Emmet Gowin Quotes

I feel that whatever picture an artist makes it is in part a picture of himself - a matter of identity.

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• The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Effort
  • Organization

• There's a delicious irony in seeing private luxury jets flying in to Washington, D.C., and people coming off of them with tin cups in their hands saying that they're going to be trimming down and streamlining their businesses. There's a message there.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • People
  • Flying
  • Saying

• I've been terrified of the water, and yet it seems I'm forced to go into in on every movie that I make.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Movie
  • Water
  • Seems

• 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

• I don't want to know movie directors. I don't want to be close to them. I don't want to interfere with their work. I don't want them to interfere with mine.

  

  Patricia Highsmith
  • Work
  • Movie
  • Want

• I can remember loving to recruit. I knew I was going to do my best. But traveling and recruiting doesn't appeal to me any more. It's not as much fun as it used to be.

  

  Bear Bryant
  • Remember
  • Fun
  • Best

• I think there was a time when I considered myself a work addict, but that's no longer accurate. My life has changed so dramatically over the last number of years, especially having a family now. My priorities have shifted.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• You feel like you need to deal with a lot if you're from Cleveland, so you learn to let things roll off your back, and you learn that humor is the best way to deal with it.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • Best
  • Learn
  • Humor

• I love football, football is my life.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Life
  • Love
  • Football

• In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Safety
  • Speed
  • Ice

• My family is heavily involved in the Marines and close-combat training, and I was raised doing Japanese sword training, so I've always been of the mentality that you have to be able to defend yourself.

  

  Samaire Armstrong
  • Family
  • Training
  • Yourself

• Youth is seen as everything. You don't know anything when you're young. It's great being older, just having a more balanced perspective. I wake up and realise that what seemed to be important last year no longer is. I'm increasingly grateful for every day.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Up
  • Great
  • Important

• There are so many great things in life; why dwell on negativity?

  

  Zendaya
  • Life
  • Great
  • Why

• Although, you know it's been really nice to wear the Olympic kit, I'm looking forward to wearing non-sports, feminine clothes.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Nice
  • Sports
  • Clothes

• Losing my parents was the most crushing thing that ever happened to me. I lost my dad when I was 26, and it changed my life entirely.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Life
  • Parents
  • Lost

• The Classic games were Classic because, like classical music or architecture, they strove to give life and weight to ideals of order and proportion, to provide a vision of timelessness. In 'Double Dragon,' we can see the cracks in the brick, the mold growing on the drainage pipes, the unmistakable deterioration of the world we live in.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Life
  • World
  • Music

• I'll always leave the same set of strings on my guitars when I'm recording. If I break one I'll just replace it instead of putting on a whole new set of strings.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Always
  • Same
  • Leave

• The Qur'an is in many ways far less concrete than the Bible, relying on the esoteric more often than the apparent.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Bible
  • More
  • Concrete

• Without birds to feed on them, the insects would multiply catastrophically. The insects, not man or other proud species, are really the only ones fitted for survival in the nuclear age. The cockroach, a venerable and hardy species, will take over the habitats of the foolish humans, and compete only with other insects or bacteria.

  

  H. Bentley Glass
  • Men
  • Age
  • Science

• No one can occupy your generosity except you. Who can occupy your patience when impatience roars through you? Who except you can choose not to act with judgment when all of your thoughts are judgmental? Your life is yours to live, no matter how you choose to live it. When you do not think about how you intend to live it, it lives you.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Life
  • Live
  • Thoughts

• Like a good chess player, Satan is always trying to maneuver you into a position where you can save your castle only by losing your bishop.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Player

• Produce, produce! Were it but the pitifulest, infinitesimal fraction of a product, produce it in God's name. 'Tis the utmost thou hast in thee? Out with it then! Up, up! Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy whole might.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Produce
  • Fraction
  • God's Name

• By validating and aggregating the best material from a wide range of independent and mainstream content owners, Babelgum aims to encourage common interest communities that are not well served by traditional television.

  

  Silvio Scaglia
  • Independent
  • Television
  • Babelgum

• I feel that whatever picture an artist makes it is in part a picture of himself - a matter of identity.

  

  Emmet Gowin
  • Artist
  • Picture
  • Identity