Mona Simpson Quotes

Fashion is what seems beautiful now but looks ugly later; art can be ugly at first but it becomes beautiful later.

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• As far as religion goes, I feel like everyone should have their own one-on-one with God.

  

  Ja Rule
  • God
  • Religion
  • Feel

• This is my favorite area in New York - the West Village is the heart of New York. I could never move somewhere else.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Heart
  • New York
  • Village

• Your ability to shape your future depends on how well you communicate where you want to be when you get there. When ideas are communicated effectively, people follow and change.

  

  Nancy Duarte
  • People
  • Future
  • Change

• When you work so hard on making a film, it's all worthwhile when you get to experience seeing that film with an audience who thoroughly enjoy it and react to the movie.

  

  Karl Urban
  • Work
  • Experience
  • Movie

• Some things are really sacred and important to other cultures, so you have to be aware, politically, about those things before you just adopt them.

  

  Zendaya
  • Important
  • You
  • Just

• We can't do a modern Batman continually beating up thugs in zoot suits with tommy guns in violin cases. The game has to move on. It has to feel relevant.

  

  Gary Frank
  • Up
  • Game
  • Batman

• I learned Spanish at home and, since half my family doesn't speak English, it's my first language.

  

  Odette Annable
  • Family
  • Home
  • English

• In almost every technology area that we're ahead in, we're ahead in because the United States leads the world in computers.

  

  W. Daniel Hillis
  • World
  • Technology
  • Computers

• To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Artist
  • Find
  • Now

• The longer I spent time on 'The Daily Show,' standing in front of a green screen pretending to report from war zones and hot spots around the world - most often from somewhere in the Middle East - the more I began to realize that 'The Daily Show' was radicalizing me.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Time
  • World
  • War

• There's no other major item most of us own that is as confusing, unpredictable and unreliable as our personal computers.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Computers
  • Unpredictable

• I live in New York and got a call from my agent saying there was this new role on 'Mad Men,' it might be recurring and they're seeing people tomorrow. I said, 'OK, this is one of those things where you hedge your bets, use your miles and get on a plane.' I flew out Tuesday morning and got the job on a Wednesday.

  

  Cara Buono
  • People
  • Men
  • Live

• In order to understand, I destroyed myself.

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• What kind of bank gives back 65 percent-often less-of what you deposit? Indeed, when you compare the services of a bank and an insurance company, common sense suggests something is out of whack.

  

  Andrew Tobias
  • Insurance

• I don't like speaking publicly when I don't have to be funny.

  

  Chelsea Handler
  • Funny

• Who's not a fan of Don Williams? He's the gentle giant.

  

  Josh Turner

• I think a lot of films do themselves a disfavor by putting in way too much information, and everyone knows what's gonna happen next, and no one can actually discover things as they go.

  

  Elizabeth Olsen

• I'd love to still be able to play a bit of football, but my knees are shot to pieces.

  

  Bradley Walsh
  • Football

• I would say that I am a jaded man beyond most expectations, but, like everyone else, I still have hope.

  

  James Salter
  • Hope

• At Birkin Grif's left, his seat insecure on a scruffy packhorse, Theomeris Glyn, his only armour a steel-stressed leather cap, grumbled at the cold and the earliness of the hour, and cursed the flint hearts of city girls.

  

  M. John Harrison
  • Heart
  • Girl
  • City

• Beautiful men and women with distorted shadows came and scorched their handprints onto doors before vanishing skyward, drafts of heat billowing behind them with the whumph of unseen wings. Here and there, feathers fell, and they were like tufts of white fire, disintegrating to ash as soon as they touched the ground.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Men
  • Women
  • Beautiful

• Fashion is what seems beautiful now but looks ugly later; art can be ugly at first but it becomes beautiful later.

  

  Mona Simpson
  • Beautiful
  • Fashion
  • Seems