Adam Smith Quotes

All registers which, it is acknowledged, ought to be kept secret, ought certainly never to exist.

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• I am not a designer that buys vintage to be inspired.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Inspired
  • Designer
  • Vintage

• I think in every picture that I've ever made. Everything that I've done torments me. I really would like another chance except I'd be too embarrassed to ever really try to do them again and no one would want to see the same movie just done differently.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Done
  • Movie
  • Picture

• I went from being an ailing child to a public enemy.

  

  Pat Morita
  • Enemy
  • Child
  • Being

• I found a red Oscar de la Renta raincoat, and it's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Beautiful
  • Red
  • Ever

• In the visual arts, particularly painting, I distrust all those abstractions, those artificial constructions. I have a very simple way of judging them: if I can do them, they are not art.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Art
  • Simple
  • Painting

• We talked about politics constantly in my family growing up in North Carolina. There were always debates. Being of Greek background, it's in our blood to drink coffee and talk politics.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Up
  • Family
  • Growing

• All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Fear
  • Friend
  • Imagination

• The aim of every authentic artist is not to conform to the history of art, but to release himself from it in order to replace it with his own history.

  

  Harold Rosenberg
  • Art
  • History
  • Artist

• If you put me in the fairway at my average distance into a par 4, 175 to 180 yards, and you put another player in the rough 120 yards from the green, over time, I'm going to wear him out.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Time
  • Me
  • Player

• In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Nature
  • Light
  • Picture

• Even in cultures where marriages are arranged by parents, you're never actually forbidden to fall in love with your mate.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Parents
  • Fall

• In European thought in general, as contrasted with American, vigor, life and originality have a kind of easy, professional utterance. American - on the other hand, is expressed in an eager amateurish way. A European gives a sense of scope, of survey, of consideration. An American is strained, sensational. One is artistic gold; the other is bullion.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Life
  • American
  • Hand

• People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it.

  

  Anna Quindlen
  • People
  • She
  • Girl

• The earth is not in the centre of the Sun's orbit nor at the centre of the universe, but in the centre of its companion elements, and united with them. And any one standing on the moon, when it and the sun are both beneath us, would see this our earth and the element of water upon it just as we see the moon, and the earth would light it as it lights us.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Earth
  • Light
  • Water

• I wanted to kill art for myself.. ..a new thought for that object.

  

  Marcel Duchamp
  • Art

• Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Food

• I wake up early. At 6:30 A.M., I'm at my most optimistic.

  

  Emily Mortimer
  • Up
  • Optimistic

• Israeli suffering has to be understood.

  

  Mauricio Macri
  • Suffering

• I spent the night on a sliver of rock high up on the east face of Long's Peak, climbing with Tom Frost, and slept at the icy feet of the Dru, listening to the lightning crack above me and the thunder roll down. I only did it to write about it. I would never go up on the Grotto Wall for fun.

  

  James Salter
  • Up
  • Long
  • Fun

• If I had to think of what I would do different in my whole career, it's that I never would have picked up a beer, bottle of vodka. That definitely changed my life. That is an Achilles' heel for me.

  

  Jayson Williams
  • Life
  • Up
  • Different

• It was quite jarring to go from newspapers to magazines, and the reason I did it was because I had my second son, and with my second child, I just thought, 'I can't travel at will,' which you really need to be able to do. And so I had a sort of slow realization that I could no longer do the job that I loved.

  

  Joanna Coles
  • Job
  • Travel
  • Son

• All registers which, it is acknowledged, ought to be kept secret, ought certainly never to exist.

  

  Adam Smith