Adrian Tomine Quotes

I think the response I get to one 'New Yorker' cover outweighs five books that I publish.

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• You get kind of bored being in catalogues all the time.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Time
  • Kind
  • Bored

• It's actually meditative to sit in a character for an extended period of time, realizing what your relationship is to who you're playing and then letting go, just being there.

  

  Frances Conroy
  • Time
  • Character
  • Relationship

• Conrad Ludlow was an extraordinary partner... We just called him the greatest partner because he just knew what a woman's balance was.

  

  Patricia McBride
  • Woman
  • Balance
  • Partner

• Nevertheless, this one fact should be apparent: turning the other cheek is a bribe. It is a valid form of action for only so long as the Christian is impotent politically or militarily.

  

  Gary North
  • Long
  • Action
  • Christian

• I'd like it if people thought I was Jewish looking.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • People
  • Thought
  • Looking

• If you want to establish an international presence you can't do so from New York. You need the consecration of Paris.

  

  Oscar de la Renta
  • Want
  • New York
  • Paris

• The Internet is the Viagra of big business.

  

  Jack Welch
  • Business
  • Internet
  • Big

• Your results are very quantifiable. And nobody can take those results away from you. They are yours... All of that, I think, is very good for women.

  

  Abagail Johnson
  • Good
  • Women
  • Think

• I know that there's a god because I was able to survive everything that I've been through - all of the tough times - and I'm still at the top of my game.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • God
  • Game
  • Tough

• God will open any doors he wants to open, and if He closes doors, that's fine, too.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • God
  • Doors
  • Open

• In the history of science, we often find that the study of some natural phenomenon has been the starting point in the development of a new branch of knowledge.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • History
  • Science
  • Knowledge

• The music is at this weird intersection of dance music and indie music. It's not quite dancey enough to do a full-blown DJ set, and it wasn't quite rock enough for a rock band. But I guess it's what makes us unique - drawing from a lot of different influences.

  

  Washed Out
  • Music
  • Different
  • Band

• I don't really drink very much, although I have abused alcohol in the past.

  

  Daniel Baldwin
  • Past
  • Drink
  • Alcohol

• To record is a process against forgetting. I do interviews because it's what I've been doing every day for a few hours since I was a kid. I've always talked to artists.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Day
  • Doing
  • Process

• Men who fight wars in Winter don’t live till Spring.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Men
  • Live
  • Spring

• Calm was the day, and through the trembling air Sweet-breathing Zephyrus did softly play- A gentle spirit, that lightly did delay Hot Titan's beams, which then did glister fair

  

  Edmund Spenser
  • Air
  • Sweet
  • Calm

• The way I see it, if you declare something portable, you'll always be wrong, and if you declare it non-portable, you'll always be right.

  

  Larry Wall

• 'Tout de même,' said Poirot, 'since I cannot find anything, eh bien, then the logic falls out of the window.'

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Find
  • Logic
  • Poirot

• To the gardener who goes about his task with the right spirit must every plant appear as the most wonderful of laboratories in which miracles of transformation, outmatching the utmost feats of the most skillful conjurer, are being performed every hour.

  

  Luther Burbank
  • Plant
  • Transformation

• If I can put the right guy with the right mouthpiece in front of the right opponents, we can build a champion, but he doesn't really have to beat the best guys; we just have to give him the right matchups.

  

  Eddie Alvarez
  • Guy
  • Champion

• For me, Christ has always symbolized the true type of the Jewish martyr. That is how I understood him in 1908 when I used this figure for the first time.. .It was under the influence of the pogroms. Then I painted and drew him in pictures about ghettos, surrounded by Jewish troubles, by Jewish mothers, running terrified with little children in their arms.

  

  Marc Chagall
  • Time
  • Children
  • True

• At the age of 60, you see how short the runway is in front of you and how long the runway is behind you, and that you don't have much time left.

  

  James Balog
  • Time
  • Long
  • Age

• She stood in the storm, and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails.

  

  Elizabeth Edwards
  • Wind
  • Storm
  • Sails

• I think the response I get to one 'New Yorker' cover outweighs five books that I publish.

  

  Adrian Tomine