Jan Vogler Quotes

My favorite exhibition of all time was at The Met years ago, called 'Glitter and Doom: German Portraits from the 1920s.'

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• A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.

  

  Dan Colen
  • Work
  • Power
  • Soul

• When my lady and I sit down and watch TV, I find she gets annoyed at characters because they don't do what she would do in the situation. I'm always like, 'Well, she has to do that because that's what the story is.'

  

  Dallas Roberts
  • She
  • Story
  • Find

• The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Practice
  • First
  • Building

• A perfectly straight shot with a big club is a fluke.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Big
  • Club
  • Straight

• What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Important
  • Power
  • Beautiful

• It would be nice to be on the charts again, nice to be recognised.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
  • Nice
  • Again
  • Be Nice

• I was handed a chocolate bar and an M-1 rifle and told to go kill Hitler.

  

  Jack Kirby
  • Chocolate
  • Go
  • Bar

• I eat a lot of chocolate.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Chocolate
  • Eat
  • Lot

• Growing up in Kentucky, I used to hang out with four running buddies as a kid - 6, 10, and 11 years old. Two of them would later come out, and so 50 percent of my friends as a kid were gay.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Growing

• Selectors can't please everyone, but I am OK if they are working for the benefit of Indian cricket. It's an administrative decision to appoint a selection committee, and I would like to let them do their job.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Job
  • Cricket
  • Committee

• The thing about Drew Goddard and Mike Schur is that they are legit geniuses, and they love storytelling. They love creating worlds, love messing with the audience; they love doing things that we don't expect. To get to be a part of that is too good to be true.

  

  D'Arcy Carden
  • Good
  • Love
  • True

• Actively deciding to give to causes that move you deeply is far more fulfilling than the momentary gratification derived from signing a check and mailing it to a nonprofit about which you know little more than what's on the brochure they sent you.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • You
  • Know
  • Nonprofit

• I like analyzing and managing large-scale transaction-processing platforms, recordkeeping administration, and brokerage trading services.

  

  Abagail Johnson
  • Like
  • Trading
  • Analyzing

• I remember Tom Stoppard saying to me when I came out, 'I feel so sorry for you, because you'll never have children.' These days I would say, 'Well, why not, Tom?'

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Children
  • Why
  • Remember

• I love being in Malibu. It's so cool there, and the water is just, it's nice and, and I love the beach. And I found a sand dollar there.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Nice
  • Cool
  • Beach

• It wasn't a deliberate decision to become a poet. It was something I found myself doing - and loving. Language became an addiction.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Myself
  • Decision
  • Language

• I have been using polka dots since I was a very young child. Only after that, it seems, have they been used throughout the rest of the art world.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • World
  • Art
  • Rest

• My first few films were institutional comedies, and you're on pretty safe ground when you're dealing with an institution that vast numbers of people have experienced: college, summer camp, the military, the country club.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • People
  • Country
  • Pretty

• Well, the only way I can get a leading-man role is if I write it.

  

  John Cleese

• I download, like, forty songs a day, I'm a big music collector and a big record collector.

  

  Jesse Williams
  • Music

• I don't really understand it: in real life, I'm often so shy - paralysingly so - but when I'm performing, it's totally different. I feel free.

  

  Cressida Bonas
  • Life
  • Different
  • Real

• I'm recording freely, and if I make a song, I release it immediately, so I'm more likely to believe in one song at a time as opposed to albums.

  

  Chuck D
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Song

• Praying gives sense, brings wisdom, and broadens and strengthens the mind. The prayer closet is a perfect schoolteacher and schoolhouse for the preacher. Thought is not only brightened and clarified in prayer, but thought is born in prayer.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • Mind
  • Perfect
  • Wisdom

• My favorite exhibition of all time was at The Met years ago, called 'Glitter and Doom: German Portraits from the 1920s.'

  

  Jan Vogler
  • Time
  • German
  • Glitter