Cy Twombly Quotes

To paint involves a certain crisis, or at least a crucial moment of sensation or release.By crisis by no means limited to a morbid state, but could just as easily be an ecstatic impulse.

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• I mean, I think we're put here on earth to make your own destiny, to begin with. I don't think there's anything you can do this way or that way to change anything.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • Earth
  • Change
  • Destiny

• I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.

  

  Harper Lee
  • Think
  • Kind
  • Just

• I think, in Spain, they are too used to reaching the limits of democracy and then stepping over them.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Think
  • Democracy
  • Limits

• I think that charity is a tricky thing, because a lot of times, people equate charity with handouts. I don't believe in handouts.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • People
  • Believe
  • Charity

• I grew up loving musicals. My mom had records of original cast recordings, and one of them was 'She Loves Me.' I wore that thing out singing along to Barbara Cook when I was eight years old.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Up
  • She
  • Me

• But I love the hot sweat. I think overheating onstage is invigorating. It's better than being comfortable. I think being comfortable is the death of a show.

  

  Victoria Legrand Beach House
  • Love
  • Think
  • Death

• I was never totally what we would now call 'politically correct,' even in my most militant phase. I always liked good food, good wines. I suppose it was because I had total confidence in myself.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Good
  • Food
  • Myself

• Give immediate instruction to all your posts in said territory, under your direction, at no time and on no pretence to hoist, or suffer be hoisted, the English flag.

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • Time
  • English
  • Said

• To try to fashion something from suffering, to relish our triumphs, and to endure defeats without resentment: all that is compatible with the faith of a heretic.

  

  Walter Kaufmann
  • Faith
  • Fashion
  • Suffering

• I've gone to Detroit. I've been to Ferguson; I've been to Baltimore, because I want our party to be bigger, better and bolder, and I'm the only one that leads Hillary Clinton in five states that were won by President Obama. I'm a different kind of Republican.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Different
  • Want
  • Party

• He was up in Wyoming,And drew a bull no man could ride.He promised her he'd turn out,Well it turned out that he lied.And their dreams that they'd been livin',In the California sand,Died right there beside him in Cheyenne.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Up
  • California

• I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pains of others.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Real
  • Small

• Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Country
  • Dying

• There can be no immaculate conception of socialism.

  

  Aneurin Bevan

• If there were a category in the Olympics for laundry, my mother would have been a gold-medal winner.

  

  Elizabeth Berg
  • Mother
  • Gold

• I'm gonna go hard no matter what because I gotta feed my family, and I gotta feed myself.

  

  DJ Khaled
  • Family

• As I get older, I'm looking more and more for films that are actually about something rather than just narrative vehicles.

  

  David MacKenzie

• I don't want to bash Bill and Hillary, because they're friends of mine, but I do have a difference of opinion about how to take back the House and the Senate.

  

  Dennis Kucinich
  • Friends
  • House
  • Opinion

• Interethnic and spiritual accord is our strategic resource, the basis for progress of our society and state.

  

  Nursultan Nazarbayev
  • Spiritual
  • Progress
  • Bases

• GIS is being influenced by and integrating with all kinds of new innovations such as faster computing, big data, the cloud, smart devices, and distributed processing.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Smart
  • Data
  • Cloud

• Certainly, the murder of civilians for political statement did not just begin on September 11, 2001.

  

  Cliff Stearns
  • Political
  • September

• I think there's art, and then there's illustration. Art comes from a deeper place.

  

  Brian Stelfreeze
  • Art

• The U.K.-U.S. defense relationship is the broadest, deepest and most advanced of any two countries, sharing military hardware and expertise.

  

  Theresa May
  • Relationship
  • Military
  • Advanced

• To paint involves a certain crisis, or at least a crucial moment of sensation or release.By crisis by no means limited to a morbid state, but could just as easily be an ecstatic impulse.

  

  Cy Twombly