Jessica Stockholder Quotes

Pictures often sit inside of pictures, but the edges of pictures and objects are rarely subjected to serious challenge; we are presented with distinct, whole pictures and objects.

Jessica Stockholder

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Topics

ChallengePicturesSeriousInside

Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

Jim Rohn

GoodIdeasDoorYouSometimesNeed

I remember going to a theater once, and there was a stairway that wound its way out to the back. And I was very young, a small child, and I said to my mom, 'Why are those people going up those stairs?' And she said, 'You know, I don't know how to tell you this, I don't know how to explain it, but it won't always be that way, because it's wrong.'

Joe R. Lansdale

ChildPeopleMomSmallRememberYou

It is often said by reformers that government should be conducted upon business principles.

John Buchanan Robinson

BusinessGovernmentSaidPrinciples

We knew we wanted to put a lot of melody into it - a lot more than what we did on our first album.

John Otto

MoreFirstMelodyKnewThanOur

As a child, I was always interested in building things. Instead of buying candy, I would purchase nails, which I used to construct things out of scrap wood. My mother always claimed that my spending my money on nails instead of on candy was why I was so skinny as a kid.

Robert H. Grubbs

MotherMoneyChildBuildingNails

If one tries to think about history, it seems to me - it's like looking at a range of mountains. And the first time you see them, they look one way. But then time changes, the pattern of light shifts. Maybe you've moved slightly, your perspective has changed. The mountains are the same, but they look very different.

Robert Harris

HistoryTimeLightPerspectiveMe

Why? Will no man ever do something without a why? Just like that? For the hell of it?

Michael Cacoyannis

ManHellWhyWillWithoutSomething

Another term for preventive war is aggressive war - starting wars because someday somebody might do something to us. That is not part of the American tradition.

Ron Paul

WarAmericanTraditionStartingUs

However true it may be that we have estranged ourselves from Nature, it is nonetheless true that we feel we are in her and belong to her. It can be only her own working which pulsates also in us. We must find the way back to her again.

Rudolf Steiner

NatureFeelBackFindTrueWay

There we were in the middle of a sexual revolution wearing clothes that guaranteed we wouldn't get laid.

Denis Leary

RevolutionClothesGetMiddleSexual

I'm like a bunch of college guys who got together and said, 'Let's make a dude, a crazy dude'.

Chris Kirkpatrick

TogetherCollegeCrazySaidGotWho

It's made music more accessible with YouTube and the ability to trade audio files. But it hasn't made it more popular.

Chick Corea

MusicMoreYouTubeAbilityTrade

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Jessica Stockholder