Lebrun Quotes & Sayings

Wit.ai, based in Palo Alto, California, is taking aim at the swiftly growing number of devices with small displays, or no screen at all, and at activities like driving and cooking, where you don't want to look at or touch a display. The company is offering its product free to those who agree to share their user data with the Wit.ai community. Collecting this data should help improve the accuracy of the system over time. "Everyone will benefit from that," cofounder and CEO Alex Lebrun says. — Anonymous

Seemingly the most easy of crafts, drawing is the one which reveals most tellingly our incapacity to sustain true vision and our acquiescence to the ready-made. — Rico Lebrun

You cannot simplify love by cutting away all but its essence. — Rico Lebrun

What is it, I wonder, that makes two people suddenly become important to each other? So important that everything else around them just fades away? — Sylvia Engdahl

If we artists are to survive this period at all - we will survive as spokesmen, never again as entertainers. — Rico Lebrun

Having removed the dictator, the allies have moved to put Iraqis in control of Iraq. Now, as they draft and ratify their Constitution, we will indeed see the character of a new Iraqi nation revealed through the principles it chooses to uphold. — Kay Granger

Pirate gold isn't a thing to be hoarded or utilized. It is something to squander and throw to the four winds, for the fun of seeing the golden specks fly. — Kate Chopin

The problem with secrets is that they don't want to stay that way. They say information wants to be free.
And maybe that's the case.
But what I do know is that every story wants to be told.
You can bury them as deep as you want. You can hide them. You can toss them into the darkest places you can imagine, but sooner or later ...
They always come back. — Justin Jordan

You can learn, but you've got to give yourself time to pick up the basics, to practice, and maybe even to fail once or twice. — Susan Forward

Who needs a blue sky when he's unhappy? Robert was right. The sky whether grey or blue, is cold and unemotional, and ultimately even the sun is only a fireball that, unaffected by everything going on here below on Earth, simply spews in masses of magma into space. — Nicolas Barreau

Someday when I understand more things than I do now, the fundamentals of my drawing will be so tightly woven into those of existence that I will easily and naturally find the design which is the answer to many questions. Meanwhile, I draw continuously. — Rico Lebrun

I shun drawing which is too easily formulated. It does not seem fertilized enough to produce consequences, and a drawing should be a provider of consequences. — Rico Lebrun

This is why the clergyman is so often called a vicar - he being the person whose vicarious goodness is to stand for that of those entrusted to his charge. — Samuel Butler

I'm just a photographer, not a movie star. — Ryan McGinley

Celebrities in general are pretty democratic, just being in the theater. Plus, I'm from Chicago. But Obama's sensible ... he's just a reasonable, sensible human being. — James Belushi

If we never lied , there would be nothing to remember. — Mark Twain

I worked a great deal then, as you can only do on a set theme, absolved from the obligation to find a new fact, a new subject every day. — Rico Lebrun

My aim in life is to make pictures and drawings, as many and as well as I can; then, at the end of my life ... looking back with love and tender regret, and thinking, 'Oh, the pictures I might have made!' — Vincent Van Gogh

My aim is a continuous, sustained, uncontrived image, motivated by nothing but passion. — Rico Lebrun

The butterfly is a flying flower,
The flower a tethered butterfly. — Ponce Denis Ecouchard Lebrun

Occasionally, I like to select a mentor, a master, and let him guide me through a revision of one of my paintings ... I try to move into his terrain, bringing my own ammunition ... I do not believe ... that this belittles my own personality. — Rico Lebrun

This is how the great post-partisan, post-racial, New Politics presidency ends-not with a bang, not with a whimper, but with a desperate election-eve plea for ethnic retribution. — Charles Krauthammer

Jail is more commonly-suited to those less-commonly able to finance a defense (or to potentially pander the prosecution). The choices for council is either a retained lawyer or, by default, a public defender. In the later of these two, the common title in jail was 'public pretender'. — H. Kirk Rainer

How long will you be gone?"
"Forever, perhaps. I don't know. It depends upon a good many things. — Kate Chopin