Bridget Riley Quotes

Focusing isn't just an optical activity, it is also a mental one.

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• If you fall off a horse, you get back up. I am not a quitter.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Fall
  • Horse
  • Backup

• Even if you didn't lose your job, if you're one of the two-thirds of Ontarians who don't have a pension, you lost savings. Even if you've earned most of that back now, you are a changed person. You are less secure, less confident. And I understand that.

  

  Dalton McGuinty
  • Job
  • Lost
  • Lose

• What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Thinking
  • Learning
  • Looking

• My mom could be pretty strict.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Pretty
  • Mom
  • Strict

• I use debit cards for everyday purchases, as I don't believe in credit cards. But this has caused problems, especially with American touring, because I refuse to have a credit card - and in America you can't pay for anything on a debit card.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Believe
  • American
  • America

• I'm not a mean comic, I don't want to turn anybody off - I just want to give a point of view or my take on things that everyone can laugh at.

  

  Gary Owens
  • Want
  • Laugh
  • View

• Men are like mascara, they run at the slightest display of emotion.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • Men
  • Emotion
  • Run

• I do not come bearing a party label on my sleeve - or a quick fix in my back pocket. I do not come with a rigid ideology in my heart - or a soul that tells me to go it alone. I do not come to uproot tradition - or to be imprisoned by it.

  

  Ted Kulongoski
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Alone

• While apartheid was in operation, the set-up was a gift for writers if you were looking for a big theme.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Up
  • You
  • Gift

• I work with Ninja, Ninja works with me.

  

  Yolandi Visser
  • Work
  • Me
  • Ninja

• What are you gonna do? Kill me? Everybody dies.

  

  Abraham Polonsky

• A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

  

  Len Wein
  • True
  • Friend

• The shelves of books we haven't written, like those of books we haven't read, stretches out into the darkness of the universal library's farthest space. We are always at the beginning of the beginning of the letter A.

  

  Alberto Manguel
  • Space
  • Beginning
  • Library

• Children are holy and pure. Even those of bandits and crocodiles belong among the angels.... They must not be turned into a plaything of one’s mood, first to be tenderly kissed, then rabidly stomped at.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Children
  • Mood

• The turning point was when I hit my 30th birthday. I thought, if really want to write, it's time to start. I picked up the book How to Write a Novel in 90 Days. The author said to just write three pages a day, and I figured, I can do this. I never got past Page 3 of that book.

  

  James Rollins
  • Up
  • Time
  • Book

• 'Wicked' has such a wild fan base - like, a voracious fan base.

  

  Jennifer Nettles Sugarland

• As filmmakers, we're constantly always looking for something to bring the audience deeper into the reality of the story we're telling.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Reality

• I got Type 1 diabetes at 30. It hit me in 1982 when I was a White House Fellow in Washington. I had viral pneumonia. I lost 35 pounds in six weeks. And I couldn't see anything. Everything was blurry. I was always thirsty.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • House
  • Lost

• Let us not sneer at the values of the World's conscience, whose indignation has already forced Hitler's fascism to retrreat.

  

  Leon Blum
  • World
  • Values
  • Fascism

• You can make all the birth plans in the world, but at the end of the day - go with the flow.

  

  Poppy Montgomery
  • World

• Focusing isn't just an optical activity, it is also a mental one.

  

  Bridget Riley