Emmet Gowin Quotes

The picture is like a prayer, an offering, and hopefully an opening through which to seek what we don't know, or already know and should take seriously.

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• There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Art
  • Bad
  • Religion

• I just have always felt that I think we know that it's an ensemble show, and it's very hard to pick a show to submit when you're nominated, because usually everyone has a very strong part in every episode.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Think
  • Strong
  • Know

• Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Poetry
  • Synthesis
  • Biscuits

• We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Past
  • Care
  • Blame

• From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Time
  • Long
  • Together

• Color is a matter of taste and of sensitivity.

  

  Edouard Manet
  • Color
  • Matter
  • Taste

• I would love to be a professional athlete. When I was living in Mexico as a teenager, I did seven years of gymnastics and went to the Junior Olympics. I was getting to the level of going to the international competitions, but I was only 14, and my parents were really worried because they did not want that to be my life.

  

  Karla Souza
  • Life
  • Parents
  • Worried

• I'm sure that President Johnson would never have pursued the war in Vietnam if he'd ever had a Fulbright to Japan, or say Bangkok, or had any feeling for what these people are like and why they acted the way they did. He was completely ignorant.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • People
  • Why
  • War

• I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figure out the language; distant enough to get me decent medical techniques and a ticket to the Moon.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Future
  • Language
  • Moon

• I never really mind what people say about me - I am far too unconventional and far too dedicated to being true to myself to let other people's disdain or nastiness upset me for long.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Dedicated
  • Disdain
  • Unconventional

• We must set up large refugee camps outside the E.U. with armed security and financial support provided by the Union.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Up
  • Support
  • Financial

• Fame freaks me out. Do you just wake up different? I don't know how to scale it back if it gets too crazy.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Up
  • Different
  • Crazy

• I was never a monist - always a diversitarian.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • Always
  • Never

• I came out to my parents as gay, and then I realized, you know, four or five years later, that I wasn't really happy, no relationships were working, and there was something missing in my life, and you know, I was doing drag, performing and stuff, and I realized through that arc that I was much happier doing that.

  

  Candis Cayne
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Parents

• Die Botschaft hör ich wohl, allein, mir fehlt der Glaube

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Die

• As an actress and comedienne, I'm a huge fan of he theatre and the Tricycle in Kilburn is my favourite in London. I dragged my kids to a performance of 'Twelfth Night' there, where they handed out pizza. Who knew that all it takes to get children interested in Shakespeare is a snack?

  

  Arabella Weir
  • Children
  • Kids
  • Night

• Historically, Heathrow has been something of a joke, outweighed by its excellent connections. We have to aspire to having an airport at Heathrow with two runways which is a world-class airport. It's a big challenge.

  

  Philip Hammond
  • World
  • Challenge

• The Wild Wood is pretty well populated by now; with all the usual lot, good, bad, and indifferent - I name no names. It takes all sorts to make a world.

  

  Kenneth Grahame
  • World
  • Good
  • Bad

• What the world needs now is love, sweet love, It's the only thing that there's just too little of. What the world needs now is love, sweet love, No not just for some but for everyone.

  

  Hal David
  • World
  • Sweet

• If people suspect their Cattle Bewitched, if they be great Cattle, make the twelfth house their ascendant, and the eleventh their twelfth house, and vary your Rules with Judgment.

  

  William Lilly
  • People
  • House
  • Judgment

• Make sure the fortune that you seek is the fortune that you need.

  

  Ben Harper
  • Fortune
  • Sure
  • Seek

• Maybe you should evolve too! Making everything your fault is the stupid way out...and you shouldn't waste your brain. Why do you think that way, huh? You must not be seeing the whole picture. What do you want anyway? Shouldn't you be striving for yourself?

  

  Bisco Hatori
  • Brain
  • Picture
  • Fault

• Life's just a cocktail party - on the street.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Life
  • Party
  • Street

• The picture is like a prayer, an offering, and hopefully an opening through which to seek what we don't know, or already know and should take seriously.

  

  Emmet Gowin
  • Picture
  • Seek
  • Prayers