Piet Mondrian Quotes
It is of small importance whether De Stijl still exists as a 'group'; a new style was born, a new aesthetic created; it needs only to be understood – and cultivated.Piet Mondrian
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In this business, you get an opportunity, and you pounce on it.
Wanda Sykes -
In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.
Edmund White -
America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
What really matters is what's on the inside.
Victoria Justice -
After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
Ingrid Betancourt -
Writing for children hadn't occurred to me when I was younger, but nine years of teaching in the upper elementary grades had given me a deep appreciation of the gifts and graces that are specific to individuals with 10 or 11 years of experience as human beings.
Zilpha Keatley Snyder
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Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.
Mahalia Jackson -
I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.
Sally Mann -
Jordan has to show the Arab world that there's another way of doing things. We're a monarchy, yes, but if we can show democracy that leads to a two-, three-, four-party system - left, right and center - in a couple of years' time, then the Muslim Brotherhood will no longer be something to contend with.
Abdullah II of Jordan -
E-commerce is applicable to Russia, just as it's applicable to any other market.
Maelle Gavet -
Let the path be open to talent.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
I don't allow meat in my house or in my oven. My whole family is vegetarian - and although I've given my kids the choice to order meat at a restaurant when they reach five, they're not interested.
Sadie Frost
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I don't know that there is a, quote, 'hip-hop lifestyle.' I think the music responds to complex social issues and injustices; I think it also raises complex social questions.
Ilyasah Shabazz -
Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.
Carl Sandburg -
I've got a 1990 Porsche 911. It's just a Carrera, a very simple, straightforward little thing that goes like stink. I love it.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I feel there is no shortage of real interesting women's roles. But I found them and did all of them just now.
Maggie Gyllenhaal -
The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
Warren Buffett -
I've always been motivated to stop people from doing dysfunctional things.
Warren Farrell
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I am not the kind of leader who pontificates about what should be done - I don't operate on scenarios, and I am not a prophet.
Mangosuthu Buthelezi -
I'm not sure if there is a cultural loss of innocence specifically associated with the seventies. The oil crisis? The Watergate scandal? I really don't know. There's nothing there on the scale of Hiroshima.
Quentin S. Crisp -
It kind of irks me that the studio films still have to be so safe even though they don't really cost as much to make.
James Wan -
There's nothing wrong with the screaming style of singing, and I'll be the first to admit that it conveys an emotion. But I'm getting older, and I can't scream and shout about the same things anymore. The songs I'm writing with Stone Sour call for a lighter, different approach.
Corey Taylor Stone Sour -
The great power of separating the watching mind from the thinking mind is that the watching mind is innately loving. Some call this part of the psyche the 'compassionate witness.' Sharing our difficult feelings with a compassionate witness is the crucial step that heals the infinite small wounds inflicted upon the soul by everyday life.
Martha Beck -
It is of small importance whether De Stijl still exists as a 'group'; a new style was born, a new aesthetic created; it needs only to be understood – and cultivated.
Piet Mondrian