Jean Arp Quotes

Dialogue between Hans Arp and Kurt Schwitters, (1956) with introduction in: Franz Müllers Drahtfrühling- Memories of Kurt Schwitters; as quoted in I is Style, ed. Siegfried Gohr & Gunda Luyken, commissioned by w:Rudi Fuchs, 2000, pp. 139-140

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• Fame has become this obsession for people, which kind of creeps me out.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • People
  • Me
  • Fame

• I try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make sure my speeches are well researched and footnoted. I make sure I am not talking through my hat.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Issues
  • Policy
  • Intelligently

• I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Always
  • Audience
  • Movies

• I wanna create a character that's really memorable... like Julia Roberts did in 'Pretty Woman.'

  

  Kari Wuhrer
  • Character
  • Pretty
  • Woman

• I'm developing artists for my new record label, my son's band, Intangible, being one of them.

  

  Gary Wright
  • Band
  • Son
  • New

• Save yourself some grief. Check with the publicist you hire to see what other books he/she has coming out at the same time as yours.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Time
  • She
  • Same

• As we continue to step up our investment in education, we must not sidestep our commitment to the principle of local control.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Up
  • Education
  • Control

• After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • World
  • War
  • Government

• In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art.

  

  Sallust
  • Live
  • Art
  • May

• Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Great
  • Small
  • Noise

• When children are hungry, sleepy from a night spent fighting untreated asthma, or hobbled by symptoms of undiagnosed illnesses, they are less likely to do well in school.

  

  Irwin Redlener
  • Children
  • School
  • Night

• I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.

  

  Gay Talese
  • Work
  • Think
  • Turn

• I don't know if I have a brand. I just see myself as an athlete and a competitor, someone who just works really hard at trying to get better at golf. I guess I'm kind of the feel-good story who's seen every level of professional golf.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Myself

• There's obviously a group who enjoys what Tyler Perry is putting out there. And why fault them? And there's a group that loves the things that Spike does. So they should enjoy that, too. Is it my taste? Maybe not, but I'm not going to fault anybody for doing what they're doing as long as people are showing up.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • People
  • Up
  • Long

• In memoir, you have to be particularly careful not to alienate the reader by making the material seem too lived-in. It mustn't have too much of the smell of yourself, otherwise the reader will be unable to make it her own.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Yourself
  • Too Much
  • Smell

• After the fall of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, Romanians were crazed with happiness. People who never met each other before hugged each other in the streets - convinced that tomorrow things would look different. Then came the many disappointments.

  

  Octavian Paler
  • People
  • Different
  • Fall

• The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • God
  • Feeling
  • Journey

• I drink maple syrup. Then I'm hyper so I just run around like crazy and work it all off.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Work
  • Crazy
  • Run

• I've always been attracted to action stuff.

  

  Danai Gurira
  • Action
  • Always
  • Attracted

• I approached fundraising as an opportunity to align myself with partners who have more varied experience and diverse backgrounds than I do to help bring Glossier to life.

  

  Emily Weiss
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Help

• Your path lies across the stars.

  

  Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry
  • Path
  • Stars
  • Across

• I have so many great friends, so many great memories, so many great pictures, so many great songs, so many great relationships with people. I definitely feel, for the last 15 years, that I spent my time very wisely. And that's a great thing to be able to look back at.

  

  Nadine Coyle
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• I think in some ways, acting and writing are the same. You're getting inside the skin of someone else; you're creating their language and their actions. As a writer, you have to see the whole picture and the structure, and you have to understand every character.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Picture

• Dialogue between Hans Arp and Kurt Schwitters, (1956) with introduction in: Franz Müllers Drahtfrühling- Memories of Kurt Schwitters; as quoted in I is Style, ed. Siegfried Gohr & Gunda Luyken, commissioned by w:Rudi Fuchs, 2000, pp. 139-140

  

  Jean Arp
  • Style
  • Memories