Arnold Friberg Quotes

There is no tube of paint that says, 'Don't know.' I have to come to grips with it.

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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

• Quality training is what I do now; before it was a combination of both quality and quantity. Now I'm not trying to be a world-class athlete, I don't need to train at that level. It's about being fit, fit for life.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Life
  • World
  • Trying

• 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

• Those of us lucky enough to fall in love with Asia know that it's an affair that's as long as it is resonant.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Know
  • Enough
  • Lucky

• Audiences are smart, and they don't need to be spoon-fed everything.

  

  Garth Davis
  • Smart
  • Need
  • Everything

• I mean, my dad's a television producer, and I knew I could get a job as an assistant or a reader with one of his friends, but it wasn't exactly what I wanted to do.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Job
  • Friends
  • Dad

• Working as a teaboy may have helped my confidence, but not everyone else was so pleased. I could never remember who had milk or how many sugars, and I had an unusual talent for spilling tea on the recording console.

  

  Rick Astley
  • May
  • Remember
  • Help

• I used to have this little mouse. I buy birds from the pet store and I let them go.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Littles
  • Bird
  • Used

• I wouldn't live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Live
  • Sun
  • California

• Most of the homeschooled children I know have about the same amount of after-school peer time as the rest of the population but, obviously, without that school day together, they do spend less time with their peers. Whether that's a good thing or a bad thing is still open to debate.

  

  Quinn Cummings
  • Time
  • Good
  • Children

• So for me, fashion was about standing out as an individual - and it helped me get the attention that most people try to get with publicity stunts or by doing other crazy things. But I just let the attention come to me naturally, and I think some of that has to do with my fashion.

  

  ASAP Rocky
  • People
  • Attention
  • Fashion

• I did a book signing Saturday, actually, in Augusta and people were just coming up to me in tears saying, 'Thank you, for what you've done. You've helped me change my life'.

  

  Ashley Smith
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I'm a gemini, and I get so bored so easily. I mean, I have moved six times in the last eight years.

  

  Courteney Cox
  • Years
  • Bored
  • Times

• I don't disrespect the audience. I only sing very well-written, intelligent songs.

  

  Tony Bennett
  • Audience
  • Intelligent
  • Songs

• If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another: I hope, upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Heaven
  • Married

• Winter has caused damage everywhere: meadow and forest are all grey, where before you heard many sounds. If I could see the girls play ball on the street, then bird song would come back. If only I could sleep through the winter! When I am awake I feel only hatred that his power is so far and wide. God knows, he even fights with May; I picked flowers where there is now snow.

  

  Walther von der Vogelweide
  • Fighting
  • Sound
  • Flower

• It is often said by religious people that without its framework, there is no sense of right or wrong. My view is that religion comes after ethics.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Religious
  • Religion

• People who paint, including myself, get to a point where a bit of angst comes in. If you're doing it for a living, it's worth it to suffer those slings and arrows.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • People
  • Suffering
  • Paint

• Gotta keep it peace like a buddhist Nobody gonna Wesley snipe me It's less than likely, Move back, Let I breathe Jedi knight, The more space I get the better I write, (Oh) Never I write, but, if, ever I write, I need the space to say whatever I like.

  

  Jay-Z
  • Writing
  • Peace
  • Space

• There is no tube of paint that says, 'Don't know.' I have to come to grips with it.

  

  Arnold Friberg
  • Paint
  • Grips
  • Tube