Thomas Eakins (Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins) Quotes

Of course, it is well to go abroad and see the works of the old masters, but Americans... must strike out for themselves, and only by doing this will we create a great and distinctly American art.

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• One cannot be too careful in the selection of adjectives for descriptions. Words or compounds which describe precisely, and which convey exactly the right suggestions to the mind of the reader, are essential.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Mind
  • Words
  • Right

• A lot of people who want to cook with less fat are surprised by that. You can cook vegetables in a little water in a covered pan and then throw the fat into the residual liquid to coat them.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • People
  • Water
  • Fat

• It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • People
  • Life
  • Wise

• In all these years, I've understood one thing: that it's only your work that should do all the talking.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Work
  • Years
  • Talking

• Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Want
  • Same
  • Most

• I'd say, for my freshman year in college, I was doing everything in my power to hide the fact that I had ever had any association with the Paul Green School of Rock Music because it was like this bruise. It was such a sore subject.

  

  Madi Diaz
  • Music
  • School
  • Power

• There came into the world an unlimited abundance of everything people need. But people need everything except unlimited abundance.

  

  Karel Capek
  • People
  • World
  • Abundance

• I would break a lot of cymbals. You whack the cymbals hard enough, and they will crack in half. Drums are not actually as sturdy as they look. They're actually somewhat fragile instruments.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • You
  • Enough
  • Look

• I think it would be hard to go the distance in this business without a sense of humor.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • Business
  • Think
  • Distance

• Charan is very hard-working and non-egoistic, given the family he comes from. He is very open to listening, and he surrenders himself completely to the director. It was lovely to work with an actor like that.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Work
  • Family
  • Listening

• Like 'real', 'free' is only used to rule out the suggestion of some or all of its recognized antitheses. As 'truth' is not a name of a characteristic of assertions, so 'freedom' is not a name for a characteristic of actions, but the name of a dimension in which actions are assessed.

  

  J. L. Austin
  • Real
  • Truth
  • Free

• Every fool knoweth that hatreds are the cinders of affection.

  

  Walter Raleigh
  • Fool

• She had little doubt that whatever happened to her on this drifting ship was of scant interest to a God who could allow her to reach this sorry state in the first place.

  

  Tad Williams
  • God
  • She
  • Doubt

• The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

  

  Alan Kay
  • Future

• But what about the sufferings of the innocent? Worst of all is the hell that exists in the special psychiatric clinics in Dnieperopetrovsk, Sytshevk, Blagoveshensk, Kazan, Chernakovsk, Oriol, Leningrad, Tashkent, … .

  

  Andrei Sakharov
  • Innocent

• Safety should be a birthright.

  

  Clemantine Wamariya
  • Safety

• When the Pixar people call, you jump at the opportunity.

  

  Bonnie Hunt
  • People
  • Opportunity
  • Jump

• As an attorney, I could be rather flamboyant in court. I did not act as though I were a black man in a white man's court, but as if everyone else - white and black - was a guest in my court. When trying a case, I often made sweeping gestures and used high-flown language.

  

  Nelson Mandela
  • Trying
  • High
  • Black

• The world has changed and it's going to keep changing, but God never changes; so we are safe when we cling to Him.

  

  Charles R. Swindoll
  • World
  • God

• I've been composing music all my life and if I'd been clever enough at school I would like to have gone to music college.

  

  Anthony Hopkins
  • Life
  • Music
  • School

• Dinosaurs were huge and powerful; they could not adapt and they died out. And so the big difference between dinosaurs and cockroaches is adaptability: one is able to adjust, while the other, apparently, couldn't... The same analogy applies to fighting, and probably any other sport. It's not always the strong that survive. It takes brains, guts, tolerance and forward thinking. We've seen this since the beginning of mixed martial arts.

  

  Georges St-Pierre
  • Art
  • Strong
  • Powerful

• As long as I am chairman, regulating global warming pollution is off the table indefinitely. I don't want there to be any uncertainty about that.

  

  Joe Barton
  • Long

• We need a revolution every 200 years, because all governments become stale and corrupt after 200 years.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Government
  • Years
  • Needs

• Of course, it is well to go abroad and see the works of the old masters, but Americans... must strike out for themselves, and only by doing this will we create a great and distinctly American art.

  

  Thomas Eakins
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