Alexander Calder Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I think Dilbert is actually a radical strip.
-
I'm a giant Beatles fan.
-
A filmmaker can never be distant from his roots.
-
When I read the 'Country Strong' script, I thought, 'Can't they just hand-double it? Can't I just do the rest of the movie and not have to do the performing?' It took me six months to learn to sing and play guitar at the same time.
-
By the time I approached my forties, I had the self-assurance to approach all the genres I love so deeply: R & B, rock, jazz, and pop.
-
In his first 100 days, Mr. Obama has put the fate of his presidency in the hands of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. He may come to regret that decision.
-
'The Voice' is built on positivity. Once we started filming, I knew that America was really going to love it.
-
Remember, either you control your money or it will control you.
-
If you don't shop smart, you get a little trendy.
-
When I went to record my first album, which should have been a punk album, there was a synthesiser in the control room. I'd never seen one before but they let me have a go on it and I loved it to bits.
-
I taught up in Maine a couple of times and wasn't able to take a single picture. All that blue sky! Ugh. Sparkling clear air, just terrible. I couldn't do it.
-
In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances, invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.
-
Whatever China I'd been born into, I would probably still have become a painter - I loved sketching portraits as a child, and began art classes at the age 7. But if China hadn't been under Maoist rule, I might never have become a writer.
-
Terrorism cannot be isolated from its political, historical, and even social context.
-
Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
-
You're never really cancer-free and I should have known that.
-
There's a preponderance of scientists and engineers among China's rulers. New President Xi Jinping was trained as a chemical engineer. His predecessor, Hu Jintao, earned a degree in hydraulic engineering. His predecessor, Jiang Zemin, held a degree in electrical engineering.
-
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
-
The whole barrier exists because most people never come together and sit down at a table ... join together, break bread together, and celebrate their differences and their likenesses.
-
Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively.
-
I was bartending for a long time and going on auditions and was constantly being rebuffed.
-
I work for two years on a book and it comes out and two days later I've got my first e-mail: When is the next one coming out?
-
You can take the high moral ground intellectually, but if it ever happens to you personally, I don't know that I could honestly say that I wouldn't want to kill someone who took someone away from me. So, it's a rich, fertile ground for great characters and great storytelling. That was the impetus.
-
Goya, Miró, Matisse, Bosch and Klee.
