Victor Vasarely Quotes

In basic research, intellectual rigor and sentimental freedom necessarily alternate.

Victor Vasarely

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• When I was little, one of my father's friends owned a circus. For four absolutely incredible summers, I found myself being the only boy in Ireland who didn't dream of running away with the circus. I was in it!

  

  Ian Beattie
  • Friends
  • Father
  • Dream

• I feel that I am a scholar who only with the left hand writes novels.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Novels
  • Writes
  • Scholar

• I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is a little bit too purple, and I know that.

  

  H. G. Bissinger
  • Power
  • Know
  • Sometimes

• I suppose anybody just losing it and sputtering curses is pretty funny. But I think it would be more of a challenge, much more of a challenge, to make a cursing dad funny.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Pretty
  • Funny
  • Dad

• To be a great actor, you really don't need to go to acting school or learn dance classes or work on your body. You have to be intelligent. You have to draw on a lot of emotions that you go through in life that you can tap into once you work on a set.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Life
  • Work
  • Great

• I don't think I have a black-hat image.

  

  Harold Simmons
  • Think
  • Black
  • Image

• Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • People
  • Loving
  • Preaching

• I have a terrible fear of travel. Just before we go, I start to panic and tell my wife I don't want to go. It's ridiculous. But actually it's only when it's somewhere I've not been to before.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
  • Fear
  • Wife
  • Travel

• I am happy that I have entertained people and made them happy.

  

  Aamir Khan
  • People
  • Happy
  • Entertained

• Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Children
  • Happy
  • Be Happy

• In 1970, Dean Robert Ebert offered me the Chair of Pathology at Harvard Medical School. I moved to Harvard because I missed the university environment and, more particularly, the stimulating interaction with the eager, enthusiastic, and unprejudiced young minds of the students and fellows.

  

  Baruj Benacerraf
  • School
  • Me
  • Environment

• I feel like I just have such the blood and bones of a New Yorker that I can almost imagine better, like, giving up the fight and not being able to afford the city and going out West, keeping a small place here, and then when I'm like 80, coming back here, living on the park and going to the theater.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Small

• It's hard not to play golf that's up to Jack Nicklaus standards when you are Jack Nicklaus.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Up
  • You
  • Play

• Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with.

  

  Rachel Corrie
  • People
  • Trying
  • Military

• Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Life
  • Long
  • Trouble

• Future historians trying to determine what it was like to be alive in fin de millennium America should read the last two decades of O. Henry and Best American short-story collections.

  

  Gary Krist
  • Trying
  • American
  • America

• Both villains and heroes need to have a steadfast belief in themselves.

  

  Jack Gleeson
  • Need
  • Belief
  • Heroes

• We're not looking at banning all weapons.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • Looking
  • Weapons
  • Banning

• Some people have a taboo about doing advertising in the States. You know, where they kind of make their bread and butter. But to me, that's crazy.

  

  Ice Cube
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Advertising

• My main concern is the political dimension of European integration. This is one of the most important issues of all, as far as I'm concerned. It has to do with our past, with our sensitivity, perhaps even our hypersensitivity in this regard.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • Important
  • Political
  • Past

• Research, for me, it's trying to get a mood, a mood of a place and style of people and it's also trying to boost my confidence and get the adrenalin flowing. I go off on my trips to odd places and dark corners, feeling somewhat apprehensive and nervous.

  

  Gerald Seymour
  • People
  • Feelings
  • Research

• I enjoy doing the research of nonfiction; that gives me some pleasure, being a detective again.

  

  Joseph Wambaugh
  • Pleasure
  • Research
  • Detective

• I'm not the most patient person in the world. I am one of the most persistent people in the world.

  

  Bruce Rauner
  • People
  • World

• In basic research, intellectual rigor and sentimental freedom necessarily alternate.

  

  Victor Vasarely
  • Freedom
  • Research