Harvey Penick Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
When people who love the ocean come together, they can achieve extraordinary things.
-
Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.
-
I grew up in St. Louis in a tiny house full of large music - Mahalia Jackson and Marian Anderson singing majestically on the stereo, my German-American mother fingering 'The Lost Chord' on the piano as golden light sank through trees, my Palestinian father trilling in Arabic in the shower each dawn.
-
I'm a showgirl. After 20 years in show business, I've learned to roll with the punches.
-
My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
-
I love pretending to be other people. The more unlike me they are the better - I find other people endlessly fascinating and myself incredibly boring.
-
I work extremely hard to stay positive and happy. But I get sad and anxious, too, just like everyone.
-
I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
-
When George W. Bush entered office, the national debt was $5 trillion. When he left, it was $10 trillion. I think the administration spent too much money.
-
Even within the last three or four years, I have a greater ability to communicate, I think. I have more courage to show the stuff... And it does take courage.
-
I live in, literally, the same home when I was swiping my first bank card and wondering if I'd have to put back the Charmin. We still don't have a dishwasher. My mom has done all these gardens so now my house looks like the garden shack in the middle of Versailles.
-
I now understand how varied the world of cultivated rice is; that rice can play the lead or be a sidekick; that brown rice is as valuable as white; and that short-grain rice is the bee's knees.
-
I will develop the areas that vote for me, but if you don't vote for me, don't expect anything.
-
There are artists or filmmakers or cinematographers who have had long careers who, maybe to reinvent themselves or just to stay in a secure place, layer it on or ham it up, if I can use that expression, or make grand choices that don't feel as authentic as what they did to make us fall in love with them in the first place.
-
Financial risk is always associated with drug discovery. But the benefit that a blockbuster drug can bring to the business can be phenomenal if you can take that risk.
-
I want to create a thousand paintings, maybe two thousand paintings, as many as I can draw.
-
Of course I've had a problem with people taking me seriously because of my age. People are always going do that because you're less experienced; you haven't lived as much.
-
I come from a very rough background, and I'm saying that if you work hard and dedicate yourself that you can make it, too.
-
The scheme they had on defense for us was something quite a few people up here can play.
-
I wish I could describe anything I do as conscious or strategized. To be honest, in acting, you have so little control. The only control you have is if you're lucky enough to be in a position, which is not very often, in which you have choice. It's about what choices you make, and for me, it's entirely instinctive.
-
The BBC can be infuriating at times but I love it with a passion.
-
If Americans are reluctant to go on the dole that's because they have a healthy work ethic.
-
Indexing is a successful approach to investing not because it's simple, but because it has performed so much better than the average active manager (the opposite of indexing), and the simplicity is just an added bonus.
-
Be yourself. Play within yourself. Play your own game.
