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
  • I Think

• 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

• I don't know if you've been in any inner-city schools, but it's pretty demoralizing. The kids come to class bright-eyed, enthusiastic - entering first grade really looking forward to school. By the fourth grade they're just completely turned off, and by the time they enter high school, they see little relationship between school and employment. It's bad enough you have incompetent teachers and schools that are poorly run, understaffed, and lack material resources. It's even worse when the kids themselves don't feel they have any stake in school.

  

  William Julius Wilson
  • School
  • Kids
  • Running

• I was just racing day by day. With Niki [Lauda], every race was to be on the top. He programmed his life to be champion. I enjoyed life. That was the maximum for me.

  

  Clay Regazzoni
  • Life
  • Champion
  • Top

• In some ways painters have been more important in my life than writers. Painters teach you how to see—a faculty that usually isn’t highly developed in poets. Whether you take a walk in the woods with a painter, or go to a museum with one, through them you notice shapes, colors, harmonies, relationships that enhance your own seeing.

  

  Carolyn Kizer
  • Important
  • Teach
  • Poet

• A painter is somebody who sees. I paint the moment when I set out. When I set out to see. And it’s the same thing for the viewer. When he approaches the canvas, he is advancing towards an encounter. The encounter with vision.

  

  Bram van Velde
  • Canvas
  • Painter
  • Encounter

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

  

  Jennifer Donnelly
  • Painter
  • Prisoner
  • Visions