Prophecy Quote by Pipilotti Rist Download Open image “Choosing a name is a self-fulfilling prophecy.” — Pipilotti Rist ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Prophecy
In real life, there are names that surprise us because they don't seem to suit the person at all. — Krzysztof Kieslowski Copy Share Image
What you think of a name depends so much on the people you know by that name. — Doug McClure Copy Share Image
That's what America's all about, man, if it's about anything. You can choose your own name. — Michael Ventura Copy Share Image
I think the name perfectly encapsulates my soul, and so I get to be myself with the safety of a different name. — King Princess Copy Share Image
It's a dangerous thing to name yourself wrongly or to name yourself unjustly. — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
Life is not a matter of creating a special name for ourselves, but of uncovering the name we have always had. — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I'm always in awe of and respect humans for their ability to plan, but sometimes, good intentions are lost along the way. And often… — Pipilotti Rist Copy Share Image
The smaller the group, the more trial and error and experimenting you can do. I do a lot of garbage. — Pipilotti Rist Copy Share Image
It will probably take several more generations before the female body can be considered a stand-in for the human body. — Pipilotti Rist Copy Share Image
For me, it's not important whether [subjects] are naked, half-naked, or dressed. What I'm more interested in is how they present themselves: if someone… — Pipilotti Rist Copy Share Image
Whenever we remember a series of events, we remember them different. We are constantly changing. It's a flaw, but on the other hand, when… — Pipilotti Rist Copy Share Image
When I close my eyes, my imagination roams free. In the same way I want to create spaces for video art that rethink the… — Pipilotti Rist Copy Share Image
I did not go to art school thinking that I was an artist; I went there mainly doing stage sets for bands. I considered… — Pipilotti Rist Copy Share Image
I always try to create equal power between the subject and the object, so as not to end up creating a relationship where the… — Pipilotti Rist Copy Share Image
First I did animation films, when I was young, in time-lapse. And then in the '80s I went directly to video. The main reason… — Pipilotti Rist Copy Share Image
That is an annoying side of democracy. The pendulum falls often in the extreme, and then we have to bring it back. It's never… — Pipilotti Rist Copy Share Image
Women are less interested in watching two people having sex than in understanding how and what these people are feeling when they are having… — Pipilotti Rist Copy Share Image
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
When the government pays, health care's lack of affordability becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. In health care, as in other things, government is the high-cost… — Arnold Kling Copy Share Image
“Stomach full of jitters, little beasts that were second cousins to guacamolians—little green monsters that wreaked havoc in your stomach.” — William Kely McClung Copy Share Image
I only know I have this power. I have always had this power. I can feel it burning within me, driving me on. It… — Grigori Rasputin Copy Share Image
And my fear of failure has been lifelong and deep. If you are what you do- and I think my parents may have accidentally… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
It is not merely the multiplicity of tints, the gladness of tone, or the balminess of the air which delight in the spring; it… — Novalis Copy Share Image
Among all the valuable things of this world, the word is the most precious. For in the word one can find a light which… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
We were young, and we had no need for prophecies. Just living was itself an act of prophecy. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
PROPHECY, n. The art and practice of selling one's credibility for future delivery. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
It is not till it is discovered that high individual incomes will not purchase the mass of mankind immunity from cholera, typhus, and ignorance,… — R. H. Tawney Copy Share Image
“Oh, one more thing,' Thor calls out. 'If I know my prophecy, and I do, you beautiful ladies had best start looking for a… — Daniel Keidl Copy Share Image