Charles E. Burchfield Quotes

Doodling serves as a means of keeping the hand or fingers limber, so that they are always ready for serious work.

Charles E. Burchfield

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• I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Attention
  • Like
  • Camera

• For me, songwriting starts with a melody. When a musician plays a chord progression, either the words and vocal melody come to me, or they don't. That's how I determine who to write with. It works, or it doesn't.

  

  Rain Phoenix
  • Words
  • Me
  • Songwriting

• We are all focused each and every day on doing our jobs, chief executive of our states, until the very last hour that we are in office, and certainly the president is as well.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Day
  • Doing
  • Everyday

• Creativity runs across many categories in life, from the arts-and-crafts project a mum or dad does with their kids, to the bestselling author's manuscript, to the designs of the hairdresser, to the creations of the computer programming genius.

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Dad

• I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Husband
  • Child
  • Stubborn

• The thing about a failure is that it is possible to deny it forever.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Forever
  • Failure
  • Possible

• John Sayles is good. He's like a good thoroughbred owner - he leaves the trainers alone.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Good
  • Alone
  • Like

• We want to allow Costa Ricans to make a qualitative leap in our development and go to an economy based on innovation and developing a broadband infrastructure in order to overcome the barrier of 15 per cent penetration.

  

  Laura Chinchilla
  • Innovation
  • Development

• I'm a child of the Women's Movement. I always believed that I could do anything. That women didn't have to be limited in any way.

  

  Foxy Brown
  • Women
  • Always
  • Child

• There's an unintended consequence when it comes to drone attacks in Yemen. Yeah, you take out the al-Qaida stronghold, but you also wipe out the other half of the block. That makes Yemenis against the United States for the rest of their lives and all their descendants.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • You
  • Rest
  • United States

• I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Want
  • Name
  • Albums

• I had to get out of America to get a professional life going where I could actually make a living.

  

  Harold Budd
  • Life
  • America
  • Professional

• A lot of young men are frustrated and looking for someone to blame.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Looking
  • Blame

• People sometimes wear shirts that are really boxy, and you can see them over the top of their trousers, which doesn't look right to me.

  

  Tamer Hassan
  • People
  • See
  • Right

• I just want to show the fans my big smile and play the game that I love.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Game
  • Play
  • Smile

• It is only when there is the supervision and critical oversight from the people that the government will be in a position to do an even better job, and employees of government departments will be the true public servants of the people.

  

  Wen Jiabao
  • People
  • Job
  • True

• I'm aware that many of my friends will be saddened and shocked, or shock-saddened, over some of the chapters in 'The Catcher in the Rye.' Some of my best friends are children. In fact, all my best friends are children. It's almost unbearable for me to realize that my book will be kept on a shelf, out of their reach.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Children
  • Book
  • Friends

• I never expected to make a lot of money from music.

  

  Flume
  • Music
  • Money
  • Never

• So when you go up against the Far Right you go up against the big financial special interests like the Halliburtons of the world, the big oil companies, the big energy companies who work so hard to rip us off.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Up
  • World
  • Work

• Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Choice
  • Miserable
  • Motivate

• I tremble when I am reminded of the fact that I have to be in charge of this country and Parliament, which had been led by no less a person than Jawaharlal Nehru.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Country
  • Parliament
  • Reminded

• I kept as still as I could. Nothing happened. I did not expect anything to happen. I was something that lay under the sun and felt it, like the pumpkins, and I did not want to be anything more. I was entirely happy. Perhaps we feel like that when we die and become a part of something entire, whether it is sun and air, or goodness and knowledge. At any rate, that is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep.

  

  Willa Cather
  • Success
  • Earth
  • Sleep

• I would like to work with whoever would like to have me.

  

  Ben Barnes
  • Work

• Doodling serves as a means of keeping the hand or fingers limber, so that they are always ready for serious work.

  

  Charles E. Burchfield
  • Work
  • Hand
  • Doodling