James Turrell Quotes
Each day is a different length of time and that gives a different length to the cusp between light and darkness or darkness and light.
Quotes to Explore
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A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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Natural gas is a better transportation fuel than gasoline, so if that's the case, it's cheaper, it's cleaner and it's a domestic resource.
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Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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Our society is divided by the culture wars into the Left and Right, and the United Methodist Church has always stood historically in the center and has been willing to listen to and to bring together those things that often are found in opposite camps.
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There's so much innovation going on, and there are lots of people funding that innovation, but there's very little innovation on that infrastructure for innovation itself, so we like to do that ourselves to help companies create more tech companies.
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I think chemistry and great acting go hand-in-hand.
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The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.
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Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.
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I like 'The Three Musketeers.' I like those kind of cool things where they were having a robe and a sword.
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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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Yeah, I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.
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What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.
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I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.
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I am joining the hundreds of thousands who shall be marching in the Virtual March on Washington to Stop Global Warming in order to demonstrate the concern that we all hold for the future of our planet and all the living things - flora, fauna, human and animal - that exist upon it.
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Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.
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I never wanted to write. I just wrote letters home from a kibbutz in Israel to reassure my parents that I was still alive and well fed and having a great time. They thought these letters were brilliant and sent them to a newspaper. So I became a writer by accident.
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Government is the ultimate monopoly. And monopolies, as any economist will tell you, often breed complacency and a lack of innovation.
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I never thought of having platinum albums and winning awards. I just wanted to write songs and sing when I started out in the music business.
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I consider it my patriotic duty as an ordinary citizen - not as Secretary of State - to ask questions. I think we have to ask ourselves the tough questions.
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This seems to be the law of progress in everything we do; it moves along a spiral rather than a perpendicular; we seem to be actually going out of the way, and yet it turns out that we were really moving upward all the time.
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When I just started my career, of course, I always try to look very good, and I changes the dress all the time on the performance. And people came to me and said, 'Oh, beautiful dress. Your dress is so beautiful, and you look so beautiful.' That's it. And I was so upset nobody saying anything about my singing.
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Each day is a different length of time and that gives a different length to the cusp between light and darkness or darkness and light.
