Bridget Riley Quotes

Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values.

Bridget Riley

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• For women in, say, Alabama, 'feminism' is a dirty word. They would never march in the streets. But although they don't think of themselves as the beneficiaries of feminism, they are.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Women
  • Think
  • Dirty

• I love the game and I am so lucky to be able to do what I love.

  

  Victoria Azarenka
  • Love
  • Game
  • Lucky

• There are people who think I should be using the position of secretary of state simply to weigh the scales on the side of my own party. I just don't accept that, and it would not be proper.

  

  Sam Reed
  • People
  • Think
  • Party

• If I don't write down a thought - or an image or a line of poetry - the instant it comes to mind, it vanishes, which explains why I have pens and notebooks in my pants and coat pockets, the car, the bicycle basket, on one or two desks in every room including bathrooms and the kitchen.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Mind
  • Why
  • Car

• I applaud anyone who wants to take on the load that comes with being President of the United States. You really have to love your country to place yourself in that position.

  

  BeBe Winans
  • Country
  • Love
  • Yourself

• We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Man
  • Tree
  • Born

• I never thought about money; otherwise, I would have left aged 26 when Real Madrid and Barcelona wanted me.

  

  Francesco Totti
  • Money
  • Me
  • Thought

• The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • People
  • Music
  • Way

• I have to entertain, because if I don't entertain you, you're not going to continue reading. But if I'm not out to enlighten, or change your mind about something, or change your behavior, then I really don't want to take the journey.

  

  Bebe Moore Campbell
  • Mind
  • Change
  • Reading

• I come by writing dialogue fairly naturally, I've got a chatty family; I'm a bit of a voyeur, and if I'm ever in a public place, I automatically find myself listening.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Writing
  • Family
  • Myself

• I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Think
  • Relationship
  • Poetry

• I followed my instincts; I followed my intuition, and it paid off.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Intuition
  • Paid
  • Instincts

• I have a lot of admiration for people who've been in relationships a long time, married for years.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these places I see American policy written on the walls of oppression everywhere.

  

  Harry Belafonte
  • American
  • Oppression
  • Walls

• We need money. We need hits. Hits bring money, money bring power, power bring fame, fame change the game.

  

  Young Thug
  • Money
  • Power
  • Game

• I have music in my brain all the time, all sorts.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Time
  • Music
  • Brain

• Canadians can get Parliament working again. Here's how to do that: elect more New Democrats.

  

  Jack Layton
  • Working
  • New
  • Again

• It was becoming clear that, from being at the top at Holy Cross, we were at the bottom at St. Peter's. Objectively, this was very good, for it offered us a challenge and an opportunity to grow if we were ready to take it; and we surely were.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Good
  • Opportunity
  • Challenge

• Location is the key to most businesses, and the entrepreneurs typically build their reputation at a particular spot.

  

  Phyllis Schlafly

• You're a human being, and every time a list of prize nominations comes out and your name isn't on it, you do have that thumb-in-the-eye feeling.

  

  Alice McDermott
  • Time
  • Feeling

• Devote today to something so daring even you can't believe you're doing it.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Believe
  • Today
  • Daring

• Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values.

  

  Bridget Riley
  • Spiritual
  • Painting