Clarence John Laughlin Quotes

The mystery of light and the enigma of time form the twin pivots around which all my work revolves. In addition... my work attempts to create a mythology for our contemporary world.

Clarence John Laughlin

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• I like being unconventional.

  

  Florence Griffith Joyner
  • Like
  • Being
  • Unconventional

• The people who used to hold the purse strings were a select group of white, middle-aged men, but that's changing, and the more it continues to change, the more we'll see inclusive stories get told.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • People
  • Men
  • Change

• I still have a lot of my friends from high school. You just know who is there for you for real, and who is trying to get something out of you.

  

  Francia Raisa
  • Real
  • Trying
  • School

• It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Beginning
  • Violence

• The more gays and lesbians come out - the more people realize that they have a friend who's gay, which they may not have known before, and they realize this person has the same aspirations and desires and need to be committed and to be part of a community - then they become more accepting.

  

  Ted Olson
  • People
  • May
  • Community

• I grew up in Manhattan and, since my father was a playwright, all I ever wanted to be was a stage actress.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Up
  • Father
  • Stage

• We put our life on the line to fight for them, put on a show and these guys take our money so whatever happens to Bob Arum, Don King or anyone else is fine with me.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • Life
  • Money
  • King

• Mount Everest: throughout my early life, she was cold and there.

  

  Harper Lee
  • Life
  • She
  • Cold

• When we send our young men and women into harm's way, we have a solemn obligation not to fudge the numbers or shade the truth about why they're going, to care for their families while they're gone, to tend to the soldiers upon their return, and to never ever go to war without enough troops to win the war, secure the peace, and earn the respect of the world.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Men
  • Women

• It is the asymmetry of the bonus system that got us here. No incentives without disincentives: capitalism is about rewards and punishments, not just rewards.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

• Civilization is one long anxious search for just such individuals. Anything such a man asks shall be granted. He is wanted in every city, town and village - in every office, shop, store and factory. The world cries out for such: he is needed and needed badly - the man who can 'Carry a Message to Garcia.'

  

  Elbert Hubbard
  • World
  • Long
  • City

• If you ask the people in Europe who won World War II, they don't say the Allies; they say the United States won the war and saved the world.

  

  Bob Feller
  • People
  • World
  • War

• I always wear high heels - I simply feel naked without them.

  

  Donatella Versace
  • High

• When I was a kid, Jacques Cousteau was my hero and the person who inspired me to become an underwater explorer. I have many other people who inspired me after him, but he is still my all-time hero.

  

  Enric Sala
  • People
  • Time
  • Inspired

• I have a stunt double; his name is Glen Levy, and he has the hardest punch in the world. Seriously, it's actually been recorded by 'National Geographic.' He calls it the Hammer Fist.

  

  Craig Horner
  • World

• Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing.

  

  Kevyn Aucoin

• I just think Valentine's Day is a day to really appreciate the person you love, no matter who it is, and to spend time with them. I don't think it's all about fancy presents or whatever. I think it's about spending that quality time with that special person.

  

  Prince Royce
  • Time
  • Quality

• That's what is so great about being able to record a 13-song album. You can do a very eclectic group of songs. You do have some almost pop songs in there, but you do have your traditional country, story songs. You have your ballads, your happy songs, your sad songs, your love songs, and your feisty songs.

  

  Reba McEntire
  • Great
  • Country
  • Happy

• Even when I wasn't overweight I was never one of those girls or women who wanted to look nice. I always thought it wasn't important.

  

  Jo Brand
  • Important
  • Women
  • Nice

• I'm really into, like, electric pop music and dubstep, things like that.

  

  Chandler Riggs
  • Music

• I think the heartbreak of September 11 - America's grief not only over the loss of life but also the loss of our own innocence -has expanded us as people because it has tenderized our hearts. On a psychological level, the American people have matured as a result of that awful day.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • People
  • Life
  • American

• The mythology about the UN is absolutely breathtaking. People believe it costs a great deal of money to the United States. Completely untrue: it doesn't. The United States makes a net gain. People believe it's a world government, although the UN is a pathetically weak organization which improvises in emergencies to try to prevent the worst from happening.

  

  Brian Urquhart
  • People
  • Deal
  • United States

• The mystery of light and the enigma of time form the twin pivots around which all my work revolves. In addition... my work attempts to create a mythology for our contemporary world.

  

  Clarence John Laughlin
  • World
  • Mystery
  • Contemporary