Gerald Scarfe Quotes

So war is an extremely sad business, because the majority of people don't want to be in it.

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• I believed in Bobby Kennedy. Campaigning for him was an attempt to give back something to this country that has given me so much.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Country
  • Me
  • Him

• People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • People
  • Time
  • True

• I'm a Canadian. Outside Canada I carry the flag. Canadian nationalism isn't as insidious as American nationalism, though. It's good natured. It's all about maple syrup, not war.

  

  Feist
  • Good
  • American
  • War

• My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.

  

  Jack Benny
  • Wife
  • Serious
  • Divorce

• I'm mostly drawn to narratives that are difficult for me to visualize.

  

  Dana Schutz
  • Me
  • Difficult
  • Visualize

• Jordan has to show the Arab world that there's another way of doing things. We're a monarchy, yes, but if we can show democracy that leads to a two-, three-, four-party system - left, right and center - in a couple of years' time, then the Muslim Brotherhood will no longer be something to contend with.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Time
  • World
  • Party

• I am obsessed with the whole Victoriana thing, the whole Jack the Ripper London era, the grayness of it, the haunted feeling of it, all ancient and bloody.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Ancient
  • Bloody
  • Haunted

• How can I wage political battle against a widow who does not mean anyone any harm except only the president himself?

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Political
  • Mean
  • Battle

• I don't fixate on other people's opinions of my body.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • People
  • Body
  • Opinions

• Brands who come to China, often they just care about price - so they actually drive the suppliers to cut corners on environmental standards to win a contract.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Care
  • Win
  • Environmental

• I'm no ethnomusicologist. There is a connection between the five-note scale used both in traditional Chinese music and the blues, but I don't really understand it. All I know is, whenever I play with Chinese musicians, we seem to belong to the same musical gene pool.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Music
  • Connection
  • Same

• If you do like what you do, you're cooperating and sharing.

  

  Victor Koo
  • You
  • Like
  • Sharing

• So I consider myself a dog person. Kind of. Had dogs when I was a kid, but my parents would never have dreamed of having them in the house.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • House
  • Parents
  • Myself

• The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Myself
  • Self
  • Laugh

• We hope to encourage George and Charlotte to speak about their feelings, and to give them the tools and sensitivity to be supportive peers to their friends as they get older.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Friends
  • Hope
  • Tools

• To young people born under the weird planet of the SAT, intelligence was equated with agility, with raw acuity. It produced a certain sort of person of which I was a typical specimen: the mental contortionist, able to rise to almost every challenge placed before him, except the challenge of real self-knowledge.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • People
  • Real
  • Knowledge

• There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Love
  • Opportunity
  • You

• The last thing we need is women on TV hating each other.

  

  Candice Patton
  • Women
  • Need
  • Last

• Anything which is a huge problem for humanity we'll sign up for, if we can find a way to fix it.

  

  Astro Teller
  • Up
  • Humanity

• I loved playing in the Big Ten, where it's three yards and a cloud of dust.

  

  Chris Borland

• I was forced to be an artist and a CEO from the beginning, so I was forced to be like a businessman because when I was trying to get a record deal, it was so hard to get a record deal on my own that it was either give up or create my own company.

  

  Jay-Z
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Giving

• When you say 'comic book' in America, people think of Mickey Mouse, and Archie. It has a connotation of juvenile.

  

  Mark Hamill
  • People
  • Book
  • America

• Like probably a lot of people, I came away from watching films like 'Miss Representation' and 'Half the Sky' with the realization that the battle for women's rights is not over, especially not globally, and that the moral imperative of our century is to achieve full rights for everyone regardless of gender.

  

  Adora Svitak
  • People
  • Women
  • Moral

• So war is an extremely sad business, because the majority of people don't want to be in it.

  

  Gerald Scarfe
  • People
  • Want
  • Majority