Edward Hopper Quotes

It's probably a reflection of my own, if I may say, loneliness. I don't know. It could be the whole human condition.

Edward Hopper

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• The entire time I was up shooting 'Suits,' I was running back to my trailer to help get 'Nine Circles' produced. It's a no-brainer for me to keep that part of life alive.

  

  Patrick J. Adams
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• I always knew I had a voice and I've always known I could sing, but I was too shy to let it come out. I think it's the hardest thing to do, to sing in front of people. When I finally let go and did it, I realized it's what I'm most talented at and what I love to do the most.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • People
  • Always
  • Voice

• Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Money
  • Madness
  • Collective

• When you look at the results that Newt Gingrich got when he was speaker, he got results for the American people.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • People
  • American
  • Results

• I would never share my daughter's wardrobe. Every five years you have to go through your wardrobe and say, 'This is possible, this is not possible.' But you have to be happy with yourself.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Happy
  • Daughter
  • Yourself

• I've done some really off-the-wall stuff and stuff that people might not expect. That's one way to work through people's expectations of you.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • People
  • Work
  • Done

• No one knows the cost of a defective product – don't tell me you do. You know the cost of replacing it, but not the cost of a dissatisfied customer.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Me
  • Cost
  • Customer

• I don't start with a list of historical scenes that I want to include in the book. At a certain point, the narrative totally takes over, and everything that I include I can only incorporate if it answers to the internal terms of the novel.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Book
  • Want
  • Start

• Like most writers, I've read a lot of Hemingway, and I admire him greatly.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Like
  • Him
  • Admire

• When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.

  

  Gary Cole
  • People
  • Up
  • Movie

• I've never turned to anybody for advice and counsel. Even when I was a very small child, I had to stand on my feet because of the circumstances of those times, and somehow, the circumstances have remained more or less the same. I have to take my own decisions.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • Small
  • Child
  • Advice

• It was only a few years ago that I couldn't get hired to save my life.

  

  Samantha Bee
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Save

• In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Know
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• Politicians read the polls that show 85 or 90 percent of the voters profess a belief in God, so they identify themselves with religion, often only to the degree necessary to reach the constituency they are targeting.

  

  Jack Germond
  • God
  • Religion
  • Belief

• Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Children
  • Education
  • College

• Unfortunately, music devolved instead of evolved. The music business got into the hands of lawyers and accountants rather than the entrepreneurial creative people, and that's when the beginning of the end started. It's all based on money instead of art and creativity.

  

  Gary Wright
  • People
  • Music
  • Money

• I was excited to get the opportunity to sing something in a movie 'cause I love musicals and I would love to be able to do more movie musicals, in the future.

  

  Kate Mara
  • Movie
  • Future
  • Opportunity

• Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Believe
  • Marriage
  • Social

• There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Marriage
  • Hidden
  • Sword

• But you are mobile as the veering air, And all your charms more changeful than the tide, Wherefore to be inconstant is no care: I have but to continue at your side. So wanton, light and false, my love, are you, I am most faithless when I most am true.

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • True
  • Light
  • Air

• Any musical person who has never heard a Negro congregation under the spell of religious fervor sing these old songs has missed one of the most thrilling emotions which the human heart may experience.

  

  James Weldon Johnson
  • Heart
  • May
  • Experience

• Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

  

  Khalil Gibran
  • Work
  • Joy

• It would not be easy even for an unbeliever, to find a better translation of the rule of virtue from the abstract into the concrete, than to endeavor so to live that Christ would approve our life.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Life
  • Christ
  • Translation

• It's probably a reflection of my own, if I may say, loneliness. I don't know. It could be the whole human condition.

  

  Edward Hopper
  • May
  • Reflection