Havens Quotes - Page 37

• It's a wrong idea that a master is a finished person. Masters are very faulty; they haven't learned everything and they know it.

  Robert Henri

  Ideas, Masters, Persons

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• Any day above ground is a good one. A woman's beauty is her inherent ability to better a man in every way. My father, now in heaven, is the watcher of birds. And his eye is on his sparrow. God, in his great silence, is still there. Of that I haven't a single doubt. Music is the balm that heals the ache of a forlorn star.

  Donald E. Williams, Jr.

  Stars, Father, Eye

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• Listen: if I am a painter and I do your portrait, have I or haven't I the right to paint you as I want?

  Oriana Fallaci

  Portraits, Portraiture, Want

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• My mountain is dead. As soon as she has dried, I'll bury her under a decent layer of white paint. But I haven't done with the old lady; far from it!

  Emily Carr

  Determination, White, Mountain

  Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.99, D & M Publishers

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• I'm clean, I've always been clean. But it never ends. It seems like every reporter from last season to this season has reported and opened up a new can of (expletive). And I haven't even been to spring training. At least let me get to spring training and (expletive) up before you crucify me.

  Barry Bonds

  Spring, Training, Lasts

  "Bonds goes back, forth / Stories differ about retiring" by Henry Schulman, www.sfgate.com. February 20, 2006.

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• I haven't retired from international football - I still believe I have a part to play in the future of England.

  David Beckham

  Football, Believe, Play

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• Three or four stones in one firing will all react differently. I try to achieve a balance between those that haven't progressed enough and those about to go too far.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Balance, Trying, Three

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• I do entertain a lot of negative thoughts and I haven't got any self-belief. But I haven't done bad for someone without any self-belief.

  Ronnie O'Sullivan

  Self, Done, Negative

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• I haven't turned into an absolute geek who doesn't like doing fun things.

  Kevin Pietersen

  Fun, Geek, Absolutes

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• There's no abhorrence about wearing M&S. We just haven't been delighting the girls.

  Stuart Rose

  Girl, Abhorrence

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• When I was racing, we were more used to seeing some horrific accidents. For example, Michael Schumacher is a great world champion, but I haven't seen a weekend where he doesn't go off the circuit. At every race he always has a spin or runs through the gravel trap. He usually doesn't hit anything, but nevertheless it is an error that could not have been made in the days I raced.

  Jackie Stewart

  Running, Weekend, Errors

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• If you give the audience what they expect, they'll be bored. There are no rules: You do what you want while respecting the boundaries. You don't poke people in the eye; you do things they haven't seen before and make it accessible, funny and clever.

  Matthew Vaughn

  Clever, Eye, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If someone's going to publish a book about addiction, it has to say something new and different. It has to be something we haven't read before. A lot of these books are published because the writing is wonderful. The Frey book has superb writing, and that can be enough to sell a book.

  Charles Adams

  Book, Writing, Addiction

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• Surprisingly enough, I haven't had a letter from Amateur Boxing Scotland bosses offering their congratulations for my Melbourne medal win.

  Kenny Anderson

  Congratulations, Winning, Offering

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• Well, Milwaukee is a special place to me. It's where I started my career playing in Appleton. Getting cheered on the road is something I haven't been use to.

  Alex Rodriguez

  Careers, Special, Use

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• I don't feel like I'm out of my element or anything like that. I'm very comfortable where I'm at. I enjoy being in this position, and actually it feels like I haven't really been away from it. I feel very comfortable out there from the first tee onwards.

  Aaron Baddeley

  Comfort, Elements, Firsts

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• Artists have wild desires and a terrible hunger to achieve... Without it they haven't the juice for striving or loving. But desire also can make them greedy and turn dreams into unrealizable obsessions.

  Eric Maisel

  Dream, Artist, Desire

  Eric Maisel (1996). “Affirmations for Artists”, Tarcher

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• India is the one area of the sub-continent where we haven't won since I have been involved with England

  Duncan Fletcher

  India, England, Continents

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• I've been trying to garden all my life - it just happens that I haven't had a big garden...until the past few years.

  Claire Tomalin

  Past, Garden, Years

  "'It's about death as much as it is about life'". Interview with Dominic Murphy, Martyn Cox, www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2006.

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• What the hell have Greenpeace and WWF done? They are paid very good salaries and they float around the world saying, 'We are helping the world,' but they haven't.

  David Bellamy

  Salary, Done, World

  "The green man". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2002.

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• Islands are havens and breeding grounds for the unique and anomalous. They are natural laboratories of extravagant evolutionary experimentation.

  David Quammen

  Unique, Islands, Natural

  David Quammen (1996). “The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions”, Vintage

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• What is sublime? / the artist said. / I haven't time / to be well read. / To be sub lime / I'll place, instead, / green citrus fruit / upon my head.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Artist, Sublime, Green

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• Priests are often well-meaning people who haven't yet looked too thoroughly into comparative religion.

  Robert Genn

  People, Religion, Priests

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• After being an Impressionist, Cubist, and an Abstract Expressionist, I was influenced by realistic artists, including Andrew Wyeth in the late '50s, and I haven't changed my style since.

  Robert Bateman

  Artist, Style, Realistic

  "Robert Batemen: On home life, health, helping wildlife and his art muse". Interview with Carol Crenna, carolcrenna.wordpress.com. December 15, 2012.

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• We still talk in terms of conquest. We still haven't become mature enough to think of ourselves as only a tiny part of a vast and incredible universe.

  Rachel Carson

  Motivational, Thinking, Tiny

  Paul Brooks, Rachel Carson (1972). “The house of life: Rachel Carson at work”

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