I like radically cutting into the painting, inserting these paper birds, and then trying to figure out how to believe in it. — Ellen Gallagher Copy Share Image
Varese, Apollinaire, Ezra Pound, Leger, Gleizes, Severini, Villon, Duchamp, Duchamp-Villon, Marie Laurencin, Cocteau and many others were to me household names in… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
I get painted quite a bit as a tragic figure because of some of the stuff that's happened in my life. — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
Greed probably figures in my intellectual life as well, as I attempt to absorb a massive amount of information with consequent mental… — Etty Hillesum Copy Share Image
If you go on vacation for one week, you'll come back to two weeks of work. If you go on vacation for… — Paul Orfalea Copy Share Image
This whole notion of the acting career as a monopoly where you rise to power... it doesn't really work that way. I… — Michael Shannon Copy Share Image
In the 1970′s I made horses out of real mud and sticks. They were, in part, meant to reflect how much a… — Deborah Butterfield Copy Share Image
I was always an outsider, always standing outside, observing and trying to figure things out. Which is exactly what you need to… — Monica Ali Copy Share Image
I'm not ideological. I think sometimes when people are ideological, the world's a lot easier. Because it falls into either right or… — John O. Brennan Copy Share Image
...a figure of speech can often get into a crack too small for a definition. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The world needs women who stop asking for permission from the principal. Permission to live their lives as they deeply know they… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Some people, they get down in a hole so deep they can't figure out what to hold on to. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
To buy TV time and bypass the usual filters between the public and political figures, are very powerful devices that people can… — Alexander Stille Copy Share Image
Oh, I'm a ballad queen for sure... I don't dig dance stuff very much but I seem to hit the charts with… — Phyllis Hyman Copy Share Image
We have to look at the figures of speech a writer uses, his images and symbols, to realize that underneath all the… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
How can you spend hours every day trying in small ways to figure out who you are, then have a near-stranger give… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
Of course performing talent, that's clear. Maybe this is not so well-known among young people who are interested in music, who are… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
The fools that came in here brought their beach gear to a cave...go figure. — Joe Teti Copy Share Image
I didn't think I was in a morbid mood, but it appears I am. My mind goes round and round trying to… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
By definition a sequel can't be original. So you've got to figure out what worked the first time around. — Barry Sonnenfeld Copy Share Image
It’s as if your kind needs adversity in order to achieve. (Leta) No, we don’t. That’s just a lie people tell themselves… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
There ain't anything worth doing a man can do and keep his dignity. Can you figure out a single thing you really… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
