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Ellsworth Kelly Quotes

I have trained my eye over and over ever since I was a kid. I was a bird watcher when I was a little boy. My grandmother gave me a bird book, and I got to like their colors.

Ellsworth Kelly

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: artist
Nationality: american
Birth: May 31, 1923 - December 27, 2015

Topics

Bird Me Colors Eye Book Grandmother

Every time I get in front of an audience, I do the best I can. I really don't look at it like, you know, 'This is gonna be this crowd, or that crowd.' If anything, I think about the demographics only because of what songs will entertain more than others.

Joe Perry

Time Best Think You Look I Can

Hope and wishes for all that delights will sour in the midst of action not taken and words unsaid.

Maximillian Degenerez

Hope Words Action Wishes Will Sour

I think that space exploration as a broad activity is the most important things that humans can do. I've always found it fascinating, interesting, compelling, and I have a drive to go out into space.

John M. Grunsfeld

Space Drive Think Interesting Go

I've been interested in music since I was a teenager, always writing songs.

Jeff Bridges

Music Writing Always Been Interested

I've never actually been exposed to the hardships that proper soldiers endure. I also think you need a particular constitution to be a soldier - built a certain way and wired a certain way. I don't know if I'd be too good with being told what to do all the time. I am a law-abider, but I've got a lot of questions and opinions, so maybe not.

Tom Glynn-Carney

Good Time I Am Constitution Think

People who wander are nicer to be with. Movement militates against hoarding possessions and against bigotry, because you are constantly moving across boundaries and having to negotiate with people.

Robyn Davidson

People Moving You Wander Movement

Children need to have both time to think and the motivation to think for themselves, to develop an expert reading brain, before the digital mode dominates their reading. The immediacy and volume of information should not be confused with true knowledge.

Maryanne Wolf

Knowledge Children Time Brain Think

Hollywood's racist.

Rosie Perez

Hollywood

Filmmaking is a completely imperfect art form that takes years and, over those years, the movie tells you what it is. Mistakes happen, accidents happen and true great films are the results of those mistakes and the decisions that those directors make during those moments.

Jason Reitman

Great Art Mistakes Decisions Moments

Shortly after we arrived in Baghdad, we had another conversation with the ambassador. He said that he wanted us to give him the timeline, because we had 90 days to get these prisons operational and transfer responsibility back to the Iraqis.

Janis Karpinski

Responsibility Conversation Back Said

When I wake up, I expect things to be good. If they're not, then I try to set about trying to make them as good as I can 'cause I know I'm gonna have to live that day anyway. So why not try to make the most of it if you can? Some days, they pan out a little better than others, but you still gotta always just try.

Dolly Parton

Good Live Day Wake Up Better You

When you're young, you just go banging about, but you're more sensitive as you grow older.

Deborah Kerr

Grow You Go Young More Just