Elaine de Kooning Quotes

A painting to me is primarily a verb, not a noun, an event first and only secondarily an image.

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• That attitude and toughness that we want to play with, that, to me, is the most critical thing.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Want
  • Me
  • Play

• We're going to lose more species, acidify the oceans more, do damage that it will take millions of years - if not longer - to unwind. Exactly how much damage will we do? How deep will those scars run? We don't know yet. But we will turn the ship.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Know
  • Deep
  • Scars

• I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Action
  • Kind
  • Looking

• I'm not great at multi-tasking, so when I do one thing... I like to do it 100%.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Great
  • Like
  • One Thing

• If there are kids who want to follow in my footsteps, I'd say that my shoes are too big for them to fill! But their shoe size is just perfect.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Kids
  • Perfect
  • Shoes

• There are films you see that only reach your eyes. Then there are films that you can watch... that reach down to your throat, or reach your heart. 'In the Mood for Love,' though, reached all the way to my belly.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • Heart
  • Love
  • Eyes

• When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.

  

  Walt Disney
  • People
  • Laugh
  • Mickey Mouse

• I love auditioning. Since 'The Notebook' and 'Wedding Crashers,' I don't have to audition anymore, and I miss it. You get to show your interpretation of the character. I get nervous when I don't audition. What if they hate what I want to do?

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Character
  • Hate
  • Nervous

• Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Art
  • Science
  • Running

• My dance teacher will show me pictures of girls who are rhythmic gymnasts, and they are super skinny. But I don't want to be too skinny. I think that looks a little gross when you are dancing. You don't want to be a scrawny, bony thing.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Dance
  • Teacher
  • Girls

• The real heroes were my good buddies who died during the battles.

  

  Ira Hayes
  • Good
  • Real
  • Heroes

• Speaking much also is a sign of vanity; for he that is lavish in words is a niggard in deeds.

  

  Walter Raleigh
  • Words

• You are repetitious and stupid.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Stupid

• The guns are turning away from Europe and Russia and Iran and Iraq and they're turning to us.

  

  Tupac Shakur
  • Guns
  • Turn To

• The debt limits have to come down. The whole world of debt has to be changed as far as this country is concerned. We have to create jobs and we have to create them rapidly because if we don't things are just going to head in a direction that's going to be almost impossible to recover from.

  

  Donald Trump
  • World
  • Country

• The truth is I was nicely brought up and taught not to show my rage even though it was building up inside.

  

  Andrea McLean
  • Up
  • Truth

• Honest talk about the deficit is risky. Voters are more enthusiastic about the abstract notion of deficit reduction than about the painful details of accomplishing it.

  

  Christina Romer

• It's a really fun hobby to set imagery to music, and finding the right songs for that. Your favorite song in the world might not work at all... for one reason or another.

  

  Zach Braff
  • World
  • Work
  • Music

• Photography, painting or poetry – those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Way
  • Poetry
  • Painting

• I believe that much of the secret of soul-winning lies in having bowels of compassion, in having spirits that can be touched with the feeling of human infirmities.

  

  Charles Spurgeon
  • Believe
  • Soul
  • Feeling

• It was not really to be famous. I just wanted the best choir that would go out here and sing until the power of God came down. When people heard them sing, their lives would be changed and transformed because they called upon the Lord and got an answer. God would come. He would come and meet the people. He would fall on the people. They would leave the place revived, renewed, replenished with a better place of faith and trust in Him. And, they would believe in Him. And, when you believe Him, anything is possible.

  

  Ricky Dillard
  • Believe
  • Changed
  • Possible

• A painting to me is primarily a verb, not a noun, an event first and only secondarily an image.

  

  Elaine de Kooning
  • Painting
  • Image
  • Verb