head
  • Star
  • See
  • Lassie

• Why should I say I will retire in three or four years? You retire the very moment you utter those words.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Why
  • Words
  • Moment

• You can't be a victim and heal.

  

  A. J. Langer
  • You
  • Victim
  • Heal

• I think my track record speaks for myself... I have been endorsed by the African Union, but I am a prosecutor for 121 states parties and this is what I intend to be until the end of my mandate.

  

  Fatou Bensouda
  • Record
  • Track
  • Mandate

• The education of women is the best way to save the environment.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Women
  • Education
  • Best

• It's OK to turn down stuff that isn't really interesting and spend the summer with my family.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Family
  • Interesting
  • Summer

• I haven't had an orthodox career.

  

  Sally Field
  • Career
  • Had
  • Orthodox

• I am grateful to theatre for making me what I am today. But it's not like theatre is my first love. I am equally attached to cinema, which is, actually, a child of theatre, since it borrows heavily from it.

  

  Om Puri
  • Child
  • Theatre
  • Grateful

• I lost my confidence.

  

  Pat Summitt
  • Lost
  • Confidence

• If you say John Smith is the greatest wrestler in Oklahoma history, now that's big.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • History
  • Now
  • Greatest

• My dear sisters in humanity: Your beauty-both internal and external-is priceless. Only the man who marries you has a right to see it. Never forget, if he doesn't want to marry you, he doesn't deserve you.

  

  Yasmin Mogahed
  • Humanity

• I wrote a lot of poetry that was based on stories of the sea and I was really inspired by that.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Poetry
  • Inspired
  • Stories

• This savagery of materialism, the scent of blood rousing ferocious instincts, obtrudes the age of the brute into the age of man. Democratic freedom has not yet cuts its wisdom teeth...

  

  Ezra Heywood
  • Man
  • Freedom
  • Democratic

• In fact, entitlement spending on programs such as Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security make up 54% of federal spending, and spending is projected to double within the next decade. Medicare is growing by 9% annually, and Medicaid by 8% annually.

  

  Jim Ryun
  • Up
  • Growing

• I went through all my twenties thinking that I wasn't good enough.

  

  Delta Burke
  • Good
  • Thinking

• Sometimes I'm kind of cranky coming to see something. I saw the Mona Lisa when it was in L.A., saw it for 13 seconds and had to move on.

  

  James Turrell