Arthur Boyd Quotes

I think it would be better if nobody owned anything, but they didn't starve. Had enough paint and enough pianos and everything else.

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• Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Water
  • Nothing
  • Flexible

• I always get scared. I can't read scripts. I'm scared, scary movies and stuff.

  

  Vanessa Ferlito
  • Always
  • Movies
  • Scary

• If you come to my house, you won't see a wall of trophies or things like that. I'm sort of 'on to the next thing' all the time.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Time
  • House
  • You

• The Asian nation's oil demand is expected to grow this year by 800,000 barrels per day and represents more than one-third of the total growth in global demand, according to the Energy Information Agency.

  

  Gary Miller Bad Brains
  • Energy
  • Day
  • Growth

• America believes what's good for us is good for the world. It's very difficult to understand that that's not necessarily true.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • World
  • Good
  • America

• Eat well and sleep well. That will feed your nervous system and your psyche. As you get older, you look how you feel.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Sleep
  • Feel
  • Look

• I pretty much try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Pretty
  • Try
  • Expression

• In many parts of the world, chaining of people with mental illnesses is not uncommon, nor is seeing people walking around in clearly an unwell state, half naked, and no one takes any notice of them. It is tragic. There is a basic human right, which is not about just healthcare, but it is about the right to life with dignity, a right to citizenship.

  

  Vikram Patel
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• When you put something out there into the world, there's all these words you don't want to hear, that you hope people don't say. I don't like anything that starts with 're' - like retro, reinvent, recreate - I hate that. It's always like living in the past - copying, emulating.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • People
  • World
  • Hope

• One of the areas I have a little less confidence in is giving any kind of a speech.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Giving
  • Confidence
  • Speech

• If I don't seem as depressed or morose as I should be, sorry to disappoint you.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • You
  • Sorry
  • Seem

• There were definitely dark nights when you're like, 'Maybe joining the military wasn't such a good idea.' But, in a way, it was the best training to be an actor.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Good
  • Best
  • Dark

• I started out as a Democrat.

  

  Gale Norton
  • Started
  • Democrat
  • Out

• For a long time, I didn't know what I wanted to be when I grew up. I was desperate to find something that fit me and I just decided that if I could organically make a professional living out of the things that interested me, then I would be a happy person.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Time
  • Happy
  • Me

• You have no choices about how you lose, but you do have a choice about how you come back and prepare to win again.

  

  Pat Riley
  • Choices
  • Win
  • Choice

• I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Hate
  • Know
  • Me

• Do you know what a blessing it is to make movies that make people happy?

  

  Kate Hudson
  • People
  • Happy
  • Blessing

• It's hard to get burned out on doing a TV show.

  

  Pat Sajak

• No one ever saw all of him. It took me nearly four decades to allow my father his shadows, his reserve, to sit silently with him and not clamor for something more.

  

  Patti Davis
  • Father

• Roberto Donna is a great Italian chef.

  

  Jose Andres
  • Great
  • Italian

• Our culture is obsessed with youth because we have lost the ancient knowledge that growth never stops. We are not transient, momentary mistakes in the cosmos- evolutionary curiosities that rise like mayflies, swarm for a day, and are gone. We are players who are here to stay, and the universe was built with us in mind. We reflect it, with our deepest loves and loftiest aspirations, just as it reflects us.

  

  Eben Alexander
  • Culture
  • Knowledge
  • Obsessed

• Electrification was one of the most disruptive technologies ever; in the first decades of the twentieth century, it caused something close to a mass extinction in US manufacturing industries.

  

  Andrew McAfee
  • Century
  • Technologies
  • Electrification

• I think it would be better if nobody owned anything, but they didn't starve. Had enough paint and enough pianos and everything else.

  

  Arthur Boyd