Willem de Kooning Quotes
It's really absurd to make... a human image, with paint, today, when you think about it... But then all of a sudden, it was even more absurd not to do it.
Willem de Kooning
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I'm sure that was the right step, even though, formally speaking, it may seem disadvantageous for a president to resign. But, looking into what is happening today and what is going to happen in the future, I think history will show I made the right decision.
Eduard Shevardnadze
So many people are working in vaudeville today that I looked for three weeks to book enough acts for an hour bill and didn't have them until the night before we opened in Buffalo and money was no object!
Edgar Bergen
If it were not for the bad things that've happened to me, I wouldn't be the person I am today.
Wayne Newton
The use and threat of force, when world peace is not in danger, are no longer valid frames of reference for achieving the ends sought today by sovereign nations.
Carlos Salinas de Gortari
Act strenuously, would appear to be our faith, and right thinking will take care of itself.
Irving Babbitt
It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.
Pablo Picasso
Everybody thinks of baseball as a sacred cow. When you have the nerve to challenge it, people look down their noses at you. There are a lot of things wrong with a lot of industries....baseball is one of them.
Curt Flood
If, then, there must be something eternal, let us see what sort of Being it must be. And to that it is very obvious to Reason, that it must necessarily be a cogitative Being. For it is as impossible to conceive that ever bare incogitative Matter should produce a thinking intelligent Being, as that nothing should of itself produce Matter.
John Locke
Nazareth
For as good habits of the people require good laws to support them, so laws, to be observed, need good habits on the part of the people.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
What goes down on film is different to what you see with the naked eye.
Christopher Eccleston
It's really absurd to make... a human image, with paint, today, when you think about it... But then all of a sudden, it was even more absurd not to do it.
Willem de Kooning