Bridget Riley Quotes

As a painter today you have to work without that essential platform. But if one does not deceive oneself and accepts this lack of certainty, other things may come into play.

Bridget Riley

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: artist
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: April 24, 1931

Topics

WorkTodayYouPlayCertaintyMay

I don't think it matters how fast you write. It's how long you thought about it. I like to think of it as a well filling up. I think about it until the well is full, and then I let go.

Jim Harrison

ThinkThoughtLongYouFastGo

When the campaign ends, and you are home, the alarm clock is the same, but you don't know where to start after it goes off: expense reports, new stories, the crusted paint cans that have to go to the hazardous-waste disposal site, the wiper blade on the Honda that has gone droopy.

John Dickerson

HomeStartYouGoNewKnow

It's so funny when you're actually directing because things start popping that you don't expect to pop, and something that you think is going to pop, maybe doesn't quite have the impetus that you thought it might.

Stephen Moyer

FunnyStartThinkThoughtYouGoing

Life is a right, not collateral or casual.

Suheir Hammad

LifeLife Is ARightCasual

I'll always be a firefighter, no matter what.

Stipe Miocic

MatterAlwaysFirefighter

What I do is put my characters into situations that are so precarious there is no way to get out. And then I figure how to get them out.

Sidney Sheldon

WayOutGetHowFigureCharacters

I'd listen to the radio, especially when my parents were out on house calls to pray for people - you know, shut-ins. Sometimes, if we were incredibly sneaky, we could do it at night when everyone was asleep.

Lizz Wright

ParentsPeopleNightYouHouseKnow

When I was 16, I discovered jazzercise. And I thought it was the greatest thing since peanut butter and jelly.

Lisa Rinna

ThoughtPeanut ButterGreatestPeanut

Being on stage is what I enjoy.

Debbie Gibson

EnjoyStageBeing

A lot of times, if you're not getting inspiration right away, we'll listen to stuff to get inspired.

Bonnie McKee

YouListenInspirationRightGet

I've kissed in the rain so many times. I think one of my first kisses was in the rain. It was in Washington, D.C., with some kid named Dash, in eighth grade. It was in the rain.

Britt Robertson

RainThinkWashingtonFirstKid

I shot a lot of close-ups on this movie 'cause there's like a dual mystery, she's searching through her haunted past to find some truth and she's also following an external mystery where she comes to think she might be the killer.

Philip Kaufman

TruthPastThinkMysteryFindShe

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