Francisco Goya Quotes

As I am working for the public, I must continue to amuse them.

Francisco Goya

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• Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Space
  • Fashion
  • Architecture

• Among famous traitors of history one might mention the weather.

  

  Ilka Chase
  • History
  • Famous
  • Weather

• I have ambitions to do a Broadway record one of these days and get in the studio with like, a real orchestra. I'm a big musical theatre geek.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Real
  • Theatre
  • Broadway

• Follow the fellow who follows a dream.

  

  E. Y. Harburg
  • Dream
  • Follow
  • Fellow

• An artist's sphere of influence is the world.

  

  Carl Maria von Weber
  • World
  • Artist
  • Influence

• I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when I'm in an airplane talking to air-traffic control, and they don't know who they're talking to. I have a lot of common experiences.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Experience
  • Know
  • Control

• Art is born of humiliation.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Art
  • Born
  • Humiliation

• The most famous Obama precept is, 'No drama.'

  

  Dan Pfeiffer
  • Drama
  • Famous
  • Precept

• I'm really into personalities. There have been certain girls that I've been attracted to, but when we got to chatting, it was such a let-down. So for me, a great personality is key.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Great
  • Personality
  • Girls

• A lot of people think that public speaking means that you are standing at a podium giving a speech, but public speaking comes in lots of different formats.

  

  Dana Perino
  • People
  • Different
  • Think

• I write songs from the heart, and I don't hold back.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Heart
  • Write
  • Back

• Eradicate poverty. This is all that matters in my country. When I am out training I think about this a lot; when I am running it is going over in my mind. As a country we cannot move forward until we eradicate poverty.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Country
  • Mind
  • Running

• Remember, you and you alone are responsible for maintaining your energy. Give up blaming, complaining and excuse making, and keep taking action in the direction of your goals - however mundane or lofty they may be.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Up
  • May
  • Remember

• It's harder and harder to make a well-done romantic comedy these days because the conventions have been so played out.

  

  Dana Fox
  • Done
  • Comedy
  • Romantic

• I love flying.

  

  Adam Kinzinger
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Flying

• I go to the gym and work through a routine. But if you see someone with a personal trainer, you know they do 10 times more than you do. You give up your sense of identity. If you watch 'The Biggest Loser,' you see people give up their identity to become something else.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• My best advice is to not start in PowerPoint. Presentation tools force you to think through information linearly, and you really need to start by thinking of the whole instead of the individual lines.

  

  Nancy Duarte
  • Thinking
  • Best
  • Advice

• I'm an ensemble guy, I guess - that comes from the theater. If I ever won some kind of award someday, I imagine I'd try to be very gracious, but in the end, I just want to keep working. I don't see why that, if you just put your mind to it and keep sowing the right seeds, you can't keep doing the things you want to do.

  

  Garret Dillahunt
  • Mind
  • Why
  • Guy

• There has to be chemistry in a duet, but if you go beyond the point of friendship and attraction, you lose something.

  

  Kenny Rogers
  • Friendship

• Do you have a brain? Then use it. It's all you need to overcome any problem. That's the secret. That's my simple but powerful prescription for life, love, and success in a dangerous world.

  

  Ben Carson
  • Life
  • World
  • Success

• The broader the topic, the easier it is, not only to fill a book, but to set the bar pretty high for really great stuff.

  

  Mary Roach
  • Great
  • Book
  • High

• I believe in reincarnation of the soul.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • Believe
  • Soul
  • I Believe

• If we believe that a person seeking refuge is to be pitied, feared, despised, and looked down upon, we are doing ourselves a disservice.

  

  Clemantine Wamariya
  • Believe

• As I am working for the public, I must continue to amuse them.

  

  Francisco Goya