Paul Klee Quotes

It is interesting to observe how real the object remains, in spite of all abstractions.

Paul Klee

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• You turn up on set, and somebody who has come out of Oxford, has done a BBC course, is telling you how to act. You think, 'Do me a favour. Go and make a coffee.'

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Me
  • Act
  • Course

• I think it just came to a point where I made a decision to do better with my life and health. And that is only by God's grace because there are no guarantees.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Life
  • God
  • Health

• The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Culture
  • Change
  • Progress

• The Obama administration has provided almost no public information about the NSA's compliance record.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Information
  • Public
  • Almost

• I think that, to be an artist, you have to have a big enough ego to believe that people out in the world want to see what you think is a good idea. And if you don't have that sense of ego, then the minute that idea goes into the world, self-doubt kicks in.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• Jesus Christ was a patriot! His country was the world. His laws were the eternal principles of liberty, and his followers, in every age, have been the chosen champions of freedom!

  

  Orson F. Whitney
  • World
  • Country
  • Age

• I don't care whether you use natural gas, ethanol, the battery. You can use anything, just so it's American.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • American
  • You
  • Care

• In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Know
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• Actually, if I could deliberately sit down and write a pop hit, all my songs would be pop hits! Let's put it this way. I play what I like to hear. And sometimes I like to hear something poppy, and sometimes I don't.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Play
  • Sometimes
  • Down

• To stay a great singer or guitar player, you've got to do it 24/7. That's what I do.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
  • Great
  • You
  • Player

• I hated the fact that I had to read 'Moby-Dick' as a senior in high school.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • School
  • High
  • Senior

• I've always had very catholic tastes.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Always
  • Catholic
  • Very

• When I am talking to people who I feel don't like me or are mean, I get really shy, and I kind of curl up personality wise.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Wise
  • Personality

• Sometimes in the middle of the night, I wake up with a song in my head, and I have to finish it so I can fall back asleep.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Up
  • Song
  • Night

• Socrates affirmed that only that which the reader already knows can be sparked by a reading, and that the knowledge cannot be acquired through dead letters.

  

  Alberto Manguel
  • Knowledge
  • Reading

• I was writing my first book when I was in college. I was a teenager.

  

  Jenny Han
  • Writing
  • Book
  • College

• I find older men more attractive than boys. I need a man who can teach me a thing or two.

  

  Donatella Versace
  • Men

• I'm lucky to be surrounded by incredibly talented people at Pixar, of course, and I learn a lot from them each and every day.

  

  Lee Unkrich
  • People

• My friends knew I was obsessed with these 'Twilight' boys because I love a dangerous love story.

  

  Bryce Dallas Howard
  • Friends
  • Twilight

• Would we if we could, educate and sophisticate pigs, geese, cattle? Would it be wise to establish diplomatic relations with the hen that now functions, satisfied with mere sense of achievement by way of compensation? I think we're property'

  

  Charles Fort
  • Wise
  • Achievement

• It's the writers' job to make it positive. It's my job to make it real.

  

  Lee Pace
  • Real
  • Job
  • Positive

• I really enjoy comedy. It's a real challenge.

  

  Ted Levine
  • Real
  • Comedy
  • Challenge

• There is a real sense of family when you're around Australians, even if you don't know them.

  

  Margot Robbie
  • Real
  • Family

• It is interesting to observe how real the object remains, in spite of all abstractions.

  

  Paul Klee
  • Real
  • Interesting
  • Abstractions