Francis Picabia Quotes

My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.

Francis Picabia

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• I'm very proud of my love for Whitney Houston. She really changed my life. She made my life a better life. She was so beautiful in her love for God, her love for her family and her love for music. She truly loved her music. She could do everything! She had flawless rhythm, flawless pitch, flawless feeling, and flawless beauty.

  

  Narada Michael Walden
  • Life
  • God
  • Family

• You won't do any more housework? Then you go to the bin.

  

  Kate Millett
  • You
  • More
  • Housework

• First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Reality
  • Imagination
  • Ideas

• I'm constantly complimented for my voice, even by random people at the airport!

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • People
  • Voice
  • Random

• Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Fear
  • Name
  • Increases

• I think it's good to conquer the fears.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Good
  • Think
  • Conquer

• Right away when I got to college, I realized that being a politician sucks. It's really hard! It wasn't for me. B.J. Novak is convinced that I will run for mayor of Chicago at some point. He begs me to do it. It'd be a tough gig, but I was always very attracted to the idea of helping people and trying to make the city a better place.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • People
  • Trying
  • City

• People like Howlin' Wolf, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, John Lee Hooker, Nina Simone, Captain Beefheart - all of these artists were what I grew up listening to every day of my life. And there's a very healthy music scene in the west country of England, where I grew up.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• We are all lucky to be here, we are lucky to be on stage and have millions of people watch us.

  

  Gary Barlow Take That
  • People
  • Stage
  • Lucky

• While most of the music I write is instrumental, I love to use the human voice as another instrument.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Music
  • Human
  • Voice

• Be good to others, that will protect you against evil.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Good
  • You
  • Evil

• If something appeals, something appeals. I don't think I'm particularly calculated about it. I know I have an alarm bell that goes off in my head where something feels like it has no creative integrity to it at all, and it's just about making money.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Money
  • Creative
  • Integrity

• Space has always been confusing to politics.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Space
  • Politics
  • Confusing

• Careers are like roller coasters. You go up, you go down, and you spin yourself around.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Up
  • You
  • Yourself

• There is no philosophy which is not founded upon knowledge of the phenomena, but to get any profit from this knowledge it is absolutely necessary to be a mathematician.

  

  Daniel Bernoulli
  • Knowledge
  • Philosophy

• Always stay true to yourselves.

  

  Naima Adedapo
  • True
  • Always
  • Stay True

• We got all the influences for it Global a Go-Go from Willesden High Road. When you go out for milk and cigarettes you go through three countries because all the shops and cafes are playing their own music, like going through hell.

  

  Joe Strummer The Clash
  • Music
  • High
  • Road

• The house of laughter makes a house of woe.

  

  Edward Young
  • House
  • Laughter

• You need mystery. You actually do. I think that's what foreign women, French women in particular, are good at. There's still a sense that you need to keep some of the unknown because that's where the soul resides, or something.

  

  Jason Clarke
  • Good
  • Women
  • Soul

• The people have allowed me to - they've respected my choice of wanting to be like, a little, you know, a baby alchemist, and just trying to mix different cultures together and things that I think are interesting.

  

  Pharrell Williams N.E.R.D.
  • People
  • Different
  • Trying

• Building a business is not rocket science, it’s about having a great idea and seeing it through with integrity.

  

  Richard Branson
  • Business
  • Integrity
  • Build

• A thrown-stone trajectory is a good metaphor for so many phenomena: the curve of an event, any event; the curve of a life, any life; the curve of a hypothesis; the curve experienced in the manufacture of a work of art; the curve of interest experienced in the manufacture of a catalogue.

  

  Peter Greenaway
  • Life
  • Good
  • Work

• Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

  

  Rumi
  • Yourself
  • Find
  • Seek

• My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.

  

  Francis Picabia