Christo Quotes

People think our work is monumental because it's art, but human beings do much bigger things: they build giant airports, highways for thousands of miles, much, much bigger than what we create.

Christo

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: artist
  • Nationality:
  • Birth: June 13, 1935

Topics

WorkArtPeopleThinkCreateBuild

How could I make a little book, when I have seen enough to make a dozen large books?

John James Audubon

BookEnoughLittleSeenBooksDozen

As you get older, you kind of take on things and become kind of different than what you used to be as a kid, obviously.

Michael Angarano

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I need New Orleans. And New Orleans needs me.

Trombone Shorty

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I've always wanted to write poems and nothing else.

Mary Oliver

NothingWriteAlwaysPoemsWanted

Some of your worst gangsters are guys who were very low-key.

Mickey Rourke

WorstLow-KeyWhoYourSomeGuys

When I was on 'Saturday Night Live,' all I did was work.

Molly Shannon

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In a fight, you got to know that there's a strong chance you're going to get hurt. But at the same time, you know, most of the injuries you sustain in fighting are not career-ending injuries.

Jon Jones

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An 'insult comic' is the title I was given. What I do is exaggeration. I make fun of people, at life, of myself and my surroundings.

Don Rickles

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Homophobia is like racism and anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry in that it seeks to dehumanize a large group of people, to deny their humanity, their dignity and personhood.

Coretta Scott King

RacismPeopleHumanityDignityGroup

My first serious attempts at writing were made in 1868, and I took up two very different lines of composition; I wrote some short stories of a very flimsy type, and also a work of a much more ambitious character, 'The Lives of the Black Letter Saints.'

Annie Besant

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I don't consciously start writing a play that involves issues. After it's done, I sit back like everyone else and think about what it means.

Suzan-Lori Parks

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You are our dearly beloved brothers, and in a certain way, it could be said that you are our elder brothers.

Pope John Paul II

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