Betty Edwards Quotes
Art has this long history, predating even language, of expressing nonverbal information.
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
-
Let us have peace.
-
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.
-
The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.
-
Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I'm really interested in playing my age.
-
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.
-
I always have a basic plot outline, but I like to leave some things to be decided while I write.
-
I went into the sciences very early on, but to me, economics pervades so much more of our lives and our existence.
-
The point of the future is that anything can 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!'
-
I support capital punishment. But let's be clear: It's a decision for each state to make.
-
'Floating Worlds,' which received a fair amount of attention when it was first published, deserves rediscovery.
-
Family councils, led by righteous, loving parents who are striving to teach their children to love and respect each other, can make a difference in creating a sense of discipline, order and loving cooperation in the home.
-
Laws, like houses, lean on one another.
-
I can write with authority only about what I know well, which means that I end up using surface details of my own life in my fiction.
-
Art has this long history, predating even language, of expressing nonverbal information.
