Keith Floyd Quotes
Watch a French housewife as she makes her way slowly along the loaded stalls... searching for the peak of ripeness and flavor... What you are seeing is a true artist at work, patiently assembling all the materials of her craft, just as the painter squeezes oil colors onto his palette ready to create a masterpiece.
Quotes to Explore
-
I loved every place I lived and traveled. London, Paris, Rome, Venice. I fell hard for Central America and Mexico. In each country, I had fantasies that I could live there.
-
Music is art, and once you become an artist, you need to learn how to accept criticism.
-
If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken.
-
I'm a self-taught musician aside from what I've been able to pick up from other players.
-
Our culture is intent on taking the lines out of people's faces - surgically, with costly creams, and with fear and trembling - when, in fact, the opposite should be the case. As artists know, if there is anything behind a face, that face improves with age.
-
When I was living in New York and didn't have a penny to my name, I would walk around the streets and occasionally I would see an alcove or something. And I'd think, that'll be good, that'll be a good spot for me when I'm homeless.
-
Hopefully in the future, generational challenges will be measured by achievement, not gender.
-
I don't study cricket too much. Whatever I have learned or experienced is through cricket I've played on the field, and whatever little I have watched.
-
I have no idea what goes on in another person's mind. As a legislator, I need to be good at persuading people, counting votes and getting to 50 percent plus one. I don't go back and say, 'Why did this person get to the right position?' It's only, 'Are you yes or are you no?'
-
Modeling has always played off my D.J.-ing, but it is a fun supplement.
-
The interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth or by desires of varying degrees of coldness.
-
It's a very hard and competitive business in which you have to fight every day in order to impose yourself.
-
The idea of exploring character relations and their development over a decade has to be appealing for any actor who cherishes his craft.
-
I went to public school my whole life. It was a performing arts school, so I can't say if it was a typical experience or not, because it's all I know.
-
Bahrain lies at the epicenter of Gulf security and any violent upheaval in Bahrain would have enormous geopolitical consequences. Global economic stability depends on the uninterrupted export of crude oil from the Gulf to markets around the world - a job that historically has been assigned to the U.S. Fifth Fleet.
-
As a solo performer, it's total involvement. What I do is to break down the wall between audience and performer.
-
Given that I can't sing like Freddie Mercury, obviously I'm not going to pursue it as a career. What would be the point?
-
There's a logic today that places a greater value on celebrity the less it is accompanied by actual achievement. I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means.
-
I like to be as free as possible at all times.
-
Talent - really, everyone agrees, it's multidimensional, and often overlooked in standard assessments. That's not hard for people to accept.
-
It seems to me an indictment of the Republican Party that if you talk about issues of poverty and upward mobility, people assume you're a Democrat.
-
Very often adverse criticism goes to craft, and that sounds an alarm to which attention should be paid.
-
Watch a French housewife as she makes her way slowly along the loaded stalls... searching for the peak of ripeness and flavor... What you are seeing is a true artist at work, patiently assembling all the materials of her craft, just as the painter squeezes oil colors onto his palette ready to create a masterpiece.
