Paul Gauguin Quotes

A critic in my house sees some paintings. Greatly perturbed, he asks for my drawings. My drawings? Never! They are my letters, my secrets.

Paul Gauguin

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• Being famous gets me good concert tickets, good tables in restaurants, good seats at sporting events and that's really about it.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Good
  • Famous
  • Restaurants

• I've had situations where producers would be like, 'Could you meet me? Take the train; don't tell your parents.'

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Parents
  • Train
  • Meet

• My family lives in Miami, and I always envision myself, if something happens, it'd be like 'The Day After Tomorrow' where I walk across country to find my family. That would be the kind of person I would be. I feel like I wouldn't be as scared. If it happens, it happens. You face it.

  

  Natalie Martinez
  • Country
  • Family
  • Day

• I love Johnny Cash, and I respect Johnny Cash. He's the biggest. He's like an Elvis in this business, but no, he's never been the rebel.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • Love
  • Business
  • Respect

• I didn't want to write a biographie romancee especially since I already write novels, nor did I want to challenge the rules of the biography game, arbitrary as those rules might be.

  

  Edmund White
  • Game
  • Want
  • Challenge

• In the summer we graduated we flipped out completely, drinking beer, cruising in our cars and beating up each other. It was a crazy summer. That's when I started to be interested in girls.

  

  Ed O'Neill
  • Up
  • Crazy
  • Summer

• 'Mvula' is my married name, but for some reason my nan calls me 'McVula.' I'm not sure if it's one of those jokey Caribbean things, or whether she's just getting it wrong.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • She
  • Me
  • Name

• For me, the movies I like are all independent. And getting an independent feature made, it's like you get down to the selling organs part, and it just loses some of its luster.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Me
  • Independent
  • Movies

• There's an awareness of fashion in this country, and it's not limited to gay people.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • People
  • Country
  • Fashion

• People hear the soul, black influence in my voice. I grew up listening to CKLW and all the black stations like WLBS.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • People
  • Up
  • Soul

• A woman would pitch a joke. Nothing. Then a guy would pitch it and everybody would laugh.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Guy
  • Woman
  • Laugh

• The one thing that would utterly destroy the new capitalism is the serious practice of deferred gratification.

  

  Daniel Bell
  • Serious
  • Practice

• So far as living instruments of labour are concerned, for instance horses, their reproduction is timed by nature itself. Their average lifetime as instruments of labour is determined by the laws of nature. As soon as this term has expired they must be replaced by new ones. A horse cannot be replaced piecemeal; it must be replaced by another horse.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Nature
  • Horse

• 'When God calls a man or woman, what they will eat, what they will use and everything they need for their journey will be provided abundantly by God.'

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • God
  • Journey

• Safety should be a birthright.

  

  Clemantine Wamariya
  • Safety

• Kinsey kick started a lot in shocking people with how much homosexual activity there is.

  

  Bill Condon
  • People

• As an attorney, I could be rather flamboyant in court. I did not act as though I were a black man in a white man's court, but as if everyone else - white and black - was a guest in my court. When trying a case, I often made sweeping gestures and used high-flown language.

  

  Nelson Mandela
  • Trying
  • High
  • Black

• I like a girl with natural beauty.

  

  Chandler Parsons
  • Girl

• The age of the rock star was coterminous with rock n' roll, which, in spite of all the promises made in some memorable songs, proved to be as finite as the era of ragtime or big bands. The rock era is over. We now live in a hip-hop world.

  

  David Hepworth
  • World
  • Live
  • Age

• I like to think of birthdays as celebrating life." "Only losers acknowledge they survived a year and hope they cheat death again.

  

  P. C. Cast
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Hope

• I don't believe any more in democracy. But I can't believe in the old sort of aristocracy, either, nor can I wish it back, splendid as it was. What I believe in is the old Homeric aristocracy, when the grandeur was inside a man, and he lived in a simple wooden house.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Believe
  • Men
  • House

• If the Starbucks secret is a smile when you get your latte... ours is that the Web site adapts to the individual's taste.

  

  Reed Hastings
  • Smile
  • Secret
  • Individual

• I think success right now is not about how famous you are or how much you're getting paid, but it's more about if you're steadily working and you're happy with what you're doing.

  

  Sarah Hyland
  • Success
  • Famous
  • Paid

• A critic in my house sees some paintings. Greatly perturbed, he asks for my drawings. My drawings? Never! They are my letters, my secrets.

  

  Paul Gauguin
  • Art
  • House
  • Painting