Agnes Varda Quotes

Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.

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• I grew up in the suburbs of Sydney, an arid kind of place, but every day I took the ferry across the harbour to get to school. I'd watch the ships coming in and going out.

  

  Pamela Stephenson
  • Up
  • School
  • Day

• I read fashion magazines all the time. It's fun, but I don't take it very seriously.

  

  Becki Newton
  • Time
  • Fun
  • Fashion

• All who call the Holy Ghost a creature we pity, on the ground that, by this utterance, they are falling into the unpardonable sin of blasphemy against Him.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Sin
  • Creature
  • Holy Ghost

• Do not try to do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than you do it perfectly. It is their war, and you are to help them, not to win it for them.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • War
  • Help
  • Better

• I am often struck by the anxious inferiority many well-educated British people display towards the U.S., particularly Londoners dazzled by New York, when many postcolonials are accustomed to regarding Britain's old imperial cosmopolis as the true capital of the western world.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • World
  • New York
  • Anxious

• It's true that I'm not ashamed of my body. I'm comfortable, and I think more women should be more confident.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Women
  • True
  • Think

• If you start believing all that press about you, you're in trouble. I don't even read my reviews.

  

  Oscar Hijuelos
  • You
  • Start
  • Trouble

• On many accounts, Cornwall may be regarded as one of the most interesting counties of England, whether we regard it for its coast scenery, its products, or its antiquities.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • May
  • Interesting
  • Scenery

• By my definition, prayer is consciously hanging out with God. Being with God in a deliberate way.

  

  Malcolm Boyd
  • God
  • Way
  • Prayer

• Of course we are coming to invest in Germany - that is certain. Most airplanes in the fleet of Qatar Airways are from Airbus.

  

  Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani
  • Germany
  • Coming
  • Invest

• Though my plans at the moment are vague, I can assure you that I'll never run for the Senate in New York.

  

  Laura Bush
  • Never
  • Moment
  • New York

• I grew up on the stage, and there's no two ways about it: you only get one chance to do your bit.

  

  Jack Lowden
  • Up
  • You
  • Chance

• I guess my idea of a good audience is one that's quiet and listens, but also that's alive: they respond, they're getting the jokes, they're with me. And that' s been happening.

  

  Dan Hicks
  • Idea
  • Audience
  • Alive

• We cannot embrace God's forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • God
  • Past
  • Forgiveness

• Writing for me can be homework. I do get a lot from it in the end. But I hate doing it.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • Writing
  • Hate
  • End

• If I were really rich, I would be flying places, I think.

  

  Tao Lin
  • Think
  • Rich
  • Flying

• I'm the kinda girl who works for Paramount by day, and Fox all night

  

  Mae West
  • Night
  • Girl

• As usual, I'm overstating the case to knock a few neurons loose, but the truth is usually somewhere in the muddle, uh, middle.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Truth

• I accept extinction as best explaining disjoined species. I see that the same cause must have reduced many species of great range to small, and that it may have reduced large genera to so small, and of families.

  

  Asa Gray
  • Great
  • May
  • Small

• In economics, 'competitiveness' does not describe Barack Obama's insistence on not only being president of the U.S. but also beating his staff at bowling.

  

  Lionel Shriver

• Good things, you can't rush into them.

  

  Jose Andres
  • Good

• It doesn't make sense to argue about how much global warming is caused by man - whether it's 5 percent or 50 percent.

  

  Lisa Murkowski

• Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.

  

  Agnes Varda