Frank Stella Quotes

I don't know how I got into sculpture. I liked its physicality, that's the only reason. I didn't have a program.

Frank Stella

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• I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • World
  • Work
  • Men

• America is the student who defies the odds to become the first in a family to go to college - the citizen who defies the cynics and goes out there and votes - the young person who comes out of the shadows to demand the right to dream. That's what America is about.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Family
  • America
  • Dream

• When drawings of the main buildings I have designed in the last five years are juxtaposed, the fact that they all involve the pursuit of certain configurations is obvious to anyone.

  

  Yoshio Taniguchi
  • Years
  • Last
  • Buildings

• There are many reluctant young readers who haven't yet found books that make them laugh.

  

  Barbara Park
  • Young
  • Books
  • Laugh

• The quickest way may not necessarily be the best.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • May
  • Way
  • Best

• Our present moment is a mystery that we are part of. Here and now is where all the wonder of life lies hidden. And make no mistake about it, to strive to live completely in the present is to strive for what already is the case.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Live
  • Present

• If someone is being absolutely critical of me as a driver, what could they say? I am also critical of myself to try and keep things in perspective. That is very important.

  

  Damon Hill
  • Important
  • Perspective
  • Critical

• Saddam Hussein was a horrible man, and I am pleased he is no longer running Iraq. But the war was wrong.

  

  Ed Balls
  • War
  • Wrong
  • Iraq

• Success comes to a writer as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to look back and realize the heights to which he has climbed.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Success
  • Look
  • Heights

• I think some days you should do a cartoon that is absolutely just for the laugh, and some days you should do a cartoon that just punches the reader right in the stomach. It's kind of nice to mix it up.

  

  Walt Handelsman
  • Up
  • Think
  • Nice

• Economic, social, and other kinds of regional cooperation are not possible so long as there is apartheid. Therefore, it seems the duty of all mankind to destroy it.

  

  Samora Machel
  • Long
  • Destroy
  • Cooperation

• What's great about acting is you can let all your wackiness hang out while you work.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Work
  • Great
  • Acting

• I try to be very honest in my writing. It's amazing, though, to think that people are responding to what we do, but it's okay if they're responding in a positive way too, because I think just creating anything at all to put out there is a gift.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • People
  • Writing
  • Amazing

• But because we've all been readers, we know what the experience is like, and we hope that what certain writers have given to us, we will give to someone.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Experience
  • Hope
  • Know

• In the cloud, customers don't want a six-month contract negotiation; that concept is absurd when you can implement a cloud-based suite from beginning to end in a month or a few months.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Beginning
  • End
  • Cloud

• I'd love to be a voice in 'Toy Story 4.'

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Story
  • Voice
  • Toy

• First Theory.-There is no Providence at all for anything in the Universe; all parts of the Universe, the heavens and what they contain, owe their origin to accident and chance; there exists no being that rules and governs them or provides for them. This is the theory of Epicurus...

  

  Maimonides
  • Universe

• He was usually easygoing, one of those guys with little respect for authority because of a conviction that people in charge tend to do stupid things.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • People
  • Respect
  • Stupid

• The concept of muse is alien to me. To speak of a muse implies there is a couple in which one person is the objectified passive element - there to help the creative, active, often male part of the duo to create. A muse is very passive. Who wants a muse? I don't want a muse.

  

  Luca Guadagnino
  • Help
  • Couple
  • Alien

• Jesus Christ carries on intercession for us in heaven; the Holy Ghost carries on intercession in us on earth; and we the saints have to carry on intercession for all men.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Men
  • Earth
  • Jesus

• The human race is evolving to the realization that what is happening on the level of consciousness both precedes and determines what happens in the world.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • World
  • Realization
  • Human Race

• There is the great and glorious fact, that God has indeed spoken; that He who made the heart has had first entrance to it; that He has spoken first; that, as in a palimpsest, deep, deep below all the writing of doubt and unbelief is the writing of God, and shall remain there, either in an eternity of blessedness or anguish.

  

  Adolph Saphir
  • God
  • Fact
  • Spoken

• Secret thoughts are only half free: they fly undisturbed in the skies of the inner freedom, but they can never leave them.

  

  Fausto Cercignani
  • Freedom
  • Secret
  • Leave

• I don't know how I got into sculpture. I liked its physicality, that's the only reason. I didn't have a program.

  

  Frank Stella