Georges Braque Quotes
Whatever is valuable in painting is precisely what one is incapable of talking about.
Quotes to Explore
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I never thought I would be standing here, married to an All-American guy, living in Oklahoma. What a country.
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Let us have peace.
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Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.
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I had studied at Harvard and MIT astronomy and a lot about the heavens and the star system and so forth.
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Legislative proposals that would enable an employer to determine whether or not a woman's insurance would cover the cost of birth control strikes women as particularly bizarre. Is the boss going to take care of the children that are conceived accidentally? Stop treating us like children. Women are grown ups.
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Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person. That is natural.
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For some reason, the military seems more afraid of gay people than they are against terrorists, but they're very brave with the terrorists... If the terrorists ever got a hold of this information, they'd get a platoon of lesbians to chase us out of Baghdad.
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The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God.
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There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. The Talmud tells us that by saving a single human being, man can save the world.
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Talent is only interesting if it's challenged.
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Paris for lunch, dinner in St. Petersburg.
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I have been a long-time advocate for a just Arab-Israeli peace and for Palestinian refugees.
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We made drawings the size of a whole quarter of a room ceiling, which we would then send on to the model makers. I did this every day for two years. Even now I can draw cartouches with my eyes closed.
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Although one is not inclined to be timid or nervous, it is nevertheless a trifle depressing to receive letters full of expostulation and entreaty: 'If you are determined to commit suicide, why not come home and do so in a quiet lady-like manner?'
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Ignorance makes for weakness and fear; knowledge gives strength and confidence. Nothing surprises an intellect that knows all things with a sense of discrimination.
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Eldest taught me about ancient religions that worshiped the sun. I never understood why- it's just a ball of light and heat. But if the sun of Sol-Earth swirls in colors and lights like that girl's hair, well, I can see why the ancients would worship that.
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Now, to read poetry at all is to have an ideal anthology of one's own, and in that possession to be incapable of content with the anthologies of all the world besides.
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When two enemies are talking, they're not fighting.
