Francisco Goya Quotes

No recognition / Nadie se conoce' Goya wrote on this plate no. 6: The world is a masquerade, faces, costumes, voices, everything a lie. Each person wishes to appear what he is not. The whole world deceives itself, and no one recognizes himself.

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• In the beginning, I didn't dance that much and stuff.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • Beginning
  • Dance
  • Much

• When I had no money, I would find out which friend had work and money at that point in time and would go and stay with him for a week. All of us theatre guys did that.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Time
  • Work
  • Money

• I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.

  

  Faye Dunaway
  • People
  • Rules
  • Old

• I've discovered that the standard all-American dream of fame and fortune is not success for me. Success for me is simply the joy of working - doing good work - and then bringing that joy home to my family. But if what I do in my work doesn't enrich my life with my family, I'm doing the wrong thing.

  

  Gary Burghoff
  • Life
  • Good
  • Work

• I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.

  

  L. J. Smith
  • Want
  • Know
  • Me

• It was hard at school because, growing up, some people wanted to be friends with me just because they wanted to get to my dad and say that they had met him and had gone to our house. I didn't understand it at the time, but the older I got and the more aware of it I became, it started becoming hard.

  

  Francia Raisa
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I'm an honest, open father.

  

  T.I.
  • Father
  • Honest
  • Open

• Breaking up is hard to do... so it's essential to keep getting wiser - and wiser - about what healthy love is all about.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Healthy

• I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • World
  • Good
  • Party

• If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • You
  • Learn
  • Changing

• I was trying to manage school and training for the Olympics and ended up not doing well at either. That was a big lesson in my life. My mother expected both.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Life
  • Up
  • Trying

• A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.

  

  C. Northcote Parkinson
  • Nature
  • Plant
  • Flowers

• A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Relationship
  • Conversation

• It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Character
  • Book
  • Author

• I don't think you'll ever be happy about anything unless you've done it.

  

  Gary Barlow Take That
  • Done
  • Happy
  • Think

• Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.

  

  Barack Obama
  • War
  • Police
  • Planning

• I feel Dress for Success is basically about empowering women who were in a disadvantaged situation. The act of wearing a suit when she's walking in the door, it's so powerful - it's about gaining control of their lives and situations.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Women
  • She
  • Success

• Poetry is that sentiment of the soul, or faculty of the mind, which enables its possessor to appreciate and realize the heights and depths of human experience. It is the power to feel pleasure or suffer pain in all its exquisiteness and intensity.

  

  Orson F. Whitney
  • Mind
  • Experience
  • Power

• I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.

  

  Wally Lamb
  • Story
  • Modern
  • Myth

• People can't stand it when you deal with issues of race and class, and also sometimes the church, and you give a perspective that flushes out hypocrisy.

  

  Jose Padilha
  • People
  • Church
  • Perspective

• We aren't quite sure what we're trying to differentiate, and therefore can't quite see how to do it other than giving some students more to cover and some less. That rarely works.

  

  Carol Ann Tomlinson
  • Trying
  • Giving
  • Students

• When we were filming 'Twilight,' we didn't expect anything. We were just filming a movie that we wanted the fans to enjoy. And then it kinda just blew into this whole other world.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • World
  • Movie
  • Enjoy

• If there is anything in the world that can really be called a man’s property, it is surely that which is the result of his mental activity.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • World

• No recognition / Nadie se conoce' Goya wrote on this plate no. 6: The world is a masquerade, faces, costumes, voices, everything a lie. Each person wishes to appear what he is not. The whole world deceives itself, and no one recognizes himself.

  

  Francisco Goya
  • World
  • Wishes