A. Y. Jackson Quotes
The obedient in art are always the forgotten . . . The country is glorious but its beauties are unknown, and but waiting for a real live artist to splash them onto canvas . . . Chop your own path. Get off the car track.
Quotes to Explore
-
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
-
The FHA literally drew up the redlining map and then basically distributed - I'm sorry, the Home Owners' Loan Corporation actually did it, and then distributed to banks who used that as policy to determine how they would lend and who they would lend to. The racism in the system was pervasive and total.
-
I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.
-
There were wonderful moments when I was singing for the first time in the Olympia Theatre and I was pregnant with my son, which was very, very strange for a singer.
-
I inherited some Chanel pieces from my mother. I've worn Prada - absolutely. Wonderful designers are inspiring. I also love designers not known. I love a lot of vintage pieces. I am pretty minimal, pretty classic.
-
Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.
-
When I graduated from university I tried to buy a beeper, and it cost me $250. My pay at the time was $10 a month.
-
Of all work-schools, a good farm is probably the best for motor development.
-
Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-
What I say or do here won't matter much, nor should it.
-
The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.
-
You know, people always ask, 'What are you like offstage?' And I always say, 'Well, I'm completely normal and mellow.'
-
Lyrics are so important, I hate every second of writing them, but it's something I take great pride in when it's finished.
-
One of the enduring problems with certain societies in the world - and this is certainly true of a lot of places in the Middle East - is that the capacity for self-governance and self-organizing just isn't there. It has to do with history.
-
Hollywood would make a holocaust an animated comedy if people would pay to see it; they don't care... they just want your money.
-
I will say that rowing in the first Olympics was probably one of the most proud moments in my life. What I enjoy about the sport is that it's definitive. Nobody can take away from the fact that you're an Olympian. It's indisputable. You get there on merit and merit alone.
-
Einstein was a man who could ask immensely simple questions. And what his work showed is that when the answers are simple too, then you can hear God thinking.
-
I had two passions growing up - one was music, one was technology. I tried to play in a band for a while, but I was never talented enough to make it. And I started companies. One day came along and I decided to combine the two - and there was Spotify.
-
I think of myself as an actor and not a movie star. I like doing movies; I enjoy it. But, essentially, I'm a theater actor. That's the only place I feel like I actually am a star. In the theater, I can put people in the seats and sell tickets.
-
I'm pretty lucky to work on both 'CSI: NY' and 'Supernatural.' Not bad gigs!
-
Stood for his country’s glory fast,And nail’d her colours to the mast!
-
Only peril can bring the French together. One can't impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese.
-
We have to make the first move ourselves rather than expecting it to come from the phenomenal world or from other people. If we are meditating at home and we happen to live in the middle of the High Street, we cannot stop the traffic just because we want peace and quiet. But we can stop ourselves, we can accept the noise. The noise also contains silence. We must put ourselves into it and expect nothing from outside, just as Buddha did. And we must accept whatever situation arises.
-
The obedient in art are always the forgotten . . . The country is glorious but its beauties are unknown, and but waiting for a real live artist to splash them onto canvas . . . Chop your own path. Get off the car track.
