Amos Ferguson Quotes

I paint not by sight but by faith. Faith gives you sight.

Amos Ferguson

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• My granny was very concerned that we weren't baptised - Mum had been desperate to escape her own Catholic upbringing. But Granny thought we were blighted. Whenever we turned up at her house, she would flick holy water - from the font she kept by the door - over us, in the hope that it would save us from damnation.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • Up
  • She
  • Hope

• It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.

  

  Marat Safin
  • People
  • Practice
  • Impossible

• It's such a weird thing: to sit and look at yourself is so distracting to the psyche. It would be like me standing in front of a mirror and looking at myself all day, trying to find a flaw.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Trying
  • Day
  • Myself

• I am grateful to theatre for making me what I am today. But it's not like theatre is my first love. I am equally attached to cinema, which is, actually, a child of theatre, since it borrows heavily from it.

  

  Om Puri
  • Child
  • Theatre
  • Grateful

• Oh Cup-bearer, set my glass afire with the light of wine!

  

  Hafez
  • Light
  • Wine
  • Glass

• Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Good
  • Death
  • Die

• My first introduction to New Orleans was from the air, flying high over the city with a view of the land - and water - below.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • High
  • City
  • Water

• I've been that celebrity on the red carpet, and I appreciate that something hasn't got to just look good from the front, from the back, it's got to look good at all angles.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Good
  • Red
  • Celebrity

• This is a book about giving our best and especially about doing whatever we can to help others.

  

  Ben Carson
  • Book
  • Help
  • Giving

• I have to admit that when I watch a movie in which there is no moral context for the violence - I find that offensive. I think that's potentially damaging to society.

  

  Dean Koontz
  • Movie
  • Society
  • Violence

• I haven't made a movie for a while, but I've watched a lot. It's my major waste of time. I like to work, but also to be waiting for work.

  

  Bernardo Bertolucci
  • Time
  • Work
  • Movie

• Mamas, don't let your sons grow up to be Cowboys... or Oilers.

  

  Chuck Noll
  • Up

• I really appreciate what it takes to create a book. I understand the loneliness that it involves and the excitement and the vulnerability: I especially identify with that.

  

  Bill Clegg
  • Book
  • Vulnerability

• I'm not yet convinced that we will face an unemployment problem created by AI. There will certainly be some occupations eliminated - drivers of vehicles, many production jobs, etc. Whether this creates mass unemployment depends on how quickly this happens. If it happens overnight, it will be a huge disruption.

  

  David Autor

• I know what it's like to finish the laundry and to look in the basket five minutes later and it's full again. I know what it's like to pull all the groceries in, and see the teenagers run through, and all of a sudden, all of the groceries you just bought a few hours ago are gone.

  

  Ann Romney

• I love my district, the 37th Legislative District in Washington State, where I have lived for more than 20 years.

  

  Pramila Jayapal

• One of the things you're doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • People
  • Good
  • Trying

• Most people are visually illiterate. Most people don't understand images: they don't understand how to interpret them or how to manufacture them.

  

  Peter Greenaway
  • People

• My roots and Victor's are jazz, basically, but these two young fellows that we have with us come out of rock bands. And they're tremendously exciting players.

  

  Chico Hamilton
  • Rock

• I gave up years ago on the concept that you could actually have balance in your life, I think it's a phantom chase.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Life
  • Up
  • Think

• I live in a house that was built in 1480. It has a moat around it. It is like a little baby castle.

  

  Bill Wyman The Rolling Stones
  • Live
  • House
  • Girl

• It is faith that drives us to build, a belief that we cannot be limited by lack of nerve or airspace.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Faith
  • Belief
  • Build

• I scarcely believe that in psychology data are present which can be mathematically evaluated. But one cannot know this with certainty, without having made the experiment. God alone is in possession of the mathematical bases of psychic phenomena.

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • God
  • Believe
  • Alone

• I paint not by sight but by faith. Faith gives you sight.

  

  Amos Ferguson
  • Faith
  • Paint
  • Sight