Jackson Pollock Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
A person that says, 'Losing is not difficult,' I don't even want to be around that person. And obviously, that person has never won anything relevant in their life.
Cam Newton -
When I was in high school, I was a bad kid and a good student.
Halsey -
Feeling has as much to say as the words do. You can have the greatest words in the world and if they're not believable, they don't strike a chord and they're not said convincingly, it's not a great song.
Sam Phillips -
I'm pretty calculating. I take stuff that I know appeals to people's bad sides and match it up with stuff that appeals to their good sides.
Kanye West -
Being American and being an outsider at the same time, it's a perspective I often bring to a character.
Aasif Mandvi -
People are tired of simple things. They want to be challenged.
Umberto Eco
-
The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true.
Frances Farmer -
I've always been a rough kid.
Daniel Cormier -
An actor has to embody a role.
Taylor Hackford -
I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.
Mads Mikkelsen -
They show that roughly two-thirds of a group of neurotic patients will recover or improve to a marked extent within about two years of the onset of their illness, whether they are treated by means of psychotherapy or not.
Hans Eysenck -
As the future is never known with certainty, the evaluation of the prospective benefits requires the formation of expectations. An acceptable house, partner or job, then, is one that offers an expected stream of future benefit that has a value in excess of the option to continue to search for an even better alternative.
Dale T. Mortensen
-
I'm not great at multi-tasking, so when I do one thing... I like to do it 100%.
Idina Menzel -
Apparently God takes reception of Holy Communion seriously. Apparently some things are more sacred than politics. Apparently it's all or nothing when it comes to being Catholic.
Carl Olson -
I didn't want to be greedy. It's a mark of bad character and I always believed that pigs go the slaughterhouse.
Walter Annenberg -
As far as expectations go, you can never work for expectations. You have to work against them.
Kajol -
I've been in situations where I was the only black guy. We're in a time now where nobody wants to see that. But it still happens.
Dak Prescott -
I really would like to be involved in things and to understand things, and in some ways you've got to be careful what you wish for because I feel very, very blessed to have such an interesting life and to be able to have little snapshots of lives of people from many different parts of the world.
Yo-Yo Ma
-
What I'm definitely against is the plodding, paint-by-numbers 19th-century-style novel that's still being written today. I just don't understand why you'd read or write that in 2011.
David Shields -
I am a bit of a lefty on some issues.
Vince Cable -
I'm finding out what part of punk culture or white indie culture I actually still want to hold onto - What are the values? What are the contributions that I actually like? - and it not coming from a place of desperation or wanting to be embraced or wanting approval, essentially.
Kelela Mizanekristos -
Jake was close to tears. In that moment he saw the world in its true light, as a place where nothing had ever been any good and nothing of significance done: no art worth a second look, no philosophy of the slightest appositeness, no law but served the state, no history that gave an inkling of how it had been and what had happened. And no love, only egotism, infatuation and lust.
Kingsley Amis -
Habit is a second nature, which destroys the first.
Blaise Pascal -
I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.
Jackson Pollock