Paul Gauguin Quotes

Wherever I go I need a period of incubation so that I may learn the essence of nature, which never wishes to be understood or yield herself.

Paul Gauguin

• May
• Nature
• Wish
• Needs
• Essence
• Incubation

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I think a strong dollar is the result of policies, but I don't think the strong dollar is in and of itself a policy.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Think
  • Strong
  • Dollar

• I love wrestling, but to wrestle just one style for the rest of my life seems like it would really hold me down creatively.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Life
  • Style
  • Like

• Women I admired growing up - Debra Winger, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep - were all beautiful and thin, but not too thin. There are a lot of actresses who are unhealthy-skinny - much, much too skinny. You can't Pilates to that.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Up
  • Women
  • Beautiful

• I read people; that's one of my strengths. It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.

  

  Jack Keane
  • People
  • Strengths
  • Fooled

• If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Chance

• When you start losing market share, it's really tough to gain it back; you need the product portfolio and presence in many markets.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Start
  • Losing
  • Tough

• He used to have a tent show, a little tent show, and I thought I was going to get a job working one year on the tent show, but he closed it down and I never got to go out there, but anyway, he had a sax and played drums.

  

  Earl Scruggs
  • Job
  • Thought
  • Year

• I've learned about ice water in the morning - when you wake up tired, or you're jet lagged and you've been flying and your skin is dry, or you have puffy eyes - the ice water really helps cool the face down and helps circulation.

  

  Barbara Fialho
  • Up
  • Eyes
  • Water

• A doctor is not a mechanic. A car doesn't react with a mechanic, but a human being does.

  

  Randa Haines
  • Car
  • Doctor
  • Mechanic

• I did a lot of ridiculous television. Between 1980 and '85 I had no confidence, so I did everything I was told to do.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Confidence
  • Television

• In Iran, fundamentalism was fuelled to an extent by the regime of the Shah being supported by the West.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Being
  • West
  • Iran

• 'Sesame Street' is awesome - not only because they teach, edify and entertain kids but because they savvily make it possible to do so with parental engagement, because the show is loaded with references for Mom and Dad.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Kids
  • Dad
  • Mom

• The word 'revolution' first brings to mind violent upheavals in the state, but ideas of revolution in science, and of political revolution, are almost coeval. The word once meant only a revolving, a circular return to an origin, as when we speak of revolutions per minute or the revolution of the planets about the sun.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Mind
  • Science
  • Political

• Some movies are the kind you take home with you at the end of the day, and some, you can let go.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Home
  • Day
  • End

• It's the same girl-who-has-everything story. You know, the one where she's insecure and scared and unhappy and has marriage problems and doesn't know how to handle stardom and screws up right and left and gets in with the wrong people and goes down the drain.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • People
  • Up
  • She

• I don't expect anybody to know who I am.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Know
  • Expect

• Whatever the reason is, I hope we can finish talking about the Olympics. It's gone, it's behind us. The schedule wasn't proper for players who went there and there is some fatigue in a lot guys' play right now.

  

  Saku Koivu
  • Hope
  • Play
  • Finish

• It's never too late - in fiction or in life - to revise.

  

  Nancy Thayer
  • Life
  • Never
  • Never Too Late

• I'm fulfilling my dreams that I had as a kid every single day. That's why I'm trying to enjoy it so much.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Trying
  • Why
  • Single

• For better or for worse, I just have to be on tour for some portion of the year. But it's not easy, you know. It's not easy on the people you love, and I understand when people look at this life and say this isn't sustainable.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • Life
  • Know

• With six meats and twelve wines or else without To walk another room...Monsieur and comrade, The soldier is poor without the poet’s lines.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Soldier

• Courts have long recognized the federal government's robust power to inspect people and goods entering the country. After all, the very foundation of national sovereignty is a nation's ability to protect its borders.

  

  Bob Barr
  • People
  • Long
  • Country

• As Trotsky didn't exactly say, you may not be interested in electronic snoops, but snoops are interested in you, whether or not you keep Coke's secret recipe on your iPhone.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • May
  • You
  • iPhone

• Wherever I go I need a period of incubation so that I may learn the essence of nature, which never wishes to be understood or yield herself.

  

  Paul Gauguin
  • May
  • Nature
  • Wish