Jennifer Donnelly Quotes

Come on you raver, you seer of visions, come on you painter, you piper, you prisoner, and shine.

Jennifer Donnelly

• Painter
• Prisoner
• Visions
• Seer
• Raver
• Piper

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• Journalists have sometimes looked to my Twitter account and quoted me from there, and that's fine because that's public domain. I know exactly what I'm doing when I post something on Twitter; in a way, it's saying, 'This is who I am, and I don't have anything to hide.'

  

  Samuel Barnett
  • Public
  • Hide
  • Twitter

• Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Mind
  • Science
  • Political

• It's so great to love somebody and, out of that, to make a child. So that's my goal.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • Great
  • Goal
  • Child

• The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Space
  • Dinosaurs
  • Extinct

• We still have tremendous work ahead of us to ensure that women have equal opportunities in the workplace and in our society.

  

  Blanche Lincoln
  • Work
  • Women
  • Society

• I worked for a lot of candidates, in tough campaigns that lost. Most of my candidates lost until Bill Clinton. There was always a point where you look in their eyes and they knew it was over. And there was never that point with Clinton. He never quit. He never gave up.

  

  Dee Dee Myers
  • Up
  • Lost
  • Eyes

• It is true that all men are created in the image of God, but Christians are supposed to be conscious of that fact, and being conscious of it should recognize the importance of living artistically, aesthetically, and creatively, as creative creatures of the Creator. If we have been created in the image of an Artist, then we should look for expressions of artistry, and be sensitive to beauty, responsive to what has been created for us

  

  Edith Schaeffer
  • God
  • Men
  • True

• I had very, very little training in taking an exam to determine a scientist's life in France.

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot
  • Life
  • Training
  • Determine

• I think people are afraid to express their opinions half the time.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • People
  • Time
  • Afraid

• Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

  

  Aristotle
  • Hope
  • Youth
  • Deceived

• Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.

  

  William Cowper
  • Nature
  • Happiness
  • inspirational

• Knowledge of the soul is the only universal truth and the only wisdom - all other knowledge is transient.

  

  Plato
  • Truth
  • Soul
  • Knowledge

• So fine was the morning except for a streak of wind here and there that the sea and sky looked all one fabric, as if sails were stuck high up in the sky, or the clouds had dropped down into the sea.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Morning
  • Clouds
  • Stuck

• What does it mean for a painter to paint in the manner of So-and-So or to actually imitate someone else? What's wrong with that? On the contrary, it's a good idea. You should constantly try to paint like someone else. But the thing is, you can't! You would like to. You try. But it turns out to be a botch... And it's at the very moment you make a botch of it that you're yourself.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Painter
  • Good Idea
  • Botch

• If judge and jury had to hang the prisoner themselves in cold blood, there would be fewer executions; if we each had to butcher our own meat, there would be a great increase in the number of vegetarians.

  

  Ernest Howard Crosby
  • Judge
  • Prisoner
  • Hang

• The eye is complicated. It mixes the colors it sees for you ... The painter must unmix them and lay them on again shade by shade, and then the eye of the beholder takes over and mixes them again.

  

  Elizabeth Borton de Trevino
  • Art
  • Eye
  • Color

• Come on you raver, you seer of visions, come on you painter, you piper, you prisoner, and shine.

  

  Jennifer Donnelly
  • Painter
  • Prisoner
  • Visions