Betty Edwards Quotes

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• I destroyed a lot of guitars trying to get them to do what I wanted, but I learned something from every guitar I tore apart, and discovered even more things. Things like if the string is not straight from the bridge saddle to the nut, you're going to have friction.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Trying
  • Guitar
  • Bridge

• I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Great
  • Book

• Comedians take a neat situation and turn it into a mess. And in my books I do the same thing, but it's the other way around. I like to mess around with mess. A mess is only a mess because someone tells you it is.

  

  Ursus Wehrli
  • Same
  • Situation
  • Turn

• Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • World
  • Society
  • Faith

• Let us have peace.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Peace
  • U.S.
  • Let Us

• The problem of the minimum dwelling is that of establishing the elementary minimum of space, air, light, and heat required by man in order that he be able to fully develop his life functions without experiencing limitations due to his dwelling, i.e. a minimum modus vivendi in place of a modus non moriendi.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Life
  • Man
  • Light

• The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Time
  • House
  • Film

• Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Broken
  • Stand
  • Would

• One of the duties of fortitude is to keep the weak from receiving injury; another, to check the wrong motions of our own souls; a third, both to disregard humiliations, and to do what is right with an even mind. All these clearly ought to be fulfilled by all Christians, and especially by the clergy.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Mind
  • Wrong
  • Injury

• I was very aware of Jeff Buckley. My brother actually bought me The Mamas And The Papas and Jeff Buckley for my birthday when I was in my early teens.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Me
  • Brother
  • Birthday

• I'm really interested in playing my age.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Age
  • Really
  • Interested

• I look for someone whose upbringing was somewhat similar to mine because they can understand me - love for the family and everything else. You see someone's relationship with their parents, and you realize what that person's going to be like as a parent.

  

  Maksim Chmerkovskiy
  • Family
  • Love
  • Parents

• I always have a basic plot outline, but I like to leave some things to be decided while I write.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Like
  • Always
  • Leave

• I went into the sciences very early on, but to me, economics pervades so much more of our lives and our existence.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • Existence
  • Lives
  • Economics

• The point of the future is that anything can happen.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Future
  • Point
  • Happen

• I don't know that I could play a complete and total mess. After awhile, I think I would be like, 'No, none of that!'

  

  Natalie Zea
  • Think
  • Know
  • Play

• I support capital punishment. But let's be clear: It's a decision for each state to make.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Support
  • Decision
  • Clear

• 'Floating Worlds,' which received a fair amount of attention when it was first published, deserves rediscovery.

  

  Pamela Sargent
  • Attention
  • First
  • Floating

• Chronically homeless means constantly homeless; it means repeatedly homeless.

  

  Linda Lingle
  • Homeless

• I realised a long time ago that instrumental music speaks a lot more clearly than English, Spanish, Yiddish, Swahili, any other language. Pure melody goes outside time.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Time
  • Music
  • Long

• The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Music
  • History

• None of my dudes I chill with are rappers. I don't put us as rappers. We're all artists.

  

  Sidney Royel Selby III
  • Chill

• I wouldn't be a very good hunter without these glasses. I'm not a very good hunter with these glasses, but I'd be even worse without them, so that would put a crimp in how many kids I could have, so all of these medical advances have at least in some parts of the world blunted natural selection.

  

  Carl Zimmer
  • World
  • Kids
  • Medical

• Art has this long history, predating even language, of expressing nonverbal information.

  

  Betty Edwards
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