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 averse to telling people off.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • People
  • Telling
  • Off

• Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • True
  • Philosophy
  • Universal

• I really have a great deal of humility in that department, and a great deal of respect for people who spend their lives learning how to make these amazing preparations.

  

  Ted Allen
  • People
  • Great
  • Respect

• 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 am not like my image; I take my work so seriously. Everyone thinks I just bounce in, but I study and everything has to be just right.

  

  Barbara Windsor
  • Work
  • Study
  • Seriously

• I work with Ninja, Ninja works with me.

  

  Yolandi Visser
  • Work
  • Me
  • Ninja

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

  

  Abraham Polonsky

• Luke's iron crown, and Damien's bed of steel.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith

• When I started 'Third Watch,' I knew I was going to be with the firefighters and lifting, so I was doing yoga, running, and swimming - all at the same time. I didn't have a kid then. Now I don't have time for that. I want to spend time with my son and my husband, so it's mainly just yoga now.

  

  Kim Raver
  • Time
  • Running
  • Son

• I don't care if it's somebody else's song. Most of the time, you'll find that I'll put my own stamp on it. But I started writing more because, you know, it's easy to regurgitate what somebody else is doing, but it's exciting to be able to come up with your own writing.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Up
  • Time
  • Writing

• No one will give you change. You have to work for it. You have to earn it not by screaming, but by working hard, by believing in yourself, by proving yourself. There are windows, but if you are radical, no one will talk to you. And that window will shut.

  

  Haifaa al-Mansour
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Wisdom

• With a lot of hair and make-up then I'm possibly, remotely attractive. But it's rare, I don't think I'm ugly but I'm nothing particularly special. I'm not a yoga and health girl. I don't exercise that much and I eat crap and smoke and bite my nails.

  

  Lisa Marie Presley
  • Up
  • Girl
  • Health

• Immersion in the scriptures is essential for spiritual nourishment. The word of God inspires commitment and acts as a healing balm for hurt feelings, anger, or disillusionment . When our commitment is diminished for any reason, part of the solution is repentance. Commitment and repentance are closely intertwined.

  

  Quentin L. Cook
  • God
  • Spiritual
  • Hurt

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

  

  Bridget Riley