Charles Sheeler Quotes

I favor a picture which arrives at its destination without the evidence of a trying journey rather than one which shows the marks of battle.

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• It happens that I'm heterosexual, but I don't care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don't have the ability to protect their rights.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Care
  • Ability
  • Protect

• It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

  

  Ovid
  • Purpose
  • Honest
  • Annoying

• My work was entirely nonfiction.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • Work
  • Nonfiction
  • Entirely

• Chipotles, which are dried jalapeno peppers, give out a terrific smoky flavour - they're warm, earthy and usually not too spicy.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Give
  • Warm
  • Spicy

• Takers believe in a zero-sum world, and they end up creating one where bosses, colleagues and clients don't trust them. Givers build deeper and broader relationships - people are rooting for them instead of gunning for them.

  

  Adam Grant
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• People deal with models like they are children. They think they can pull one over on you. It's actually funny. I'm always like, I'm about to pull something on you, and you're so focused on thinking I'm dumb, you're not even going to know.

  

  Kate Upton
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Children

• My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Kind
  • Director
  • Writes

• I'm all over the place, and I consider myself a bit of a scrounger: 'What will I do next, so I'm not broke?'

  

  Laura Kightlinger
  • Myself
  • Place
  • Broke

• There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • Mind
  • Society
  • Single

• I think the Democrats are catering to them, but, you know, in the entire history of the United States of America, there has never been a judge who has been refused a vote when there was a majority of Senators willing to vote for his confirmation, never in history.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • America
  • History
  • Know

• Muslim moderates, wherever they are, must be given every tool necessary to win a war of ideas with their co-religionists. Otherwise, we will have to win some very terrible wars in the future.

  

  Sam Harris
  • War
  • Future
  • Win

• Defeating racism, tribalism, intolerance and all forms of discrimination will liberate us all, victim and perpetrator alike.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Will
  • Racism
  • Discrimination

• When it's all said and done, I want to look back on my career and say I did numerous things.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Done
  • Career
  • Want

• The middle class is so funny, it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Funny
  • Know
  • Best

• I think there's too much saturated color in comics, thanks to digital color techniques.

  

  Ted Naifeh
  • Think
  • Color
  • Thanks

• I love a man with stubble. It's very sexy.

  

  Valerie Azlynn
  • Love
  • Man
  • Sexy

• To the man with an ear for verbal delicacies - the man who searches painfully for the perfect word, and puts the way of saying a thing above the thing said - there is in writing the constant joy of sudden discovery, of happy accident.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Writing
  • Happy
  • Perfect

• The fate of farm animals is not an ethical side issue. It concerns the majority of Earth's large creatures: tens of billions of sentient beings, each with a complex world of sensations and emotions, but who live and die as cogs in an industrial production line.

  

  Yuval Noah Harari
  • World
  • Live
  • Earth

• This is my advice to entrepreneurs. It's easy to give up, but believe in your ideas. Surround yourself with people you respect and are smarter than you.

  

  Brian Lee
  • People
  • Up
  • Believe

• Money was the crux. Raising money to pay the cost of war was to cause more damage to 14th century society than the physical destruction of war itself.

  

  Barbara W. Tuchman
  • Money
  • War
  • Society

• Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.

  

  Anne Carson
  • World
  • Taken

• All of us are many different people over time. We have our childhood selves, people that we remember, but they're very different to our adult selves and the way that we create our own naratives is not that dissimilar, I think, to how a biographer structures their narrative of a life.

  

  Rachel Holmes
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• Usually after a shot, we look for a chair to rest our feet. In 'Oopiri,' it was the other way around. After every shot, I was on my feet, walking around the set trying to get the blood circulation in my legs working properly.

  

  Akkineni Nagarjuna
  • Trying
  • Rest
  • Walking

• I favor a picture which arrives at its destination without the evidence of a trying journey rather than one which shows the marks of battle.

  

  Charles Sheeler
  • Trying
  • Journey
  • Battle