Damnest Quotes & Sayings

Abstract Expressionism - the first American movement to have a worldwide influence - was remarkably short-lived: It heated up after World War II and was all but done for by 1960 (although visit any art school today and you'll find a would-be Willem de Kooning). — Jerry Saltz

four critical business issues: broken processes, islands of information, inaccurate measurement, and using yesterday's creative approach. — Andrew Frawley

He broke off his explanation, seeing in his daughter's eyes the exact moment that a child first understands there are limits on what her parents can do, rather than just limits on what they choose to do. He knelt before her in a moment's silence, somewhat less than he had been just seconds before, and Emy a half step closer to the woman she would one day become. — Mark Lawrence

Donald Judd spoke of a "neutral" surface, but what is meant? Neutrality must involve some relationship (to other ways of painting, thinking?) He would have to include these in his work to establish the neutrality of that surface. He also used "non" or "not" - expressive - this is an early problem - a negative solution or - expression of new sense - which can help one into - what one has not known. "Neutral" expresses an intention. — Jasper Johns

You know what's the sexiest thing of all? A little mystery. — Raquel Welch

How much savage coarseness is concealed in refined, cultivated manners ... — Nikolai Gogol

You don't become a poet if you want to make any money. — Claudia Rankine

[Epilepsy] gave her an adversity to fight against. It had shaped her personality, the need to be careful and secretive, and the ability to see things a bit differently from the neurotypical. She granted that this feeling of having a broken brain that required her to be sensitive, to look always inward to survive, might be why she turned artist. — Thomm Quackenbush

The damnest scoundrel that ever lived, but in the infinite mercy of Providence ... also the damnest fool. — Abraham Lincoln

we educators continue to remodel the kitchen, we're continuously surprised that the food does not taste any better. — Tony Frontier

The way I look at it, women in the City are like first-generation
immigrants. You get off the boat, you keep your eyes down, work as
hard as you can and do your damnest to ignore the taunts of ignorant
natives who hate you because you look different and you smell
different and because one day you might take their job. And you hope.
You know it's probably not going to get that much better in your own
lifetime, but just the fact that you occupy the space, the fact that
they had to put a Tampax dispenser in the toilet - all that makes it
easier for the women who come after you.... The females who come
after us will scarcely give us a second thought, but they will walk on
our bones. — Allison Pearson

I would like to suffocate with grief but instead I give birth to a rock. — Henry Miller

When you're writing first person, all I can see and tell as the author is what that main character can see. — Pearl Cleage

I'm not sure who has the greater fear, mothers or daughters, that daughters will, in fact, become their mothers. — Brooklyn James

The greatest step towards a life of simplicity is to learn to let go. — Steve Maraboli