Donald Barthelme Quotes

I don't think you can talk about progress in art - movement, but not progress. You can speak of a point on a line for the purpose of locating things, but it's a horizontal line, not a vertical one.

Donald Barthelme

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 7, 1931 - July 23, 1989

Topics

ArtProgressPurposeSpeakThink

If I only made dances about my own experience in dance, it would always be on my track, and I don't want that, I want to be on the track of where dance can take me.

Siobhan Davies

ExperienceDanceMeWantMy OwnOwn

I enjoyed the chase.

Rod Stewart

ChaseEnjoyed

Well, the chairman of Federal Reserve just made his move to rescue Barack Obama. We're gonna have QE3. We're gonna print some more money.

Rush Limbaugh

MoneyMoreFederal ReserveRescue

When you're Judy Garland and you want something, you just pick up the phone and call somebody. Anybody.

Lorna Luft

YouPhoneWantUpCallSomething

The fact that I lost my son permeates my being.

Lois Lowry

SonLostBeingFact

I've been looking around, and I noticed something: how much you really need to be loved. Ambition isn't just a desperate quest for positions or money. It's just love - lots of love.

Janis Joplin

LoveMoneyAmbitionLookingLoved

Suffering will get you great footage. I don't know about closer to God. Although there have been times when I've suffered to the point where I think I might be about to meet him.

Johnny Knoxville

GodGreatSufferingThinkYouMeet

We shouldn't accept things just because somebody says so.

Dixie Lee Ray

Just BecauseAcceptThingsJustSays

I'd love to play in a Red Sox game. It would be so awesome to actually walk out on the field and play, just for one inning. I'd also steal everything I could get my hands on in the clubhouse, which is why they won't let me do it.

Denis Leary

LoveWalkRedMeGameHands

If I read a script and I like it, there's nothing that will stop me from trying to be in that movie.

Brenton Thwaites

MeTryingStopNothingWillLike

Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy - your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself.

Annie Leibovitz

WorkNatureLightDanceYourself

It's very weird because the 'It' guy usually is not the 'It' guy next year or even a guy that anyone is talking about.

Shia LaBeouf

WeirdTalkingYearNextGuyBecause

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