Walter J. Phillips Quotes

A landscape painting in which composition is ignored is like a line taken from a poem at random: it lacks context, and may or may not make sense.

Walter J. Phillips

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• I pass no judgment about historic events. I defend the human freedoms. Whatever event has taken place throughout history, or hasn't taken place, I cannot judge that.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • History
  • Taken
  • Judge

• I will keep painting until I die.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Die
  • Painting
  • Will

• One always wonders about roads not taken.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • Taken
  • Always
  • Roads

• Realize that the game of life is the game of, to some extent, being taken advantage of by people who make a science of it. Whether they are in government or personal life or in business, they're everywhere.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • People
  • Life
  • Business

• The United Nations passed so-called sanctions again on North Korea, and they've said they 'will exercise their preemptive right to a nuclear attack.' I don't think this ought to be taken kindly.

  

  Oliver North
  • Think
  • Taken
  • Exercise

• At his direction, I have taken command as the temporary Head of the Republic.

  

  Ziaur Rahman
  • Taken
  • Head
  • Direction

• He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods.

  

  Kate Chopin
  • Painting
  • Matter
  • Pleasure

• Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Life
  • Knowledge
  • Taken

• Whenever you have taken up work in hand, you must see it to the finish. That is the ultimate secret of success. Never, never, never give up!

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • Up
  • Work
  • Success

• The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it - what is said.

  

  Hans-Georg Gadamer
  • Up
  • Real
  • Taken

• And I don't believe that melodramatic feelings are laughable - they should be taken absolutely seriously.

  

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • Believe
  • Taken
  • Feelings

• It is very difficult to be taken seriously when you're introduced at a party to somebody as the fourth Mrs. Rex Harrison.

  

  Rachel Roberts
  • You
  • Party
  • Taken

• I was always interested in the arts as a child - drawing, painting, and piano - but acting became a favourite. I was a major theatre geek in high school - if I wasn't in the drama room at lunch rehearsing, I'd be in the art room finishing up some type of project.

  

  Laura Mennell
  • Up
  • School
  • Art

• Family dinner in the Norman Rockwell mode had taken hold by the 1950s: Mom cooked, Dad carved, son cleared, daughter did the dishes.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Family
  • Dad
  • Mom

• My work ethic I learned at Miami High, and I have taken that with me.

  

  Udonis Haslem
  • Work
  • High
  • Me

• We have great international experts within India telling us that the climate is changing, and actions has to be taken, otherwise China and India would be the countries most to suffer from climate change.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • Great
  • Change
  • Taken

• Periodically over the years I've always taken periods of time away from acting.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Time
  • Taken
  • Years

• Unfortunately, money in politics is an insidious thing - and a loophole in our campaign finance system was taken advantage of with money going to existing or new 527 groups with the sole purpose of influencing the election.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Money
  • Purpose
  • Taken

• You know, I've learned a lot from every person I've collaborated with, from Madlib to Jean Grae and Hi-Tek, to Mos to DJ Quik, to even somebody like Jermaine Dupri. I've taken something important away from every experience.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Important
  • Experience
  • Know

• I am more weary of life, I think, than ever I was.

  

  David Brainerd
  • Life

• Now I say that if you run more than 15 miles a week, it's for something other than aerobic fitness. Once you pass 15 miles, you do not see much further improvement.

  

  Kenneth H. Cooper
  • Improvement
  • Fitness

• I think of reading like a balanced diet; if your sentences are too baggy, too baroque, cut back on fatty Foster Wallace, say, and pick up Kafka as roughage.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Up
  • Think
  • Reading

• I think George Mitchell is a consummate professional. He is the ideal selection to handle the job of special envoy if you choose to have a special envoy.

  

  John F. Kerry
  • Job
  • Professional

• A landscape painting in which composition is ignored is like a line taken from a poem at random: it lacks context, and may or may not make sense.

  

  Walter J. Phillips
  • Taken
  • Painting
  • Landscape