Ralph Marston Quotes
Welcome those big, sticky, complicated problems. In them are your most powerful opportunities.
Quotes to Explore
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You can take things that Jimi Hendrix took, from Curtis Mayfield or from Buddy Guy for example, because we are all children of everything, even Picasso. But if you want to stand out, you have to learn to crystallize your existence and create your own fingerprints.
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Who knows what would have become of me, if my parents had not had their influence on me.
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I like to find the beauty in the ugly. When I'm in a thrift store, I gravitate toward pieces I know I'll wear a ton, and insane pieces that I'm sure most people would consider gross. But I find them inspiring. Our van is currently stocked with some of my random findings from this tour. Maybe I'll call my aesthetic 'van fashion.'
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I need to be doing different things all the time; it's just part of who I am.
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Women I admired growing up - Debra Winger, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep - were all beautiful and thin, but not too thin. There are a lot of actresses who are unhealthy-skinny - much, much too skinny. You can't Pilates to that.
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Religious ideas about good and evil tend to focus on how to achieve well-being in the next life, and this makes them terrible guides to securing it in this one. Of course, there are a few gems to be found in every religious tradition, but insofar as these precepts are wise and useful they are not, in principle, religious.
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You look in my room and it looks neat enough, but if you dared to look under my bed or in my closet, oh what a mess!
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I've been accused of wanting to allow terrorists to have weapons to attack America.
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I hope to get out before they start football next year.
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Before you begin designing or buying anything, you need to get real and ask yourself: What do you really want to use this room for? What do you want to do in this room but can't now?
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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If we hold the poverty thought, the penury thought, the thought of lack, we cannot demonstrate abundance. We must hold the plenty thought if we would reach plenty.
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On banks, I make no apology for attacking spivs and gamblers who did more harm to the British economy than Bob Crow could achieve in his wildest Trotskyite fantasies, while paying themselves outrageous bonuses underwritten by the taxpayer. There is much public anger about banks and it is well deserved.
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I always start a play by calling the characters A, B, and C.
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I think there's something really poetic about using nuclear power to propel us to the stars, because the stars are giant fusion reactors. They're giant nuclear cauldrons in the sky.
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I am a big music nerd.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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Fifteen- to 30-year-olds are interested in all kinds of intelligent movies - it doesn't have to be a broad comedy or an action adventure for them to go see it.
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Man is neither good nor bad; he is born with instincts and abilities.
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It's not necessarily about the physical aspects when people say receivers have a lot of drops or can't catch the ball. It's that they are not focusing on the right things. That their mind-set is not in the right spot.
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People with the same information often make the same decisions.
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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.
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Over the years, the most ponderous problem for women has been that men think that men and women are very different. Another of our massive problems is that women also think that men and women are very different.
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Welcome those big, sticky, complicated problems. In them are your most powerful opportunities.
