Edward Sorel Quotes
My one failing as an artist is that I depend on reference material to perhaps a greater extent than I should. Delacroix said that if you can draw a man falling out of a window and have the drawing finished before he hits the ground then you're a real artist. I wasn't that kind of artist.Edward Sorel
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I just love vintage. I have far too many vintage dresses.
Karen Elson -
Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
H. G. Wells -
To understand something, whether we are aware of it or not, depends on choosing a model. We get to understand what we see by comparing it with something else, something that we think we understand better. But what we compare it with turns out to have a huge influence on the outcome.
Iain McGilchrist -
The last romantic novel I think I read was 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles.'
Bartlett Sher -
For a while, even in the house of good friends for dinner or for cocktails, they would really be upset. They thought I had single-handedly destroyed the best phone service in the world.
Harold H. Greene -
I think confidence does come with time, and I've been really surprised by that, actually.
Kate Winslet
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Apparently God takes reception of Holy Communion seriously. Apparently some things are more sacred than politics. Apparently it's all or nothing when it comes to being Catholic.
Carl Olson -
Only in spontaneity can we be who we truly are.
Mahavishnu John McLaughlin -
When I wrote 'Mushaboom', I was living in the second verse, but I suddenly found myself in the first.
Feist -
I try to write lyrics so that they won't age, which sort of leaves you with the big subjects like death and love and sex and violence.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
I believe the people that buy my music believes in me.
R. Kelly -
If I got $300 million from the California Lottery, the first thing I would do is buy the rights to 'Firefly', make it on my own, and distribute it on the Internet.
Nathan Fillion
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Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
Carl Jung -
I hate television, but that's me. It's like sucking your thumb. It's a wonderful thing for keeping the masses enslaved.
Wayne Rogers -
O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.
Saint Augustine -
I think people are looking for a president who has views and who sticks to those views. So, I think Governor Romney, Governor Perry, Governor Huntsman are all terrific candidates. I think we got a chance to elect a real, executive leader.
Lamar Alexander -
Bitcoin has the potential to destroy credit cards and banks as we know it. Maybe that is a good thing or a bad thing, but I like the idea that if someone needs to remit payments, they can do it without being gouged.
Garry Tan -
The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.
Albert Camus
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When you are totally depressed, you should try giggling. Just make yourself laugh. Force yourself to laugh.
Yoko Ono -
French existentialism is an unhelpful philosophy in which to couch modern feminism: born from the ravages of the Second World War, it is a cynical, individualistic school of thought that posits the self and personal choice as the measure of life's entire meaning.
Naomi Wolf -
My one failing as an artist is that I depend on reference material to perhaps a greater extent than I should. Delacroix said that if you can draw a man falling out of a window and have the drawing finished before he hits the ground then you're a real artist. I wasn't that kind of artist.
Edward Sorel