Alexander Calder Quotes

Duchamp named the mobiles and Arp the stabiles. Arp said, 'What did you call those things you exhibited last year? Stabiles?'

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• My introduction to the Madonna Inn came as a young boy when we would take summer vacations to a nearby town. My dad would take us into their gift shop bathroom, which was a huge waterfall that functioned as the men's urinal. So as a kid, this was the most amazing thing I had ever seen.

  

  Aaron Ruell
  • Men
  • Dad
  • Amazing

• I'm hardly macho. I present myself as very unnoticeable.

  

  Garry Wills
  • Myself
  • Present
  • Macho

• I'm still learning my craft.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Learning
  • Still
  • Craft

• My first audition happened to be for 'Kindergarten Cop,' and I took that role. I was only starting to learn English at that point. Spanish is my first language, so they made me a speaking character in the movie. I didn't really know I was shooting a movie. I was just having a lot of fun with 30 kids my own age.

  

  Odette Annable
  • Character
  • Kids
  • Movie

• Yeah, I'm running for the White House again. Well, it's not a run, really; it's sort of a brisk walk.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • House
  • Running
  • Run

• I'm addicted to food, so if you bring the cake and stuff to my house, I might walk by and take a swipe of icing and keep it moving. So what happens is I try to not keep it around.

  

  Fat Joe
  • House
  • Food
  • Moving

• I am constantly thinking ahead to what I want to write about in the future, and when I'm done with one project, I give myself a little time and then start the next one.

  

  Francesca Lia Block
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Done

• I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30 or 40 minutes long. And I always wondered why they weren't publicized more. Really, their only flaw was they were short documentaries.

  

  Bahman Ghobadi
  • World
  • Music
  • Long

• Tech never comes back the same.

  

  Samuel J. Palmisano
  • Never
  • Same
  • Back

• Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Men
  • Moral
  • Wine

• Al Qaeda is on the run, partly because the United States is in Afghanistan, pushing on al Qaeda, and working internationally to cut off the flow of funds to al Qaeda. They are having a difficult time. They failed in this endeavor.

  

  Ed Royce
  • Time
  • Difficult
  • Flow

• We have to understand that content is king now. And it doesn't matter what the source of the content and where it's coming from, as long as it is workable.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Long
  • King
  • Understand

• See, it's no in between: you're either free or you're a slave.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • Free
  • See
  • Slave

• China is a government-oriented economy. No one can say he can run his business entirely without government connections. Anybody who says that he or she can do things alone... is a hypocrite.

  

  Wang Jianlin
  • Business
  • She
  • Alone

• I'm more of a thriller-horror fan - things that could really happen. I don't like scary movies, the 'Saw' movies scare the crap out of me - I think I've seen two of them and I wanted to go crawl in a hole.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Think
  • Me
  • Movies

• I did always dream of being a professional player. I think every kid does dream of being a pro, but to last the journey you have to love tennis as a sport and if you are lucky enough to make it in the pros, it is really a bonus.

  

  Samantha Stosur
  • Dream
  • Journey
  • Professional

• I've got to be out doing a million things. That's how I find stories. That's how I get the relationships and get the projects that I get with the writers, the directors.

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • Doing
  • Find
  • Relationships

• No, Queer Eye has a book coming out before mine, in the Spring of 2004, in which each of us has a section and we do a brief overview of our subject area.

  

  Ted Allen
  • Book
  • Eye
  • Spring

• This is a career about images. It's celluloid; they last for ever. I'm a black woman from America. My people were slaves in America, and even though we're free on paper and in law, I'm not going to allow you to enslave me on film, in celluloid, for all to see.

  

  Angela Bassett
  • People
  • America
  • Career

• You don't want a slob, but you don't want a guy who is constantly borrowing your tweezers.

  

  Lauren Conrad
  • Guy

• I was born in Somalia, which is in East Africa. My parents started with nothing: poor, poor, poor. They eloped, which was unheard of in my country, when my father was 17 and my mother was 14.

  

  Iman
  • Country
  • Mother
  • Father

• We humans have a tendency to see ourselves as completely different from other animals, and the way in which large segments of the public continue to reject the theory of evolution is just one symptom of that malaise.

  

  Kenneth R. Miller
  • Different

• I think it is a wise course for laborers to unite to defend their interests.... I think the employer who declines to deal with organized labor and to recognize it as a proper element in the settlement of wage controversies is behind the times.... Of course, when organized labor permits itself to sympathize with violent methods or undue duress, it is not entitled to our sympathy.

  

  William Howard Taft
  • Thinking
  • Wise
  • Interest

• Duchamp named the mobiles and Arp the stabiles. Arp said, 'What did you call those things you exhibited last year? Stabiles?'

  

  Alexander Calder