Anne Truitt Quotes

Artists have no choice but to express their lives.

Anne Truitt

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• A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves.

  

  Ralph W. Sockman
  • True
  • Always
  • Debt

• I'm a firm believer in the Second Amendment and the Bill of Rights. I don't think you should infringe on the type of weapon somebody should buy or the number of rounds in a high-capacity magazine.

  

  Gabriel E. Gomez
  • High
  • Think
  • Bill Of Rights

• I've always been interested in family secrets and what happens behind closed doors. I find that fascinating and creepy - that's why I read: because I want to know other people's secrets.

  

  Ottessa Moshfegh
  • People
  • Family
  • Why

• I do go into things thinking, 'Right. I'm going to enjoy this.'

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Thinking
  • Enjoy
  • Right

• International socialism recognizes the right of free independent nations, with equal rights.

  

  Karl Liebknecht
  • Free
  • Independent
  • Equal

• Industrialization starts with the formation of capital - it does not matter how. It can be created by saving, by the state enforcing its will on the people, by the very rich themselves.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • People
  • Matter
  • Rich

• I tried martial arts classes for three weeks, but I quit because you actually get hit. I just want to do the movie kind of martial arts.

  

  Tamara Taylor
  • Movie
  • Want
  • You

• I think that's exactly what Silicon Valley was all about in those days. Let's do a startup in our parents' garage and try to create a business.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Business
  • Think
  • Parents

• Once again, Pat Robertson leaves us speechless with his insensitivity and arrogance.

  

  Ralph G. Neas
  • Again
  • Once
  • Arrogance

• When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own.

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • Life
  • Period
  • Painting

• I'm obsessed with radio. It's a good start to Sunday morning.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Good
  • Morning
  • Start

• When I started you were more in touch with the people you were playing to. There wasn't the distance or the separation that there is now.

  

  Van Morrison
  • People
  • Distance
  • Now

• My type is really young, short, athletic, and smart. I know, you want to be with someone who's going to be your friend - yeah, yeah, yeah. I want the Adonis line, the two down the hips to the waist. And a guy has to be able to accept criticism about his clothing. I can be very particular about what I like and don't like.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Guy
  • Friend
  • Smart

• Rehab is endlessly repetitive. And it's never easy, because once you've mastered some movement or action or word, no matter how small, you move on to the next. You never rest.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Small
  • Action
  • Rest

• If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Want
  • Peace
  • Nations

• If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Promise
  • Politician
  • Dinner

• Palestinians have had to live for a long time with the fact that Israelis had power over them in their everyday lives.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Time
  • Long
  • Live

• I think at the end of the day, even though I didn't win a Super Bowl ring, I felt like I backed them up for drafting me. I backed up the San Diego Chargers for picking me with the fifth pick.

  

  LaDainian Tomlinson
  • Up
  • Day
  • End

• The human condition: lost in thought.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Lost

• When you're listening to a recording, you're supposedly listening to some aspect of the past in the present as you travel slowly into the future, but you also know there's a very strong likelihood that the future of that recording, whether you made it or whether you're listening to a Led Zeppelin record, is going to continue probably far beyond where you are.

  

  Will Oldham
  • Strong
  • Listening
  • Records

• The cult of individual personalities is always, in my view, unjustified. To be sure, nature distributes her gifts variously among her children. But there are plenty of the well-endowed ones too, thank God, and I am firmly convinced that most of them live quiet, unregarded lives.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Nature
  • Individual
  • Lives

• This kingdom of God life is not a matter of waking up each morning with a list of chores or an agenda to be tended to, left on our bedside table by the Holy Spirit for us while we slept. We wake up already immersed in a large story of creation and covenant, of Israel and Jesus, the story of Jesus and the stories that Jesus told. We let ourselves be formed by these formative stories, and especially as we listen to the stories that Jesus tells, get a feel for the way he does it, the way he talks, the way he treats people, the Jesus way.

  

  Eugene H. Peterson
  • Jesus
  • Spirit
  • Stories

• Artists have no choice but to express their lives.

  

  Anne Truitt
  • Choice
  • Lives
  • Express