Wayne Thiebaud Quotes

The Gold Rush and the Pony Express made Sacramento a substantial place in terms of enterprise.

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• I haven't done Vine in a long time, and when I first started, I just did stuff that I thought was funny.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Time
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  • Done

• It's expected of novels that they should explain the world and create the illusion that things are ultimately logical and coherent. But that's not what I see around me. Often, events remain mysterious and unresolved, and our emotions reach no catharsis.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • World
  • Emotions
  • Mysterious

• All the girls today want to be famous, but they haven't earned their spurs.

  

  C. Z. Guest
  • Today
  • Want
  • Famous

• My films are of paramount importance to me, the same as my family. That's not going to change. This is a balance I have to strike throughout my life.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Life
  • Family
  • Change

• I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Done
  • Universe
  • Leadership

• I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.

  

  Wayne Gretzky
  • Going
  • Been
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• A right balance between music and lyrics is important. Music complements lyrics.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Music
  • Important
  • Balance

• Actually, what will be shown from here to eternity will be Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr cavorting on the beach. 'From Here to Eternity' must have seemed like a chore to its director, Fred Zinnemann.

  

  Manny Farber
  • Beach
  • Director
  • Eternity

• The novel is about, for me, sustained and organized looking. I do think that people have a hunger for a sustained engagement, that concentration that the book can offer.

  

  Dana Spiotta
  • People
  • Book
  • Hunger

• It's good for kids to look up to sporting role models.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Up
  • Good
  • Kids

• Actions are always more complex and nuanced than they seem. We have to be willing to wrestle with paradox in pursuing understanding.

  

  Harold Evans
  • Always
  • Understanding

• Today we have big, crude instruments guided by intelligent surgeons, and we have little, stupid molecules of drugs that get dumped into the body, diffuse around and interfere with things as best they can. At present, medicine is unable to heal anything.

  

  K. Eric Drexler
  • Today
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• In the late 1960s, I ended up in Telluride, Colorado. It wasn't like the country club that it is now. It was very raw. Skiing was there, but snowboarders have now entirely overrun it.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Up
  • Country
  • Late

• The emotions of the game do not change.

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Game
  • Change
  • Emotions

• There are 3 billion women in the world, so there are 3 billion ways to be a feminist.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • World
  • Women
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• Doing stunt work is risky, but it's something I enjoy.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • Work
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• When I was in the country and I was trying to play, nobody seemed to pay too much attention to me. People used to say, 'That's just that ole blues singer.'

  

  B. B. King
  • People
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• The Irish Government can no longer stand by and see innocent people injured and perhaps worse.

  

  Jack Lynch
  • People
  • Government
  • Innocent

• I will say I remember the best thing in terms of publicity was being on the cover of Newsweek.

  

  Vanna White
  • Remember
  • Best
  • Will

• I lost my faith in God when I lost my daughter to Cancer, the beast. I begged, I cried, I offered my life for hers, and day by day, I watched that beautiful little Angel slip off. So, excuse me for not taking my seat next to you on Sunday in Church, I feel too cheated to worship.

  

  Vince Neil Mötley Crüe
  • Life
  • God
  • Beautiful

• Cecilia wondered, as she sometimes did when she met a man for the first time, if this was the one she was going to marry, and whether it was this particular moment she would remember for the rest of her life - with gratitude, or profound and particular regret.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Life
  • Time
  • Men

• I now have two kids of my own in college, so I know how important it is that we keep the dream alive for every family and I share the concern about rising tuition costs.

  

  Mark Kennedy
  • Important
  • Family
  • Kids

• Talk of imminent threat to our national security through the application of external force is pure nonsense. Our threat is from the insidious forces working from within which have already so drastically altered the character of our free institutions - those institutions we proudly called the American way of life.

  

  Douglas MacArthur
  • Life
  • Character
  • American

• The Gold Rush and the Pony Express made Sacramento a substantial place in terms of enterprise.

  

  Wayne Thiebaud
  • Gold
  • Place
  • Express