Dennis Oppenheim Quotes

Turning something upside-down elicits a reversal of content and pointing a steeple into the ground directs it to hell as opposed to heaven.

Dennis Oppenheim

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• As a person, I'm polite - I want to please.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgard
  • Want
  • Person
  • Polite

• I don't want to be a Major League coach.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Want
  • Coach
  • Major

• I was in the room with, you know, more than a dozen Republicans trying to negotiate the stimulus. Most of them decided the politics of the situation meant they should walk away, even if it wasn't responsible in terms of what our country needed right then.

  

  Claire McCaskill
  • Country
  • Trying

• The average man finds life very uninteresting as it is. And I think the reason why is that he is always waiting for something to happen to him instead of setting to work to make things happen

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Life
  • Work
  • Why

• No effort is required to define or even attain happiness, but enormous concentration is needed to abandon everything else.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Effort

• Nature hides her secrets because of her essential loftiness, but not by means of ruse.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Nature
  • Means
  • Secrets

• The leader is a teacher who succeeds without taking credit. And, because credit is not taken, credit is received.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Teacher
  • Leader
  • Credit

• Vampires have been romanticized, and this is bringing it right back to being vampiric. I think there's something sexy and raw about that.

  

  Oliver Jackson-Cohen
  • Vampires
  • Romanticized
  • Right Back

• Ere I could make thee open thy white hand, and clap thyself my love; then didst thou utter, I am your's for ever!

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Love
  • Hands
  • White

• The virtue of a human being is the application of his capacity to the general good.

  

  William Godwin
  • Humans
  • Virtue
  • Capacity

• Mix your drinks, and it's best not to cry over spilt milk, but put it back in the bottle.

  

  Peter Daniell Doherty Babyshambles
  • Drink
  • Cry
  • Bottles

• Finally, please remember this. If you EVER need something that you can stand behind, something to help you to take on and deflect all of the hatred of this often cruel world, you will ALWAYS have Black Veil Brides.

  

  Andy Biersack Black Veil Brides
  • World
  • Remember
  • Black

• A state of true and universal tolerance is best ensured by leaving alone the peculiarities of men and peoples.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • State
  • Peoples
  • Peculiarities

• A woman's body does a thousand different things, toils, runs, studies, fantasizes, invents, wearies, and meanwhile the breasts enlarge, the lips of the sex swell, the flesh throbs with a round life that is yours, your life, and yet pushes elsewhere, draws away from you although it inhabits your belly, joyful and weighty, felt as a greedy impulse and yet repellent, like an insect's poison injected into a vein.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Life
  • Sex
  • Weight

• It feels good when you come to a place like Oklahoma to charge up the batteries. I need that.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Up
  • Good
  • You

• Man thinks, God directs.

  

  Alcuin
  • God
  • Thinks
  • Directs

• A runner fell, and this caused a big pileup in which that runner got trampled and spiked, ... When we looked back 10 seconds later, the guy was still on the ground.

  

  Chris Solinsky
  • Ground
  • Runner
  • Fell

• Kanban system directs each work center when and what to produce but, more importantly, it directs when not to produce. No card—no production.

  

  Eliyahu M. Goldratt
  • Produce
  • Card
  • Directs

• Turning something upside-down elicits a reversal of content and pointing a steeple into the ground directs it to hell as opposed to heaven.

  

  Dennis Oppenheim
  • Ground
  • Turning
  • Pointing