Agnes Martin Quotes

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• Duncan Aldrich has been my partner in most recording projects, and touring projects, for the past decade.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Past
  • Partner
  • Decade

• The whole world is starting to realize that it was the most unwise thing for our society to have ignored women power, to run the society with male priorities.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • World
  • Women
  • Power

• I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Years
  • Old
  • Two

• Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Time
  • Fear
  • Best

• I would say to an actor new to the business that it's best to go where you are most comfortable as a person, both in and outside of the business.

  

  Becki Newton
  • Business
  • Best
  • New

• My first book, 'Radical Acceptance', grew out of the suffering of feeling personally deficient and unworthy. Because most of us are so quick to turn against ourselves, the teachings and practices of radical acceptance continue as a strong current in 'True Refuge': nurturing a forgiving, understanding heart is a basic step on the path.

  

  Tara Brach
  • Heart
  • Book
  • True

• Don't take 'no' for an answer.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Answer
  • Take

• I have this complex that if I walk into a place wearing a colorful shirt someone will stop me and say, 'I'm sorry, but the Latin band comes through the other door.'

  

  Oscar de la Renta
  • Stop
  • Band
  • Door

• I like to mix pieces in my art direction from the '60s or the '40s and the '90s and present-day stuff. To me, that feels very real. When I go into people's houses, it's not all today.

  

  Aaron Ruell
  • People
  • Real
  • Art

• I'm from L.A. I'm an actor. I'm a flake.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Actor

• Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Creativity
  • Go
  • Letting Go

• Getting rid of all the world records would be a bit of a radical move.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • World
  • Move
  • Radical

• Even people who feel perfectly comfortable investing in the stock market and owning their own homes often have qualms about individual medical accounts or Social Security private accounts.

  

  Jacob Hacker
  • People
  • Security
  • Stock

• I'm like a crockpot on low heat. My mind constantly comes up with ideas, but I abandon a lot of them after a week or two. It's the ones that keep coming to me, that keep picking up flavors, that haunt me, those are the ones that wind up getting written.

  

  Laura Amy Schlitz
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Ideas

• Though I love the luxury of the Waldorf Towers, room service there doesn't do soul food.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Soul
  • Food
  • Luxury

• When I'm not acting, I'm writing, building an inventory of scripts. Even if they sit on the shelf, I just keep stacking them up.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Acting

• I believe the greatest asset a head of state can have is the ability to get a good night's sleep.

  

  Harold Wilson
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Night

• Well, I was interested in playing the piano from as early as I can remember.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Remember
  • Piano
  • Early

• Our great object of glorifying God is to be mainly achieved by the winning of souls... Do not close a single sermon without addressing the ungodly.

  

  Charles Spurgeon
  • Great
  • God
  • Single

• And all the time - such is the tragic comedy of our situation - we continue to clamor for those very qualities we are rendering impossible. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Time
  • Men
  • Comedy

• I wish Monkeys could Skype. Maybe one day.

  

  Alan Garner
  • Wish
  • Monkeys
  • Skype

• There's no telling how many guns we have in America - and when one gets used in a crime, no way for the cops to connect it to its owner. The only place the police can turn for help is a Kafkaesque agency in West Virginia, where, thanks to the gun lobby, computers are illegal and detective work is absurdly antiquated.

  

  Jeanne Marie Laskas
  • Work
  • America
  • Help

• We ought to give thanks for all fortune: if it is good, because it is good; if bad, because it works in us patience, humility, contempt of this world and the hope of our eternal country.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • World
  • Good
  • Country

• Bring ice, thanks, Agnes

  

  Agnes Martin
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