John Berger Quotes

When I was about seven, one or two people encouraged me, and art became an enormous and important refuge. By adolescence, I was absolutely passionate about it and felt those paintings and those painters, whether they lived a few hundred years ago or were still alive, were somehow my companions.

John Berger

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: artist
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: November 5, 1926 - January 2, 2017

Topics

ArtPeopleMeAliveImportantLived

I love the thriller genre generally. I like murder mysteries and those kinds of adventure stories.

Jennifer Egan

LoveAdventureKindsLikeStories

I still remember 1997 when I made the movie 'Storm Riders;' that moment, a lot of American producers want to hire me to make movies in the States.

Andrew Lau

MomentStormMeAmericanRemember

There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.

Andre Malraux

WomanIslamNeedAlwaysChinaWest

One of the towering people in this industry said, why don't you go and make a five-year contract with somebody, make yourself several million dollars and put it away, then go and do whatever you want, work for public TV if you want.

Roone Arledge

WorkYourselfPeopleYouSaidWant

Few expected very much of Franklin Roosevelt on Inauguration Day in 1933. Like Barack Obama seventy-six years later, he was succeeding a failed Republican president, and Americans had voted for change. What that change might be Roosevelt never clearly said, probably because he himself didn't know.

Russell Baker

ChangeDayKnowSaidNeverClearly

I love Mozart, and I love Bach, and Brahms, and - but at 13, I didn't understand any of that that I was playing.

Jason Moran

LoveUnderstandPlayingAnyI Love

I don't concern myself with award. I'd been to the party enough times to know it really didn't matter.

Denzel Washington

MyselfEnoughAwardPartyKnowBeen

The cloud is still really just a bunch of servers, owned by someone or something, whose decisions and competence must be trusted. This applies to everything from Google Docs to Gmail: Putting our data out there really means putting it 'out there.'

Douglas Rushkoff

DecisionsSomeoneDataCloudGoogle

Definitely I love women, I love being around women, I find them incredible and intoxicating, and I've never had that feeling I get with women with a man.

David Walliams

LoveWomenManFeelingFindNever

For most of my life I let women do the driving and was happy to let them.

Christopher Hitchens

LifeWomenHappyDrivingMy Life

I have been very fortunate since 'Ice Age' to make movies that somehow charm audiences. I think that the key to it for me has been coming up with the right ideas but, more importantly, choosing the right collaborators and artists to execute those ideas.

Chris Meledandri

AgeMeIdeasThinkKeyIce

Pronouns really don't matter in a song - 'I' or 'he' or 'she' or even subscribing a lyric to an inanimate object.

Conor Oberst

SongMatterSheEvenHeObject

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