Betty Parsons Quotes

My reputation was built on hostility. I had no friends and some very virulent enemies in the old-guard art scene when I began. They threw their heavy artillery against me. They were convinced I was perverting the public taste.

Betty Parsons

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: artist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 31, 1900 - July 23, 1982

Topics

ArtMeReputationFriendsNo Friends

Writing is reporting what we saw after the vision has left us. It is catching the fish which the tide has left far up on our shores in the low and depressed places.

John Burroughs

VisionWritingFishTidePlacesUp

Studies show that children best flourish when one mom and one dad are there to raise them.

John Boehner

ChildrenBestParentingMomFlourish

If you're a minority party that doesn't control any branch of government, you're more likely to be ignored.

Jennifer Palmieri

GovernmentControlYouPartyMore

The Internet has become the go-to place to toss out ideas in the hope that they could lead to a job, but it has also become the place where people go to find the best ideas, creating a lopsided dynamic that tends to benefit people in power.

Jenna Wortham

HopePowerBestJobPeopleIdeas

When it's a love scene with someone you actually love, there's no feeling like, 'Can I touch him here? Can I touch him there?' You know what your boundaries are - or what they aren't, I suppose.

Anna Paquin

LoveSomeoneYouFeelingKnowTouch

I'm a huge DVD fan.

John Singleton

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Teens are the target demographic for everything in pop culture.

Amy Heckerling

CultureTargetEverythingPop Culture

Collegiality is crucial to the success of our mission. We could not do the job the Constitution assigns to us if we didn't - to use one of Justice Antonin Scalia's favorite expressions - 'Get over it!'

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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I have always been against the gangster as hero.

Ruby Dee

HeroGangsterAlwaysAgainstBeen

Nobody in Africa loves to be a beggar or a recipient of aid. Everywhere I go in Africa, people say, 'When are we going to stand up on our feet?'

Mo Ibrahim

PeopleStand UpFeetStandNobody

I think spontaneous and free reactions are the most natural.

Juan Diego Florez

FreeThinkSpontaneousNaturalMost

I confess, I do have to remind myself almost daily that there are people on this earth capable of reading, writing, eating and dressing themselves who believe their lives are ruled from billions of miles away, by the stars - and, of course, the planets.

Dick Cavett

StarsDailyMyselfPeopleWriting

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