Sigmar Polke Quotes

The conventional definition of reality, and the idea of 'normal life', mean nothing.

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• After watching me in a larger-than-life character in 'Magadheera,' the audiences didn't accept me as a college–going boy in 'Orange.'

  

  Ram Charan
  • Life
  • Character
  • College

• A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • People
  • Work
  • Done

• I grew up in a Hindu household but went to a Roman Catholic school. I grew up with a mother who said, 'I'll arrange a marriage for you at 18,' but she also said that we could achieve anything we put our minds to an encourage us to dream of becoming prime minister or president.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Up
  • School
  • She

• I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Business
  • Man
  • Thoughts

• Do not despise the fish because they are absolutely unable to speak or to reason, but fear lest you may be even more unreasonable than they by resisting the command of the Creator. Listen to the fish, who through their actions all but utter this word: 'We set out on this long journey for the perpetuation of our species.'

  

  Saint Basil
  • Long
  • May
  • Fear

• The reason I don't tweet as much as I used to, is because I'm sick of all the useless opinions and hate that I get daily. Goodbye Twitter.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • Hate
  • Daily
  • Sick

• I like to think I'll just be walking down the street one day and stop and meet someone, like, 'Oh my God, you're awesome,' and then we start dating.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • God
  • Stop
  • Day

• Don't let the past steal your present. This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Past
  • Alone
  • Present

• 'Don Quixote' is a very political book that has been used by diplomats, politicians, guerrilla fighters, to inspire people, to convince them that they themselves can become quixotic. George Washington had a copy of the book on his desk when signing the U.S. Constitution.

  

  Ilan Stavans
  • People
  • Book
  • Political

• He vanished abruptly, like an eel going into mud.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse

• I like big, soaring melodies and fun, splashy lyrics. Maybe like what Blondie would do in 2013.

  

  Bonnie McKee
  • Fun
  • Lyrics

• I take yoga classes, do a mile run, and of course take part in some kind of water sport.

  

  Karen Civil
  • Water
  • Yoga

• I'm not much of a partier anymore. I enjoy clarity much more.

  

  Sheryl Crow

• If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.

  

  Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • Men
  • War
  • Suicide

• We take a lot of pictures with fans, and when they walk away, their parents say, 'Who was that?'

  

  Freddie Wong
  • Parents

• I'm sorry, but I can't imagine being an American icon! It would be pretty difficult to look at your face in the mirror and think of yourself as that without laughing and spitting toothpaste all over!

  

  Jane Pauley
  • American
  • Pretty
  • Mirror

• I'm not trying to feed off of a concept that another artist had - that's not what I do.

  

  Future
  • Trying

• The climate, the economic situation, rising birth rates; none of these things give me a lot of hope or reason to be optimistic.

  

  David Attenborough
  • Hope
  • Optimistic

• I knew I was going to go into the field and make fun of people to their faces. I knew what I was getting into.

  

  John Oliver
  • People
  • Fun

• I stopped writing fiction the moment I started writing songs, and I miss it.

  

  Jake Shears Scissor Sisters
  • Writing

• Save for minor ailments and accident, my battalion is practically immune from sickness; colds come and go as a matter of course, sprains and cuts claim momentary attention, but otherwise the health of the battalion is perfect.

  

  Patrick MacGill
  • Attention
  • Perfect
  • Health

• I understand how you could see something in the root of a tree, a crack in the wall, in an eroded stone or pebble. But marble? It comes off in blocks and doesn't evoke any image. It does not inspire.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Wall
  • Tree
  • Roots

• Good doctors get a mechanic's pleasure in making you tick over.

  

  Margery Allingham
  • Good
  • Pleasure
  • Doctors

• The conventional definition of reality, and the idea of 'normal life', mean nothing.

  

  Sigmar Polke
  • Reality
  • Mean
  • Definition