Alan Webb Quotes

Nobody thought I was dumb enough to do it twice in a row.

Alan Webb

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• For a long time I found the celebrities of modern painting and poetry ridiculous. I loved absurd pictures, fanlights, stage scenery, mountebanks backcloths, inn-signs, cheap colored prints; unfashionable literature, church Latin, pornographic books badly spelt, grandmothers novels, fairy stories, little books for children, old operas, empty refrains, simple rhythms.

  

  Arthur Rimbaud
  • Time
  • Long
  • Children

• Always think that what you have to do is easy and it will become so.

  

  Emile Coue
  • Thinking
  • Easy
  • Positive Thinking

• What are your historical Facts still more your biographical Wilt thou know a man by stringing-together beadrolls of what thou namest Facts.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Facts
  • Historical
  • Beadrolls

• What better way to honor to such agents of chaos as Keith Partridge and Charles Manson?

  

  Derrick Bostrom Meat Puppets
  • Way
  • Honor
  • Agents

• It take many a year, mon, and maybe some bloodshed must be, but righteousness someday prevail.

  

  Bob Marley
  • Righteousness
  • Prevail

• You can't start worrying about what's going to happen. You get spastic enough worrying about what's happening now.

  

  Lauren Bacall
  • Worrying
  • Spastic

• My answer to everything is to keep shining brighter. Just keep shining as bright as you can.

  

  Katrina Mayer
  • Answer
  • Shining
  • Brighter

• The enemy of creativity... is fear. We're all born creative, it takes a little while to become afraid. A surprising insight: an enemy of fear is creativity. Acting in a creative way generates action, and action persuades the fear to lighten up.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Action
  • Enemy
  • Acting

• I can only paint in India. Europe belongs to Picasso, Matisse, Braque India belongs only to me.

  

  Amrita Sher-Gil
  • Paint
  • India
  • Belongs

• Speaking of love, one problem that recurs more and more frequently these days, in books and plays and movies, Is the inability of people to communicate with the people they love: husbands and wives who can't communicate, Children who can't communicate with their parents, and so on. And the characters in these books and plays and so on, And in real life, I might add, spend hours bemoaning the fact that they can't communicate. I feel that if a person can't communicate, the very least he can do is to shut up!

  

  Tom Lehrer
  • Children
  • Real
  • Character

• Alice: "How long is forever?" White Rabbit: "Sometimes, just one second."

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Forever
  • Second

• If you fear something, walk into it.

  

  Bette Ford
  • Fear
  • Walk

• I'm not sitting on a soapbox telling women what they should and shouldn't do, but I know what works for me.

  

  Cate Blanchett
  • Women
  • To Do
  • Telling

• That's one of our biggest challenges is finding out how to do that. There are times when you have to scale back. You might be performing on a five-by-five stage in front of 12 people. That's an exaggeration but there are times when you have to turn the corner and do an acoustic set.

  

  Alan Powell
  • Challenges
  • To Do
  • Exaggeration

• Nobody thought I was dumb enough to do it twice in a row.

  

  Alan Webb
  • To Do
  • Twice
  • Row