Paul Rust Quotes

My sweet spot, the stuff I like the most, is hopeful melancholy. Optimistic melancholy.

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• This truth must be recognized as a dogma and assume the validity of an axiom in the general understanding of painting.

  

  Fernand Leger
  • Truth
  • Understanding
  • Painting

• I didn't want to give up my Illinois driver's license and was unaware that was a crime. It is, by the way, in the state of California. Lesson learned. I technically broke a law, so technically I deserve whatever I get.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Up
  • Want
  • Law

• Using the power you derive from the discovery of the truth about racism in South Africa, you will help us to remake our part of the world into a corner of the globe on which all - of which all of humanity can be proud.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • World
  • Power
  • Truth

• As I understand, the role of the federal judiciary, the role of our court system, is to provide justice.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Justice
  • Understand
  • Provide

• I think we all attract troublemakers; I don't think it's particularly about anyone. I had it actually as an album title, and I thought it would be really cool to write a song about a girl that's a bit of troublemaker.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Song
  • Girl
  • Cool

• I think there are universal principles that we should want to understand, but that are not necessarily good for us. We could recognise universal propensities which current cultures can't fully eradicate, which we would want to eradicate if we could. Let's say, a tendency for tribal violence. Or racism.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Good
  • Violence
  • Racism

• Before I started writing, I'd never read much fiction. I was more interested in non-fiction. I'm taking the same approach to theatre: I can operate from a position of ignorance and make up my own rules instead of being bound by customs and practice.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Practice

• When I was taken to the concentration camp of Auschwitz, a manuscript of mine ready for publication was confiscated. Certainly, my deep desire to write this manuscript anew helped me to survive the rigors of the camps I was in.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Desire
  • Survive
  • Helped

• Besides, it's good to force C programmers to use the toolbox occasionally.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Good

• I can't shoot myself in the foot before I get in the chorus line.

  

  Lindsay Pearce

• The BP settlement is a victory for Alabama: not only for the amount of compensation we were able to secure, but also for avoiding many more years of litigation.

  

  Luther Strange
  • Victory

• And though hard be the task, 'Keep a stiff upper lip'.

  

  Phoebe Cary

• Wilde is an invaluable acquaintance. Often, in situations where I am required to appear witty, I simply steal large chunks from his works and attempt to pass them off as my own with minor modifications.

  

  Alexandra Petri
  • Witty

• I don't think architecture should be considered as an art form in the first instance. Whenever I say that, it makes people really angry. But this is a very political profession in the Grecian sense. I believe there have to be reasons for every building, and that the ideas should not be self-referential.

  

  James Polshek
  • People
  • Believe
  • Art

• When you get up there in years, the fairways get longer and the holes get smaller.

  

  Bobby Locke
  • Up

• It's easy to get tired of religious fundamentalists. They're such a bore. They have no sense of mystery. It's a drag, man.

  

  Kurt Elling
  • Religious
  • Tired

• I just feel exciting.

  

  Li Na

• An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

  

  Andre Maurois
  • Age

• The Persian's mind, like his illuminated manuscripts, does not deal in perspective: two thousand years, if he happens to know anything about them, are as exciting as the day before yesterday.

  

  Freya Stark
  • Mind
  • Perspective
  • Exciting

• All that was neither a city, nor a church, nor a river, nor color, nor light, nor shadow: it was reverie. For a long time, I remained motionless, letting myself be penetrated gently by this unspeakable ensemble, by the serenity of the sky and the melancholy of the moment. I do not know what was going on in my mind, and I could not express it; it was one of those ineffable moments when one feels something in himself which is going to sleep and something which is awakening.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Church
  • Sleep
  • Melancholy

• I'm not shy about asking the customer, because I want to talk about who she is and what she wants from me.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Wants
  • Shy
  • Customer

• My sweet spot, the stuff I like the most, is hopeful melancholy. Optimistic melancholy.

  

  Paul Rust
  • Optimistic
  • Melancholy
  • Hopeful