Antony Gormley Quotes

How do you make the timelessness of inert, silent objects count for something? How to use the, in a way, dumbness of sculpture in a way that acts on us as living things?

Antony Gormley

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• The television business is based on managed dissatisfaction. You're watching a great television show you're really wrapped up in? You might get 50 minutes of watching a week and then 18,000 minutes of waiting until the next episode comes along.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Up
  • Great
  • Business

• New Hampshire understands the need to pursue modern and long-term energy strategies that will help lower costs, protect our natural resources, and create good jobs.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Good
  • Long
  • Help

• At the age of 60, I am less experimental and more mature. I want most of all to convey my understanding of life.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Life
  • Age
  • Understanding

• I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Up
  • Art
  • Soul

• Each album takes two or two-and-a-half years to finish between recording and touring. It's like being with an old boyfriend every single night watching the same things on TV. There is a world out there going on that I'm missing.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • World
  • Night
  • Single

• Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • Marriage
  • Talent
  • Genius

• I love going to cities and getting lost. I love doing that rather than following a guidebook.

  

  Ophelia Lovibond
  • Lost
  • Cities
  • Following

• E-mail, when it became mobile - what happened? Utilization of email went through the roof. Just pure Internet access and data - what happens when you mobilize it? Multiples. People are dependent upon broadband and as you mobilize it, they become even more dependent on broadband.

  

  Randall L. Stephenson
  • People
  • Internet
  • Data

• Then I did Mystic Pizza, just to do something I wasn't fat in.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Pizza
  • Fat
  • Mystic

• In many cases, water stress is more about politics, economics, behaviour and governance than absolute water scarcity. Better planning is needed, to allocate water where societal need is greatest, and to allow trade-offs between alternative uses.

  

  Ian Goldin
  • Water
  • Politics
  • Stress

• People have always liked to be frightened. People love to feel that jolt of adrenaline. People love roller coasters. People love skydiving. These things that really get your heart pumping, and horror films are sort of a safe way to get that rush I guess.

  

  Aaron Stanford
  • People
  • Feel
  • Frightened

• I would like to say that I was inspired to write 'Shiver' by some overwhelming belief in true love, but here's my true confession: I wrote 'Shiver' because I like to make people cry.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • People
  • True
  • Inspired

• What we do every night is we change out the set list as much as we can to make sure that (fans can) go home and tell their friends they experienced something unique and cool.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Home
  • Friends
  • Night

• I'm irrational about all things creative, and I'm always late!

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • Always
  • Creative
  • Late

• Running to Mommy and Daddy on the campus grievance committee is unworthy of strong women.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Women
  • Strong
  • Running

• I never had you, not since you escaped from the womb.

  

  Orson Scott Card

• Man reaches the highest point of lovableness at 12 to 17 - to get it back, in a second flowering, at the age of 70 to 90.

  

  Karen Blixen
  • Age

• I do not know Tyrone Power. I fucked him a lot, but I do not know him. Gentlemen, this meeting is over.

  

  Frances Farmer
  • Power

• I definitely use 'smiling while rapping' as a tool in the booth. I want to have fun while recording.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • Fun
  • Smiling
  • Have Fun

• Jealousy... is a mental cancer.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Cancer
  • Jealousy
  • Mental

• These entrepreneurs were writing their stories in a subgenre of contemporary fiction, the business plan, and populating them with characters endowed with deeply implausible personalities, an oversight which would eventually be punished not by a scathing review, … but by a lack of custom.

  

  Alain de Botton
  • Writing
  • Business

• All told, these profit levels have put the world's five largest publicly traded oil companies on track to earn more than $100 billion before year's end. Yet, at the same time that Big Oil's bottom line is going up, so are Americans' energy costs.

  

  Allyson Schwartz
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• How do you make the timelessness of inert, silent objects count for something? How to use the, in a way, dumbness of sculpture in a way that acts on us as living things?

  

  Antony Gormley