Bridget Riley Quotes

As the artist picks his way along, rejecting and accepting as he goes, certain patterns of enquiry emerge.

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• I feel like the reason people feel like they know me is because I'm giving you myself in the music. There's where the connection comes from; you can't Twitter that.

  

  J. Cole
  • People
  • Music
  • Giving

• The guitar is such an incredible instrument; it plays classical, flamenco, jazz, country, bluegrass, rock, acid, blues. You'll never see a clarinet playing Black Sabbath. But you will see a guitar in a clarinet band playing rhythm. It is the most popular instrument in the world; it is the one everybody loves.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • World
  • Country
  • Black

• As every scuba diver knows, panic is your worst enemy: when it hits, your mind starts to thrash and you are likely to do something really stupid and self-destructive.

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • Mind
  • Enemy
  • Stupid

• My attitude is always one of sensuality, aggressive enthusiasm and a kind of outrageousness in my expression.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • Kind
  • Attitude
  • Enthusiasm

• There are so many devices that can receive video, creating complexities, because suddenly you can have a TV, laptop, smartphone, pads. And they are of different sizes. It's clear that you need to standardise and get a much more efficient TV delivery.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Different
  • You
  • Need

• I was born in the small town of Gorizia, Italy, on 31 March, 1934. My father was an electrical engineer at the local telephone company and my mother an elementary school teacher.

  

  Carlo Rubbia
  • School
  • Mother
  • Father

• The President has been a big proponent of the public option since the campaign.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • President
  • Option
  • Big

• The Navy runs their process. The House of Representatives doesn't do anything about their process. We do not select. Navy officers select.

  

  Patricia Schroeder
  • House
  • Process
  • Navy

• You can't do every movie - although I do a lot of them - and the thing I'm longing to do is... it's not that I think I'm funny... but I long to do a situation comedy.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Long
  • Movie
  • Think

• Middle-aged women have greater stability, they are more loyal, and their capacity for steady work is greater than that of younger women.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Work
  • Women
  • Stability

• It is important to note that there are no age limitations on who can donate organs and tissue. Newborns as well as senior citizens have been organ donors.

  

  Vic Snyder
  • Important
  • Age
  • Senior

• I never say no to an ice cream.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Never
  • Ice
  • Ice Cream

• The law is cruel.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Law
  • Cruel

• In business or in life, don't follow the wagon tracks too closely.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Life
  • Business
  • Follow

• I'm intrigued by the dark. Out of darkness comes creation.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Dark
  • Darkness
  • Creation

• So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets having marred it.

  

  Harold Acton
  • Real
  • Say
  • Regrets

• It still frightens me a little bit to think that so much of my life was totally devoted to Star Trek and almost nothing else.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Life
  • Think
  • Star

• The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has been in existence for most of this century.

  

  C. Everett Koop
  • Existence
  • Foundation
  • Most

• Most kids don't get to go their parents' wedding.

  

  Ken Livingstone
  • Kids
  • Parents
  • Wedding

• Coach showed he believed in me. So I had to believe in myself.

  

  Rajon Rondo

• What breaks my heart is suffering of any kind.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Heart
  • Suffering
  • Breaks

• Has it not got down as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by boiling the shadow of a pigeon that had starved to death?

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Death
  • Shadow

• Many pray for the power of God. More every year. Those prayers sound powerful, sincere, godly, and without ulterior motive. Hidden under such prayer and fervor, however, are ambition, a craving for fame, the desire to be considered a spiritual giant. The person who prays such a prayer may not even know it, but dark motives and desires are in his heartin your heart.

  

  Gene Edwards
  • Heart
  • Prayer
  • Ambition

• As the artist picks his way along, rejecting and accepting as he goes, certain patterns of enquiry emerge.

  

  Bridget Riley