Irving Penn Quotes

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• No Americans wants to see somebody lose their house because of health bills. Their boat? Maybe. Maybe the boat. But not the house.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • House
  • Health
  • Lose

• I get tired of comedies where there are a bunch of funny guys and a beautiful woman who doesn't do anything funny. And I don't like books where there's a rough-and-tumble boy and a really clever, snotty girl. That's just not my experience with teenagers.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Experience
  • Beautiful
  • Girl

• I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I'm still a supporter of it.

  

  Nas
  • Think
  • Beautiful
  • Marriage

• The last time I had to make a career decision, I was 17. I could have gone to Ballet Theatre or National Ballet of Canada. There were options. But as I became exposed to the Robbins repertoire, I realized that there was a living genius in the house.

  

  Damian Woetzel
  • Time
  • Career
  • House

• I just roll with the punches.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Just
  • Roll
  • Punches

• Peter Sellers was just a brilliant actor, and also comedic.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Actor
  • Just
  • Brilliant

• Going around Rome, you can find beauty because, quite simply, Rome is very beautiful. But the beauty of the people is sometimes harder to discover.

  

  Paolo Sorrentino
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Beauty

• It's all about connectivity - not just technical connectivity but geographic connectivity. That's what makes a city go.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • City
  • Just
  • Technical

• I just love playing in major championships.

  

  Inbee Park
  • Playing
  • Major
  • Championships

• It isn't easy to accept that suffering can also be beautiful... it's difficult. It's something you can only understand if you dig deeply into yourself.

  

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • Beautiful
  • Suffering
  • Easy

• We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Children
  • Beautiful
  • Respect

• Go outside! I mean, even leaves from a park are beautiful in a clear glass vase. I'd rather see that than fake anything any day.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Beautiful
  • Day
  • Fake

• Poetry and beauty are always making peace. When you read something beautiful you find coexistence; it breaks walls down.

  

  Mahmoud Darwish
  • Beautiful
  • Peace
  • Poetry

• As long as I can remember, growing up we had a guitar around our house, and I was always plucking on it.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Up
  • Long
  • Remember

• One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Beautiful
  • Passion
  • Sense

• I really do feel very lucky. I've had my kids and my relationships. I've set my life down - I'm in my house, and I'm alone with my children - and I'm at peace, and that's a really nice feeling. All I really want in my life is to maintain that.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Life
  • Children
  • Kids

• If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Country
  • Family
  • Mother

• Bernie Madoff is probably more nuanced then I'm giving him credit for, but I just couldn't get under his skin.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Giving
  • Just
  • Credit

• I'm not going to get in to an argument with anyone about the relative merits of Judaism and Christianity, and what it means for a Jewish kid to be a Christian - I'm just not interested in that argument.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • Christian
  • Just
  • Argument

• I have an important message to deliver to all the cute people all over the world. If you're out there and you're cute, maybe you're beautiful. I just want to tell you somethin' - there's more of us UGLY MOTHERFUCKERS than you are, hey-y, so watch out.

  

  Frank Zappa
  • People
  • World
  • Important

• And my father, being a good Swiss puritan, always really insisted that if I was going to be an actor, I shouldn't just be an actor, I should know about the whole process.

  

  Rene Auberjonois
  • Father
  • Actor
  • Process

• By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this within yourself, but to have it affirmed by others is of utmost importance. Writing is, after all, a form of communication.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Writing
  • Identity
  • Communication

• I sleep in the nude but I pull the sheets up.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Sleep
  • Nude
  • Sheets

• A beautiful print is a thing in itself, not just a halfway house on the way to the page.

  

  Irving Penn
  • House
  • Beautiful
  • Just