John Ashbery Quotes

'Did I say that? One says so many things, and the problem is they all get written down.'

John Ashbery

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• I don't choose to make movies as small as the movies I've made. The combined budget of my two films is far under $5 million, but it's just by necessity that it ends up being that way.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Up
  • Small
  • Movies

• Pat Riley, Dave Checketts and Ernie Grunfeld - they brought the Knicks back to the glory days. It started with Rick Pitino. We took our first step with him, making the playoffs. When Pat came in we just kicked the door open.

  

  Patrick Ewing
  • Door
  • Step
  • First Step

• There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Life
  • Value
  • Pleasure

• Human nature and deliberate effort must unite, and then the reputation of the sage and the work of unifying all under Heaven are thereupon brought to completion.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Work
  • Nature
  • Heaven

• The seminaries must be like the churches' poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.

  

  Abraham Kuyper
  • Like
  • Existence
  • Poor

• I like analyzing and managing large-scale transaction-processing platforms, recordkeeping administration, and brokerage trading services.

  

  Abagail Johnson
  • Like
  • Trading
  • Analyzing

• I remember watching Gilda Radner when I was a kid and everyone thought she was so funny and no one ever said that she was a funny woman, she was just funny.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • She
  • Remember
  • Funny

• Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is.

  

  Mae West
  • Black
  • Space
  • Personality

• Even my mother told me: 'You are a handsome woman, but you're not pretty. Pretty girls don't have those big bones.'

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Mother
  • Pretty
  • Me

• Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Heart
  • Father
  • Friend

• It ain't necessarily so,It ain't necessarily so.De t'ings dat yo' li'bleTo read in de Bible,It ain't necessarily so.

  

  Ira Gershwin
  • Bible

• I really do believe we can stuff enough algorithms in a movie that only the dedicated hackers can spend the time and effort to try to plumb through those 1,000 algorithms to try to find a way to beat it.

  

  Jack Valenti
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Movie

• Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.

  

  Abigail Adams
  • Friends
  • Cold

• The cold north wind which bows to earthThe lightness of the willow's birthBends not the mountain cedar trees;Folding their branches from the breeze,They stand as if they could defyThe utmost rage of storm and sky.

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Cold
  • Wind
  • Sky

• Pour accomplir de grandes choses il ne suffit pas d'agir, il faut rêver; il ne suffit pas de calculer, il faut croire.

  

  Anatole France

• But to-day, mankind believes itself able to do without Art. It does not wish to meditate, to contemplate, to dream; it wishes to enjoy physically. The heights and the depths of truth are indifferent to it; it is content to satisfy its bodily appetites. Mankind to-day is brutish - it is not the stuff of which artists are made.

  

  Auguste Rodin
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Dream

• There is a difference between being arrogant about yourself as a person and being confident that your work has some value. The first is unattractive; the second is healthy and natural.

  

  Jeffrey Zeldman
  • Work
  • Value

• Unfortunately, a lot of Silicon Valley venture capitalists are disconnected from African Americans, Latinos, and other people of color.

  

  Christine Tsai
  • People
  • Color

• To this day, people are still talking about the Coral Casino's parties of the '30s, '40s, '50s - complete with antidotes of Errol Flynn's swan dives, Marlon Brando's secret cigar smoking spots, and Ester Williams' Aquacades.

  

  Ty Warner
  • People
  • Smoking

• When I was young, I couldn't imagine women of 60 falling in love. For one thing, people used to stay married; they weren't out in the jungle, searching for romance. Besides, these women just looked so ancient - permed hair, beige cardis.

  

  Deborah Moggach
  • People
  • Women
  • Hair

• Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • France
  • Good Mother
  • Good Sons

• I still like to walk around and take photographs, but it's hard to do that if a lot of people are looking at you.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • People
  • Looking
  • Walk

• Illium, with his wings of silver-kissed blue and a face designed to seduce both males and females, not to mention his ability to do the most impossible acrobatics in the air, would provide a worthy diversion. The fact that he’d decided to ditch half his clothing was just icing on the cake.

  

  Nalini Singh
  • Air
  • Blue
  • Cake

• 'Did I say that? One says so many things, and the problem is they all get written down.'

  

  John Ashbery