Benjamin Haydon Quotes

The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.

Benjamin Haydon

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• I don't really set out to please anybody, and I don't think I ever have. I have occasionally been encouraged to try to write something specifically for the purpose of releasing it as a single to get radio play. Those are not my best songs, as a rule.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Think
  • Single
  • Best

• Putin is going to do what Putin is going to do.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Going
  • Putin

• So I was in America and I thought I'll stick around while I'm here and just see what happens. The next film I did was High Art, so I guess it started with a sort of vague idea but really just a fantasy.

  

  Radha Mitchell
  • Art
  • America
  • High

• I grew up in a family where the women were just nuts. They didn't stand around in cardigans making polite conversation while they chopped tomatoes.

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • Up
  • Women
  • Family

• The thing is, a lot of our vets come home and they feel displaced, and they don't feel like their voice matters, so for me to be a spokesman and have that honor to educate America about who we are and what we are, it's like I'm doing my job.

  

  J. R. Martinez
  • Home
  • Job
  • America

• Writers, not psychiatrists, are the true interpreters of the human mind and heart, and we have been at it for a very long time.

  

  Florence King
  • Time
  • Long
  • Mind

• After working as a journalist I went to a writing program at Johns Hopkins. It was interesting because it was neither journalistic nor historical, but it emphasized writing style, and afterwards I was asked to write my first book.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Interesting

• I'm very, very blessed.

  

  Bailee Madison
  • Blessed
  • Very

• I don't like the info-dump, as it's known.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Like
  • Known

• All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all just music. I mean, the heavy metal from the Seventies sounds nothing like the stuff from the Eighties, and that sounds nothing like the stuff from the Nineties. Who's to say what is and isn't a certain type of music?

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Music
  • Mean
  • Rock

• I still have my feet on the ground, I just wear better shoes.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Better
  • Shoes
  • Feet

• There's something special about shoes, they give you a high like nothing else.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • High
  • You
  • Shoes

• I don't go to clubs and throw money and pop bottles. That's not my thing, no disrespect.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Money
  • Disrespect
  • Throw

• I think, at some point, we have to be followers of Christ - not followers of White Christ, or any other color Christ, for that matter.

  

  Nate Parker
  • Think
  • Color
  • White

• Everyone seems to relate to the awkwardness of being a teenager, or even a 30-year-old.

  

  Eddie Kaye Thomas
  • Being
  • Teenager
  • Everyone

• Oh, than to enjoy a storm like thisThere's nothing I would rather, Don't dive between the blankets, Miss!Or else leave room for Father.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Father
  • Storm

• EVERY attack now made on WikiLeaks and Julian Assange was made against me and the release of the Pentagon Papers at the time.1

  

  Daniel Ellsberg
  • Time

• The annual labour of every nation is the fund which originally supplies it with all the necessaries and conveniences of life which it annually consumes.

  

  Adam Smith
  • Life

• In college, you learn how to learn. Four years is not too much time to spend at that.

  

  Mary Oliver
  • Time
  • College

• But truths on which depends our main concern, That 'tis our shame and misery not to learn, Shine by the side of every path we tread With such a lustre he that runs may read.

  

  William Cowper
  • Running
  • Reading
  • Path

• I guess I am sometimes over the top on stage, but then, that is my personality. I'm over the top in real life, too.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Life
  • Real
  • Personality

• People pitch me the crazy mystery mind-blowing thing all the time. My response is, 'Great, but how do the characters feel about it, and how do we reveal new facets and new dimensions of who they are?

  

  Eric Kripke
  • People
  • Characters
  • Response

• Style, no matter how outrageous it is, is still an expression of someone's personality. And my personality is somewhere stuck in the classics.

  

  Liev Schreiber
  • Style
  • Personality

• The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.

  

  Benjamin Haydon