Cy Twombly Quotes

I respond to the Greek love of metamorphosis.

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• Ryan Gosling's, like, my crush, but I don't really pay attention to his personal style.

  

  Olivia Culpo
  • Attention
  • Style
  • Crush

• Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value; and infinity of merit can only result from a nature that is infinitely divine or perfect.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • Nature
  • Perfect
  • Value

• Charity is a very personal equation, like we say charity begins at home. It starts with your immediate help in the house: the people who work for you.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • People
  • Work
  • Home

• Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Popular
  • Word
  • Dirty

• Oh, I'm quite the impulse buyer. Most of what I buy is stuff for my Jeep, 'cause it breaks down a lot.

  

  Patrick Fugit
  • Down
  • Most
  • Oh

• My father was my trainer, my teacher. He was closer to my sister in the sense that she adored him and he adored her. He was more like my pal. Because of the 13-year gap, I think by the time I came along, it wasn't a big deal. I wasn't spoilt or cherished, I was just put to work.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Time
  • Work
  • She

• I remember having my father stand over me when I had driven over my own foot; one leg was out of the car and one leg was in the car. He looked at me and told me that I was a drunk and that he was ashamed to call me his son. That night, I stopped drinking and I never drank again; I was twenty four.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Remember
  • Father
  • Night

• I have an instinct to want to be part of a group of people. I feel safe there. That's why I was in school for so long.

  

  Laura Linney
  • People
  • Long
  • School

• I am through with baseball forever. I have my farm and my home and enough to take care of me, so why should I work and worry any longer?

  

  Eddie Plank
  • Work
  • Why
  • Home

• I don't like the idea the viewer can kind of sit there and go, 'Make me like this person.' People aren't inherently sympathetic.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • People
  • Me
  • Kind

• I've always had to have some kind of failure before I was successful.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Kind
  • Failure
  • Successful

• Privatization is more efficient and effective in some cases, but not in intelligence.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • More
  • Intelligence
  • Some

• May was young and beautiful, we were legally married, but she was caught in the prison of my skin.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • May
  • Beautiful
  • Young

• The most important images for human beings are simply words, which are abstract symbols. ...Evolution has greatly enlarged the front lobes of the human brain, which govern the sense of the past and the future; and... they are probably the seat of our other images.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Important
  • Future
  • Past

• The images play out for us events which are not present in our senses, and... create the future-a future that... may never come to exist in that form.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • May
  • Future
  • Present

• Well it is. It is a religion with me. It's a way of life. A religion is a way of life, isn't it?

  

  Jack LaLanne
  • Life

• ...on youth unemployment - governments should ensure that one out of three of jobs in the public sector are opened up to the youth and that at least one person in every household should have access to a job.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • Up
  • Job

• I'm not someone who usually sends out threats. I warn only once. The day they touch one of my men, the rule of law is over.

  

  Augusto Pinochet
  • Men
  • Law

• As I was saying, you have made the decision to let people into your life. Part of that involves being disappointed by them sometimes. Part of that involves being thrilled by them sometimes. It’s up to you to decide whether the risk is worth the reward.

  

  Craig Lancaster
  • People
  • Life
  • You

• The core strands of my involvement in public life are a belief in the need to strive wherever possible for equality of treatment and opportunity, to ensure all people have the means to a decent livelihood.

  

  Peter Garrett Midnight Oil
  • Opportunity
  • Belief
  • Treatment

• Matthew being a constant attendant on our Lord, his history is an account of what he saw and heard; and, being influenced by the Holy Spirit, his history is entitled to the utmost degree of credibility.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • History
  • Spirit
  • Credibility

• The point to have a child is to introduce them to this planet that is in some ways dying and hopefully, this new generation, these new untainted brains, will be the people to fix some of these things that this generation can't.

  

  Brie Larson
  • People
  • Dying

• American culture is kind of a universal culture, I guess. It's things Greeks grew up with, common references you can use. It's very interesting.

  

  Yorgos Lanthimos
  • Culture
  • Interesting
  • Common

• I respond to the Greek love of metamorphosis.

  

  Cy Twombly
  • Greek