George Tooker Quotes

Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.

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• Feeling has as much to say as the words do. You can have the greatest words in the world and if they're not believable, they don't strike a chord and they're not said convincingly, it's not a great song.

  

  Sam Phillips
  • World
  • Great
  • Song

• What Washington needs is adult supervision.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Needs
  • Washington
  • Adult

• Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Girl
  • You
  • Waiting

• To compare Olympic sport with cricket would not be fair. Years back, cricket was a sport only for the classes, and we will also have to make other sports masses from classes like cricket.

  

  Gagan Narang
  • Sports
  • Years
  • Cricket

• There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Money
  • Man
  • More

• Not one black man is prominent in Brazil. The Negroes there are still at the bottom.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Man
  • Black
  • Brazil

• I didn't appreciate how special and sometimes strange my CIA world was - until it suddenly and spectacularly ended in a newspaper column.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • World
  • Sometimes
  • Appreciate

• Ever since I was 10 years old doing jiu-jitsu, I've done well against the tall guys.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Done
  • Doing
  • Old

• Eu não vi o mar.Não sei se o mar é bonito.Não sei se ele é bravo.O mar não me importa.Eu vi a lagoa.A lagoa, sim.A lagoa é grandee calma também.Na chuva de coresda tarde que explode,a lagoa brilha.A lagoa se pintade todas as cores.Eu não vi o mar.Eu vi a lagoa...

  

  Carlos Drummond de Andrade

• Forget the infinities: Concentrate on detail.

  

  Larry Niven

• In order to stop the cycle of disenfranchisement, frustration, and discontent, dignity must be central, paving the way for a governance model that is affordable, acceptable, and applicable to various regional and cultural sensibilities.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • Stop
  • Model
  • Frustration

• MODERATOR 1: Okay. Which designers do you prefer?SECRETARY CLINTON: What designers of clothes?MODERATOR 1: Yes.SECRETARY CLINTON: Would you ever ask a man that question? Laughter, applauseMODERATOR 1: Probably not. Probably not. Applause

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Question
  • Laughter

• Μέγας γὰρ Ἅιδης ἐστὶν εὔθυνος βροτῶνἔνερθε χθονός,δελτογράφῳ δὲ πάντ᾽ ἐπωπᾷ φρενί.

  

  Aeschylus

• We do have depression in the family, and I've experienced it as it pops up from time to time. It is easier to deal with when I have someone looking to me to do things.

  

  Joanna Going
  • Up
  • Time
  • Family

• With money, who needs friends?

  

  Frank Gorshin
  • Money
  • Friends

• I absolutely don't want to suggest that women are unreliable because we're mothers - on the contrary. But the question of who brings up the kids has a material effect on all women's careers.

  

  Beeban Kidron
  • Up
  • Women
  • Kids

• You do something on television, and so many people see it that it follows you around. It's interesting. I've done a couple of things on TV, and probably more people saw me than in all the movies I've made.

  

  Christopher Walken
  • People
  • Done
  • Interesting

• I do not support amnesty. I do not support driver's licenses for undocumented immigrants.

  

  Brian Sandoval
  • Support

• I have a feeling, one of those gut feelings, that I'll make pretty good movies the rest of my life.

  

  Paul Thomas Anderson
  • Life
  • Good
  • Pretty

• Ethics, like natural selection, make existence possible. Aesthetics, like sensual selection, make life lovely and wonderful, fill it with new forms, and give it progress, and variety and change.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Like
  • Progress

• In general, when I watch cable news during the day, it's frustrating because it reminds me of a game show. If I want to watch 'The Price is Right,' I'll watch 'The Price is Right.'

  

  Don Lemon
  • Game

• My life has been quite interesting professionally.

  Elliott Erwitt
  • Life
  • Interesting

• I like what Oliver Lakes does on the saxophone. The saxophone comes pretty close to the sound of the human voice and when Oliver plays with other sax players, it's like a dialogue.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Pretty
  • Human
  • Voice

• Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.

  

  George Tooker
  • Life
  • Painting
  • Terms