Imposing Quotes
158 quotes by 148 authors
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The word "art" means harmony for me. I never speak of mathematics and never bother with the Spirit. My only science is the choice of…
— Robert Delaunay
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Imposing limitations on yourself is cowardly because it protects you from having to try, and perhaps failing.
— Vladimir K. Zworykin
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I have no idea of what it's going to look like when I start a piece. Making art is like having a relationship. You want…
— Nick Bantock
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All writers, all storytellers, are imposing their own narrative on something.
— Michael Kimmelman
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There is hardly any one so insignificant that he does not seem imposing to some one at some time.
— Charles Horton Cooley
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I liked Germany; I'm not into Berlin, it's too huge and empty and imposing, but Munich was good.
— Graham Coxon
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When I was 2, we moved into an imposing country mansion 8 miles west of Cardiff, Wales.
— Roald Dahl
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F.D.R. achieved greatness not by means of imposing his temperament and intellect on the world but by reacting to what the world threw at him.
— Maureen Dowd
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I have made my own choice, which is vegetarianism, but it's not the choice I'm imposing on anybody else.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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A state that suppresses all freedom of speech, and which by imposing the most terrible punishments, treats each and every attempt at criticism, however morally…
— Kurt Huber
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By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.
— Franz Kafka
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Bush the Elder's stature as president grows with every passing year. He was the finest foreign policy president I've ever covered and a man who…
— Joe Klein
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You know, this idea of going around the world imposing democracy by growing a middle-class, a trading merchant class that is independent of your faith,…
— Damian Lewis
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People feel that they're being required to meet all sorts of regulations and rules and requirements in their areas of work and MPs are not…
— Theresa May
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Many Americans simply don't want the pinheads in Washington or the various state capitals to be telling us how to live. But we are absolutely…
— Bill O'Reilly
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Our nation is too different, too diverse to say that what works in Massachusetts is somehow going to be grabbed by the federal government, usurping…
— Mitt Romney
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The mistake that straight people made was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never expected to be monogamous.
— Dan Savage
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Our castle is not imposing, but is well built, and surrounded by a very fine garden. I live in the bailiff's house.
— Franz Schubert
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I want a guy who is masculine, good with his hands and able to build stuff and who has survival skills. Facial hair is a…
— Chloe Sevigny
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Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.
— Alfred North Whitehead
Who Wrote These Imposing Quotes
148 authors contributed a total of 158 Imposing Quotes, led by these top contributors: