Ben Shahn Quotes

I didn't care where my works were published.

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• But ya know what, I am a part of something that happened. I'm a part of the music that happened. My voice is one more instrument, is what it is. So that's the way I feel about people who play on sessions.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • People
  • Music
  • Voice

• Dolomite is a whole mess of stuff, a mixture. It gets characterised as 'a stuff' because of the interest of oil geologists. It would have been a nonentity were it not for its applications.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Interest
  • Oil
  • Mess

• I come from a poor family.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • Family
  • Poor
  • Come

• When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.

  

  Edith Hamilton
  • Mind
  • Facts
  • Chaos

• I've watched Urkel since I was a little kid.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Kid
  • Little
  • Watched

• Night fell clean and cold in Dublin, and wind moaned beyond my room as if a million pipes played the air.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • Night
  • Air
  • Cold

• Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Love
  • Nature
  • Soul

• Good boys are nice - don't go for the bad ones!

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Nice

• I stuck out more in an English public school than I would have had I marched in a May Day parade with the Red Army in Moscow or sashayed the Yves St. Laurent catwalk with supermodels or hunted seals with the Inuit or - well, you get the idea.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • School
  • May
  • Day

• All my life, my girlfriends are always skinny. Beauty in art has nothing to do with beauty in reality. Why do you like primitive art? Because there is beauty in the deformity. Sometimes paintings that people consider realistic are not at all. Raphael figures look realistic, but in real life, they were deformed.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • People
  • Life
  • Real

• 'The Pushcart War' is presented as a history of a conflict that has not yet taken place; in each edition of the book, the date on which the hostilities commenced is nudged forward.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Book
  • War
  • History

• Yes, we have the freedom to do what we please, but it only works because we don't do everything we might please - we should exercise some degree of personal, and corporate, responsibility.

  

  Tammy Bruce
  • Freedom
  • Responsibility
  • Exercise

• A dagger has only a single point, but a traitor cuts from anywhere.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Single

• Helping women achieve higher pay is a core goal of this book.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Women
  • Book

• The Anarchists believe in civil society; only they insist that the freedom of civil society shall be complete instead of partial.

  

  Benjamin Tucker
  • Believe
  • Society
  • Freedom

• A prophet is always much wider than his followers, much more liberal than those who label themselves with his name.

  

  Annie Besant

• There is only one China. Taiwan is not independent. It does not enjoy sovereignty as a nation, and that remains our policy, our firm policy.

  

  Colin Powell
  • Independent

• I often talk to myself while walking down the street. I did it as a kid.

  

  Chris O'Dowd
  • Walking

• I think music for me, it's part of my life. I like music. I think I'm very emotional, so, you know, I just try to take all the emotion, you know, that music bring it to me, you know, some make - I mean, help me to calm down some, for sure motivate me more. You know, there's always music. I think just make me smooth before the match, you know.

  

  Gael Monfils
  • Thinking
  • Mean
  • Emotional

• One of the privileges of the great is to witness catastrophes from a terrace.

  

  Jean Giraudoux
  • Great

• I take my hat off to mums who have lots of kids. Anyone that says being a mum isn't a full-time job has obviously never had any.

  

  Ashley Jensen
  • Time
  • Job
  • Kids

• Ladies know what to guard against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks.

  

  Thomas Hardy
  • Guard
  • Tricks
  • Ladies

• ‎There’s no such thing as mistakes – only a lack of foresight.

  

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips
  • Mistakes
  • Lack
  • Foresight

• I didn't care where my works were published.

  

  Ben Shahn