Janet Echelman Quotes

As a child, I always enjoyed building forts by stringing up bed sheets and clothes. I continue to be inspired by makeshift structures, including my own kids' forts and temporary architecture of all sorts.

Janet Echelman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: artist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 19, 1966

Topics

ArchitectureChildBuildingClothes

John Currin's exaggerated realism and his twisted women kept me off balance, never knowing if they were sincere or ironic or some new emotion.

Jerry Saltz

WomenBalanceMeNewNeverKnowing

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

TimeMoneyPeopleCareEndOthers

For the religious, Passover is the grateful remembrance of a homeward journey after years of suffering.

Andre Aciman

JourneyGratefulSufferingYears

When my mother was sick, I found myself needing to put down in my journals all sorts of things - to try to understand them, and, I think, to try to remember them.

Meghan O'Rourke

MotherMyselfSickThinkRemember

We're such a funky species. We're so violent, so greedy - this is how we roll. But what are we going to do about it? How do we move forward given who we are? Because situations don't come out of nothing. They come out of certain conditions.

Jeff Bridges

ForwardNothingGreedyOutGoing

There are not that many ventriloquists out there who build their own characters. I love that because they are uniquely mine.

Jeff Dunham

LoveBuildOutOwnBecauseMine

I played American Legion ball starting when I was 14. But I didn't catch until I was 17. I was 75-3 as a high school pitcher, but it was like everybody knew that I was supposed to be a catcher. When the scouts would come around, and I was pitching, they'd make me take infield practice so the scouts could watch me throw.

Johnny Bench

SchoolPracticeMeHigh SchoolHigh

When history looks back, I want people to know that the Nazis could not kill millions of people with impunity.

Simon Wiesenthal

HistoryPeopleBackLooksKnowWant

Writing a new play shouldn't be seen as a mystery belonging to a priesthood, but as a challenge, a technical challenge, just to get into it.

Tom Stoppard

ChallengeWritingMysteryPlayNew

I have a very vivid imagination.

Janice Dickinson

ImaginationVividVery

Enterprising law-enforcement officers with a warrant can flick a distant switch and turn a standard mobile phone into a roving mic or eavesdrop on occupants of cars equipped with travel assistance systems.

Jonathan Zittrain

TravelPhoneTurnMobileMicSwitch

The 'Patriot Act,' 'Enhancing domestic security,' and 'Protect America' all sound great - until you realize that they're catch phrases for programs that contain roving wire taps without a warrant and the collection and sale of your personal information to the U.S. government.

Brandon Webb

GreatGovernmentAmericaInformation

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