Amedeo Modigliani Quotes

With one eye you are looking at the outside world, while with the other you are looking within yourself.

Amedeo Modigliani

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• There's a long tradition of black folks pleading with white people. It's a tradition that emerges from political necessity, so I get it; I'm just not very interested in it.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Long
  • Political

• The reality is we talk a lot about it, but we really don't give everyone an opportunity to buy into it, and this combines both the best of Republican and Democratic ideals.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Reality
  • Opportunity
  • Best

• Phrases that have historical significance or become headlines don't just magically appear in the moment. They are mindfully planned.

  

  Nancy Duarte
  • Moment
  • Become
  • Significance

• One of the things Kuhn said about normal science is that people 'expect' things to be discovered.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • People
  • Science
  • Said

• Basically, I have a gift as an actress, and I want to present the sophisticated side of me as an actress and a person.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Me
  • Present
  • Gift

• If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • You
  • Alone
  • Write

• This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Life
  • Think
  • Pain

• I'm 68 years old, and I'm as much a criminal now as I was at the age of 22. And, I'm even more of a dissident than I was then.

  

  Felice Picano
  • Age
  • Old
  • Now

• I am convinced that 100 years from now, people will talk about Elliott Carter as one of the most important figures in the second half of 20th-century music.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Figures
  • 20th Century

• Although I'm an atheist who believes only in great nature, I recognize the spiritual richness and grandeur of the Roman Catholicism in which I was raised.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Great
  • Nature
  • Spiritual

• Clothes are designed for the media, because it's a great show.

  

  Oleg Cassini
  • Great
  • Media
  • Clothes

• If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Road
  • Down
  • Run

• It used to be that you needed a $500-million-a-year company in order to reach a worldwide audience of consumers. Now, all you need is a Steam account. That changes a whole bunch of stuff. It's kind of a boring 'gee, information processing changes a stuff' story, but it's going to have an impact on every single company.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • Single
  • Information
  • Changes

• I have to clean my room and unload the dishwasher, wash the pans, and feed the dogs.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Dogs
  • Clean
  • Feed

• 5-Hour Energy is not an energy drink, it's a focus drink. But we can't say that. The FDA doesn't like the word 'focus.' I have no idea why.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • Why
  • Energy
  • Focus

• As I began to take risks, leaving my very comfortable and secure job and taking this first leap into fashion, every subsequent risk became easier to take because I began to see the kind of opportunity and excitement that risk-taking offered.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Job
  • Opportunity
  • Fashion

• The familiar trope of the woman in peril doesn't really interest me.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Me
  • Woman
  • Interest

• The Negro was a political football between his former slave master and Northern political adventurers. The economic basis of this contest was the power to tax, to float bonds, to award franchise: in short, to gain control over the financial resources of the newly organized States.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • Power
  • Political
  • Control

• Please your eye and plague your heart.

  

  William Cobbett
  • Heart
  • Eye
  • Please

• I think waking up in the middle of the night and seeing stuff in the dark and thinking it is something scary or demonic. When you first wake up and you see things and you're eyes aren't open and things aren't what they seem. That happened to me like three weeks ago!

  

  Daniel Jacobs
  • Thinking
  • Night
  • Dark

• My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • Age
  • Man
  • Change

• One positive statement of good is more powerful than 1,000 negative thoughts; and two positive statements of good are more powerful than 10,000 negative thoughts.

  

  Catherine Ponder
  • Powerful
  • Attitude
  • Negative

• Writing is a solitary existence. Making a movie is controlled chaos - thousands of moving parts and people. Every decision is a compromise. If you're writing and you don't like how your character looks or talks, you just fix it. But in a movie, if there's something you don't like, that's tough.

  

  Dan Brown
  • People
  • Writing
  • Character

• With one eye you are looking at the outside world, while with the other you are looking within yourself.

  

  Amedeo Modigliani
  • Eye
  • Yourself
  • Outside