Ben Shahn Quotes

Roy was just another bureaucrat to me, but I realized very soon that without Roy this thing would have died.

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• Turn your wounds into wisdom.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Wisdom
  • Turn
  • Wounds

• My dogs are spoilt for sure. They are pampered pooches. But I love them so much! I guess all dogs need to be washed, but maybe blueberry facials aren't essential. It's quite fun, though. You want to give your children everything; I don't have children, so I want my dogs to have a good life.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Life
  • Good
  • Children

• Rapunzel is a bit more relatable than the other princesses, especially because she doesn't even know that she's a princess until the very end of the movie. I like to think of her as the bohemian Disney princess. She's barefoot and living in a tower. She paints and reads... She's a Renaissance woman.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • She
  • Movie
  • Think

• I can't give a decent toast to save my life.

  

  Sam Trammell
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Save

• There are more books in the world than hours in which to read them. We are thus deeply influenced by books we haven't read, that we haven't had the time to read.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Time
  • World
  • More

• When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy, the only decent thing to do is die at once.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Die
  • Legacy
  • Him

• I have never had the opportunity to play in England, so I know little about it.

  

  Zinedine Zidane
  • Opportunity
  • Know
  • Play

• I've always had a way with a gun. As a kid, I loved to fire them at the shooting range in amusement parks. I'd always return home with a handful of prizes.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Home
  • Fire
  • Gun

• Accountancy prepares one to be able to run very different kinds of businesses, and my background prepared me for the music.

  

  Zarin Mehta
  • Music
  • Businesses
  • Background

• There's backlash about everything I do.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Everything
  • About
  • Backlash

• I am a danger to myself if I get angry.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Angry
  • Danger

• I've never been an all-black girl. I like pinks and blues and greens. If you come over to my closet, you'll be able to find a rainbow of things to wear.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Black
  • Girl
  • Rainbow

• As a boy, I believed freedom for America meant freedom for me. There was a time I believed every word spoken.

  

  Barry White
  • Time
  • Freedom
  • Me

• Whatever art form you're working in, it's crucial to see it clearly, to feel it clearly, and not to worry about the results, or how someone else will see it.

  

  Omar Epps
  • Art
  • Worry
  • Feel

• What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Best
  • Understand
  • Worst

• When you start fighting, when your dream is to be the champion of the world, when you accomplish that, you don't feel lost. It doesn't hinder you. It only helps.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • World
  • Dream
  • Lost

• Boxing gives you such a good workout, although I've stopped sparring. When your hand speed goes, you're going to get caught, and you can't afford to take cumulative smacks on the chops when you're a writer.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Good
  • Hand
  • Boxing

• I want to plug back into the hip-hop audience. Whether it be fans who grew up watching 'Yo!', or people who have become familiar with the culture via the Internet.

  

  Fab Five Freddy
  • People
  • Up
  • Culture

• When I start getting old, I'm going to start ending my prayers like, "Lord, it'd be a good day to die." I don't wanna be 130 years old with a diaper on, all my friends dead and gone. I wanna get to heaven, come get me!

  

  Suge Knight
  • Friends
  • Heaven
  • Prayer

• We're full all the time. And people do have good success and I think one of the programs at the center, the Continuing Care, helps them with their success. Because it's difficult the first year.

  

  Betty Ford
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• In my personal life, I'm a comic novel. But then, so are we all, because we're human beings.

  

  Dean Koontz
  • Life

• The sweet quality is set opposite to the bitter, and is a gracious, amiable, blessed and pleasant quality, a refreshing of the life, an allaying of the fierceness. It maketh all pleasant and friendly in every creature; it maketh the vegetables of the earth fragrant and of good taste, affording fair, yellow, white and ruddy colours.

  

  Jakob Bohme
  • Life
  • Good
  • Earth

• I realized then that a man who had lived only one day could easily live for a hundred years in prison. He would have enough memories to keep him from being bored.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Memories
  • Bored
  • Prison

• Roy was just another bureaucrat to me, but I realized very soon that without Roy this thing would have died.

  

  Ben Shahn