Gwathmey Quotes & Sayings

Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion. — Arnold Bennett

I'm not saying my fans are stupid, but I once left a cabbage onstage next to a harmonica and nobody noticed for three hours — Thom Yorke

One day I wandered away from her and hid. I liked the way it felt to have someone look for me, to hear my name again and again. "Oskar! Oskar!" Maybe I didn't even like it, but I needed it right then. — Jonathan Safran Foer

I haven't got a racist bone in my little finger. — Norman Tebbit

I think constraints are very important. They're positive, because they allow you to work off something. — Charles Gwathmey

My father taught me many important giving lessons, but two stand out. First, always give as much as you possibly can. And second, give equally from among your resources - your time, your mind and your capital. These are principles I live by. — Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

My exposure to visual art all my life was intensive. — Charles Gwathmey

Maybe those sorts of yes-or-no life-and-death decisions are easier to make because they are so black and white. I can cope with them because it's easier. Human emotions, well ... they're just a fathomless collection of grays and I don't do so well on the midtones. — Jasper Fforde

Even a billion people is too much. There's no way back to the simplicity we once knew, but there may be a way forward to the simplicity that we once knew. — Terence McKenna

Any time you do something, you make decisions about time and space. I wanted those decisions to be out of my hands. I could be dragged, carried along by another person, I could be a receiver. I could be the agent of the overall scheme, but I didn't want to be the agent of the particular action. I could make the ultimate decision that my space is going to change now, but I don't know where it's going to go. — Vito Acconci

Ah, Mr. Ogg! How I like you!" Mr. Owl cheered. "Always ready to break a neck. Good fellow! — M.L. LeGette

Remember that everyone deserves some fun during working hours. — Joseph Heller

You have to be able to wake up in the morning and say, 'I've been true.' — Charles Gwathmey

You have quite the clever tongue on you!"
"I've never actually had someone's tongue on me," Shallan said, turning a page and not looking up, "clever or not. I'd hazard to consider it an unpleasant experience."
"It ain't so bad," Gaz said. — Brandon Sanderson