Vincent Van Gogh Quotes

To die for the sake of dying - I prefer to die of passion than to die of boredom!

Vincent Van Gogh

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• I want to entertain people, but with some substance.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • People
  • Want
  • Substance

• I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Job
  • Inspiration
  • Writer

• There's no way to escape the fact that we've grown up in a violent culture, we just can't get away from it, it's part of our heritage. I think part of it is that we've always felt somewhat helpless in the face of this vast continent. Helplessness is answered in many ways, but one of them is violence.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Up
  • Think
  • Culture

• I tried to play rugby but was never very good.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Good
  • Never
  • Rugby

• The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • English
  • End
  • Personal

• The ANC party from time to time comes with legislation which, if accepted and if not nullified by the constitution of court, would have the effect of undermining the constitution and eroding its values.

  

  F. W. de Klerk
  • Time
  • Party
  • Values

• The interest on our debt is going to collapse this country.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Country
  • Interest
  • Debt

• Only a few good leaders have paused to reflect seriously on being leaders.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Good
  • Seriously
  • Reflect

• I'm a very restless person. I'm always doing something. The creative process never stops.

  

  Oscar de la Renta
  • Doing
  • Creative
  • Process

• Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Up
  • Time
  • Children

• But the Wisdom of God, which is His only-begotten Son, being in all respects incapable of change or alteration, and every good quality in Him being essential, and such as cannot be changed and converted, His glory is therefore declared to be pure and sincere.

  

  Origen
  • Good
  • God
  • Change

• In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • You
  • Film
  • Audience

• I quit high school the first day of 10th grade because I felt like I was wasting time.

  

  Bam Margera
  • Time
  • School
  • High

• We all go to the theater and cinema to be inspired and moved on an emotional level, sometimes to laughter, sometimes to tears. Once I discovered that acting could have such an effect, I was sold. It has been one of the most rewarding discoveries I have ever made.

  

  Ian Anthony Dale
  • Emotional
  • Acting
  • Inspired

• When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Judge

• By the end of 2020, the only region of the world that will still have a lot of 2G connections may be Africa.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • World
  • May
  • End

• I've worked in construction, in a factory sewing clothes. I also sold flowers and doughnuts - just odd jobs to try to make 10 pesos, which is equivalent to 20 cents.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • Try
  • Flowers
  • Construction

• Pain is never permanent.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Pain
  • Never
  • Permanent

• I never liked blues music, and I really didn't like jazz. I liked Chuck Berry.

  

  John William Cummings Ramones
  • Jazz
  • Blues
  • Chuck Berry

• The sum of all known value and respect, I add up in you, whoever you are.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Respect
  • Value
  • Sum

• Singing is my passion and something that I still love to do and I'm always going to want to do it.

  

  Naturi Naughton 3LW
  • Love
  • Passion
  • Singing

• The current information revolution is a cultural revolution, a social revolution, a thoroughgoing technological revolution that involves not just information, but labor, leisure, entertainment, communication, education, culture and thus is part of a major cultural and social shift.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Social Revolution
  • Cultural Revolution
  • Information Revolution

• Through the incarnation God descended into nature in order to super-animate and take it back to him.

  

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
  • God
  • Nature

• To die for the sake of dying - I prefer to die of passion than to die of boredom!

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Passion
  • Dying
  • Boredom