Edward Hopper Quotes

All I ever wanted to do is to paint sunlight on the side of a wall.

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• The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • Great
  • War
  • Day

• I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Up
  • Past
  • Thought

• Rioting is a childish way of trying to be a man, but it takes time to rise out of the hell of hatred and frustration and accept that to be a man you don't have to riot.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Man

• I've often reflected on this in the past weeks as I've been following the presidential campaign: Very often, I thought it would have been great for both of these guys to sit down and be force-fed a couple of dozen episodes of Star Trek.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Great
  • Past
  • Star

• I like me better naked. I don't mean that in a vain way... When you put clothes on, you immediately put a character on. Clothes are adjectives, they are indicators. When you don't have any clothes on, it's just you, raw, and you can't hide.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Character
  • Me
  • Better

• My secret heroes were Joe Morello, Ray Charles - who is, in my opinion, the most dominant figure in musical history in the 21st century - and Frank Sinatra. Those are my heroes. And as a writer, when Bob Dylan came along, it was a miracle because he gave us all permission to say anything!

  

  J. D. Souther
  • History
  • Opinion
  • Miracle

• You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.

  

  Patrick Leahy
  • You
  • Opinions
  • Democrats

• Creating new jobs for Pennsylvanians continues to be my highest priority throughout the Commonwealth.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • New
  • Priority
  • Creating

• The American Race is marked by a brown complexion; long, black, lank hair; and deficient beard.

  

  Samuel George Morton
  • Long
  • American
  • Black

• It's very easy to be judgmental until you know someone's truth.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Truth
  • Know
  • Easy

• I am willing to lend that hand, I will continue to stay involved with my charities as long as they need me.

  

  Laura San Giacomo
  • Need
  • Involved
  • Charities

• In my career quite a few people have tried to force me out, but so far no one has succeeded.

  

  Ferdinand Piech
  • People
  • Career
  • Me

• Beijing, much as it has done with Hong Kong, persists in equating 'people power' with instability.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • People
  • Done
  • Power

• My whole life has been a huge mistake, but what a divine mistake - doing something that I adore.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Life
  • Mistake
  • Doing

• Once people realized that, 'Hey, we're going to be left on Earth here, and everything is going to hell quickly,' sci-fi soon became about our own self-destruction.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • People
  • Earth
  • Hell

• Perhaps 10 percent of patients who are prescribed antidepressants are really benefiting from the drugs' active ingredients.

  

  Irving Kirsch
  • Really
  • Active
  • Percent

• It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Life
  • Work
  • Ultimate

• If values matter in an organisation, you have to be prepared to act consistently.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Values
  • Act
  • Be Prepared

• I'm a tomboy from Nova Scotia.

  

  Elliot Page

• I follow blogs, particularly all the main political ones - Guido Fawkes, Iain Dale, Coffee House, Paul Waugh, Iain Martin in the Wall Street Journal, and so on. And some American ones, like the Huffington Post, Gawker, Boing Boing; or Eater and Daily Candy, also American, which are about where to go to eat.

  

  Ben Schott
  • American
  • House
  • Political

• I remember when the Berlin Wall fell and suddenly intractable problems get solved.

  

  Lucy Walker
  • Remember
  • Wall

• The human race has a yearning to explore. That's part of our biological and psychological makeup.

  

  Kip Thorne
  • Makeup
  • Explore
  • Human Race

• Pray, always pray; when sickness wastes thy frame, Prayer brings the healing power of Jesus' name.

  

  Albert Benjamin Simpson
  • Power
  • Jesus
  • Prayer

• All I ever wanted to do is to paint sunlight on the side of a wall.

  

  Edward Hopper
  • Wall